The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1879-03-05
The Horrors Of Texas.
WHAT WILL A MAN GIVE In
EXCHANGE FOR GOOD
HEALTH ?,
Faint Hope Held Out That South
Ca%rolina's Deluded Sons May have
an Opportunity to Return.
Their Cheering Prospect Of Exchang-
ing Chills and Quinine, Fever and
Parched Lips For Pure Air, Pure
Water, and Perfect Health.
Pckens Sentinel.

tSht'fe SSsSs"Ns
The question OF bringing back to the State
those citizens who have emiSrated 10 Texas
and other Western States, ut einlgrant rates,
Is not alone confined to South Carolina, but
practical shupe.. A committee Of managers
of the railroad lines between Atlanta and
Texas, which have been carrying emigrants
to the West at special prices, was recently
held, At which 1t was determined to establish
rates from Texas and any other point along
the route, to Atlanta, and the result was that
the fare from Texas TO Atlanta was placed at
sl6.25. while the fare from Atlanta to Texas
remains at S2i.0O, thus giving those returning
S7.75 the advantage. But this arrangement
did not suit the purposes OF the managers OF
railroads In Texas, and they Induced the call
thought can not result In anything more than
putting the rate from Texas ut S2i.o). the same
as that to Texas. This convention dctcrmin-
ut once, and appointed Col. ". J. Houston,
the efficient general passenger and ticket
agent Of the Air Line Railroad, their agent
for the canvass and sole OF emigrant tickets.
for defraying the expenses OF the canvass and
agency. Col. Houston has already appointed
assistants In Texas, and he declares that he IL
determined to go to work In earnest and see
that every Georgian In Texas who wishes to
come home shall be canvassed personally
upon the subject In an Interview with O
reporter Of the atlanta Cbnafautton he says: .
II had already determined to appoint Mr..
D. VI. hcitIiS as. lily ttSeuL III SDulLlcTu 1eSdS.
lie is from this section originally; and some
years ago was very active IN carrying people
out to Texas. He had some large landed In.
forests there, I believe. and says he carried
out about two hundred families from Geor
gia. He says that he can hardly stand the
pressure made upon him by these families
They are suffering, dissatisfied, and depress
get back to Georgia, and he says If these
rates get established, he can put one hundred
and fifty OF the two hundred families on the
Chattahoochc bottoms right away. A go0t
man has been recommended TO me for thu
Northern part Of Texas. When we get fairly
to work. I propose that every part OF tht
State OF Texas shall be canvnssed just n.
thoroughly rs Georgia ever was. And thu
people shall know precisely what we offer.
GeOrgians nov In Texas wish to come back
home. II 1t Is within the range OF probabili
~, they shall be ccnmmodntcd with q ride
home at the same rate that they were carried
What 1t Is here proposed for Georgia ant
Georgians, can be Just as easily accomplish
! ed for South Carolina and South ,CarolinIans
provided the proper effort is made. We fee
confident that the Air Line Railroad will eN
tend the rates established to Atlanta to this
state, and even to the end OF the road ]
10 give the sam accommodations. the Al
Line could put down oil the South Carroll
mans at Seneca City, Greenville, Spartan
burg and Charlotte, where they could b.
taken up Dy Lnc rOnQS III ILLS Stute anu tTanS
desire to go to: We believe that from fifteer
thousand to twenty thousand. people hay
gone from this State to Texas alone since thu
war. Within our own knowledge, number
left this county, and some have returned, ut
tcrly disguised with Texas, and satisfied 10 re
main In old Carolina the balance Of thcl
days. How many have bcttercd their condi
: ton, We arc not able to say, but will venture
tic assertion that two-thirds of them are In
worse condition than they were here, ant
o would gladly return II they had the mean
! to do so. Many, and perhaps quite oil. could
, return at the rates fixed for the Georgians
r and South Carolinians having the intercs
. OF the state, rs well rs TINT OF her self-exilet
citizens, at heart, should see that these rate
, are established. Texas has had her agents IL
! Georgia and the CnrOlinns, with their lam
2 Ing circulars, at intervals, over since the war
2 auctions and climate, and by the personal In
tprviews OF the agents thousands have beer
, induced TO emigrate, fully impressed thu
they had nothing TO do hut to gather mp
fortune, with very little effort, when they 20
there. Alas, how many have been sadly dis
appointed. Instcnd Of fortunes, they have
had to work and live harder than they eve
earnings to The doctors tor the quintne slVer
: them to break up the chills and foyer. nlInOs
! their first acquaintance ON reaching Texas
especially those WHO wcns frim the Ptcdinon
belt. We will venture the assertion tina
those people, or q MINORITY OF them. .woult
, willingly give all their earthly possessions II
be placed back where they started from. ant
pure air, and Sleep soundly ut night, wlthou
2 aching IuEes and parched tongues. By al
, means let them have q Glance, with the Geor
CLANS, to return ~ their nutivcState.