The Austin Weekly Statesman from Austin, Texas • Page 1

THE STATESMAN, IT A Tl i IK lAii.Y'" I pablUho) erary morning except lfoodA'. TIIK WEEICLY I PaMLIed arrrv ThorMar aummia i All hali conMM.deic en autaal BAatr. SBouldbeadtlruaaed la JOHN iftrar.Tnii. Miscellaneous. CEIXBRATED LIVER PILLS rcw tuu cm or Liver Coaipuvjnt, DYSPCI'SIA AKD SICK HEADACHE.

Symptoms of a Diseased liver. 1AIN in the right tide, under the edge of the rib, increase on pre-' turc; sometimes the pain is in the Lit side; the patient rarely ble 1 1 to lie on the left vide omctimts the pain is felt under the shoulder- Made, and it frequently extend to the top of the shoulder, and ia aome- times mistaken for a rheumatism in the arm. The stomach ia affected Kith loss of appetite and sickness tiie bowels in general are costive, sometimes alternative with laxj the licad is troubled with pain, accompanied with a dull, heavy aensatioa in tke back part. There is generally a considerable lots of memory, accompanied with a painful sensation of having left undone something tvhieh ought to have been done. A slight, dry is sometimes an at- tendant.

The patient complains of weariness and, debility; he is easily. startled, his feet are cold, or burning, -and he complains of a prickly sens' 1 tionof the skinj hi spirits are low i and although he is satisfied that exer- cisc would be beneficial to him, yet Le ran scarcely summon up fortitude -enough to try it. Jn fact, he distrusts every Several of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases have occurred where few of them existed, yet examination of the after dca.h, has shown the i tit to have becit extensively Uc-I-i-t J. AGUE AND FEVER. Da.

C. 'Lane's Live Pills', in cau or Aou and Fevek, When '-taken with Quinine, are productive of the most happy No better cathartic can be used, preparatory to or after taking would- t. advise all who arc afflicted with thia disease to give them a rix trial. V. Ttaakra mi Ttijdrlana cr-Vrina trm OII.T.

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They are fiur superior to the common adulterate! kinds. Obtain the genuine, Ob-' iw-rta our Trade Marks aa above; "Cream lUkiii Powder, "Hand and Cornnropta." liny the Bakina; Powder etily ia earn Meurely Many have baeai deneived in loose it Uilk Powder aold aa Dr. Mannlautnred only by u. STliELE PRICE, ibt. Limit mmd VmetmrnatL KIUNBKV, rimm SMN, CNI OAto.

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IxrV John sujiMCndi; (Lavte AtectS AaVWtf v.r Ttrxas cuiyeBm George W. Gift, a gentleman and achohvr, contracting California, inhabited by the Chineae, with the Misauwippt valley, by negroes, prefer the fate of California. He saj tn bis letter from Napa, California, that the Cbinee axe supposed to be a great curse and drawback upon California on account of their willingoess to work for low wage, which precluded the white man from employment. Suppose I were to admit the cnarge a true that an ignorant, ueoawu great detriment to a cotuiuuuity, exR-iulIy wnen.tbat race ia sbiftles. lzy uud dia-bonest; suppise I should udinil tliut, aud aav further that such a race wben clothed i i with tbe irancnise la bos ouij oeunncuuii a Ihun a community out iumgerum, sbo Id cite the condition of several of the Mouthern State, in which a large proportion of the population belongs to this class, and where industry i paralyzed.

and trade at a stand still, donl you tuina: i wouiu answer yout If yon can put up witn tne lazv. itrnorant. votinjr negro, we enn surely get along with the industrious, frugal and non-voting Chinaman. When you have plucked that nero-beam out of your own eye, tnen we win give you icao i iw after our Chinese moat. I know that I hall be told that the nqgro to be a good fellow after this, that the carpetkugyers have heretofore put all the deviltry in him but now, since he has sought better ad viser he will be better.

NonseDse. lie will pas from one set demagogues to another, who will use lum to carry out their viciou purpose mnke mm tne cais-Daw with which to transfer to their pockets the little surplus wealth produced in tbe country. I do not advise any man to come to Calilornia, much less do I counsel persons to leave, the home of their birth but I do say that a man should give the question thought before he deliberately elects to plant bia proeenv in a community which contains African element in quantity sufficient to form a power. The evils to come to sue a community are not to cm numbered, and the prndent man will rather retire in time and while he has the aouity ao to do, than stay to become victim to unheard-of woe. What hope lu poor Mississippi, with the uegrc element in ma jority? Hut a ray.

She will go and back, until she become a wiiac-ruis, auu the voudoo man will be the highest in au-thoity." In all this Mr. Gift tells the literal, unvar nished truth, and we should face the facts, and not, with base moral cowardice, con fess and then evade' them. Demagogues fear the rabble, and the Federal Constitution, as amended will not suffer the enactment of law which, even in corporations, make distinction based upon diversity of race, and it would have, been quite aa wise and reasonable to have forbidden legislation that recognizes genera and species in the animal kingdom. But the constitutional amendments for the present are fiual, and we can enact no codo making a discrimination between the races, and cannot wisely limit the number of thoee voting in elec tions for members the State Legislat ure, since, ty so doing, we lessen proportion ated our congressional representation. It follows, therefore, that in order to escape palpable calamities defined by Mr.

