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tTha opinion of lh* Attorney-General U
too Ubsrate for ttUfrtph and Ui? reaeonIng
too close for a aynopeis. The following
verbatim extracts cover the conclusions:
I find it impossible, under the provisions
of this Aot, to comprehend such an official
as a Governor of one of these Statos appointed
to offiee by ono of these military
oommanders; certainly he is not the Governor
reoognised by the laws of the State
and olothed as anoh with the ohief executive
power; nor is hs appointed as a military
governor for a Stata which haa no
lawful (governor, under the pressure of an
existing necessity to exercise powers at
large. The intention, no doubt, was to ap
point him to fill a vacancy occasioned by n
military order, and tc put him In the plaee
Wfcf iKa vnmnvail AAwarnaa fn Avonnla ike
^hnettons of tb? office aa provided by law
The law take* do eognixanoe of aoeh officir 1,
and ha is clothed with no anthority or color
of wutbority. What is true as to the governor
U squally true as to all the other
legislative, executive and judicial officers
of the Stalo. If the military commander
can oust one of them from his
office, he can oast them all; If lie can fill
one vacancy, he can fill all vacanoies; and
thus usurp all civil jurisdiction into his
own bands, or tho hands of those who hold
their appointments from him, and are subject
to his power of removal, and thus frus
trnfo the very right secured to the people
by this Act. Certainly this Act is rigorous
enough in the power which it gives, with
ail its severity. The right of electing their
own officers is still left with the people, and
it must be preserved.
I must not be understood as fixing limits I
to the power of the military couiraandera
lu caso of insurrection or riot. It may
happen that an Insurrection in one of these
States may be so general and formidable as
to require the temporary suspension of all
civil governments and the establishment of
martial law in its place, and tha same
things may be true as to local disorder or
riot, in reference to the civil government of
the city or place where it breaks out.?
Whatever power U necessary to meet snob
emergency, the military commander may
properly exercise. 1 confine myself to the
proper authority of tho military commander
where peace and order do prevail. It is
not allowable to displace tho civil officers
and appoint others in their places under
any idea that the military commander can
bolter perform his duties and carry out tho
general purposes of Iho Act by the agency
of ?ivfl officers of his. choice, rather than
by the lawful incumbents. The Act gives
biro no right to resort to such agency, but
does give him the right to have a sulfieient
military force to enable him to perform
hie duties and enforce hie authority
within the district to which he is assigned,
in the suppression of insurrection Bud ritl.
The military commander is wholly independent
of the civil authoiity.
So, too, in the trial and punishment of
eriminala and offenders, he may supersede
the civil jurisdiction. His power is to be
exercised in these special emergences, and
the means are pnt into his bands by which
it is to be exercised ; that i? to pay, sufficient
military forco to enable auch officer to
perform his duties and enforce ids authority;
and military tribunals of hie own appointment
to try and punish offenders?
these arc strictly military powers to bo exo
cutod by military authority, not by the civil
authority or by civil officers appointed by
him to perform ordinary civil duties. If
theso emergencies do not happen?if civil
order is preserved and criminals are duly
prosecuted by the regular crimiual courts
the military power, though present, must
10'unio pafsive. Its proper function is to
preserve the peace?to act promptly where
lltA nfffiffA \n k?rnki>n aihI rffsinrn nrrlpr ?
When that is done, and their authority may
again safely resume its function, the miliary
power becomes again passive, but on
guard and watchful. Tbir, In my judgmont(
is tbo whole scope of tbe military j ower
conferred by this Act. In arriving at this
construction of the Act, I have not found it
necessary to resort to the strict construction
which is allowable.
Case of Cokjurino.?In the District
Court yesterday, Uulleo Scott, one
of tbo oolored prosecutors, stated his
ground for bclioving the prisoner, l'rince
Burns, to bo guilty, that he had discovered
the fact by conjuration. lie d -cribed
tbo ceremony of conjuration
oAmawhnt as foliowa : " I nut four slicks
of different lengths on tLe door, fid
6j?id sacred words; I then put four
tones of different size* on the > %nd
sa>d more sacred word-; I cove- ibe
tones with my hat, and said more sacred
words; I turned my coat wrongside
out, and sr:d r ore sacred words ;
I covered the sticks with my coat, and
aid more snored words; I gave the
four sticks and four stones, one of each,
to four negroes, nnd said more sncr^d
words! I examined and fonnd Prince
])urns had the longest slick and the
I I biggest stone, and I went to ibo Magis
trato aud swore he bad my money.
