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Year: 1877

MR.. ATKINSON contributes excellent
papers to the New York Herald affect
ing cotton culture in the South. 1t is
truthfully stated that here in Southern
Texas cotton is proftsbly raised by
white farmers, and that negro labor is
not absolutely necessary in cotton
field. The Southern States want emi-
grants, and the accounts published by
Us show that they are prepared to well
come all who come. The settlement
OF the Southern troubles, which seems
near at hand, will, we have no doubt,
lead to such a state of good feeling in
the South as will draw many Northern
men and Europeans to the cotton
States. There is no doubt at all that
workingmen who desire to buy cheap
land and become farmers have better
opportunity in such States as Texas at
this time than in any Northern State
and it would not surprise us to see the
tide of European emigration hereafter
setting toward the cotton States. But
the people of these States should re-
member that the best, the most indus
trious and useful class of immigrants
from Europe seek out those State,
where they find free schools, churches,
free speech and hearty welcome, and
with an unfailing instinct go there and
nowhere else.
Year: 1877

THE rush to the Black Hills IN search
of gold nuggets continues. There is a
strange fascination about this passion
for mining. Constant examples of sue
cess occur, but experience has shown,
as in case of lotteries, that the blanks
are more numerous than the prizes. If
our young men would engage in the
common pursuits of industry with the
same zeal and earnestness and submit
to the same sacrifices which are the
necessary accompaniments of mining
enterprise, they would, as rule, be far
better off in the end. The risks, ply
sical and moral, incident to this sort
of enterprise, are always large and toe
seldom taken into account. Money is
not the principal thing; if it were,
there is ample room for enterprise in
less doubtful and hazardous fields than
the gold regions of the West. But
everybody is going to the Black Hills,
and this summer more Texans than
ever before will see the wonders OF
Colorado and the West and explore the
gold mining districts In the Black
Hills.
Year: 1877

Col. R. w. LoUGBERY, who is q
thorough master Of the art of journal
ism, says that of all the pursuits in
which men engage, that of the faith
full journalist is the most self-sserific-
ing, unselfish and ennobling. Proper
ly understood and appreciated, his mis-
sion is one OF unbounded generosity.
The demands of country, society, and
all that promotes individual happiness
and the general welfare. are inexorable.
There are no compromises, no stopping
to count the cost; the path of duty lies
open before him. He must pursue it,
lead where it may. 1t is seldom that
fortune smiles upon him; rarely, even
after life of unremitting toll, does be
find himself blessed in old age with q
competency. Bat his reward is none
the less because it comes not in the
manner in which men usually look fol
it. Life is full of its compeHsstions,
and there Is none greater than the
grateful sense of having earnestly striy
en- to accomplish its mission Of good,
in which journalism offers field 80 ex
panslve and gratifying.
Year: 1877

IT is stated that all prices which are
directly fixed by the wholesale opera
tiens of trade, su; ;h as wheat, day Ia
bor, pork, prints, iron or books, have
yielded easily to the inevitable pres
sure, but prices which depend on indi-
vidual bargaining still hold their own.
Thus the servant girl still receives the
same wages, while the railroad hand is
paid little more than half of the old
price; flour is down, but the price OF
bread is unchanged; the cloth i:
cheaper, but the coat no cheaper, and
canned goods in the grocery undersell
the market-men. The explanation oi
this apparent contradiction is found in
the unwillingness of the American tc
haggle over a trade, to beat down the
price of dealer, or to make an issue
of trifling overcharge. There is nc
nation in the world which thinks more
of the dollar than we do, yet there i:
no nation which despises the cent, OF
even the dime, more heartily. But the
shoe is beginning to pinch; the aver
age American is beginning to grumblt
over the petty expenses, and if he con
tinues long in his present frame o.
mind, there are great many prices
which are bound to be lowered before
any prices will go higher.
Year: 1877