Gift, we must prevent savage and rabble suffrage in county and town elections. Nothing else can rescue municipalities in which the African mob preponderates, from utter desolation. And then, in order to seduce Mr. Gift, and many like him, even from that matchless paradise in which he dwells, within two and a half hour of the Golden Gate, through which the sun ever sink to repose in golden glory, we need only proclaim the fact that in Texas the rabble is impotent because in a hopeless minority, and in towns and counties, because it is im poteht by law. Gilt went to California in 1849 or 1850, and then, in returned to the valley of the Mississippi Jto spend the remainder of his days; bat savage suffrage was and be tell tbe plain, unvarnished truth, when he says that no civilized race will seek home in a country in which universal suf frage obtains, and in which blacks con stitute even an appreciable element of popular powef.

'He writes truth fully of the doom of Mississippi as we' see it. "Mr. Lamar may speak like an angel and break down in this single pending contest barriers lifted up by God's laws and, as enduring as in all the past and future of the. world's history, and he may triumph to-day, but conquest itself is ab ject humiliation and defeat and ends, after repeated victories, only in confessed degrs-dation. We would have no such contests in Tsxasj'.

In the State at large, white so out number that it is impossible, and that they may never occur in local elections the Constitution of Texas, should de- Clare that hall vote. iu these none but freeholders GovESMon Cokb'b special organ at Waco, the Day, not the 'Hl'y that the reason people didn't vote for tbe convention was the fear that the present rulers might be removed, "aud the equally general desire that'they- should not" walk the plank. Some paper has said that the. light vote, was caused by the war or anti IreUud, nioveiuent, vw hen, in truth, everybody that had anything else to do on election day, thinking it a one-aided business, neglected to Tote. But the r- AwtiW's exposition of the fact ia simply absurd.

If the people had been animated by the fear that Governor Uuke might be ejtted from office by the convention they would nave votad against the convention, On the ootrary the vote for Democratic candidate and for the convention is nearly the same, if we are to measure hi CxoeUeacy' strength by the Democratic opposition to tbe convention be is very But this question was never thought of aav by place and was never diACueeed in these page, even indirectly. There are Govemoia enough to be found in Texas, but good Constitntion is bard to nt the neoDl had intelligence enough to Set with reference to the Import ant quest ion submitted to them. The or-owever, inverU tbe proper order of idew aad fires aoprexae importance to that whkb affect the nun and forget tbe woe and want rf the country. Tun mayor Waco nd vises bis city father ta cut down the city attorney's Alary to fifty dollars per month, and that of th recorder to $133, and then would compel all officers, after securing their fixed stipend, Py over tn the city treasurer all fine? fee and perqnieites. It is capital iden and will be adopted here once.

It will pc-pulAiae those In office And save tax-Mtyer vast sum. The excellent mayor of Waon farther says that 1 these perquisite belos to the people and sot to the plAce-tuea and have bo tight fees, ne. and iorkitured nhUe the people moat py tan cost nl jsaiitainjng these munkipal "Ternsaenta. nei it auk ivw rnis witkk-ALlTa. $ot many daya ago M.

Chevalier, a distinguished French sawn end political economist made a speech at Greenwich, England, in which he said substantially that before the end of 1877 all tbe Governments of Continental Europe would be obliged to decide respecting tbe renewal of their commercial treaties, and that this fact brought up the question of free trade. He added that this question is not confined to Europe; the Universal Exhibition that is organizing at Philadelphia ia a si-p that the day draws near for the practical introduction of this policy into the Republic of the New World. Experience and facts are the best evidence nod tbe best arguments to persuade the people and their legislators of a necessity of a change from prohibition and protection to free trade, from heavy customs duties to a very liberal tariff. The most convincing proof to le employed is the example of England, whose progress since she threw off the restraints of prohibitive protection is among the miracles of National advancement. M.

Chevalier said that the protectionists understood that if they were beaten now, they were beaten forever. They would consider it equivalent to a victory if they could only arrest the course of the liberal current which has been running in Europe since 1800, mainly under the guidance ot the late government of France, and of Napoleon personally. To the new trade policy M. Chevalier said France owed her ability to bear the heavy burden imposed by the war of 1870. She is able to supply an annual budget of $500,000,000, besides some $200,000,000 of local expenses.

Her bank, notes likewise, to the aventge amount $500,000,000, circalate in all part of the nation witbout any discount, a financial phenomenon witbout a parallel. It was also stated by the same speaker that the narrow escajie Continental Europe had lust April from a bloody contest has aroused a feeling very favorable to free trade, for the reason that it is endowed with a great power to lorce the war spirit to recede. Not that free trade may always defeat warlike enterprise, but that mankind more and more clearly comprehends the waste of war and opposes it with continually increasing effect. This does but son-firm the philosophic theory that the more intimate the trade relations of different nations are, the less disposed are they to enter upon the work of mutual destruction. "Free trade is the intimate friend and ally of peace." The Iiight Hon.

William E. Forster made an excel lent speech, following that of M. and on the part of the American gentlemen present, Mr. Nathan Appleton, of New York, made an address which was cordially received by the company. Mr.

