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2 For the Georgia Grange,] Do Not Leave Georgia. Mr. Editor: I am glad to learn that so large a number of persons are not removing from the State this winter as did during the one of ’72. lam grat ified to ascertain that our people—par ticularly planters—have determined to make another trial before they go to newer States under the expectation of doing better, with all the uncertainties attending a removal, and the sacrifices and the privations which it must in volve. I trust that in a few years they will greatly aid in representing the wealth of the State. By wealth, Ido not mean particularly banks, or money factions, but represent it by cotton, wool, corn, wheat, oats, hay, live stock, manufactured articles of prime neces sity and innocent luxury ; by manufac turing establishments increasing under the application of skill a hundred fold the value of the raw material upon which they operate; and by improved and cultivated farms abounding in all the substantial comforts of life, and by healthful and enlightened labor ren dered more and more productive. Why leave Georgia ? She now has a Governor whose virtues in private life are unassailable, and whose general reputation places him out of the reach of slander. The humble do not charge him with pride, for he is polite and ac cessible to all classes of his fellow citizens ; and the proud cannot hate him for his familiarity, for he never compromises or forgets his dignity. Fault-finders cannot censure him, for they have been unable to discover any thing which can be considered any error •in “head or heart.” His administra tion is just such a one as we need, and daily adds to his popularity. She has judges of talent, discretion, and humanity, and with these qualifi cations, firmness, independence, and a fearlessness of consequence in the dis charge of duty. Statesmen, rich in the gifts of ge nius, and the virtues of patriots, who are able to defend and support their opinions with eloquence, and enforce their reasoning with the charms of fin ished composition. Lawyers, who know the rights of the people, and the value of freedom and good institutions to all. They have a full understanding of the value of civil, religious and political liberty, and fear lessly declare their opinions; are skilled in the technical proceedings of the law, to defend the accused,and to prosecute for the rights of the injured and op pressed. We have a wise and pious clergy, whose lives are spent in giving stability to morals, and elevation to hopes; who brace the mind of suffering humanity by the precepts of wisdom, and smooth the bed of the dying by the promises and consolations of inspiration. Learned physicians, who readily ex pl dn nature’s mysteries, record her laws, and give lasting benefit to man kind. Men of science, whose influence has entered the workshop of the mechanic, travels on the high road of business, and is causing the obstinacy of ignor ance, and the indifference of busy thrift iness to yield. A press, composed of men of energy, taste, and talent, by moans of which every event, every discovery, every ex periment, every plausible undertaking, of every individual in every other State, yea, country, is speedily published. Our State press exposes defects, sug gests improvements, rebukes ignorance, and diffuses useful knowledge. We have teachers of pure taste, ac curate erudition, logical acuteness and dignified rectitude of principles and character, who have inaugurated school systems full of present efficiency, and yet capable of expansion and improve ment adapted to the wants of an in creasing population, and their demands for better institutions and higher knowledge. Farmers, who are taking pleasure in making labor, actual, personal labor, once again respectable. They are learn ing the value of this labor as an ele ment of State wealth and happiness, and if they are true to themselves, and to purposes now being formed by them, will make the agricultural estate have its full share of political influence. The) are qualifying themselves more than ever for their business -are 'earn ing that the laws of nature can not be THE GEORGIA GRANGE. violated with impunity, are adopting the principles of modern husbandry, the principles of a rotation of crops and seasonable manuring. Under their more faithful and enlightened agricul ture, the fertility of the soil of much of the State is not only being kept up, but continually increasing. In many cases impoverished lands have been restored by them, and waste lands have been redeemed and made productive. The rich and poor are equally pro tected by law through the State. The weak are defended against the usurpa tions of the violent, and merit and abilities are once more becoming the only claim to the favors of the public. Encircled with the blessings of health, and comparative plenty, crimes in so ciety are becoming less in number, and society is’advancing to a higher state of peifection. We have an extent of soil on which we can raise almost every product con ducive to subsistence, comfort, health and luxury We have markets as good as any part of the country presents. Lines of inter-communication rapid, easy and certain. We have lands, on which by reasona ble toil and frugality, industrious men may rear, educate and endow a family. I know that it is natural for man to “garner up” his affections for his birth place and say too much. And yet I have not mentioned Georgia’s societies every day springing up for the diffusion of knowledge and charity ; her numer ous institutions for the promotion of the fine