lent denunciatory and extreme radical
Southern Democratic organs should
be suppressed. They do infinite mis-
chief by disappearing the intelli-
gent people. They make Hayes re-
sponsible for the acts of the commits
sion, which, fortunately for the South
and for the whole country, made him
President. They can see no good in
his converting Louisiana and South Car
olina into States; they discover nothing
TO admire when he incurs the
hatred and active hostility OF
Blaine and Wade and Wendell Phillips.
n fact, because Hayes is not labeled
Democrat" he is without virtue or
patriotism, and the newspaper that
claims for him these qualities is not
Democratic. To tell the truth is not
Democratic. To perpetuate partisan
hates and malignIty and misconception
IS Democratic. Such are the theories
of poor Martin and Of rotund, fat and
greasy Dan McGary. These two pro
nounce the STATESMAN the latest new
convert to "Republicanism" when the
STATESMAN has only declared that the
South. with one voice, should approve
the Presidents conduct and uphold
him in his declared purposes and pol
icy.


Those who would make farms and
homes in TIE South valuable, who
would attract riches and numbers and
railways and schools and churches, will
be foremost in promoting this novel
and admirable species of 'Republican-
ism" illustrated in the Presidents pol
icy, and in causing its appreciation by
the whole people of the South. Now
that the freedom of States is restored,
the writer for the New York paper,
whose letter we discuss, is especially
wise in asserting the growing freedom
of Texans from accursed narrow local
prejudices, and from that base trucu-
lence and moral enslavement to party
which heretofore consolidated the
North against the South and impover-
I-hed the country we inhabit.
Year: 1877

GEN. SHERMAN, when interviewed,
said that neither Russia nor Turkey
ever had larger or better disciplined
armies than now. They have, said he,
all the advantages of many improved
arms and modes of warfare, and the
result will be that the world will wit
ness the greatest battles ever fought,
so far as the destruction of life is con.
cerned. l believe this struggle is
going to cost a million of lives, and
they will not all be Russians and Turks
either. / can hardly believe that the
Turks can withstand the shock. They
may save Constantinople, but if they
lose every other point what good will
it do them3 Gen. Sherman also took
favorable view of tie effect on this
country. He added:


1t will keep our people at work day
and night to provide for Europe, if
there should be general war, and that
now seems inevitable to me. believe
all the great powers will be directly
or indirectly involved before the year
is out. In the parts of the country in
which the field fights will certainly
take place half million men on either
side can and will be used. The Rus
slams will have to pull along very fast
through the summer; for they get all
their supplies by their railroads, and in
the winter these are rarely available.


Gen. Sherman said he was in favor
of allowing some of our army officers
to visit either army without pay and
serve on staff duty.
Year: 1877

HAYES, thus far, is patriotic and
not fanstical Republican. In his Of
fetal acts he has been all that the
South hoped and more than it expected
of Democrat. Hostility to Hayes,
therefore, Is only significant Of our de-
votion n partisanship rather than to
truth and country. But we advise
those who are afraid of the party lash,
and whose souls are not their own, 10
avoid the discussion Of this subject.
Year: 1877

IT is very needless for Dan McGary
and Martin to attempt the organization
of party IN Texas to compel return
to old practices and to the old policy
of partisan and sectional hate. But if
the fag ends of parties, North and
South, are resolved to sting themselves
to death, we see no special reason for
discouraging them. 1t is their pretty
funeral. They and the people have
parted company.
Year: 1877

If President Hayes have not carried
the party leaders and their organs with
him, he has certainly won the whole
country to his support, and if Phillips
and Morton and Blaine on the one
hand and Martins and Brick Pomeroys
on the other still wage war against the
President he will encounter no difficult
ty, if the end be desirable, in creating
for himself an irresistible party. Just
now the whole country, its intelligence
and courage and true manhood, CO.
operate in approving the conduct and
wise and sturdy conservatism of the
administration, and people forget parti-
sanship IN common sense and common
patriotism. But if the President choose
to organize party there are men, who
showed their patriotism IN the fight
over the electoral commission, who
would be glad to join the combination.
There is Q common ground for Mr..
Conkling and Mr.. Lamar, Dir. Hoar
and Mr.. Watterson, Gen. Sherman and
Gen. Gordon. Let the policy be one
term, civil service reform, justice and
protection to the South, reform in the
finances and the tariff, limitation of
powers of the Senate. On a platform
representing these ideas all good men
can meet. We shall then have a gen
uine reconstruction of the sections, be-
cause it will be reconstruction spring
ing from mutual respect and affection.
We will then have once more an era OF
good feeling like the green and sunny
oasis in the early part of the century
which came after the strife attending
Jefferson's election and the troubles OF
his reign.
Year: 1877

