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WEEKLY. ..STATESMAN
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n CiKavEIX. 0EPB WU1II
THURSDAY .. .. .DECEMBER 11, 1873
INVOIittATIOX.
Our friends as well as ourselves arc often
receiving letters from outside the State,
wanting information of this section, its cli
mate, soil, productions, society, schools,
etc. The. inqu'ries are sometimes of the
most varied and particular character, which
would require more time and more general
know ledge than ourselves orthemostof our
friends Lave to bestow to answer at all sat
isfactorily. The best way would be for our
correspondents to write to old and well in
formed land agencies, such as De Cordova
& Withers, C. It. Johns & Co., J. E. Rcc
tor nnd J. W. Lawrence. These agencies
make it their special buriness and may be
relied on fully. Besides, they will take a
pleasure in giving ail the information
they may have to people abroad, who may
think of coming to our favored State, now
the great object of attraction to emigrants.
There is another means of getting infor
mation. Let all those who wish to get it
from any particular locality ascertain what
newspaper is published there, and subscribe
for it for a year or six months, and they
will be sure to learn a great deal about the
country, its climate, crops and particular
advantages. We have often dwelt upon
the great desirability of that portion of
Texas lying west of the Brazos. Perhaps,
having lived in this section the greater part
of the time we have "been in this State, we
may not be altogether an unprejudiced wit
ness, but we conscientiously believe we are,
as we have no material interests to serve by
representing things in a false or distorted
llrrlif Ami r1ioi ir ncn Hi fcrm '!"
wo mean the writer of this article, who has
neither lands nor houses west of the
Brazos, or anywhere else. We have been
through Eastern Texas, and lived for
more than a year in Northern Texas,
in the midst of its richest portion, the
county and city of Dallas, and we know
pretty well all the particular advantages and
attractions of the whole of this broad em
pire. In the South are the sugar and sea
island cotton lands, with much that can be
used for grazing purposes, though ulti
mately the most of it will .be put under cul
tivation. This portion in regard to health
is superior, we think, to the same latitudes
in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and
Florida, but not greatly so. Eastern Texas
has pretty much the soil and climnto of
Northern Louisiana and Mississippi, but in
both respects a little superior to either, and
it is the best watered and best timbered part
of Texas. Northern Texas, by which we
mean the three or four tier of counties
running from Rod . River west, until
you strike the high tabic and dry
lands towards the Rio Grande, has
undoubtedly tho largest body of rich land
to "bo found anywhere- in the State. But
this portion, like most very rich and pro
ductive regions, is not remarkable for its
health, though it will compare in this re
spect, with any part of the South in the
tame latitude. We come now to speak of
that portion of the State lying west of tho
Brazos, which is usually denominated West
ern Texas, though much of it lies in the
very center of (his great sovereignty, and
includes Its capital, the lovely and admired
City cf the Hills. Here you have a section
unrivaled for climate and health, springs
and streams of crystal water, furnishing
immense and unfailing water power, with
plenty of rich land along the rivers and
valleys and rolling prairies to produce
cotton, wheat, corn and all kinds of grain
and fruits in abundance. In no part of the
State, for the last fifteen years, have the crops
been more certain, or yielded a better profit
on tho investment. The country, 'from the
Brazos at Waco, running south along the
littlo ridgo of hills on tho west, down to
tho city of San Antonio, is, we believe, one
of tho most beautiful and desirable to live
in, all things considered, in tho world. The
largo and unfailing springs of pure water,
the clear rivulets and rivers which flow from
them, the undulating face of tho country,
with its bright skies, soft breezes and invig
orating air, all tend tomnko it the paradiso
of tho husbandman or invalid. If tho cot
ton crops arc not as largo as they are some
times oa the lower Brazos, Colorado and
Old Cancy, they are more certain, and
through a series of years will yield greater
profit. That is our opinion, made up from
observation and tho experience and state
ments of reliable gentlemen, who are well
acquainted with both sections.
But wo have already made this article
sufficiently long; and we conclude with tho
promise that we shall, from time to time,
renew it, and we beg our country friends
throughout Wcskru Texas to aid us with
all the information tliey may possess of their
respective localities. Short descriptions of
the c'.iffereut counties, their curiosities, ad
vantages, population, resources, etc., we
shall 1-e glad to receive and publish. We
have said nothing of the immense stock
raising capabilities of the western portion
of what is usually called Western Texas, for
lack of pre sen time and space. This must
be left for future notice.
At la', wc loam by the telegraph, we arc
to have a geueral and universal amnesty.
Iu accordance with tho recommendation of
President Grant, Miynard, of Tennessee,
from tho Committee on Rules and Regula
tions, rcpoited a bill which, after some ob
ject ions 0:1 the part of Lawrence, of Ohio,
and Hoar, of JLissuT bust its, passed the
House by a vote of 141 to 20. We have not
tha r.y.:v; s cf the notorious few who voted
p.j. w2"t tl.i measure of common propriety
a:i 1 justice, or we should like to hokt the ui
v.p to the world, blackened with the infamy
ia vl.ieh they have covered themselves as
w ';,! a garment. Tho idea of excluding
t'.v e who were termed leaders iu the rtltl
lion, v.l.'.'e the great mass of the Southern
1 -;.!e Tvcro freed fro:a all disabilities in
curred I y their jv.rtUjpstioa ia the civil con
flict, v, j alvsys au id -surdity, and
any re- ;v 'ruble coloring w hut
f nr. It fr; the supposition
that a f.-v ) (..'.".. i I.-. ultra of the South,
t" " t.:. c-r c f Cor. :rv?s etc., were priaci
" .Vy ir-'t-.ruer.tsi i:i producing secession
--..-. 1 V. 2 ..r tU.heh flowed hi Nothlrg
:::..) ! f r Lv"i tho trv.'.h. The resort
w !' ? 1 .. wire Uhh,.l the public ser.ti
t'..' .cf V i i a::"., ite-vd cf Icadlrg
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ing matters on to the extremity, believing
tliat it Mould result in a terrible war. which
the South was not prepared for. His feelings
were those of the deepest and most sincere
regret for the necessity which compelled
the action of the Southern people, and he
would gladly have avoided an apjoal to
arms or a secession from the Union, eouU
the constitutional rights of the South have
been secured without them. Such, too,
were the feelings of Senator Brown, of Mis
sissippi, of Hunter of Virginia, of Stephens
of Georgia, and, indeed, of a majority of
the prominent Southern statesmen. But,
contrary to the belief and averments of
Greeley and a host of others at the North
that a majority of the Southern people
were Union men and only hurried into se
cession and the war by their ambitious lead
ers the truth is that the great mass of them
were for a separation and a distinct national
government of their own. They had become
convinced by a long and persistent course
of aggression on the part of their Northern
brethren, setting at naught the Constitu
tional guarantees for their protection, that
their only safety was in a separation, which
they desired and thought would be attended
without civil war or bloodshed. Of course,
the main incentive to this was the preserva
tion of domestic slavery, to which they had
always been accustomed and which they re
ligiously believed to be right and an advan
tage both to the white and black. We say
nothing of the correctness or error of
these opinions we simply assert the fact.
