The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-11-25

Money, from the many tax tributaries
OF the state, is pouring into the treasury
with continuous flow. Owing TO the fact
that the government, In order TO dissent
nate silver currency throughout the whole
country, is furnishing 1t without cost,
nearly all the money now being paid in Is
silver. Up TO date the amount in the ag-
>gregate received approximates closely "
| 81, 100000.
Col. Ford, superintendent Of the Deaf
and Dumb Asylum, reports that institu-
ton ss being In a fiOurishing condition.
Up 20 date scventy-five pupils have been
enrolled, and an acquisition OF several
Others is confidently anticipated within
a very few weeks. Twenty of the mum
Der are studying the art of printing, four
are engaged in mattress making, and two
| in learning the shosmaker's trade. A re-
markable precoeity is exhibited by the
voiceless unfortunates, and an aptitude
for learning their respective trades Is
manifested in an extraordinary degree.
The board of land commissioners. I'm
their last deliberations, after receiving
aud approving the report of Commissioner
Norton. elected Mr. Preston supervising
architect Of the Capitol building, and au-
thorized him TO advertise for plans of said
| building. After n sufficient time has been
devoted TO advertising and the plans have
been received, another meeting will be
called and the best plan adopted. Then
advertisement will be made in six Texas
papers, and in such of those of New York,
81. Louis and Chicago as shall be thought
most available, for bids for constructing
the building. The plan now decided upon
is that the building shall be of sufficient
size to include within its walls ali the
offices Of state except the Land Office.
The large and splendid building is to cost
81 100000.
After upwards of a months absence
from the city, Adjt.-Gen. John B. Jones
has returned and is again at his post of
duty, as genial, affable, and soldierly as
ever. His tour, relating to the business
of his office, was extensive, and for the
most part was toilsome, tedious, and not
altogether devoid of peril. Leaving Aus
tin. he went by rail to Dodge City, Kan
sas. Then he took the primitive style of
travelling by blackboard to Fort Eli
| OF. & military post situated on
the far frontiers of Texas. Obedient
| to orders, Quartermaster Capt. Caldwell
and escort met him at the fort, having
| been three weeks on the route from Aus
tin to this point. The chief object of
Gen. jones' trip, aside from inspecting
and making some slight changes in the
stationing of the different attachments
of the battalion, was to see the country,
mingle with its people and learn from
their lips all the facts pertaining to its
varied eXpanse and their own condition.
Accompanied by his escort, which num-
bered only five rangers, astride of a regu-
lar Mexican plug, (which, by the way, for
toughness of sinew, strength of muscle
has no equal in the worldl he left Fort
Elliot and reIned his eaballo Austin-ward.
On the route he took in many of the lar
gest and most prosperous ranches, and
judging from what he witnessed and what
the rancbmen told him, no country eX-
along which his Journey lay. Outlined
against the horizon, on either side, were
mountain ranges, mantled with the sOIh-
bre of clouds and tinted with the amber
of the sun, while around him, as far Us
| the eye could reach. undulated. like emer-
| aid pillows, expansive prairies carpeted
with yerdant blades of gracefully waving
grass and covered with the changeful
hues of fragrant and never fading flowers.
He states that prosperity presides like an
| angel of benignity over all the goodly
land, and that depredations by Indians
| have almost ceased, there having been
| only three raids since last spring, and the
loss accruIng from these was merely n
small lot of cattle. The rustlerS, 1.-THE pO-
lite term for white thievesl from New
Mexico are regarded as more formida-
BILE than the Indians, and by their raids,
which are not unfrequent, much prop
erty in the way of stock Is lost.
And sometimes the more abandoned
of the rustlers massacre travellers
and appropriate their effects. rs was
the case twice not many months past
Still, this is infreqUent, and taking all
things into consideration, Gen. Joaes re-
CARDS the entire Vest as 4 safe and secure
| homo tor immigrants, and those who
would do well, especially in the stock
| line, would end it Immensely to their al
vantage TO emigrate thither.