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8BBHB——B wweai
t.he telegraph
„ V. 6. WEBB, Proprietor.
■ BnbBcrfbera to any of our issues will greatly
Idtf lectin* no know promptly of any failure
{•TWetr* their papers, u it will help as to And out,
•ad correct the mbm.
Houston, Jantiary 13, 1870.
... The Brownsville Sentinel says that
President Juarez favors religions lib-
erty and the tolerfctifcrfrbf Protestant*
lam in
| In the .iron clad oath
was [not required. 2 'fhe oath pres*
enbed for office holders in the XlVth
amendment was administered.
v 3 'i*i _i : fgjj;
General Order, No. 235 from Milita-
ly Headquarfersi Austin, prohibits
County Courts irom collecting special
' tinea, except where ordered for a
* i^edfic purpose. ;£• 1 '
Order No. 232, prohibits the sale of
ftnfendered lands for taxes until fur
.. ther orders. " :*f &?■**;■
. Qur readers have heaidof a gam*
bier named Dick Radford, who passed
'Itself; off in Niw, York as Lord
Hubert Ainsley. He succeeded in
maikg an accomplished young
m, but after a short and brilliant
hpasymoon Lord Ainaley's sun was
snddenly'efclipSed.v Rfesult:' He stole
hie.Wile's jewels and'decamped, and
she returned to her parental home.I
-.tV. uat ■ ■ ■ '
$; Several gentlemen were inpwoffice
yesterday from the interior, somft: of
thalB ttalttae high Hp the eftuntry as
. f 1 Cherokee .county. Prom them we
learn that, owin& to the heavy immi-
gration, cord Kas risen to a dollar a
*&hel ,' and it is now getting sdmes
what difficult to find houses and land
*ew- comers* '.Everywhere the
freedmen are coq^raeting readily and
energetically to work for a good
TBe fcintferf has beeir favorable
for teams aa d for .preparing the
ground for. cultivation. With the
opeinng year, peace and plenty reign
and % bright future opens for Texas.
OIK EDCCATIOIYAL SYSTEM,
In point of public interest no sub-
ject can.come4>efore the approaching
Legislature of such importance as the
Public School question.
Care must be taken that our mag-
nificent Bchool fond is not squandered
upon any other project than that of
education. "%,T- (
When public free schools were first
introduced into the United States,
they were commended for the com-
pleteness oi the classification of pu
pile, • the thoroughness of the coarse
of instruction, and the rigidness of
their discipline. Of late there are
some complaints of these schools. In
some of the Northern cities, school
boards have gone on making improve-
ments, requiring' a heavy outlay of
money* until tbejrfmye be^m^.quite
expensive.
In 1868-9, the5 dfty of New Tbrk ux
pended on her public school^ $'2,961,
36ll, giving instruction to 237,328 pa-
pile',,at an expense ot a little over $12
for each scholar ,ju attendance,_ In
Ohio 52 per cent. bfifre Jltkt^ itteoine
goes to the 8tfpporj;nttff tfh# schools.
In Yerinont;«out 6f' ad ' income b£
$600,000, over.<ti|^|J^^s to the
public Schools. , •
Before the war the city of New Or
leans had a splendid system of free
schools. Since the war the Legisla
tuffc has been ^mpering with those
schools, and sjojuewhat' impaired t J'~
efficiency, in the late jjaess^gp iof
Gov. War moth, he calls the attention'
of the Legislature to^tlfe*
features of their present law.ami*
gests some ai&fi3fhfcntar.*v But -eHn
at present t& schools in the.atity of
.^T^mperaNCE.—^We Wfve.cheering
accounts "from Rev. Mr. Toung, the
tampfcrance agent now- at "Work in the
Succeeded
lizing nine councils tof the
^l^qaperapse," ^ vjery
members. .The last w^g or-
tat W axahachicv with a m^m-;
of 180* and a iuvenile Band of
bar
NEWS NOTES.
A proposition has been introduced
iflto the Ohio Legislature to submit
the XVth Amendment directly to a
vote of the people.
The United States Government is
organizing a fleet in Cuban waters.
Gov. Bullock thinks Georgia will
ratify the XVth Amendment.
The Samana treaty meets-with op*
position in the Senate.
