TIIE STATESMAN Ti XT k . K T THE-STATESMA- N.

TimMaiDAILY DEMOCRATIC STATE 3M A3T.

sHInzie copy, om year ....hin eobpy, aix months . O VVSliig.e copy. d mtmlU. .........WEEKLY DEMOCIUTIC STATESMAN.Mnple one ... ........ ocopy, year 1 oblnflr rapy, six aaontha

iVThe ahore rate are aDoe:...

Jliscellantous.

DR. G. M1AHKSCELEBRATED ;

LIVER PILLS,won th cnti o? . , ; - :

Liver Coiplatt,CVSPEPSIA AND SICK HEADACHE.

Symptoms of a Diseased liver.

1)AIN in the right tide, under theof the ribs, increase on pre- -

sure; sometimes the pain is in theleft side ; the patient is rarely ableto lie on the left side; sometimesthe pain is felt under the shoulder-blad- e,

and it frequently extends tothe top of the shoulder, and is some-"-1times mistaken for a rheumatism inthe arm. The stomach is affectedwith loss of appetite and sickness ;the bowels in general are costive,sometimes alternative with lax j thehead is troubled with pain, accom-

panied with a dull, heavy sensationin the back part. There is generally

considerable loss of memory, ac-

companied with a painful sensationcf having left undone . somethingwhich ought to have been done- - Alight, dry cough is sometimes an at-

tendant. The patient complains ofweariness and debility; he is easily '

'startled, his feet are cold or burning,und he complains of a prickly sensa-tion of the skin ; his spirits are low ;and although he is satisfied that exer-cise would be beneficial to him, yethe can scarcely summon up fortitudeenough to try it. In fact, he dis-

trusts every remedy. Several of theabove symptoms attend the ' disease,but cases have occurred where fewof them existed, yet examination ofthe body, after death, has shown theliver to have been extensively de-

ranged. : .,,

AGUE AND FEVER.Da. C. M'Lane's Liver. Pills', iw

cases op Acue and Fever, whentaken with Quinine, are productiveof the most happy results. No bettercathartic can be used, preparatory toor after taking Quinine. We wouldadvise all who are afflicted with thisdisease to give them a faiz trial.

P. S. Dealr-- ami PtiTiilctanci rVdcrlrn frrraOtlieni tlmn llrua. will do U lowrnltlwir orders diBliuctly, atul takm apaa frtrf Dr.C. iVLamr'a Lioir Pith, prepared by FirmingUtm., tUUkurgk, Pa., Ik atari bnnf firtl ofbi imitations. To tltuaa wlabiUK to givo them atrial, w will forward per mail, pnat-pai- to anypart of the L'nitxd Ktatna ; on box of Pilla furtwftWft three-ce- pot:tg stump, or ou Yinl ofYarmifuira for fourteen three-cen- t atnni,ia. Allcr-- r from Canada niuat bo accoiuuuiuvil bjtwuuty ceuu extra.

DR. C. M'LANE'SVERMIFUGEBbfltld tM kfpt lArry Durswrr. If jrm woaM ba yrmreblldrW (ro tip HEALTHY, .'TMIKO, 1M vtMiuvi Uulmad Wumim, tttKia IV w . of

M'LANE'S VERMIFUGE,TO EXPF.I. THE WOBMS.

THEMOSTPERFECTMADE.

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WAV M. "

AND TRUC

eSFONE THIRD IS SAVEDain quantity by their perfect purity and grea.utrenRth; .the oniy kinds made by a Poe-tical Chemist and Physician, with scientificcare to insure uniformity, hcalthfulness, deli-

cacy and freedom from all injurious substan-tt-

They are far superior to the commonadulterated kinds. Obtain the genuine. Ob- -,

nerve our Trade Markr as above, "Cream"Buking Powder, "Hand and Cornucopia."lluy the Buking Powder only in cans securelylalielled. Many have been deceived in loosejr hulk Powder sold as Dr. Price's.

Manufactured onlv bySTI2ELE & PRICE,

MjjO, XL Louit and Cincinnati.

FRANKLIN

TYPEFOUNDRY,16S rN Street, Clneinmrnlt, Ohio.

ALLISON, SMITH JOHNSON.

Proses til pmtiw Material of Eteit UsscrlpuoL

FORTUIVEFOR SI.

Ijegrally A.utliortxelmm Gift - Concert Association,

or r!iKw, Tixaa, wiu otra a cooGUAM) GIFT CONCERT.

to aid of Maaonlc aad LO.O. F. Tempi,

SEPT. 22, 1875.Plrat r-pl- tal 6111. i...50.0OOSMoodUtpiialuirt,. ..............

Bvaide iiitu In pruporttn amounting In all to

S250.000.00.Lownt lft t . w Hole 1 lean,Pric of it wfcol. Uck. $ whtca conaUU of ar. $l

. .counon Tioltota,Which will mtliU tlM holdw to artml aioo o urdrand Conr.it, anl looiwnmi rb aardt to Um whole uckrt aaiDDer.

avrnia wantra.an anlm lr tlck.ta aeut atrect promptly Slledilrrulara. naiiera. ale sivins full particalara, kt.Ii

froe. la wrum. b. aoro and attfB jour uau, townwniitff and Stale In nivi.

unlcra for ticket, amounting to $3 and opwaK:kaot C o. i. u oeaireo.

