The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-08-13
LETTER FROM WILLIAM.
CENrRA1 TExAs. Ananat ,. 1sza

EDITORS CLARION: Such dronth as IRE
walls here now has never been known before
So SAYS the oldest inhabitant. | feel thorough
ly safe in saying 10 you that not one-half tn,
cotton made last year viii be gathered thi
season. The corn crop may be termed
failure. There Is no other name for it There
may be some neighborhoods, where rains fel
more abundantly than il did generally. anc
in that neighborhOod some corn NAV be mad,
not much. As for cotton, | have nevel
seen anything like it, What I see around me
may not be a specimen of the crop If so
then the cotton crop of Texas is a failure
There can be no doubt but the yield of cotton
in Texas this year win not be one-half what il
was last year. This is fixed fact, and total
failure in corn and a very short wheat crop
must produce very hard times here another
year.
/ In central Texas, drinking-water is obtained
from cisterns, and stock-water from tanks
Many of the cisterns are dry, and large per
cent. OF tanks are without water Cows are
dying on the prairie for want OF water and
mules and horses are driven miles away to
prevent death.
The grass IS 50 dry on the prairies, that ii
fire were placed in it, it would burn, as if it
had been killed by frost These are the facts
as l see them. There Is a tank of water in
the enclosure around my house, and the peo-
pie, for miles around, come in wagons, with
barrels, for water. | have seen as many as
eight wagons at the tank at time. The
lowest spirits are with all classes.
In estimating the cotton crop, Texas may
be set dewn at less than one-half last years
800, 900 bales This will certainly work a
large increase in price the coming season.
learn, with much pleasure, that Mississip-
pi has good crop OF corn and cotton If SO,
the people will be prosperous again Surely
nothing could be more gratifying to those of
u.s. who saw our kindred broken up in prop
erty, and almost without hope, though we are
far away
/ The Greenback party in this State are can
Iyassing and speaking, although this is an off
year. | notice. that in your State, the leaders
are at work, training for the fall races.
Among them l see the name of Mr. Jones'
old friend Gen. A. NJ. West | observe.
90, that the papers are pretty severe on
he General 1t is the opinion of Mr.
Jones that whilst Gen. West may have
oeculiarities, he cannot be made an OBJ
ect OF ridicnle. He has ability, and
very decided ability In administrative
talent, there many who believe he is the
irst man in the State. know the General
we'll. and, without passing judgment on the
merits OF any issues Joined by him and those
who differ, | regret to see that issues are
loined and that, at his time of life, attacks /
are made upon him by any citizen of a State
whose interests he has served so long Mrs. |
Cornelia has said, in meeting, many things of |
he same character about Gen Reuben Davis. |
If disappointment and misguided ambition
nave warped the natural judgment and ripe t
experience of those two men, the fact is to be
leplored, and Mr.. Shakespeare was right when
he made Mr.. Woolsey say to Mr. Cromwell,
Fling away ambition | might add the
anne in reference to Col. T. w Harris, one
# whose arms is in glory, leaving the trunk
rom which it was taken honorable for all
ime. am no Greenbacker. [ do not I'M
erstand the doctrine Puttick could not I'M
erstand Haynes description of the water
Wheel; but the wheel ran and was powerful
nevertheless. Uncle Ben's watch stopped once.
nd his son Ferdinand, who was a very prom
sing boy, studying medicine on the Thomp
oman plan, said that there was something
he matter and thereupon took a fork and
licked out the hair spring. This failed to
tart the watch, and Uncle Ben concluded that
is learned did not understand watch
making.
The Greenhackers say the Democrats used
, declare that Radical rule was what was the
latter They dispensed with Radical rule.
nj me watch don't run. L am a little in the {
'g; but the drouth is too severe for much
nXlety about anything else. What | want {
know is, how am L to get the fiat money.
hen 1t is made? Mr.. Jones SAYS, if money S
ecomes cheap everything else becomes high.
here is the trouble.
The yellow fever excitement, the negro
xodus, the drouth and the fiat money cues
on are almost too much for my constitution
one time, and l fell fullness about the
cad, sort OF vertigo, and fear if something :
ont occur, l shall have fit.
In looking over THE CLARION, | see that
OF. J. ID. Stewart is noAAinated for the Senate
n. Jones has long wondered that Col S. has
II been called TO public station For solid.
'od sense, unblemished integrity and ty
orough knowledge of the wants of the peo- It
e, Col. Stewart must be considered among OF
'ur first citizens. Mrs. Cornelia saws that u
odesty accounts for Mr.. Jones' wonder about =
d. S. and believed it, although the Colonel Il
ladies' man. Many of our society take the
u. for preacher and 1t has occurred to me- a
at surplice and ribbon around his neck tn
)uld not be unsuited to his stvle of beauty af
lie Colonel is graduate of the University OF
Virginia, lawyer by profession, formerly ne
uccessful planter and banker, and now, as r.
ways, talented gentleman and faithful Oh
end. WILLIAM pa