The New York herald., 1866-10-06
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Our TEXAS CORRESPONDENCE.

review OI the Commercial Relations win
the Enst-Iarmony and Good Feeling
Freedmen's Bureau and rhe NeGsrOes. &c.
MONTGOMERY, Montgomery Co., Sept 25. 1869.
foUrH WANTS sAMs DOMINION.
Well the war Ia and have survived the wreck
but with shattered fortunes We satisfied with the
results II Heaven took sides, IL was against US. Now
We don't want to cut OF Uncle Sans chief treasurythe
cotton fields OF but desire to add to his terri
tory; want Mexico II is q most charming country
TO live in; the labor here gives four fold what Il
does here whilst the upands elevated portion is as
healthy as elyslum. I have viewed thq country.
CHARACTER THE YREEnlEs.
The freedmen out here are lazy; they takc OF
nothing takes ihrce of them to o. the light work
Of two. They we'll cared for they get third share
and well found they work well, however, for the
Bureau Some plantations doing remarkably we'll
after having changed their hands. "A friend OF mine
has cotton plantation OF nineteen hundred acres he
will make nine hundred bales OF cotton this year, and
will probab clear about forty thou and dollars His
negroes all left him after tho war: he got others who
hG X, but ne had enough Of them Although he showed
them every indulgence he could get but little work out
| Of them.
AvxIEry TO HAVE WHITE LABOR
We very desrous TO get white labor. and let the
negro 10 farm FOR himself Wecan never become
manufacturers until we have cycef Of labor Agrl-
cu'ture IL simple and moro natural mode OF e 1t Is
And 40 long as there is chesp, far. land upon which
10 employ labor without complicatt business connec-
| tions we will not become manufacturers The
more labor we get the moro we shall make, md
the larger our trade with you viii bc. You or the
Nortl-especislly Of New York-arS deeply Interested
nssd .s sn
farmers and mechanics 10 settle amg and teach
the practical use or lsSorssyns ascnsura 1 mps.
the economies OF farm lifs There Us great opening
for them here and desire them freely Here
We are very quiet and peaceable e and property
secure in every respect The negroes don't steal much,
for the country is too plentiful In this connection,
they from interested oncs holders who desire
agitation that they may continue tofatten in ONCE
has made good thing Of il here inuumerons instances
Large farmers find their interest purchase It's peace
In places 1t is reported ths the Bureau agents
poddIe the negroes amazingly, ihl whip and scourge
having been enancipated from ignsb!c contact.
TUE SOUTH RECONC1LED TO FATE.
we have dpiy set abont mcndus o shattered fortunes
and will do best to advance our and the interest
o. the wb'I Union pcri passu II memory does not
could not get out OF the icaky house, want to
build now roof ard restore the original foundations
vALsR REPORTS ABorr THE srATts wHrD LABOR.
Reports current in Europe md perhaps with you,
that seek white labor 10 take the former scrve posi-
Inn ". & Of ,hs negro This s e not 50 nor will i be thu,
preservation, wish 10 reduce the whto to the level
or the negro Nor could seek 70 put the Inter
level with them ourselves The probability IL that
shall spoil first stock supply OF white labor with
too much defcrence, but that will be error on tho
right sde So send US your surplus citizens Of native
TEXAS WOULD RArnKR xKEr TRADING WITH THE EAST.
good deal is done on paper here but little in fact
Direct trade with Europe has been advocated but Now
York is nearer home: familiar with that trade,
and we win still continue to trade East We still buy
Yankee br0Oms hats. shoes and everything else. Tho
more labor get, the shall make, and the
larger our trade with you will be.
Condition Of tho Eastern and Northwessern
Portions Of Texas-The Confederate Prison
Of the rnns-Mississippi Dcpartment-In-
dian Troubles the Frontier.
TEXAS FRONTIER Sept q, 1866.
Since my letter tho HERALD have travelled quite
extensively through the and northwestern part OF
Texas visiting both the civilized and settled por
10 of the State well that section Of the State
which is iess advanced, and known as the frontier
short time since Brevet Major B. T. Hutchins, Sixth
United States cavalry hen stationed At sherman)
ordered to proceed 10 Tyler Smith county for the pur
pose Of erecting headboards tho graves Of United
States soldiers. who died while confined .. Camp Ford
during tho The confederate prison Of the trans
Mississippi department located hero during the
tire rebellion and the record Of this place viii hereafter
prove an interesting chapter In the history OF confederate
prisons.
Our journey from Sherman TO Tyler occupied ave
days, and the whole country through which passed
was we'll settled and finely cultivated The people,
general thing, through Grayson, Hunt and Van Zand
countless seemed we'll contened with the existing state
Of political AFFAIRS and industousy engaged In the
cultivation Of their crops which promise TO yield an
abundant harvest Eastern Texas Is, without doubt the
finest grain growing section Of the State Pine, CEDAR
and walnut forests scattered through every por
ton Of this country Fruit Of all kinds yields plentfuly
while water and prairie lands arc abundant
Tyler the county seat Of Smith county is Of the
largest and most nourshng towns OF the State Should
tho State be divided into three states. proposed
in the new constitution Tyler will without doubt be the
capital Of Eastern Texas Marshall 10 but ftysx miies
from Tyler and already twcntyfour miles Of railroad
have been graded between these two points Within the
past three months the road between Marshall and Shreve
port has been put In running Order and regular trains
now pass over the road daily
Camp Ford ID situated four miles from tho town. and
tho morning aftsr our arrival at Tyler visited the
prison yard where the surrender OF the Confederate
army there nearly three thousand Union soldiers
confined Tho prison ccmessry 10 situated on . very
pleasant hill jus opposite the stockade All that re
mains Of this prison IL the stockade (which very
slight which surrounds about i've six Of land
Within the enclosure dIapidated huts and log houses
still bear testimony that the Confederate prison Of the
Richmond Andersonville and Salisbury In point Of CON-
fort and kndncss In my conversation with both Union
rcd far bstscr this place than in any other prison
During the connemeu. Of our prisoners At this place
the soldier who suffered ~ Andersonvlle Belle Plain
Permission given them To- erect their guarten a.
Comfortable a. they could while the burial OF their COM
rades was left entirely with them They permitted
70 arrange this sacred spot according to thcr own taste
and mesua Our soldiers erected neat rail fenco
sound the yard, and the graves were al placed In
form order
By this icnisncy on the part Of Confederate ofcials
stationed here the cemetery found In very good Order
boards which displayed much taste both in the design
and workmanship
Through Colonel J. n Manning ths Chief Quarermas
ter Of NE Department Of Texas and also through Dr.
walker Of Tyler twho Confederate surgeon Of this
pr son together with the few old headboards which
remained In the graveyard Major Huichns enabled
TO identify than hundred and niy u the graves
and over these he erected sabs with their proper
inscriptions
that this place held a. q Confederate prison
there were between twelve and thirteen thousand
prisoners confined here and out o that NUMBER after dill
gent carch could net ascertain that there