[Charleston Mercury.
Fsrmjcrs look well after yow hen
manure. We adopted a plan some
years ago, by putting boards about two
feet below (be roosting poles, upon
which they deposit all the manure.?
f Tb?n, once or twice a week, Lave it well
Iseraped, and put in barrels. Yoti will
then have, in the course of a fear, the
very beat manure you could possibly
sue for your com end other crop*.
TWo Cincinnati Enquirer mjk tint
i Col. ft. ft. Carpenter, of Covington. (Ohio,)
ha* received the appointment of Registrar
of Bankruptcy for the State of South Cat o
lina.
Ocn. Pope li"s irsned orders against
' int<-iforonoe with llio freedom of rp<*<?ch
nnd ' ( the pre-* <>o the (>art of port eo??[
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GREENVILLE^ 8. C.
THURSDAY, JUNE SO, 1S67.
Btcti^wlas to Vote?Do our JPeoplo Caro
for fhtmitlTM ud their Oouatrr t
Many of tbo editors aire expressing doubts
and misgivings as to tbo intentions of a numerous
class of white mcti, in this and otber
Southern States, wbo nro not disfranchised,
whether thoy will rculixo tho importance of
registering their names as voters under tbc
Congress Military Bill. We ask ourselves,
can it bo possible that there Is a single white
man to be found, not a lunatio or idiot, entitled
to register, who will neglect or rcftase to
do so 7 and by so refusing, transfer tho power
and government of Iho State into the hands,
perhaps of dest rue tires for a generation to come.
Those who are entitled to register, and wry
fow are disfranchised, indeed, who shall nes
gleet- to do so, will demonstrate their utter
unfitness for solf-gOTorument, and prove that
they desire and?ought to'havo political in as ten.
They will betray every principlo of jus"
tie? to themselves and to their kindred and
race, and provo that they have never deserved
any other treatment rroui Congress than to l>o
made tbo subjocts and inferiors of Afrieans.?
Let every man, as he values his birth-right,
his self-respect hereafter, tbo good opinion of
every good man and woman in tbo civilised
world, fail not to register, to secure, nt any
rata, tho right to voto in tho new Government
of tho State that Congress seeks to establish
For ourselves, if entitled, (tho Senior Editor of
this paper Was a member of tho Legislature
before tho war, and is dis'-.inchiscd) wo would
mako almost any sacrifico to socuro tho registration
of our name as a voter.
Wo are inclined to believo that ether men '
tako tbo same view of this matter with our- '
reives. Wo do not soo how there con bo two (
opinions, yet no les^authority than tho Char- '
lesion JVetes insists that among tho white pcov '
pie there w'M bo but two parties of any consequence,
thoso who will register and voto
convention or no convention, and those who
will foolishly, (and wickedly, we may add,) I
nogloct or refuse to register becauso they are
disgusted with politics. Ilow unwise tonban- '
don tbo country to tbo chances of negro ig- 1
noranco, and tho scheming impostors who may i
seek to mislead them to their own destruction
and tho destruction of all that is really civil- ;
i od and decent in society, merely from a fooling
of t -mporary disgust and indiflbronco.
Let no man suppose that ho takos no part
in politics by refusing to register, or that he
docs not thereby voto ono wny or the other.?
Most emphatically ho does take part by refusing
to register, aud ho docs give a vote in
favor of that which ho airucts to abhor. Suppose,
at any nrociuct. there are ono hundred
rotors, or persons entitled to register ; there
are forty-nino of thorn ready and willing to
register and to voto any way they may be told
to voto by the emmissary of Stui'IIkxs, or I
somo other destructive leveller, ntid fifty-one j
of ^hp hundred arq really will-informed and
honest men, who have seme conservative ideas
and real respect for frco institutions, as well as
for their fathers before lint. . *d lee .* ildrcu
tha. nro to cuuio after tbcm, which wo prosutno
ovory honest whilcuian living docs possess j
now, lot there bo only two of tho fifty-ono neglect
to register, and they thereby rote fifty
of their friends powerless at that precinct.?
