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in. THE STATESMANt STATESMAN WIS daih: DKMOCRATIO statesman. pnblUhed er.rr norntng except T1IE VEiaLV pnhllrbed every TquV naoraiaav All onslnaa em nu indue, eaxuaeal tto shoolS MuMa4 to Slmtl.eopr, eauhi' -tin oo evy, eae ssonta! VS.T.V."'.T.'." 1 a ois STEEKXY DEMOC1UTIC 8TATESMAN. "incl. copy, aaw yaar Sa SO JOHN C1BOWILL, VOL.

V. AUSTIN, TEXAS, Anwrov. Tsxaa. Miscellaneous. DR.

C. M'LANKS CELEBRATE! LIR. PEDLS, rounn center LITER CQilPT.ATCT,' dyspepsia aku siK Symptoms of Diseased Lnrer. T)AIN in the right tide, under the i edge of the rir increase on pre-' nire; sometimes the pain if in the left tide the patient ia rarely able 1 to lie on the left aide aoaetimes -the pain is felt under the shoulder- Lllc, and it frequently- extends to the top of the shoulder, tad is some times mistaken for a rheumatism In the arm. The stomach affected with lots of appetite and sickness 1 the bowels in feneral are sometimes alternative with lax the head is troubled with pain, accom- panied with dull, heavy' sensation in the back pare.

There is generally a considerable loss of memory, sc- companied with a painful sensation of having left something" hich ought to have been A 1 flight, dry cough is sometimes an attendant. The patient complains of weariness and debility he ia easily startled, his feet are cold or burning, and he complains of a prickly sensation of the skin his spirits are low and although he is satisfied that exer- cisc would be beneficial to hrm, yet he can scarcely summon up fortitude enough to try It. Ia fact, he distrusts every remedy. Several of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases have occurred where few of them existed, Vet examination of the body, after death, hat shown the i ivF to have been extensively r.jtj. AGUE AND Dr.

C. M'Lamc's Livik Pills', in case or A cut aho Fiver, when taken with Quinine, are productive of the most happy results. No better cathartic can be used, preparatory to or after taking Quinine. We would advise all who are afflicted with this disease to give them a jam Ttiai. F.

S- neakn-e s4 Vhrafc-Wn eroWtner frsa nthentaea VhNaiBC lm. winn wwnae JWtl and aaa Vr. a MUm J'M a kt fliUm fWil inS. mm-km- Aim imMimn To tbea wiahlng So giv tlmm trial, w. UI Sirward So anr Bart of liw Cslbxi Klatr vom bat NH, fur iwHr thn-eaot poaUK atAinpn, nm i naLfuca fur fourtaan thrvc-raut AH miVr.

from Canada, aaaet b. acrtHapanUwl aj twauij cnu DR. C. M'LANE'S VERMIFUGE Sams a iwy If mM km nc clulilrra iHian. wa.

a MMM aa) aaa mj, glv iaa a a 4 mt M'LANE'S VERMIFUGE, TO CX fTl TH WOKIM, PECFECTf-TACE. gjQNE THIRD IS SAVED in quantity by their Perfect purity susd (rau atrenfrth; the onir kinds made by a practical 13imiat and' Physician, whh ackntifie care to inaur aniftmautr, hamlthfclnaw, t.li- i-ary and freedom from all Injunoua aabstais. im. Thry ar fivr peri or to the com anon adulterate kinds. Obtain the avnuine.

Ob-i iH-nre our Trade Marks aa above, Making Powder, "Hand and Cornucopia," liny the Baking I'owder only in cana aecurelj Jaliellrd. Many have been deceived ill looae Mr Kilk Powder sold aa Dr. Price's, iaanutactnxwl onlv fcv PRICE," ifisja tfh Xcnis mud (aiiinnri E. EDWARDS, ACSTLX TaXan, i UNO JUUT COUECTIK? JtSENT. Altaoda tokaurtaa; aa alllna: land aa4 lu4' oarUS-caiae.

to kicallaa aaal aaaUf laada, i EXAMINATION LAflD TTTLKSt, Habdtvtsloa of taadt la all or th. Masa, aaal all haatarw a analnal ta. i aprrtaJaK( Is Iwtd ane eoUacUoa oi lan la. kaie aae bvilvMaaUw Haraaisss rarawsknl AttMltast a nil Bnlaaw stastrwesael turn Onr. fnio aair w.

e. iiua. WALSH PXX.GHIIX. U.n COLLECTION AGENTS, oswee over s. Jk Xlaaiicka) a We wUI act as AeM PURCHASE AXD SALE CF UKD, FEB FBCT TtTUES AXD rotXKCT CLAIX1 AQACTST TUX fTATB oc If 4 Mm IV a.

a. rawnviir. RUNOTON 4W ssWWasAXa IROX.WORIvfl, 4 Austin, Texas L3 i Ha tat axttaa ear Toea6ry a4 Xaddaatl ta M. w. are praeaiae v.

lul bau J- ft' tAHASS mu4 tKwit cArrnvcs tmt i KTiftiiNKn, wiTxa-rewcB, i i IN TKIIIAICIXKSJ svssA BUnal -v. -i Fit Hi tf An Kiwi of ataciiirrjt hs 0 JUjle Ail WorU Cwk oa Debverr. etCJtr frta I 4vas4 Atwav. WMUBl THIS HEW ACE. The Koeley motor, with which cojTe-spondents bare amused 'popular credulity, is to with gsies evolved from a cup of water, a train of cars, one buodred nod twenty miles an hour, ncirjea the coDthunt.

