The Gonzales inquirer. [volume] (Gonzales, Tex.) 1853-current, 1853-08-13


resources Of our country, and especially so In
regard TO the prairie regions of which we have
30 much that Ia fertile, beautiful and healthy
The Rev. Mr. Cooke, of Green Lake, in this
county, has just enclosed l30 acres Of prairie
land, with pine lumber from Mobile lie in
forms us that the entire cost of tho fence IL
5000; but the enclosure is thorough and will
doubtless last well for ten years, by which
time h, will have hedges fully maturcd The
land is remarkably rich, and within eighteen
miles of lndianola; hence he has all the ad
vantagcs Of good market almost at his door,
and thereby has n great advantage over plan.
ters living from 90 to 900 miles from us. lie
intends putting this land in thorough cultive,
ton, and also to grow timber on il and the re.
rnander Of his grounds
Mr.. Miller, of tho Lake, we believe has on.
closed over 200 acres and is still going ahead,
highly encouraged by past trials and success
Both he and Mr.. Cooke, rs well as many others
who have tried it. believe that our entire
prairie lands in this county are not only sus-
ccptiblc Of cultivation, but of decidedly profit
able cultivation. Eight miles below the Lake,
on Espirito Santo Bay, there il considerable
settlement already made. Several gentlemen
design opening places OH the head branches of
Powder Horn Bayou next fall and winter, and
some design doing 80 too, three and four miles
out from this city.
Il
and 20 miles from timber, and in few years
they rear fine forests of locust, walnut and
oak. We have seen many such places, and
expect In four or five years to SEQ tho rich
prairies of Calhoun dotted thickly with groves
and productive farms. The opinion Of somc
that this will not be the case is f,llacious In
the extreme; and when the truth of our posi-
ton shall bc established by few persons, our
lands Will at once find purchasers, anxious to
\ ha aytu nj W
have mono but rcl, land in the county, or
comparatively so, and il will be brought into
requisition within n few years and then Cal.
houn will rank as one of the first sugar and
cotton counties In tho State.
We know that persons who have always
resided in heavily timbcred countries will be
skeptical on this point, hut We have never lived
in any other than prairie regions and base our
opinions entirely OH experience and the double
facilities we possess of fencing cheaply with
lumber and successfully ditching or growing
hedges. ts I
Those who have tested the matter believe
also that We can import coal for fuel from
Philadelphia or baltimore to great advantage,
until timber may DO produced. IL Il said that
one ton Of Lchigh coal is equal to four cords
of best hickory wood. Coal IL is believe can
! be delivered here at $40 per ton, while wood
Is worth Gn lndianola) $5 per cord, thus show,
ing. difference of 100 per cent in favor o
, coal. On this subject, however, we arc no,
personally adyiscd.-Iadionofa Bulletin.
EpucArioS.---It Is not education to send 4
child to school merely, for that will train hi.
intellect, not form his principles II is no,
education TO cram him with four times MS much
as he can hold, for that is treating him ike y
boy that Franklin tells of who having his
hands full Of apples, graspcd ailcr more, and
lost all. IL Ia not education TO put him al
parsing almost before nc can SPELL for Mt that
ago ho cannot analysc, and analysis Of the
language is tho Alpha and Omega of true
grammcr. II Is not education to teach him
all sorts OF frivolous branches Of learning, for
n hundred to one he has To make his way i'm
tho world, and will want all the available
knowledge ho ca;; acquire. Finally, IL Is not
education if the child Is q girl, to bring her up
as IL marriage was the sole object of her life
so that she need only acquire tho accomplish.
ncnts that dazzle, not the household virtues
that delight,
Education Is tho training child morally
physically and intellectually, the bcstowing on
II such knowledge as will be most useful in
after life, and tho imparting that knowledge In
the most thorough manner. In that single
sentence tho whole circle of education, accord.
ing to our notion, is embraced We might
enlarge on its several parts almost without
limit; butwc prefer To place II bcforcour read.
crs IN the iewcst words possible, that they may
mentally digest Il for themselves We rank
moral education first because, without right
principles, smart man IL hut tho greater ras-
cal; nevertheless mora, aud intellectual cslnca.
ton arc closely connected, tho latter material.
~ assisting the formcr.
n Mora! education must bc principally impar,.
cd at homo, where tho ehil,l's temper is best
understood. and where affection and discipline.
u the pursuits are proper ones, go hand in
hand Physical education Is necessary 10 tho
future health VI the child. withc,, which lcern.
ing Is nearly useless, and even wealth no bless.
ing Lastly, il Is the thorough man. no, the
superficial ones, who succeed IN life A man
had better know ono thing we'll, than twenty
things iniitercnsiy.
The education n gitis should he guided nm
similar principles, bat ~ their duties and
: position are difservat so slseald he the Kind q,
knowiesier impaired; the tf,tc rnlv j. that
: girls should naakc us~fa, wives and gcci
!; ;moshcrs. and not Ia be hei,cs es fiitts, and
somc pursuit should be taught them 90 10 Col.
lowed in case they never nssrsy. u psfSais
: wouh educate their ehitiren en shc these
principles, u wcaM t,c bcstes han giving shcu,
= fortune, fer hsypsnc~s ard ea,a,+ts.cs
would be thsis almost certainty threushoa,
, Ihse.
lovraASa RauaaAp i.oaSs~-We an,i ,s,,
fStowins paragraph in the cay article cf III,
.. New Yck Times. cf The 9th inst.:
III Mr.. jamre Rcth. baakes. od Vcw 0yaesos
gc<s tc Europe 10 the Raltic, prS,@rsi 10 We
IGotiste The ". .nSo. 900 lear of tho New osse~n
and 6r~a, Northern Railway. Tie wsli psssrn
! . very atae and desirable programme 10 fossas,
Icasisalisss and he win ncs fssarn ~isbcas ssse
ccnedly ea{ecinx Il, Il ssscs~ss ise ~isAin th.
rveSA q aeesesA saill backed by ~esivsfnss
persnaAi iatlueoce both a heas Ard ss.vuasi