Appleton declared that he came from a community were protection was. the practice but he gave his reasons for believing that -the manufacturers them selves had got as much out of it as a system as it would yield. His view was that high duties smuggling and fraud, and that the demoralizing effect upon the people and the 1 atioaal character is more than can be compensated for by all that enters the treasury in duties. He likewise quoted with extreme pertinency the saying of the son-in-law of Mahomet: 'Ti the course of my long life I have often observed that men are more like the times they live in than they are like their father," a saying which Professor Draper pronounces to be profoundly true. Mr.

Appleton thought that the surroundings of the American people are compelling them to accept the truths of the free trade theory, and that it would form "one of the stoutest planks of the winning platform in the Presidential year of 1870." AUSTIN CULLfcGE WHKSE TO BE LOCATEI. On the twenty-fifth of this month the Trustees of Austin College meet here in Austin to fix finally the location of the institution. Their action concerns deeply the future fortunes of this city. The exist ence here of one college must necessarily lead to the creation of others in the same vicinity and the co-operation and concurrence of these will result in tbe establish ment of a great university by which teach ers and scientists may be trained and mag nificent libraries collected and laboratories and astronomical observatories established sud maintained. are tanks which cannot be achieved by any single Christian denomination, and no college can supply the want of an institution which may at- fract and maintain the foremost scholars and lecturers of Europe and America.

From these colleges and from this university, for which there is no other proper location in Texas, there will go out the educators of the youths of Texas and from this institution will arise tbe leading thinkers and scholars and statesmen of the country. But we only proposed to inquire whether intelli gent cittr.cn be incapable of appearing be fore the excellent body of Christian gentlemen who nicet here on the twenty-fifth instant, and of pointing out the propriety of selecting Austin as the site of Austin College I Will, not the city's chief magistrate entertain these literary magnate for day and, taking them to tbe summit of Mount Bonnell, even as it ia written in the fourth chapter of Matthew, will he not point out the matchless beauties. of the country, of the brilliant river glittering ia glowing sunlight, of the boundless plains and dear.Ipure air that toy like maiden among the mossy luck of grand old live-oaka. Will he not propose to surrender the use of All these to the good men who would found here their denominAiionAl college And will he not declare, with splendid elo quence, the plain truth that there iot elsewhere in the world city as beautiful or a locality attractive, and that we only need men worthy of it and eaonble of -em prehendingandtkusof developing it possi bilities. Would it not be veil for citizen of Austin interested in facts aad result here contemplate! to bnve some consulta tion Inlxhalf of this natter The recently repotted Turkian in IleixegonU do not sects to have accompli bed mnca in the way putting down tbe rebellion.

Tfeern is no donbt that if Servla and Montenegro enrte and arrest the nerxegoviniAas, the disit tegratien of the Ottoman empire will commence. It is only a question of time hen Egypt will refuse to pay tribute, and the greed of the European power will lend to complete di- nteodbtnaent of Turkey, to the advantage, an douU, the ta habitants and of the world' ptPfciiAn. AUSTIN, TEXAS, THURSDAY. AUGUST 19, 1875. t'NITY AMD I fl VISIBILITY TEX SV.

OF We would not have Texas sulrdivided. While centralization and boundless power over men and property is steadily usurped by coup re ss and State lines are rapidly obliterated, the iutegrity of Texas, its local memories, history and purposes of agraud-izeinent must be cherished and perpetuated. The Union, iu maintaining peace aud commerce between the States aud with foreign powers, is an admirable adjunct of political existence; but the invasion of every local right, the infraction of each incident uf local freedom Iy steady aggressions of congrebs and of the chief executive render the physical potency of a Slate eminently desirable. Grant and Kellogg would never have defied aud plundered and tyramzed over New York as over Louisiana, and there is nothing like capacity to defend one's self when a bully struts about a village gieeu or an ignorant reckless soldier wields a despot's armies and de. praved judicatories, the one to rob, the other to enslave and degrade a people.

We never expect to see another military machine made president that the country's laws may be set at naught and local freedom crushed but flie woes of Louisiana and terrors of savage governments in South Carolina and Mississippi illustrate the necessity for power at home to command respect abroad. Districts of Texas of which it has been proposed to make separate Scates might become negro er Mexican governed adjuncts of the Union aud profitless neighbors of Texas. With its present confines the northern and western counties occupied by farmers from beyoud Ohio "and from Western and Central Southern States and counties bordering on the Gulf of Mexict peopled mainly from the Gulf States, while the West is enriched by Germau industry and intelligence from all these diversities of population of diverse modes of think-iug, there must be evolved that perfect unity shaped by common interests and a common destiny. To make a government which protects so many different populations successful and even endurable, it must move, as the Federal government was designed to do, within a very narrow sphere. Counties and towns assurred of tke broadest freedom, and suffrage therefore, must be restricted to those interested in making these governments cheap and the people prosperous.

The greater and broader the State, the greater the legislative, freedom and power to be entrusted to counties and towns. The interests of Jefferson and of Laredo, in future years, may be as diverse as those of Maine and of Texas, and no one central government can legislate for both localities in reference to local facts with equal justice. Each district, like each State, should have the greatest freedom compatible tbe maintenance and perpetuity of the common government. Therefore we have said that the constitutional convention had a very simple task before it. It need only create a frame work of government.

