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FRAX CIS Sf . BOLTN.' Sanagcr.
JOHS-W. Cnii!STIAN .
ALi.XANDi.lt JdAKiOd. . .
Ths Coneert Will b rr th f '-ti-dials
aaprvtaloa of f'r. C "i.-....
w blcb wilt, bo a su-aC'-iX 'ftwranti'D
that the price paid fr. fa. tuket'ttUl
lusurs ths wortla of tie" Buuaey, ' .' j .r,
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COFFEK nENDERSOS. ArtoraeyS'BVlaw! OAF
FEY A MOHKOW. Attorneyi-at law; MAfc-EMiON
& POSSY. Attornry-t-lw"-rKeown. Txa.
NOlilH'N MuKH. liurnet, JUi rnet sou sty, Tex a.
It. A. ULANUFOBD, Aot!a KncasiptneoL I. O.
O. K.; QEUKG1S B. Ziy.fiO.aIAX. Aumia focamp
ateat, LO.O.K.
I am peraonally arqaatnted with F. It.' Bolls and
the parties wbo recommend hlra, all dlUena of VU
liamaon county, tad- bviiev aiia and tbent to be
traatworthy ana bonorahle.
LEVI fEKNUturuN, Clert D.C. yrniUmsoa Co.
I am paraoaally acqnalnted with F. M. "Bolld. and
knsw btin to bs s aealoot Odd Fallow aud s hlgn.
toned, honorable frenUetiuuar and as ancb tsks pk
ure In recommendic; birn. ' . . .
W. K. MAKKHaO.N, IT. Qt. GwrreMwi Lod,
No. 179, L O. O. F.
I concur In lb abore.' ' x '
A. H. KKED, T. Oi Ooorrt-town Lodff.-
Dlwt all letters to F. M. BOUN, kaaager, Bux 13,
Hound Rock, M'UMamiion county, Texas.
Atni Wauud. Ja241tw8m'.
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MOWER AND REAPER
With Improved Tabic Cakd.
CE8T MACHINE KI THE tlCKET.
TTs Crsla Is Dellversd ths Crottad
In a fliorr t'r a n4 Cwuvr wteal J '
kaap lurt...iii:Ui: rauli '
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Farmer anj rraT w Vat-1:!np fur tie om-
n yM,r wtil mbiUi. their uiioreet by esaiuiiiia the
JU'CiiKYK brf-rs T'',rt J-Hr o'-fs .r stticr at
chines. Corrvfinu. u wnu (Vi.-v rt a.ul ox hers ds
sirtn? aijencle l r. w -1! - j e-; L r'cl r,icr
Wvsiirvular w. .."it-. . f-o-n Xcxs lrters
wUl be tU frvo t ane a ' - t-a i ; U til th
manafacturera, AUaiiin. iiiU; t.i AJvaJh:o.
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f. Sldltwn Ai''n Tex.
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ISVLSTIGA-
The long expected rport of the com
missioners appointed to investigate the
manner, of treatment practiced upon con
rictl by the lessees of the penitentiary,
Ward, Dewey & Co., haj at last made
lU appearance in the chape of a
printed pamphlet. The commission con
sisted ci A. J. Peeler, Assistant Attorney
Of" , lion. Dan IT. Triplett and Hon.
Smith. They commenced their in
vestigations on the fifteenth day of April
s d carrie J them through the whole system
cev.t labor, as no- employed at Hunts
T '!j;.Ot ton, !n ITik county; Jackson
1 "," - : v '."J Capt. Duncan's
'.&&,",. la-tag'., a county; nd the
. . . sad I ke Jsr ""r plantations, in
1... cr- vision acknowl-
4 thstl t - j r.ic. . v wasexicnded them
ur what information
tLey tltaired, aal lhaiiLcy had free access
to all guards and conricts. They found 2G3
conricts at wort at Orerton, 13 nt Jackson
Ville, 50 at Trice's switch, 40 at the Tatton
place, between 50 and CO at the Lake
idckfcon plantation, and- about ,45 at the
Duncan plantation. The rest of the conrict
force is at the penitentiary. The report
girea" a history of the lcae, the condition of
the penitentiary at the date of the lease, a
legtslatire history of the mnnaemect under
the lessees, and finally, as might have been
expected from lawyers, an elaborate work,
upon criminal law and the present systems
of punishment,-'. The report, In many in
stances,1, goes too much "into unneces
sary detail, such as giving the full
text of laws, Governors' proclamations, etc.,
and 'wells up to 140 page of solid printed
natter; almost all of which is in-brevier
The law authorizing the lease was passed
by the . Twelfth Legislature. Possession
was given to the lessees on the fifth of June,
1871. ; The term of the lease was for fif
teen years, 5000 per annum to be paid for
the first five years, $10,000 for the next five
years, and f 20, 000 for the last five years.
The lessees were also obligated to pay each
discharged prisoner twenty , dollars and a
salt of clothes. By s later act of the Leg
islature! in 1873,' the lessees were released
from paying their yearly dues to the State
in consideration of the targe improvements
they had been compelled to' make for the
accommodation vof ' convicts. ' " The ' first
thirty-one .pages of the report refer almost
exclusively to' these matters, and embrace
a comprehensive codification of the laws in
relation to the penitentiary. -'
3'Nextthe' report gives the appraisement of
the penitentiary; property in 87i,"amouat
Ing to, $230,090.32. The expenditures of
the State on the penitentiary from 184$ to
the date' of the lease amounted to fC49,
814.81, ; -
"When the lessees took possession of the
penitentiary there were confined in it C07
convicts, and; the f number has continued
to -.increase; 'tin til: they now amount to
about threo :timei -that; number. 'The
e.Bml38ioners, :.'repbrt Ogives ' the full
text of "all' . the ; enactments upon . the
subject of the pe'nitentiarywlnce the date of
the lease, and a copy of all the reports of
legislative Committees in regard to theman
ageaient of the.lesscea..' All of these reports
have been favorable to the lessees, but the
one made to the last session -of the. Four
teentii Legislature took ground against the
nae of convict labor oh the works of private
corporations, where it becomes necessary to
employ skilled mechanical labor. ; Starting
ab.laston page 63, upon the' subject for
which' the commission was appointed, the
facts in regard to the military prisoners con
fined in the penitentiary are taken up in the
shape of the report oi the Board of Public
Institutions for' the- State of Kansas for
1874. The evidence of these prisoners,
after being taken from the Texas peniten
tiary to 'Kansas, reflects severely upon the
management of "Ward,' Dewey & Co., as
also by the proceedings of the Prison Con
gress, held at St. Louis in the, same year.