The Southern people demanded the separa
tion, and, if there was any blame, which
we do not admit, the blame was their own.
and they have always been ready to ac
knowledge it, and they have never felt the
slightest inclination to throw off the respon
sibility upon the shoulders of Jefferson
Davis and his noble compeers and as
sociates. '
They have ever felt that when an excep
tion was made against Davis, Reagan and
other civilians, and against the brave officers
of the old army, who believed it their
bounden duty to go with their own section
and their own people in the fearful and des
perate struggle, a great wrong and a most
crying injustice had been done. They will
now universally hail with delight the resto
ration to all these beloved and noble men of
all tho rights and privileges which they
themselves posses and have been for some
time exercising. The bill, which has pas:.ed
tho House by so large a majority, will
doubtless be taken up and promptly in
dorsed by the Senate. We shall then begin.
to feel that the Union has been indeed re
stored and that a brighter future is before
us, never again to be darkened with the
clouds and tempests of civil war.
WHO KXOWS f
A telegram from Austin, published in the
Galveston Xews of Sunday last, says that
Governor Davis and the rest of the State
officers will not interpose any difficulties in
the way of the instalment of the new Dem
ocratic officials. On the other hand the
State Journal publishes the section of the
Constitution, on which it relies for a four
days election, and says it is "no new dis
covery," and if the last Legislature did not
see it, the oversight is to be attributed to
"Democratic stupidity." Where was the
"stupidity" of Governor Davis, who ap
proved the law?.. Was he not aware of it?
Is not this a new discovery to him? Or did
he wilfully violate Jiis oath in signing the
bill? The truth, is there is no diffi
culty in understanding the disputed
clause of the Constitution. It is plain
enough, thougj awkwardly worded
like tho whole thing of Radical concoction.
Four days are required "until otherwise
provided," and the last Legislature did oth
erwise provide, with the express sanction of
Governor Davis, who issued his proclama
tion for the election on one day, and made
the canvass, and was badly beaten, and lit
tle as we think of him politically and oth
erwise, we do not believe him to be either
such an nss or a knave as the Journal
would make him. If he had had a more
decent organ during the canvass, he would
have made a much more respectable run.
The Journal was a serious injury to him.
Wc still think there will be no difficulty
about this matter.
The Hon. Charles T. Sherman, Judge
of the United States Court for the Northern
District of Ohio, to save a conviction under
an impeachment trial, which was in store
for him, has resigned, and the President has
appointed one Martin Walker in hi3 place.
It is to bo hoped the United States bench
will in time get somewhat purified, but it
will be a slow process. Underwood has
suddenly died after having been disgraced,
and Sherman has retired, to avoid being ex
pelled, and Durand, of Louisiana, might
as well follow suit. There is no greater
safety to tho people of any country than a
pure and able judiciary. Our country has
fallen oil lamentably in this respect. The
Radicals commenced with the determina
tiou of making the United States Supreme
Court a political body of their own stripe
and color, and they succeeded. After that,
the appointment of corrupt or incompetent
men in the inferior courts was to be ex
pected.
Snovi.D Governor Davis resign it would
be the dutv of the Secretarv of State to
convene the Senate udmittiug for argu
ment's sake that there is such a body) in
order that a President yn tern, be elected
who would lc Governor until Coke was in
stalled. Stiite Journal.
What Senate is the Journal alluding to as
having a possible existence? And what
sort of a resignation is meant on which the
Secretary of State can call together the Sen
ate, if there lconeJ Is the Journal man
crazy or something worse! The term of
Governor Davis and all the State officers has
already cxpircJ and they only remain in
office until their successors are duly quali
fied. Will any sane man or nry sensible
man claim that they can hold, under the
present Constitution, for more than four
years.' This matter was ueciaea even oy a
Radical Congress in the Georgia cae.
Davis and all of them have already held
over their tonus. X l.nvver. w ho ever had
any reputation or ever expected to get any,
would decide thcrwi
Jrix.K UNin:nwiH.i, whose death by apo
plexy is reported in a le.ro telegram, is the
same United States Jul.;,; lately whipped
on the street ot Richmond by an old Vir
gicijn. yir. McVeigh, on account of feelings
glowing out cf the purchase, during the
late war, cf a large property Ixdopging to
the latter, for a little r r.otl.inj. Mr.
McVeigh, who, by the way, is na unrle of
our -:er.ud townsman, the Rev. Mr.
McVeigh, is a! .. t eighty year of age. .-.nd
beyond deuhr, bud Ken very U l!y treated
by the up tart -:"ci d, who rose to the si:r
fact; d;:r:t:g ar.d sh.ce the war, without
i. writ, a:ul w ho r.v, Iw-l very utt'e :v. j -.thy
f-r LisU-sth-gby tho high tor.ed uhl Vir
v r.th-v..i:i. 1: r.nr : th-;t the c-
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Thk Waco lifjUUr, a 11a iieal pajic-rcf
the small kind, exhibits much ill nature
over the rcult of the late election. We
presumtV its editor was one of the many
dupes of the State Jwrwl and really be
lieved that things would turn out diilcrently.
Perhaps he may have lost a hat, a pair of
boots, or even coat and breeches on Davis.
The State J-irmd ought to pay all these
beta. Its brazen boasting and bragging
actually fooled a great many of the Heli
cals of the softer and greener sort, and they
went their all on the hero of Fort Sill.
We republish from the Richmond En
quirer the article headed "Our State," be
cause much that is said therein will apply
as w ell to our own State and our own Leg
islature. Tcxans love their State and are
proud of it, as Virginians have a love antl
pride for the Old Dominion, the mother of
States and statesmen. The main considera
tion of the coming Legislature should h
the ln-st interests of Texas and the lasting
welfare of all her people, rich and poor,
white and black.
The colored men of Kentucky have lately
held a convention in which they resolved
that they had labored long enough for the
Radical party without any division of the
offices. They yen id vote no longer with
them unless their claims could be allowed.
They also demanded the passage of Sum
ner's Civil Rights bill. They want to sit at
the same table with the wives and daugh
ters of their late masiers, antl associate w ith
them at theatres and concerts. "Hurry up the
cakes hand around the crtrnbread." The
Radicals will find it a hard matter to satisfy
all the demands of the "man and brother."
Tin: New York Time publishes a letter
from a Mr. J. M. Oglesby, of Pulaski, Ten
nessee, to the editor, offering $3000 to pro
cure the appointment of a Southern Chief
Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
The That had better not published it. It
shows the estimation in which tho Radical
papers are held by the bribery men of the
country. They are all thought open and
ready for a moneyed consideration, even
their great leader, the Times. Knowing
this paper to be the organ of Grant, it was
quite natural for a Radical to make the of
fer, but it should have been made to the
greatest and smallest of all gift takers, the
veritable Ulysses himself. The Time
thought itself above so small an offer, and
in revenge exposed it.
The new railroad legislation of Illinois is
rather a jumble from all accounts. First it
makes it the duty of the roads to give the
railroad commissioners free passes, or they
arc to be fined, andhen it makes the roads
liable to conviction and tmnishment for inv-
ing anybody jf'free pass. It reminds one
somewhat of the old theological creed of
"you'll be damned if you don't, and be
damned if you do." If the fashionable idea
at the Northwest of having none but farm
ers in the Legislature be carried out, we
fear there will be some very crude and droll
law making. Legislatures should be made
up of the best of all classes, not confined to
any one. All classes should be represented
and their interests duly protected.