Addrraa all coromuoicaiiooa ana maae an remitknc.f to

A K. COfcltlKSa BT, laeail.oo TexJauift W4m

OK KENT.FTHE imil HOTl,

After January t, 18T, Th. baudu will k. put to

thoroata repair..,,, ..." i. tApply to ' TKRSXIX' WALKER.

Acarot. March 11. 185. 'Bull dlaaAwUT

N OTICE.

I will aitrtid to P.yIb Tax.. IT(lrtlaw Tttlaa, BaylMC mm alllwe .alltliK 4 IVoeaaaaai laA (ailllealw,and any BnalnM. rxwMctl vhh Lftwta t. thte and

Ucrnwd Land Ajraut.. Corpaa CknaU. Texaa. iuc ia.a. - )a

A.M IL WILDY, ,sWW pnirtlrw SaprB and TJrral coorta, andIn. court. Oi iTav.wa '7"'M"a

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VOL. V.

A PI.At , TACTICAL QtrSTIOJf.Not A i.:' interest hai been excited in

behalf of the eatablhment in Austin ofthe Prebyti.lan Coftege. Icnion prof-fers a school building that cost perhaps

but Deaiaon ia in the Tery north-

ern confines of the Itoundless State, andAustin, on lofty heights, is centrally loca-

ted. The day is not distant when therewill be as great wealth, as rich cities, asnumerous and prosperous farmers west aseaut of Austin. The tide of populationflows steadily towards the setting' sun.The rivers of the west wilf be divertedfrom their channels and made to enrich themoat fertile plains, in the most delightfulclimate that blesses mankind, making lifeworth (he having and riches worth enjoying.Just now money is inaccessible; and it isquite impossible for Austin to gather anyTery great sum in cash. But the founders ofcolleges are men of wisdom." They live inthe future and toil as sedulously for pos-

terity as for themselves. Therefore theywould accept property that must be, whenthe country's finances are restored to theirnormal condition, readily convertible.' Peo-

ple need have n apprehensions of finaldanger. The date of the resumption ofbusiness is by no means remote. Bondholders and banks and great corporationscontrol the finances of the nation. Grantcares little what happens if his own ag-

grandizement be assured. The treasury'sbowels of compassion will soon beloosened, and whatever may be the assertedpolicy of the government, there will' be;and speedily, an inflation of the currency.Without it, banks and insurance corpora-tions, and individuals having money at in-

terest, will tie bankrupted. This calamity,unless the people be relieved and businessactivity and speculation and railway pro-

gress and construction be resumed, is inevi-

table.. The International stands still, andmust until these results' be attained, andthen the property which citizens of Austinmay convey to the Presbyterian College, atvaluations made to-da- y, will be readily convertible, and the institution 'will .thus bericher than if it had accepted nothing butmoney. Our citizens, whatever their rela-tions to churches, may well contemplatethe matter considered simply as a businesstransaction.-- ' So far as,we are concerned,the church has no concern in it. If wfe

can gather here - two hundred . youngmen, they will expend five hundreddollars each in Austin. One hundred Pres-

byterian families , will make Austin theirhome that they may' educate their children.It is thus easy enough to see how Austin inthis way gains from these two sources cer-

tainly $200,000 per annum, and yet we arerequired to invest only $35,000. But thisis not half the story; If the Presbyteriansbuild a college here, the' Baptists andMethodists and other Christian denomina-

tions will see how infinitely advantageousto each will be the mere fact of the' collo-

cation of these institutions. They beget,nf ttninaoif ir tVtA BiiAAAnciftil Aaf oVil ! oT man t efthat university munificently endowed by

the founders otL the Republic of Texas.Each college becomes the gainer by reasonof the university, of which it will reallyconstitute part, and then men imperfectlyeducated will nqtgo forth from these Texaninstitutions of learning.. Our professors andlecturers need no more be trained for usin Oottengen or Ileidelburg, or in Oxfordor Dublin or Cambridge. These plain facts,doubling the 'utility of the college, havebeen considered, we presume,'by the learnedgentleman to whom the destinies of thisPresbyterian institution have been en-

trusted. We are told that, gentlemen ofthe city having taste, and intelligenceenough to confess an interest in this matter,will meet at the Opera 'Iouse that a com-

mittee may be appointed to correspondwith the trustees and. devise plans for se

curing the endowment fund required as acondition precedent to favorable action ontne part oi tue trustees.

TEXAS ITS FINANCIAL. CONDITION,ln. a , J& it;.

The population of Texas, at this date,numbers no less than one and a half mil-

lions. Its empire is boundless, and withinits fertile soils and beneath its generousskies is an undeveloped wealth, capable ofmaintaining the population of the UnitedStates. Frovidencw

thas smiled upon our

beloved Texas, and to-da- y she is becominga point of attraction for- - the people of thecivilized world. With endowments peculiar to herself, and a people possessed ofau unbounded energy, she has rapidly recovered, in the face of all obstacles, fromthe difficulties and losses of the past, andat this date looms up the; young giant of theAmerican Continent: - Nine years ago halfthe wealth of the State was swept awayby the stroke of a pen, and. the remaining values were subjected, in consequenceof political enormities, to a succession ofshrinkages: but everything now smilesupon Texas, and all this, and even more,has been recovered. The assessed value ofproperty in the State in 1873 was $223,

410,820; in 1874 it was $241,841,800, andthe approximation for 1S75 reaches to about$'470,000,000.' In 18G0 the assessed valueof real estate and slaves amounted to $294,

000,000, showing that the Statue,, by its assessed values even, has nearly recoveredfrom its losses by the war.' 1 There is nodoubt, however, that the'7 real values in theState to-da- y are even greater than in the

