The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-02-24

| duStral energies OF entire regions para.
lyzed, and capital itself frightened off
into its hiding places. Such state of
things long contintitd, in any. country, is
sure TO Be followed BY a general absen.
teeism from their estiites ofits large land.
owners. This is emmently the case in
Mexico. N1 N'i9 .. 'H o.cd
'srhe effect Of this Iabsenteeism is ex.
pressed upon the landscape, and pro
claimed by desertedmansions, neglected
| plantations and Other signs of ruin and
decay, in tones that fall sadly upon
many a heart Manysof the fine estates,
with the walls ofliieir noble old man.
sIons still standing are now offered for
sale and settlement, at prices ranging
from few cents TO a few dollars per
acre. They are tile most choice parts
ofthe county, and would, if restored to
cultivation, embellish the land with n
beautiful mosaic ofthe most lovely gar
der spots that the world ever snw.
With tie, immigrants coming to
Mexico it is hot with Immigrants bound
TO the .'Far west" III the United States
There he goes. 10 reclaim from the viii.
derness. Here, he comes, for the most
part to reclaim from rum and ravayes of
war. Plantations. that werc onc, gar.
den spots invite his lcoming. He may
pitch his tent on the Verge Of highly cui.
tivated districts from which he can draw
his supplies until Tic 'boun,ful earth
yielding TO his own good husbandry
shall yield him Of her increase. And
the soil Of Mexico, under climates that
know no winter, viii do intwo or three
months. 1"t ,""h9n ~ suuiSac o.
o""One Of the finest ihaciendas of the
wasted districts il now on SALE, 1t was
abandoned some six or eight years ago
in consequence ofal revolution, the pro.
|'prietor died and it has not since been
restored to cultivation. It yielded a
regular annt,al nr6fit of not less than
Sl2O,000. The dwelling house alone
tcost S200 00,800 This kiiaa iSAla eis Glarrs
enough TO accommodate forty or fifty
families with farms of ore thousand
acres eaclI. 1t can be had for less than
FIVE dollars the acre and, after the FIRST
payment on long time to suit purchas.
crs. Ne.E .u
"Other haciehdas that are open 70 the
choice and selection of the immigrant
are much larger. Two containing each
more than three thousand square miles.
have been offered by the proprietors for
colonization. 1 know of.no country in
which the land is hel1 by so few and in
such large tracts. .a
| This also, has produced marked
effects upon the nation. it appears to
have deprived Mexico almost entirely Of
what other countries consider their "bonc
and slnew," their noble, enterprjsing, en-.
ergetic, hard working middle classes.
| Some political economists divided so
ciety IN Mexico into but two classes, the
uppeI and the lower, and out of popu.
lation of 8,000,O00 Of people more than
! 100000 arc said to belong to the lat.
ter. aiSt
| "The statesman of the country, with
the Emperor in their lead, desire to
heal this breach rapidly. For this pur.
| pose foreign labor, capital and skill have
been invited to our shores. Many good
men of the country look upon immigra.
ton, on large scale, as the readiest and
best means of restoring the equilibrium
of the classes, and Of giving to the eoun
| try and its institution that stability and
force which are so. essential to the full
development of its vast powers, capabili.
| ties and resources ies o..
i Hence, the encouragement that is
now offered to immigrants. The conn.
| try is now in better state to receive
immigrants than it has been for many
| years.
'The Empire is daily gaining ground,
| strength and support. and the armed or.
ganization against it broken up into fac.
| tions; it's head and leader. ex.President
Jnarfz, having left the country 2
/ "Bnt now, with the dawn Of happy
era ofpeace Mt last before her. Mexico,
after half a. century Of continued change
and revolution, finds herself IN an OK.