It appears that a good deal more reform
is needed in New York City before it
reaches the perfection of municipal govern
ment. We see a statement that the warden
of the Ludlow Street jail receives no salary
for his services, and yet the office is con
sidered very profitable. In this jail are
confined fraudulent debtors and great
United States criminals, many of whom are
able to pay very high for the accommoda
tions afforded them, while the warden gets
pay from the county for the ordinary prison
fare, and makes out a great many fictitious
and exaggerated charges. In this way he
realizes a large amount. Those who are
able to pay for the privilege can lounge
about at will b a kind of genteel parlor,
smoke cigars, play at billiards and whist,
and participate in many other amusements.
Our authority for this is the New York
Time.
The punishment of Ingersoll has closely
followcel that of his boss confederate
Tweed, lie has been sentenced to the
Sing Sing State prison for the term of five
years. Farrington, a lesser luminary in
crime, has gone to the same place for a year
and six months. It is to be hoped that the
conviction and punishment of these fash
ionable criminals will have some favorable
effect on the country everywhere. If all
tho Radicals in the South, who have fraudu
lently gotten hold of the people's money,
could be brought to punishment, our jails
and penitentiaries would be full to over
flowing. But this is not to be looked for
here. The most of them will get off with
out punishment, and our prisons will be
cheated of their dues.
The returns come in slowly, but we have
learned sufficiently to know that Coke's ma
jority will reach 33,000, and probably go
above that. In the Senate, the Radicals
will have only five out of tho thirty mem
bers, and perhaps a dozen members in the
lower house. There will be one negro Sen
ator to contrast with the whites in that hon
orable body, and five or six in the popular
branch of the Legislature. Wc think, from
appearances, that a most excellent represen
tation of the State has been selected and
chosen, and that the people may expect
wise and wholesome laws from their pro
ceedings, and, on the whole, have great rea
son for rejoicing and making glad their
hearts.
It is rumored thatj the Radicals about
Austin have lost largely on the late election.
This would indicate that some of them
really believed in the success of Davis,
though the most of them, we are told, got
odds from twenty to twenty-five thousand
How .anybody, with the results of the fall
elections elsewhere before them, could have
expected a Radical gain in Texas, is a mat
ter of wonder. With the increased vote of
the State there was bound to be an in
creased Democratic majority. "Whom the
gods intend to destroy, they first make
mad.
Wk notice that many of our State ex-
eh.tu.rcs have Wen led astray about the vote
of Travis county by a mistaken telegram
from this city to the Galvestou -Vtr, putting
down the Dein-K-ratic majority sA only 100,
wh.cn it reached r.c.-.rly S00. Travis county
did nobly, increasing her majority at b ast
seven fold. Heretofore the contest in thi
county has been cloe, and wc have never
carried i: s:nce the war until Hst year. We
hope ov.r Democratic cotc'j:porarie wi'.l
make the correction and 0.0 us full jus? h e.
Mi:. Ani-fTT and Mr. Gorr.crt were tur:v.-d
out of the Lasd OiUce for voting the P-ciu-ocr
.tic tiiket. The text arbitrary act of
the Commissioner was, on Monday m-rr.-ir
te discharge Mr. Doe mi eke ur.d Mr.
Leslie Peioc for playlrg ia the bras. !:. I
th..t i.cid.d the D-:::..vra.;c jrxc-ea c :i
S,.r;r h:v ti.ht. Mxh is thc;nl'ttivcnc-i
Mi:. J. II. Jl LIAS, of the San Marios
7'iti.t, hui changed the name of Lis paper
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to the Uf.-t JtJ-" trte Ire ii.i-l S.iu
Jf'irc Ynlh 'j Tiiiu. The paper has tn.cn
much improved in appearance, and wew ih
it and its liiieral minded proprietor and edi
tor all eorts of proserity.
The Radical papers give no election re
turns as yet. They are waiting for news
from the Mountains of the Moon. Th'-y
expect that to come in all right. nl to
overcome the Democratic votes.
Thk and Comment.
Dallas claims to have nine thousand peo
ple. This has been done by railroads. Tw o
years airo the population did not number
over fifteen hundred. The work on the
Dallas and Witchita Railroad is to U' pushed
forward.
Perry, the candidate of .the v? people of
Dcnison has leen elected mayor of that
town, whereupon, according to the. V,f, the
whole population got on a j1 natured
"bust."
The protracted meeting of the Baptists at
Tyler, still continues and many conversions
reported. Business is represented as very
lively in Tyler.
Five hundred and eighty Bohemians
landed in Galveston last week, of which
four hundred and twelve ticketed through
to Texas.
Some rascally thief had the honor to enter
the office of the Denton Monitor and rilled
the pocket of a poor printer of $3. The
man who would rob a printer should be
treated to something better than the peni
tentiary. The TtJ-ait Ihuiormt, published at Pilot
Point, favors us with a snake story. A gen
tleman of that soon to be railroad town
was taken sick at the stomach and vomited
up a moccasin snake five inches long. He
had been traveling a good deal over the
country, and thinks he must have swallowed
it while drinking water at someplace. If
he could swallow the snake our readers
ought to be able to swallow the story.
They have a new fine engine at Waco, and
the Advance thinks they ought now to build
some cisterns to supply wstcr in case of a
fire.
The editor of the La Grange Xete Era
has been presented with four turnips weigh
ing twenty-five pounds.
The Courier, at Sherman, is having some
fun over the election and the defeated can
didates. The Radical papers are not happy
over the results. They will not die laughing.
The directors of the Trcmont Hotel Com
pany have had a meeting at Galveston to
devise means to finish the hotel. The
schooner Annie G. Webber has arrived at
Galveston with a fine cargo of fresh fruit
from Tuxpan.
The Presbyterian Synod of Texas met at
Galveston on the third inst. Dr.. Palmer,
of New Orleans, delivered the opening ser
mon. We see that the Rev. N. McDonald
of this city was present.
The Mercury says the negro women of
Houston show more excitement over the
election than any other class. They are
loud in their lamentations over the defeat
of Tracy and others.
The Fayette county JVew Era of the fifth
inst. does not know whether to rejoice or
sorrow over the election in that district,
beingfat that time uncertain of the result.
The San Antonio Herald 'says that George
Heorld, two miles west of the San Miguel,
attacked twenty-nine Indians and got away
from them twelve head of horses. The In
dians secured about fifty horses.
The Waco Examiner has been taking a
look at the finest pig now in Texas. He
belongs to Mr: J. T. Oakes, and was pur
chased of Briggs and Hill, of Russelville,
Kentucky, for the sum of fifty dollars. He
took the premium at the Jackson, Ten
nessee, fair. Wc are glad to hear of the
introduction of fine-blooded animals, of all
sorts, into Texas.
Tho gin house of Mr. Pinckney Sims,
about ten miles south of Waxahachie, was
consumed by fire last week. The loss in
Texas from the burning of gin houses this
season, must foot up quite large. Greater
tare should be taken. We have already
noticed five or six.
The yellow fever is all over at Calvert,
and there is said to be no danger in visiting
the place. Some cases are still lingering at
Columbus.
The ladies of the Baptist Church at
Houston have formed themselves into a so
ciety to help the sick and needy. Mrs. J.