The legislature and county and town governments must do the rest, and that these serve the people well, and make Texas the most attractive countiy ia the world, aad that the best classes of people of all the States may be induced to seek homes in Texas, the right of suffrage must be restricted to those interested in its proper exercise. Without this, local freedom is not desirable, and without it, the protracted unity of this great State is neither possible nor desirable. Foreign papers have begun to recite the terrible misdeeds of Ward, Dewey whose cruelty, or that of men to whom they hire desperadoes, may be unparalleled, but they deal with convicted felons, and yet not one word is said of a hundred hideous jails in Texas, or of five hundred in the South, in which confinement is worse than the lash or Dall and chain or sweat-box of Ward, Dewey Co. At the last term of a Texas court men plead guilty to charges, of which the court, jury and lawyers deemed them innocent, that they might escape the horrors of slow death in a frightful den called a county jail. It may b3 well enough to revile Dewey but it occurs to us that prison reform should begin where, the innocent Buffer tor tures of the damned, and not where the guilty alone are subjected to indescribable anguish.

Whatever the opinion of Texan and foreign newspapers, prisoners in nar row, iron-plated dungeons, the guilty and innocent alike, prefer the penitentiary, with all its woes, to these county jails, hotter than ovens in which food is cooked, and having air holes through which a bird could hardly inhale enough breath to fill its parched lungs. Ignorant, thoughtless pet pie built these infernal jails, never thinking that honest men, as faultless as them selves, would often be incarcerated, and these prison builders impose undeserved punishment, while the demons who hire villains from Ward. Dewey Co. find a partial apology for enormities done in the confessed baseness or criminality or demon-. ism of the victims of alleged, unparalleled cruelty.

Tub Glut Democrat denounces with unparalleled ferocity that baseness which dis tinnuishes tbe conduct, of Tennessee in failing to pay interest coupons of its bonded debt. Some Sound journal might be listened to patiently in this behalf, but when a representative organ of those who dragged the State down to poverty and plundered it treasury remorselessly, and at one fell swoop destroyed half the State's wealth when on of these godly rascals rise up to damn the poor he reduced to poverty, the listener ia much inclined to rejoice that tbe alleged wrong has been perpetrated. seems perfectly right that creditor and debtor should share each others unavoidable calamities, and wben Tennesseeana lost half their- wealth that the bumanitAriAas might be gratified the humanitariAa should shAre the loss, and not groan wretchedly through this sanctimonious mouthpiece at St. Louis. Moreover the.

Iaw of Tennessee, nadcr which these bond were issued, decUvres on its face, and every bond buyer read it before be bought, that the bonds wen void if sold for lea than their face value, and yet these tearful rascal did boy them for forty cents. And thi sum waa paid because the people of Teanesaee were supposed to have lost sixty per cent, of their wealth by negro liberation and war that effected it. The UiH Vvmxly JLjyaaVae thinks Governor Coke should not stoop to deny absurd charjea affecting1 bis integrity, and we tbooght it better to deny for bins than to publish bis deniaL It a taller of taste, however. STA JTIXiB BEIG1N A PCBL1C SCHOOLS. If there were only ten farmer in each county, living ten miles apart, wj would see at once the impossibility of maintaining any system of public schools in Texas.

To succeed, under such circumstances, we must needs have a narrow gauge road passing each cabin, and all converging at the schi'xd hou-a s. But we have no such and cannot build them, aud Judge lieagaa Is right when he pronounces the maintenance of a public school system, in sparsely populated districts, wholly impossible. Moreover there is a deal of justice in the assertion that no man should be forced to toil io educate anotter's children. He ia not only wrongfully robbed, but the strongest incentive to honest industry is removed from the path of him whose children become Hhe beneficiaries of this public charity. products of such institutions are wanting in personal independence and are fit subjects of adispotism and not of a republic.

Bismarck understands this scheme of beneficence thorousihly, and expounds it when be tells that he would make the empire or the government first and the country's religion second, and the if it may continue to exist, last in the affection of a citizen of the would place iEe family first, the country' second, and, above and first in the hearts and thoughts of the the supreme majesty of the Ruler of the Universe. Professional peda gogues naturally go mad about this mat ter of forced education at the cost of somebody else. gather statistics with wonderful facility, showing that in order to make people proper citizens the youths of the country must be converted in shysters and pill pedlers. There are certainly two sides to the question and our govefnment was purest and best, there was less knavery and more plain, simple honesty when the public school system had not given us a system in the conduct of which there is said to be more money stolen by placemen than ever reaches the Federal treasury and that it costs two to collect and pay into the treasury a single dollar. In any event there are two sides to this question as applied to Texas in its present condition, and we need only move slowly and if patriots would have the future of Texas perfectly blest they need only guard, for future use, the enormous wealth in lands of the public schools and university of Texas.

Let this be honestly preserved and leased, but never sold, and then each citizen will be educated, not by taxation, but by a resource which a wise statesmanship provided, and which criminal impatience and folly would squander. Wrhen we have sufficient density of population to make the existence of schools possible the school lands will furnish revenues enough for their maintenance, and there will be no necessity for the taxation of one citizen to pay for the education of another's children. PUBLIC OECENOK AND- PUBLIC S1FETI'. Great aud terrible conflagrations in many cities, especially of this country, serve td show that we have progressed very slowly in the art of controlling fires. The destruction of Chicago was unavoidable even when the firemen of many cities, with most approved steam machinery, exhausted every appliance of art and mechanical and engineering skiil.

