The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-11-25
FROM TEXAS ANO THE GULF.
Death of Veteran Steamboat Cap
tain-- Military and Agricultural Ar
fairs in TeXas--Pierre Soule in

specis Disp teh to the Cincinnati Gazstle.
CAIRo, Nov. p New Orleaus dates OF The
18th are received. Captain Thomas Rhodes,
an old and well known citizen Of Missis-
sippi, and perhaps the ldest steamboat cap
tain m the South, died ct his residence in
Pascagoula, on the evening o. the 18Th He
was one Of the early pi0nesfs Of the country,
was the FIRST 70 establish line Of steamers
between New Orleans and Mobile, sud car
ried the first Uaited states mail between
those two places.
A letter 10 the Galveston Houston News.
dated Austin, Nov. Attn, SAYS Gen. Wright ar
rived there on the evening OF the I'd inst.
General Custer, with his command Of three
regiments Of cavalry, would soon arrive and
encamp few miles below. This il under
stood 20 be The base Of operations for the de-
Tense q the frontier counties.
Another letter 20 toe same paper dated
al Galveston on the Sth ct November. men
tions the arrival OF the Unue1 States Trans
port Elliot, which left BRACES Santiago, on
the 10th nit and had stormy passage,
narrowly escaping destruction, and adds
that important dispatches were brought
from Gen. Weitzel to Gen. Wright, ia rela-
ton 20 the United states troops, consisting
Of regiments stationed az old Fort Brown
being fired into white lighting was ing On
between the Imperialists and Liberals IA
Matamores, from one Of the Imperial gun
boats IL the river.
The Houston Telegraph of the llth fur
nishcs the following intelligence;
Lieut.. Col. Dey, l2lh Illinois CayHlry,
has been relieved from the command Of
the post Of Houston, by Ii. Col. r. Ken
nyott, Of the 9th Illinois Infantry, which
regiment has been on duty ior some time
past 81 Houston.
A correspondent, who passed over several
counties in Eastern Texss where there arc
no negro soldiers, gives his observations IN
a letter TO the Now Orleans Time. Hersp-
resents freedmen as keeping their contracts,
attending 10 their work, asd says they will
have, at toe close of the year, money and
provisions. They end their children sre
healthy. Ia the larger places where there
are negro soldiers they are crowded with
freedmen who have not kept their contracts,
who congregste together in huts, and are
without iood or provisions. Many OF them
do not work, and numbers are dying, while
their small children are, in many instances,
entirely neglected. Ia view OF these differ
ences Of condition, this correspondent urges
that one OF the most 'easonab.e acts on the
part o; the military authorities would be The
removal Of she negro soldiers.
he states that vest Of Trinity river the
farmers Nere gathering IN with the freed
men good cotton crop They were doing
good work. The small formers are all do
ing well. They intend planting half their
ground with cotton. In five years they will
be 'yeslthy. these small tanners raise ev-
erythiug, make molasses from Chinese and
African canes, have cattle, corn and
wheat to sell, and raise their rice. in
year they will have the articles nemed I
aud several bales Of cotton each. In five
years the wealth will change hands. The
small farmers will take the place Of the
phnters, aud they will be small farmers
unless they realize that labor is honorable
and the only way 20 wealth and position.
These small formers are now filing the
schools with their tens and daughters.
They are ready to patronize the press; they
by their example viii encourage labor
among the freedmen, and always hire as
macy laborers from that class as they de-
sire
The New Orleans Picayune announces
the return OF Pierre S0ule 20 that city with
toe intention OF resuming his, psrmsnent
residence and profcssion.