John C. Brow'h, an ex-Confederate
General, has been* elected Chairman
of the Tennessee Constitutional Con->
vention.
'There is another rumor of a heavy
defalcation. Indeed there are sev-
eral'such rumors. ' They come thick
and are generally confirmed;. *
A correspondent of the London
Timessays^^ /f. , ,v Ui ,
The Pope will probably" proclaim-
therdogma of infallibility by a degree
not admitting an appeal to general
council. '
The * residence: of i Mrr s Motley,
American Minister at London, was
ente^Qd J>yf burglars . recently and
robbed to the value of over £1000.
P«si|iVely the best joke We have
seen at this writing is that the Khe-
dive has gone , to the bottom of the
Suez Canal.
There is to b£ another report of the
Book Committee of the Methodist
iBook' Concern of New York, The
repoW anno^n6|ffg irregularities and
lossea. without investigation is very
Unsatisfactory. The Church calls for
the facts. ,:ti , , j
Missouri has now ratified the sjire
enough fifteenth amendment.
St< Louis, Jan. 7.—The Missouri
The San Antonio Express says it is
understood that as soon as the mili-
tary commander is relieved from the
responsibility of civil government,
military headquarters will be °ie*
moved from Austin to San Antonio.
The latest dispatches from Rupert'*
Land represent that the coiodj is
again nnder the control of the Hud
son Bay Company, and the difficulty
is for the present at an end. Ic was
ai tolerably small tea pot in which to
brew such a tempest.
At the grand ball at the National
Theatre in Mexico in honor of Mr.
Seward, there were four thousand
persona present. The entertainment
cost $20,000. Ma Seward pronounced
it thegrandest hop he had ever wit-
nessed.. The senioritas were perfect-
ly fascinating in the eyes of the old
widower....1 ...i ..- ft
aives
•
publication
af
ranee men
other places for a charter and books
f#organizi;h^C0uncilsinplaces where
%r. Young had hot yet lectured. !Th
~ -■
will prevail?
invaluable
^maftap and JEmi-
, ^!i«W ta-Gni4e to Texas, h'as at length
haaa.; As a repository of
i"tlieful"imf6rmatiop culled from the
W rtJ^iable sources, itisindispensa-
.. t)3e to aU who desire to kfiow any-
^ "ttlUgiliont out State, either in rela-
tion to its production^ and resources,
, „ ti^e^limatatie and, other advanta-
gea it possesses over any of the
• Ml mini nan fltitnn , The present issue
ia ne ws^y inferior to any of its pre*.
deces orsl and is as usual replete
d <MMI artiifiM historical, biographical,
4gffetQland and statistieal. Ia fact
l .ypt ol vade
aw for all matters specially as
ialoiinafidiS and guide tables ibr all
"cllkiiUB Of 'present or prospective citi-
tte«ta^8tat«:
Many of those who supported Gen.
" ' d ao like Gen. Parsons, who
in bis speech at Avstis that
New Orlet^erylfre among thef best in
the country. -1We know an oia cijti-
zen of Texaj^and a successful and
experienceateachei; wiose family is
now temporalHy icrNew Orleans, that
hij).ch0h|Feu oi
the .free scbooQe in^that-;«Bity.
At the meeiipg in jfp^ton to -H
Dr. Searee a fe w week^ |i^e (
two gentlemiBii " d^iared that' the
were waiting with great anxiety jjfo#
ttte opening'of arHfak* 0nr
city. Ode of them salcthe was "count-
ing the moptba"hiabcqsawsetrid prob-
ably have to wait .before they coiild
enter such a school. All this sho>w's
that public becoming
thoroughly aroused'to this question.
