The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-07-30

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board The porter who carries your baggage down stairs
TO the dep exacts least silver dollar for your
self and extra half dollar for your trunk the news
boy from whom you buy ySar H:..LC onsrsss ySs ns
ding in fact l. oharged b speols AZ greenbsck prto,
and q esbacs ss only taken y the interior Al suaou
Inn c,ops
are very aourshIns whers upnjured BY oyerhows and
ss and are quite forward Cotton Vs.. 10 , olcom and
planter near Riot mond told me he expected 70 maze
hundred bales Of cotton from twelve nands Tns cotton
CROP according 70 present Indications will b over
- - 81 III rHs BuRsAu 4
in Texas II farce and TO s0rn4 extent fear, mis-
chievous one. me stats Is utterly unmanageabls for
bureau purposes Iu Vest extent places beyOad the
reach Of any ordinary mechanism Of centralized govern
Tayas By means Of Freedmen's Bureau y very much
like tickling rhinoceros with straw Inc stations are
necessarily % Ear apart o..s rosL hsn
bureau Is utterly inaccessible. have oopverssd with
nr os dssri u Ny infsmanss, Northern and
Southern men, and all assure me that IN these coun
ties the negroes are working T. wen OF Deser. are
nsrt 81 lie tsse can for other districts where
there is bureau and whore its sadministration has
resulted In injury 70 me Negro ,e.v,vo wss ia
Tho bureau in Texas = looked upon BY the citizens
generaiv as planting ouress ana n some distress
negroes nave been dnappcd from ono plantation 70 be
se 70 work on another which akeni Of the bureau
sunners tSs assertion that General Gregory tho late
Assistant Commissioner OF the STATE who has recently
been relieved, is engaged largely IN planting. and the
nf.esn TO twenty ven Il Il strange with what iteration
these words seneal Gregory's plantation hare rung
in ny cara so q ns ons g
asked who owned the lands and houses round them,
The Marquis Of Carrabas Meet an old dsrsy on ths
road o.m, question:
him and you find he knows nothing moro than that
people say il is General GresSs plantation and
sss hired s him him and pays him hs wages This
morning Generals Steedman and Fullerton were sitting
In the bureau here when 10 came fa', old mulatto
BY some other negro General Gregorys plantation.
This being looked into yielded something little
more TANGIBLE, but not much 80. There was son Of
General Gregory known to be partner In the iarm,
and General Grecory himself occasionally visited IT,
Five different plantations In the neghborhood OF Houe-
ton were mentioned to being General Grcg0ry's
plantations; yet no one brought forward any legal
proof TO susa those assertions and az the nir:en
ssns l uma ~ sza~ iSs hast state ss g !Ss';
knowledge, interested in any panations at all Thns
the matter stands Who can unravei ~ some ,, russ
has certainly been along and set down all these
farms 10 the Marquis OF Carrabas
AT RHHMND afH9
Generals Steedman and Fullerton took Testimony seri.
the sub Commissioner for Fort Bend county The cap
tain himself was nrst sworn, and denied point blank
thar he was interested directly or indirectly any plan
effect but he thought those rumors were expainabe In
this way The freedmen alked about the Bureau Cap
ferrd Th fact was that Captain Porter his clerk
interested In plantation with Mr. John Mitchell Dr.
o nad
examined. very reluctantly their part and proved
that Captain sloan had repeatedly In Conversation with
10 lrkr~
estcd with Porter and Mitchell, and had even told
them how many thousand dollars he expected TO mako
by It subsequsnt evidence established the act that the
groes this plantation, and that tho powers Of the Blu
had been used in most arbitrary manner for like
end. The planters all round complained Of the way In
which they had been deprived OF their labore for the
emolument Of the Sloan Porter. Mitchell frm One Of
the Dr. had e: snd
ticed away from MIN, and then he could stand u no
longer Meeting Captain sloan In the street. after tho
Captain Sloan took the ndIgnity pretty much Grin.
nell took bis Gaming and nothing further cae OF IL In
70 FAR a. matters have been they are only
moderately satisfactory There has been too much mis-
government In Texas for matters 70 be ss straight all
o. General Kiddoo the new assistant commander
doing all he In that direction. The General, how
ever, 10 has rather rashly fallen foul Of
on h. ~ n he A tue
reproof:-
The rroyd.n., in..rfsrs.cs With the crops in What
que s.::.P; .nas.: But ises.ssd S:ss Sss
s s e "a and q &c s 81 q
power meeting industry among the frssdmsn y Chs aud
the hsSs. nse:s. Of The FRESHNESS and pisnsso q Ss
State hat large and profitable crop DO the result OF this
II appears that Texas the regulation OF the ssasoas
ana the crops belongs 70 tho department Of the Freed
mems Bureau, and Providenaiai interference per-
mitted. - +.
GALVESTON Texas, July 10, 1855.
Whilst Saratoga, Newport and Long Branch engross
attention a the North let put in word behalf Of
southern watering place. little known as yet bat pos
ssssing natural advantages Of the highest order Fancy
island city OF well built houses and broad streets
where the temperature during the hottest summer
months never exceeds ninety-sx degrees and 1t the
present time Of writing only eighty with breeze
from the Gulf Of Mexico which carries health and in.
vigoraton a. every gust Add q magnificent surf for
bathing beach aording straight drive OF least
1--WE miles unbroken BY shell shingle and hard and
level that amer hundred vehicles have driven Il
scarcely track Is visible Place this city within forty
hou' journey by from New Orleans surround by
profunon Of uxuriant fruits and flowers and you have
Galveston II this 18th day Of July 1854 An excellent
and commodous hotel already exists n the Island City
House, and an energetic Yankee has obtained conces
for constructing street railway through tho prn-
cpsl parts Of tho city Galveston believe suscepti
pic Oh Immense oeveopmcn ano VIII occomc ono OF tho
most fashionable summer resorts south Of Mason and
Dixon's line.
yEIxDNHx's AyyAins.
We have returned here after partial investigation Of
Affairs in tho interior Of tho results OF which
have already advised you Of Il would take II least SIX
months thoroughly to inspect the state. The north.
eastern. north and northwestern portions comprising
area Of onehaf Of Texas and fully large the entire
State Of New York. have yet been penssratsd BY
either the military the Bureau. Respecting the
dillon Of things in this vast tract Of country the
conn citing statements made. II appears 10 be .
vertabe terra inoogwita Bureau agents On outlying
posts represent that slavery s exiss there; thai the