These statementa are given to show how far
they ' accord , with those obtained by the
Commissioners In the late investigation. '
The aws upon the subject of the peni
tentiary provide that the directors shall es
tablish rules and by-laws for the manage
ment of the prisoners, which1 the commis
sioners say they have never attended to.
The Bute Inspector is the officer upon whom
devolyei the duty by statute of supervising
itho treatment and discipline- of the con
victs, and he- is . also required by law to
report monthly , to the Governor upon the
inajsagcment.'.treaQent and discipline of
the convicts. He has L the power to visit
the penitentiary and have intercourse with
the convicts in the language or the law,
"at all' times, -by day or by night." It
would ppear, then, that, the proper chan
nel through which the public .should have
learned the facts .in regard to cruelty prac
ticed is the penitentiary was the inspector,
and not through the Kansas board, the prison
congress, or a report in the, New Orleans
Timear The inspector shields ; himself, in
theieport,; behind the directors, for not
having attended to their duties, and thus
the nu'ik in the cocoanut is tapped. The
caiaraiasioneifs speak favorably of the sleep
iog apartments and care of the sick in the
penitentiary, but say that the convicts Lave
been inadequately clothed, and that the
buiMirg called a hospital is a shame to the
State. The convicts working outsula of
the penitentiary are treated very diHercatly
from those inside. Their food is not as
good, and they tre not treated properly in
sickneis. One convict at Jacksonville had
been down with the scurvy for six months
and had had no cedic&l attendance. A
case of iahamxn bur'ul is related, but it is
the treatment, while alive, that appeals to
tie tenia' t jialhics. ..The. punishments
resorted to are coBaetncn?t in the "dark
ccl'.3,wLich are cot suficiently ventilated,
ia ths V.ceks,u 'oa-the . "horse, the
;Ushnaal ether punisinic-is. ,TLe coia
cu?r loners , rrpcrt -that '.pcElshmcnts are
practiced ia isitaccs "with isheman sevcrt
ty, and that tv.ey cften c&uso death. .
3 t: -tics t:va ti rr-ancr ci
Uc:.r. : .t. .. r r;s-r . JU: ;Lt i"ta ii,
tha c' .""-' ..-j tj 't, ---ch cut into
u..c::...:at; f- "cr::.j. .rcma:.oas. ctuai-
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of the commission u really a legal work on
criminal law, and its resells, ax narrowed
cown to convict life. It n a good thing as
such, and will probably answer a good pur
pose, but the latitude' they assumed ii im
mense. ' " ' ", 1 . ' "
local rueji DicK: ano popi lar
. FOLLIES.
There are strange, nnaccoantablc.' preja
dices generated ,by many causes and affect
ing the towa and tho country which it is
very difficult to comprehend. Strange, in
to comprehensible expression is often given
these feelings in our exchanges. : la electing
members to the coming convention there
are counties each claiming that at least one
of the delegates most dwell within its con
fines, and the people of a neglected county
absolutely deem the proposition to select
two candidates from one town insuUlDg.
When we reflect that these delegates have
only to make a government for the State,
and are incapable of special or local legis
lation, the stupidity of this local selfishness
becomes palpable. - For" all practical pur
poses, Austin or Bonham might as well se
lect candidates from Galveston as from
Travis or Fannin counties.' It was only im
portant, in creating the convention, to make
such provisions that the services of the
great men of Texas might le secured. Leg
islation is often wiser than men who make
it, and Providence surely shaped the action
of John Ireland and of the n Fourteenth
Legislature, when it accomplished a good
or beneficent purpose, and yet this body of
men, many of them evidently seeking to
prevent the convocation of framers of a new
Constitution, wisely enabled the people to
secure the wisest, best and most learned
representatives in each Senatorial;' district,
even if they happened to live in the same
village or city. Of course the Fourteenth,
Legislature never dreamed of the. impor
tance and value to Texas, through all com
ing time, of. this feature of the enactment;
Happily the law was thus ' shaped' and
now we would ' inquire whether the
constituencies of this defunct ' body of
wiseacres and lawgivers . will , exercise
wisdom enough to take advantage of the
accidental statesmanship of . the Legisla
ture." Must focal folly defeat a providen
tial interposition in behalf of good and
wise government for Texas ? ,'It was pro-
posed, for reasons above indicated, . even
while the Fourteenth Legislature was un
dergoing all the agonies of parturition,
that twenty or thirty members Of the'eon
vention should be chosen from the State at
large.'. But the idea was t too .benefieent,
too liberal, too wise for. acceptance, John
Ireland and many, members of the' Senate
and House wanted swits in the convention
and.wcre unwilling that. the great thinkers
and statesmen of Texas, when jEeveral of
these lived, in the same city or county,
should inject their learning and experience,
in affairs of law and government j into the
organic law of Texas. ' The best that Could
bo secured was the concession to narrow
districts of the right to selec, the greatest
men, wherever these resided, in each Sena
torial district. Politicians ,of the . baser
sort have pandered to local . selfishness and
a few counties demand the absolute right
to exclude the most learned and ablesl; men
of the district from the convention in order
that some dullard may represent the; genius
and worth and intelligence of the 'ceunty
in framing the Constitution.' ' We are told
that about Denton this feeling prevails and
a candidate for the convention, in making
a speech near Denton, . absolutely declared
lawyers as a class', utterly, i unworthy
of representation in a body organized to
give origin to law. 1 ' If the people of Denton
vote for such an ass they, become as famous
in the political history of .Texas "as would
this matchless candidate if turned loose on
the Supreme Court bench of the ..United
States to define the rights of men: and
States and of mighty corporations'. ;i The
Denton man, we believe,' is pandering to
the supposed prejudices of Grangers.- , Has
he not fired too' low t Is grangerism the
aggregation of the stupidity of Texas t - Is it
massed in Granges so that ignorance,' like
this of which we read at Denton, may
wield it! If so the organization, in becom
ing a calamity to the country at the very
point in Texan history when calamities are
forever ruinous and enduring ia operation,
becomes itself the greatest . calamity that
ever befell the commonwealth. -
-Will not the people of Texas In the com
ing election forget local, selfishness and
vanity, and, abhorring demagogues, send to
Austin the wisest and best lawgivers?