. ..So far as we know the^efis not a
man or journal In the 7$£ate ttiat opt
^ises public edtto4WMif t?botigh
bound to fight agaig^ ^yei«f«pr ojeot
advocated by Sepablicans. lihftf
question ought not to be mixed ju||
With politics. .Our
>ke hi
_ rga|i
forward our public sc"
A late number, of
Citizen has a very strange article on
the subject. The editor advisee| the
Anglo-Saxon race "to keep aloof from
the degrading consequences of n >gro
Legislature A ratified
the. fifteenth
amendment to-day. Vote—Senate,
22 to 3; House, 86 to 34. The House
adopted a resolution asking our mem ~
btrs of Congress to sustain the bill in
regard t6 graduating lands. '**>' i >
Baltimore, Md., Jan 7.—The legis-
lature has been fully organizedv.^The
message efrGov. Bowie puts the 4iext
faadea deKt of fche State afc' $12,692, •
- -938- 96; as an- offset the State, holds
stocks£^$ bon^^ on which dividends
and interest are received, to the
aniohat of ^7,328,413 26, leaving an
actual debt of $5,464,525 24. The,
message'opposes mixed schools, but
suggests that the tax received from
colored taxpayers for school purpo
sesbe devoted to the education ' of
the coloured children, and tha^educa-
tional facilities be extended to them
by the a State. The messageis. of
great length, and confined principally
to State matters. In discussing. fhe
fifteenth,, amendment* , he contends
that the question , of suffrage should
lie le&ientirely to the control b'f. the
several States.
P:. i..-
* We* }f*e. witboutc our usual ,hight
dispatches, owing to the wires having
'e;^M >
this object
an^chrying
system. |
the Coloaado
been Stowing down.
social equality a'nd miscegenati >n.
Yery good advice ceriainly, but we
iail to see its pertinencyJbo the sc 100I
question.
The Citizen says:
One great'objection to the prov sion
of the Constitution on this subje it is
the intention to ^&k up ever r in-
stitution of learning except p iblic
free, schools—to foree by legisli itive
enactments the attendance at hese
public schools of all the children
within the State—uo a^kter ho^ r in
competent the teacher, or inef " *
and disgusting the regulations,
So far from seeking to break u;
isting institutions,. Jher|ree s;
will take hold of Aese halting,
pled schools and give them vi
Organize such a system in Colu
rt*A
kakadno
that it
%
m \
«£* *rt
itsn&lr> .
•! '0 « '4: ii
i for .Davis or Hamilton,
like throwing up two
"
Je support-
ad Davis merely to get into the
Union. His aounection with Radi
would their- Cease.—Austin
not payable, and
the Auftib Repub«
so s^rp a truth that it wiU
stegle handed and done .to control
Ike politics of Texas, and they will
,#wn find that it is they that are
J^e.in obscnrity and oblMoh be-
yend the hope of resurrection.
"y^ing toward
Ae defeat of ?thia proposed XV
^adll^dwntf She can. It is within
lie power ci her people to defeat it,
iftliey will but assert their undoubted
^iJghtto instruct their representatives.
; ffee above is from the Galveston
u.'.x
' i Wears.
" #5
We to-day received from the
news office the Texas Almanac for
,1870. In that it is stated that 54,417
^^votes were cast for the State constitu
Hen embodying the principle ot the
.■*< SY amendment, while but 4,658 were
^ east against it. That we take it is
pretty emphatic instruction, especial-
Jyae the officers elected are pledged
to ttf ratiicatlon.
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• I'.
• i:' t
in that brick college buildingj you
will have two hundred pupils ! w^U
classified and thoroughly instructed.
a.« * T
We do not believe that any system
can prove anything but a failure
where the employment of teachers
and control ot the schools are en-
trusted to a board of ignoring negroes.
Oh the contrary, those who Advo-
cate this system propose to pft in-
telligent and competent men (upon
the school boards, men who will per-
mit no one to go out as a teacher who
is not qualified for the task. Of
course a system of education mast be
under the control of intelligent and
experienced gentlemen to be i suc-
cess. We know men in Coliimt.
perfectly competent to do this^ Let
the people see that this subject' is
committed to proper management.
We gladly copy the following decla-
ration of the Citizen* x-> ]
We are in favor of adopting a sys'
tem of public schools upon a system
that will not tax the people beyond
their ability to pay, and that will en
able them to secure to every! child
within the 8tate the means of obtain-
ing an rducation. >
The Euterpe which was burned in
Galveston harbor, was valued at
$100,000. She had on board 1012
bales of cotton. The origin of the
fire is not known.
Reunion between the Northern and
Southern Presbyterians. Both the
at$r characteristic,
i^4|tiKsvi^andf; the other
a Sfirither^paper: ■
Nothing could be more convincing,
that the unioa of the Old and9 New
, ^p^ool chq.rd^es is leading nojt a few
in the Southern Church to inquire
earnestly why that Church should, re-
main in its present separate state,
than the fact that the papers of that
Chnrch are ihakiog such great efforts
to show that'this union is a very,bad
>fthing. But tbiSiWill .be of no avail;
the people will very soon learn the
trde state Of . the case."—Pittsburg
Presbyterian Banner.