. ' . ' ' .t : - 1 1 iyear aoou, biocq lucre m icuucuty iumake a ereater . difference between assessed values- - and real values since than4efore th war. ' The. growing wealthof Texas gives assurance of abilityto pay a larger debt, but it must not be for-

gotten that prudence requires an effectualcheck placed upon the power of legislatures

to create debt. At the rate our public debt has

grown' it will take but a few months more

for it to reach $0,000,000, and to permit such

an increasing calamity, even in face of thegreatest prosperity and growth, is suicidal.Texas is able to pay a large debt, but theway to prevent it from stillncreasmg is totnaxe tne revenue as, nas otien ueeu wuLa boastful way, pay the debts M they artcreated. To speak ' plainly, taxes, in spiteof Tain assertions to the contrary, must beIncreased, or else a "host of ." expenditureseliminated, from our system. It remainswith the Constitutional Convention toshape the way lot one or the other of thesealternatives. - 1

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The war dosed with Texas comparativelyfree from debt, but a Jxarpet-baa- r govern

mnf soon gained possession of it, reducedIts credit to a pitiabla condition, and commenced piling up a debt which it will taketime and diiigtnce.to obliterate. Underthe administration of Ur. Davis, profligacyran high. -- Under the authority of bond

bills, pasted by the Twelfth Legislature,bonds of the State were scattered over theworld in any manner to raise a dollar, am .

large obligations were contracted and leftnnpaid. Prior to January, 1874, the Statedebt was $1,668,131.75. At this dateclaims for frontier defense, for pensions,revenue deficiencies, interest on the bondeddebt, outstanding warrants, interest on special funds and public school indebtednesswere existing in sufficient amounts to swellthe real debt of the State, which had accu-

mulated in the four years of Mr. Davis's ad-

ministration, to over three millions of dol-

lars. All these claims were recognized,by the Fourteenth Legislature as ob-

ligations which the State was boundto pay, and plans were adoptedto provide for them. It ''was use-

less to talk of paying them by means of aspecial taxation for such purposes, andhence the plan of selling bonds was rsorted to. In the meantime, the reDenue departments had been found in ttgreatest state of confusion; no money wileft in the treasury, and the Coniptrolltffoupd it next to impossible to replenish it.Defaulting sheriffs, straw bonds, and alii

the wiles of "carpet-bagism- " had been re;

sorted to to defraud the State of its rev?nues, and the present Comptroller was flj

least a year in office before the chaotic coY

dition was materially corrected. The resuit was that the State ran for many monthin its expenditures fearfully behind its receipts. Confidence in Texas securities haJbeen suspended, and it was nearly a yea;before the State realized sufficiently fronlbonds sold to relieve financial emfbarrassments. The demand made up!

on the State for interest upon bondfand for general expenses in this timran greatly in excess of its receipts!and hence it becomes a difficult question tsettle accurately the precise amount of debwhich should be charged to the present administration.-

But it is not our purpose so much to discuss these causes as to show the actual indebtedness of the State. A considerabldebt exists, and au understanding of it wilprepare the public mind for such legislationas may be required in the future to meet itBelow we give a carefully compiled tablwhich shows the debt and the interestthereon up to the thirty-firs- t day of August1875

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The interest on bonds cannot properlybe computed in a debt statement until due,

but in the above table we have computed

the entire interest due or not due up to thefirst day of September. Part of the interest computed in the item of $70,526.08 was

due on the first of September, and much

the smaller part of it embraced the runninginterest from the first of July to the first ofSeptember. It has been our purpose toshow the liabilities to the first of Septem

ber, though the interest account statedis not all due. Deduct the above item,

and the public debt would be stated on

the thirty-firs- t f August as $5,539,830.95.The seven per cent, gold bonds now

outstanding amount to $1,900,000. Theact of the Fourteenth Legislature authorizing the sale of these bonds first fixed themas currncy bonds, bearing currency interest. Col. R. L. Moody, who was appointed financial agent by Governor Coketo sell these bonds, notified the Governor,shortly after he reached New York, that itwould be advisable to make the interestpayable in gold. The bill was so amended

by the Legislature, still in session, and afurther demand, shortly after' made byCol. Moody, that1 the principal of thebonds ' be chanced into gold, was atonce complied with by legislative enactment,

In the fall of 1874 CoL Moody made thefirst sale of bonds, at eighty-fiv- e cents, andsubsequently, at various times, the whole$1,900,000 were sold at different prices.These bonds, though gold, were sold forcurrency. There was realized from them,gross proceeds, $1,651,136.92, out of whichCoL Moody received $32,022.72, leaving thenet amount paid into the State Treasury$1,618,114.20, equivalent, at a premium of112, to $1,423,937.90 in gold, for $1,900,000 of gold, seven per cent. State bonds$576,062.10 less than their face value,

The public debt, as stated by Gov. Cokein his financial message to the Legislaturein January, 1875, vu $1,663,131.75. TheFourteenth Legislature authorized the saleof $1,000,000 of bonds to pay claims whichhad accumulated against the State prior toJanuary 13, 1874. These bonds, at 85

cents, less commissions, brought to thetreasury $333,000, and aboat $700,000 of

this money was used to pay old warrantsand claims. Take the old debt,with interest on the same to August 31,

1873, and also the $384,833.15 due onschool warrants, and bonds and interestto settle with Williams & Guion, (about1500.000V and it shows the real debtentailed upon the State by the Davis andprevious administrations to reach to nearly$3,600,000. This leave ocr 1,SOT,

000 to be accounted for otherwise.1 Of this

AUS'taAYTEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, IS75.

amount $1,034,143 has been issued to fl 4

"jterans, upon whic'a something less thsn$lv0,000 in interest has been . VzTUa leaves over 850,000 to cl.i-fW- e

against the present administration. Of thisamoiint,'"however, $425,729.33 has beenpaid out of revenue, not by the sal of bondsas heretofore, for frontier defense, leaving

a balance' of less than $450,000 as a'deficitor

in revenues, in the. last nineteen months,

against the enrrent expenses of the govern-

ment. In less than two months the bonded todebt, by the sale of ten per cent, bonds,will be augmented $102,600.

