Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-14

one-third for them, the planter providing their
sustenance. In both cases the live stock is fur
nished with its food and care, together with the
farm implements, etc., by the land owner.
In some instances the land has been simply
leased to the laborers for percentage of the
gross yield, they furnishing everything. Under
this regime the negro in cultivating cotton is
exposed to absolute poverty and starvation. If
his simple crop fails he has no friend to call
upon, and is left TO weather the winter without
food for himself or family. His mules and i'm
PIGMENTS are sold to obtain the neceSsaries of
life, Eand can assure you, the first one TO take
advantage of the failure of crops are northern
men living in the south. Such men are no true
friends to the negro. We do not pretend TO
assert, by any means, that the small farm sys-
TEN is not the best, but we do say that in culti-
waiting extensively such staple as cotton, that
is subject to so many ,vicissitudes, and which,
from its very nature, requires TO be cultivated
on large scale in such locality, the present
share system, or equal partnership between the
land owner and the laborer, is an excellent one.
The negroes themselves do not desire any change
from it. They could readily purchase lands on
time. Many of them have done this and have
given up their farms, for the reason that they
have not thrift enough or judgment TO carry on
and pay for them. By the present share system
they are dependent, yet they have the co-opera.
ton of man of intelligence, who can counsel
them and supply them with the necessities of
life in case of an emergency.
Arriving at San Antonio the traveller will be
hn MIC
this beautiful city. The city lies between two
high rolling mountains, and in the valley be-
tween flows the beautiful river bearing the same
name. This river takes its rise some two hun
dred rods above the city, from two springs flow
ing from the mountain. The upper spring
bursts out from under the mountain like the
sound of cataract, and water from this spring
alone flows sufficient to make river at the city
two hundred rods below, three hundred feet
wide and several feet deep. The river is crossed
by wire suspension bridge.
AT this point, met some old army friends,
Mai. w. w. Webb and Lieut.. Garter of the 10th
cavalry, who were preparing to escort Captain
Henry E. Alvord of Virginia, special Indian
commissioner, and the Indian prisoners Satanic
and Big Tree, two Kiowa chiefs-prisoners to
the state of Texas for murders committed by
their bands-to Fort Sill in the western part of
the Indian territory, for the purpose of general
council of the tribes of the southern plains of
Texas and the Indian territory
Maj. Webb having kindly provided me with
transportation for my baggage and good horse
on which to ride, readily accepted the invita-
ton to visit western fort, and have now tray
eled four hundred miles by horseback over the
finest country my eyes ever rested upon or
crow flew over. In my next shall endeavor to
describe to you the country through which we
have passed, and few jottings by the wayside
in camp life, as seen on the plains--but the 'In-
juns" are coming and must desist for the pres
ent. D.w.C.