Even so of the great conflagration in Boston and when water pipes are frozen in New York, if a fire swept over a single street, the magnificent city would be laid in ashes. The danger of complete annihilation is even greater in tbe small city than in tbe great metropolis. Houses are compactly built, the sun shines as fiercely, roofs are as dry and materials used as combustible, and winds blow as strongly here on the confine of boundless plains as on the shores of Lake Michigan. What security have we against utter annihilation There are a few bncketsful of water in each public cistern, and the authorities are excavating a few more; but if a great conflagration occur, would be speedily exhausted. Of recent years much attention has been given to this subject, and it is now universally agreed that steam and other fire engines and patented devices for the ejection of carbonic acid 'gas, while often very serviceable, are not trustworthy.

One building at least is before steam fire engine, can be put in motion and moved a wile, and cisterns leak or contain too little water. The decree is final that each building must have within it: the means vf saving itself. When constructed iron pipes must be provided, by which each, story may be flooded at once, and there is no security for property or health or public decency till the city sought to be supplied with water furnishes baths for each household, and a stream of living water penetrates each story of every This is of more importance than the free distribution of atmosphere, siuce he who does not obey laws of cleanliness should, of course, be deprived of breath. In this, the capital agreat1State, growing in greatness as no other can progress, there is adequate security for property or public health, or provision for popular cleanliness. With' a river at the base of the bills, as clear and beautiful as the San with heights from which -it descends, on whose summits good reservoirs might be cbes ply constructed overlooking the capital: witn every facility that nature could provide for the construction of water such aa are required in ungating farms and gardens, and, iq cleaning and sewers, and in rendering conflagration impossible, we are content to pay enormous rates ot insurance, and live, each year, through nine months of Bummer, with no more water tliAu should be supplied for i equal number of canary The scheme ot constructing temporary water works, as approved by our city government, is emi nently laudable, and will serve many ad-niiiable purposes, and do, now and then.

infinite Koi but if it operates to prevent the utilization of the Advantage given us ry tne nver, ana Dy tne natural reservoir At Mount Bonnell, it must become, in the eyes oi property-Doiaers, a great calamity. Th Dallas Herald will exchange with no publishers whose papers do not observe rules of sociAl decency And personal decorum. Insulting Invectives will be deemed unpardonable. Dr. J.

H. Rutherford, of New Castle on Tyne, Mr. RaT, SecxetAry. of the-Xnelish Corporative Society, Manchester, aad Mr. TboovAS, Secretary of the society at Leeds, were in Dallas Thursday.

They propose to inaugurate a system of direct trade and cheap emigration routeA between aglnd and tbe South. Al.rx.lVuM.fcK.s, of B- inham, soon to be hanged, is black crime, rape the victim of bii brutality hi mother-in-Ltw. Those paper that deem the whipping post barbarous should protest against the enormity proposed to be done In cracking the brute's ncck. HK DOBST LIE "OST, WHICH In The Jersey City llerull sajS that Ben Butler doesn't like Congressman S. S.

Cox. Of course not. lie has buffered too much ut his hands on the floor of the House Iu all Butler's speeches (shall we ell them speeches or tirades?) Mr. Cot ended the debate by catching Butler under the left rib with a sharp poniard of wit and ridicule, making Ben the butt of his own miserable fuluiiuatious and invectives. This us gall to Butler, and when he would reply in a blackguard way, Cox took uo notice of liiiu, which incensed him more aud more.

Now, what do we see? There is a Bohemian print, called the AcaUau, puldislud in New York by a geutleiuun named George II. Butler, a nephew of the Falstafti tu IV n. George writes in the style of a mad Frenchman, and s- ems to cover the uui verse with bis Ben's name staud. out con spicuously as one of the numerous literary persons who are regular contributors to the ArtadUtn. The other day the AraiJittr hoisted the name of Fernando Wood (shades of Blueskin!) at the head of its leading column for the uext Speakeiship of the House of Representatives.

Right uuder this is a leading article of incoherent verbiages and the most villainous hodge-podge. The editor, perhaps'ashamed of the article, says it was written by an ex -Governor of a Southern State-a rascally, illiterate carpet-bap ger maybe. But it reads to us as an effusion of Ben's one of his distinguished contributions, we The article berates Cox for possessing too much wit, and decries Randall and Kerr as poor men, and consequently unfit for the 6eaker8hip, as they could not afford to give good dinners. The entire article is au amusing jumble. What it apparently makdS its strongest point against Mr.

Cox is that he is too "small" physically to take a chair once occupied by the towering form of Henry Clay. If men's intellect were gauged by the length of their legs or the size of their stomachs, Bonaparte would never have been at the head of an army, jr would Grunt or Sheridan. i. COTTON, HULLS. The Scientific' American says one ought to be worked up at the South for the following 1.

