New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-20

fifty miles west Of here, and who gives glowing
account of the profits of the stock business. Inc
ranchmen of Northern Texas he says, do not usually
own any land. As the fences and settlements adj
vance toward them they their herds further
west They think 1t will be at least ten
years before they will be crowded for room.
and they think they will in tho end
find refuge in a region well suited for grazing
but dry for agriculture The cost of herding IA
estimated at 80 cents per head annually. In the
Winter no attention is paid to the cattle They are
too weak to wander far, and to drive them would
be injurious. When the new grass comes the ranch
man and his cowboys round-n" their stock. rid
ing over the plains for miles around and selecting
their animals from those Of other owners by the
brands The calves are branded, the steers de-
signed for the Spring sales separated and herded by
themselves. and the rest of the herd turned loose,
TO be watched. however. during the Spring,
Summer and Fall by the cowboys, who are
in the saddle all day. riding about and keeping
the cattle from straying Off far from the range.
4 great deal Of money is made in buying yearlings
in Southwestern Texas and keeping them until two
three years old. Yearling can be purchased, de-
lvered in Northern Texas, for - a head, and when
two years Old they are sacab4e az the railroad Ter
minus AZ Fort Worth for $40. The profit on a thou
sand twO-year olds after paying all expenses OK
herdIng and sale and deducting all losses, Is fullY
a
RAPID ratIo, ana the stockman VINO DeglIs WltH OILY
two or three hundred head finds himself wealthy
man after a few years, with scarcely any enort or
labor of his own. 1t Is easy to see, where It costs
nothing TO keep cattle beyond the board and wages
of a few herdsmen, the profit on their growth ana
increase must be very large. There appear 20 he
serious drawbacks in the business. \ rev cattle
die IN Winter; few get mixed IN the siougbs
where they go 20 escape the heel fly. which bites
them just back of the hoof but the losses are est-
mated at not over two per cent a year. The owner
of a mixed herd of about thousand head will sell
$4,000 worth Otcattle year and stu nave his nerd
increasing. The life of herdsnan Is Wild, SOL
tarY half-baTbarOus one, but he can pass his Nln-
ters IN a city If be wishes 10 get taste OF clylza-
ton, and leave bis rancho m the care Of one OF MS
hired men. Then the consciousness OF rapid &C.
emulation of property Is a great compensation Tor
the pryatiOns and loneliness of living without So
ciety
POLITICAL DGsCCssIoS-THE QUESTION OF DIVIDING
TEXAs.
If any feeling existed favorable 70 the division Of
Texas into number Of smaller States 1t is IN this
section that 10 would be strOngest-NOrthcrn Texas
being in many respects community with interests
peculiar to Itself and diverse from those of the rest
of the state ! find no such feeling but on the
contrary. the public sentiment Il strongly in favor
of unity. Everybody is proud of the Texan name
and history, proud Of the great size OF the state,
proud in anticipation of the great political power 1t
* supposed be destined exert, and unwilling TO
diminish its greatness by subdivIdng 1t into states
Of ordinary size. Every genuine Texan glorles ID
the territorial immensity Of his State and maginos
that he enjoys more than an average amount of
personal dignity and importance from being citi-
zen of so huge a commonwealth. In my travels
over the State have not questioned man on the
subject of division who did not express himself as
resolutely opposed to every project Tor breaking up
Texan unity. Such projects are evidently invented
HIS tbaru mol i'm nj
with no encouragement here.
In talking politics with chance acquaintance Oh
the ears and in the hotels and newspaper Offices
find more disposition TO discuss the issues settled by
the war than have ever noticed before in Southern
travel The ight of secession, the encr0achments
OF Northern State laws the constitution Of slavery
the destruction of property in slaves by emancipa-
ton the enforcement of negro suffrage in the South.
and cognate questions are brought out of the tomb
of the past and discussed with much interest as
if they had some bearing on present political move
ments The impression produced by these talks Is
that the Southern whites Look forward TO
tie complete triumph OF the Democratic
PARTY in its efforts to get possession OF
the National Government az q Justification
of their course in the Rebellion. The near approach
as thew gine, of such triumph, sets them to
thinking about nj the struggles that led up to seces-
sion the history of the war, and the humiliation
they suffered after their defeat IN the ned IN nav
iug their state Governments reconstructed on the
basis Of negro suffrage Their logic seems to be
sonnet hing Ike this: The Democratic party advO-
Gated the right of secession it opposed the war 70
conquer the south II resisted the reconstruction
measures : it autagOulzrd emancipation and negro
suffrage Now thar party Is placed m power by the
verdict OF the reunited country. mat Nerdct ls
condemnation of the acts OF the Republican party
IN prose cutting tue war and conterrng lib
erty and suffrage on the blacks, and ID
an Endorsement Of the course taken
by the south from first to last. Thus the night
comes uppcmOst ut last they say, and history vim
f..r. aagrnI rFp fnf no @rrrT nor
reople. A very intelligent gentleman in the course
Of a long argument on the subject to-day, told me
chat the Southern side IN the War was the constl
tutOnal sde and the south IN seeding was defend
iur the constitutions Another SAID lie despaIred of
any permanent union between the North and South
we were two different peoples and sooner OF later
wOuid have 10 separate. E v :.