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Tbe Colon ZAliou movement among the Irish Catholics of the North is taking practical form and already w* lead ot the translVr «f number a ot fa mi lies from the coal minis «t Pennsylvania »d«1 the large cities of the Kant, to settlements in North Carolina, Texas and Arbutus s. Sc. Li ui:J lias also organized a ChIc nixaliou Society with a capirul of $2.5(lt;K0, and u clergyman with two of the most respected merchants of that city are now in Texas prospt cling 1 with a view to the purchase of a large tract of land to be resold m suiall 'urms to those of their countrymen who wan to settle in the country. In a recent number of the Philadelphia /Standard, wo And an inter-eating letter from Mr. Charles Boyle, of Western Texas, from which wo make the following extracts :I am happy to inform you that our Colo uy (Ihebony) in Western Texas «ia in a piospsrons condition. Seven families numbering thirty-two persons having joined us during the last six weeks.It ia about seventeen hundred miles from Philadelphia, Pa., to Harrisburg, Texas, the eastern terminus of the Sun Set Route, it requires about four days to go there by mil and costa about $33 00 The cost to New Philadelphia seventy rail**- distant from Harrisburg, is about $35 Oil, and to Luting about one hundred aud seventy miles west aud near the Father Brshony Colony, is about $40 00. Land varies in puce from two to twenty dollars per acre and may generally be bought for one third cash and the balance in one or two years.The climate, is neither too hot in Summer Lor so co.M in Winter, as that of Pennsylvania. I have been informed by Mr. Patrick Walsh, of Luling, Texas, formerly cf Mexico, that both lie and his working cattle sutiered more from heat in one day in Missouri, than they did all last summer in Texas. He made forty two bushels of corn per acre aud six bales of cottoD ou uine acres ; the first cotton he ever saw grow. 11c aays that any person who can plant corn, can plant cotton. He receives fifty cents per bushel for liiacorn, and fifty dollan a bale for his cotton.One man can attend to ten acres of corn and ei .lit acres of cotton, and il is the best country in the world for a man with a family. A child ten or twelve years old can pick as much cotton bb a man, and make more money in three months, than a boy twelve years old can in a whole year ou the coal breakers in Pennsylvania, besides the happiness of breathing the pare air, and not requiring fifty per cent, of tbe clothing, also being of iufinite pleasure to tbe parents, that the minds of their dear children are nut poluted by the fonl language and obscene practices of those in the city or town factory.Texas is no place for twenty-one year old babies or children in pantaloons, but manly men and sensible women do better here than anywhere else than I know of. Its cheap and rich lands, with climate where crops are continually grew-ing, where cattle, swine and poultry thrive without any attention from the hand of man.There are thousands of acres of improved land to rent, at from three to seven dollars per sere cash, or half the crop, the farmer lurnitbing everything except provisions for the family. Practical burners do well ou those terms ; but the man who has a few hundred dollars to liny his own team, farming implements, and provisions, until the crop is made, dues better. Ho only gives a third of the corn and one-fourth of the cotton as rent. A man with fire hundred dollars when there can buy hit own land, and * good start. I can prove from the
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The Morning Star And Catholic Messenger
New Orleans, Louisiana, US
Sun, Jun 10, 1877
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