THE Corpus Christi narrow gauge,


costing $4,000 per mile, or SLIP per
linear foot, defines for Austin the only
mode of escape from the clutches OF
hard times. When will our vigorous
Chamber of Commerce lead Che way
The people. are ready to act. Define q
practicable plan and it can be executed.
Year: 1877

The Sherman Register wholly misin-
terprets the STATESMAN. We only
hoped that the time would speedily
come when, having paid our debt of
s, 900, coo, We could reduce the rate
of taxation to ten cents On the one
hundred dollars of property, the pres
ent rate in Tennessee. We did not
deem it necessary to define the amount
of the debt or financial condition OF
that State but only to give the naked
fact that the rxte Of State taxation
there u e above recited.
Year: 1877

OUR readers should hasten to secure
maps of Turkey the one proposed to
be carved up by the Great Bear Of the
north of Europe. We are inclined to
believe that the stuffing will be knocked
out very soon and the Porte spilled.
Year: 1877

SINCE Commodore Morgan stands
from under and does not shoulder the
debts of the Texas Central, it is said
he will at once proceed to extend the
Indianola road from Cuero to Gonzales.
Won't the Chamber of Commerce find
out on what terms he will bring it tc
Austin2
Year: 1877

EX-TREASUBER SPINNER is the most successful fisherman in Florida. The secret of his success is said 10 lie in the fact that he uses his autograph for bait and the fish imagine it is a new kind of worm.
Year: 1877

R-A Chattanooga special to the Nashville
American says the republicans yesterds
elected The mayor and six alderman, and the
democrats elected four alder men and the city
marshal.


~Young men, steel your hearts against
the insidious young woman who will soon
make her appearance at the church fair ard
smile on you and try to induce you to pay
two dollars for te cent pen-wiper.


1A Lowell firm rec entity sent q lot ofbills
west for collection. The list came back with
the result noted against each name, one be-
ing marked "dead." Three months after the
kame bill cot into q new lot that was for.
warded, and when the list came back the
name was marked sill dead"
Year: 1877

HEALTHFUL B g.. Germany excels
this country in the cleanliness OF beds. 1t
seems as much part of yearly house clean
ing there TO have the hair removed from the
mattresses, well beaten and summed, and TO
have the cover washed, As 1t is with Us To
have the carpets whipped and freed from
their disease begetting dirt. i grant that
This would be q difficult and expensive
undertaking for an American hOusekeeper,
for skilled labOrers are rare, and when found
must be well paid. Knowing the obstacle,
then, in the way of thorough renovation of
our beds, weshOuld take all the more care TO
protect and air them. Every bed should
have especially made for it, the size of a
tick, white te cked comforter, not too thick,
so 10 be uDmanageable in washing; over
this the sheet is spread. Every bed In daily
use should be subjected to the purifying rays
Of the sun al least once week, and should
be left open to the reception of air and ligh.
some time be fore being made up. Beds not
frequently used are often found musty aud
disagreeable to guests. The parlOr beds,
that swallow their own contents by q magic
touch. are fair without, but in time, for the
lack of proper airing, they become foul with
Year: 1877

WATER CoLoRs, OIL PAINT INGS AND
FINE ENGRAVINGS AT AUCTlON.-A choice
collection OF the above goods is now being
sold. and al q great sacrifice. at the old store
of Francis Lamb, on Pennsylvania avenue,
near 18th street. The entire stock must be
closed out, and without any regard to cost.
In the collection are some very clever pieces
in water and oil. The sale is conducted by
Thomas Bowling, and begins at I O'Clock
This evening.
Year: 1877