There is no mistaking them. God always
marks the good and .great aa. distinctly as
the two thousand villains" iii the peniten
tiary are branded in their faces and in their
eyes, and in their very, lips and noses.
Above all things let Denton spare the coun
try the shame of having ia -the constitu
tional convention of Texas a ineraber'who
would array one class of men; against
another, and is such a dullard that he has
never learned that a lawyer ma be as
honest as other men, and is the more prob
ably honest since he has most opportuni
ties to learn that honesty is the best policy,
even as his opportunities are best to learn
how to construct the enduring founda
tions of a State's enduring government.
tiie wisno.n op t tot as asdifollt
OF MEXICO.tr);
Edward Lee Plumb, Ihefruifful minister
plenipotentiary of the International Ilail
wy Compaayat ihe court of President
Lerdo, of Mexico, is,' we believe, In Galves
ton or Houston, and will probably visit the
capital of Texas. : The Mexican correspond
ence of the Trait tTUhiori announces the
complete success of Mr. riumb'f mission,
and tells hewreadily and almost unani
mously me scueuie ot ;.ir. t'ium!-ras ap
proved by the Mexican Congress. The rea
sons assigned by tho friends of the measure
were identical with those considered by the
late Fourteenth Legislature, but the differ
ence ia tho conduct of the two bodies is
somewhat extraordinary. ' Mexico's conces
sion is more per mile thatte Xzt:rna-
tional at any time aked ai the hands ct
Texas and the gcacious sum is girtn with
out a grimace, ana t-ero ars no cirgts
cf fraud. If Mr. Vlzzxb 1 ud rci'ercl the
sasie service here in Autla which ha gave
the International ' Ccuzj .la "Mexico
tea
Eg as a fort cf
r.y eaa izr.rc etirg
coaxcrciil statistics, Dell
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on the Hio Grande, to obliterate Cortina
and have access to the cities and States of
the Union, to make a subvention of -fifteen
thousand dollars pr mile, while the bare
proposition to concede three millions to six
hundred miles of road iif Texas' gave many
wiseacres moral jim-jams.' Irelandof pious
memory, has not yet recovered from the
shock administered to Lis. tender secsibilU
ties, though there came a decree of relief
when 12,000 square miles of untaxed land
were substituted for the three million loan.
We love to think about these pleasant con
trasts between the divinely Inspired wisdom
of Texan lawgivers and the barbarous ways
of those copper-bottomed Mexicans. Our
vanity is soothed and self lore gratified,
and we are naturally proud of the splendid
genius and intelligence and wisdom of our
people, strongly presented slde"ly siJey
even now, with this barbarous legislation
practiced at the Mexican capital at the in
stigation of Jlr. Plumb. See how Mexico
will be ruined by it 1 People there annually
transport silver and copper ore, $20,000,
OOQ.of silver and $1G, 000, 000' worth of
copper, '0O or sou miles In wagons to be
guarded at. heavy cost against highwaymen.
Plumb's railroad will change all this, it is
true, and the value of tbe mines and metal
will be doubled ; but for all that, Mexico
and Texas should bo bored for the simples
for expending mopey or credit on a railroad,
as DcMorse knows. Then tho coffee crop of
Mexico is worth $80,000,000 and the feugar
$35,000,000, and twothirds of this would
reach consumers over this railway line,
Cuba is destroyed for, years, and Mexico
must take its place and supply America and
Europe , with coffee and sugar as well as
with copper and ' silver and fruits. ' Those
Mexican statesmen, having a map of the
continent before them, counted the value and
the cost of the road that doubles, to them,
the value Of their sugar and coffee, enabling
them to. take the place of Cuba in the
world's markets, reached, when '- this
International . load -is. finished, . mainly
through Galveston and Houston. Mexican
statesmanship invests millions in the attain
ment of these magnificent purposes, and
poor old DeMorse, and Ireland, impersona
tions ef the unselfish wisdom of Texas and
comprehending the needs of the empire
and ' earnestly anxious to promote the
growth of Texan cities and to enrich and
aggrandize Texan communities, pronounced
men corrupt and fools who proposed to
invest three millions , in this scheme - and
at this hour approve the deeds of Mexican
statecraft and the beneficence of Mexican
legislation. "What barbarians '; are these
Mexicans! What Solomons' and how mor
ally : brave, - were those masters of ' Texan
legislation! The" product uf the industry
and toil of nine millions of people to' be
emptied into the lap of Texas and of Texan
maritime cities and the commerce of two
empires and of two oceans to bo- drawn
centrally through-the State as a funnel,' and
yet Texan statesmen could only lift up
their bands in holy horror and cry' "cor
ruption!" "corruption 1". when weapproved
the proposed concession. Never let it be
forgotten what fools and .knaves are these
masters of Mexico and how stupendously
comprehepsiveand jmaje'stic and sublimely
graud through, all coming time musrt)e the
Irelands and DeMorses of Texas. .. ! -
Tirc connive cnKATCiTi of tejcas
The discussion of Eads's plan Of open
ing the mouth of the . Mississippi does
not give strength , to public confidence in
jetties as applied at the tUloueJturt of,-that
great river. He may wall in the river shores,
confine all the vast volume of water to a
single channel, the depth may be doubled
and velocity of the current indefinitely ac
celerated, but the same vast -quantity of.
