Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1867-09-10

, In many places in Texas there are very
fne-people and as good society as is to b.
found in any of the older States. In THU
country and some. of the surrounding
countries are q good class Of people WHIT
wish to encourage immigration and will
render all assistance and give the RICH
!, hand Of fellowship to sll the industrioul
and enterprising immigrants who wisl
to make permanent homes amongst them
This county was organized in 1s47 ani
it now contains population Of som'
10000 whites, and 1000 blacks. The lane
in this and the adjoining counties is .
black soil mixed with lime, it wears we'll
and the longer it is cultivated, the better
it seems to yield, and is literally inter
spersed with woodlands, sufficient for al
agricultural and manufacturing purposes
The soil 10 very fertile and abundantly re.
wards the industrious husbandman for hi.
labor.
Dallas, the county seat of Dallas county
has about 1000 Inhabitants, and il increas.
ing in population more rapidly than any
town in Northern Texas, and wood and
good water are convenient. This place
has been selected for college, under the
control Of tho Cumberland Presbyterians.
The people here appear to be industrious,
moral and religiously inclined, and take
great interest in the establishment of
churches and good schools.
The principal products of the country
are wheat, corn, oats, rye and barley, and
the yield per acre equals that of any
in the State, although this season the
wheat crop has been failure and the first
/ am told which has been known. The
| corn crop will decrease 40 bushels to the
acre. Almost all the land in this county
can DO cultivated. Unimproved lands can
be had at from 81 to IS, and improved
lands within or miles from Town, can
be had at from $40 to SIS. The people of
the country in this part treat kindly all
all honest, industrious, immigrants from
whatever country or section they are from.
There are two carding factories and fifteen
flour mills, all propelled by steam in the
country; and more in the course OF erec-
ton. If the railroads now in contempla-
ton are completed, it would be a great adj
vantage to the country. The only mode
of taking the produce to market is by wag-
ons and carts; about 81 per 100 pounds
for each one hundred miles. The grain
itself is never sent off, but the -four put up
in sacks of 100 pounds and is generally
taken to the territories Of the Central rail-
road and sometimes to Marshall, and jeff
erson. Farm laborers (white men), are
greatly in demand, and those immigrants
who are unable to purchase land can al
ways find employment at good wages. !,
The farmers here are now compelled to |
employ the freedmen, of whom however
there are but few in tho country; but there
is no dependence to be placed in them,
either to comply with their contracts, or to
work faithfully during the time they re-
main with their employers, and if white
labor could be obtained the freedmen az q
body would soon migrate to country
more congenial to their tastes and habits.
1t has been unusually wet weather here
to within the last week, since which time
it has been remarkably warm for this part
Of Texas. The thermometer ranging at
from 90o to go in the shade. The at
m osphere is clear in general and very
pleasant at night. The only disagreeeble
feature of the climate l am told, are the
"northers," which in greater or less de-
gree are comm on to all the prairie States
West of the Mississippi. These winds pre-
vail during three months of winter and oc-
cur on an average about once in two or
three weeks, and lasting from one to three
days. In the intervals between the "nor-
Tiers" the temperature ranges from Sc
to SO in wiuter and in summer the heat
seldom goes above 900.
The present unsettled and unreliable
state Of political affairs, is great draw
back to this country. Those who have the
means are afraid to make Improvements
md invest their capital in lands, for fear
# confseation, but don't know of any
,lace in the West OF South which possesses
70 many attractions for the Industrious i'm
Migrant as Texas. With a climate and
oil unsurpassed and Of remarkable health
illness, possessed of varied and fertile
oil and supplied with abundance of whole
ONE food at low prices, the seekers fter
lew homes for themselves and posterity
Vill find it indeed land Of promise. It
) to be hoped that the oppression of the
oun'ry will soon cease, that the dark =
nurky cloud which now hangs over its po- !
tical horizon wilt ere long pass away and i.
he genial ray of liberty shall shine on
his aown-trodden land, then with all its
aculties and natural advantages it is
ound to become enc of the first and finest
ountries in the world. P. W. G.
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