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Hll THE H BRAID'S MAN HAS TOSAV OF NEGROES IN GGORIilA.

Mr. Nordhoff, the Southern peripateticcorrespondent of the New York Ilerald, isa close observer of Southern facts and hisdeductions are generally just. His judicialfairness, in any event, is conspicuous andit only happens, now and then, that he ismisled simply because there are facts onthe surface contradicted by those more en-

during and universal but less patent to themigratory correspondent. He repeats, inhis last letter from Georgia, the old storyof constantly apprehended dangers in themidst of countless blacks. Nobody, in thedays of negro servitude, ever dreamed ofrevolt or violence at their hands, and noplanter ever used any precaution to preventit. Even so to-da- y, where negroes aremost numerous and whites relatively few-

est, people live, as in the lowlands of theMississippi, never once dreaming of negro"insurrections." The conduct of the racewhen war raged and when the whole arms-bearin- g

white population of the South wasdrawn into armies should assure Mr. Nord-

hoff that in presenting this picture of therelations of the races he is wholly at fault.Negroes of interior plantations are addictedto a nameless crime, and women dreadthem, but they are not ordinarily murder-

ous or disposed to revolt and when drawninto any plot, like that which recentlyfrightened eastern people more thanGeorgians, blacks were simple dupesof white scoundrels. A negro Turner,of bloody memory in Virginia, isn'tborn once in a century. But weonly proposed to give Mr. NordhofTscommentary upon the negro code of Georgiaas this affects their control of the ballotbox. Mr. Nordhoff says that "a law of theState deprives a man of his vote at an elec-

tion who has not paid his taxes for the yearprevious. There is a poll tax of one dollar.'This,' said a Republican, 'works badlyagainst our party, because the negroesevade its payment, or are careless about it,or lose their tax receipts, ana men tneirvote is vigorously challenged and they loseit.' 'Half the negroes in Georgia are disfranchised for nt of their polltax,' was the assertion of another and azealous Republican, a leading man in theparty. 'Many whites do not pay either,'he added," 'but the Republicans do notchallenge as vigorously as the Democrats.'A number of Republicans complained ofthis law to me as though it was wrong, orunfair; but I think, on the contrary, it isjust and right. Indeed, I wodld go evenfurther. In the Sandwich Islands I founda law which seemed to be excellent. It compels every man to pay annually one dollarpoll tax, two dollars road tax and two dollars school tax, making five dollars, which isexacted from every polL Such a law couldwisely be adopted in every Southern State,and, indeed, in all our States. And ifvoter neglects or refuses to pay his poll tax,certainly he is not fit to cast a vote. By theway, a Republican in North Carolina ownedto me that so remiss were the colored peoplethere in psying their poll tax, that if failure

to pay there forfeited the vote, two-thir- ds

of the negroes in the State would be disfranchised."

In all elections in Texas the law of theSandwich Islands, as Mr. Nordhoff suggests.would, prove eminently advantageous, and

in local and municipal elections, on which

depend at least every property interest, andthus the ' DrosDeritv of the State, none

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should vote except freeholders.- box. jajies b. gmrsox.

We are authorized to announce this gen-

tleman a candidate for the secretaryship

of the Constitutional Convention. Mr.

Simpson was one of the leading members

in the House, during the two last sessionsof the Legislature. He is one of the mostpolished gentlemen and accomplishedscholars in the State, and is a speaker ofrare ability. Certainly no gentleman couldfill the' position to which he aspires withmore ability than Mr. Simpson, and he will

as certainly command a Tery strong support.v.- '

1.KT rs HAVE A SB .J DEAL.

The navigation and tariff and nationalbanking acts, and the scheme of payingbonds in gold and interest forever, all oper-ate to the impoverishment of Texas and theaggrandizement of New York, and there-fore we find each New York paper

with the Herald to Grantcompel the assent of the debtor class' to

the exactions demanded by the crwditor orbond holding class. It is better for Texas

yield the point than assure theof Grant. Texas can bear

"anything and endure anything except theAlePTftlllltinn nf tho namn and famj nf TpT.as. The State has a territory of its ownand the people a distinctivenes of charac-ter rapidly adopted by immigrants that ren-

der the lUAintennnce of Texan autonomyeminently desirable. If Grant bestate lines will be finally obliterated andthe identity of .Texas never more recog- -

i:nized. But there is an , infinitely greaterto be obviated by Grant s defeat.

here are three Southern States for whosewelfare Texas would'make any sacrifice ofmoney required at the hands of. populargenerosity. South Carolina, Mississippi andLouisiana arc to be converted into black

.despotisms. In each of these states Sambojutigna, and to escapebe intolerable yoketf savage domination Misstssippians assent!to the obliteration in politics of the colorjline and the perfumed Forrest-Pillo- floral(platform is approved even by respectableorgans of opinion in Tennessee. If Grant be

this assertion of purpose will benjected into legislation and the policy per-

petuated. These three Southern states wil(x'come as worthy of plgc-- s in the Union as

