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SAN MARCOS FREE PRESS. X. II. JULIAN, Publisher. BAN MARCOS, TEXAS TKXAM TOPICS.

Mr. Lafton. of California, has completed negotiations for 10 000 acres of and in Coleman couotv, at $12,000. Jar GouM was elected president of tho International Great Northern railroad. Eight thousand bales of cotton have been compressed at Coniicunu this season.

Work is progressing on all four of the railroads now building out from Laredo. Ti International, tho Mexican National, tho Texas-Mexican coal mino extension and the ltio Grande and Pecos have largo forces at work grading. A fanner named C-rter, from Fisher county, brought to Abiline two bales of cotton recently. He rawed twelve bales latst year on eighteen acros of land, and hauled it seventy miles to a gin in Coleman county, and hauled it back home again. lie lives west of the hundredth meridian of longitude.

Tho contract for budding the Austin and Southeastern Narrow Gauge llailwayfrom Austin to Bastrop was signed by General Griflin, president of the road. The road is to be completed to Bastrop on or before April 1, tn fonniict with the Texas Western at or near La Grange by October following. On the 5th of April four children of Mr. J. WitherBpoon were playing near tho bank of Waxahaehie creek, Ellis county, one slipped in the creek; in attempting to get it out, another also fell in, when a third one, going to the resoue, fell in.

Tho bank being steep and the water deep, they were unable to get out. Tho fourth child ran to the house, sonio distance from the creek, and gave the alarm. A young man who happened to bo there, ran down to the creek and succeeded in saving ono. Tho other two were already drowned. A party of Atchison, Topeka Santa Fo engineers are quietly prospecting for a route from Caldwell, Kansas, via Forts lleno and Sill, Indian territory, to Texas.

They make no regular suivey, but take notes of the most feasible line. The object is to be ready for business as soon as congressional consent can bo secured. Such a lino will bo iu operation in less than two years. It will strike the Texas system WHtherford. Fort JX 11UUUIVUO Worth, or Dallas, wherever the conneo- UUU VUU -w Iia miirin WltU lUO VJUli, vjui- penetrating part of the grain, cotton and coal region, and have an air line for Kansas City, Chicago and gulf business.

The State treasury has submitted a supplemental report, mainly to give a statement of tho recent purchase of bonds. These were made out of the sinking fund, out of proceeds of public domain and out of surplus revenue. The treasurer, referring to the high prices paid for the bonds, says they were held by New York capitalists as a permanent investment of equal value, and as desirable as United States bonds. The holders, being aware of the prosperity of Texas, would not consent to part with their bonds unless they could get a premium which would enable them to procure other securities equally desirable. The const qjeuce was the State hud to pay as high a price as the bonds were sealing for in the market.

Besides sumo 5 per cents and 0 per cents, the treasurer's purehaes include and are mainly constituted of 702 $1000 7 per cents, payable iu 10U4. Each bond would earn ii'ij years' iuterest, and the State iu that time would pay on each a total interest ol $1503 Hud $1000 principal, or on the whole would pay principal and iuterest, Total. He paid lor tho $'J82U0, saviug in the long run $810,057. The reduction in the annual iuterest and sinking fuud by these purchases is, interest, inking iuud, $25,000. orado ot oania iw Au liiiiuiniut.

Sau Antouio txi'rcwi. Facts at all times command much more in the market than line spun theories orcalculatiousof what can be done. It is claimed that lexas is a good conn- try for a poor man who is willing to work; ine jMiiiner uus vb-- i dVear ed 4o jears, Last spriuc arrived at this children ai wa a his had as muc; at one tim tlnrtr acretf ol 1 land oi r. 1 1.1 wick, a lew mnes easi of llreuutui, and w.tli a yoke 01 oxen madoac-rop. Tuo eou aU was abfU-ue.

yet he La gathered seven bales ol corn euS" te t.re. having aold 25 bui.U-1. dollar a bu-heL lie has old nve Udt i of cotton, pid Las rent, boogLt cluthi for Licucli and lJi Las a fair apply of giocene on hand, uu I I v.xi.t tl.r. stout pics Las nt met iu hi moke house, and in Jitiou to ail this he still pos-iee( two Ivdes of ccttcn, the proceedj of will so doabt carry hid over nicely till his next crop is gathered. All this has been aoooniplwhed by industry aud perseveramw; thht.niau is in fair way to become independent in a very fow years.

The above is a statement of facts without ornament or exaggeration. Is there any other country under tho tun where a poor man could under circumstances have douo as well? This man will soon btud alter two kinsmen ho will come here. Had this man remained in To-land would have considered that he was doiug well if ho could have moat on his tablj for one meal in a week. The Marrluge Children in India. Ono of the greatest evils incident to Hindoo civilization is the early marriage of children.

Mr. Wood in his ar-ticlo upon Chudder Son, states that he was present one evening at a wedding whero a boy of 0 was mariied to a girl of 4. "The boy," ho adds, "must become a man before he takes Lis wife to his homo, but if he should die in the mcantimo the child whom he ceremonially married must always remain a widow." Latterly tho Brahmo Somaj havo made an eilbrt to break up this demoralizing practico by taking an ob-ligatiou upon themselves not to marry their daughters until the latter have reached tho age of 10. It is hard, how- Aa.iSAWVt in the lace 01 popuiiu uubiui for tho refotmera to observe thu rule, and Chudder Sen himself lately, in the nn liiiorlifcfr. lirnke it.

as euuo uui" Mr. Wood relates: A few years ago a Maharajah, or prince, was left an orphan, and became necessarily a ward of the English Gov lTiu rmnfrt.v wai cared for. and his education a very careful ono ntleman who has visited the dis--seentobythe Lieutenant Governor regions remarked that tho dogs of Utngal. This young Maharajah of prosperous and in better Kuuchberge became one or the uest known characters in Calcutta, and was universally liked, both by tho natives and tho Europeans. Jt was luougus wiso for him to travel in Europe, but Yt laV JUl U11U l.K if liu iin it was more tnan prooaoio wnu dcrtook tho journey unmarried he would rf turn with a European wife, and this would injure his influence over his future subjects.