Let throo of tbo fifty-ono refuse, uud these
throe thereby vote?giro thoir voices particularly
in favor of tho forty-nino, and make
thorn tho majority. Wo would havo equal
respect for a man who registers and votes
wrong, as for ono who would voto right, if ho
voted at all, but rofusos to cxorciso tho power
of obtaining a voto by registering.
There nro many sins of omission more bonious
and unpardonable thna those of eomnu'ttion.
Ho who, govcrnod by passion, impulse,
ignoranoo or artful persuasion, does a wrong
deed, or commits aggressive crime, is innocent
Compared to bun, who, knowing whnt is right,
and having power to aid in preventing wrong,
coldly aud indifferently ncglocts to cxorciso
tho opportunity of doing good or preventing
mischief. There is a fearful proof afforded by
llim who is to bo the final Judge of all men
of this great truth. The sins enumerated, for
which tho wicked shall bo turned off iDto hell
with the devil uud his angels, are not thoso of
commission, but tho sins of negloct and omission
of duty. Lot us liopo tbnt there will be
but few whito men in South Carolina who r>rc
teud to honesty or patriotism, or who have
any rogard for their follow-mon, that will ro?
fuso or noglact to register. Lot them nogloct
it, and no after ropontanco or remorse can ever
rodocin thorn, or cntitlo thoiu to forgiveness, if
they have sonto enough to ho called accountable
beings. We are satisfied that cvory man
whoso attention is called to this subject will,
upon a littlo reflect ion, feel called upon to
register his name as a voter, and after ho docs
so, ho will have it in his power to vote as he
pleases, or not to vote, If ho chooses, on any
particular occasion. Every man who thinks .
as wo do, should feel it his duty to cncourago
the hesitating and indifferent to register by all
mcaus.
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Tho Military Commanders' Power to
Btmovo Civil Officer*.
Altorncy-Ooncral 8tasisbijrt lias publishad
an elaborate opinion on the Reconstruc.
tion Ac , and lake* the ground that the
Commanding Oenerala have no power to
remove Governors, Mayors, Sheriffs and
other civil officers in the Southern States,
We refer to an extract from tha concluding
part of the Attorney General's opinion,
which we take from the telegraphic column
of the Phuniz.
To. 4 ti..i iL, T>_ f J A
us Bii|i|Mmvu I nut tnu i ri'Biucni will orJar
tlie ristoruilon of that liavt been
removed
A Now l'oat Oflloe Building.
Wo are tdeaaed to elate that the Tost
Ofllce has been removed into the new and
very neat building recently erected on the
east aide of Main Street, by Mr. Swapdaijc,
nearly opposite the Manaiou House, and
adjacent to the public square. We eon"
gratnlnte our excellent Postmaster, Mr. Am
hr.s, and the citixena of the Town, on having
the post otfice so well and conveniently
situated.
e*3jr The article on our outside, headed
" film rafter of 'he Ch'n e," should he
t i. v
5 iTJI E Snj
The Radical end Union PtHr<
Practically we ere ell radicals and unionists
le this State ; wo here conformed to tbo nitre
Limoolr programme. South Caroline la ea
much e non-alavoholdlng State ea Ohio or
New York or Maaaeohnsotta. There ia noheatilo
element between ua; nobody in South Caroline
hea any designs against the Union ; on
the contrary, Tory body ia mora enxiona to
reeonatruct it, and preaorre it ea it wet, then
tho ultra Radicals of tho North, end more in
fhror of peace end quiet, then thoy possibly
con be, for we hero more Interest in it then
they have. In truth, we feer many of tho
politician# there do not went the Union restored,
or poeoo cither, for they gain temporary
notoriety by koeping up strife end oontontion.
Wo *eu no uso in anybody, for any
good or potriotio purpose, striving to stir up
(w*; vl^wlMMMVU IU IUU OMHI. ? U Wlllll
Tory man, white and black, to hare only their
Juat rtghta; nobody opposes this. Tho negroes
wore protected by the State law in all tboir
personal rights and Hbcrtios, eron before tho
Military Bill. Thoro is no powor to erade impartial
suffrage under the powers that he; in
fact, tho Stato was prti>ored for impartial suffrago
to all now citiions who hod never voted
boforo, oven prior to tho Congress Act. W hat
wo need in this Stato, is a party who will dovoto
themselves its truo interest and proas
parity; who will favor aodornto taxes and
unito as ono man against tho unjust tax on
cotton laid by Congress, and who will bo willing
to elect good men to office, known to bo
friends of tho best interest of tho peoplo,
and who are determined to prcscrvo all tho
most valuablo of our ancient laws and institutions
adapted to our changed Condition, and to
thoroughly reform or ropudiato thoso that aro
not. Wo uro equally opposed to ultra Radicalism
and nltra Conservatism. Thoro is a
class of modorate Radicals at tho North. Tho
best men of their party who ?ro earnestly in
Tavor^of union and poaeo, theso and tho Democrats
and Southern Conservatives, may all
unite for tbo good of the country ; call thorn
republicans, unionists or what you please.