Hlonduras, Venezuela, Colombia or San Domingo, aud each Southern state, whatever

, . . .i r i i .1,11,3 peculiar luriuue, must suure uie uegra- -

Alation to which Mississippi is subjected.jNo distinctions will be made abroad, and

timr-lf- nf Trill 1ii ilirnvprpfl nn thl')row of every citizen of the South. Theselresulis are sought to be consummated, notlbecausc the negro is beloved, but becausethe Southerner is abhorred. "Wiunebaijo-

.ism, injected into Kudicalism everywhere,rejoices in this social and political degrada--

tion of Southern white men and it is againstthis that the country revolts, aud to escapethe intolerable calamity and relieve, SouthCarolina,-Louisia- na and Mississippi of themost fearful dangers ever impending overa hapless people, we will concedeevervthiner demanded bv the bondholdersIn fact, whatever candidate for the presi- -

dency assures the South that this infernalscheme of negro mastery in states designated shall be thwarted should have the solid

cjcutaof the South. Such a candidate, likeRandall, may be born of the tariff systemor the embodiment of a national bank, orthe very prince of gold-exactin- g bondhold-ers. He need only declare for the whiteman's supremacy, and the South wouldgladly concede its support in the presidential contest. Why do the press and peoplepersist in giving to this goldand pnper controversy ? Relatively, it signifies absolutely nothing in the eyes ofSouthern people, and it is time we weremaking the fact comprehended beyond theOhio. It is a false issue, designed to con-

centrate, in behalf of Radicalism, thewhole wealth of the country, and, finally,assuring Grant's to assure thecreation of three black states in the South.The plan of operations is most adroitly conceived, and such are the terrors of savagerule in Mississippi that the people of thewretched commonwealth absolutely assentto their own temporary degradation to es-

cape immediate and intolerable evils ofAfrican domination. Surely, there shouldbe Southern in reference tothis question. " The next presidency involves infinitely more to us than any ques-

tion of Federal finance. Our existence asa people, our distinctiveness as white men,then the very homes and churches and race- -

features of the white inhabitants, certainlyof three Southern States, depend uponthe defeat of the Winnebago party, repre-

sented by U. S. Grant. Let us havedone with this comparatively trifling

arrold and paper...question. It t isused as a snare. It involves a false issue.It will assure Grant's andcontrol money enough through bondholdersand banks to buy, even as Didius boughtthe imperial purple at auction. Southernleaders should confer with one another onthese questions, and, consolidating theirpower, preffer votes to him who will servethe South. Gold and silver and paper andtariffs signify nothing. We can well affordto pay half the Federal debt in gold for free- -dom from woes now afflicting three Southern States, and almost as intolerable in widedistricts of Texas. Let us ask the Northernand Western Democracy to withus. They, at least, still accept Douglas'sand Lincoln's philosophy, that this is awhite man's country.

Sherman and other towns having failedto raise the amount required to assure thelocation of the Austin College as desired,an opportunity is now proffered this city toadd a vast sum to the value of Austin property by securing the establishment here of awell endowed collegiate institution. c Onegentleman tells us he will invest a thousandacres of land, worth $1000, in the schemeand a banker' says his house will put up$5000. And yet no effort has been madeto attract public- attention- - to the matter.Why not have a meeting of those primarilyinterested in promoting the city's fortunesand of those endowed with sufficient intelligence to appreciate the importance ofcontrolling the location of the Presbyterianinstitution. One hundred of the best families of Houston, Galveston, and othertowns and cities of Texas would be drawnhither at once, and the establishment hereof one such institution would compel thecoming of others like it. Sueh are thephysical attractions, and beauty, andhealthfulness and elevation of Austin, thatcolleges here would be preferred to thoselocated elsewhere, and these institutionswonld be aggregated here of necessity, andby means of their a great nniversify would be established and a polytechnic school, and learned men from England and Germany and of all ' countrieswould be employed even here in the educa-

tion of teachers and professors. Begin thegreat work by Inducing the Presbyteriansto found their college in Aostin. '

The Telegraph' now accuses the States-man of "hatred" of the Coke administration. The only cause given is the supposition we presented that we would have, whenthe convention met, a fall and clear state- -

I ment of the State's finances, such' as IUdicalisra could not pervert or misrepresent.

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DEVTH OF STATES.

The death rate of New York dty, as lastgiven, was 42. 10 per thousand, and strangelyenonrh that of Nashville is next, being86.11 per millage. Nashville has a verylargenesrm potfclation, and since I

the bondholders began to put the screws tothe gold market and make gold the subjectof speculation, and money itself can be obtained only'by those having bonds in themidst of these facts negroes starve. Thisabsolute want begets discontent, and thereare collisions letween the races in Georgiaand in Mississippi That which occurredin the latter State was fatal to ten or twelvecolored people, and Winnebagoism wouldhowl, but it so happens' that the conflictwas between the'Radical white officeholdersand a few negroes on the one hand, and theRadical blacks who 'want the offices andbread on the other. The white peoplestood aloof and contemplated the conflictwith that sympathy whichtortured the tender soul of the drunkardwhen he looked down from a safe retreatupon the deadly conflict between his brawny, brawling spouse and a hungry bear.It is singularly unfortunate that thewhite leaders .of one gang of thievesand savages . escaped unharmed, . whileas our correspondent , tells, ten or twelveignorant blacks were killed. Property ismade valueless by terrible taxation, andthen this once richest county, in which negro voters are to white as four or five toone, is desolated by deeds of violence thatdisgrace American civilization. A localcivil war is waged for miserable sums thatmay be wrested by forms of negro-mad- e