Labor is cheaper at the South than at the North. 9. In consequence of a milder1 climate the necessary expense of living is less there than in New England, and is also that of heating factory buildings, etc. 3. Coal is abundant in the South, and cheap water privilege can be obtained in every direction; 3 4.

The purchase Of the raw material di rect from tbe producer save the profits of numerous the cost of several buildings, and long To these advantages the writer says still another of gteat importance can added. The Southern, factory should buy cotton in the gin, and then-' spin it without packing bales. Some of the advantages otsuch. a system would be; i ana 1. The yarn would .1 istronlfeiv Baled cotton canuo beprepHied for carding with-i out oeating, and, yiusweatenLugtetiure, to a greater "or less extent.

2. There Wottld be1 less waste. -Frequently much cotton is -dhwolo red' and -otherwise injured by foreignisubstaaeesthat have been lacked with it. At the North, and in Europe it takes from' 108 to 115 pounds of cotton to make' 10d "pounds' of yarn; and although the- waste -is- hot -so great at the South, it is nevertheless considerable. 3.

The cotton seed would bo 'pressed at the same establishment, and the oil and oil ...1,1 4. Tbe interesfon 'frinS- and- em-houses. which now are 'idle the greater part of the yar would be saved to of 5v The raising of cotton on small farms would be encouraged. The plantation system is not adapted to free labor; 'and It is steadily breaking up; but-until cotton can be readily sold in the. seed, few small farms will be opened in the cotton section, for tue reason tnat a man cannot anora to buy and operate a gin if he only plants a few acres of cotton.

Better cotton, and more per acre, will be obtained on small farms than on large ones, Tuk San Antonio Herald is atill aggrieved and succinctly assigns its reasons for advo cacy of the subdivision of Texas. If its complaints be well founded, it is easier to remedy them inside than without the confines of Texas. The ZAsraWsaya that "we who live east of. the Colorado oppose division because, we have the railroads, the United States Senators, the. Governors, Lieutenant Governors, five Congressmen out of six, and.

because we pocket and appropriate all the taxes. We sell and appropri ate tbe public domain we deride the peo ple of Western Texas as a set of poor dev ila, too impotent even to raise a cry of dis tress." 'We 'never 'before contemplated wrongs endured by Western Texas as thus defined by our excellent contemporary, but do not doubt that If the Herald will study the story of O'Connell's life and deeds and wisdom it will find "agitation" wiser than and the Herald will surely like it. It is fond of being agitated, and iu local, another JNiobe or Alazan ditcn, is ever flooded with ears. Senator CirRisiXaJfCT was no far wrong when he said that it' wa the white race that was emancipated by the late war, We were freed from' a responsibility which every intelligent slaveholder had accurately measured and which none would re-asiume. We were freed from habits, which, how ever incurable ia the aged, will never be shared by their descendants.

But good men are most pleased that they are no longer responsible for the abuse of an Institution which we could hardly see till slavery wa no more. Tbe Michigan Senator tell, and we con fees' the truth, knotting personally what Le tvpjxMe to be true. But from thi point forward we differ lU eat from tbe excellent Senator. 'We do not believe tbe aecial or political equalization of tbe races possible or desirable, and since be ha begun tie honest discussion oi tne subject. that he wilt inquire whether colonization be not tbe nly solution of the problem which be con filers with groat fairness.

Thb Mae end the 'gray are at last to coalesce finally and perfectly. The process is begun In An association is to be organized, constituted only of fighting, ditch-digging- fellow. QuArtermASters, volunteer aula, and the blcw-hards that are just getting nmdy to fight, and tbe bilious of all aorta ani tn be kept A restored Union, after elk fashion of tnat of 1783, is to be reproduced ia 1878, and these boy at Houston who wore the blue aad the gray are to bring thi most desirable con-umnation. Tbey intend to reproduce the skill and discipline of ten years ago, aad Clustrate in And aUierly facta at Philadelphia, next the perfect recon-ciliAtioa of the Norti. and SooiL.

1N0 NO. 4 THE BllVI A THOmiB FLOW-BlMS rLITNRJI, We have been aked to give the origin of the balm of a thousand fl jwers Forrest-Pillow, white and black as concocted in Memphis. Reconciliation and centeiinialism and Foutth-of-July-aJl-tbe-y ear-round is the present spasmodic And sporadic Affliction of the country, and the color hue, where blocks greatly outnumber whites, or where they have formed sn alliance with a a bile uich, more terrible than themselves, is to be forever obliterated. Lamar has gone into this busiuess, and it seems Ocas. Pillow and Forrest gave paternity to the blessed uiovuuietit, aad that the two distinguished general occupied the stand on some negro festal occasion, when one Henly, colored, approaching Gen.

Forrest, said "General, allow me to introduce to you Miss Lou Lewis, ho, as a representative of the colored ladies, will present you with a oouquet. to assure you of tb sincerity they entertain for tbe objects of this occasion cheers, and as an offering of peace." Lu Lewis then advanced to where Gen. Forrest was standing and presented the bouquet, with the following remark: "Air. Forrest, allow me to present you this bouquet as a token of reconciliation and an offering of peace and good will." Applause, -Uea. Forrest received the bououet and.

in said "Lidk and Gentlemen-! accept the owers as a momeuto ot reconciliation be-ween the white and colored race of tbe Southern States. I accept it more particularly as it comes from a colored lady, for if there is any one on GodVeanh who love the ladies it is myself. (Immense applause and laughter.) Many things have been said about me which are wrong, and which wmie ana uiacK persons Here, who stood by nie through the war, can contradict. I have been in the heat of battle when colored men asked me to protect them. I have placed tnvself between them and the bullets of my men, and told them tbey should be kept unharmed.