Locturo by Rev. J. O. Furman, D. D.
Circumstances prevented our having tho
great pleasure wo had anticipated of hearing
l)r. Puiiman's lecture before the Literary
Club on Tuesday evening lust. Unfortunately
tho weather that evening was very threatening,
and tho large audience that would
otherwise have assembled, was kept away,
ladles especially ; they did uot expect the
lecture would be delivered, owing to th?*
rain. We are informed, however, that a
very respectable assembly was present on
the occasion, and wo have learned from
gentlemen of llio highest enpneity of judg"
ing such things. Mint the lecture on Demcmtiievks'
opinion of eloquence was both ntde
find interesting. The reputation of Dr.
Fcrman as one exaelling in genuine ?lo
qucoce, good taste nnd sound logic, made
tho theme lie s-lccted promise a fine enter
laimncnt, which those present doubtless cn
i-yed
Religious Kotico.
The Southeru Baptist < Convention, which
met lust month, at Memphis, appointed
Saturday, 22d instant, as a day of humilhi
tion nnd prayer. ltuv. J. C. Furman, D. I) ,
will conduct tho r?lljfiou? oxcciscs on thnt
day, in the Greenville Dnptiel Cburuli, nl
11 o'clock.
Tuk Spartanburg S[><trtun says that it is
requested ta announeo that there will bo n Barbecue,
after tho stylo of bettor days, given at
Pacolot popot on the 4th of July next.
Tho above paper also says that by tho request
of suudry citizens in tho neighborhood
of Hobby's, sovcral gentlemen h.tvo consentod
to attend at that placo on Saturday, tho 2t?th
day of Juno Inst., to diicau tho imjiortant political
subjects of tbo day. It is hoped that
the citizens will generally attend, as the condition
of tho country makes it tho duty of all to
seek information, and consult as to tiro best
policy to bo adopted.
Chorrica.
Wo return our thanks to Mr. W. II. Was
sox, our friend and subscriber, for a basket
of nice ripe Chevrlea. This kindness of
Mr. W. has subserved two purposes, via..
it has furnished pies for our table and an
item for the news psper.
rr> O. II ? 1 I ?
iiic iunriuu oicir, an uAiuuuia uxt'iiuugr, m
tho versatility of its " luuko up," gives its readers
tho following :
A bachelor friend stepped into our office, recently,
nlid said he wanted a wife, a good economical
wife?one who wears " her own hair,"
bcr own " buixuuis" and her own " calves,"
that in the present scarcity of money, hooould
not iiffbrd to buy such things. Wo think him
decidedly sensible?generally wo don't think so
much of bachelors?and commend to him tho
" glial" who is fond of cider, and too economical
to buy it, but prefers to oat the apples and
then have some nice young fellow to squooxe
tier afterwards. Doubtless such a couple
would mako a " livio."
Tho Star has received a bunch of vory fine
ouioos, the largest of which iuoasurod cloven
inches in oircumfercnoc.
Pair Yield.
A little pateh of wheat, jnst below onr
printing oflioe, owned by Mr. 8. Swanoai.b,
about one half of an ucre, yielded twenty
bushels of clean wheat. This la vary good;
if any of our raadera can beat it, we want
thaw to tend na word. Can't " Ijvte Bo
ginner " eelipae ill
Fa/ up the Goats.
Attention ia called to the adrerliaemenl
of our very worthy District officer*, Sherlfl
Siilmatb and Maj. McDaniel, Clerk of tlx
Court. Aa theae gentlemen are dependent
upon their cfficea for the aupport of themselves
and families, their request should r?
eeive the ottention it deserves. Wo have
Iteen authorized t<y thorn to aay that they
will receive, in payment of coste, corn
wheat, bacon, flour, or anything of horoi
produce that conduee to the well being o!
their families. Take heed.
