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For ths Journal.TIKBI’g A WM*t s?or91 iirow.Th era's a swsst spot I know, whtrt the wild flowers ere springing—-There ere trees bending low, where the wild birds ere ringing,—There is e streera winding pest, where the light end the shede,With its bright ripples of musie, at bo-peep here plajed.’Tis fer front the whirl of the medden-ing strifeThet embitters each draught in the pure brim'd copy of life, *On e knoll, sloping down to the deep, cool water’s brink,Where the pale, early lilies bend tlieir fair heeds to drink,Where morn’s sephyrs first whisper, end the soft sunsets creep,With their worn, troubled hearts still lie the weary asleep,And beneath yon gray headstone so mess-stained and so sld,With eyes sealed and dreamless, and with kind lips, mute and cold,Lies one, who, too soon wearied of his work scarce begun,Ceased from care and from toil, whereglowed life’s noon soorching sun. There the spring blossoms he lovedbloom over his stilled breast,And the wild birds he loved are chanting over his rest,And the form which he so cherished weeps over the sod For the spirit that now basks in the ■mile of its Qod;But the bright eyes that grieved when her sad heart felt pain,Shall grow dim for her sorrows on earth*never again;For the damp, brown curls are clinging around the pure brow,Where the white mould of the grave) is fast gathering now;And as lowly she kneels where the green turf waves above Where her hopes lie, as cold as the chilled heart of her love,She would full fain be released from the ■hackles that hind,And borne away on the wings of the soft summer wind,Seek the mystie shore of the dead, and in Lethe's wave Lose all the heart-breaking woes that e'er shadow the grave,With ne’er a pang, nor a tear, for the receding earth,With no soul yearnings to cling to the land of her birth,To join the dear one who will so mournfully wait ’Till bee lone, hasting feet pass througheternity’s gate.Wajtdsrek.them to greater effort in correcting it. ,Texas has a vast unoccupied territory, enough to sustain mil* lions of people, and this territory- IkPleasant homes awAit riie emi-grant in all, parU , pf State,where, with comparative light labor and cars ho may scours anabundance,; with tbs sams ener-is wonierfully produetivo: Cot* gy, industry and oars expsndsdton, Corn, all kinds of vegetables [ here that is necessary in the northand email fruits are grown abundantly nil over the Stato; wheat is only raised in the northern part and there it will produeo from thirty to forty bushels per aero, and of fine quality. . Cattle, horses and mules are reared in vast numbers; especially cattle, and with little labor or.care, theprairies furnishing^asttyjjf ail thoyear round. I h£V6 not seen any marks of improvement in the styck. The all 1 ongIxrired and long legged; the her-lt;ses mostly mustaug; hogs are very scarce, and judgingfrom the specimens seen are of very poor quality yet they cun be raised here as easily and profitably as anyother stock.For the Journal.Letter from Texas.Austin, Texas, April 28.Mont You will doubtlessthink that I am very tardy in writing, but it is not so easy a matter to write up a strange coun* try when everything is new and strange to the observer, especially if he desires to correctly represent what he writes about.— Hence my delay. Texas is a great State; great in territory and resources, and ultimately to be great in population and wealth. To day, for third time, she takos a new start—to day she takes her proper place among the States of the Nation. To-day the Military rule, personated by Maj. Gen. J. J. Reynolds, modestly retires and good naturedly and cordially welcomes the popular Governor elect, as the rightful Ruler.Governor Davis was inaugura ted and his friends confidently expect that he will succeed in bring ing the State out of the troubles that have beset all the Southern States in their re-construction.— He is a fine looking man and I should think would not flinch from the discharge of his duty. He was a Union man during the war and took a regiment from Texas into the Federal army.It is hard to tell bow much feeling of opposition still exists among the people or how long it will continue, but that it is giving way is evident and all admit.— The admission of the Stato will help much, but the entire remo-val of political disabilities will do much more, and the firm and sure execution of the laws will restrain the lawless! The reputation of Texas has suffered through the conduct of bad men but the substantial oitiaens of this Stato are not so mnch to blame, and now that they have a permanent and responsible law making and law executing power we may confidently expect a much better condition of thinge. The reputation for some things that Texas has abroad is very mortifying to the people and it will stimulateLand of good quality can be purchased at low, rates, varyingaccording to location. Withinten miles of Austin you can buy first quality of land at from $1,25 to $1,50 per acre; and in remotedistricts for 15 cents to four bits, you can get prairie or post oak land, as you like best.The great need in Texas is Rail Roads and immigrants, and tbe people aro anxious for both. By the construction of Railroads immigration would be groatly facilitated ; it is now difficult and expensive getting from one part of the State to another.But despite all the obstacles Texas will in a few years be filled with people from the north and from foreign countries, mainly from Germany. In twenty years from now the present population will be, as it wore, swallowed up by the millions