arts, science and letters; her factories of various kinds, her work shops, her churches and her ardent and steady perseverance in the cause of knowledge and humanity. Do not leave the State, better times are ahead, and soon she will begin to move with mighty strides, and soon what ever she grasps will be held. Remain here, and beautify the borders of old Georgia, adorn her hills with grapes, fruit trees anid grain, her valleys with grass and clover. These red old hills and waste valleys,were to our fathers, a bountiful mother. Let us too, seek her favors, be more dutiful children than were our fathers, give to her restoration and nourishment, and we will find her kindness ample. Remain in Georgia, and let us all urge upon our Legislature to make the agriculture of the State an object of its special care—make some particular pro vision for the future improvement and success of this interest. I will refer to but one means to en courage this industry—the State should make arrangements to collect, diffuse, exact, and full information in relation to its agriculture, and for that reason a department of agriculture should be specially maintained at the seat of Government of Georgia, whose object should be to promote its interests, and with liberal appropriations to assist its inquiries. The actual condition of its agriculture should be, from time to time, ascertained by authority, and spread before the public. Information pertaining to agriculture and all rela ting to it, correspondence, both at home and from other States, should be col lected, so as to take advantage of every discovery and improvement, if consider ed necessary the obtaining of seeds or plants of an improved character and their distribution, with an infinite va riety of other mattter pertaining to the subject ; all thiswoul dprove eminently useful. But I cannot trespass on you at greater length, for you have not the space in which I could do even the shadow of justice to this subject. !•***♦* *• A Kimi and Ippreciativc Suetter. \\ e take the liberty of quoting the following from a private letter, written by one of the best citizens of Georgia, and a prominent Patron : “I have received every number of The Georgia Grange. I am greatly pleased with it, in every respect. It is fearless, frank, and direct, in the advo cacy of the interests of our Order, and speaks for us and our objects, with a power no other journal in the State has yet exhibited. It is fresh and newsy, full of valuable information for the intelli gent agriculturist, and should be, and doubtless will be. the officially recog nized medium of our Granges through out the State. Every Patron in Georgia ought to take it ; every Grange ought to form a club, and send in the list of names at once, and so get the Grange at the re markable low dub rates. I am getting up a fine club for you in this neighborhood, and ail who have seen The Grange are anxious to sub scribe for it regularly.” IV . ftwn’r 10. 1873. For the Georgia Grange.] THE FAR WEST. Contributed by a Traveler. COLORADO. Julesburg is in the northeast part of Colorado, three hundred and fifty - five miles from Omaha. Time by rail, eighteen hours. The road is excellent. Each train is furnished with from eight to ten passenger coaches, wide and commodious, nicely finished and furnished. The track is smooth and level, being in the valley for a distance of about three hundred miles. This road extends through the entire length of Nebraska, a distance of about four hundred and fifty miles, (except where it touches the northeast corner of Colorado, at Julesburg) and thence into Wyoming, and across the Rocky Moi n ains. The country through Ne braska is mostly a vast rolling prairie, with little or no timber. This country a few years ago was thought to be only adapted to grazing purposes ; but as the Union Pacific Railroad rolls on westward the tide of emigration, and as the country is being settled up along their line, farms, houses and towns are springing up like magic, and Nebraska will, at no distant day, take her place as an agricultural State. There arc no settlements as yet farther west than about two hundred miles from Omaha, or, rather, that is as far as the settled country extends. The scarcity of tim ber must certainly be a great drawback to this country, but, under the provi sions of the “ timber law,” many settlors, in fact all who can, are taking timber claims, planting and making prepara tions for raising quantities of timber. “timber,” “pre-emption” and “home stead” LAWS. The “timber law” gives the settler the right to one hundred and sixty acres of land additional, by his planting and raising timber upon a certain number of acres. “Homesteads,” are homes of one hundred and sixty acres of land, given away by the government to any settler who will live upon and improve them —that is, building so much of a house, etc., and cultivating so many acres each year. These improvements are generally very weak. And at the end of five years, if he has complied with the requirements of the law, and can prove up all these things, and states further that he has settled it with the intention of making it his home, upon payment of the fee for survey, etc., he obtains a deed from the Gov ernment to the same. The difference between “pre-emp tions” and homesteads is this : In pre empting a claim, the settler moves upon it, improving, etc., same as in case of homestead, but, at the end of six months, instead of five years, if he has complied with the requirements as be fore, upon payment of two dollars or one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, he