law from the. thousand beggared, white voters of the county. Vhat signifies thedeath rate of a Southern or Northern cityor two when states and counties are dying,and they who could interpose the arm ofpower and give relief are engagad in anempty conflict with which the Congress alonehas to do ? While prating, too, about the"slaughter of innocents" in New York tenement houses and the extinction of negrochildren, crowded by want into horribledens reeking with filth in the purlieus ofNashville, these New York optimists shouldnot close their eyes to the . death of statessubjected to slow torture, but still dyingin horrible anguish. - Another term of Kellogg and another of .Ames; and the foullestcorpses that ever went reeking to the graveyard of dead republics will pollute the airwe breathe and befoul forever the atmos- -

Pre oi nistory.

Referbiko to the fact that AndrewJohnson was a ' free thinker and had onlyfaith in the Great Creator of the Universe,one.of our exchanges says :

'If he were an infidel his death is noloss to the country. Better for the countrythat every infidel were dead. No class ofmen are so dangerous in a community or anation. They are a thousand times worsethan thieves. and murderers. We wouHrather an assassin's dagger should piercethe heart of a child of ours than that an infidel should shake, his belief in the bible."

Tom Tayne was the truest ana Dravest

and most philosophies! of patriots, andserved the country ss eCectively as anyof his compatriots. Thomas Jefferson wasof the precise faith of Andrew Johnson,and so with Jaqk, Randolph. Webster,too, was worse in-thi- s editor's eyes, than"thieves and murderers." Andrew Johnson's personal virtues, veracity and integrity were always 'conspicuous, and hisfiercest enemies have conceded, to this extent, his illustrious worth. While we thinkit unfortunate that Mr. Johnson doubtedthe "apocrypha" arid perhaps other portions of the bible and questioned the inspiration of the Book, we have yet to learnthat in social or public life he was theworse for this or that his conduct Was morereprehensible than the mass of his associates who are Christian statesmen like Colfax and up. to their elbows in Pacific Mailand Credit Mobilier. We never inquireinto men's religious emotions or creedThey may think, or believe or disbelieve,what they please, it is no concern of ours,and while the laitti ot our fatners is ourown and it is sacred in our eyes, admittingof no concessions or compromises, we concede the same perfect freedom of thinkingto others. But this wild editor is of theclass who would reproduce the terrors ofdays when Latimer and Ridley died at thestake. .

Many portions of .the South, becausemoney is scarce and looa not - accessible,- - as in former years, for the asking,are in a bad way. There are no hogsor cattle in densely negro populated dis-

tricts ; the women and children no more goto the fields, and the means of the men arehardly capable, just now, of providingfor themselves. Contraction of the currency has operated harshly upon Cuffee'sfortunes; but he will never be suffered toknow that he owes all unaccountable evilsof his condition to the President and 'hisadherents, the gold and silver and bond-holders. The result of the present condi-

tion of affairs is the creation of swarmsof robbers and burglars and high-

waymen in the North and of hen roostand hog thieves in the South, and thencome those conspiracies of which we readthe disgusting details in Georgia and Mis-

sissippi newspapers. There will be moreof them. ' f

We are told that tba preachers of the sev-

eral churches of this city will arrange toopes, alternately, with prayer the proceed-ings of the Constitutional Convention: Thiswill give- - variety to a performance which,practiced by. a single, petitioner, becomestedious at last, and when not listened to,prayers, of course, are unavailing, and inthis event are not worth the sight dollarsper diein proposed to'bo paid for them.Buying prayers is a carious tort of retailtrade anyhow, and we don't like it.

Grant's new Attorney-Genera-l, Pierre-pon- t,

is a flat failure. Anyone of his pre-

decessors, even the illustrious Akerman orthat pompous blowhard, the empty-heAde- d

Williams, would have sent a strong militaryforce into Georgia and Mississippi aad keptthe country in a terrific state of excitementfor six months. Habeas corpus wonld havebeen hanged by the neck till it was dead,dead, deadj that Jftadicalism might growrobust as freedom went down to its grave.Is not Pierrypont a fraud and shame f

Tint Fredericksburg Seniimi says that ourcorrespondent was mistaken, and that thereare bo mnrdems or abetters of murder inFredericksburg, aad that tho people ofFredericksburg have been, stricken withhorror, at the deeds of blood and violencthat have lately disgraced, the neighborinjcountry. . - - .!.:. " -- .

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TIIK COLOR-BLIN- D LETTERWKITAvU.

