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Raspberries, Peaches, Grapes, &c., they might charge double prices, 

 and get rich faster than so many cultivators ever did before. They 

 would have to make their own Ice, but that is not difficult ; they 

 might have to teach the Texas Central how to run a milk-train fifty 

 miles ; but that need not exhaust their energies. Their pasture- 

 land, fenced, might cost them $10 per acre just around a depot and 

 a junction; their cows might be picked at $15 per head; and they 

 would soon sell Hay enough at 200 per cent, profit to defray the 

 cost of feeding and shedding their stock. This is but one of a hun- 

 dred equally promising enterprises now impatiently awaiting the 

 right men to direct them. Who will send them along ? 



H. G. 



GLEANINGS FROM TEXAS. 



[EDITORIAL CORRESPOKDENCE OF THE TRIBUNE.] 



New Orleans, La., May 29. — Texas is a great State geographi- 

 cally, with immense natural resources and gigantic possibilities ; 

 but she has not yet justified her early promise. Her wealth in 

 soil and cattle, with the ease wherewith an abundance of food may 

 be secured from these with little labor, has blinded her people to 

 many shortcomings which should not have endured or been endured 

 so long. Her habitations, as a whole, are far smaller, ruder, and 

 less comfortable, than they might and should be. She ought to 

 pay for ten million panes of glass, and hire ten thousand glaziers to 

 set them directly. She is in urgent need of twenty thousand more 

 school-teachers and fifty thousand instructed cooks. It is a grief 

 to see beef that might be broiled into tender and juicy steaks fried 

 or stewed into such repulsive, indigestible messes as I have en- 

 countered at all but her two best hotels. It is a crying shame fov 

 a region where the Peach, the Grape, the Pear, the Strawberry, 

 &c,, grow so luxuriantly and bear so bounteously, to be living almost 

 entirely on Meat, Bread, and Coffee, even if these articles were what 

 they should be, and in Texas are not. In Labrador or Alaska, 

 such a "hog and hominy" diet would be faulty; under this fervid 

 sun, it is atrocious. ISTo family which has been five years or over 

 in Texas has any right to live so badly. 



I judge that there are, at the outside, fifty acres of cultivated 

 Berries of all kinds in the State, perhaps as many of Grapes, and 