Go to work, be indus trious, live honestly, and act truly, and wnen you are oppressed, 1 come to your relief." Now that is supposed to have settled the whole business. The two races will here after act together iu political contests; the carpetbagger is to be exiled; the shape of Coffee's head is to be changed hi bump of credulity is to be flattened out and his crani um elongated the world's history aa it affects this xsce for four thousand years, is to be pronounced a lie, and two distinct races, as never happened before, since history doffed the shadowy robes of dim tradition and fable. are to be merged into one and perfect unity and peace and homogeneity and prosperity will bo begotten.t The balm-of-a-thou- sand-ilowers platform may beguile idle, innocent and unthinking white and block mobs for a time, and invest gixid men with office, and, since this is the purpose of fcrenerals Forrest aud Pillow, patriotism and common sense applaud their deeds, and, catching the odor of that incense which Miss Lou Lewis (colored) offered up on the altar of the country's peace, we, too. catch the loud refrain, and would bid earth, air and ocean resound with the loud acclaim ascribing to' General Forrest and Miss Lou the sublimcst, patriotic im pulses, and to Gen. Pillow, on this occasion, portentous modesty wisdom.

Intklligkmt people judge of the weight of ideas and argument by reference to their own intrinsic worth. It never occurs to thoughtful person to measure the value of a production by the name and fame of the writer, and it signifies nothing, to an intel ligent busy population, who may be the editors of a paper. They want a quid pro quo for their money in news, in fresh suggestive thoughts, and in 'facts and fancies." Therefore it is that the Herald, or World, or Tribune speaks, and never Cbamberlin, or Manton Marble, or Whitelaw Read. A trained journalist may designate the pro ductions of either of these writers, recognizing tbe modes of thinking and of expression of each as readily as he would bia face but tbe great majority of reader only exact originality, force, clearness and com pactness, and never inquire, and there is no reason why they should, as to the author ship of that which pleases them. Thus the newspaper becomes impersonal, and to ro mp te this result editors even avoid the use of the impersonal oracular "we" and em ploy, instead, the name of the newspaper.

We have written this to explain the recur rence of the word Statesman in these pages. It is properly substituted for the wearisom "we" which most delights tyros in the art of ionrnaliam. Tbk States ah ha repeatedly called at tention to the necessity of having some gentleman substituted for Mr. Parsons, who assumes to represent Texas in Philadelphia, acting a the State' authorized agent in all matter affecting the world' fair and cen tennial exhibition. Parson may be a very proper, gentleman.

We know be neither the confidence nor respect of the people of Texas, and if lie retain the place he occupies Texas will necessarily nave little to do with the great gathering of pa triotism and industry in 1878. Tuk mayor of GaUaville, J. B. Wills, being moved by divers and sundry conoid orations, affecting the good of our race, to reign, doe so in a paper beginning: "In the name of God, Amen," and close by saying that the charter of the town should be surrendered and tbe people live under tbe general law of tbe land." Corpora tion do cost too much and the confession of tbe fact thus solemnly by Mr. Wills may have a good effect upon tbe constitutional convention.

The antiquity of tbe candidAte for gu bcmatorial honors in Ohio has been tbe sub ject of many a grim joke. There is a pop ular campaign song now chanted every where ia Ohio. It is not poetry, but it may train: MJ fa MM i Cdaaahaa eaaai iha 7 II. faaad tba Aauc ia bia plae. Uafoaae IA upuef-eoiaraA rat i 11.

roaaa a laaa whila mum sr. bai has hm found Bill A lira, luo! JoHXBon It th third President whose re-nuin art in Tennessee, and there is a project to bury him 'with tbe others (Jacksoa aad Polk) in Nashville, and erect a grand monument; bet bis family prefer a simpler grare in Et TVnn.wa. Majou Xcoajtn W. Batixiu will soon publish Sunday paper ia Dallas, to be called the Smmdap Timem. He is a trained journalist, scholar aad gentleman, and bis literary will doubtless prove eminently snccessfaL Tn Waxahachla hUryre insist that a new deal must come after tbe constitutional convention.

1' I- i T-f I DAILY DEMOCRATIC STATESJIAJT Slack; copy, on jrn rz sin'-wmn. .1 a. copy, caa. atuuiA. 1 OO WEEKLY DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN.

Singta copy, ana yaar Slngif cayy. alx months 1 Atf IfTkt ahoas lata ara aaada. TUB nCHOOLSASTavKa KISINC Several of the most distinguished instructors of the youths of Texas met last Saturday in Columbus to provide for the convocation of the teachers of Texas at Austin, and toco-operate, with thin end ia view, with tbe State Teachers' Association. Mr. Cwrruth presided, and was especially harsh in condtinning the payment of teachers In depreciated paper.

lie said be would gladly exchange five hundred dollar in school vouchers for two hundred and fifty, dollars in currency. Since hi auditor were mainly pedagogues, or, like CoL W. 8. Delany, had been, we cannot doubt -that Mr. Carruth's speech made a mont profound mpreswon.