If fiteeley bad resorted to hUkypecple would have more- faith ia til scheme of We have teen 'and con eased, at some period' 6f Otrr the of whisky to prevent, aid coalL(nuigUMeta potency In promoting locomotion. Bat Ceeley is oat dime by Burteder whose aerial ship is soon to transfer twelve thousand pounds of mail bags from New" York to Liverpool. An electric engine, to Wo-pelled by the same forces that are genera ted ia tno acid-filleuV zinc cops of a telegraph will soon drive the machinery' of vessel, saw-mills and of printing offices. To make motion perpetual it is only tMcesv aary, now and then, to add to the aci.la a little water and fragmenta of sine. Qas botnpaoiea will be no and coal oil: ex plosions no longer knock innocent dames into the seventh heaven of future blessedness.

An ingenious gentltmai in Pans uses an electric light, as brilliai.t as that of the sun from which it i stolen, without Eggs in New York, are batched by electricity aubstitnted for aober-sided hens that nsed to cluck, but now the chicks are clicked out by lightning in the liveliest manner. People not addicted to the use of the telegraph think it strange that written messages are instantaneouely sent over a wire thousands of miles. Hot only is this trne, bat two messages are trunsmitti in opposite directions over the same wire at the same instant and both are as instantaneously printed by tie same force that hears tbem to their destination The only objection to these inventions and discover ies ia found in the fact that even the best of us, after a time, as these great improve ments and changes are evolved, will be most unwilling to die. How can thecburch reconcile na to departure from a world herein we will outstrip the winds when we are whirled across the plains, and ouifly birds of swiftest pinions when we tnove through the airl The Shrotder airs'iipis to take Bostonians to Paris in six hours, and Keeley's motor railway trains will be supplied with malleable glass cooking sioves, irrefragable glass cooking ute nails, and the Dailt Statesman, sent through aa exhausted tube in which postal clerks will travel suspended in "moving tails," wiH out strip the thundering train. We wilt yet read, here in Austin, the World and Herald of the day of publisation at our breakfast table and," ioY" the life, of ua, we can't aeo the use' of dying at such a time, in such an age and in snch a conntry.

Add to these suggestive "facts and fancies" the alleged incoming of strange new faculties vouchsafed to men and women the asserted enhancement of all present human powers of intelligence, the sublimation of human thought, the condensation of the revival of the lost and discovery of new arts, he inauguration of magic as an universal science, and we can begin to comprehend the value and solemnity with which this present life of ours ia invested. Religionists, dreamers of thinkers alike, have asserted that there is a gradual return of orderly mediatorial experiences to those advancing in regeneration, and that music in the atmosphere, as of choral angels chanting devinest melodies, mingles with that of the human voice. It Is 'asserted that there aru arouial condensations of the air by means of which palpable representations of the invisible become visible to the eye, even as of human figures floating through the firmament. Waitings are heard in the bright empyrean and in human temples, tempests shake the earth, and sudden deaths occur from inex Dlleable causes. These are only a few of the physical and moral phenomena grow lug, it is alleged by modern philosophers or enthusiasts, out of the supposed or real new dispensation now' dawning' Upon the hopes and facta and fortunes of our race.

The Sew Church claims that the Apocalypse tella of the establishment of this new age! THE MEADOWS CRIME sHaaaaa. John Iee Doyle, or John Doyle Lee, as ha ia indifferently called by the Nett and Courier, whose trial for participation in the Mountain Meadows massacre is now in pro gress before a court in Utah Territory, was the centre figure in a crime that for its audacity and mystery has bad no parallel in American history. Eighteen years ago the Hormone, from Illinois and Kansas, had jaat established themselves in the far West and commenced to' build tp what is now ther most populous and wealthy com munitv in all the Territories. Tht was be fore the days of Piscifio railroads or even well organized stage lines across the continent. Emigrants toward the laid of the asset traversed the "great pUins witb wagon teams.

In September of ,1837 a party oi pioneers, numbering in all about one hundred and fifty, men, women- and children, were making their way westward. On the tenth of September they encamped at Mountain Meadows. In the mlence and still aess of the night the emigrants were attacked by a party of men disguised as ladiaja. Bttrpriaed and they could make bat little resistance. The mas- sacra was and It has never been positively ascertained that oft the enu grants any one escaped the kjufe jn the pistol, i 1 ne mnraarera were jiorwona.

nnder the teadenhln the nam wha is now on trial at Beaver; They wre dressed hi Indian costume in order that the massa era might be chartred upon the I ndians, but thn subsequent developments Vift no room for doubt aa to who the actual criminals The Mormons acknowledged their responsibility for the alaughtiir, k6ut they pleaded excuses Tor U. Accenting to tne Mormon account several laaaues tn ine emigrant party cams) from that part of 3tia- soan whenca the AAtter-uar rainw were driven, and. war aupposad to kava shared ta the klUtBx of the Prophet mi ta ana me Apostle Pratt. Other charges; against thetn were that ther used profane ungnsgn, con trary to tbe territorial j.hai they de stroyed fence and grain, and. killed stock belonging to the Mormons tUfit they named two of their oxen fBrigham'! and in' ieriaie of the Mormon that they harbored apostates frodi the Church, and poisoned springs along he route tbej were traveling.

The Mormons were very bitter at: the time, because jjiy had just been driven ost ot the and the fed oral govensjaMt was threatesjucg to porssie them SUU futher. Dcjla, of Lee, was the xlfef of the as- saultiax ytJ. Ht was on. I of the bold. bad men who, twenty years ago, foued the Mcrmon movement-to tbe Western wilderness a convenient shelter for themselves and their Crimea, ile had been a notorious character in the wild life of the border, and had made himself conspicuous among tbe fighting force that was comprised within the pale of lformohism." He led the' massacre at" Mountain' Meadows, and then he disappeared Jroto the eyes oi t.be world, 'in 4839 an attempt, was mads to procure indictments against certain prominent Mormons suspected of complicity in the crimev but the -i grand jury refused to indict their brethren, and they evaded tench warrants by flight to the mountains.