obtains a deed, by paying fees for survey, etc , as before, instead of it •being given to him. It is the intention of these laws that the lands of the pub lic domain should be for the use and benefit of actual settlers and their fam ilies. But, as is well known to all, most of the valuable lands, as soon as the country begins to be settled up, fall into the hands of sharpers and monied speculators. As to “Raidroad land grants,” we will take the Union Pacific for instance. The Government grants tojthis company the land on both sides of their line of road, for a distance of twenty miles out each way, to aid them in building their road. Then a settler is allowed to homestead or pre-empt eighty acres, instead of one hundred and sixty, in side of the twenty mile limit, and, if he pre-empts he pays two dollars and fifty i cents per acre, instead of one dollar and twenty-five cents. So that Government gets its money back, in selling the land inside of the railroad limit at double price, as only one half of thy land then belong to it. Every even section is Government and every odd section is railroad land. The lands belonging to the company are sold at prices varying from three and four dollars to ten and twelve dollars per acre, owing to the distance from the road. JULESBURG. This station was, a few years ago a considerable town, being then the west ern terminus of the railroad. But no signs of it now remain, unless it be the scattered fragments of wagon-irons, ■ stoves,barrels.etc..and these remindone more of where an army had been en camped than where a town of several j hundr 1 inhabitants had stood. 1 At Julesbug we are in the native country of the Indian, the buffelo, ante lope, deer,wolf, jack rabbit, prairie dog, etc., and in our way up the Platte saw these animals (except the Indian) al most in hundreds, especially buffalos, antelopes, ducks, geese, etc., by the thousands. The Union Pacific Company graded a railroad, last spring, from Julesburg up the South Platte to Golden, a town not far from Denver and the mountains, a distance of about one hundred and fifty or two hundred miles. This road they expect to put in operation early next spring. They have their station and town sites all located; and land sharks and squatters are pouring in and enter ing the lands all along this new line of road, and especially close to the station sites, in a lively way, so that “ claim shanties ” built mostly of sod can be counted by the dozens, but inhabitants, or rather families, are-“few and far be tween.’’ THE VALLEY OF THE SOUTH PLATTE. The whole of this country west to the Rocky Mountains is an undulating plain, destitute of any vegetation ex cept the short grass, and certainly must be worthless except for grazing purposes, as it is too high and rolling for irrigation. The soil is very sandy, the sand being of a light color. The river and creek bottoms are the only lands that can be cultivated, and these only by letting the water over them in ditches leading out from the streams. When thus properly irrigated, the farm ers claim to raise as fine crops of the most of garden and field vegetables upon these lands as any country in the world —such as cabbage, different kinds of pumpkins, squashes and melons, beets, onions, turnips, Irish potatoes, etc. Their wheat, for quantity and especially quality, they claim to be equal if not superior, to that of any other country. As we did not visit the part of the Territory where the coun try has been in any degree settled up and under irrigation, we cannot testify, as an eye witness as to what they can or can not cultivate and raise success fully. But from the reports of those who had visited the fair at Denver, and others who had seen their productions, wo have no right to dispute or even doubt these statements. At Beaver Colony we saw the melons, squashes and potatoes raised from late planting and badly irrigated land. The melons were fine and large, the potatoes me dium. The gentleman who raised them was selling potatoes at three cents per pound—Sl.so ger bushel. Passing up this valley, you may also see fine herds of cattle and sheep, and upon an average of every ten to fifteen miles you pass a ranche. These cattle seemed in good condition, living the the year round on the short and dead looking, but most nutritious, buffalo grass. The sheep also looked uncom monly large and fat. THE CLIMATE of Colorado certainly is as healthy as any in the United States, if not more so. We think that no one could fail to notice, and feel, the exhilerating effects of its dry, rare and pure atmos phere, which is warmed and softened by the rays of a genial and, most of the time, cloudless sun. In our opinion, it is the place for those having weak or affected lungs. X. L. >.>4 l or the Georgia Grange.] Observations In Texas. i. THE CITY OF GALVESTON. Galveston is situated on Galveston Island (which is about thirty miles long and one and one-half miles wide) at the entrance of the bay of the same name, and is decidedly the most im portant seaport city in Texas. In proportion to its population, it is the most important commer cial city in the Unitel States; its exports last year amounted to near thirty millions. The duty paid on foreign imports is about half a million 1 annually. Its trade with Europe is very large, 1 and is increasing rapidly. Steamers ply reg ularly between Galveston and Liverpool. A regu lar line of steamers run between Galveston and ’ New York, New Orleans and also to all the Texas ports. A line has recently been established be tween Galveston and Baltimore. This is the largest cotton market in