\ FARMER being poorly provided with
materials of sustenance for his men, fed
them with pork cooked with the rind upon
il. 4 young man OF the company, not liking
that outer portion Of the food, was observer
by the host to be carefully removing the out
side covering, whereupOn the latter said
"Young man, we eat the rind and all here =
To which the youth replied, "All right, old
man; I'm cutting It OFF for you"
Year: 1877

National Associated Press to the Star:


WASHINGTON, March Silt is reported that
Secretary Sherman will at an early day take
up the question of specie resumption, and will
naugufate means for CARRYING the act into
effect.
Year: 1877

anyone should be rash enough to do
so, he would have to count with her
husband, who is the protector of his
wife's honor. If, on the contrary,
the white handkerchief is not pro-
duced, the woman returns straight
to her fathers house, without again
entering her husbands dwelling.
and a divorce is pronounced. Al
though there is generally consid-
able sprinkling of women who come
forward to kneel down and put their
faces in the dust, it rarely happens
that they are not forgiven. A very
tragical case, however, is related in
which the reverse took place. A
returning Cossack was informed by
a malicious neighbor before he had
reached his home that his wife had
been unfaithful, without waiting to
see whether the guilty woman would
come forward and confess her sins.
The comrades of the Cossack per-
ceived that he had all of a sudden
taken to drink and dissipation, al
though he was not man given to
these vices. When he reached the
village, his wife, as he feared, came
forward, knelt down, and put her
face in the dust at his feet. The
spectators saw him look at her, as
she lay in the dust, for a long time.
Two or three time he put his hand
in his breast for the handkerchief,
as if he were going to cover the re-
rentant woman's head - two OF
three times the movement was re-
strained. Finally, as if driven by a
sudden impusse, he all at once drew
his shashka and with one stroke
severed her head from her BODY
The punishment for the crime was
two months imprisonment, while
the malicious neighbor who had
taken the trouble to inform him be-
forehand of his wife's misconduct,
was sentenced to Siberia for three
years.
Year: 1877

How BtOnewall Jackson SIept-His
4a. singular xetfcemce.


Col. Kyd Douglas in Philadelphia Times.l


General Jackson's troops and his
enemy's believed he never slept; the
fact is, he slept a great deal. When
ever he had nothing else to do he
went to sleep, especially in church.
| remember during the invasion of
Maryland on Sunday night he rode
three miles in an ambulance to at
tend church in Frederick, and then
fell asleep as soon as the minister
began to preach; his head fell upon
his breast, and he never awoke un-
til aroused by the organ and choir.
He could sleep anywhere and in
any position, sitting in his chair,
under fire or on horseback. On a
night march toward Richmond,
after the battles with Mcclellan, he
was riding along with his drowsy
staff, nodding and sleeping as he
went. We passed by groups Of
men sitting along the roadside, and
engaged in roasting new corn by
iires made of fencc-rais. One
group took us for cayalrymen, with
an inebriated captain, and one of
the party, delighted at the sight of
man who had found whisky
enough to be drunk, sprang up
from the fire and brandishing "a
roasting-ear in his hand leaped
down into the road, and seizing the
Generals horse, cried out, 81 say,
old fellow, where the devil did you
get your liquor?" In an instant,
as the general awoke, the fellow
saw his mistake; and then bound
ing from the road he took the fence
at Il single leap, exclaiming, "Good
God, it's old jack" and disap-
peared in the darkness. Yes, Gen.
Jackson slept a great deal, but he
was never caught mapping.