Do Northern Presbyterians imag-
ine that our Southern oreUiren will
cordially \tp|te with thtan, while they
or their church-judicatories are feeing
lawyers and radical, judges to rob
tbem of their charch property f The
people here understand "the true
state of the case"—so perfectly that
they are surprised that their North-
ern friends should think them so far
demented as to listen to their hdney-
ed words about union.—^Christian
, • 7 ? iis
Preciicly*
; i «.? V - ;?> -•-< Vti' ■- > -' r-s
5 In Order to reconstruction we pro*
pose td do precisely what Congress
demands. Texas, not having been
represfentdflf," #hen those 'laws were
passed, has no responsibility in the
premises. Congress said the people
should vote on the question of calling
a convention to form a constftution,
and we voted to call it. Congress
said that constitution should be voted
for, and if adopted, and the Legisla*
ture ratified the XYth Amendment,
the State should be admitted to rep
resentation. Congress laid d6wn cer-
tain qualifications for electors, and
still others for office holders, all of
which have been carefully observed.
We now lack but one thing of per-
forming in the letter and the spirit
all the injunctions laid upon us by
the Federal Authority. That is the
ratification of XY Amendment. We
hope that it will be promptly and
unanimously done when the Legisla
ture meets. • "
But some of our cotemporaries ask,
suppose Congress then rejects us } If
this is done, no blame can attach to
Texas. With a loyal Legislature, and
loyal Congressmen Who can take the
oatb. apd we present our^elve^i for
admission rafter having done all that
Was prescribed for us to do, Congress
will not reject us. But if it'does?
The blame ia.pot upon us. We have
performed our whole duty in the pre
mises, and the p&rty that would dare
reject us undef' these circumstances,
would be instantly repudiated bv the
American people. Our; firm conTic^
tion is that the adoption!Of the amtepd
ment as presented wfll, aeenre the
prompt admi%cuon of oar State ^nto
the Union, and the-restoration: of
civi 1 government* •' • : '
Oi.-■ ... .at .. ■;■; !
orial Correspondence.
The Louisiana Legislature ; ;Tra4fl of the
City, New Orleaas School «rf.Mediaine
Texane in tiie City ; &c. <*
jst. ja^sho|bi:j
Observer Louisville.
lis
Methodist Rkunioh.—We \ Bast
coring published a correspondence bet
'tween the Bishops of the Northern and
Southern Church. Bishops Janes and
Simpson, have made a report, from
irhich we olip the following:
4. We are fully persuaded that the ac-
tion of this Board was highly proper
and-will be useful. We are thorough^*
ly convinced that whenever a reunion
of the two Churches shall be effected
it Will not be by dealing with inci-
dents and negotiating about details,
bat by meeting the main question
squarely and directly. When this is
met, and a union consumated upon
" terms alike honorable to both
Churches, and the spirit of our divine
Lord," all the minor questions can
be naturally and easily adjusted*
We understand the Board by this
action to design two things, namely,
1st, so far as in our Episcopal charac-
ter we could properly represent the
Church, to make in good faith the
first advance toward a|nnion with the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South ;
and 2ndly, to call the attention oi the
M. E. Chnrch, South, through their
Bishops, to the fact that our last Gen-
eral Conference appointed a Commiso
sion to treat with a similar Commis-
sion, of any other Methodist Churches
that may desire to unite with us. {
These two objects have been ef-
fected. We, therefore, recommend
that a careful record of the Whole
proceedings, and of all the documents
relating to it, be placed in the ar-
chives of the Chnrch, lor the use of
the General Conference, and for his-
torical reference. M. Simpson,.
E. S. Janes.
Medicine, we visited the College
buildings, were shown through their
superb laboratory and were introduced
to several of their Professors. -The
standard in this institution seems to
be pitched very high; there exists a
commendable emulation among Pro-
fessors aod students, and the morale
excellent. From the College we
were escorted to the {Charity Hospi-
tal and shown through that immense
pile. There are over 500 patientB
there at present. Great system is ob-
served in the management of the in«
stitutioo which, as its name implies,
is supported aud sustained by individ-
ual aud corporate bounties. The inn
stitntion reflects great credit upon the
humanity and Christian charity of
this people; and the prayers and
blessings of thousands of unfortu-
nates do doubtless annually attest
thair gratitude.