Lee was one of the persons mentioned, but his whereabouts were a profound A few years afterwards an adventurous newspaper correspondent was traveling through the wilds of Soathem Utah and found the great criminal living In a hut upon a ledge of a canon far away from 1 civilized humanity. Lee' acknowledged 'to the roving jouraaiist that he was hiding, and that he did not dare to enter within the 1 domain of constables and legal There is scarcely a more romantic incident in tbe annals of crime than that, of this man living year after year in that lonely retreat, and being finally draggea out to stand his trial in the courts of Lee's trial, now in progress, inculpates him as the agent in the slaughter, but it also makes the Mormon Church the principal. Lee is said to have made a confession, and to have offered himself as State's evidence, but the United States authorities declined the offer, believing that they had testimony enough to convict Thin testimony is that of Bishop Smith, and it coincides closely with all that is known of the Mountain Meadows massacre. It indicates that tbe atrocity must be traced directly to Brigham Young. Lee and his ruffians were only the instrument the directing head was the then newly-chosen chief of the Mormon Church, to whom, in his old ae, the responsibility of the crime is being brought.

It was thoroughly a piece of Mormon Church work. The property of the murdered victims was taken charge of and converted into money by the church, and the proceeds of the sale went into the church treasury. No matter what may be tbe verdict of tbe jury in the trial of Lee, the evidence which has been given will stand as a lasting condemnation of the Mormon officials. There are a majority of Mormons upon this jury, and they may de feat a verdict against Lee, but they cannot stifle the testimony that reveals the nature of the terrible crime committed on the plains of Utah eighteen years ago. THE VRKAT RESOURCE OF TEXAS.

At Corinth, Mississippi, an ingenious me chanic and enterprising citizens have built a cotton mill and introduced new machinery modeled especially for the 8outh( and so constructed that a saving of certainly thirty per cent, in the raw material is effected in the manufacture of Cot ton is brought from the field, and, never having been subjected to any process by merchant or farmer, is converted into yarns. The three preliminary processes to which the raw material, after being ginned and compressed, is subjected in other mills are omitted in this. The. packed cotton is not beaten with flails as in other mills, and the tenacity of each fiber remains perfect. Moreover, long continued compression in jures tne strength ot noer, and a bale that has been compressed several months lies dead and solid when the bands are cut.

Uf two threads of equal weight and leugth, one from the Lawrence and Lowill mills and the other spun at Corinth, the latter will sustain twice the greater weight, and the Corinth thread has the glossiness of silk, while that made of cotton from compressed bales has lost its sheen. Cloth made from threads spun at Corinth will out-last, as two to one, that made from compressed cotton bales, and when we add to this difference in value tbe saving, not only in labor employed in the manucfacture of the better description of goods, but the cost of transporting the raw material to Lowell and then of the cloth back to Texas, it becomes apparent that, other things be ing equal, Texas is tbe proper site for most profitable cotton mills. Here trained skill and labor are wanting and worthless adventurers from the East have become managers and destroyed the value of many investments made by enterprising Southern mill-builders. But at this hour, while Lowell and Lawrence and countless operatives are idle everywhere in New England, the mills of Georgia and Carolina are running on full time, with full forces of employees, and all Southern mills even now, when the bondholders are forcing the country to begin the payment of sold into their vsults, axe paying dividends from seven to fifteen per cent. It is also trne that the manufacture of cotton goods has been so stimulated by the tariff system that greater quantities of cotton goods are manufactured than can be consumed in the 'United States, and Eastern mills can export cotton yarns and undersell Manchester in the Liverpool market.

The tariff to "proeect" Ameri can null-owners ia na Sanger needed. On the contrary, England needs ft tariff to pro tect her mills against the cheaper products of America, and there is a wide margin for profits on' Southern-made cotton goods. Southern textile fabrics are infinitely supe rior because made oi cotton tover, ooo pressed, never beaten with and tainisg the: freshness and vitality that make tt glow, even In its oily glossiness ta brilliantly green fields In' these sunny lati tudes. Cotton cloth should, be made be side the' cotton fields, and in this consum mation consists the richest reeoaroe of Texas---, important, when elections are pending and Radicalism is to be ejected from power or seeks office, to bavs perfect party discipline; but at all other times the good the ceuptry and of the people requires the utmost freedom of discussion, and he who resents it moat fear it, and he rwho when hia acts are criticised condemssed, peeooojaceo tao- aasailsna on osnyiol his party, either decent) himself tho party of seeks to escape criticism1 by appealing tj prejudice-. Parties must, exist, bt most not be despotic, and he who Is enalavad by them Is surely oswarthy of ahip.

-l As article in the last number of TTarr rafiey JaWAV. of Bt. Louia, will be eagerly rend by thinking peeplo, sxrpectalry of the IXethodiat Choreh. It Is written by Bishop tells of 8ci jb4 l- THE KAISBSW, a ibiMj rtom thk tniaii, aT uic. On a rload of pemd auri axnra, aaUing rlowl e'er IS.

Cat I he fatored fairy housemaid ia Titaaia's elfia tri The rammer rnaltgtU gllaied tkroogk her aoaVlnx golden enri. Aa aoc took I rum out a casket a atriag of ceetly pearla. With a laogh the litt'c fa sj held her iMaworee hkh ia Tainting that the woe id aa'e them ailU tat-tr fair; For diamond ahine with borrowad tigmi tbe world's Bat oersu'e U-ar, illce luring heerta. ainuae 10 win. bed radianre iron wuma.

a Behind the elfin maiden, as she la airbed la herdelirnt. bat Puck, um waggiah fairj, burn fur Imauig Ban mmd aurite. He cut the it ring, and down to earth tbe nrirelea And aratienxi over grata and tree like drop. af morning dew. The Tittle meld flew after them her heart was sore afraid-Bat though he traraled fast end far, do pearl her search repaid.