Zealy is president, Mrs. M. .1. Young, vice
president, and Mrs. Clarence Kev, secretary.
The Mercury complains of the inefficiency ,
of the police force of that city.
. Mr. Watson, of Concho, arrived in El Paso
about the twenty-fifth ult., with a large
drove of cattle, a portion of which he sold
in that place and went on to New Mexico
with the remainder.
The Brenham Bonner is to be enlarged and
otherwise improved. Matt Gaines, who has
just l)cen liberated from jail, where he had
been confined some time for having two
wives, made a speech to his brother darkies
last week of a very incendiary character,
declaring that Texas should yet be made a
second Louisiana. The Jianner invites
Matt "to try it on." The thing will hardly
work here. Before that comes off Matt will
be in the penitentiary, where he belongs.
While a boy, in a gunsmith's shop at San
Antonio, was repairing a six shooter, it
went off and the ball struck the leg of Mrs.
Geiser, inflicting a very bloody wound.
The numerous friends of Major Jo E.
Dwyer have been congratulating him on his
election to the Senate.
The Corpus Chnsti Gazette, already one
of our handsomest State exchanges, is to
be enlarged. The fire company of that
city have been celebrating their second an
niversary. There was a handsome turnout
with the engine decorated with flowers.
The ladies of Jefferson, it is said, attend
church in calico dresses, a good example.
Calico is cheaper than silk and just as ac
ceptable to Heaven, and, besides that, it is
very becoming to a pretty girl.
The McKinney Enquirer says that for the
last two weeks from ten to twenty thousand
dollars a day have been paid out in that
town for cotton. Northern Texas is getting
to be an important cotton growing region.
According to the Dallas Xtirs, there was
gTeat fun among the lawyers at the close of
the late term of the district court for Dal
las. There was a mock trial and much pop
ping of champagne bottles. Our friends,
Judge Good and Col. McCoy w ere conspic
uous on the festive occasion, as well as
Major Ault, the able district attorney.
Seventy-six wagons of cotton were
counted one day last week on the streets of
Waco. Here they are too numerous and
common for any one to think of counting
them.
The i:ieetlon la Hopkins Count).
SrLPiirR Springs, Texas, f
December 4, 173.
EH'or Jhniixrratic S'atemutn We take
great pleasure in announcing the jnt vic
tory with us in old Hopkins. The regis
tered vote is 2473, of which Richark Coke,
for Governor, received 1S7C: and E. J.
Davis 200. Richard Hubbard, Lieutenant
Governor, 1S77; and Robt. Taylor 200.
The remainder of the State ticket is about
the tiiuj. For the amendments, lo'.H;
acrainst the amendments, 2"4. All ,our
Democratic nominees for th Senate and
House of Representatives are elected beyond
a doubt by a handsome majority, but all the
precinct are not yet heard from.
Very respectfully,
Tomlisox & Henderson.
H audenino Small Tools. Aceordinz to
J. Scheu.-z'.edcr, watchmakers and engrav
ers harden their tools in sea'.irg wax. The
arti.le made white hot anil thmt into
vahuir wax. allowed to rtmciina moment,
t'u-n withdrawn and thrust into another
plaec. and this trcitment i continued until
t ie stil is odd, and will r.o more enter the
w ;i. The I'tirdr.e thus slUhu-d i extreme,
Ktid tc-mparsih'.o t-J th.at of tlf dl.ti.ioud ; in
j fut. steel l.ar i; . I this way re.ay U- u-c l
; f ir '.M-iiei! or c: r.iit:- tcl 1.-1 :ied by
iothir pr'-o .i. the t.l lciiir j revi.ni'ly
i:i 'h -.-i v. :'i .';! of Turrn r t'.n.-.
Tin. Sc. L:U
if th. rf i h't w :ir.
pn-...
it- I 1. id r;..t'
j ."tAJOKITlL'S roil C OKE AND D1VIS.
j
rroia the ir.ot reliable sources at our
,
tom:,i:i;:i, we are at present able to give the
following .majorities, in some instances
entirely correct, and in others very nearly
so. Wc make them up mainly from telegram-
up to date:
lOKE'S MAJORITIES.
Atlllef-M.il
AlXIII. . .
.ra:!-v .
I xar ..
Itmzri!. . . .
Inrk-Mn .
Hell
... i7
. . 1
... ws
... .)
... .-!
...1M
.. 4m
.. S3
...1MO
... o
.. )
... 50
... STfl
... 5o0
...V
.. 11S4
.. 40
. 1575
... 7i
. . lmt
... 1"0
. .
...1"0
... b
... iw
. . nw
.. 7'H
...14i.
... K1
.. 1676
... 1
...1(
.. 73
...1T71
... lort
.. b7
...10O0
... KM
...15(10
... HO
... 81XI
.. IIS
SI
... wo
... 7V)
W
.. TlCi
... VU
... &W
... I0
... 15
... 2SJ1
... 415
... NX)
... WO
... 55U
...500
.35,508
Oil
ni'HT;..
to
liiu
inuTOD...
oh
Tukl-C.. .
Comal
ilwell..
k
Ox
P:i
1.
It
El
lU:.s
nton . . .
Witt...
ii
Kmtone
Fa
iimn
,11k
yette
Fa
Fa
ruVMjn . . .
ilid
t;nr-'
.ll.iilnluK;
Uonzaleo
tialveston
Hitv
ye
iiikiii!"
Hoi
Hon -lun
llarrini
Jefferson
JiWineun
SHT
Ke
rr
kaufuiau
La
Lai
vaca .
mar
Leon
LiiiH'ftniie
Live Oak.
Ma-ii
McLennan
Navarro
Ornnsre
Park it
Robertson
Kilhk
Uel liiver
liefii'jio .'.
Smith
Trintv
T ravin
WilliuniMju
Wood
Upshur
Total
DAVIS S MAJORITIES.
Rrazoria
Kaetrop
t'ulhoiin
Colorado
(rrillM'S ,
Fort Bend
Harrison
Hidalgo
Montgomery
Madison
Marion
Starr
Wharton
Walker
Washington
Victoria
700
70
. 4
S?
870
900
1X
9
9i
300
0
13
2H4
103
, 800
67
Total.
.r5,So9
Early History of Texan. No. 2.
Gen. Houston did make this a richer and
more Itenlthy country titan West Tennexxee,
hi ahidintj jdace, and was chairman of the
committee 011 the Constitution in the con
vention which met at San Filipo on the first
of April, 1833, and adjourned on the thir
teenth of the same month, after adopting
a State Constitution, and memorializing the
Mexican Congress for its ratification.
But a feeling of distrust or jealousy of
their Texan colonists seems at this time' to
have stayed the councils of Mexico, for
when Stephen F. Austin presented this
Constitution and memorial to that govern
ment, then centralized under the entire con
trol of Santa Anna, he was arrested and
kept in Mexico till September, 1335.
In May, 183o, committees of vigilance and
safety were formed in various municipali
ties, for mutual aid and protection against
public enemies.
Early in the same year, Colonel Wm. B.
Travis, with a company of Tcxans, attacked
and captured the Mexican troops stationed
at Anahuac and sent them away, thus show
ing their contempt for the Mexican govern
ment, which had invited them to immi
grate and become citizens, but afterwards
failed to do justice and protect them.
