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guidance Of Colonel j. z. Brady, the
owner OF the handsome MAGNOLIA
Park saw magnificent groves of these
trees IN tull blossom. In Houston, as
IN Waco and other points, real estate
was rapidly rising In value. I was not
surprised to find q similar condition of
affairs at Galveston. All these cities
have their names. Waco is the "Cen-
trai City, sometimes called the "Gey-
ser Clty;" Galveston reveIs in the
name Of the @Oleander City" a pretty
name, but not more beautiful that the
lovely flowers that line its streets.
Galveston Is at present the great COM
merclaI port Of the State, and, though
four other ports are being pushed and
opened, It's citizens are enthusiastic
over the project to expend six or seEen
million dollars to deepen the harbor,
and to further establish Galyeston's
supremacy.
The Northern man who talks about
the lumber interests of the North and
West should spend q day or two at
Orange or Beaumont, in the southeast
ern portions of the State, and see the
enormous output of the mills of this
vicinity. One of these mills consumes
the timber of fifty acres of land per
day, and at these two places the long
leaf yellow pine forests Of Eastern
Texas and Western Louisiana are util-
lied for the manufacture of an enor-
nous output Of lumber for both foreign
and domestic consumption. The grain
of this lOng-leaf yellow pine, when
pIaned and polished, shows most ex-
quisitely, and in many Of the houses
where panels of this wood have been
employed the finest effects have been
produced. The cheapness of this tim
Der land, ranging from So per acre
upward, has attracted the atten-
ton of investors and specuIat-
ors, and before long these tim
Der lands must greatly increase in
value. The lumber interest here has
developed decided growth, and
Orange and Beaumont have started on
a boom that is still in its infancy. The
outlet to the oceans commerce that
viii be afforded these places through
Sabine Pass, now being constructed,
has added to the real estate excitement,
and greatly appreciated prices.
The coast line of Texas furnishes an
interesting study, and as we. came
along down Corpus Christi Bay, a
beautiful sheet Of water, I found lit
tie city under the hill called Corpus
Christi, adjoining which was a mag
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ter dark one night the silence was bro
ken by the shout: Hello, Johnny Reb.
from Union man. He was answered
in a moment by his opposite sentry with
Hello, Johnny Yank." Then this col
1Oquy occurred: who are you 90 "TaY-
lor, of Company A, First Massachu-
sets. Who are yOu?" Taylor, Of
Company E, Fifth Louisiana" What
is your first name ?" Charles q.
What's yours ?" CHARLES E, too"
The peculiar coincidence attracted
attention from all of the two armies
within hearing, and they listened to
the story yelled across the river from
one army to another on the eve of
battle. 1t developed that they were
father and son. The former had OBJ
posed his sons marriage to a factory
girl and the son had married Just the
same. He and his bride had taken the
money the wealthy farmer had allotted
him, and suddenly disappeared. Then
the father reIented, and continued an
unayailing search until the war had
called him. The son had gone to New
Orleans, it transpired, and there had
gone into business and grown wealthy.
He had been imbued with the Southern
spirit by his surroundings and had
taken up Southern arms. Next daY
two boats, under flags of truce, met in
the river and two armies witnessed
the reunion. The following morning
Charles E. Taylor, Jr., was missing
from the command, and we never saw
him until after Appomattox, when he
walked into camp and told US he had
gone over, taken the oath, and gone to
the old home, where he had remained
with his wife until Lees surrender
made it safe to soc his old comrades.
His desertion ha. been to avoid fight
ing his father.
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naked to meet the French Minister.
The latter, with offended dignity,
turned on his heel, disappeared, and
never returned.
Houston's picture, as L looked at in
the beautiful Capitol at Austin, pre-
scented him as a very handsome man.
One of his pictures, where he is shown
with Dundreary Whiskers and a rosy
complexion, indicates anything but the
rough diamond of whom the people
love to talk. It is possible some of his
eccentriclties may have been eXagger-
ated, but every one knows of his sud
den disappearance from his Office while
Governor of Tennessee, when he went
to live with an Indian tribe.
The story of that resignation has
been variously told As I heard in
Texas, the sudden action of Houston
was due to the fact that his beautiful
young wife, who had been led against
her wishes to marry him, resOlutely
ard unfalteringly refused to give him
her heart after he had captured her
hand. It is said that he gratifed his
ambition for public place in the hope
that his political elevation would soften
her disposition toward him. After
his election to the Governorship, find
ing her still implacable, he determined
on a resOlute course. Advancing to-
ward her with a determined mien, he
offered her his hand and heart, and
asked her to be to him a wife and to give
him a wife's affection. She instantly
pushed his hand aside and turned
away. He also turned, went to his
Office at the Capitol, and, with one
move of his hand, swept the litter of
official communications from the table
Under a small ink-stand that alone re-
manned on his desk, he left In few
brief words. his written resignation.
In the beautiful city OF Austin, with
its magnificent Capitol, I found old
friends of Governor Houston, and was
greatly interested in their comments
on his extraordinary career. I there
found also more than one tfe-size
photograph of one Of the ablest men
that Texas has ever produced. 1t is
regretted that Sam Houston never left
notes for his biography; it would be
a tale exceeding in interest anything
that fiction has produced.
Mayor Jones, of the lively little city
Of Beeville, on the San Antonio and
Arkansas Pass Railroad. said to me
when I looked over his bright and
promising town: "Texas is the poor
mans paradise, and the rich mans
harvest" I must acknowledge the
truth of this expression. Everywhere
I have seen evidences that this is not
an exaggeration. Going down from
Waco, I saw a lively place with one Of
the most wonderful attractions IN the
shape of artesian wells that throw out
half a million gallons of water per
day, at temperature of over 100. and
capable therefore Of furnishing heat and
power as well as supply Of fresh
pure water for bathing, drinking, and
other purposes.
I made a flying trip to Houston. the
Magnolia City, and there under the
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@''I'Se G@ONG\ Ioxus