The Leeturo before the Literary Clnb or
next Tuceday evening, will be delivered by
Ilcv. Profotaor J \mks II. Caruvmc, of Woffonl
College. Subject?United States Conai
Surv.-y
on the
other a?eUonCH^P^KwP|^H^^I^^^|
the Saluda
course, were very fullTIISJp^MMHHfl^H
toms and carryirg off Wveral^WWBjB^HBj
regret to learn that Dunham's Bridge^HfWI
Anderson road, has been carried awajT^^Jj
Ton Court of Equity for Abbeville District
was oonvonod there on tho 10th, says tho /Ve??,
bis Honor, Unapt 1>. Lc*?s ksab, of Charleston,
presiding. Xhe fris* further says :
Tho Dockets of tho Court are crowdod with
largo incroaso of old business and an unusual
array of now oases, but most of thoso involve
no matters of litigation and arc being
rapidly disposed of.
?<4?^e?>
Mr. IToyt, Editor of the Anderson Intelligencer,
bss roturncd home, from a recent
I vt.li In hi, *. 1.1!... In T an,.n. ni.lptnl
rejuvenated and reinvigorated. Conduct
ors of the Press can appreeialo going from
labor to refreshment; but alas liow seldom
do they indulge in that sort of a thing. If
it were possible, we would expect the Intel
ligenccr, after this temporary relief of its
Editor from the toils and anxieties of his
position, to double its interest He reports
the crops of Laurens District as exeellont.
In liis absence, his plsco wss filled by
Rov. W. E. WalTkhr, of tho South Carolina
Baptiet, a gentleman whose cloverneos is
exceeded only by his qualities as a Christian
minister. Long live tho Anderson Pros*,
say we.
By the way, this latter gentleman has
but recently taken to himself a " bettor
half." We wish him, although at a late
dote, all the follelty that can ei'her be itn
ngined or realised.
The Intelligencer has received the tallest
specimen of oats, grown upon upland, it has
ever seen in that aection, by Mr. James
Webb, of that Distriot, Five feet and six
inches is the measurement, and of the kind
known na black oats.** Can none of onr
Greenville farmers beat this?
Tho poor of Willianistou return their thanks
| through tho Intelligencer, to Mr. C. Gravely,
of Charloston, for twenty bnshols of corn,
gratuitously distributed among them.
Tho Laurcnsvillo Herald, of Friday last,
records that two prisoners conflnod in jail at
that place, made their oscnpo on Wednesday,
12lh, by sawing out tho grating. Tholr names
are W*. J. Eimks nnd Jamkr A. Greer.?
Thcso men were sentenced at tho last term of
our Court, to the Penitentiary, ono for stealing
cotton, tho othor for homo stealing. A reward
of ono hundred dollars each it offered for their
nrrcsi, uy mo oiicrui 01 l.aurcns jmstrlct.
Tbo decease of J. 0. Hunter, of (hat District,
Is rcporiod by (ho Herald. Ho was highly
esteemed by alt who knew him, and Lis loss
is a serious one to tlio District, as ho wss a
tr.nn of fine Intellectual attainments, and a
lawyer by profession, though-at tho time of
his denth was not in tho practice.
Laurens is going to havo a Billiard Club
nuil Heading llnotn. Tho editor is requested
by somo of tho young men of the village to
mention tho fact that efforts nro boing made
to rcvivo the old Bi'linrd Club, alistfor which
purpose will bo found at tho Drug Store of
James, 1'ratt <1 Co. It is also proposed to
establish a Bonding Room in connection with
tiio Billiard Club.
Tho Newberry Herald, another of our very
readable papers, gives its rcadors tho annexed
paragraph :
" A Promise or Luck.?A dcarfriond is informed
in nnswer to ' whether we arc suffering
from a surfeit of vcgotublcs,' that though wo
havo a ' garding,' tho truck ' is not superabundant.
llcl-g unfortunately located in
' gravel town,' vegetation is on tho spindlo
shank order, therefore a supply of tho things
mentioned, such as cabbage, beans, cucumbers,
squashes, potntocs, Ac., would eomo in very
nicely, just now. 8ho can send them along,
togotr - with a few spring ohickons. Wo nro
rchrioed to 'earn that sho has mora of tho abovo
limn can possibly bo disposed of in tho family.