The Btealbboat Mississippi," having
on board a cargo of Chinese laborers
for the Central Railroad, ia expected
here daily, and some little apprehen-
sion exists that there inay be trouble
on their arrival here, since many
threats have bean made agvinst them
by the negro population of this city.
The excitement at Memphis among
the negroes has reached this city, and
may culminate in a riofc
We have'had the pleasure of meet-
ing the follswing gentlemen from
Texas in the city: Col. B. H. Bassett,
of Brenham; Col. G. H. Giddiogs, of
San Antonio; Capt. Horn, of Brazoria,
Major Ochiltree, Col. Morphis, and
Mr, Gallagher. ., i r.
The weather is truly delightful, and
Canal street is a miracle of beauty in
tbe evening, with its brilliant shops
and gay promenaders. We can hardly
realize that it is the winter season—
so different is it to the winter of those
Northern latitudes that we but re-
cently^ left, without regret. >
: , : J.C. C.
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Onr CeleatiKia. ^
We copy the following accbunt of
tbe Chinese froni the Galveston New .
They went through Houston so rap^
idly we had but a poor opportunity
to interview them : 'f ,M *"
. Considering tbe length; of time
those who passed through yesterday
had been Cooped up on the deck of a
vessel, they were much cleaner and
neater in their clothing and persons
than . could have been expected.
Though small in stature they were
robustly formed, and from the ease
with which they handled heavy pack-
ages of plunder they are both<strong
and active. !
The general dress was a blue cotton
blouse and pantaloons of the same
material but of more ample dimea
sions than a fashionable gent would
like to be incased ic. Their shoes
were: made after the fashion of a
eanoe, turning up sharply at the toes,
and their hats resembled inverted
washbowls. A number of them, how-
ever, wore boots and loose overcoats,
and all appeared to be comfortably
clad. Each man was provided with
a. bed and mat, bowl, and the inevita-
ble 6Bop-sticks. Their' language
seemed haffch, and appeared to con-
sist entirely of short words. If they
saw anything new or unexpected in
Galveston they did not manifest it by
word or srgij; neithfer^did ttfey appear
s of being the centre of afr*
5T«eting of the Oceans,
Suppcsed Underground Com-
munication of the Great Waters.
—The Aeademy of Science of Paris
have received a highly interesting
communication from M. A Rojas, of
Caracas, on the phenomena which in
various .parts of Sou'h America oc-
curred simultaneous with tbe terrible
earthquake of the 13th of August,
1868, which convulsed the whole of
Peru. The information collected on
this subject by the author is exced-
ingly striking. On the above men«
tioned day, between halt past three
and four, o|clock p. m. the watera of
the Atlantic receded from tbe west-
ern coast of the island ot Granada
and suddenly returned, rising above
the accustomed leveL At that same
hour at Bolivar, the Orinoco rose ful-
ly three feet; at that identi9al time a
traveler, riding along the banks ot
the Arauca.. a tributary of the former
river, all at once saW ^the 'Water rise
and reach higher up than hi* etirrnps.
^ P°ict ^correspondittg to the
longititude of San Fernando the Apu-
rb suddenly overflowed. cov^rihg 1 8
to 20 feet of ground on^eaek-aide;
immediately after it returned to ite old
bed, but the wat« kept bubbling
for some minutes, and then subsided
to its pristine tranquility, At ^the
moment thfe inhabitants of Juan Crie-
go, north of the Istand of Mkrgarita,
opposite Cumaua, fled, to the highest
point of their village on seeing the
waves of the ocean rise to the altitude
of twenty feet and more, advancing
to the very doors of tuedWeSliDgs.
The waters, however, spee&ily retfred
withont doing any damage. The same
phenomena occurred in the i>ort of
Ria Caribe, on tbe side of Cumaua.
Tbe level of the Jurnari is said to
have risen afi^ecisame time, but trustn
worthy particulars are wanting. From
all theBe facts, observed at points
widely distant from each OthM.