detritus must still be projected against a
wall of sea water at a single spot. . No ocean
current moves it to the' right or left. ' The
rGulf Stream does not sweep with any ap-
preciable force along the coast of Texas or
of Louisiana. If the Gulf be a thousand or
three thousand feet deep the alluvium will
soon constitute a gaseous island rising above
the water's' surface, and the name obstruc
tions that exist to-day will be reproduced
forever. The Danube and Mississippi are
no more alike than a pellucid Texan rivu
let and the Amazon. The winds co-operate
with the waves, and, blowing from the
South, almost perennially, are ever con
structing a dam across the river's mouth.
Eads has begun a Sysiphean task. .Vessels
will enter the river drawing twenty-five,
perhaps thirty, feet," but within, the; half
year that Eads announces this triumph, if
his wall-building at the same-, time be sus
pended, ths river and Gulf co-operating will
again lift up an alluvial barrier to exclude
Great Easterns from the "inland sea,", The
ten millions to be wasted" by Eads will be,
nevertheless, wisely expended.' The whole
country will be taught, while the work pro
gresses, the inestimable value to American
commerce of the great drain of the conti
nent.' It will be teen that grain can be
transferred from St. Louis to New York at
less cost, by this water route, ' than by the
cheapest possible freight-bearing railway
lines, and thaC twenty per cent, will, be
saved of the corn, wheat end tobacco; grown
in the valley of the. Mississippi. - Ships
entering the Mississippi to bear, away cot
ton, sugar and grain will' hardly come in
ballist to Vicksburg, Memphis, Cairo or St.
Louts. They will bring goods from Europe
to exchange for products of 'American agri
cultural toil, and thus the producer and con
sumer win lie brou-hstt5s face to fsce
and (the. leading idea of the. Grangers
consummated. The middle then will be
."plumped out" and Eads, if triumphant,
becomes the "marvel' of the sge. .But
Eads is only an index finger , of providence
pointing the way to ends be will never
achieve. It is not a Danube and Black Sea
to be wedded here in America by jetties,
but the Gulf of Mexico and that mighty
inland ocean over whose iuleta and bays
and estuaries vessels float twenty-eight
thousand miles. As Lesseps connected the
Mediterranean and Eed Seas, even so must
a slackwater ship canal connect the Missis
sippi at New Orleans with th5;Cn!f forty
miles distant at Fort Llvirgt-toa, the raouta
of Earrataria Bv. A vova'rs from Galves
ton to an! frcta New Orleans wiU be les
sened more than three hundred railes, . and
ths obstruction ct the river's current oovi
ated. Lads'i failure will beget the con
struction cf th:s car.&l cr 2val architecture
will I so perfected that neither Eadi's
jetties cor Cowdoi'a ca-ii will Le eccntlil
to tb; athlcT-r.cat ci direct tnls Ittvsca
Ar.Tlra as I Ejtc;. Cf .vcsic'.s lir
devils ketts and cariV.5 cf cirrrlr' tea
zi c u iu.:cs tr.a cr:
c-!y
era
J.r.- -a. PiT-.s
dreams. It 'ncl ships be' swift and ' sea
worthy, ri.4 only will tlx cftmmerrial map
of the conutiy Lo averted and the whole
wealth of the great valley drawn towards
cities cai.tfca ilusiiiippl,' bet Hoa&ton, then
on a veritable arm of the sea,' as "another
Venice at-'the twad of another Adriatic, be
comes Uie depository 'for the wealth of a
quarter ot'ihe conticent. - ' v
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THE SPLE.D1I FtTC'IIE. , "'
Vi'ef can't; help , believing that a more
blessed day than ever known is dawning
on the country. Every fact and Incident ef
progressive American history tells that
with the dawning centurr it fresh, unwrit
ten page is placed before us destined to tell
of a M'Tss'et? "future? Even in the financial
condltion'cf the United State's we finl'that
the t. fluent wave oi pro.-ptrlty is broking
against the 6hore and bankers and trades
men bend their heads reverently enough
that the billows may sweep above and be
yond' them. , With corn and, wheat .and
cotton and tobaccp promising, such har
vests as were never known before, with
peace and unity paving the,way for.pcrfect
political repose, surely a lnture more cloud-
j-le88 was never promised any people- There
are States of the South having even stronger
reason than Texas to accept ' every assur
ance of perfect blessedness given by each
bright shadow of -the rainbow that spans
the heavens. Their condition cannot ' be
changeless and "cannot rbe worse. 'Texas
has never been thoroughly subordinated
to the sway of negro . absolutism arid
the constitutional convention .may readily
render even the .partial or jocal . recur
rence of this intolerable j calamity im
possible. The reproduction, - of hal
lowed memories and resulting - political
consequences are most fortunate for these
wronged and robbed and 'desolated South
ern States. Grant-confessed' the force of
unwritten -law and of the-patriotic senti
ment begotten of .veneration lor the names
and deeds of our fathers' when forced to
declare that he was not a candidate lor the
third term. In fact, everywhere," even in
New England,' ' where ', Wendell Phillips
felicitates the'couutrj lbat tbre is " noth
ing," save himself, new 'under, the sun,'1,
as in the South, where V secessionism " and
" submissionism ' were onco almost signifi
cant of deadly hates as of honest convic
tions everywhere" fanaticism in politics dis
appears and men-.dilleriDg as widely as the
poles are asunder still concede honesty of
purpose . and personal'-worth. This' is thd
longest stride ever made by barbarism from
indecency to perfect civilization. ' It is bf
greater value to free thought and progres
sive intelligence, aud to absolute, practical
freedom in 'government 'and opinion than
redundant crops or thai the blessedness of
perfect peace to be evolved from the repro
duction of h alio wed centennial- memories.