It is strange beyond comprehension thatthe New York Herald sends a shrewdlyobservant correspondent, NordhooY every- -

where, and yet he can see nothing that iswhito, and onlv the blessed blacks. Henever tells of the utter destitution of nine-- oftenths of , the old white people of theSouth. They were rich and had no nartin the war aud bought their negroes fromthe Yankees and Dutch, and honestly paidgold for them and are responsible in noth-ing for the inct-ptio- or prosecution of inte-

r-State hostilities and abhored secession.and yet all the old men and women of theSouth, whose homes were once scenes ofendless delight, are dragged down by negrodemonism, directed by carpet-bagger- s' tactand knavery, to lowest depths of poverty.But Mr. Nordhoff never deploring thisuniversal fact can tell of most languishingways of the negroes that they "have beenin the main safe in life and property ; forthey could not else have accumulated somuch in the short period since they btcainefree "

And since negro ..emancipation has beeneffected and the poorest of these trld slave- -

holding people oi the. South would nevrassent to its reproduction, why does Mr.Nordhoff, . give such importance Jo factthat none have questioned save . papers es-

tablished to lie, like the Inter-Oeca-n. Hetells these simple patent truths in the Heraldas if they were newly discovered, or as ifNorthern people questioned them. ThatAmes deliberately planned the slaughter ofblacks in Vicksbu'g is attested by the reflection that he alone was to be profited bythe outrage. His party and power werestrengthened and we of the South were ineverything necessarily losers. Mr. Nordnoli is . shrewd, keenly observant, goesabout with his eyes and ears open as fewletter-writer- s know how, but it is a greatpity that he is so thoroughly color-blin- d

that he can't see a white man aud nothingbut the luck of Sambo arrests his keenvision.

Wr asserted some days ago that Georgiaand Mississippi riots in densely negro-pop-u

lated districts of the South would be moreand more frequent and violent Southernpeople have grown more and more carefuland economical, and have absolutely learnedhow to make strangers pay for the hospitable entertainment of former years. This"contraction" has been progressively vigorous since Jay Cooke and llenry Clewsand other swindlers of states and corporations, who with Governor Builock in ravaging Georgia, went to properperdition. Chanty becomes, in ncgro-pop--

ulatcd districts, exceedingly politic, andmultitudes suffer, even as the great body ofthe white people were penniless till cottoncommanded advances and wheat becamecash. This stringency comes of the greedfor gold that distinguishes the Radical bondholders, and Cuffce is the chiefest sufferer,and therefore these riots and bloody murders and violent deaths with which Southern newspapers must teem until tho bondholders loosen their grasp upon the throatoftbe treasury.

Near Giddings, a band of negroes, lastWednesday night, surrounded the house ofThomas Young, and for some time kept upa terrible fusilade. Two children werewounded within. We hear of robberiesand thefts practiced everywhere, and thereis an apology for these deeds in the contraction of the currency, which contractswell the resources of the poor blacks as ofthe embarrassed tradespeople of the townand country. In fact, tho bondholders andcontractionists are destroying the fortunesof the town and country alike by peoplingboth with crime instead of industry, andthe poor are absolutely driven to despera-

tion.

Peofle need have no apprehension ofpossible revulsion. Tho progressive for-

tunes of Texas are assured. Everybodythat enters the State, intending to become aworthy and therefore a productive citizen,becomes a landowner. Land is part andparcel of the fixed Texan's existence. Hespeculates in horses and cattle or dry goods,but owns and holds and values above allthings the broad acres that bind him withtetters stronger than those of gold to thecountry be loves. There is no trustworthypatriotism where the great body of the people are not attached to the soil by owner-

ship. Therefore statesmen have ever soughtto invest the homes of the people with perfect sanctity, and to secure to women,otherwise deprived of most- - rights of citizenship and often helplessly victimized bytheir masters, inalienable homes.

The Nashville Union and Americnn, theold organ of the unwashed Democracy ofTennessee, never looking to the right orleft, and always going the ticket blind, andthus always (?) trustworthy, and certainly aworldly wise organ of opinion, says

"The agricultural, producing congressional districts South and West will neverconcede the speakership to Mr. Randall,nor to any other Pennsylvanian who hasMr. Randall's record on the tariff. If thespeakership .be conceded to the Middle orEastern States, it will go to some man whocan say, as Mr. Uox, oi .New I or, am uMr. Randall: 'Every dollar of this increased prosperity, of which Pennsylvanianow arrogantly boasts, baa been rooueufrom industries elsewhere.'

That is a capital proposition of a localletter-write- r, who says the offices of thecity government and the hall for the citycouncil should be in the basement of thesplendid court house. The cheaper thecity government the better for taxpayers,and the less city tax citizens have to pay tomaintain loafers or proper office-holde- rs tbomore prosperous the city, and the cheaper thegoods the country bays, the more prosper-ous the city, and thus a better market forthe county's products. Let the offices beprovided as proposed, and every taxpsyerof the countrv will approve.

Ges. Jzrr. Thomjdos, who has been in-

vestigating the present condition of thelevees along the Mississippi, asserts that be-

fore January next the town of Vicksburgwill find itself situated on the shore of alake and about two miles from the bank ofthe Mississippi. The Mississippi thus doesvoluntarily what Grant tried in vain to ef-

fect by force ; but Mr. JefL Thompson isno very trnatworthy prophet.

Wt counted in a single copy of the Cin-

cinnati Commercial accounts oi twenty-si- x

crimes, murders, rapes, robberies and bur-glaries, all occurring in Ohio-o- r adjacentStates. But Cincinnati is ia God's coun-try, and robbery and murder there isblesed Innocence that would be hell-bor- n

villainy and treason to the Union here in'

Texas. - ' ' -

la pebiiahad araty morning cxeopt Vouda.

tju: wjcmeLVTa pablUhad mrf Trior lay mormnr.

AH hnatvov funwpoDdcnce, oommanl Utat etcahould b aalreaatd toJOHN CARD WELL,

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CCRIOVS.