Tbe cicada made bAf to help her, bat they gmt hawed de in Vitn Tbe ocean leant, so lightly lost, were never feud sgaia. Now Pack eat wearing ntanj plan within hi goblia brain, For, though he loved to, laoghj at her. he would sot aire her pain; Be down heeiMped withbs the casta, aad sought fhair darksome home. And held a aulemn council with hi ugly the gnoatea. i i Gay, gleaming ore they brought him, and shining apauuli-a loo, And.

holding them within a ahell. aloft be nrlv flew. Then, liKhtly dancing aiouud her, hia waggtah head he toaaed. Saying, "Hera are jewel brighter far than any run nave loot." The cloud left off their weeping, and the fairy laughed ia But when che looked more cloaely at the flashing truniDerv. She shook the shell In anger, with a loud and bitter cry.

When, lol a radiant circle spanned tbe glowing sum mer sky. Son, often when the grieving clouds weep out their woes in rain. Puck brings hia spangles, and the play ia acted o'er agnin Bat, like the Ill-got gold that gleams in many wretched home, 'Tie bat a vain, deceitful show a preaent from the gnome. KKieaa. In the alphabet flnf i'f expression wa heard.

Tbongh belonging to all, it is found a part, nd I in safe when i say 'tia in very heart. And iu ahn -uce 'uw preaunt, th leacber averred. Though apioarlng In man, it lives too la the ape, is aeon in a laay, ana worn in ner rape; In heard in all cdlln, but i mute in reply. It helps to spetl able, and never ay die. With our forefather Adam it ia Eden had blr Aud was part of tbe apple that brought sin on earth.

Though mounting liixh that 'Ua aeua in theaters, 'Tia an element always in family jars; I dwelling in peace, tho' the centre of war, i ommences approactung, ino ami in atan I with wanderer always; ne'er found in a house. No traveler without it. where e'er he may roam. Though in large thing and heavy, yet always with grace. With ali it appear, and Is ne'er ont of place.

Where happiness dwt Us its existence ia paerwd. And though not with the drat, it wlU be with the last. w. A. CR tHGBRS 'AND THEIR RELATIONS TO TEX IN TOWNS ASD CITIES.

The county of St. Louis levies a tax of thirty-five cents on tbe $100, or two dollars per capita for each man, woniau and child. and the product is $1,105,000. The State collects $525,000, the city $3,000,000, and the school tax is $860,000. The sum total gathered by the placeholders and used by them is $5,500,000.

Tbe beauty of tbe Federal system of taxation is that it comes like a thief in the nighty and no man knows when or how he pays. He is only con scious that at the end of the year he has been robbed of all profits of labor. The United States Treasury collected last year $289,000,000, or seven dollars for each man, woman and child, and thus St. Louis pays $4,180,000, and this sum is two per cent, of tbe city's wealth. St.

Louis city and with its population of 500,000, pays annually to taxgathers the enormous sum of or four and one-half per or nineteen dollars per capita of popu lation. Is it not time that the innocent people were revolting against the intolerable exactions of remorseless tax-gatherers It will be observed that the Federal government wrenches more dollars from wealth and poverty than even the mobocratie city rulers. The foulest rabble reigns in many wards. Voters are bought and sold, as were slaves in New Orleans negro marts twenty years ago, and the vilest knaves and confessed bribe-takers hold high positions. The sum total of these taxes, to the extent that they are paid even by real estate owners, is collected from tenants and these add it to the cost of goods sold and, with interest, it ia paid at last by the farmers who trade with St.

Louis, and even so of taxes imposed upon cities and towns of Texas. The whole sum is dug out of the ground. Farmers and manufacturers alone are producers, and however indirect the mode of payment or however many precede tbe Granger, he must at last foot tbe whole bill, with interest and a' profit added, and thus pay the cost of maintaining the terrible governments of rabble-plundered towns and cities. Tbeee are facts that should be discussed by. intelligent masters of each Orange, and facts like these concern deeply those who would give.

Texas proper forms and facts of government. We have used statistics furnished by St Louis because this city is singularly fortunate in tbe moderation of its In truth the place has been often 'governed by representatives of tax-payers, constituting a majority of the city legislature. Most other towns and cities of the South have endured infinitely greater calamities than St. Louis. Tbe whole annual taxation imposed, upon St.

Louis con stitutes, including the two per cent, collected by the thieving, indirect processes of the Federal government, only four and a half per cent, upon popular wealth, while there are Southern cities in which load taxation alone eaeeeds five per IV ot very long ago six and a quarter per cent, was levied -by the State, city and county Upon tbe people of one rabble-ruled community of the South, and when the Fed eral customs' and excise taxes were added thelesaed people found themselves' psying' to tax-gatherers more than eight per cent, upon their whole wealth, and this upon an assessment greater than their property would command at a cash sale. A re volt was organized under tbe name of a Tax-payers' Association, and public plun derers have materially lessened their exac- tions. But this constitutes no relief, and can be none. Party leaders dare not go to the root of the They, are loquacious and pleasing, and and active in amending city charters, and prats at great, length and in sweetest tones about Borert reform. and of changes to beieCeCted by the Legislator, and yet the timid fellews in tbe legislature and even tbe newspapers bare not tbe Courage to throttle the monster that preys Upon the people and drags' oammanttiea duWn, not paly to poverty, bat to Infamy.

Texaas habitually boast of their prowess. Tbeir oonrag on battle-fields chanted by the muses sod historv proclaims it. We shaft soon see whether Texan law-givers and statesmen may boast of that loftier moral heroism which 'deters commonplace dema- foraes from the task of laatiaz. thorough, final reform. Then Is bat one effectivs r.snedy for woes we have defined.