Texas, and will soon rank among the first in the United States. The population is about thirty thousand. Many orders direct from the manufacturing houses of Europe are executed in Galveston : in fact, I met a number of cotton buyers in the city from Europe, who spoke in high terms of the tine quality of Texas cotton. The merchants and business men of this city are industrious, ener getic and reliable. The city has a large num ber of chartered and private Banks, which do a very heavy business. There are several Fire and I Marine Insurance Companies, and the Texas i Mutual Life Insurance Company, which are well supported. There are several large iron found ries. a large rail shop, and many other manu facturing establishments. Messrs. Allan. Pool A Co. are engaged largely in canning beef for the European markets, which finds a ready sale, and is becoming a very important article in the commercial world. I expect at an early day to give an account of the process of canning, etc. Few cities on the continent, of the size of Gal- veston, can boast of more fine and elegant churches. It looks as if the people took a pride and deep interest in the erection of edifices of this character, and, while an interest is taken in building fine churches, the subject of education is not overlooked, as there are many fine schools in Galveston. It also has a fine Mercantile Libra ry, containing many thousands of volumes of useful and well selected books. Several times during my stay in Galveston, I visited ’Change, where I found one of the most elegant and well fitted up rooms I ever saw. The markets not only of the United States, but of Europe, are received here hourly, during the business hours. I never met more intelligent merchants than I did in this city. While on ’Change I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. E. E. Winn, formerly of Atlanta, but now a cotton fac tor of the firm of Winn,Connor & C0.,0f this city, and was glad to learn that the new firm was do ing a fine business. The Tremont Opera House is one of the finest of the kind in the South, and will compare favor ably with those of New York. The best hotel in the city is the “Washington Hotel,” Col. John Summers, proprietor. It is situated near the packet landing, is in a central part of the city and convenient to all business points. When you enter this house you will meet with a cordial and old-fashioned welcome, not only by Col. S. but his efficient and gentle manly clerks, Messrs. Pool and Miller. The ta ble is provided with the choicest viands, vegeta bles, etc., that the Galveston market can afford; with an efficient steward and good waiters in the dining-room, you will receive every attention you desire. The rooms are large, well ventilated, well furnished, and kept in perfect order. Try the'Washington Hotel when you go to Galves ton. Galveston beach is an object of very great in terest, and is equal to any beach in the world. During the summer months it is a great resort ; its perfect safety for bathing purposes, its de lightful sea breezes and its fine temperature dur ing the warmest seasons, make the beach itself a most delightful summer resort. It also affords one of the most beautiful drives I ever saw, the sand being so hard and compact that carriages and horses make no impression upon it what ever. Galveston is well lighted with gas, and street railroads penetrate every portion of the city. The health of Galveston is excellent. I was in formed by the most reliable citizens that there had not originated a case of yellow fever in the city since 1867 ; during that year it was very bad, ! but since then the low marshy ground on the Island has been filled up, and a perfect sewerage adopted. In fact, during the fall, when yellow fever was in Columbus, Calvert and some other localities, Galveston was the great resort of the people from those places. When I consider the fine sea breeze and pure atmosphere of Galves ton, I cau not see any cause why it should ever be visited again with that terrible scourge. The Press is well represented. There are sev eral weekly papers and two dailies published in the city, but the News, which was started here in 1852, is the great newspaper of Texas; go where you will in Texas, and you will find the daily, tri-weekly and weekly News. In fact, the News to Texas is what the Louisville Journal was to Kentucky in the palmy days of Geo. D. Prentice, and the Richmond Enquirer to Virginia, in the days of Thomas Richie. Live Oak. Observations in Texas. ii. I propose writing a series of articles for your valuable paper on my observations in Texas, dur ing the month of November last. Texas extends from the 26th to the 36th paral lel of North latitude, and lies between the 16th and 30th meridian of longitude west from Washington. A country so located, must neces sarily embrace within its limits every desirable variety of soil and climate. The leading cereals of the Northern sections of the United States,the most choice fruits and products of the Middle States, and quite a variety of the fruits of the tropics do well in Texas. In point of climate, embracing an area of 268,- 684 square miles, Texas is unsupassed by any State in the Union. There are no extremes of either heat or cold in any part of the State. The climate and seasons are eminently adapted to the production of sugar, cotton, corn, tobacco, wheat, oats, rye, millet, Irish and sweet potatoes, and all kinds of garden vegetables. Fruits do re markably well in Texas ; apples, peaches, grapes, etc. There is a peach called the “Archer’s Early Colorado," which is the earliest peach in