Soon after, Travis, Zavala and other Tex
ans were demanded by the Mexicans for
punishment, and in September, 1833, the
idea of disarming their colonists was con
ceived, and Captain Castonado, with an
hundred troops, demanded of. Gonzales its
artillery, which, being refused, was fol
lowed by the battle of Gonzales on the 2d
of October, 183o, the capture of Goliad on
the 9th, the battle of Conccpcion on the 28th
of the same month, and the capture of San
Antonio on the 10th of December, 1833.
Thus commenced the struggle for independ
ence in Texas.
The first government of Texas was com
posed of members of the Consultation who
met at San Filipc on the fifteenth of Octo
ber. 1833, and not finding a quorum, because
of the absence of many members who had
been elected, in the army, they organized
themselves into a council to act as a govern
ment until a quorum should assemble, and
adjourned the Consultation to meet again on
the first of November; upon which day a
quorum assembled which superseded this
council, and after thirteen days' labor or
ganized a provisional government, republi
can in form, and elected Henry Smith, Gov
ernor; J. YV. Bobertson, Lieutenant Gov
ernor; Sam Houston, Conimandcrdn-Chicf
of the Army, and a council of twelve toco
operate with the Governor.
This provisional government, after an in
glorious existence of n few months, on the
seventeenth of March, 183G, gave way to
the ad interim government, established by
the convention assembled at "Washington,
on the Brazos March 1, 1836, which on the
second day of its session declared the inde
pendence of Texas, on the sixteenth of
March adopted the Constitution cf the Re
public, and on the same day made David G.
Burnet President ; Lorenzo de Zavala, Vice
President ; S. P. Carson, Secretary of State ;
Baily llardiman, Secretary of the Treasury;
Thos. J. Husk, Secretary of "War; Robt.
Potter, Secretary of the Navy, and David
Thomas, Adjutant General.
On the fourth of March General Houston
was again appointed Commander-in-Chief of
the Army of the new-born Republic, and on
the sixth of March, the memorable date of
the fall of the Alamo, he set out from San
Filipc for Gonzales, and arrived there just
in time to hear its mothers, widows and
orphans weeping and agonizing over the
loss of their sons, husbands and fathers who,
after fighting like heroes against overwhelm
ing numbers, died as the bravest of the brave
at the Thermopylae of Texas. Gen. Hous
ton found the army at Gonzales to number
only 374 effective men, with which on the
night of the thirteenth of March, after
burning Gonzales to the ground, he retreated
eastward, before the victorious Mexicans,
attended by the panic stricken inhabitants
of Gonzales and the surrounding country.
By the twenty-fifth the Texan army had
increased to seven hundred men, and Gen
eral Houston was making preparations to
attack the advancing enemy, when the sad
news of the defeat and surrender of Fannin
and his army at the Coleta on the twentieth,
and the capitulation of Ward and King's
commands on the sixteenth and twentieth
of March, 1S3G, threw a damper over the
c:uisc of Texan independence, his troops
ar.d himself, causing the retreat of the
Tcxans from the Colorado to San Filipe,
where they arrived on the twenty-eishth.
The Mexicans had already killed in bat
tle cr butchered, within less than one
month, more Texans than now constituted
heir army under General "Houston.
Indeed, thing3 looked gloomy. Another
battle might end as disastrous and bloody
as the first, yet, after resting a few days,
and recuperating their physical abilities,
Hope revived their diooping spirits, and on
the seventh of April their General issued
the following order:
"IlEAlXH AUTKRS OK THE ARMT, )
C.viir "Wtsr or Brazos, v
"Anril 7, IS -id. )
".1 1 .;'-. The advance of the ene-i-.iv
is nt S.;u Filiiw. The moment for
j width we have waited with anxiety and in
terest is List approaching. The victim of
the Alamo, ar.d the unmt of those who
were murdered at Goliad, call for oxd, -l.'.rxtr
veriire.u.ie. Strict discipline, order
and subordir.atioa will insure us tLc vic
tory. Thv army will 1-e ia readiness for action
at a Moi:i-Lts warning. The tltld otHcers
h ive the v..:. .-diattf. execution of this order
! ie. tharr f.-r thtir res;. c live command.
I -Sam. IL-tstox,
j ( Vu;m a:;d er-i n-Chk- f.
i ;. .. Y. !J hi :- T. Ir.-T-cctor Genera!."
i ,,t';. t .::... . f April the Secretarv vt
: VV:r r .u- l Gt:-:rl Hoo.-n.n. from liar-
i
t;
- r ' f.O.ille.. In re,
and in tho neighlx.rhood, who came here
under the Klief that they would le safe,
who arc now exposed to the attack of the
enemy.
"The country cxiccu something from
you; the government lx-ks to you for
action. .
"The time has now arrivttl to determine
whether wc are to give up the country, and
make the lcst of our way out cf it," or to
meet the enemy, and make at le;tst one
struggle for our boasted indt-jH-ndence."
Oa the thirteenth of April, Gen. Houston
answered the Secretary of War, stating: .
'At Gonzales I had three hundred an4
seventy-four efficient men, without sup
plies, even powder, IwilU or arms. At the
Colorado, with 700 men, without discipline
or time to organize the army. Two days
since, my effective force in "camp was live
hundred and thirty men (aggregate).
It was impossible to guard all river jmsses
for one hundred mile.
I will omit no opportunity to serve the
country, and to serve it for the love of it,
without ambition or ulterior views into
which selfishness can enter
"I have, under tho most disadvantageous
circumstances, kept an army together, and
where there has not been even murmuring
or insubordination; but I cannot perform
impossibilities."
On the twelfth, Santa Anna, with his
army, crossed the Brazos at Morton's Ferry,
and arrived at Harrisburg on the fifteenth.
Gen. Houston, immediately determined to
pursue and attack hiin, crossed the Brazos
on the thirteenth, and came up with him on
the evening of the twentieth 011 the famous
plains of San Jacinto, nearly half w ay. be
tween the present cities of Galveston and
Houston, where, after slight skirmishes of
little importance, he pitched hL? camp
about three-fourths of a mile from that of
the enemy.
Thursday, the twenty-first of April, 183(i,
was, like the day of Austerlitz, clear and
beautiful! The Tcxans, numbering 783
men, arose from their slumbers refreshed,
inspired with Hope and thirsty for revenge.
Coolly and dtl'dterutely they formed their line
of battle, nad at the word of command
charged the fortified camp of the Mexicans,
containing double their number, and swept
everything before them, killing or capturing
almost the entire Mexican army, including
its commander, and taking more prisoners
than they themselves numbered.
This battle gave peace and independence
to Texas. The prisoners and other portions
of Santa Anna's army were permitted by
treaty to return to their homes, and the
Texans, after their brilliant victory, again
occupied their deserted habitations between
the San Antonio and Trinity rivers, and set
themselves earnestly to work in repairing
the devastations of war.
The writer has beheld the plains of San
Jacinto, and while standingupon the stones
of the Alamo and Goliad, ha3 meditated
upon the rise and fall of empires and na
tions in the Old "World, and felt proud of
the glorious achievements of Anglo-Americans
in redeeming the Jinest country, to its
extent vpon theglolte, from the domination of
bull-fighting, prisoner-murdering, priest-
naaen .Mexicans.