: The most atrocious murder ever commit
ted was that done by a black savage ia
Lowndes county, -Mississippi, when.his'nc
cdmplice held a white woman, while he fired
Colt's repeater, the' bullets penetrataag
her face and body. Little children of the
helpless "widow - witnessed' the' deed, and
begpred for mercy for the mother. - The
Iieuteuant Governor of Jlississippl is . ne
gro named Davis, and .while 'Ames. is in
Boston "centenilllizing,,, Davis, ItaviDg
pocketod'a bribe of $1230,, p'ardons these
murderers of the white woman.-. tOughtnot
the- people hang zpavjs? I.'This negro Davis
is a-J,arber,- and -was Senator Alcorn's body
servant when Alcorn led a Confederate reg
iment into Kentucky in 1862; Alcorn; of
course, 'is cognizant of Davis's virtues and
weaknesses,' and whenDavis was a candi
date for the place he now', fills, Alcorn; aa
8ertedj and Davis did not deny,-that Davis
had been, when in the btate Senate, the re
cipient of (louceurt for his votes. . And yet,"
strange as people abroad may i think j it,
Davis is such a good-natured rascal and Js
so thoroughly cognizant of the -virtues and
foibles of the people, that they have ever i
preferred his mastery , to that of . the cold
blooded, little "ad venturer, Ames. . -Davia's
roguishness is of that desqrfption of frailty
which white juries could sot bO induced to
punish when first negroes were 'sent to the
penitentiary.: for larceny. : It could not be
hammered -into the head 'of an average
Southern farmer that thefd,' 'when' practiced
by Cuffee', "was a crime, but they" Bee it now
very1 clearly, and hence the eternal black
ness that to-day overshadows Southern penitentiaries.-;
The, conduct of this fellow
Davis shows, however,- that Radicalism and
Wendell Phillips are right,' and that the ne
gro is progressive. Lieutenant ; Governor
Davis shows bow the model African ascends
from a modest hen-roOst performance, by
moonlight to the perfect recognition ofj the
charms of bribery in office," cveiTas the sav
age brute who murdered the helpless woman
crowns the story with all the attractiveness
of demonism made a fine art. '
It might be. well or Hon. John Ireland,
when he next "denounces the Statesman as
a Radical sheet, to tratch ' the course of
events in Kentucky. This, majestic com
monwealth, the raOst wisely governed in
the United - States, goes V about the task
Texas has assumed of making a new Con
stitution, and all party leaders and newspa
pers inveigh 'against, the intervention of
partisanship. The Courier-Journal properly
8a ys that constitutional reform merely pre
sents the question to the: people, whether
they win avail themselves of the improve
ments . which the last score -of years has
made ia the science of government: The
Issues On - r rch-yartlca ordlatanly divide
are ephemeral. 'They may involve more or
less of fundamental principle, but it often
happens that parties and individuals, stand
ing on a common principle, divide on ques
tions of policy. Constitutional reform is
beyond the ordinary purposes of party or
ganization, and the standard-bearers of the
two parties ia Kentucky have xlbne well,
the Cuvrur-J'jurhdl ' states, to leave the
question where it belongs, witli the people.
It was not a party question ia the Legisla
ture, It cannot be cade a p--'lj q'-cstioa ia
the pending canvass and the men cf Texas
will vote for or ?inst the proposition on
consideratt''as . entirely, independent of
thoss v.Llca .cc-mnoaly inflicace them ia
selecting c:e:ers far the
public afla'.r. . .
Y,'r.o will Le the frit to ccntrlLute to
fiad ia Tens to g-.ther t
.her ntcmoriil
records ci ti
tikta part ?
e wars ia which Texu tts
A pairlctic Lxdy has given the
Ceorgir HIi
torical .x;ety over ;1C0,C:X
i e certiiiiy t.ive ia iL.s ttsta r-enyr.ca
and woneen who sre ti.-j anl wi.rto
ccntrH - 5 L: - : ""j ti t! 3 t '.::-::. s cf the
Tens r.'ztcr! .1 t::-.c:-tl:2. . Will they
net c : ty V : fecrt ?
NOTXXrU rrTT-'BSLATXO.
Partisanship 'stgnlSes'. nothing whet. a.
