Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-06-20
How to Mako a Fortune.

| Mr. WIN. Mcintosh, formerly citizen of Lou
doun county, Virginia, but now residing IN Texas,
writes a long letter to the editor of the Leesburg
Washingtonian. about the Texas country. We
take an extracf,
Emigration TO this State during the past fall ana
winter. has been enormous. beyond precedent. ii
is unusual tliing to meet in the Eastern cn,,n
ties trains of one hundred and fifty wagons. with
family in each, all pressing forward to And their
homes within The borders of the Lone Star state.
nor win hstide of emigration lie diminished. but
every season increased for wears To come TIE
great inducementI would offer to yonr ci,;zens IN
come to Iexaa, IS the extreme ScLeanness Of the
lands and the comparative small amount of labor
mat IS requisite to place those lands under stare
" ~ ou,tlsa1ton. me new conner here is not like
me early settlerof OHIO, compelled to shoulder
nus axe every morning, month alter month"; 10 chop.
toli Toys, Cub and picksbrush 10 and prepafe
the land Tor the pillow. He can select his land
H2t lmbereti and half prairie, make his rails en-
close as much prairie as he desires, and with a
stunning pillow and one good yoke.ofs cattle, soon
nave 1t ready for the seed.s Good injmproved up-
land can still be bought at from one to three dol
iais per acre, capital Of one thousand dollars
welk invested and property managed, issail that a
man with small fnmiy need desire to insure him.
q hondsome lortune in ten years. For Instance,
fonr hundred dollars will buy him four hundred
acres oil land thirty cows and calves willie cost him
three hundred dola rs more, n yoke of cattle pnl
horses one hundred dollars; for another hundred
ne can build house sufficiently comfortable 10
this climate anil he will then have left one hum
dred to lay out for hogs, provisions, &C. Now.
nom these thirty cows, he viii have in ten years,
Win proper attention, one thousand cattle, making
fair allowance for all ordinary losses which viii
then be worth ten thousand dollars; his land will
be worth four, thousand do lars more so that the
natural increase OF these two articles, will place
him in posSessi, The handsome sum of fonr
teen thousand duliarS.
The writer states that 40 bushels of wheat and
on bushels OF corn, TO the acre, no unusual Yield
whiie The country produces vegetables. and fruit
in great abundance. Corn is now selling there
at 81 per bushei. MIR. Mcintosh concludes his
letter with list ofprces in that part of Texas in
which heresnieS IBInzos connty.) Stock cattle
embracing cows, calves, and two years old, are
selling at from $40 TO GO per head, 3 year old
same; pork sc per cwt; -four clexas brands) SIS
per cwt; corn, 81 per buShel; bsef 50 per cast. /;
corn 81 Ter bushei; beef 50 per cwt; young. and
likely neg:o fellows from 1900 to $1,000; women
from $1,000 To 1900; negro men hire from $3.50 to
2on per annuin; women ut from. 100 to $3.50;
White men who labor on farnsa from Is TO S25 per
month; overseets from $50 to $1,000 per year..
JUkLiEN's Musical GoNcREss.-We learn that
It is the intention of Mr.. Barnnm 10 continue his
Musical Congress entertainments for some weeks
il they should continue TO be we'll attended. The
New York CouHer and Enquirer thus notices the
opening of the Congress on Thursday evening
last:-
The immense ihrong of people assembled in the
Crystal Palace last evening to enjoy the perform.
ances of the so called Musical Congress. 1t is
difficult TO estimate how many were there, for the
construction of the building is such that only ,e-
ry partial view of its can be obtained from
any point; but If there were fifteen hundred per-
formers in the orchestra, a comparison of their
numbers with those of their autence would war.
rant the CONCLUSION that there were about fifteen
thousand persons present. about twice as ma NJ
as can find sitting or standing room within the
walls of Castle Garden. OF the performance we
have little or nothing 10 say, for heard little or
nothing oil. them. Two choral pieces, the per.
formances of the military bands, and the finale 10
GuitLurne Tell were all that reached orr ears with
sufficient diStlnctneSs fur'us TO tell whether The
Performers even gave their notes correctly; and by
for the greater part of all the Solos, Duets, &c.
was mere ''inexpicable dumb show" Even those
pieces which we have excepted were so narred by
the acoustic defects of the building and the in
cesSant tramp of those who had bought promenade
tickets, that it would be unfair and presuming on
our part topeak critically of the manner in which
they-Qhe pieceS-not the promenaderS) were ex-
ecuted. Such was The universal complaint around
| us, though courteously placed in what would seem
TO be most desirable position. Mons. Jullien's
new composition, 'Fremen's Quadrille,' achieved
ljustthe success at which IT was aimed. 1t is mu-
scally inferior to either of his other productions;
hut is filled with speaking trumpets shouting, fire
bells. blue lights, the humping of the engine, the
actual marchinsin of military bands, sc. and how
could it fail2 1t drew forth thunders of applause
and tornado of chi, hi's.'