RojaB concludes'that at the time of
the great earthquake of Peru there
Was a general upheaval of the earth's
crustthroughout c'} they' n orfhern
paVt of'Sou® America. The^ vol-
canlc axis Of that continent passes
precisely between San Trikncisco and
bolivar, extebds westward of LsMar*
garita and ends at a short distance
from the smaller West India IslandB.
It coincides very nearly with'the
great circfe of the pentagonal hCtwork
designated is the primMvef $ae of
Greenlttbd and Chile by M; Elle de
Beaumont. This axis M^itojaiffcon-
siders as exercising a decided if flu^
ence on the scismic phenomena which
occur from time to tioie ,iu those
islatdg, as well as in Yenexuela^and
Colombia, and . in support- xrf this
opinion quo.te« v several ~ rewafkable
instances of synchronism, which, in
his opinion,'p^ove the existepce ot a
great subterranean'fissure,- 'establish-
ing a ^communication between; the
Pacifiq.and the basip of the West In*
dies. ' . r ., . "
The LjBgiBlathre, off the St^b ...
Louisiana assembled in Mechanic's
Hall, in (hiB city, on Monday last. By
invitatpn,we,vi8ited the Assefhbly and
were introduced to a few of the mo'st
prominent members of both HouboS
We found the Lieutenant Governor,
Dunn, a negro, ex officio President of
the Senate, in the chair, presiding
with marked dignity over a body', one-
sixth of Which were of his own race,
but- devoid, however, of both the
brains and dignity of the Lieutenant
Governor. "In the House, we found,
a- white man as Speaker,^presiding
with less dighity over a body, a ma-
jority of which were negroes. The
&0pr. keepers, secretaries and pages
,jwere negroes, and p majority ot the
visitors were of the Same raee. Color
seems to be entirely ignored, as a rule
and members jinjoy a good natufed
social" intimacy. The *nral districts
are represented bj a class of intel-
leetn, asato not likely to fulfill
the prediction of the "man and broth*
er" philanthropists of New England
There are some very sharp fellows,
however, half, breeds of this city.
Df the white representatives, a mar-
jority in both houses are men of ex-
ceedingly ordinary appearance
The business:of tbe city has im-
proved since the holidays, and money-
matters are a little easier than during
last months No' great activity in
business, however, is looked for until
the opening of the spring trade, next
month." Merchants express the hope
that planters will ship their crops to
market without* further delay, and
assist in relieving trade of its present
embarrassments. It is calculated
that not more than one half of the
cotton crop has passed out of the
hands of the producers. It is mainly
on this staple that this city depends
at present for a change in the current
of money. There are some who
think that the appreciation of the
currency during the past two months
concurrent with other causes, must
Sooner or later cause some distress
and many failures in business. Cer-
tainly merchants who have pur-
chased heavy Fall stocks With calcu-
lations {of an active season—which
has not been realized — must lose
heavily by this appreciation of the
currency, Qnd it will be difficult for
tbe best houses to meet their bills.
So say the merchants.
The Medical Colleges of this city
are in a flourishing condition. By in-
vitation of Dr. S. O. Young, of Hous-
ton, who, by the way has been select
ed valedictorian of his graduating
class, for the approaching commence-
ment of the New Orleans School of
A n:~ qp 23,
For the
5i 5
•iCJ i ,i
conscious of-being tbe centre of sfr*
traction |q£ crowds ,p/, strange peo
pie. . j _ .