It ia even every day and everywhere. Hooston, robed in sackcloth and aahe, proclaims it, and.Anatin has felt its paralysing' touch. Ita annihilation depends upon the annihilation, in towns and eonntiea, of rablle suf i 43 EN. ROBCRTeN-ranPHLET- a If the simple-fa-were' mitel known everywhere 4a Europe-Mur tated in en. Robertson's recently published pamphlet, entitled "Texavths Homo foe the Emigrant" that each head df a family was entitled to one) hand red ami slaty acres of tbe pubUo domain, and may secure a perfect title by paying surveyor" fees and by occupancy for three years, the beat farming population of the old world1 would be1 speedily drswn hither.

The South has no direct access to public pinionTja Europe. Tbe estimate placed upon us and, the at-tracti vefiess 'of these 8ta'tes ts "'defined by Xorthern'oewspaperVtravelefcrscand "No measures hsve been adopted by Southern States or legislatures' fa obviate-'-this great evit'-' A newspaper from Texas would amaze the' average Cockney. He 'would Tead! the Statesman with feelings very much akin to those we would confess if we received a copy of another Popular Science" IfoutMy from TTjiji or Madagascar. New York and Boston and Philadelphia-aince the Centennial has been talked about, are the -only American cities of which even Englishmen have very definite geographical ideas, and people from these States have fearfully exaggerated notions of their own consequence and that of their country. They persistently speak ot themselves in Europe as "Americans," and must ever explain to the listener that they are from Brazil or Paraguay or Mexico, but.

from the United States of North It is hardly necessary to uume tho State. States, in Europeans eyes, are wretched little remote provinces, liavuiK the same 'importance and giving to the consequential American citizen the sunie social Value on the Strand or Champs Ely see as would be conceded to a New Zealander or Croat. Northern papers were eagerly and widely read in Europe while the inter-State war raged, and European conceptions of Southern character and intelligence are by no means flattering to ourselves. Germans, Englishmen and Frenchmen read and heard and saw more of Ku Kluxism, through the blessed intervention of pictorials and Radical Northern papers, than we ourselves. Iu view, of these facta measures should.

be adopted to distribute over Europo valifable publications like this emanating from' jthe Texas Bureau of Im migration. Such, a pamphlet, should be prepared especially for distribution on the Continent, even as Ihc republication of this in Loudon would be of infinite service to the State. Its statistical tables are invaluable, and these and the plain recital of every fact of sou, climate ana legislation making homes desirable could not fail to accomplish the purposes of the publication. The only objection to tho pamphlet ia its cheapness of paper, as it is "set solid. It should have been printed oaTtieTiest and whitest paper; so "printed that the 'aged might read it by the fireside at night, when days of toil are ended.

CURRENT 'WONDERS OP A VONDE8- This is a year of atmospheric wonders. Such drouths Jiaods, even in this country, never were great river of tbe continent is in a most disordered condition, and tbe flood that now sweeps down the valley should have passed out into the Gulf Stream nearly two months ago. The rise and fall of the Mississippi does not occur with the fixed regularity of the Nile, but, due to-the melting of snow in the Rocky Mountains, comes regularly departing, spring and dawning sum Crops very often are planted and matured perfectly after-the annual overflow has. left upon worn fields an alluvium as rich and productive as But' nature, in 1875, knows, ng Jawijin peacaot order, in pbrsics or finance or politics. The deluge is coming, and the valley of the Mississippi, late; telegraphic dispatches must be submerged from Cairo to the sea.

The sum of losses in property and toil to ensue is simply incalculable, and the sufferings of myriads of negroes inhabiting countless villages sugar and cotton plantations in the lowlands' is incalculable. This alluvial valley, seven hundred miles long and forty miles wide the river itself occupying i ridge which it uplifts along its midst contains'more than Sixteen million acres oi araoig iana, ana when we reflect that during the past five vears the' negroes of the Southwestern Stated have been' rapidly aggregated in the lowlands and that their modest homes' must be laid waste, we can begin to estimate the detriment that may be done by this unpre cedented r-nlamity- Never rmfoxa at such a time did such, an event occur, And never was 'popular anxiety so. intense, not only among those who watch the movement and force of every wave that beats against the dykes that hedge in the surging flood of the mighty river, but among tradesmen of Sown end village A along the of the- majestic river." But nary freaks of nature ar not peculiar to this Terrible rain storms have not fallen Tn the Sfissfssippi valley ''Eu rope has been coilsedXlCiapesta such as were never known before. At Geneva, in Switzerland, a few days sgn, Uiere came down from the Alps the moat storm of sleet and ice, homes and temples by the fiercest blasts that ever swept down-Alpine moantam aides. Iliulstonea met in horixontal flight and were congealed together ia- groat masses, and breaking through windows of eburehea, destroyed pictures of infinite value in hoary, medieval temples, and crushed Abe roofs of houses and spread terror every- wher.

'In as in' parts of England and Scotland and France, disastrous floods, more '( ruinous than this anticipated from Cnsro to" the Gulf, and as terrible in ruin wroeght as the recent desolation of Iceland by volcanic fircyba' leaped -eia-irring from, river beds of immemorial io- poee, aad swept away homes and iadaatnes of viHiagea, cities and provinces. With these fearful revnbions ia nature come those in trade and finance, which stagger Commercial confi Jrac and mate tJmld cap ital, that was again atalkins; forth very gingerly into the byways of. speculation, again withdraw and seek refuge ia vaults 1 of misers and beakers. lathe seorsi world, also, all manner of convnisAons are pro- grru.eY! ana uli -too boata race runs after new gods or- new faiths or demands a new rebsrio. Perhaps the Bible desig nate-thia as a'woodeifuV period 'in' the world's history, and some Christian philos opher might evolve from facts here hurriedly recited disoooreCthat would 'excite in- Unit- intrrsat i to the lore of prop! eta of otd.