And while he sympathizes with the de
scendants of Montezuma for their unfortu
nate education and training in bull-fighting
and priestcraft introduced by their Spanish
conquerors, which no doubt give a taste for
shedding hnman blood, and have produced
their unchristian habit of murdering their
prisoners, their citizens and soldiers, and
even their generals and emperors, he
can but rejoice in the srrcat srain to
the cause of civilization and human pro
gress acomplisned by the heroes of Texas,
whose honored names and chivalrous deeds
will be fondly cherished and gratefully re
membered by Texas so long as the citic3
and counties of Austin, Houston, Rusk,
Travis, Lamar, Bowie, Milam, Crockett,
Fannin, Burleson, "Wharton, Sherman,
Smith, Karnes, Maverick, Zavala, Seguin,
McKinney, Waller, Erath and Dimmit shall
exist:
In the language of the poet :
Some when thoy die, die all; their mould'ring clay
1 but an emblem of their memories;
The fpace quite closes up through which thev passed;
But these have Uvea, and leave a mark behind,
To pluck tha shining ajje from vnlgar time,
And give it whole to late posterity.
Texas and Pacific Railway Company
Office of the President,
Philadelphia, Nov. 27th, 18
To the Editor of the Sew York Herald Jn
your paper of the 2Cth inst. considerable
space is devoted to statements in relation to
myself, in connection with aid from the
government for constructing the Pacific
roads. I beg leave to request that such
statements may be suspended until an appli
cation is made to Congress by the companies.
You may rest assured that no application
will be presented on behalf of the road with
which I am officially connected, unless upon
a basis absolutely secure to the government,
and certain to promote the material interests
of the country, by giving active employment
to thousands of deserving men, now idle.
If an arrangement can be devised by w luch
these great works will be completed, not
only without any possibility of loss to the
government, but, on the contrary, its best
interests greatly promoted I have no doubt
that you will agree with many other good
men that this is a consummation devoutly to
be wished. I trust that the importance of the
subject will secure its careful consideration
by the press of the country, before criticis
ing it adverselv.
Very respectfully,
Tno.MAs A. Scott.
A Sample of Hard Time.
The Lawrence (Mass.) American tells of a
sad case of destitution which has come
within its observation in that city. A very
poor but honest appearing and prepossess
ing young man, named Robert Steel, on his
own request, was sentenced to four months
in the House of Correction, in order that he
might work for the shelter it would afford
him during tho winter. He had been dis
charged from one of the mills early in the
summer, during a reduction of labor, and
having no mother, he had, during the inter
vening months, been dependent upon the
charity of strangers. Without a bed ou
which to rest, he had been compelled to
seek shelter at night in barns and other
empty buildings, until the increasing cold
ness of the weather no longer rendered it
possible for him to resort to them. As a
last alternative, he gave himself into the
custody of the city marshal, requesting that
he might be sent to prison, where he might
work for the shelter it might afford him
during the winter. He was brought into
court and sentenced as we have stated
above. In committing him, the judge la
mented the circumstances necessitating such
a course, and said that if at any time any
charitable person offered the young man
(who is only seventeen) employment, he
would !c given an order for his release.
SeottUh Came at Oban.
1
A correspondent describes the annual
celebration of the national games of Scot
land at Oban, a favorite watering-place near
Glasgow. These games consist of manly
sports, throwing the hammer, wrestling,
running, walking, boxing, throwing, und
lifting heavy weights, and are presided over
by the lords of the estates, ana by them the
prizes are awarded. The gentry of the
nc-ighlioring counties attend, and in the
evening a ball and a display of fireworks
close the event. The people In-longing to
the Marquis of Lome's estate wers the prin
cipal competitors on this occasion, and the
Marquis awarded the prizes. They w ere all
dres.sed in the Eaticnal costume, the differ
ent clans wearing three distinct plaids.
This Highland dress is the same that was
worn in the jlays of Wallace and Eruce, and
consists of a black t-ilk velvet jacket,
trimmed with gold or silverbuttonsjapl&i l
ikirt reaching nearly to the knce$; a plain
sash of the same as the skirt, with stockiDgs
reaching below the knees, thus leaving them
bare; a dirk with a jeweled hea l U stuck in
the stocking, the head just appearing above
the top of it. The JLarords of Lome aj-
pearcd m the plaid of the house of Arrvle
a bright tcarlet asd yt-ilow. The Marquis
is an lEsigtiirlcarit lookingjfcllow ia cororari
son with the t-talwart, brawny tl.itll.ur.-j
with whom he Moved ';;:. He is very
small, with tiaooth, l-arlleas fac, very
li-ht Lair, and very blue eyes. 11c i di:li
dtr.t ar.d hy m manner, acd when cheered
vt toasted Lu 1 '. isl.t 1 Hie a girl. He moved
aiuorgthe p--;'.e with an air cf kindlings
and s-'twC-d ta l-o much r'.FpctU-1 ar.-l U
lovti l-y tfc.- Ttrh'.f.l vts f j'.l of pvj
p!e from the M:rro::-Ui:g country, who hr. l
couc f.-r the jr-ufc'-s and the JA. TLc
yir l.ts were ja.i.v dikl ovt in .' ; 1
bunting; the bag-piper tilled tho air with
strange, w ild music ; and a hlazr of fire in
the early evening kept the j-ccne l:clv until
the hour for the bail, which wa- held in a
canvas pavilion just on tJ,e Uma r of the
b;iy.
Our Matr.
The people of Virginia nre devoted to
their State. They are proud -f htr history.
They have confidence in her capacity to
command the confidence of the countrv.
they have a just npprvciatioa of her grrat
physical resources. They rememlicr the
time w hen she knew nothing of the obsta
cles and embarrassments that encnmltcr her
now, and they are looking forward to an
other time when she will be more prosper
ous than she has ever Wen.
It is an elevated, ennobling feeling that
feeling of State pride; it is tho same senti
ment that swells in the soul of every Amer
ican abroad when he looks around on
strange faces and unfamiliar fields, and
thinks of the land he left behind him. It
has its scat, its source, in the finest fibres of
our natures. It is an affection, pure, disin
terested, unsullied by sordid desires for sel
fish ends. And it can be and should be
and must be utilized for practical good to
the State.
Let this love for Virginia be made the
motive for the improvement and advance
ment of Virginia. We have less to do w ith
Federal olitics now than we had when our
State held higher influence in the councils
of the country. In our late election here
we looked to Virginia's interests, and only
to questions involving those interests. And
now that we have secured what we sought,
in the triumph of the candidates represent
ing the cause which an overwhelming ma
jority of our people have declared to be es
sential to the safety and progress of the
State, it devolves upon the Legislature to do
all that can be done to carry out the princi
ples of that cause in a policy so judicious,
so bold, so liberal, so positive,- and so
prompt, that no man can complain of, dis
crepancy between the promises and per
formances of the great party which mani
fested in the canvass, and in the result of
the canvass, such undoubted and undoubt
ing devotion to Virginia. Wc believe the
Legislature will do it. It has good material
in it; and wc arc confident that it will
Drove worthy all the encomiums that have
been passed upan it in advance, and all
the encouraging expectations that have
been raised in view of the ability, intelli
gence, and public spirit with which it is al
ready credited in the estimation of the
public.