nifcent bluff forty feet high and ten
or twelve miles long, overlooking the
bay and gulf. An oOservant Northern
capitalist, Colonel Ropes, proposes to
make this the Long Branch of the
South, and has already begun on the
bluffs the construction Of a magnificent
hotel. More than this, he proposes to
make Corpus Christi a commercial
center, and has a dredge at work cut
ting pass through the island that
lies in front of the bay and separates
it from the Gulf
In speaking of booming cities must
not be considered as saying they are
all along the line Of deep water. It is
said that San Antonio, 80 miles from
the Gulf, and Laredo have both had
indications Of a boom, but their people
prefer the steady, natural, ordinary
rise in values to a sudden uplifting of
prices. The best evidence that both
San Antonio and Laredo are destined
to have enormous gTOWths is the fact
that in both places the outlying land
has been largely laid out in city addi-
tiOns, all Of them most slightly and at
tractive, and all in great demand as
building sites. Laredo Is the natural
entrepot for Mexican products, and
has constructed many manufacturing
industries, and San Antonio is one Of
the Oldest and best established cities
of Texas.
In smaller places further in the in
terror, such as Taylor, not far from
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TEE ALAMO

Austin, and .Beevi1Ie the general ap-
probation of values is felt, but this is
caused chiefly by the development of
their rich arabic lands by the inoom-
ing food of immigration. The devel-
opment of business by the cOnstruc-
ton Of railroads has put property. to a
higher and to a better level, where it
justly belongs, and should have been
years ago.
During my hurried visit through
this part Of State I met a large num-
Der Of Northern men whose steps had
been directed to Texas by what they
have heard from friends, and what
they had read in the newspapers re-
garding its prospects and possibilities.
In my conversations with these visitors
and citizens I have been surprised by
the fact that not one of them has ez-
pressed disappointment with Texas.
All have been charmed by its climate
tempered as it Is by delightful
breezes In midsummer-its vast devel-
opment and still vaster undevelOped
resources, by the free-handed hospi-
tality Of its people, by its excellent
social and educational advantages, and
the general preservation Of law and
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ATerribIe Ordeal.

A party of three gentlemen wer
seated at a table of a popular cafe the
other evening, discussing the case Of a
friend who had recently been through
a terrible surgical operation, when one
Of the party, who had had a similar
operation performed on him some years
ago, observed: "a man who is about
to undergo a difficult surgical opera
ton experiences something Of the same
feeling that a man must experience
who Is about to be executed. / know
it was so in my case. / had nerVed
myself, I thought, for the terrible or
deal, and had the assurances Of my.
family physician that the odds that /
would come through all right were
largely IN my favor, and yet, when
entered the operating room and saw
the table, the large bags used in ad-
ministering the anGesthetic and, most
frightfuI Of all, the surgeon and his as
sistants with their aprons tied under
their chins-I have faced death In bat
tie and / don't think there Is a drop of
cur-blood in me, but my heart quailed
at this sight and it took all my fOrti-
tude to enable me to mount the table.
I tried to be brave while the assistants
arranged me for the an@sthetic, but,
do what I would the feeling that
was about to part with my life could
not be banished, and as I said before
Z then experienced a something akin
to the pang Of death. "-NelU York
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L-Il1 go Abo1lt Nelp OrIen1la.