3oir should for th oacb age Tn ihi World. progress has deemed tteetf tnost wonderful of all the ages, and faltet-o wonders and aairaclea and oearetst "tW eod Tlll things. It may betadvisable- br'n tt'i contemplaso ooeuareot crtemporary mar-' veloua facta-wislt' Inoitevultuuee, and never, forget tsmt OoU reigas and Mot nlf tbidgs well. on 1 rAix TO IT SEEMS VART Tbere is A jeiyxieaiiliixaace in the vaJus of the igbt.to vote in ekaie nd in municipal aelectiopSJ fttata-KgalaUa all personal tightt oi parent mad child, guardian read ward, creditor and the, tenure Of -K very qu ration of personal right liberty is protected by he Stat) and iu courts, Munici pal governments affect nothing' but prop-1 erty and th value of property and, there fore while each man, aa such; should share in shaping the State government, there is no reason why, save as a property he should vote in municipal elections. The Dallas Herald surely sees the plain distinction.

We would protect tbe poor and in dustrious against the lawless, migratory rabble that robs and desolates towns and cities, snd counties especially, of the South; No man can gain wealth, unless he be an officeholder, in rabble-ruled communities such as we have seen, in which white mob at one end a city allied itself with black at tbe and' the two plundered and destroyed till homes were valueless, t- and the poor exiled. But there is another' reason for the restriction of tbe 1 operation of. these codes limiting the number of voters in corporate elections, in the fact that under the Federal Constitution we lose rep resentation in Cos grass if we lessen tbe number of voters in State. elections. We not care, just now, to Jessen the force of Texas in Congress.

Congress has usurped almost limitless power, and' we can hardly afford to lose a vote in that' illustrious and most potent body. It is also true that in general State elections the danger to decency and justice ia leas than ia local elec tious. In the whole SUte the power of desperadoes, who now and then have over run Texan, towns and robbed local taxpay-1 era mercilessly, is nqt so dangerous. Their forces are diffused; and cannot grasp tne State as they -mayjfOompass: Dallas or Austin, reducing them, to the pitiable condition of Orleans; Vickaburg and of countless towns of tho South; ravaged and desolated by. local taxsrat We would have thrrfreedoraTif" Ins' people lim itless, and thus illustrate 'theJ Democratic maxim, constituting the.

very, substratism of Democratic' that i'taaV gov ernment is beat "which, governs' least therefore we would have corporations liberated but only on condrtiobv thai Suffrage is restricted to those the wise and honest, eondbet! af corporate governments. If this restriction1 df suffrage or Its equivalent be net madeiinTexan towns and counties, the Legislature. should divest tbem wholly of the powertoereate indebtedness. AN ERROR COaMEarTatls. A paragraph has been going, through the newspapers of Texas assuming to show enormous were osses the South during th'e, war.

It, says that Ala bama, between tne years latsu. ana. jpvp. as shown by census tables losttwo and thirty-nine millions pf Aersonalwealth, and that the South lost 'of property twelve hundred and eightyTfonr millions. including These last, constituting one-third of the whole loss, at $300 each.

were' worth two' thousand million dollars, and thus the paragraphs to which we refer are rendered very absurd. But when we remember the houses and fences destroyed by Sherman's armiesto i say 'nothing of the wreck wrought when reu ruin rode m-uinphsntly over Virginia and the Carolines, we must conclude that he compiled those statistics was grievously afraid that the sum total of losses incurred by these States would become known. The product of four years' labor was lost by the contin uous idleness of half, a million men in the South, and then the profits of all Southern industry, invested for four years in Con federate money -and bonds, woro lost. In fact, the paper to which we refer is. a.

gross coisrepresenxstioa, and should be repudiated 9 by every paper that baa reproduced it, The Booth lost not less than -nine thoasand mil lions because of a conflict. which could not bare occurred but for the set that there two parties to it, and that tha tramers of the Federal Constitution made It a com promise end confessedly two-aided, and susceptible of two coaetractienav The quarrel was outrageously wrong-beaded on neither side, especially when: we remember. if selfish interest did not intervene, that each distinct people hava ther inherent tight, coalessod. ia iffGl, to guv- em emsel ves as. they chposev But it is all over now, and ita wrongs happily forgot ten and, in view of facts, aflostiaa; tha a rible losses to, which the South was aob- jected the North gatherias ncbes) even as we lost them- in new of Abesa facta! ia it not asking oo much to make of na beasts ot burden forever, by making us.

pay la gold the interest and principal of enormous sums stolen and appropriated by tha spectt lators and dealers in shoddy, who preyed upon -the peoptav-csdsnftteanmdncbined widows' tears and a people's griefs' into ft Traix after train freighted with1 wheat passes Sherman for St. sad atone for Galveafan. -TheTa ta a lawtf liaO of tail- ways beyond Loois, aad: only the beyond Galveatonv Eailwaya think, and bid for the wheat; tbe oceaA and cities beyond do sot Tbt tSBM Witt ooma whet they will, aad a aaodsat ttstssnsst af facts sow witaossad lav Texaa woald induce W. lAoooho, Ajsserieaa agaavt of A lea who awn forty or more steamers. to eetabUah a Una beta Galrestoa to Llver- pool or Bawsatevi'-' Tub Agt says that tha editor of tha Tdf fntpk is a 'big thing in tbe divine Ia fact, taoflwTs "devotoi just sow ta eonic 'seetiofts, which are sometimes cornier ARESSI 1J BtRIAIa CO VMOi The 'great evtnf of tb'is summer is the Presbyterian Ecumenical Council, now.