rogue- is" Invested with onice. ' taivcrsal
suffrage in citiesi plates taxpayers and; all
Industry at the mercy of rogues and ad
venturers. "Columbia, like other Southern
corporations,1 has become the prey of the
Philiitlaes. , .BoPils Lava-beea sold sad
peculations frtUrtd): And rings organized
J and the treasury plundered till the people
have revolted and the city's robbers, bate
been ordered to resign. --. Public meetings
are ttld and accountants employed to ex
amine the financial records of the wretched
city.. The very s;imc systems-of wrong
and outrage are, in vogue, wherever, one
class of people pay and another collects a
town's . or; county's .revenues. jIIonpst
workiD" peopla have little time to devote
to the business of local ctHce-stckiag; the
business of voting is made disreputable or
disgusting; citizenship is. degraded, aad
then thieves reign. Would it not 1 veil
to rescue counties and towns of Texas,
while we rasy I Jf . etaiesmen, rather than
demagogues, be J chose a members, of the
constitutional, convention, may not Texas
become tlve most aUractivo of all the States
becausp industry may be forever protected
against ravages of the drifting xabble that,
with progressive , railway systems, sweeps
over tlie country and finally fastening itself
upon most prosperous - towns and cities,
their, very heartstrings are seized by vam
pires and life blood exhausted. These are
they that; have made Mississippi uninhab
itable ; these ; ha ve arrested thearna of in
dustry, desolating fields and impoverishing
homes, and : Jet, 1 when iBadicalism iwa
doing lttCTtttCTcarsd-lhe South, the
amendments it fastened on Federal constitu
tional law interposed no obstacles and onry
the absence of L demagogues ;and presence
of ' statesmen and patriots in the constitd
tional convention is necessary to assure the
escape of "Texan "municipalities from calam
ities that render other Southern Statei tin-i
inhabitable. -: I ; ""
I
WHO ARK VOlt AND WHO AGAINST
i ) - , ; "
Two gentlemen within he weekfhave
paid , for the Statesman two' years ,ia ad
vance. They- approve its spirit, its infal
tering Democracy, -.its' adhesion to priaci
ples, its defiance oilmen who would be
moral despots in .Texas.. It is a creed we
advocate, not men. that we would serve.' We
would, make Texas the freest of alL the
States and therefore would have made for
it the simplest , and briefest Constitution:
We would obviate the ne'eessity, of which
Goverfior Coke haYspoken in his messages,"
for the investiture of the Legislature, with
plenary Jowc rs over couatiestw denying to
counties and corporations those rights who9e
exercis-often-involves-elf-pre6ervationi
unless their exercise', be subordinate to the
power t -and, approval, of . the Legislature.1
Perfect locaHreedom is. only -consistent,! in
theTouthr at lea,twitl restricted suffrage
in Jocaj elections. 0The honeatrpopr approve
Vause'tbey hope.togajn riches and. toil
for fhis, and therefore woulu have taxes im-
" -s s . T , . '
posea uy those, wnoj pay jhem. , jji -course
men. haying property, to . be taxecjj appriove
fhe proposition. MunicJpal.covernnients
do, not 7touch - personal, -ri"hts Jlieae are
.all",' pjrote'pte.41' by f "t tpLegislature.r In
vottng". for 'lejnberi . of the Xegisbiture
we iaav therQforchave.universal, suffrage
and thuiour .representatibn in Congress is
not lessened.. .whep, .we .provide, by I re
stricted feuffragef of wiser and purer munici
pal systems, " TheC '.present Radical Coristir
.. . ' t-. i;ok .... .-. - . ,
tutipn of. .iexas., inlaws, the change ;we
would 'etfect n aid. perpetuates .enormities
practiced, in towns ""and Vounties wherever
savage'. Radicalism. isdorornant.. For. this
Teason,'anJ6Jeffect thls.rcform, we would
t - . ' " -v:!i '-'lJ-"T-!-i '!-!: ' ' .
oave a xtew syhu in tu nrgwuc law supreme
in Texas.'4i And;, it, WJWT faf ojirindependent
advocacj pf.thlflreehemft ot beneficence lo
Texas ;that;tb.:practirjalo pprtnl .of the
Btatesjiajs conduct was asserted, as above
stated ;AU thai elan Qf peoplei who sus
tain and. support newspapers coqeur in opin
ion, with, us,' and Only , the demagogues and
incapable rabble oppose, v ' - r : ' ;
' A stort is going through the newspapers
of Texas to the effect that in .1830 a man
named Bricktor was killed at San Felipe,
pn the , 'northeast side of the Brazos, by a
twenty-four-pound, cannon 4 shot, fired by
Mexicans from the southwest side of the
river. , This, cannon ball was indented; by
concussion with the hard head of Brickor,:
who must-have-Leen-a "perfect brick."
Such is the story as published. ; The truth
i,; Bricktor: wai: killed by a strsy grape-
shot, fired; by the. Mexicans & day oi; two
after theycamped.cn the Southern bank.
No Mexican or Texan ; army crossed at: San
Felipe, -and la this thei'recital of facts,
above ,; referred to, Js "utterly : erroneous.
When the ; Mexicans entered ; San. Felipe
about: daylight there were three pickets in
the place, their ;names,j3aac Hill, now a
candidate for the constitutional convention
ia Fayette county; Wm.. Simpson, now; of
Austin, ; who 'was taken : prisoner .by the
Mexicans;. and. a Mr. Kuykendall, now no
more,-. :formeri citizen of Austin ccmntyi
CoL George: Haaeock, cf this city, oa the
northearsldeoftho"TlVr; climbed a Cot
tonwood tree about sunrise, and reported;
as nearly as possible, "the " number of Mexi
cans In the vi lkge,' to Col." Moseley Baker,
who reported to GenI Houston. ' The north
side of the river wras guarded by Bake t's
and Kimbrough's .companies. A few days
after this these companies were ordered up
the river to join Gen. Honston, thea oa the
march to San- Jacinto.
'Those districts of Texas which, In order
to gratify local. .Taaity or-that of local
leaders, e acriSce the interests pi the State
to please individuals, .will Cad themselves
practks-Uy voiceless ia thtf .coastltatlonal
convention.; . And when, it is said that Mr.
Boanerges is frora the. county of will
not thC"pcC7.2C?"Tci"Ul)e furious that
such a mass 'of empty ttige thunder,"
Ireland's old-faahloncd sort, must ever te
heard roaring and rubbling la the coaven
tioa! '' &:ad mea of nde-tyead pcrsoasl
and intellectual worth, and raca who Lavs
c&chewtd politics watride, who are net
liiOwa to be i.sj Lu-ts for the Governor's
pLicecrfor a vacancy ia the Fteril feca
tis. Tinware, le;t xca usa ths clUca fcr
the prc-z.
tlca. TL;
lea cf
re are ;
t..s cr pcraeneu Lmli
et risy who will dare
to v
and rxcik' ec-lwly l.h'tLe iUnr c
prcmclir-j the U-tL.t-L .Lscf Tei-J tn 1
of the j'';'? c!,Tc::-j.f:rsver. It.dc
act sL:fy rl ::t ryli r:n live.; e
thera to the cor".rtcl 1 ccarfntloa,-
' Dr.tT2rsl-i:;::i ia Ur r-ivn'tl
so teres t.zzi v. i .-.-! c-::rt rrs r r
n:"-. I i t c "":.!' i i 1 1: ? I ;h c :.