That rakers should be abled take toll to nch au alarming extent when luckless voucher are bandied about, is a deplorable fact, if a fact. But why remedy it They through whoa oily hand all voucher must paaf, leaving the toll that make the trachets weep, themselves would be broken-hearted if the process complained of were reformed. It ia aa aa it is long, we innocently suppose, and the tears shed at Columbus, even though they filled the chennel of the sunken Brazos, will avail nothing. Per haps Mr. Carruth is wholly mistaken, and vouchers held by teacher now are paid in full on presentation at the Treasury.

But it is not strange that these pedagogues, after such a speech, de clared for representation in the State teachers' convention, to be held in Austin en the twenty-fifth instant. In thi body Messrs. P. E. Collin and E.

B. Carruth were requested to represent the Colorado County Institute. Tbs constitu tional reform convention meet here the first week in September, and at that time very many teacher will be busily employed, and the teachers' convention should meet and havo it work done, and plan' of organising the school system of Texas printed before the constitutional convention sit. The STATisnAN, and several other papers, were requested to publish the above facts. CONDITION OV Kl MOPK.

The influence of Austris and Russia la the disaffected province of Taikey is watched with jealousy by othor European powers. When Russia may intervene ao- Dveiy cannot do foreseen aud wnat course Western Europe would adopt and what might be the relations between Prussia and Russia in case aa European struggle were i i i I arL inaugurate cannot ue ioreawu. A ueiw fore these remote eastern troubles Involve all Europe, and, of course, must affect 1 til inrrunM in, rrmnir. a 1 niu. iiaiiir since the massacre of certain Montenegrin Christiana waa the topio of exciting dispatches from Court to Court; and now the Hezegovinian insurrection, which is ia so far similar as it is a revolt of semi-independent Christians against Mohammedan power, is exciting aa amount of attention "J' cate position of Turkey before Europe, ah avta-t lnm th.

a a a lltil fall. would be quite disproportionate to the event. bervia, and no aoui tne otner Danubian principalities, are in that state of agitation which trouble like thia are sure to excite. Just now, fear of the intervention of Austria in the difficulty are rife; European statesmen wonld regard such an intervention with grave distrust. The con dition of the "Eastern question" is such that a very small spark applied to it might kindle a great war; and this la why a small insurrection in a remote corner of the Sultan's dominion arouse at once the universal interest and apprehension of the Europeaa Onnrta.

Tkkkksskkax in Texaa would most eladlv see Isham G. Harris ia the Federal Senate. Ua is nniversallv wll known, and as universally honored. He did not love Andrew Johnson, and Johnson didn't love Isham G. Harris but neither wa th worse for this fact, and there are those as good and true as either Johnson or Harris who admired and were devoted personally to i i Dom men.

aci uovernor uarrui occupy the. seat now VACAted. and tha statehood uf Tun a will Inf.a.A-.ul It. Mklw. ariit fnrnfl and arrafn in lha I fjrm rtl 1 Ja integrity, and even in the hard-beadednes of th earnest and intellectual ex-Governor.

i ne editor oi tne snerman xiauy utgmer is an tlcve of tbe law school at Lebanon, Tennessee, and would have the learned and venerable Robert L. Caruthtra, who ba shaped the destinies of that institution, appointed Senator until the Legislature (elect Gen. Bate to aucceed Andrew Johnson. We propose tbe name of Isham G. Harris for thia place, a that of a representative man of Tennessee and of the South and of our time.

Confessing Carulbers's greatness, we must also confess that be live ia a bygone age. I former year Texan imported, now they export wheat. Tbey bought bread, now tbey aell bread. In nono save negro- ruled communities will Texan buy bacon, Tbe cotton crop, therefore, constitute, for the first time, almost nett surplus arfd when it doe not the exor of grain and cattle and sheep will make lip the deficit, and therefore we may Assume that there will be left ia Texas, when tbe account of th commercial year are closed, a sura total of ttrofits will lxn fnnn.l anual to I ha anm of values of the whole cotton and sugar crop of the State. Teia grow rich.

Osa Prentiss, the matchless orator, was born ia Maine tbe other Prentice, the titer ego of the Louisville Jwrmd, the matchless wit and charming poet, wa bora and reared ia Connecticut. The two men are often confounded with one another, and of late both are churned by tbe unlettered a sons of the South. Tbey became thoroughly Southern in tastes, habit prejudice And modes of tbiaking and Both were fearful spendthrift, anil both is it wrong to tell th truth I both died of whisky. Pnornt believe that Donald ion and Grim-wood who went np from Bainum hippodrome ia Chicago, were instincted by the old showman to enact this farcical tragedy and have tbentselvee advertised a dead everywhere. It is said thafi Donaldaoa, wearing disguise and with bis whiskers closely triaoAwed, has heea see ia Canada.

He will eooa be rtsuvored to life and then the newspaper become Gabriel trump of resurrection aad this fraud most suo cesAful ever trumped op. -sCUa-abte4 lion. 4 A panrbaaar lj ad'traaaAg at, HiTau Aa, sal St.