in arsVion in the city of London. 'This sssem-ia composed of 'representatives froma tbe Presbyterian churches throughout the Worlrf. From the days' of the" KeformaUbr ik e'nKiVUa other 4rancbe rtbeleriancrcn have the "exhibiting Jbir ss-rutisl tf toraSwer, lne Jthe greatest evjl ia thaVtbt. -churches re so widely teparatad from bach other, "that tbere is tfof vcn a temporal of human intercourse carried on Mtwten them. ''1'S far as I am if I can be of any 'hse, i will readily pass oVer ten seas etfect 'tbe'ob-iect If the1 welfare of England alone were concerned, ahouict regardft 'as a sufllcient teaso'n to act ihua? 'But at ores-' when oar nuroose is to unue ecuu- ments of sit good and learned men," And so, sccording to the rule "ot bring the separated fchurches nto onei' netder i-It nor'1 IrvMJe'af- nny 4ughi be i lBW''" i scheme now about to be put in ojiera-tion differs in two respects from Calvin's In the first place; it represents only the.

churches, holding the doctrine and order of the Westminster Confeaston of Faith. Calvin's effort was to unite all Protestaat Churches solidly against Rome, tie is often, represented as narrow' and Ilia correspondence touching the qaesrion before Us shows that of all tbe Reformers he Was the broadest In his views. Calvin's effort, in is realized In the evangelical alliance. 3 But, in the second place, Calvin's plan contemplated forming a representative tourt for all the Protestant whose decisions should be bind ing on, ell. The present scheme contemplates an annual representative assembly of only moral power.

What it may become eveutuslly no one can tell. It may at length assume the form of the Presbyte rian Geaeral Assembly of the World. Niw fork cirir And texak. We were telling the other day of a poor devil now in tbe penitentiary of Texaa for two years, and subjected to all, tbe real or Supposed enormities done by the many prison keepers employed by Ward, Dewey He stole a wretched bath-house, dried fruit pie that went down bis throa hke a and. jn New York there is a fellow finied' Tweed, who stole than $rf miiiions from the city, and it ia, quite im possible.

inuict any punuumen. con formed, to tbe offence. lie has made knivery respectable in the eyca yf igno rance. Most of those who, voted for bim think it right to rob tax-payers, and Tveed is the impersonation of the morals of, a mighty mob which will, yet destroy the city which Tweed tand his infamous associ ates almost bankrupted. should be sincerely happy that under the of tbe future greatest and richest of (American States, a poof wretch may be imprisoned two years because be appropriated the traditional while vulgar boor like Tweed may steal fire millions, pay half a.

million to. lawyers and. courts, and spend he evening of his daya ia, splendid ease and opulence, five years; sine change in the condition and deceucy.iand, honesty of the governing muUituae.m pief York supervene, Tweed, will sit beside Afor- rissey snd Kelly, vulgar tbe council chamber of American empire, and the imperial purple itself be for sale to the highest bidder. Meanwhile," in view of this aspect of the progressive for tunes of the country, would it not. be well fori Texas to see that our cities and towns and counties are guarded against, the domination of Tweeds snd gallyaaad Connollys? WHO SHALL BPEAK FOR t7S IN PUIIo ABBLPHIAT 1 t.

I t-W. ti It is very proper that each section of Union should have its representative orator at the centennial celebration st Philadelphia and itbat these gentlemen may "expound. propel ly and worthily tbe genius, taste, intelligence aad patriotism of those for whom they their several tasks should bo assign! tbem at ones. Longfellow, firs of American poets, will the hallowed memories and holiest aspirations of Americans. Either of the Adams might 'well represent New England, as Webster, if living, might havs obviated tha aeceeaity for more tbaa one massive intellect to compress into a single faultless oratioa the hopes, memories and patriotism bf tha people of all sections and States, Evarta, lineally descended from the- foremost- revolutionary patriots, should spesk, as no other living American, ean speak, for Now York.

The Midd le aad Xurtbwestarav State should designate tbeir exponent, and with one voice the South would prononaca Lamar the most felLcitoas rbetoriciaa, tsstef al scholar and logical thinker bow adorning public life, and therefore a proper. representative of the Gutf States. Ex-Governor Stockdale or Hubbard should frame, in sonorous, glowing sentences, as they could, the story of Texan devotion to memories of its awn, and of American independence. i.i n- tt 1 The Houston organ 7WyrvyjA--pro-noonces the following paragraph from the Btatesmas while we boast, of soch, 'Hncoadiarism The TtUgfapk denotinces it as "shameless the SA-raatua ia shamelessly devoted ta every purpose and principle, here Read and approve tbe Statesman: or coadema Aba Gov ernor to tbe extent that ha is properly rep. resented by his Tha Statksmax said and still tay "Tbe rangers need, only leara hew to exert tbe terrible power thej might wield to reform tha American system of govern-aat, reetoriag ertn that simplicity that distinguished it 100 year ago.

Aaeociated effort is iadisponaabUi ia the aUaiaiaeot of any great public good. Through tliese Granges, farming populations, ieaxning something of their owa strength, learn also bow to wield It, aad wo are not amazed when old narty bummers orgaa-griad' i ers and party backs tremble lest tha Grangers embark In Just so surely at Mr. Lang, aad others having access to the Oaangea, once teach thetn tha extent of their authority satoV-show-ftowTbey bsve been ploadered sad robbed ranaoxasw leesty victimized by placemen ot high aad tow degree, and bow they are taxed in all things aad "protected' in nothing, thai they pay all tariffs and all boadV and are paid aothinjr wbea. ail toeaw Jacts i are i clearly nafolded, there will be great reaaoa for that terror which overmasters tbat god-, fry, psoas organ, tha Tebyraph, when the farmers ot Texas, as a class, manifest an latere ia tha oovsa pebiia erauts, aad declare their Dorpoae to control these i rereats," off th" eastern auMBMoo, aw vauy oecauee a corpor.tioo is eudeavoring to coloaixe it, but becausa of woadtrfui pre-hU6ric remains discovered everywhere. Monuments snd rude statues dd te'rnplesjn raini aboaa and there wr.s Je lot arcbogioal rosearch.