- :TS Lxy Jlr thinks Mr. JeiTefsori Davis
rich enough, and that people can use their
tiioney more wisely than by investing it in
a tome for the impovcrUhed rrcildca of
th: late Confederacy. Suppose then we
strip the proposition of all idea of partially
refunding losses incurred by lln DavU la ti
honest effort to serve the pcopleof Texas
and of the Souths Jwonld it nqt pay to fay
rchetizen He can build .n univeriity
for; Texas suck as no living "man can create,
ne is the fiaest talker and lecturer . that
lives. . lie is an accomplished; belles lettres
scholar. : He has made his Tirtaes and at
taiumcatl known through admirable State
papers when he was ia office' at Washing
ton aad in Richmond, and, reducing the
proposition to serve Mr. Davis to the stand
ard by which little natures' measure every
thing, we are iiilaed to believe tuat Texan
generosity will be profitable if it cost half
a million and secure the citizenship of Jef
ferson Davis. , When this sum is gathered,
or any like it, a small share of It should be
devoted to the transfer of the Lviy, Lt to
UjijL Tbea Texas will be doubly -blest
and, enriched in two directions, and the
gain: resulting from the . loss of the JJt.sy
A will be only trifling in view of the ac
quisition of the civic scrvicss of Jefferson
Davis. ..-..'
;' DcRixa the war Gen. Polk ordered a ser
geant to fire a cannon which bad been loaded
while hot and -allowed tocoob.' The ser
geant said it would burst. . Polk said it
wouldn't. It did, and killed thirty men.
Polk ' picked up the ' sergeant's head", and
Spologized. -2tfnii Frte J '
f This gun was charged on the seventh of
November, 1801, when the battle of Bel
mont was fought ' It was fired and burst
on the tenth of the same month, the writer
looking on. General, then captain, Rucker,
of Marion, Alabama, and Gen: Polk were
standing side by side hard by. Both were
knocked down, and Gen. Polk was danger
ously stunned. Rucker was a rough custo
mer, and Polk -was always proper,' dignified
and a Christian gentleman. When Rucker
came to his senses he moved his hands
about in the dust and emoke to discover
his precise status, and caught hold of the
general aud naively and ' innoceDtly re
marked': :
'Thiaish-I, isn't It, General!
"Yes," answered Polk, "it smells like
it." ' ,'
'- The ball in the gun fitted It, when both
ball and gun were cold, and the same balls
I from the same 'mould had often been 'fired
from the gun. Perhaps the baU ;had jnot
been "sent home" when the gun was hasti-1
ly charged on the battle day. Polk's skill
of ignoraace had nothing to do with the
matter, and nobody dreamed or suggested
thai the piece would explode.' ' ' ; -u
. Gekerai Dvff Ghees, so well known to
many .;persons f ; ibis j Stare, died re
cently .at, Dal ton, Georgia, at: the age of
eighty-five years, : He waa a native of Ken
tucky, , served '.in the Creek war, ; and In
4821 embarked ia the sewspaper business
in St, Louis,, and devoted his- energies and
talent -to the.electioao Jackson to: the
Presidency; u Jackson being: defeated,! ha
established a newspaper at -Washington
City; bitterly opposed the administration of
Adams, and jaw Jackson elected for the
next term. He Afterward3beci an. ene
my tolJacJcar'""'tae" warm friend
andBupporter of Mr." Calhoun.' 1 President
Tyler made General Green the lepresenta
tive of the United States to the Republic of
Texas, but he 'and President Jones' had un-
pleaaatmisuaderstandings, which resulted
in Lia being removed. ' The rest of his life
was that of a private gentleman.
Hon, J. U.McLeahy deserves well of his
country. , We have intimatioas that io less
than a year be may deserve better. In any
event he whacked a little, convention very
neatly over the head over in Bandera coun
ty, which resolved it would support McL.
for re-election if he would support a certain
measure.. McL. Is an "unconditional sur
render" sort of gentleman. He thanked
lii constituents, never once mentioning the
one-horse t convention, for . their kindness
and confidence often illustrated, and then,
pretermitting any reply to the proposition
made by the author of the resolutions, says
he is not a candidate, and will not be for
some years, for political office. .Evidently
those" fellows that engineered that conven
tion were sold, and evidently McLcary, ever
full of patriotism, is going into a better
Dusincss. - ,
Thb Dallas Herald, concurring with the
London Standard, hits the question between
the eyes, when it says the woes of the
South are to be ascribed solely to universal J
suffrage. ;And yet the 'Herald says the ca
lamity U irremediable. ' Why should it be
when Texans are supposed to have a chare
of. moral as welt as physical courage and
Texans are about to enter upon the task of
making a government for' themselves.
There is nothing, no provision of bayonet
power, sometimes called the Federal Con
stitution as it is. to prevent the exemption
of. Texan counties and towns, in ail elec
tions, from the dire evils of universal suf
ige. - If the - constitutional convention
have this power to rescue as from calamities
that have desolated Miisissippi aad the
Carolina why not exercise it! -
Ths fEia cectesxial of the University
of Virginia will be celebrated by the alam
ni at Charlottesville on the thirtieth last,
The programme for the occasion' is as fed
lows:
Wednesday,; June 2010 a. X. Meeting
of the srxiety of ..alumni. -.11 a. u. Open
Ivrr 3 Trcoo ly Ji. Johnson Barbour. jsq..
of Virginia, president of the society; poera
by uaaici u. Lucus. Jsq., ot i est v Iririaia.
8 r. sc. Historical address by the" Hoa. 1L
L 1. liucter. oi V irrinia.
Thursday, July 110 a. m. Meeting cf
tae society. -12 :GD r; m. Oration by Gen.
John ' S. Preston, of South Carolina.