JANUARY 3, 1868.
We arrived at CarrolltOn, five miles
above the city, and pitched our tents
in a pouring rain, which drenched US
through. The camp is on a level spot,
covered with thick greensward. We
have only to dig eighteen inches and
we have a good we'll, so shallow is the
soil All our cooking and drinking
water has to be brought from the river,
and looks very muddy in our barrels ;
still it is excellent water. CarrOlltOn
is a fine little place on the river, and
on the famed Shell road, near which
our camp lies. Handsome barouches
and gay eqmpages pass our camp on
that magnificent road at all hours.
Trains run each two hours into the
city. I came down one day this week
and went around. There are patrols
who arrest all soldiers-officers also
under the rank of Brigadier General
who cannot show a written pass.
There are few soldiers in the CITY
proper, but about 10000 near it. I
visited the old battle-ground of 1915.
below here. The old trench is almost
Obhterated, but Il little further on is a
line of earthwOrks a mile long, erected
by the rebels to repeI Butler and Far
ragut in the spring of 1862. They
look impregnable, are built like a rail
fence, each panel being about ten rods
longs
They cart oranges here as we do
potatoes at home. We give a cent
apiece for them, or go and pick them
off the trees, Just as we prefer.
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ana their BODIES were brought IN and
laid right in front of the regimental
hospital tent. My orderly sergeant
discovered two of our men among the
killed, so I directed him to have the
bodies taken to our company quarters
for burial. He deputed two colOred
carriers attached to the relief corps to
bring them up, and while they went
off for stretcher asked my lieuten-
ant and several other officers who stood
chatting near by if they wanted to see
some fun. OF cOuse they did. So I
told them to watch me, and, running
over to where the dead privates lay, I
raised the blanket and slipped in be-
tween them. Nearly all the cOlored
men attached to the relief corps had a
great aversion to handling corpses; in
fact, it is a characteristic of the
race, and, although many oYercame the
feeling owing to a forced Familiarity.
still the superstition was always near
the surface. When the carriers re-
turned with the stretcher I lay stiff as
a ramrOd with my eyes closed. I heard
one say: Look yah, jim, dey's thee
hyer, Std o. two Reckon we kvant
TEX 'em all now; less tote this un fust.'
said the other. So thew picked I'D
the body on my left and took it up to
our quarters. Then they returned for
the other two. I held my breath and
kept my muscles rigid when they lifted
me up, then waited until the dead
private was laid alongside Just as
the boys Strengthened up with the load
I gave an unearthIy shrek and, dash
ing over the side, made a bee line for
our tents. The fellow behind yelled
like a whitehead and dropped his end;
his partner grasped the situation, and
in an instant both put after me- Well,
gentlemen, each carried a revolver and
began popping away at the corpse that
dun got 'wayP If I hadn't lodged into
the Quartermaster's tent L should have
been a sure enough corpse in a few
minutes, for both the niggers were
scared to death, and thought the
'so'dger' was bewitched. I lay hid for
half an hour before I dared venture
out, and meantime those rascally Off
GERS had told the joke all over camp.
1t cost me a weeks pay to square my
self"
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The Campfire.
Written for campfire held by Custer Post,
Rock Elm

Written for campfire held by Custer Post,
Rock Elm, Wis.l
Men who at Appomattoz played the generous
And left that last fierce battlefield with eager
With keen, bright eyes, alert. erect. and hair
untouched by rime,
What pictures greet you, far adown the Corri-
dOrs OF Timel
To-day the martial step is gone, the once bright
eye is dim,
The hair is blanched, and weary grown the tire
less arm and limb,
Yet sim your hearts beat firm and true. your
hands are ready still
TO arm In freedoms cause, to save our land
from every ILL.,
And still you gaze upon that flag which CLEANS
with heaven g own dyes,
As mothers look upon their babes. with proud
and tender eyes.
Alas for those who loved it once, who marched
from us away,
Who sleep beneath the plying grass In South
ern graves to-day
How like a long, sad dream it seems, those years
so long ago,
When lines OF biue-o1ad men marched out to
When everywhere the echoing drum and shriu
insistent fife
We're marshaIiing the hosts OF men to fratri-
cidal strife.
How grave and stern the faces grew that to the
sOuthWard turned.
Where through the weary, death-hlled months,
the hostile camp-dres burnedl
So deep hush fell on the land, at home we
seemed to hear
The sentry tread, the lannon's roar, the bull
let's scream Of fear.
But unlike dreams that pass away when rosy
morning breaks,
These dreams their hold on heart ana brain re-
tain while memory wakes;
The eyes that once have looked at death his
shadows always keep,
As deep in placid, sunny pools the rocks dread
outlines sleep.
Tried and proved true-what joy to feel that
though of youth bereft,
Though fortune frOWn and gold may flee, You
still have honor lef5l
He who for duty's sake arose when Freedom
called, "IO arms"
And stood, faithful shield, between our homes
and wars alarms.
Whether he wore the blouse or stars, with sword
musket fought,
We hail a hero, whose true heart our lands re-
dempUiOu wrought!
The years roll on, but high above their tides re-
sistIess sweep
Your names shall shine on glOry's page. and
Fame their roll shall keep;
And while you live our grateful hearts shall
still this pledge renew
All honor and all love for those who wore the
loyal bluel
Rock ELM, Wis.
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H-I91 Wester71 Loalisiana.

