New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1867-06-02
OUR TEXAS CORREsPONDEN nee.


Texas Reeonstructe a" state-General
Grimn's Late Srder-What II has Ac-
complished-The HutchIns House, Hous-
tOn-Plenty of Cattle, hut no Meat-Fu-
ture Prospects of Houston Improved
Condition of TIE xas, etc, etc.
Correspondence OF tho Republican
Houston, May &c, 1867.
Texas is reconstructed" State. know
it, for l have seen it with my own eyes.
1t i true that a few negroes had been held
as slaves in the interior until Il month or so
| Siace, and that two of them now stand in
dcted for stealing their masters horses to
escape with, (they having left the horses at
the first town and taken steps to secure
their return to the owner.) True, two men
were tried for murder couple of years ago,
and acquitted, yet are now again indicted
for the same murder and to be tried, be-
cause they did not agree with the majority
of their neighbOrs in the late war. True,
| number of men stand indicted and are to be
tried for stealing horses, for the purpose of
escaping from rebel prisons. All these
things, multiplied considerably in numbers,
are true; yet this is reconstructed :
!
order l3-ominOus number-has turned
things topsy-turyy, and if a Union man in
this remodeled State is to be tried for es-
Gaping from slavery, tor escaping from
rebel prison, or tried a second time for the
same otfense, he can now enjoy the satisfy
ing reflection that his jurors are not all
| pledged in advance to convict him.
There is safety for life and liberty now in
! Texas, and so far as good loyal men are
order No Is.
That order is the great ciraizer of Texas.
! No man shall be condemned but by the
| Judgment OF his peers, No man shall be
put in jeopardy of life or property except
| by due process Of law, nor twice tried for
the same offensc. No man shall be sub
jected to trial by jury of his enemies.
| submit that this order interferes ser-
ously with the business Of the civil courts Of
the State, and much inconvenience may
grow out of its application private interests
| may suffer in consequence thereof many
| controversies may be tediously prolonged
| honest men may suffer by the laws delay,
and rogues may escape their Just doom, but
over and above all things else, the vital
| principles Of the great charter eXtorted
| from King John are preserved, and we live
in a reconstructed Stale.
NJ lidll ludL hilDM5 hb" " httH u
| hoteln has at last appeared in Texas, and
his tavern is the Hutchins house, ia
| Houston. My dear suffering fellow traveller
If you come to Texas. come to Houston
and if you come to Houston, 90 to the
Hutchins, and you wont regret tiff you
don't, you Will
There's not first rate hotel in Galveston:
If you go to one, you viii be sorry you
didn't 60 to the other
Reconstruction may well take another
shoot in this State. With thousands Of
horned cattle on these broad plains You
can seldom get mouthful of good meat; no
milk, no sweet, fresh butter, as a general
| rule. While poultry can be raised for
| nothing you can get no eggs, no spring
/ chickens.
/ Oh, short sighted Texans! Why pW you
feed poor, battered, starving mortals ON
4 such trash when you have mt your fingers
ends such luxures. Tantalus was sent to
Texas to be tortured, I'm sure II.
This is bound 10 be right smart place
for business, and Galveston must look to its
| laurels. Engineers are at work surveying
| the bayou from this place to the bay. with
the view of asccrtaining the amount Of la
Dor and expense necessary to render water
communication with the outer world more
| safe and expeditions.
The bayou is deep, but very crooked aud
/ it Is estimated that a small outlay viii emu.
Bile vessels of good size TO come safely to
will be the point of commerce for this great
country, and here will be The dlvergiug
point Of railroads to the interior of state
more than five times rs large as New York.
The stranger is struck by the fact that this
Is become an industrious people. In a tour
of five hundred miles saw very few idiers.
At the deputs, crossroads, and other places
where loaiers commonly do Cougregate, q
saw no idle "colored, - and very few ''plainn
people lOunging about Everybody seems
% have gone to work, and the effect Of this
may be seen in the broad, tmiiiug fields of
coston and corn and other productions,
ominous Of gold and thrift, and a good time
| coming.
The people Of the country seem to be tired
OF the din Of politics. and all seem quiet in
dustrious, and hopeful. They seem TO accept
the measures of settlement, not perhaps,
70 teetconae them, but as the best thing TO be
had, and sense of relief seems to pervade
the whole community. The GROWERS are
found in the cities and towns, but they will
soon hide their heads they are getting
wonderfully tame already, and will soon be
ready to take the oath" that they were al
ways in favor Of !" all the rights of all men, -
and that that's what they were fighting for.
AMERICAN PIANOS AHEAD.-The following
is from the Paris correspondent Of the
Chicago Republican;
The land of the Western barbarians Is the
country which SURPRISES all in the manufac-
ture of that instrument which is a type OF
the highest civilization--the piano. There
| are no other instruments which attract any
considerable attention except those In the
American court. Around the pianos of
steinway and Chickering, every afternoon,
there Is an immense crowd. Performers Of
note, IKE Jaell, and scores of others, hold
real concerts there daily; the passage-way
Is blocked. and people dispute about seats
and standingroom to listen TO the wonder.
full sorority OF the American pianos, be-
tween which there is very great rivalry.
The papers continually talk about both. one
day calling one superior to the other. If
newspaper "puffsp are of any value, Stein.
way has BY far the greater number. Both.
however, should be well content, for II re-
port Is true, the two grand gold medals are
| TO be awarded to them. Erard, the famous
| French manufacturer, withdrew his from
| competition, and the French makers ara
preparing. the papers say, 70 adopt Stein
ways sysfems whose pianos an ardent
French critic, inspired By the echoes Of The
war feeling, calls "harnaonicai monitors. y.