(JlB.velsndU Pbia, Is a neb and In-talligeat" mtJustinh'' Society." It 'should sehJ an explorer to (5oumel. Discoveries af Jf4tVC'(yVn ih' ijui'. wou-derfu at those. recently' ruade at to i site of ancient have given verity to the pages of loovertiad read us to believe thatflleclor andAchiilesand Menelaus and Pafiaand--A gamemnpnwere once' living'. tore our time theie was a Helen as traitoropi aa fascinating.

Cozumel may jhave. tba aito of anotbur Troy, and txophies and treasures of a people once rich and powerful "may be unearthed even kueri W.oh' lhat heap, of sand by the sea-ahore in Aaiatio Turkey, whereon fishermen have ignorantly dried their nets for ages, neeYTTreTraTBg'Tb ere erevessela of gold and gems and diadems just below the sur-fsooof the soil on which ITector bellowed and Theraites groaned three thousand years goj.h'-i )'. if t- -i A Sout)(X RirtKCTiON. If New Orleans score direct railway eonnoction with IIous- toa and then with Bhreveport, Marshall and Jefferson, practically one town, and from this triangular village, with Dallas, we don't clearly see what is to prevent the wharf company's suffering excruciating constipation of its merciless of mercy. Then, suppose Morgan's steamers olaw their way, like' mud-turtles, to the lower faubourg of Houston, what must be the fate ot the sea-gMt city on its barren island The AW may yet be published in Houston, and fishermen dry their nets on the arid beach where wealth and commerce and youih, and beauty do now disport them I Tuk Bonham X-tr refused to support tbe nominees of its party, and so with the Mexia Ledger, aad thus both have kicked entirely out of the Democratic traces.

Tbe Statesman differed from the so-called master of the party ia Texas about a ques tion of party policy and of public good, and bis Excellency wrote of ns aa "so-celled Democrats. But we supported the ticket and have written as sensibly as most people in behalf of the convention. Pleaso toll why the and the ledger are not in finitely worse "so-called" than tho Btates-has! And why doesn't his Excellency write a letter about them, and Ireland make 4 speech antl Issue a proclamation Why notf Age is mistaken. Tbe Statesman did not undertake to approve the scheme of restricted suffrage defined by Norton1 IitteUigenar. It is better than no limitation of that universal calamity catled universal suffrage but the Statiuait hnstaevcr proposed id do more than restrict nuffrage in corporate county, town and city elections.

These Idcai governments only sffect prop-. ertyi It is the State that regulates civil and personal rights, and men' having no Interest iaj town's should not vote In them, or In bonks or rail 1 11 jj llliTuwJimpk)euie would have tbe counties ejTeaas Jrri free to determine, aa necessities-, msy, arise, whether they will invest money in schools, court bouses or rsilwsys. ue consuiuuon snoniu pretermit scuon on this, question, and lesve the jieople free. Tlicy are apt to knew what they want, and it i i tuuao ww ynj in ua luipoau it, lucre is no, danger of wastefulness or recklessness. Therefore we insist that those alone shall rote ia local elections who are freeholders.

Let the counties remain our pare republics. na people of Houston need not desnond. Tbs Narrow, Gauge and the Houston and new' Orlana rnaili nnl IIia nprfnitjw1 kalj will speedily. double tbe city's wealth, aid thus lessen taxation one-half, and tbe bid town will yet be perfectly blest. hot its representatives in the constitutional convention seehst it is nevor mora sub- ecied to the government of tbltves and ad-enjturtrs And that this result may be as- i tured will they not have, tbe now Constitution declare that none but freeholders shall 7ole in municipal elections Thy fellows thai hold the bonds bold tbe money.

The one commands the other. All the' paper money in the country can be borrowed, at from one lo four per cent, per by deposit of United States bondrf as' and used W. speculation. Therefore this ruinous collapse which forces Texans 'to self wheat at fifty cents and to taKe) their1 pay In paper God knows just a' little eipansion, jiist no would hurt none but bondholders. LouisrnjJc should be content.

It has Wstersoa, 'O. Washington Bricks and the head centre of the Granges, and St. Louis is entitled to' the pleasure of entertaining the National Democratic Convention. We would have it oven farther from New York.1 New York and New' York influences nave twice beaten and st last almost MMillfl tk. 4 AnJ v.

mv fm.j, wv, bvw iui iicw aura. World woald sell as oat to tbe New York bondholders, -j Th BrawasviUa Badinti says that though the apprebensioa of Cortina and watchfulness of Capt, kfcNally have quieted theMex-kaa aad Indian robbers that the American Tekan thieves are quite The SeuXSftti talks somewhat gingiirly about tho knsves, as if it wore dangerous to denounce tbetr aad Iv talks about courts as something terrible. A short ropo and shorter shrift woald tutrs healthier moral influence. Ir is; villainously mesa sad selfish of county courts to mska out and post np on lli MHft hMIU llytiM I I I 1 teewU. rTbey expect those poor devils, the county editors, to copy ami print these statements and famish tbtra.

to tbs people at iheir ow'n cost as newt. Highway rob- Hers are as generous and just as these model courts. J'xvv nrsoBED cases are docketed for this term of tha criminal court at Dallas, If they all go ap to Ward, Dewey ft and they have only two terms a year, it will be only ten or fifteen years before the whole town gets Into the penitentiary. There Bust be, therefore, no present alarm about Dallas immolating itself on the altar of i'j country's peace and hsppiau. Oxs dollar, la.

most towas and cities of Lbs Coiled States, will pay aa much as two dollars of three years sgo. Tarsi island of Coaumel, coast of Yucatan, ia now aaS i.

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