the United States; it ripens on the 15th of May; it is of medium size, and has a beautiful and deli cate red tint, ■and is most delicious. In the way cf garden vegetables, you have beans nine or ten months in the year, tomatoes seven or eight, beets the year round, new potatoes from May to December, and strawberries six months in the year. The soil varies in fertility according to location. A large portion of the country is prairie, and as rich and productive as any land of that character in America. There are considerable portions of the country, bordering on bayous and rivers, of the most inexhaustible fertility. Tins soil is mostly alluvium, resting on a stratum of marl and clay, and is from seven to twenty feet in thickness. That portion of the State adapted to the rais ing of wheat, embraces an area of fifty thousand square miles, and will produce, upon an average, twenty bushels to the acre, but a very small por tion of this laud is cultivate!. Wheat, in Texas, ripens in Mav, and can bo harvested and sent to the Eastern' market before the wheat scarcely commences growing in the great wheat-growing regions of the other States. A stranger, when he reaches Texas, will hear the people speak of the State by divisions—East • era, Central. Western and Northern Texas. EASTERN TEXAS. Eastern Texas is understood to embrace the territory from the Sabine to the Trinity rivers. Its physical features are distinctly marked from the other port! ms of the State. It is spoken of as the great timbeiei region of the State. There are but few prairies, and they are confined nearly entirely to the counties along the Gulf of Mexico; the forests cover four-fifths of its surface. These forests contain a great variety of timber,such as white oak, post oak, hickory, pecan, ash, walnut, poplar and elm. Large bodies of pine are found in all portions of Eastern Texas. The valleys of the Trinity. Neuches,Sabine and other streams from their mouths a long distance up are heavily timbered with a fine growth of cypress; some cedar also is found in this region. There is not a finer or better timbered country in the United States than 1 have here described. Its lumber interests is becoming very important, and, with the promised increased railroad facilities, it will soon be one of the most extensive timber regions of the country. The soil of the uplands is of a fight, loamy texture, on a basis of red clay ; in the valleys it is mostly a deep.vegetable mould. ; very rich and productive, yielding five hundred i pounds of cotton to the acre, and fifty and sixty j bushels of corn. There are extensive canebrakes t along the Trinity river, and the soil is very rich ■ and inexhaustible. The up lands are quite pro- I ductive, and are easily cultivated. The other products of Eastern Texas are su- I gar, rice and tobacco, all of which yield well and ; are very remunerative crops. In Tyler, Polk 1 and Harden counties, a variety of very fine to- | bacco is raised, and I was informed that it is . equal to the best tobacco grown on the James riv er in Virginia. Crops never fail in this section J of the State. The price of land ranges from one to teu dol lars per acre. Building is cheap, owing to the great abundance of building material. This is « the most populous part of the State, and the 1 people are industrious, well educated and refin ed. You can see in all the towns and villages plenty of school-houses and churches, which ap pear to be well supported. CENTRAL TEXAS. Central Texas embraces territory between the Trinity and Colorado rivers. This division of Texas has many advantages over any other por tion of the State, from the fact that it contains the largest cities in the State and the largest and finest navigable streams, while, at the same time, it has greater railroad facilities than any other section of the State. The people are industrious and progressive, and the country • here is growing and being more rapidly developed ; than any other part of the State, In my judg ment, it is destined, for all time to come, and as it is now, to be the controlling section of the State. Central Texas contains as rich lands as can be found in any country beneath the sun. Through its centre, for a distance of five or six hundred miles, Hows the Brazos river, whose wide bottoms are famous for fertility. Central Texas embraces a large portion cf the wheat section. Its broad undulating prairies are covered the entire year with grasses, full of nutrition, where cattle, horses and mules will fatten the year round. It is a farming, planting and stock-raising country; there is no portion of it that is not adapted to farming, planting and stock-raising. . The larger part of Central Texas is prairie, but there is timber enough along the bottom of the streams to furnish sufficient timber for fencing and fuel. In some portions of Central Texas a very fine stone, for building purposes, is found in very great abundance; of this stone the Capitol at Austin is built. I was shown a number of very handsome buildings of this ma terial. The prairie soil is black and very rich. The climate *is verv fine: a more salubrious atmos phere I never breathed. No extremes of heat or cold are felt here. The price of lands vary so greatly that it is difficult to fix a price; but I will say prices range from one to thirty dollars per acre. Locality and improvement have much to do in this matter. The great Central Railroad and its branches penetrate a large portion of this division of the State, and arc rapidly developing its resources. In a subsequent article I will give a general de scription of this