He gave to sleep many moments
which other men would have given
to conversation. He was essentially
silent man f; not morose, but quiet.
He smiled often, rarely laughed.
lie never told joke, but did not
discourage them in others, and if
one struck his peculiar fancy he
would smile in mild approval. He
did not live apart from his staff, but
liked to have them about him, and
they were nearly all very young
men. Universally polite in manner,
he encouraged the liveliest CONVEX
sation among them, although he
took little part in it. He was not
man of words; they seemed to
embarrass him. When he had ideas
he put them into action, not into
language. His military dispatches
were as brief as if studied, like the
one he sent after the defeat of Mil
roy; "God blessed our arms with
victory at Mcdowell yesterday"
lie never discussed his plans in
deed, he never told them. The next
officer under him never knew his
intention nor object, He never
volunteered his opinion to his
superioH nor asked advice of his
subordinates, He was as self-reliant
as he was silent, and believed "He
walks with speed who walks alone"
lie was reticent to fault. "If my
coat knew what intended to do,
I'd take it off and throw it away"
was ONE of his sayings. This re-
ticcnoe often lod to embarrassment
and complaint from the officer next
in command, and might have led
to disaster in case of his death: but
be evidently thought it better to
run that risk than yhe Bisk Of hay
ing his plans discovered.
Year: 1877




WASHINGTON, ID. c., May Z, 1877.


We have never been more genuinely
surprised than when it was Authenticity
announced that the extra session had
been postponed until the middle Of Oc-
tober. Dismay of the most pronounced
character followed the announcement
among Washington merchants, hotel
men and clearinghouse keepers; and
it prolongs the agony now endured by
Randall, Cox, Morrison, Sayler, and o.her
Democratic asplrants for the Speaker
chip, who are left to claw and scratch
each other all through the heat of dog
days The change in programme
meeting in June having been an accept
ed thing by all-will necessitate the re-
construction and readjustment Of many
plans, monetarily, socially and politically.
Army officers here who are intimately
interested, as the postponement places
many Of them in the hands of the swarms
Of uncomfortable note shavers and curb
stone brokers who infest this city, always
looking for just such opportunities. are
disposed to be indignant The sharks
will no doubt chuckle and grin over
their discontinue, as they (the officers
will be obliged to sell their pay account
for four months at a ruinous discount.
There was undoubtedly strong disin-
cGnation to An extra session Of Congress
from the fear that it would be improved
as an occasion for tinkering legislation
with the finances, the tariff, and other
matters Of national importance, which IN
turn would uDsettle values and bring
upon business chaotic confusion. Every
Congress has one or more Of these resist
i've spirits, anxious to distinguish them
selves; and they usually select for experl-
ment some gleat national interest about
which they know next TO nothing, and
are capable Of doing much mischief
Then there was the danger Of a revival
of partizan warfare, and what appeared
almost as likely, the opening of crusade
by disafected Republicans against the
Southern policy; and many are inclined
to assign to the latter very powerful
influence in deciding the administration
against a meeting in June-Randall
among them. 4 reported conversation
by the President makes it appear very
probable that such consideration had
much weight in determining AT the last
hour the epOstponement Democrats are
to be little flcetious over the
matter at the expense Of the President
aud Cabinet, because Of their exhibition
of the white feather as they term it. I


1t is currently rumored that some of |
ne leading Bourbons have determined |
to fight all appropriations for an army
Of more than 10000 men.
Others rumors TO the effect that they will
Year: 1877

That a revival is going on in all that
relates TO agricultural interests is plain
enough TO the most ordinary comprehen-
sion. The success, OF tb6tarmiDg occu-
patton, but especially its reliance for a
man, is on almost all tongues The great
crop of the present year have come for
ward TO prove the value of this occupation
as il never has before been demonstrated
in this country. Men are at leased con
vinced that agriculture is at the bottom
of our national prosperity. They COM
prehend In an entirely new way how
branches of business depend on it. But
Tor this years crops, we might still have
waited, as we have been waiting for the
last four years, for a start in trade and
manufacturer. ANY person can now see
that it would have been impossible to do
anything whatever if farming had not
put it's long and powerful lever under
and pried the country out Of the rut in
which il was set.--Ifass. Ploughmaa,