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ElVnGEATION TO TEXAS. 



Montgamery Comity^ Texas. — Immigrants continue to pour into the 

 State. Every i^aper published in Northern Texas speaks of its unusual 

 continuance with expressions of regard. Heretofore immigration ended 

 in the spring months early. The "tide" set into Texas very early last 

 year, beginning in August. It is currently stated by letters and other 

 sources of advice tbat an immense immigration to Texas will take place 

 this winter. Among the present immigrants are a proportion from 

 Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, &c. We hear, too, 

 that the coming winter will bring us numbers of immigrants from the 

 Eastern States, the public mind being better informed there now in 

 regard to the reputed lawlessness i)revailing. Farmers and other immi- 

 grants from the Eastern States will be duly welcomed in all parts of 

 Texas within the frontier. We need the practical, adaptative, inventive 

 genius of thousands of our northern brethren to help us develop and 

 build up our State toward the wealth and prosperity its resources and 

 capacities insure to us some day. ISTone coiUd give us better help than 

 practical northern farmers and business men. I have wished so much 

 that the "spirit would move" some of them to come and set up a cheese 

 factory in an appropriate district of the State. Our condition is peace- 

 able all over the State, exc^t the immediate Indian frontier. Person 

 and property are as safe everywhere as in other States, and opinions as 

 fidly enjoyed and expressed. The demoralization incident to the war is 

 passing rapidly away. The most of the malefactors have been killed — 

 many of them by each other — and their example and force diminished ; 

 those loosely inclined are restrained. I can safely say, from i^ersonal as 

 well as other information derived from reliable sources, that the people 

 of Texas, including the new-comers, are all cultivating the arts and de-, 

 sires of peace, and all that we now need are good laws, and good offi- 

 cers to carry them into effect. We are looking forward to the moral 

 benefits to be derived from greater and more direct railroad connections 

 east and west. 



CHINESE LABORERS IN ARKANSAS. 



Arkansas County, ArJc. — This coanty has received a lot of Chi- 

 nese from Hong Kong. The planters seem weU pleased with them ; 

 they do their work well, and are careful and very cleanly in their per- 

 sonal attire. Should these prove a success, we will be able to get all 

 the labor wanted, and can then work i^lantations for wages and be able 

 to keep them in repair, which is impossible when working on shares. 

 1 do not think hands work as well this year as last, although nearly all 

 planters assert that they do. 



BIRDS AND THE COTTON WORM. 



Montgomery County, Texas. — Our friend, the cotton worm, (in one 

 sense friend, in " restraining excess of production,") has been seen 

 webbing upon the cotton. It is not unusual for them to be seen at this 

 season of the year ; and if they were universally hunted and destroyed 

 at their first appearance, we might very soon get them down, but 

 that concert of purpose and of action cannot be had among cotton 

 planters. Farmers will probably be among the last to obtain the benefits 

 of combined purpose and action. The worms, coming early, sometimes 

 eat the cotton leaves and disappear, and the cotton " comes out " again 