It is very true as sho says ' that Editors livo
goodness knows how, and that judging from
the papers they scarcely have anything to cat,
ever,' this is all so; hut when sho further says
that' eating is not in our lino' sho is mistaken.
Her very loud invitation to 'go down, cat and
grew fat' is accepted; in tho meantime send
along tho promised blossings, that wo may livo
till that happy season."
It adds concerning tho weather, Ac : " Sinco
last Wodncsday copious showers of rain havo
fallen, much to tho benefit of garden vegetation.
Tho soaaon has been very favorablo so far for
the kiuhon garden. Our citizens have luxuriated
for sct^ral weeks past upon such delicious
esculents as snap beans, squashes, Irish potatoes,
beets ; and latterly tho cucumber lends its
llnvor to tho noon repast- Green peas and
fresh crisp lettuce,etc., are yet in seasou ; while
corn, tomatoes, okro, melons, cabbage and
hosts of other edibles, uro just" boiling ahoail,"
as fast as thoy cau to keep our people from
starving. A garden is a fino reconstructor."
The Herald complains that all classes of
Newberry community arc now suffering for tho
want of somotbiug to do?there is nobusinoss
?literally nothing doing. The very etreets
aro deserted, o^opt by the clerks and their
merchants, who stand upon tho curb stones,
from " early morn till dewy eve."
Greenvillo is " some " on hard and dull tiinos,
1'ko bor neighbor.
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- or The Editor of the Athens (Geo.)
Watchman advertises for two Aeree bull
'< dogs, for which he offers a reasonable prior.
1 Can't the boys about Greenville furnish him
who nunarea i
or The weevil lies appeared among the
t wheat near Richmond, Va.
C V%T Why cannot yon prevent tho Missis,
ippi from overflowing ita banket Because,
dam it you ean'U
Reports Irom every section of the country,
North, South, Eaat, and Weet, represent tho
cereal and fruit crops aa generally lino.
) tW The flret Minister ot State aver eent
this eonntry from Oreece has just arrived
> in Washington,
^ The total remittances from California for
the Southern Relief Commission amount to
, #74,000, in gold.
< tw Tho citisena of Charleston are mneh
I depressed because ot the sweeping natnro
I of Oon. Orders No. 31 City stuck fa!l:n 10
i to l r. per cent.
o
tho molt
U
raisod; though
tables may bo dispensed with,
enionoo than corn, yet they r*af?raBHH|
order in point of iinportanco amongUxVBEj&S*
series of life for subsistence, and roqraHBB
little labor and attention to be raiaod^HSK|
county of tbo State. Cattle, hogs, shdwjjfl&il
horses, without which no Toxlan wdjfljHs? j
that ho could get along with any comfoiv^H
raised almost without snit in anv Mart of the!
State. Immigrants fVom other couutrios are
astonished to And how easy it is, onywhoro in
Texas, to have as many of these animals as
thoy have any use for, and how little capital
and labor aro inquired, with industry, to accumulate
large fortunes in every part of our
State, in stock raising. It will, howoror, be
bo socu that certain portions of our State are
bettor adopted to raising cattlo and horses;
ethers to raising hogs, and others again to
slioep raising.
Tho western counties present a vostoxpanso
of tho finest gracing for stock in America,
where herds of thousands aro annually becoming
markotablo beevos without any expenso
tho year round, but that of hordi
ing and branding. In thoso counties aro
also found somo of tho best ehocp ranges,
whore fortunes aro being mado on tho smallest
enpilal, merely enough to purchase the finoet
breeds of rams, by which means tho eoorso
Mexican wool of twonty yoars ago, has now
bcon generally so improved in quality, as to
command three or four times tho prioe. No
forago or feed of any kind is required to be
gnthcrod for winter uso; cattlo, shoep, and
horsos food themselves, winter as woll as sumin
or. In tho more northern oountios, howovor,
whoro tho stocks aro smaller and tho wintor
colder, many farmers find it better to have some
hay or fodder to food to their tniloh eows and
shoep in the worst weather. In those eountles,
tho stock ranges aro frequently timbered
lands, which afford protection fnasn the cold.