important road, in connection i with all the railroads of Texas. This division of the State embraces the important cities cf Gal veston, Houston, Austin, (the Capital) Waco and many others. WESTERN TEXAS. This division embraces that vast region from the Colorado to the Rio Grande. It is very prop erly recognized as the stock region of Texas. - The mesquit grass in all its varieties flourish here, and covers the large prairies: horses, mules, cattle and sheep, keep fat on it the year round. The prairies of Western Texas cover at - least four-liths of its surface. In some districts the post oak and mesquit tree . can be found, but the timber is almost entirely confined to the valleys of the streams, which are ■ densely wooded. Live oak timber, so valuable s for ship building, grows throughout Western Texas. The pecan tree grows here to enormous size. While Western Texas is known as a stock growing section, it is also a fine agricultural country. The bottoms of the streams are very . rich and productive; in favorable seasons the crops are astonishing. There are few better 1 farming lands in any country than on the Gauda -1 loupe, San Marcos, San Antonio, Medina, etc. > If you wish to raise horses, mules or cattle, you , caii not go amiss in Western Texas. If you wish to raise sheep, the mountainous region above San Antonio is the place. For a healthy climate, Western Texas will compare favorably with any country in the world. San Antonio is the largest city in Western Texas, and has a population of 18,000 or 20,000. It is an a itive,progressive city,lightedwith gas,has a number of churches and institutions of learn ing. New Braunfels, the county seat of Corral county, is a German settlement of about 6,000 population, with the industry and energy ho universally possessed by that people. They have made that city so productive as to be almost independent of the outside world. Its woolen fabrics, manufactured there, are of the finest quality. The city has fine water power. Lavaca and Indianola are situated in Calhoun county, on Lavaca and Matagorda Bay, and are places of considerable commercial importance, which is increasing, as quite a large portion of the trade of Western Texas is carried on through these ports. Packets ply regularly between them and Galveston. NORTHERN TEXAS. This division includes some two or three tiers of counties along the Red river. It is very simi lar to upper Central Texas in climate, soil and products. It is a fine and rapidly developing portion of the State. The Red river cotton val ley is*renowned, and much of the great wheat region also belongs to this division of Texas. It is about equally divided between prairie and for est. This portion of Texas is being rapidly tilled up, and it must eventually be well is well adapted to the cultivation of the cereals produced in the Northwest, and its soil and cli mate are all that could be desired. SOCIETY OF TEXAS. I am well aware that a great many intelligent people think that the society of 'I exas is not good, and that it would be an unsafe country to settle in, especially with a family of children. Now, so far as I observed the people while in Texas, I saw very little or no difference in the society there and in Georgia. True, I was not on the frontier; my traveling was confined to steam ers and railroads, but I am prepared to Hay that the society of Texas is not behind the standard of excellence of the other States of our country, and that the rights of person and property are as well respected and observed as in any other State. The immigrants to Texas from ourjown county have almost invariably been monos in dustrious habits, good morals, and certainly of average intelligence. When you wish to investi gate the condition of the society of that country call to mind the character of your acquaintances who have gone there, and that will give you a general idea of the class of immigrants to Texas. I met as finely educated ladies and gentlemen, and as refined in every respect, in Texas as I met in any State. GENERAL REMARKS. Texas invites immigrants. A year or two de voted to agriculture, and availing yourself of the liberal laws, will secure to the emigrant a good home, laud, stock and everything necessary to smooth his pathway through life. Lands are ob tainable on ths most reasonable terms. The prudent capitalist can find no more secure and profitable investment than in Texas. To manu factures Texas offers the best field of invest ment of any other State. Industrious and relia ble mechanics and laborers can find no such en couragement elsewhere as Texas offers, They are needed in the factories, workshops, on the railroads, in sugar, cotton, corn and wheat fields, and in the stock region. Wages are higher than in any other locality; they are paid in gold. Ex pense less than any other section of the coun try. The world might be searched over, and you will find no country like Texas for the industri ous poor man, and the sun, in its course, visits no brighter spot Live Oak. An unstamped letter was deposited in an In* diana postoffice last week, and underneath the address was the indorsement, “Let her slide, P. M., she’s all hunk, inside air one of them • post hole keerds.” It is somewhere related that a poor soldier, j having had his skull fractured, was told by ; thedoctor that his brains were visible. “Do write to father,’’ he replied, “and tell i him of it, for he always said I had nobrains. Jones complained of a bad smell about the i postoffiee, and asked Brown what it could lie- . Brown did not know, but suggested that it might lie caused by the dead letters.