New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-21
TEXAS.
FOrney Starting a Texas Fever in Penn
gyIyauia.
From the Philadelphia Press. J

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how much interest was felt in the South
west, but did not know how many Of our
l best people would like to 90 there, the fol-
lowers Of Colonel Scott as artisans and
farmers, Let me repeat to these that
Texas, Of all the Southern States Is the
| white mans country.
1t has territory of 2s0, 600 square miles
of arabic land. Its climate, especially along
the,line of our road, is healthy. After you
leave Galveston there are no epidemlcs. l
| never saw st0uter men or women than in
Northeastern Texas. A person desiring to
visit Texas, starting from Philadelphia or
New York, can get there Texas for about
$50; Philadelphia to New Orleans, about
| $40, and from New Orleans to Galveston
$l8; or if he prefers to go by the Red river
| the.cOst would be little more. With $500
in his pocket he can see all the points OF in
terest A recent Texas writer says: Men
| with families; who only have means to
/ bring themselves and families to Texas need
not fear to come. The great mass Of men
| here arrived without means. A man who
! is willing to labor can get provisions adj
| vanced, and any man setting into work can
get dry goods on credit until the close of
the season. In two years any eneroG1n,daIIS
man can make money enough f. form ,P 1f1en
stock as are needed sddb HPB uv ' small piece Of
f fne nc" vIf9edft, and in two years be indie
J s'eddent. His stock growing around him
| without cost, winter or summer, his current
| expenses after the second year can be met
without using the means resulting from the
farm"
ADVICE TO YOUNG FARMERS.
There are 10000 young farmers in the
Middle States who could do more for them
selves and for their country by acting on
these suggestions than by any other. ven
ture. They must not be afraid of social Os
tracism. Let them go out as Republicans
or. Democrats, nobody will harm them SO
long as they are not reckless or foolish.
They need not 90 out to advertise their pol
itics. They should be firm and fearless, and
then nobody will interrupt them.
THE CROPS FOR 1872.
The crops of cotton, corn, wheat, oats, to- 4
bacCo, sugar, rice, oranges, and potatoes,
this year promise amazing results What
adds to the value of this knowledge is the
fact that labor is paid. As | saw in one
stretch of country between Brashear City
and Algiers, Louisiana, sugar, cotton, rice,
oranges, bananas, figs, and in Texas on one
plantation, corn twelve feet high, three
ears to a stalk, cotton a bale to an acre,
wheat, rye, all in full promise of overflow
ing Golfers, the thought first in my mind
was that labor got its share of the profits,
and that ownership was not only not less
rich, but far more happy.
Our Democratic friends in Texas gener-
ally 90 for Greeley, and are a little intole-
rant against those who do not. Now and |
then a fine fellow like John D. Elliott, of
the Austin Til Weekly Gazette, a corrugated !
Democrat, swears hugely that he won't sup |
port Greeley. But | suspect by this time |
he has swallowed the philosopher
AtDallas met Mr.. Wegenfarth, an intel !
hgent German, who was going to Wichita, |
in the Indian country, to establish German |
colony-a bright brave, cheerful fellow. |
He starts on the fifteenth of August. l |
gave him letter to General Belknap asking |
for an escort.
TEXAS TIMBER. y !
The forests and belts of timber inter |
spersed with the prairies Of Middle and |
Western Texas present a great variety of |
lumber adapted for fuel and ship.building |
and railroad purposes. Nearly all the oaks |
so cOmmOntO our section grow luxuriantly |
in Texas. In addition to these the live oak.
is found in abundance in the coast countless
much Of it within the reach of tide water
navigation. Vast forests of pine on the
Sabine, Angelina and Nueces rivers will
yield almost inexhaustible supplies of tar
pitch and turpentine for the commerce Of
the world. Directly on the line Of the Texas
Pacific railroad the post oak and cross tim
Der lands are of frequent occurrence. These
woods are closely grained, tough and dur
able, and specially useful for cross tiesand
for heavy trestle-wOTk etc. Hickory, cy- 7
press, ash, poplar, beech, cottonwood and
the swamp willow grow spontaneously, af-
fOrding an ample supply for fuel
MANUFACTURES IN TEXAS.
l have already referred to the necessity
IF manufactures in Texas, and to the meal
,ulable advantage offered to capitalists and
Especially in cotton fabrics
Gould large fortunes be made. One eXpe-
fenced citizen says that such enterprises
Gould afford to pay double prices to labor,
md yet sell their goods lower than those
made in the North and heard one intell-
cent resident of Marshall say that, with
he assurance of responsible associates, he
would put 100000 into such a project at
hat interesting point. Marshall is not any
more favorable as a location than many
Dthers l could name. The growth of cotton
# the county (HarrisOn) is 10000 bales a
-ear, and its fine climate, good land and
wen health will make it a most favorable
ocality for that and every kind Of manu-
actures.
THE INDIANS.
We got close to the seat of the Indian
ountry, and heard many rum0rs of their
hreats and atrocities. The ripe Judgment
f experienced Texans is all against the
policy. They assert unhesi-
atingly that fighter like Sheridan or Gus
er, or a frOntiersman like Ford, is far
etter instrument than any Of the Northern
Zone regiment of Texans
aiken from the region near the Indians"
avs Colonel Turner, of Marshall, sis worth |
n army of regulars. They know the
abits and haunts of the tribes, and they /;
Ould strike them so fast and so fatally, in
be event of their disturbing the peace,
hat they would be compelled to yield" l
card some stories of the barbarities of
be Indians on the people of Texas !
hat were so fearful in their name /
sss horror that shudder at the mere aIlu-
ion to them. Neither age nor sex is spared.
Jeath is the quick doom of the men, and
-orse than death that Of the women. The :
abroad, however, is the greatest of civil
sers. 1t removes thousand obstacles, and ,
one feels it so soon or yields before it so
ncerely as the savage. The locomotive is
D much more rapid than cavalry or in
lntry that they regard it at last as a mes l
enger that can neither be defed nor de-
lated. The government has furnished
olonel Scott with ample protection for our
1gineers and workmen. Statesmen must
.el that the Texas and Pacific railroad is
infinite consequence as an economic i
easuTe. 1t will pay back, in the mere saw
u Of expense to keep down the Indians,
illions Of money, while it will open mill
ms of acres now swept by these wild men :
the desert to millions Of athletic whites. !
THE MINERALS OF TEXAS. f
God in his generosity, seems to have a
wen a full share of all his best gifts to [
eXas. AS the yestibule of rich Mexico, !
le 1eGas and Pacific railroad may be called !
ne KEY; all that is now needed issa firm, |
oIu =. american hand tO-Open the door to the G
= uIISAess treasures so long kept from the Il
ol l!! ~ large and as Yet scarcely touched
s geil5za'lqH E ana only partially known