The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-03-11

AOH1 u "A4le great piaf.
In Germany the war tbst has long
BEEN waged betGeen the Gentiles agd
tue rs IS Increasing II iDteJ IS
rather thsn fad ng 0ut under the SUI OF
brosd enlig btenla-ut The learned men
Of q rmany arc aii r%cgei uu enc side
OF tie % her. an IL the m4t e. x hTain>
the j Tvs have Jas weight as,l Diiiiian-
cy decidedly oE their side. I; is SUN
nsd up .hzJ ;h5-e are 600 0GG Jews ~
me German em yiTe. sBd charged tAa;
nOCt o! them are engaged X sgricul-
tural anc mechanical puE.ui.s. Tney
SNIP Y control irAde and rule tiaacces,
rI1 IL IS the crime with which they
are charged. They s-e tr=i,rs snd Il
ngUcIers slmp'y b, cause they can DO
{ csc things best. and II say % ~ can
20 them better the field is open. The
jews have ro monopoly OF their Cal :
lngs, and the right Wy far the Germans
10 60 10 wsr wi:h III, m is To beat them
AZ their own Gem" by lair play. Bat
the sTs are nearly al rich and pros
porous and some of the Germans are
poor, and the Jswish Gsrmsn war Is
only another phase OF the capital and
| Dor question.
The qres,inn of mans descent from,
or relauJpshIp 10, sCme Of the lower or
ders Of aGimais, will continually come
M Ia one shape OF ant ther. a New
York professor lately lectured upon
The brain OF man, aud the brain OF
tie appetizer resemb!spcrs aud their
differences" The resemblances he
found, OF course, do not prove that the
ape is our great ancestor, nor 90 the
differences prove that he could nOt have
been. The professor left the question
Where it was before and made the adj
dltiOnal suggestion that the anthropoids
sre collateral descendants from COM
mon stock with man, making sort of
first COusiDship of race. One collateral
branch went 10 the n hern hills
where they had to fight for a living
with nature, and developed (; the other
remained in the tropical wales and lived
on fruits and became a degraded type.
Hence, man and ape. BIT the fact re-
mains that the most violent snri-DarwIn
divine could not lock chimpauz &c in
the face and catch the human spark
there, without wishing that the fellow
had resembled man less and the bah
boon more.
The survey of the Tchuautepec rail-
way route has been completed for forty
miles, and the engineers report that no
obstacles exist to the construction of
the Iosd as iuexpensively as such work
can be performed In the United States.
Indian labor can be obtained at 81 a
day, and the heaviest expense will be
transporting the iron and clearing away
the underground. The Atlantic termi-
nus of this road will be at the mouth of
the COa!za alcas river, ITO miles south
east from Vera Cruz, ana the length
will be $50 miles, the cost $500, 000, =
600; time of construction, three years.
Nearly all the timber on the eastern
slope of the isthmus is the finest ma
hogany, and the ties for the road have
been brought in Florida as the mahog-
any is too valuable to use for that pur-
pose. Mr.. Hall, of New York, one of
the directors, stated recently before the
American geographical society, that an
inter oceanic canal would probably be
constructed near the railroad line by
American capitalists. II will be neces
sary to make tunnel for the canal 40
feet high, 1875 feet wide and IL miles
long. Hall thinks Tehusntepec, is be-
yond doubt the best route for canal.
Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger, published
the following card in the Houston pa
pers: In common with host of be-
levers in the Bible, 1 went yesterday to
listen to Msj. PENIS answers to ques-
tions propounded to him by the lIber-
alists. 1 was disappointed, grieved.
MAJOR Penn has not answered a single
question in satisfactory manner, and
has, unskillfully, tried to cover his lack
of theological knowledge with what
denomInate Religious slang" leave
to him the responsibility of his answers
to the questions pertaining to ChIistol-
ogy, but as student of the Old Tes-
lament, say that he has grossly ipjur-
ed the memory of every Bible author.
1 am an Israelite; 1 believe in God and
revere the B BILE. Yet, were that sacred
book to be my guide in the light it was
presented yesterday, I would not be
surprised to find myself an atheist be-
fore long. For the sake of truth itself,
eagerly sought by both Christian and
Jew, I shall, at no distant date, take up
the same questions, and according to
my humble ability try to repair the
damage inflicted by Msjor PENIS I'M
skillful hand to the Old Testament.
The Rockport Transcript says some
of the Texas papers assume dictatorisl
powers and those of prescience by aver
ring that Texas will refuse to endorse
Baysrd for President on account of his
financial resolution. In this they will
no doubt find themselves totally de-
ceived by their own egotism. One not
able congressional contest, based upon
the financial policy of Congress, has al
ready taken place in Texas, under far
more favorable circumstances toward
hard money than now prevails, and it
clearly demonstrated that the sixth dis
trict at least was thoroughly in accord
with the old Democratic theory of q
hard and honest money, and when Sen
ator Coke and his supporters presume
to ostracise Bayard in Texas, on &C.
count of his firm adhesion to that doc
trIne, which has alway been an immut-
able principle in the Democratic plat
form, they touch off mine whose ex-
plosive force Is liable to shstter and de-
stroy its orginators. We believe Sen
ator Coke to be an able man and smbi-
tious for his own reputation and the
good of the state to which he gives in
his allegiance, but the people cannot
be caioled into believing that Bayard
possesses a cIoven foot, after having
unyieldingly devoted the best part OF
his life to constitutional liberty. merely
because he. now refuses to veer like q
weather cock with every financial here
sy that blows upon Congress.
The New York papers tell the story
of Rev. Henry Richardson of Sea Cliff,
Long Island. He had morning and
evening prayers in his home-!ed the
prayer band in church, had class IN
Sunday-school and read the Bible often
between whites. He was regarded as q
truly good man. He has wife and
two cbildren-one SIX years old and the
other three months. About six months