.After their arrival at the depot pre-
parations were niade for cooking
breakfast
ties were brought out, pans land
bowls were placed in the handB of
each, and every thing was conducted
systematically and decorously. The
principal ingredient of tbe cuisine was
rice, though we hotieed that some of
them placed small pieces of pork that
had been browned to a crisp, over
the tops of their pans of rice. 'The
chop-sticks were the only instruments
used in carrying their food to theu
mouths,. the sticks being held in the
right hand with the thumb and first
and third fingers, the second;One
passing between the sticks, which
they nsed as tonga for picking up
their food. After breakfast was -over
we noticed that most of them tofk a
good big drink of the hot watet in
which the rice had been boiled. Care-
fully putting aside the. wood which
remained after the cooking waft done,
they,washed their ^ewls and chop-
sticks, packed away their pots, &c.,
lighted their pipes a&d enjo^i
smoke with tie aoch philosophical
composure as the most devoted jofer
of the weed among the ooside barba
rians could have, done. Several ttf
them spoke English indifferently well
but did not evince any disposition, to
be communicative. > - a . I, (
There was but one woman iu the
lot; she was small in size and by ho
pieans attractive in personal Appear
ance, having undergone the psaa
process for rendering the feet dispro*
portion ally small, her walk was : any-
thing but graceful, her gait being a
sort of indescribable cross between
the double infliction of Alexandrian
limp and Grecian bend. Each man
had been shaved from where the hair
starts out on the forehead to the
crown and for a broad space all the
way round the head above the ear,
leaving only the queue or pig tail,
which when loose, hangs nearly to
the ground from the head of every
genteel Chinaman, in most instances
the pig tail was cicely braided, coiled
around the head and hiddentunder tbe
bat.
About one o'clock yesterday after-
noon the train left' for Calvert with
these, the first Mongolians ever
brought to the State. The success
of this experiment will be watched
with anxiety by a very large propor-
tion of the people of the State, and it
is probable other contracts will be
entered into for a further supply.
The cost per head for bringing them
from California, to Galveston is set
down at $55.
Napoleon ia going to stamp the
profile of his een's face on the French
coin.
Hiriaf.' - -
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In Europe the annual hiring Bays
occur at different periods of the year.
The peasantry or agricultural labor-
ers meat the 'farmers ion these> s«ated
days at the paarket towns and, make
their engagement/s. The best hands
are paid about ohe hundred dollars a
-year, including lodgings, farm" fare
aud fueL The eupply oi laborers is
,t° Jhtf deq *BA, and
s reliable and atl
they are as/a' class reliable and atten
tive. At l&rv&t time thete 1b no
difficulty in proetfriHg surphtettands
Fires Were lighted, fcet-4 to take off the omp. -in; r^ttlo- r
" a
South uiis system of hiring, Binoe
emancipation, has come iifvogUe', and
like many1 Innovations suddenly in-
trod need, works irregularly and un-
satisfactorily. The demand .for labor
for plantatioh use, to begin with, far
exceeds the supply, and this the
freedmen now folly realize, aid so
correspondingly deport themselves.
The year jnst begun shows conclu-
sively that in place of planters ex-
tending the area of land in Cttltivav
tion, curtailment becomes neeeisary.
Every motive actuates the .aasM en-
gaged in planting now ^o ,manage
with as few hands as possible. There
may be exceptional instance^ But as
arrali, the attempt to wofk ^planta-
tion, on a large scal«atpreaeAt,iB sure
to result disastrously. Thefoeedmen,
as such, have been forced upon us,
and* experience has taught prudent
men the hep6fCBiUBS8 of pfcChrfg any
reliaaee ^oe ^seeewWlyv planting
with( ihem e^oepfi aoly^in vsiy. small
numbers,^an4 exercising over them
holidafi' dhey are coming dowrii from
their-Mil t% and, ara now amiimcting
Kretty .. muck. on?f their . ,terms
for4the coming year. lu gging, them
jone-harf of the crop against tneir la-
bor only,-the phrtter simply gffes up
the burger share of bis iateresMfor that
j«rhidh, in most conptriea. woald be
considered only one ^ird . <*f the
means necessa^ to make a crop. Not
content with this, howetfcr, they are
disinclined to take a geaeral kt joint
interest in the good of tha place;
fences, gates, houses, and the like
needing repairs, they igooiq.
This state of things puts a quietus
upon all extensive plantifig in the
South, and compels those engaged in
the business of raising ootton to cul-
tivate small orope only, The owners
and occupants Of our best cotton
lands, we fear, are destined tbbe the
longest sufferers from the unmitiga*
ted ills die ^ immediate abolition of
slavery inflicted upon the^'South,
Until some settled plan is adopted by
which suitable foreign 'labor can be
secured, there may be some mirit in
the owners of these lands in Texas ac-
ting upon the principle involved in
the maxim of simiSa, \8imilibus curan-
for, and import as they are doing in
Louisiana—freedmen from Yirginia
atd the Caroliaas.
A Planter.
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Suez , Canal is said to be tho
latest form of a "cut direct."
A Pious Young Lady—The <church
bell(e).
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