Year: 1879

ing as far as the Pacific coast, is
Indifference about the South. Our
people seem to have made up their
minds that the South has always
been overestimated and does not
contain sincere elements of patriot.
ism or good behavior. I do not
know that there is any bitterness
toward them. The feeling is rather
disgust, as toward some worthless
kinsmans"


"Have you been through the
South recently :"


eyes. T have been down during
the past year. I have some inter-
ests in Atlanta, Ga, and I went
there and to New Orleans, and as
far as Texas. The only portion of
the South that struck me with
much promise was Northern Texas,
where it is Inhabited by our own
Northwestern people. They will
make o new Kansas of it, with the
institutions and feelings of good
civilization. As for the rest,
think very little of it. I don't
think I would live in the State of
South Carolina if they were to give
mo the entire Commonwealth for o
barony, 1t is impossible to get q
good meal of victuals in the
South. They have not learned the
first rudiments of cooking. Wher-
ever you go you find your meats
fried in boar's fat. There is one
spot, at least, where I am delicate,
and that is in my stomach. They
have plenty of good game in the
South, but have no conception of
how to prepare it. They gave lis
in Texas fine prairie chicken, which
had the promise of making q
delicious meal, but suddenly it
would be returned, oil baked in
sow's fat For Gods sake I said
to the cook at Atlanta, cant you
take that and have little butter
put on it and cook it like Chris
tian 2


"Another thing struck me il,
almost every part of the South
the vicious, surlY looks Of the young
men. Throughout the whole North
the young men have genial, con
siderate, kind countenances. In
the South the young men too often
look ut you as if to say, what in the
dovil are you thinking about me
now?' They look ready to burst
out and cut some body for fancied
slight. Such state of society is
far from amiable, when at the very
brink of and hopefulness of life you
see the young men wearing coun-
tenances like Absalom. / noticed
also, that they have great numbers
Of military academies, where they
are drilling and wearing uniforms.


THE REBEL YELL.


t'In O certain place in Texas I was
taking an evening walk along the
road at the outskirts of the town,
when I heard somebody walking
behind me, and found it to be an
athletic young man. Suddenly he
raised yell like an Indian which
made my blood run cold. T turned
about to investigate this savage,
and he paid no attention to me
until he got right up opposite to
me, when, without saying word,
he raised another unearthIy yell. I
then turned around and said, What
do you mean, sir, raising such n
scream as that at my side?' by
God, it is q free country, and I
reckon I can yell 2 NO, sir, I re"
piled; Il don't see why you should
choose this hour of the evening
when you come up to a person you
don't know to shout like an Apache.


"Now, I suppose that young
creature was merely practising his
rebel yell, as the highest intellectual
and social form of amusement he
knew anything about.


"I looked at their country, GOV.
cred with pines and occasionally
showing lean pig and I thought tc
myself, My God! Did we leave
100000 of our young men and
$600,000,000 in such country as
this 2"


The Garrote is the instrument OF
death always employed in executions
in Spain. Moncasi was it's latest
victim, and i t is stated that since
the restoration Of 1875 nearly fifty
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