, 1865-08-07

~ OF the New Orleans Times.1
The head Of The cavalry column passed
through Marshall yesterday evening, march.
Ing toward tie Sabine, distant twenty miles
Though the scarcity Of fofage has not been
severely tett as get, citizens predict greater
dearth as the command progresses.
From Greenwood. village located at the
terminus Of that part Of the Shreveport and
Vtcksburg railway, set In running order
through 10 Marshall, cotton plan tations have
been giTen up to the culture Of corn and the
cotton on hand, except negotiated In caah
priceE--moncy paid down.
As the cavalry command passes through
The country, negroes, notwithstanding tie
order OF the Post Conmandant at Shreye-
port, flock to It, stealing horse Or mule
hands On to take With them. The freedom ol
the negro upoots the old established iasti.
tutions Of the country, tears them asunder,
and 80 suddcn does this blow come upon the
large mass that the people find themselves
ruined ; no hopes to fill the nnrkets With
their coiten, tobacco, or sugar he turns BIZ
own attention to labor, and can only raise
sufficient for his own use
At least for short tenn Of years the Red
River Valley sends not thousandth part oi
the former rnised cotton to market. Tue
cotton districts Of Texas, she eastern and
The southern. are ranked In the same catego,
n. The srddenness Of freedom to the negro
has shattered the agricultural strength d
this State.
The freedom destroys them mortuary sta
NsticA show them to bs melting away 1he
day Of tbs negro is gons. As the lndiar
fed before the steps Of civilization
eat s 3Se,s Tho T. ax sun h. adaass as;
fled and disappeared, 80 the negro, once
] happv. careless. Yell-to-do. ia fast disappear.
| Ing ID the army nears the Rio G;ande.
| Ali these evils atisa from the 6uddennest
| of the blow. Theee calsnaltous events ART
more Ike the sudden ruin Of the lightning
stroke, than lie the slow and steady inro.di
| attacks ali institutions. Unprepared fol-
this change 50 unforeseen, the people are out
] casts from their OWL homes.
The people do not meet strangers With
their Wonted hospitality; they arc morote
In view Of the present state OF afIaiss, and
inclined to believe al strangers as enemies
negro Us IN act OF Justice to them, even con
eldering them as rebels.
It is scarcely tusnce, they say, to deprive
Us at cne blow Of the property wherein we
had vested right, to give us no opportunity
OF making the capital We had invested
ridden Of power to cultivate our fields Nc
can not be represented In the markets j; the
| plow stands idle, the country Ia gone to rain
| and weeds !; our country towns are changed
] to contraband camp.
| All things In Texas seem to bc In state oi
confusion. There Is neither Legislature moi
convention, the steps taken to call con.
yentton having been arrested IN an orde,
from Gen. Granger.
Emigration 10 Brazil is openly talked OF
| It ts reported that an emigration agency has
been established, that offers two or more
| hundred acres of land to all euIgrnnts de-
tlrous Of leaving the lands Of their fathers
| Your correspondent has heard that the Bra
I xYian Government has offered thess induce
menta. Certain 1t !e, that there are hundredl
Of families who are leaving the country
Offering for EaIe their estates at less prices
ioE land than when 1t waa first entered, when
1t vas wilderness. years ago.
The mania for emigration Is called the Bra
I'll fever. and. ns It spreads, It takes In IT.
scope all ages, eexes and conditions, many O.
/ the nc groes going along With their masters
! The emigration fereT Ia epidemic. !0ne rea
1 Eon why The owners Of farms are so anxious
TO sell 1helr estates, IL from the belief thai
they will not pay The taxes on tha land re
naming uncultiSated; to cultivate them thc5
The cotton-a great deal Of it-that lndt
| its way to market, 1s four years old little
there Is Of 8 later date. They who hold cot
ton are fortunate, for they bare the material
with Thleh to obtain supplies other tha1
farm. Coffee is everywhere luxury.
The people have, for the past three years
made tbelr own clothes; even The ladies
making q fine garment from the spinning
wheel. In every house the implements are
seen, and are as ordinary IS q tea-kett1e
Confederate money, coupons, tTo per cent
bonds, are, throughout the country, as com
mon Us 1eaves In FOREST. One lady In thi.
section stuffed d mattress with FIVE huodret
| Thousand dollars oft, sleeping On 1t at night
to beep It In security from robbers
To this loss Of currency add the loss o
! hope for tie future IN the cotton districts
owing to the freedom OF the negno, and #
| uople ta n,asx are nt present. Hand none,
n portions Of Texas further west Is the onl;
money they use, m experience Of ConfedeF
t ate money having Weakened their faith In al
| that which bears i resemblance Of - I prom
Iae to pay.n In some places not go far to th1
| west, but even between this point aud shreve
port, ehould you ask lodging for yourself
logue: u
| IA hundred dollar BILL"
"Haycn't got anything to gtfe away, Sir
How much do you aaks'
FIFTY cents IN specse-two dollars Ii
So sudden has been the depreciation OF Con
| federata money, that the people are 10th tt
believe that 81, 600 Of would buy dozei
OF eggs. The lack Of fractional United State
currency Is severely felt all through the Kes
River Valley, aud In this portion Of she coun
try drained by the headWAtera Of the sabine
Certain small tzadesmen have, IN view Of ~
scarcity, issuca, fifty and twenty cent ahtn
plsasc1s. which, In view Of the fact that ther*
Is abundance Of tho regular Emal1 currency
ia much to be deprecated, On one place.
small ststc in this toHn-; Is steu occasionally