On April IS, the date of my last let:
ter, our army was encamped on an i'm
mense prairie near the Vermilion
River. That night there was a tenn
pest of rain which wet US through. 1t
Stacked up long enough for US to cook
breakfast in the morning. One of the
batteries fired national salute by or
der of General Banks, it being the an
niversary of the battle of Lexington.
At six o'clock the army moved off again
up country; but our regiment had been
detached to go back to Berwick City,
sweeping the country of cattle, sheep,
horses and mules. It was a busy Sun.
day for US! I mounted on a mustang
and drove cattle in the woods, sloughs
and prairies, catching up with the regi-
ment about dark AS the result of our
days drive we had over 3, 1000 head of
stock. We stopped two days at a
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had to place him In little shelter tent
all alone and some distance from the
other wounded. I visited him at fre-
quent intervals during the day and
always found him praying or repeating
him drink Of whisky, but he de
clined, saying: 81 want to be sober
when [ meet my God. When the bows
Of to-day try to picture the field of
battle, they must remember that there
were dark, heart-rending scenes as
well as glorious, exciting charges.
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Three such letters, written by an
officer of the Army of the Gulf to his
parents, are before me. The writer
was we'll known to me, and melan-
chOly interest attaches to the letters
from the fact that their author was
killed in battle a few days after the
date of the last one. It will be OBJ
served that the three were written
within a period of six months; and,
taken together, they present a good
idea Of the variety of our soldier life in
Louisiana.
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HL.-Before Port Hudson.
JUNE 3, 1868.

JUNE 3, 1868.
We came from AIgiers up to Spring
! field Landing by steamer, and thence
marched to our lines on Sunday. As
! the regiment passed an open place in
/ the woods in sight of the enemy's works,
! several great shells were thrown over
! at us. One of them struck tree and
| split it, and sticks, dust, and leaves
| flew all about. Others burst Just over
our heads, and some of the men were
struck by pieces, but nobody was hurt
which was quite wonderful, considering
the situation. We lost no time in get
ting away from this dangerous ground.
Arrived at the front, we were put be-
hind one Of the heavy guns of the
Iwenty-first Indiana. Things were
quiet till night, when more of the hos
tile shells exploded over us. The gun
ner of the battery that we support
sights his thirty-pOund Parrot as fine
as a turkey-rihe. When he fires we
stand up to watch the effect of the
shot, and see that it strikes every time
where he aims. Great cOttOn-bale
works conceal this battery. We have
seen him dismOunt more than one of
the enemy's cannon. He says he has
put ball through a house more than
d nile away. monday evening We
were moved into another position, and
now lie within twenty-five rods
of the hostile works. The bullets
are whistling overhead continually, and
we are becoming used to them. The
boys go up to the breastworks and fire
a few rounds occasionally. Most Of
them have fired 40 rounds. 1 have fired
10 or - myself. I Some of the rebel
sharpshOoters have become known as
"The Image" "The Iron-cIad," and
"Davy Crockett" The boys watch
closely and fire when they see curl
Of smoke. They crack their jokes about
going up to the pit to "dismount the
irOn-clad man. A man was shot this
morning opposite us, just outside the
works. He lies there yet; indeed,
there are many such bodies, nobody
daring to approach any of them for
fear Of the same fate. We hear Of
heavy guns and mOrtars being planted
in new places all the time on our side,
and things seem to be getting ready for
a grand bOmbardment. have had TO
come back to brigade hospital, a mile
from our works, to write this.-Chi-
cGgO Ledger.
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Yate soldier, but his dress and man
ners, even there on the battlefield
wounded and dying, showed the cul-
tured gentleman. He was a man of
magnificent physique, broad-shouI-
dered, heavy-set, and with a natural
vitality that enabled him to hang on to
life for a time where nine men out of
ten would have died Instantly from
shock. With the care and medical
skill Of large hospital, with perfect
quiet and every surgical appliance at
hand, there was a shadow of a chance
OF carrying such a case through sue
cessfully; but In the field, surrounded
with wounded, in crowded tents,
each surgeon with over two hundred
wounded to attend to, the hot sun
pouring down upon the canvas roofs,
and, above ali, the necessary removal
from the front over rough roads to the
distant base, made the case a hopeless
one, and it was my painful duty to
inform him of our decision. The man
was a Christian soldier, and death had
no terrors for him. A few messages to
home and loved ones, and earthly things
seemed to be dismissed from his mind.
be fingered for four days patiently
awaiting death, not a murmur escaping
his lips, when gangrene set in and we