Tho cotton region of Texas embraces nearly
all tho conntics cast of the San Antonio river,
and eastward of a lino duo north flrora tho town
of San Antonio to Hod rivor. But tho conntics
best adapted to cotton, nro thoso on tho
(Jttndnlttpc, the Colorado, tho Brazos, Old Canoy,
Oyster Creek, tho Trinity, Sabine, and |
Red river, whore, in ordinary soasons, tho
viold has usuallv been almost a halo
pounds) to tbo aero. Thoro has never yet boon
cultivated ono hundredth part of tbo rich cotton
lands of those counties. Tbo vast wealth
of tbo cotton region of Texas is still undeveloped,
and millions of uercs of the finest cotton
lands iu tbo world ore still lying useless as
t!u y were fifty years ago. Hut although tho
river lands abovo designated yield tho largest
crops of cotton, yet. tho uplands in all the
counties designated usually yield from one-hall
to three quarters cf a halo to tho aero, and
their cultivation is often found to be quite as
profitable us tho bottom lands, from thogroutcr
facility of cultivation. Taken togcthor, tho
cotton counties constitute near ouo-tbird of
tho area of Texas, and havo a larger ninount
of rich virgin soil adopted to this atopic, than
probably all the cotton States cast of tho Mississippi.
Tbo wheat region of Texas, though it embraces
scmo thirty counties, and perhaps many
more not yet settled, is not as extensive as that
adapted to cotton, lty this wo mean tboso
counties especially adapted to whoat, tbo avorngo
yiold of which, in ordinary seasons, is
about 22 bushels to the aero. Wo say this because,
in fact, wheat may bo, and often is,
growu to a limited extent in most of the cotton
counties down to the ooast, the yield being 10
or 12 bushels to tho acre, ltyo and barley are
inure generally grown, and ylold better In tbo
lower and more western couutlos than whoat.
Indeed, barley, bus proved to bo ono of tho
most reliable and profitable products in must
of tho cotton, as well as wheat counties. Oats
are also quite goncriUly raised in all tho more
settled portions of Texas. Tho wheat region,
properly so-callod, embraces chiefly tho northern
portions of Texas, Dallas being near tho
contro of it..
I will givo you a description of Dullas
county; as It is genorully admitted, to bo
tho host for irrowini/ wlifint in ihn A?b?a
of Texas. This County was orgunixed in 1847,
and then contained a population of about 600
inhabitants. Tho County embraces an area of
900 square miles, nnd now contains a population
of 12,COO whiles and 1,000 blacks. Tho
land is black, sticky prairio, liberally interspersed
with t mber, in sufficient quantities
for nil agricultural and manufacturing purposes.
The soil is exceedingly rich and lortilo,
and whon well cultivated most abundantly
rowards tho husbandman for his labor. Dallas,
tho county seat, has about 2,000 inhabitants,
and is increasing ic population more
rapidly than any town in Northern Texas.?
Lancaster is a flourishing Tillage, situated
16 miles south of Dallas, and contains about
600 inhabitants. Cedar IIill, Seyono, and
lirockinridgo are small villages, situated in
the midst of an industrious and onergotio population.
Tbero nro a large number of flourishing
schools in the county; nnd Dallas has been
solectcd by the Cumberland l'rcabytoriana as
the location for a college, to bo under tho eontrol
of that Church. Tho poople are industrious,
moral, and rcliuious. and take rront into
rest in tho establishment of good school*.?
Tbo principal product* of tho County arc
wheat, coru, onto, ryo, ut,d hurley, onch of
which i* raised in larger quantities than in
any other county in Texas, and the ylohi per
aero equals that of any section of tho Union.
At Lancaster thoro is a foundry, where all
the castings required to repair wills, reapers,
and throihcrs aro undo promptly und on reasonable
terms. At Dnllns, Cedar Hill, and
Lancaster, aro machlno shops, where renpere
and threshers, and nil other agricultural implements,
arc | manufactured as cheap as anywhere
in tho North, and of a bettor quality.?
Labor employed In tho production of whoat,
barley, and corn pays tho most remunerative
wage?, more so than when employed In anyi'
ing Tin p 'ff >.f unlmp'ovcd lamb
Tor/'uaofni
Poultry ta rtiiaod in
settled county in tho State. If thefw^B|??^^HB
family in Toxua without obfokona, egg*,
litter, It ia their own fkult; that ia, If ihoy .
hare been hero long enough to raiea a crop.