Our State is the especial object of the af
fections of the people of our State. Her in
terests are the interests of each and all her
citizens. Every man who has his home here
is quite sure to have his heart here. The
legislation of Virginia should be for the
benefit of Virginia. That proposition will
meet with no dissent, of course, from any
member of either House, or from any man
in the Commonwealth. But more than
once the question will arise as to the policy
that is best, the action that is wisest, for the
promotion of the interests wc are all so anx
ious to advance. Wre are willing to trust
the results to the representatives of the peo
ple who come directly from their constituen
cies and are accurately advised as to their
wants and wishes. We must have an exhi
bition of liberality; we must have the credit
of the State placed upon such a basi9 as will
assure the world that Virginia means to be
true to herself; that she has not only the
will but the ability to pay all she owes.
But we must have taxation as light as it can
possibly be made, consistently w ith the ne
cessities and good faith of the Common
wealth. We must earnestly urge upon Congress
prompt action in favor of the completion of
the James river and Kanawha canal. We
must show to the colored people that the
Conservatives are not their enemies but their
friends, by doing for them as we have done
during the four years of our party power that
have passed. We must be conservative but
not contracted. We must do everything for
Virginia that the mean3 and circumstances
of Virginia will allow.
Our State can become a great State, pop
ular, prosperous md happy. And in such a
Legislatuie as has been elected, we have
reason to be sanguine that she will move on,
as she is moving, toward the high place ap
pointed for her again in tho sisterhood of
the Union. Richmond Enquirer. , j
The financial condition of the govern
ment continues to grow worse day by day, a
circumstance somewhat overlooked in con
sequence of the Cuban excitement. The
fact need not be concealed that the Trensury
is actually bankrupt. The limit of the legal
tender circulation is $'.13(1,000,000, but at the
close of business on November 10 the actual
amount outstanding was $302,000,000, or
$0,000,000 more than is allowed by law.
The available cash owned by the govern
ment is only $2,000,000, and this is scat
tered all over the country, in national banks
and sulvtreasurics.
The revenues continue to fall off, and tile
rallying from the effect of the panic has not
been as rapid as was hoped and expected.
For the quarter ending September J0, the
revenue exceeded the expenditures by
.$0,000,000. During October the revenues'
fell off $3,000,000, and for this month the
decrease will be probably $3,000,000. Since
Octobed 1 the expenditures have exceedod
the receipts, and the ratio of this excess is
increasing each day. At the same time the
estimates of receipts from customs and from
internal revenue will be less by several mil
lions than last year, while tho estimates
from the departments will exceed those of
last year by about $1,000,000. These facts
arc regarded at the Treasury, as having a
very marked bearing upon the question of
war with Spain, since even if the country
remains at peace the annual expenditures
must be cut clown and taxation increased to
meet current expenses, while in case of a
war the burden or taxation, in view of the
present financial condition of the country,
must at once become oppressive. -Xcic York
Trihunc.
Last Nioiit Judge Coke arrived at
home on the 9 r. M. train, and was received
with great enthusiasm by his old friends
and neighbors, amid the thunders of artil
lery and a magnificent display of fireworks.
The whole reception was worthy of the
home of the Governor of Texas, and did
honor alike to its self and its honored son.
The crowd upon the streets of all classes of
our people was very great and Judge Coke
notwithstanding Lis fatigue, entertained
them with a brief and well put speech,
which we will note further in our next. The
illumination was very general ha well as
brilliant. Altogether it spoke out a glad
welcome home, to the distinguished gentle
man. It wa3 all the more flattering be
cause it was unstudied and spontaneous.
Waco Examiner.
The incompetency and reckleutsa of
Minis! cr Sickles have led the Cabinet to
transfer negotiations from Madrid to Wash
ington. In doing ro they have acted
wisely; and, as the President has had an
opportunity of testing the wisdom cf one
of his most miserable appointments, it Is to
be hoped he will be made more careful in
exercising this important function in the
future. A thoughtful biographer of Igna
tius Loyola has said that "the disccrniagof
spirits is the foundation of power." It ia
evident that the President, in one cae at
least, has showed liinm-lf sadly wanting in
this important clement of ftrenth. If he
is capable of discerning- the merit of any
spirits at all tley are not the fpirits of men.
Courier-J'jnrnul.
How Ibe Hard Time Affect the Ve(.
The Pullman Palace Car company have
reduced their working force at Detroit to
22."3.
At Battle Creek, Mich., no general red ac
tion of forrc or time has been ma 1c aa vet,
l-yocd the KiiwA redaction st the Ix-gini'bg
of the wicttr teuton. TLs TsJde company
a"d Machine company are oaly working
t: l.t Lours, and have reduced wage Efteen
at i tea jc-r cent, res-pcttivi-lv.
A fjci.d from IUcine, Wi-., one of the
tsunufacturln? ccnir- f il.c Vorthwe-.t.
Sijs .-,x the Uac;:;? Er-kU factory Lat re- j
uuct i its force by i.i,e-t!urd at.d :;a-e two
Loiir. The mitten factories L..vt di
c l.ar;; -d o.-.e-l.aSf the ir Laa-li. The woo'deri
f;icti-n- r, i'.ve in number, hive di Lrg'.d
thrte-fvurths d thvir Land and will --o:i
cW-.
Ti.o Lis.!-.- - .. V, ... Lira' .arsaret ;,.-
plaining Litttrly, bvt'uT.: !-; and Y-C.-jZ- '
cr-.. 1 he hitter get csly ir- '.u in to a j
luouth. The f..ri4-:r Ut tl.-.l it i " l i
jff per thousand to manufacture liHi.bf
frvight to Chicago is $ j 5 a, R:j iilTo. ;t M
lor ?s thirty day a time at that.
Several large companies at Detroit have
Wgun to issue engraved due bjlls, ruining
six months for small amounts.
The Joliet Manufacturing company have
reduced wages 20 per tent.
At South lieod the furniture factories are
all reported to have reduced hours, m,,
some of them have rdso curtailed w:l-,
The Sinirer Sewing M.iehino work nt
South Bend have discharged none of their
COO hands, but arc running on half time
only.
The National Watch factory nt Elgin, 111.,
COO hands, wsrned employes that they rai'it
only be able to pay part of their wages this
month, but met all in full.
The St. Joseph Mamifai turirg company,
of Mishawaka, Ind., V0O men, has disehaigeil
230 and cut down wagv.i 10 percent.
The Big South Bi nd Studcbaker Wagon
factory has reduced its staff bv 100 men and
1 cut down w ages from 10 to 2: per cent. It
j win ciose ior a month to invoice.
The government has reduced watrcs of its
000 men at llock Island C percent
Both car factories at Laporte and Michi
gan City. Ind., are about to close. SdV.-i
lh-nnKrat.
A Urotherhood of Itobben..