5 r. M. Alumni dinner.-
The capital of the State, havirg pcrca
nial sta breezes, , and yet lifted up unl..,
while oa the rasp and ia fact it is in t
ktltude of New Orleans, it is Ia point of
temperature as fir north as Cairo such a
city thouMLe'tLs site of the university cf
Texas.' Mrv Jeffersoa Davis truthfully saII
of Auitla thai ia its phj.icsl a;,ccU it is
ihe most Unatifsl -jzz ia Europe cr Amer
ica aad hers at the "scat of gove-ranicnt
tLi.t cairtr-Ity should be built, cl c-d to
t-3 tintilacd asi utilized by all the colle'.j
cf Texi3. '
rcrr.3 sre f.v.r Grjrts ia
i- 1 tl
rhy wca't h-rt f,-:jhe Ij i
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A HRRr:?POXPF.NT 8SJS he is BOt rCFpOa-
alble for the nerro's liberation, is satisfied
. - . .... V -
that all the schools ia the universe woa't
taake Coffee a good citizen, and that therc
fsre he will never agree to bo taxed to edu
cate the "can and brother." If the Yan
kees Would test Sambo's capacity let thcaa
rsv f-r the experiment. - We have tried to
our heart's content and utterly failed, but we
csaact srerce with' this writer. The exper
iment the far Ui failed, but while there is
Ufa there is hope and. we nu?t not despair.
, Sevf.r.sl suryejir- parties sre tioving to
the Pan Handle and Rio Grande country to
locate lands, by virtue cf International
Itailrcmd 'certificates. The first on the
gronnd will- be the successful locators.
These certificates arc straight certifxatcs,
not Alternate," and parties J-.:yir.T v.r. r '
thera will be exempt from tsxatlca f-r
twenty'.five years. It is strange that theio.
certificates do not command a greater price.
Immigrant's, . next j fall, "' will double the
price. ' .
Jnr..wheat crop of ,Tcxa Is estimated at
from fire to eight million bushels, and we
have'tio mills to grind it, no ships' to trans
fer it to Europe or South America or tho
West ..Indies, land' can only send it
where it is not wanted, to be grouad and
barreled aad transferred through New Or
leans or New York to' countries that will
consume it, Is there no remedy! When
will we have a harbor worthy of the name!
When will Houston finish the Canal!
j' Thk Mexican Congress, by a vote of 116
to 13, has approved the International Rail
road contract, as defined by President
Lerdo and Mrfriumb, and heretofore pub
lished by, the Statesman. The work of
construction is to bo begun in three years.
These facts will stimulato the company at
this end of the lino and bring the Denlson,
Fort Worth and Austin company to terms.
They promised well, were chartered and are
doing nothing.
Titk Dallas Herald thinks there should be
two supreme courts: one, civil; tho other,
criminal. Men are only perfect in a trade
or profession when they are confined in Its
practice to a' specialty. This double court
would doubtless serve the country more
wisely,' and thus at less cost, than a bench
required- to determine questions of morals
to-day," of legal rfghi to-morrow, and of
criminal evidence the next day.
The millers holding their convention in
Dallas state that they cannot oompeta with
St..LouU and their business is destroyed by
railway selfishness. ' It is cheaper to ship
wheat to St. Louis and the flour back to
Texas thaa to have it ground ia a Tcxaa
town. Distance "essens freight charges ia
rbchslf of the great city,- and as against the
fortunes of our own modest towns and vil-lag-s
ani mills.
,Tpe Calveston correspondent of the
Dallas' Commercial says that Geaeral Bragg's
abandonment of tho. Galveston and Santa
Fe Road puts a period to -the projTces of
that work. Its constructloa and success
were not desirable on many accounts, which
Galveston aad the people of Texas will yet
discover, . An honestly built, cheap, com
peting railroad owned by the people whern
i wvt i ca uuuuru-mn, -iraTg-g-p-racc oa tnc iiiup
of Texas.' It is done for. .
- Thb warmth of temperament distinguish
ing that most admirable weekly, the Sunny
Smith- li illastrated ia the fact that its edi
tor is not pleased that an able preacher of
Atlanta disorganizes aad - demolishes the
supposed literal hellflre. The Sunny Smth
believes in tho old-fashioned brimstone
hell,' and absolutely thinks tho glorious sua,
the resplendent god of day, may bo the in
fernal blazincf lake we read about.
Would it not amaze the world if gold
and silver were found to bo as abundant in
the eastern as ia the western rtref
A A.t M ma At. .:.a In ft, A At!si.V..?a .
la the Rocky ran cc ! Strange, but true it is,
all Massachusetts is agog about silver and
gold jast unearthed ia that Elate, and Cali
fornia miners are going rapidly Into New
England. Perhaps it is only the sheen of
Bca Butler's spoons.!
The Mexican Congress, oa tho thirtieth
ultimo, approved the scheme proposed far
the constructioa of the railway frora Guay-
mas that is, to the frontier du Nord,"
or United States boundary. Tom Scott
will be well pleased when he reads this
announcement, contained ia tho Ilexieaa
correspondence of the Tmit tVUhi-ni ct
June 5. . ,
Wiir don't Austin merchants, lawyers
and property-holders of the towa and cona
try send ia orders for the Sunday Cxates
max to be forwarded to their correr pen
dents elsewhere, that the world msy tr pre
date the attractiveness of Austin t,:. I cf
Travis county and determine ths wcrih cf
our peeple by that of the ceir-rr they
approve !
; Ax accurate caavassof the hotel opacity
of .Philadelphia s'ows th&t csly 11, 75
guests can Le accommodated, and yet tha
Philadelphia papers cUira that the Centea
nial will bring 23,C00,C00of victors t-3 th'.i
city. Wist Is to be done with tb3 verj
graaU snrplus which the l.tt.li sill r t 1 's
able to accommodate.
. 'Ir m'iy annoy ccrtda fpec
little ring we wot of, b-:t we c
log th&t the New York V-'i'-teentli
quotts Texas ten j ' r
102. Only a few dijs r i:
putoutevea here 1 An '' i t'
tn'jlt f- vp to the vie;r.::y t-wss'layir.-',
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Bea tetter's de-.cesdsnta, left ZV.
to witnc-i thecel.hratlc-a at B--. '. -n.
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