Rico la grown In but few countiea, and only
for family use, and very few of our people
know how to raise It The upland rloe may,
Uowovor, bo grown successfully on the low
marshy and hammock lands throughout tho
State.
Bcforo tho war, Sea Island cottoo was sueco?8.ully
cultivated by a fow persons on the
islands along our coast, and also en the main
lands bordering on our bays. But the want
of the proper kind of gins for separating tho
roods from it, renders Its enltivatton rather unofl
table, or loss so, wo boliove, than that of
. j short staple cotton. It is, however, ad*
mlttod by good judges, that, with a reasonable
amount of capital end skill, tho Soe Island
cotton may bo .profitably grown along noarly
our wholo coast country. There are meay articles
prodnood ia Texas, which our spaoa will
not admit of at present.
We may here remark that the castor oil bean,
: or Palms Chris tl, grows with greater luxuriance)
and more spontaneously than wa have
ever known it ia any other country; wad If
thoro is a market for tho oil, wo predict that
it will constitute hereafter a profitable product
for oxport,*and yield a largo rovonuo to tho
State. But wo have no spaoo to enumerate all
tho products of tho soil to which our State ia
adapted; we ean, howovor, truly say that wo
scarcely know of any product whioh is not, or
may not, be grown In Toxss, as tho variety of
our soil and cllmato is such as to adapt our
Stato to both Northern and Sonthorn products.
TKXAN,
The New Orleans Picayune, of the 7lit
says:
We hoard, yesterday, of a merchant who
went, one morning, among hie clorke, and
v?,i tr ii.... ?.- i ??j o ?
?V" i? MIVJ Iiuu i rgimci uu. VUC UI
told him ho had not, and intimated that ha
did not caio to?would not degradohimMlf
eo much?did not earo how tho eleolion
weut?the country was gone to?anyhow I
Well, said tho merchant, if you do not earo
to vote, think yourself too good to do av
..nd do not care how the eleolioa goes, you
cannot do justice to me, whoeo entire inter*
cats depend upon the oity end State going;
into the hands of safe, prudent and eonserv*
ative men. I advise you to go and register;
at all events, I have no use for your services
until you do so, as I know that there la
no impodiment whatever In the way of your
registering, if you try.
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Ax End or Wabs.?A chemist, of Marseilles,
professes to havs invented a saw
preparation of Greek Are, which, unless the
the description is outrageously exaggerated,
will certainly put an end to all war. With
this terribla agent of deotroet loo, tho inventor
claims that bo could envelop in flames an
army of 100,000 men, from a distance of
1,000 yards, within less than Ave minutes.
In a naval battle, be eould run into the enemy,
and, in fifteen seconds, cover hie decks
with a torrent of flame, which would barn
tho rigging, penetrate the hatchways and
instantaneously stifle all tho erevr. The invention
seems to have one little drawback,
however, which may prevent its general lisUoduction;
for, as the chemist himself
naively admits, " neither victors nor von*
qniecd would return from tho Add of battle"
on which this terribla fire was used,?
In fact, as both armies would be destroyed,
it would puzzle historians to decido which
was the victor and whieb the vanquishedAcoucta,
Jtine 17th.?The registration of
voters commences this week In Georgia.
A white man named W. 8. Flynn. tare
keeper on the Alabama and Gulf Roa?, una
been murdered by two freedmen?his head
; *n'i ihoc Mu>g onoppod with mi u< and
his homo burned. The tuardorere were arrested
by colored men. Their indignation
*u to greet that it was with great difficulty
they were prevented from lynching the e?iprlte
by white citizens.
Tun Poles not honorably and wieely In repadiating
the attack made by a faaatle
madman open the Emperor of
They hare undoubtedly been wronged fry
Russia, and their cause look# anything
hopeful ; but any countenaaee given to f
scheme of murder would have utterly rolaed
it forever, and deprived them of tbecyarpathy
of the civillaed world.
g3T It ie stated' aa a remarkable fact,
that, vlitrssssot a single lineal and legitimate
descendant of Charles I, of England,
is now la existence, the defendants of the
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i vwvwi mv w w n'uuu ?u oftrjr r?oi vc
life abort of royally.
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Hiram Power*, the groat Amarieea
sculptor, who hna been for thirty yaora absent
in Italy, writes to a friend in Wtihiay
ton that ha ia Coming tnek to tha United
States In the fall. 1 to it now about sixty
V?orr of Bf'e,
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