This village is considerably excited to-day
over the arrest of two young burglars, who
tell a strange story about a regular garg of
robbers organized along the line of "the
Michigan Central Road. During the past
year a large uumber of dw cllirg houses and
stores in Grass Lake have been roU cd with
out any clew being found to tho perpetra
tor?. The last casts are those of Clink's
jewelry store iv' WL-gg's hardware More,
about four w eeks ago. A oung innn named
St. John had t, 1 ; h ei.of t .'- guilty parties,
and by trading sou: a:;i. .es v.iih two boy,
George Winnie, nged sevt nleen, and Charles
Gillett, aged fifteen, received in exchange
some of the stolen goods, lie then accused
them of the burglaries, and Winnie con
fessed that he was a member of tin organized
band of burglars, some residing in nearly
every village on the line of the railroad 1"
tween Detroit and Chicago. He says that
something over a year ngo he accidentally
discovered two men breaking into a house
in this village, nnd that they threatened to
shoot him if he did not assist them in the
job. Actuated by terror, he did, and was
induced to break into other houses and stores
with them afterwards: that on tho fourth of
July last he went with one of them to
Woodvillc, Jackson county, nnd was from
there driven in a close carriage about four
miles, as ho judged the distance, when he
was taken to a house and initiated w ith cer
tain forms and rites into a brotherhood of
robbers, with regula; grips and passwords.
There were about fifteen men present. They
told him there were sixty-live members of
tho gang altogether, and' they had three
rendezvous between Detroit and Chicago,
of winch that was one. Their plan w as to
bring all plunder to that place, when it was
exchanged and peddled through different
parts of the State; that he had been en
gaged in several burglaries in this vill!igo
since that, in company with some of the
gang, nnd in company with Gillett, who
had never joined the gang, but vta.s a spe
cial partnerof Winnie, unbeknown to the
rest of the gang. He proposed that St.
John join the gang, and, on his assenting,
told him where they had some plunder
buried under a stump in the woods, and the
boys and ho went Monday night and got it,
ivhich was identified as tho property of
Clark. They told hint they l.ttd $."( se
creted in another place, but would not in
form him where. St. John informed Officer
Allen this morning, who ptomptly arrested
tho youths and took them to Jackson this
afternoon. They told the uunc story to
him. They will be examined Friday. In
the meantime an investigation w ill be made
as to the truthfulness of the boys' story
about the pang. Green hike (Mi'rh.)
patch to the Detroit Erce Pre, X'rrni!rr 20.
Itevelatloita oftlie firmw- IruleM riinlblo '
arint-iit.
The removal of bodies from an old ceme
tery to Spring Vale, in Lafayette, has given
rise to considerable discussion. An intelli
gent correspondrnt of the Courier writes a
thrilling letter on the subject that is nlso
instructive. While removing soineljodies
from Grecnbush, there were two who died
from violent causes a young soldier, from
gunshot, and a child some seven years old,
from diptheria of a few hours only. They
had been lying almost beside each other for
seven or eight years, both in iron caskets.
The soldier's remains were reduced to a
skeleton and clothing disappeared. Tho
wasting was unusual, considering time, age
and health. When the body of the "pet of
the household," (whoru I had known well
as the daughter of one of our leading farm
ers) was raised, I essayed my usual inspec
tion by removing the rust-eaten screws and
face cover, and w as startled by one of the
sweetest, rosiest faces I ever beheld, the
large blue eyes looking, it seemed, straight
into mine, and I could scarcely divest my
self of the idea that life was there. I called
the attention of others
lady to enjoy the sighl
permitting one old
The clothing was perfect in color and fold
every stitch in the embroidered sacque shV
played in but a few hours before hcrdcutJi
seemed undistiiiied. 'i no Lair bore every
brush mark and (-vi-!--. ,.f f -ir. ,y loving
hands. After loites exposure to
light, small mould spots and the charging
of color told that the spell that bound her
was broken. We laid her away ill a chosen
spot in Spring Vale, and the future no one
may tell. May I add a w ord as to dress for
burial? You are correct in your estimation
as to eilk an a durable covering. Cotton
goods disappear in a few years, wooleu lasts
much longer, say ten to fifteen years, as may
be affected by soil and coflin, but silk and
satin are incomparably durable. I aided in
removing a man's skeleton from Grecnbusii
some two years ago, ivhich had been buried
aome fifteen years ao. The cassimeie pants
were gone, the clot It coat w as entire, but
tore by tLc mere touch, but the satin vest
and necktie were as lustrous nnd strong hi
when buried. Hair is always well preserved
in strength and color no matter how long
buried, or even if exposed to the air, as I
learned by accompanying the ghouls nt
New Orleans. I think u fabric woven of h:or
would be imperishable.
The Colors vf CiokI) .
The colors of candy often excite remark.
Some are supposed to be p-oisonous, and on
this subject the Mn.in.iet ,m r and. Jjuild,r
remarks: "Litmus, indigo nnd Hii'ione blue
are harmless blue colors; white rldoropoyl,
or the -green colonntr matter of h-avc-i, is
harmlcs; (rreen aniline green miht
be used. ' The idea that aniline n-loi nre
j poisonous w erroneous. It is true that the
aniune ou itself (a colorless J;:r.l from
which 'the aniline color are made) is n
poison; but the antidote i to nM some
thing to charge it into ai. aniline color,
when it become comparatively harm!' -'
The aniline colors arc a ho f very powered
a coloring material that only a veiy l. ':,:.'.:
quantity i Deeded to color very !ir;:,
amounts of candy, so that, even if : )
what poisonous or injurious, it wo:d.J be
necessary to consume sever. ! Lobbed
pounds of candy at onre in order to n-du- e
any poisonous ffectof the coloiirg u-.iU r.
This will interest young tl.iMn-n ur.d
school girls wdio would gladly ran tho ri I;
of danger could they ban-jtst-t such a lib
eral scale. Another goo-i authority, bow -ever,
maintains tl.;.t idi a .-.:.;. d;,- ; ur..- ;.t
least usp;dou, and therefore fr.,:itcd f.-r
all culinary purpose. ,!
Tuk f-wr -s Wo.Mfs. There is cjioov'i
need of the tlt-vat'-.-a f wo.,c!i even in
Switzerland. One hundred women clioib
each d.iv to the rp!endi-l bui'-l.-. w!.-i- U
overlook the city of Zurii h, tU- i-M f
tain of le-rnir-g in th 11 1 ) wo.
isit-atoil fr---;-i !ins:t till Lite cvi-i.ii:.' ia ti --
ri:.n-jw I..;-' ,v,- ilu'--t:-; !.' v !,
.1.
cart. ring un h.r .if.': -:r ! 1
arired i:; - t!.t';r l- tl.. :.!g 1, '
gathericg tl-e t' fuse ftt.iA the !r ' wi
fc-ktt and sLo-.tl; in s.h -r, -L--u-:'."-: ti
vse-l t..'.L:.d senke i.'.-.t the Jow--t ! ;-
L.-ih-' 1-dAiters are tori-b 1 to.! . :.
it a. I hav c-ft en e-i two U n 1- r ::.
.-.'-vilig uk t'H-1 :-. h Wood i:i '.!.- .!
whii? a stuilf fr. '..' tli.-l by J-., !y f '.
Xt.-.v s.an Oii'-p.-filif;' :
the other d -v : t i:;-'l the - th- i--; '-, !...;
j: ' her te.- 11 .'.no a l.t r k:,- - -, :
1 : u'.'at wtikucti w . - r. '.Hrg th- f;, L
v.uod rjx.a it t- saw it i.t fa.. ;
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