The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1873-04-26
For The PAlladium.
FROM TEXAS.
LAGaAxoE, TExAA April 5, II

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ED1roR PA1LADrux:-Texasl How
does the name sound to your earsi
Do visions Of horse thieves, coun-
terfeters, and the skum Of the earth
generally come up before your Do
you think of men with sssix shoot
ers" and 'sbowie knives I" We
know that she has had the reputa-
ton Of being the asylum for scoun
drels; no doubt, she has, and has
had, ike all new States her quota
Of the of securing of our country,
but viii venture the assertion, that
to day, Justice is dealt out with as
liberal q hand a. in most places in
the North, and that man can trav-
81 with hundreds of dollars about
him all over Texas, Except in the
extreme western part, with as
much, if not more safety, than he
can walk the streets of New York
city with a like amount. That law
lessness occasionally breaks out in
some parts of the State we will not
deny, bnt it is far from being gen.
sral in any part. ''Old Bourbon
county pure rye whisky and pixies
red eye,' has the same effect here
that it has any other place, and as o
rule here, as elsewhere, if q man
wants to keep out of drunken brawls
keep away from where whisky is
sold. Men IN the newer States of
our country do not brook an insult
as they do in the older ones. Men
travelling in the western counties Of
the State carry a ssnavy" and 'tHen-
~ rifle" Northern men when they
first come to Texas, always have q
revolver around them some place,
but as they find they do not need
them they are put aside.
There ID, in all probability, no
State in the Union, that at the pres
emit time is attracting more atten-
ton than the State of Texas; the
cheapness Of her lands, and her
great natural resources, are attract
ing alike, the farmer, mechanic and
capitalist. Her broad domain in
vites all who wish. to rid themselves
of the rigors of q six months win
ter at the north, and seek q home
in q State whose winters are of but
q few weeks duration; whose lands
are as fertile as any on the globe,
and the health of whose inhabitants
win compare favorably with any
| section of the United States. Rail
roads are traversing her from the
Sabine ON the east to the Rio Grande
on the west; from Red river on the
north to the gulf on the south. She
has some 1850 miles of rail road in
operation, 637 miles of which were
built in 1872. This year there viii
be completed and in running orde,
atleast 700 miles more. She has
one stall rail line" to ST. Louis, and
by next December will have Sc
cond You can step on the cars a,
Galveston, and go through to New
York city by ''all rail- in less tim.
than it would have taken you t.
have gone from Cincinnati to Indi-
annapolis and return thirty year,
ago. In ten years from now SHE
win be as cheokered with rail road,
a. Indiana.
The question is often asked, viii
. northern man be welcomed il
Texas! They win not receive yor
with outstretched arms, and give
you : kiae on both cheeks, but viii
welcome You just about as you
would . man from New York; that
il treat him kindly and courteously.
II you want to make money you
must work for IL here az well as in
any other place. There are some
parts of the State q little s'God-
forsaken, "and where they just know
that the war has ended. In these
parts we suppose q Yankee would
not be looked on with much favor
- is best If you say as ittlo as pos
ible about the late war, for it isnot
n human nature for man who il
whipped to stand much Dragging
shout it afterwards. Men of both
political parties are very intolerant
much more 80 than at the North
we cannot Say that they are during
m actual political campaign, but
after the ssbattle is over they DOM
settle down quite as friendly az
| Northern men do.
There is . great deal Of talk about
the ease with which q man can make
a living in Texas. Now this ease
depends on the kind of q living he
Is contented with; if he can live on
corn.hread, bacon and coffee, he
can make . living easily. If be
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