The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1868-05-27

upon this subject that we'll regulated economical
family can live here on farm for about the same ex
pense as in Virginia or North Carolina.
FENCING F*
have purposely omitted in the foregoing estimate
to say anything about the cost of fencing Several
neghboring farmers join and build an outside fence
tnus rendering the immediate enclosing of the land
unnecessary The legislature now has under consid
Grafton proposition-which meets with great favor
and will in all probability become law-renderine ir
unnecessary for farmers to build fences in other
words making the owners of cattle responsible for
any damage committed by them upon the unclosed
land of another.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Our Southern friends ought to be reminded that We
have thorough and perfect system of public schools
California and that the children of all can be edu-
Gated at the public expense A neiehborhood ia no
sooner formed than it is constituted school district
with ample provision for the sustaining of as good
school as the neghborhood wants for ten months in
the year. Southern men, for the past few years have
objected to the management of the schools alleging
that partisan and sectional political ideas and antago
nisms were taught their children. There can no lon.
ger be any complaint this score The schools are
now under the superintendeney of the Rev. o. p Ftx.
gerald, minister Of the Sounhern Methodist Church
and Southern gentleman by BIRTH education associ
alton and sympathes; and class of our people will
hereafter have Just cause to complain of sectional or
partisan teachings in the public schools
They should also remember that the people of Cali
ornia are conservative in their political views There
Is large Southern population in the State and thev
and their friends are about onehalf the popua-
tion They will find no one here to attempt to insult
them, and many to take them by the hand and give
them all the aid in their power.
have written only of the lands in the Valley of the
San joaquin where ve and with which am most
FAMILIAR but there thousands of acres Of as good
land as finely located and cheap in the other parts
OF the State as in the valley of the San Joaquin
CALIFORNIA PLACE FOR CLERKS ETC
FINALLY, to men of means, and men of muscle indus
Try and perseverance, there can be no more inviting
country than California; but to those men who have
no MEANS and who want to make living by the 60
called respectable employments of clerking, etc and
~ easy work generally, this is no country for them
The one would advise to and join US in this land
If brilliant promise, the other would most urgently
'dvise to remain where they are.
have valued the lands Of which have writer al
prices for which they can be bought at any time be-
ween this and the first of September next They are
enhancing in value very rapidly, and think risk
nothing in predicting that they will command $40 per
cre within the three years. aud still more when
he Pacific railroad is completed
The wretched condition of the people of the South
~ friends and Relationships been constantly in my
hind for the past two years. In thinking of their un-
ortunate condition have not failed to think of par
al remedy. lhave often wished that I could induce
uch as can do so to come to this country and delb
rated long and earnestly upon addressing my per-
ona friends there just such communication as this.
have no interested motive in the exhibition of the
lets herein stated the advice herein given-I have
o lands to sell !; am no speculator-and am only in
uenced by desire to be of some benefit to my race
respectfully, yours, Rp AsHE