Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-05-01

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'dition now.
Water is generally not so.good as here
Cistern water is largely used. Observa
ton leads us to believe that society is
better than we have often heard repre-
sented. Texans boast Of their State Gov
ernment. They have q Democratic Leg
islature that makes Gov, Davis walk q
chalk line.. hs.
Texas is evidently OH the road to pros
perity; her extending rail roads, which
will soon link every important city and
town in the State; her institutions, OF
learning, Colleges and Universities; her
genial climate; her variety and fertility
of soil; the influx of population; her
vast internal resources; her fast rising
villages; and TOWNS, all bespeall her fu-
ture greatness. "A Texas paper says: sit
is estimated that one hundred. thousand
persons have made. their homes in Texas
|. within the last year. Over two hundred
and twenty-five houses have been erected
i'll Sherman in ninety days" There is
said to be demand for Preachers, Doc
TORS, and School Teachers in many parts
of the State. And to young mon of in
dustry and enorgy, rs well as to capital
lists, the "Lone Star State" offers many
advantages and inducements.
But after all We have said, we. still pre-
fer old South Carolina in her humiliation
-misruled, debauchod and pillaged as
she is by her public coficials-toany State
we have yet seen. There is for her, too,
future. Ignorance and.superstition will
not always rule, nor vice ever sit sll-
preme; but must soon sink beneath the
rising power of virtue, intelligence and
morality. Such has ever been the histo-
ry of the past; such will be the history
Of the future.
But we have left for Shreveport, La,
which city we reached in due time this
morning. Shreveport is thriving busi-
ness city, situated Immediately on Red
River, by which she has FREQ aud easy
communication with Now Orleans, and
other points below, as we'll Us with other
places above. 1t is the muddiest city we
have ever seen, requiring two mules to
pull an empty dray through some Of the
streets. The walks are, however, COM
paratNely dry, and we wondered why it
was that the streets were not macadamiz-
ed, or filled with stones, as the apparent
wealth of the place surely justified. There
is gap of eighty miles in the Vicksburg
& Shreveport Rail Road incomplete, and
it is at present staged. So the choice of
getting to the former from here lay be-
tween the stage route and that of river.
We chose the latter, and accordingly this
afternoon, April 9th, went aboard the
Henry Tete, and en4uired of her clerk
when she would leave for New Orleans,
who informed us that she would leave
tonight or tomorrow, morning, and as
the Texas would go out tonight, said
that the Tete was so much faster, that we
would beat her to mouth ofriver, if Tete
did not go out till morning; so we regis
tered, paid our fare to mouth Of Red riv-
er, and took our berth on said boat; but
to our disappointment she did not get
away for below till the sth, at midnight,
having, in the meantime, gone up the
river to Twelve Mile Bayou and gotten
the passengers (about thirty and part of
cargo of cotton of the Rapides, which
had broken her wheel, and towed her to
the city. Rapides had on, !l45S bales of
cotton, of which Henry Tete took 1925,
or at least enough to make up her cargo
to that number. She steamed for the
Crescent City at the time above indica-
ted. fifty passengers aboard. Boat par
ior was adorned with Piano. Besides a
young laay.-Mias Morrison TexasAwho