that will come in, and all traces of tho old civilization will be obliterated; tho people will adapt themselves to the now orlt;Jp.r of things, and soon tho Stato will become enterprising,prosperous and happy.I should think a man could engage in any kind of business for which he may bo qualified, withalmost a certainty of success, provided that business was his habit and loaving politics alone. I believe as a general thing the best plan for northern people emigrating to this Stato would be to come in companies of a number of families, and buy some of the large tracts of land, and divide it among them and so live in neighborhoods; where all would not bo strangers, and whou possible to bring with them stock of different kinds, as well as implements of husbandry. Be sure to have your location secured before moving your families, for you will find few or no vacant places to stop m while you look around.The climate of Texas is excellent, yet there are changes in tho weather as in other countries; some seasons are dry, whiio others may be wet, still upon an average there is as little tear of failure of crops hero as elsewhere.— There is sickness and death hero as in other places, but soino localities are more healthy than some others; and this is governed by the same rules that it is in other Statos. As a general thing the face of the country is high and roiling; low lands along some of the streams are productive of intermittent and billious fevers.— Among the old settlers you will find as vigorous and rugged a olass of people as you will meet with in any country—still there is ovidentiy a choice in location with reference to the healthiness of it that should not be overlookedTho people of Howard county would be surprised to see this country now and note the differ once between here and there.— Cotton is up and growing finely, corn knee high, potatoes In bloom garden vegetables are getting plenty, tho prairies and woods as green as yours are the last of June. It is said to be a very backward Spring, a very late frost bit down the corn and otherthings that were up and growing,and yet we appear to bo in tho midst of Bummer.a man would soon mako a fortune.But I must close this lotter—• sprobably will write you again before I leave. My health isoxcollent so far. Maj. T. H. Leeds is well and wishes to^beM »remomberod to his old friends. Yours, truly,C. RICHMOND.~—'gat.Democratic Policy^5*All theout a3 the probable course to be, pursued by the Democratic party, that policy shadowed forth inSenator Hendrick’s New Orleansspeech, which policy reminds “Brick Pomeroy” of a man whoruns after and tries to climb intoa wagon over the tail-board. Which proceeding, though itmaybe better than being left in a hopeless minority, behind is neither graceful nor impressive. The great party, that always spelled negro with two g’s, is remarkably awkward in its attempt to climb into the abolition wagon over the tailboard.But nothing is more certainthan the fact that that party is now making every effort to overtake and climb aboard of tbe Fifteenth Amendment wagon. This awkward and ungainly attempt affords the world a spectacle of the most amusing oharactor, and gives toSalmon P. Chase another hope that he may yet form the bridge upon which tho Democratic party will enter upon the enjoyment of the much coveted negro vote of the South. But the wagon is moving too fast for the mass of tho Democrats. They are giving up the effort and standing in amazement, looking after the leaders, to see how completely they can humiliate themselves in the presence of tho negro race, to secure the very voters they have60 long fought to keep out of tbeballot box.— Valparaiso Vidette.Wo are told that tbe girl of theperiod doos not marry easily— tliat men may amuse themselves with hor for one evening, but thoy do not readily take her for life. This is true; not because the man of the period is sighing for something bettor, but ho is satisfied with something worse, lie is too selfish, too licentious to enduro ovon tho slight conventional rostra* nts imposed by the presence of modern women of fashion, and lounges off to enjoy his at the clubs or in bacchanalian arid voluptuous revelry. He does not wish to marry; wife and children arc to him more encumbrances, unwelcome checks to the indulgence of his low and vicious appetites. He grudges the necessary expense of a household as somuch deducted from his personalgratifications from billiards andfaro, cigars and whisky, fast horses and fast women.The filth anniversary of the National Temperance 8ociety was held in New York, Tuesday evening of last week. During the year ending April30, tho Sooiety has stereotyped and published 13 new books and pamphlets, andthirty-six new tracts; 1*294,700 copies of the Youth's Temperance Banner have been printed, ita circulation being 110,000 month* ly; 50,000 copies of the National Temperance Almanao, and 131, 640 copies of the National Temperance Advocate have also been published. The total receipts last year, wore $51,165 42; expenses, $51,490 99; treasury over*drawn $22810. The indebtedness of the Society it over $5,000.• *Two maiden ladles, sisters, are cultivating a farm near Pardee Kansas, without any hired ofr other help. They are counted among the most tuccetsl farmers in thert » » ...j*county.• 9 Four hundred original Americanbooks out of 1,680 published in 1869, were imported and registered in England.
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Kokomo Journal
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Fri, May 20, 1870
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