Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-06-15
.Texas Corrcspondencc.
III GALVESTON, May 26, 1860

find them in Galveston. hear nothing ol
hard times here. Money is plenty, though a
this season of the year there is very little
business done outside of the city. Business
commences about the middle Of August, and
!, continues uatil about the first Of May. !
have seen no finer location for a city than We
4 have here. With good harbor aad . large
inland trade, and the railroads from various
points completed and under contemplation,
Galveston is destined, at no distant day, to
rank with our principal seaport cities. Yet
the drawback in the way Of water and the
yellow fever will retard its growth to certain
extent. But then it makes the chances better
for those who become acclimated and dare to
risk the fever, which, according to the account
of my employer and other residents, is not SO
fatal as we Northern people suppose. Out Of
600 cases here in the hospital, only AZ died,
and some of those wero addicted tosdrinking,
to which class the fever is sure to prove fatal.
We use cistern water entirely here, and, at
present, not having had any rain for some
time, the cisterns, arc low, the water warm,
and, unless there is ice in it, there is consid
cradle difference, if not more, between it and
our god water in Iowa. But man must
get used to it, and then it does very we'll q
I do not think that the southern part Of
Texas is equal to the north, for this reason,
that the summer comes very early, and con-,
tinues until late, making one feel more tired
Of it than the long, severe winter north. A
man, on getting up here Of morning, feels as
though his usual energy is wanting; not So
on rising with the thermometer below zero.
Perhaps might alter my opinion if I should
remain here If a man wants to risk his
health, and is after the dimes, there is no
better opening than in and around Galveston.
Not so with me, however
We have all the vegetables of the season
here now-mostly such as beans, potatoes,
berries, plums, roasting. ears, &C., &c. The
best opening here at present is for man to
bring sufficient capital to 60 into the dairy
business, keep chickens, raise vegetables, &C.,
at the present prices, viz: Soc p D. for butter,
40c p dozen for eggs, and 2oc p quart for
milk, and very little to be had at those prices.
As regards politics, you hear nothing about
it, unless you pick up Northern paper. All
the agitation about slavery is made up North.
When you come down here, you see the
beings over whom so much trouble is made
apparently as happy and centented as the
poor of the North, and were it not that
traf6cking in them is upheld by our laws, l
would candidly say, let slavery alone. During
the session Of the Charleston Convention,
from what I could learn, through this State
and many other parts Of the South, they
would as soon have seen Seward receive the
nomination for President as Douglas. ars
am gong up into the interior of the State
shortly, and perhaps shall then be able to
tell you something more of the State at large.
The crops, l am told, look well, and promise
good harvest. FRED. P. MILLER.
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b SLIDELL BAcKsL1DING.-The following par
agraph from letter of Senator Slidell, just
published, may be said to have considerable"
meaning: @ a-.--tza z
|! ave have this day received the news Of the
nomination made by the Black Republican
Convention at Chicago l had supposed that
Mr.. Seward would certainly have been their
candidate for the Presidency; and, had the
Charleston Convention resulted in the har
monious adoption of a sound platform and the
nomination of a man pledged to carry out its
principles, would have preferred that direct
issue should have been presented to the people
of the Free States by the nomination of Mr.. j..
Seward. That issue would, in my opinion,
have been, shall the Union be preserved CT
destroyed? Mr.. Lincoln may be, and proba
bly, is, as hostile to- the institution of slavery
as Mr.. Seward, but his record on that subject
which / have not yet had the opportunity
to examine lis comparatively obscure and
incomplete, and his election especially if the
contest be complicated by any division in our
own ranks-would not present as absolute
and unmistakable test of Northern sentiment
as that of Mr.. Seward" .-,.......
In other words, Mr.. Sldell had no doubt of
the nomination of Mr.. Seward, and he is dis.
appointed; he was committed to an effort to
dissolve the Union if Mr.. Seward should sc
elected, but with Mr.. Lincoln he is most
happy to discover that there is some possibility
of finding an excuse for backing down from
his uncomfortable position. He feels pretty
certain that Mr.. Lincoln, as President, will
not trihe with such characters as the Southern
6re-eaters pretend to be. Slidell is wise to
begin sliding thus early. t..... -
WHAT HAS SouArrER SOVEREIGNTY DoNE !
Judge Douglas, in his celebrated 10th Of
May speech in the Senate, set up the following
claim for his .'great principle" Squatter
Sovereignty. According to his showing, it
has ia.fki 4 VsAs 8zfl2zg s@.st
b lst. Introduced and protected slavery in
the Territory of New Mexico;
I'd. Converted tract Of country more than
Eve times the size Of the State Of New York
from free territory into slave territory 50
3 3D.. Extended slavery FROM the Rio Grande
! to the Gulf of California, and from the line of
Mexico, not only up to 36 deg. 80 lnin., but
F3s deg. north latitude, giving the South a
degree and half more territory than it has
ever claimed; and, gS, /. a.., q. i. s..
!4th. Given up to slavery, for the first time
since the American Revolution, territory that
freedom once claimed and occupied
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e LINCOLN HITS DoUaLAs HARD. - In the
debate between Lincoln and Douglas, at
Charleston, ILL.,, we find the following good
hit:. ,asa4 ps u sa. ,ss . r
II have never seen, to my knowledge, q
man, woman or child who was in favor of
producing q perfect equality, social and
political, between negroes and white men. Il
lrec0llect Of but one distinguished instance