The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-02-24
For the Anderson Mtelligene9
A Letter From Texas.
TYLRR TFxAa. Feb. IL

TYLER, TEXAS, Feb. IA, 1879.
EDITORS IsrELLIGENcER: Thirty years is q
long time for man to look back upon, yet
I often think back to the time Of my boy
hood, when Anderson was my home and
her people my friends. can now in my
imagination see clearly the old familiar faces
that used to greet ME with smile as made
my weekly rounds on Thursday morning to
deliver the old Gazette, then under the man.
agement Of Todd & Russell. Many changes
have taken place since then; many, very
rAany who are still dear in my memory, are
quietly sleeping beneath the sod, but there
are still living some whose good counsel and
acts Of kindness to me when boy are as
fresh in my memory as the transactions Of
yesterday. Although my home is now in
the "far West" I still love South Carolina
and old Anderson-it Is the land Of my
birth, the home of my boyhood and early
manhood; my parents and relatives rest in
her bosom; the friends of my youth are
there, and when I hear word of derision
uttered against hor, it makes the old Pal.
metto blood boil in my veins. As recollec.
tions like these rise up before me, is it any
wonder that should digress from the origi-
nal intention of this letter.
Ny object in taking my pen to write this
letter was to ondeavor to show to my old
friends in South Carolina some of the ad-
vantages of Texas as farming country. I
have lived here for the last ten years, and
"know whereof speak" There is an eroni-
GUS idea prevailing in the Eastern States
in regard TO the health of this cdantry. It
is thought by some to be sickly. This is all
mistake. I call It healthy country.
True, We have some chills and fever in the
fall season, but I do not look upon chills rs
anything to be seriously regarded, as every
Texian knows exactly how to break them
up. There is less fatal sickness here than
any country I ever lived in. The climate is
mild and pleasant, not too cold or too hot,
and in the summer months there Is nearly
always pleasant breeze.
This country Is generally looked upon
abroad rs emphatically a cotton country.
True, every one here raises some cotton, but
grain can be and is raised in great abun-
dance. Everything that man wishes On
his table can be raised in this portion of
Texas, except his coffee. Wegrow the sugar
cane to great perfection, and we have saline
waters, where the people can make their
own salt; wheat and oats also thrive well in
this climate. The society is good, churches
and schools in every neighborhood, good
water and timber in abundance. much
prefer this (the Eastern) portion Of Texas to
the Western and Northwestern portions, for
the reason that the droughts in the summer
season are more certain and severe in the
prairies. The water is Bcarcer there and not 80
good, and the timber is better and Of course
more abundant here. do not deny but
that the lands in the Western and North
western portions Of Texas are rich and pro-
ductive, but I do say that this section has
many attractions that that does not have.
There are lands in this (Smith) county that
will produce with favorable seasons from
one to three bales of cotton per acre. I
heard Of one farmer last year who made
three bales Of cotton, weighing five hundred
pounds per bale, on one acre, and that, too,
without one pound of fertilizers. There is
plenty of up land here that will produce
one bale to the acre. Our farmers now are
turning their attention more to raising grain
and hogs than they have heretofore done,
and I think it is move in the right direc-
ton. It does not pay to raise cotton to buy
corn and bacon with, and the people have
found it out. Thanks to the Grange move
ment. ..4 .......,.
Tyler, the county seat of this county, is q
Aourishing city, full of life, energy and in
dustry, and her people noted for hospitality.
The politics of the county and Of the State
is Democratic to the backbone. Tomorrow
the people Of the State vote on the adoption
of the new constitution. 1t will be adopted
by sixty thousand majority. Richard Coke,
the present incumbent will be reelected
Governonby about the same majority.
Now, Messrs. Editors, Ihavs given you and
your readers short statement Of facts in
regard to this State, and particularly of this
county, and need only add that emigration
is cordially invited. There are thousands OF
rich, productive lands awaiting the emigrant.
Good unimproyed land can be had at from
three to FIVE dollars per acre; improved land
from FIVE 10 eight dollars per aero. To the
people of Anderson who have any notion of
coming to Texas, would soy, do not give
Eastern Texas tho go-by, but stop and look
and If you are not satisfied, then go farther.
fear am encreaching too much upon your
time and space, MessrS. Editors, and will
therefore ''sheathe my quill" for the present,
promising that you shall hear from me again
at no distant day.
ARCH w. RICE.
IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE MONT.
GOMERY MOSES.