The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1866-01-20

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found horei umngm, lemons, pine
apple, IN ld 20 many yhfieiles, That
tliia sheet II payer would not epnlaln
half their hamca The land lici ~
PRETTY as IN Lafayette of Saline
The Government u very liberals II
oilefalu foreign colonislg six hundred
and fufty acres near here, To onch
man of iamily, NJ one dollar per acre,
on five years time, Tho lands ore
not more than five of tcn miles from
The railroad, which will be- completed
In twelve months 10 this placc. |
am fully satisfied that any good fr.
mcr can makea fortune here In six or
ten years. flour people cmigfaic Of
MI, thisis the place for them, and not
Brazil. Any place but Brazil,
They make two crops of corn year
here. The seasons are regular aud
fine, abundance of rain, aud, unlike
the most Of Mexico, there Ia no irri-
CATION here corn grows beautifully,
plenty of timber and fine water. II
Is never colder here than In Scptcm-
Der in Missouri, and II Is never
warmer than your Way weather.
| We have ico here and never out of
sight Of snow. You will ask, how
is thisg | will answer, that the
mountains ten miles OF afford Ice,
aud their tops are always covered
with snow. II our people had this
country, II would be n paradise. A
farmer, ten miles from here, Ger
man, told me he sold his coffee crop
last year, the proceeds Of sixty acres,
for sixteen thousand dollars. He
only worked ten hands, except while
gathering, and then double that
number. Labor here Is from TWEEN
ty-fve TO fifty cents per day they
board themselves, and only get pay
for the days they work.
| have secured a section Of land
for you, and will hold II until hear
! from you.
We have various reports of how
things are managed in Missouri, and
il they are as we hear, they are hor-
rible indeed.
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} Many of your old acquaintance
: are here; among them, George
Young; he Is perfectly delighted; Is
: going to farming Immediately. /
$ see Frank Gordon has returned.
. Where are you living now? Ny
] mother writes that Maury Boswell
r has returned. Tom Is with me and
!, doing well. Col. Frank Mitchell il
! up about San Louis Potosi; has rent
cd a largo hacienda, and is planting
a cotton largely. Slayback and Gen
Y Price are here; in ali about one
: hundred Confederatcs, who intend
|, settling. DIR. Terry Is here. Dick
r Collins, Charley Jones, Bill Fell. A
a great many who have become dis
9 couragcd, out Of money and away
n from their loved ones, have returned
: Many come back. Tobocco can b.
I made very profitable mere. II grow
II es we'll here, Gen. Price says, as h
u ever saw 1t in Missouri or Virginia
oil
n Prospects ofano,her war seems Il
a be looming up. One with France; |
n bids fair 70 be right sharp affair
g Let us await and sec how Il goes.
'e Under the decree Of the Emperor
Il you can make contracts in th
A United States, with your negroes 70
Is ten years, and Il will bo binding
Is here; the negro will have TO stick, .
!. any person coming here can brinI
d their servants, If they can get then
"a 10 come
y, remain yours, ailectionately.
y Jo. o. SHELBY.