Curiosity has led us to another careful review of the Democratic platform, the one

Inch was enunciated by the party whenassembled in all its power and dignity at theState Capitol ir. 1873. It is well knownthat the Statesman regarded tho injection

issues, arising from party organization,into the canvass preparatory to the convention, as picjudirial to tho public interests,and upon the careful perusal of the platformwe have arrived more fully at the conclusion that this position was based in reasonand bolstered up with respectability for theparty. AU reasoning men will coincide '

with us now, ns we think, if they will butclosely scrutinize the enunciations of theparty. The policy advocated by the Statks-ma- s

was n view of the fact that Texas isintensely Democratic aud that no matterhow the canvass was made for the Convention, its complexion would le all one way.Ireland, as chairman of the Democratic Ex-

ecutive Committee, led the party off, in anumber of tho districts, under its col- -

ors ' .ic.1.. I1 '. y 8 .ut '. ni"ue ' alone,and not In .spirit, except, perhaps,as reflected iai those nobler intuitions whichsecure to Texas to-tln- y a Democratic gov-eruu8-

aa representing purely republicaninstitution, a If the raco was made in thelate canvass upon Democratic faith, thenthe entire Convention is pledged to themaintenance of an efficient system of public free schools. The platform of 1373says:

" The Democratic party, through us, reaffirms its fast opinion and the policy it hasever pursued, that it is the bounden dutyof the State to maintain an efficient systemof free common schools, and secure thomeans of a common education to every childin tho state."

Again tho platform says:. "The Dt.mocratic party of Texas, true

to tho early teachings aud uniform practi-ces of the party, advocates the most liberaland active policy to encourage and increasetoreigu immigration."

We desire to tako but these two propositions to prove that of the Statesmanthe correct one. The party, by its platform, stands pledged to the maintenance of a, public free school system, andto that of an efficient immigrationsystem. These are the only twopoints, coming under the province of a'

Constitutional Convention, upon which theplatform is explicit, and yet a largo pro-

portion of tho Democratic members to theConvention have Wen elected in direct an-

tagonism to theso positions. Hero is theerror into which the party has been partially led.

We desire but to refer to these declarations to show that the late canvass was to acertain extent falsely conducted by theparty leaders. The people, however,are all right. , They have generally chosenmen to represent them in tho Conventionwho have not made their promises by theplatform, but upon their own good reason.True Democracy underlies it, and no demagogue or porty of "whippcrs-in- " can controlsuch men for selfish end. Tho day ispassed for this class to Bhape tho destiniesof such an empire as Texas. Tho pure De-

mocracy outranks them a thousand fold,and they will henceforth find their circlenarrowed down to a desperate few. Texasis freeing herself of political despots, and,by the help of .God and the ConstitutionalConvention, it will enjoy the glorious fran-chise for generations to como.

Tub unutterable degradation to whichSouthern 8tai.es are proposed to be subjec-

ted is illustrated not only in the Wlnneba-gois- m

of Illinois, in the Northern horrorwhich kukluxism in the South excited andits blessedness when prevalent in Pennsyl-vania and Illinois, even when there hadbeen no precedent loyal leagues compactedof another race, as in Southern communities, to justify a counter organization.Counties and towns are subjected in thoSouth, because of universal suffrage, to thotender mercie s of savages, and communi-

ties are absolutely destroyed. The remedyproposed is the obliteration of the colorline. All issues lado into absolute' insig-

nificance in the presence of this with whichmany districts of Texas and the whole pop-ulatl-

of at least tbrco Southern Statesaro forced to pmpple.

Akotiiek citizen of Austin proposes toinvest $.1500 iu the Austin PresbyterianCollege if located here, and if the prettiest,loftiest site, overgrown with the finest live--

oaks in the vicinity bo selected for it, bewill donate $14,000, as his property is assessed by real, estate brokers. Why msynot the Presbyterians who are primarily in-

terested in tbiii matter have a meeting andsee 'what can le done to establish here thisinstitution of "learning! If it come therewill soon be hidf a dozen like it, and Aus-

tin will not only bsve the choicest popula-

tion of the South, but become the greatcentral seat of Southern intelligence andlearning. Thtn that university of whichthe fathers of Texaa dreamed, and whichtbey endowed, will be established and blessour posterity and Btat forever.

Mr. JKrreitio Davis formally accepts,it is stated, tto invitation of the KansasCity Exposition Association to deliver anaddress during the progress of its 'fair.The dispatch states that be will receive ahearty welcome, the staunch Republicanshaving been tbost prominent in extendinghint the invitation. Kansas City honorsherself more than Mr.. Davis on the occa-

sion. Several Kansas papers, however, theFort Scott Monitor among them, imitate, ina small way, the Inter-Ocea- n in endeavor-ing to raiite a howl of indignation; butKansas City doesn't see It, aud the resultwill be a tremendous gathering at KansasCity at the fair.

Pbobabxt tho most Important act of theState Grange in its session at Dallas was thepassage of a resolution thst

"It is the scmie of the 6tate Grange thatthe Constitutional Convention should inserta clause in the new Constitution, bindingthe Legislature to regulate the charges offreight and fare on railroads ; and that theLegislature has so power to grant vestedrights ( an unconditional character to in-

dividuals or conorations thst will empowerthem to throttle or clog the commercialhighways ef th country, and the peoplethemselves ere fmcspsble, as a soveteignbody, of parting with the right to resumecharter concessions of public; franchise to

'private corporation a.

Wrrmx the month at least four personshave lost their lives in wells in TexasThese wells become naturally receptaclesfor carbonic acid! gas aad so fellow thatdoesn't practice law ia a recorder's courtcan inhale it and live. A negro tried itMonday in Dallai and Grant lost a vote inthe next Presidential cootiict. It is very

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