The Cecil Whig., 1854-06-10

I The t5fsns and villages of the country are
filled with an idle class of professional char
actcrS from the old States, who may be seen
at any time loafing about the drinking hous-
Us and billiard saloons, smoking clay pipes
iknochhg billiard balls, drinking and ssccor-
ting. The verbiage Of Texas consists in oatls
and a sentence is scarcely entertained with
out body guard of that kind accompanying
ut. There are no boys in Texas. If you adj
| dress stripping with that juvenile distinc.
ton, lie will reply in voice of Stcntor: 81
am no boy; I'm Il MANI And to prove the
truth of his assertion, he will swear like an
old salt draw Il ''six' from his vest rock-
ct and smoke with the gusto of Il Dutch AL
dcln.an. ''loung America predomnatcs,
and ''rulcs the rooSt' i'll Texas.
These boy men, however, arc pretty plenty
everywhere in the States. In the oldcn times
it required time and experience to form man.
bus among the multitude of improvements of
the present day, that slow and tcious pro-
cess is lost sight Of, and now tailor and to-
manner, and every grogshop supplies selni-
nary, where he can gain the rudimcnts of
masculine knowledge in short time by ac-
! Iuling Il snattcling Of swearing. This sys.
tom Of man making serves 20 keep up Il corps
% smokers. who fill every public house with
tobacco f'nn's, and very frequently omnibus
cs and railroad cars, unless the Proprietor or
conductor pcrrmptorily nttrtcrcs and puts a
stop to it. Smoking is an intoltrablc nui-
same. Chewing may offend the eye Of the
iaStdious but no positive injury to a foreign
party can result from it: but the barbarian
practice of smoking cncroachcs upon the
r. ghtS of the community to satisfy the carnal
appetite of an individual. The inSduouS
fumes ,f burning tobacco will nsinuatc them
selves into the olIactory organs, always pro-
d "ing. in those who are not addicted to Tic
practice, a disagree able sensation of,lizzincsS.
and frequently actual sickness: and there is
no escape flom the evil. You must sit and
bear it like martyr until your Turkish
ncl2hbor has finished his weed No man
would ever adopt such "A silly dirty and cX
pcnsiyc practice, We're he allowed to arrive at
man'S years. without having acquired the
nahlt-if he had even very ordinary guam
,ity ofbrains. But hoy-hood has conceived
it to be manly distinction to have awcod
stuck between hi; teeth, and by the time he
has acquired Judgment sufficient to discover
the cgrcgious folly of the custom the habit
/ has grown within him, strong as life itself
And thus, by inripicnt manhoolism this
smoking curse is cntailtd upon the commune
ty. Every boy caught with scgar in his
mouth should be branded on his forehead with
it.
On the wide and extensive plairics hctwc,n
the BRACES and Colorado. stock raising is the
principle business Of the lcollc. When "A
man wishes TO commence this latrarchal bus
COW pen beside it. Icpulcha>cS '.stock cat
de- cnoagh to begin with, and brands them
with his own mark, in order that he may be
able to claim his property in future, for where
all feed in common this would BE- difficult to
do unless each man had a mark ofdistinction.
What is meant by stock cattle in Texas, arc
COWS, calves and ycallngS which cost five or
six dollars per head. The cattle are driven
out on the prairie, by hcrls-mon, who Ike,
the greater part of their time, Ike the cattle
they tend; their bed the lrairic grass, and
shcir canopy the deep blue sky. Once or
twice a year they are driven into TIC inclosurc
or COW pen, caught with the laSso and brand
cd when they are turned out as usi,al.
Drovcrs who follow supplying the New
Orleans market with Texas beef, purchase of
the stock raiscis, cattle at the age Of four or
five years, at a rate of from twelve to fourteen
dollars per head. These cattle are then as
fat as plentiful supply of the most excellent
pasture can make them, and will weigh from
eight to ten hundred, net. The tlrovcr, when
he has collected sufficient number, starts
them across the prairics for Red river, whence
they are carried to the Crescent city by
steamboat: or he drives south to Matagorda
bay or some other Gulf port. and ships them
thence by steam ship to New Orleans This
is rough, disagrccable business but very lu-
cratyc.
The cattle of Texas arc breed peculiarly
fitted for that country. They are principally
of the old Spanish breed, and the popularity
which will first strike the attention of a
stranger is their long, spral.likc horns,
which, to speak a little hypcrboicaly, are
not unlike Yankee scythc snaths," attached
to the animals head. Their symcmtry and
beautiful, stately appearance, / have never
seen surpast and seldom cquallcd in any 9TH
er cattle. For the yoke consider them su-
perior to all others, and by far the greater
part Of the transportation of Texas is done
by oxen. Texas cmploysa numerous class
Of tcamsters, who haul, from all parts of the
country, produce, to the coast, and return to
the interior with merchandise. This hauling
is nearly all done by oxen, and much of it a
distance of two hundred miles. When the
season is dry and the roads firm and good,
from fnur In five yoke of cattle afe hitch, d tn