The English Government wished him to be married at once, and, on looking around for a wife suit able for this ward, decided to lnaue proposals for the baud of the daughter P.hniidfir Ken. it was a groat temptation; a real Indian prince, and called by tne n.ngusu wo oc-ou them all. It was to great a temptation to be resisted, and a few months before the young lady had reached her 16th birthday sho was married to the Maharajah, but with the condition that she was not to be taken to his home till his return from Europe. Even the Eu ropeans consider the marriage oojeu- tionablo, but tue memoers 01 tucu-nmirt of inouirv in- to the conduct of their minister, aud in i i i 1-JI DUlbO Ui UAfcJ i-if Hia nnenrnnno Twar JIG UUU IC wlo.riocATOn.B cht nnd Drooer, tClVDU Uii that this marriage was right and proper, i 1 1 1 llria Vim a large numDer wiiuurew uvw mo Somoj and organized a reformed So- maj of their own. Gettiug On Fast Train.

It was at a way station on the Wabash. An old man and woman with bundles and packages arrived from out in the country. They expected to get on the train for Detroit. The station agent Uld them tho train always Stopped. dUHSpuu juui von oan eat them ouick." said the agent, ani whpn it comes alonsr.

just get on." There was an "extra" on the road as it happened, in advance of the "regu- lar." In a few minutes they heard the Cn.irwi nf tlw ftmiroftchintT extra, lhe baggage was all secured and the two wmtinff mssenffers stood close to the edge of the platform. The train went ti.a of fortv miles an hour. 11 uv When it had passed the old woman U1UUPCU .1 1 1 hnn a hi 11 ih ir luu of the office shaking her hst. bhe Bcreamed out: "You big-headed tool, did you sayges aw-en?" Tho old man rushed around tno piat- thu Mirt'lih t() COUlt) OUt. I The agent came to the door.

There was i a smile on his face. -Don't come out a smiling at me i i the living llolly," suid cho old gi-utle-mau, "we've a notion to pace you aiouud this platform six times faster than them kera wenti xou iuw, saygtlon? Doyouthiuk a man of my age cau get on a streak of greased light- jeuing? You may play tricks on some folks, but don't 3011 try any game on me a man ou it all. I'm UK UUl- SU feeling hungry and somebody is nae t0t.Uawlip ftforo I leave! )Te In 1 cei ruawcu up I Before unvthiug seii.ms bnppened, the regular train arrive, it an 1 irtln l. r.ild lilt 7 -i tL iue ic .1. cost iO.OOO, and tj this fleet additions are making.

The jIUsui river auj South Fl rida lakes aml now dotttsl with sailboats, ug freigLt to and fro. In a very I thege 8arplemeHted 1 8tcaTtcrSf and then anew region will ,4 opened of furpassing fertihty and beauty. What can nuke more noue than a boy driving ten cews through a town? Why.aboy driving two of course the more cows the less noise. MISSISSIPPI FLOODS. Th Wateri Slowly Abatlnf.

The Chicago Times correspondent i.i i.u tmm TTAlna. as fol- m.1.... I.antf lipoma wpnrv anil lows; iuvctj 1 naddened by the distress that surrounds tho city, inero is noimujj iuubu nt the nufferers. and every one here has done bn part in sue-Kfllninflr the nfiflcted. lhe stratus remain unchanged in this sco-fuiu verv slowlv.

con- HOU. iiio wv. ATnaMnHniiH of every one and it is feared that it will remain up some weeks longer. i tn evorv nvo. Com missiouer Mangam cannot fulfill all the demands coming from individuals and from tho mass.

In Desha county the tnt.nvArv?reat. These suueniiKs noon rf o--; -advices oome from Arkansas City, where the greater portion oi atcdT But few supplies lnye reached them, tho greater number being distributed at other points. Lattous are flerlv craved for, as the suffering is great, and help must reach them irom 8 a con- some UUHllCli o- versatile told the writer that near bun lived about l.buuwunounoouo unable to help themselves in the present state of affairs He was then on his way to Memphis to see what arrangements he could make to alleviate From the same accounts of misery A 0attle and mules are dying, i IUO liUJJUll'UU and Have aieu uj beincs and animals are housed together httumaI18 billing to share their very -th theirh.orsesand other animals, from ttffection, but for the m- nt. Hiinii them. A dition than the people themselves, becoming a greater pest day They are having a most la- tul aud will continue ior bouao it ia ao great a calamity as the Hood.

Lieuts. battenee auu visited the overflown region around this mi VlHlt.Od Other place. Auev portions of the flooded country, and say that the horrors are not in any way exaggerated. They have estimated that the number of people requiring to be fed is In Phillips county, Monroe county, 600; Chicot county, -i ''f FWM). These gentlemen have seen auu ltichards left for Mississippi county, and Lieut.

Satterlee for Lee county, to mako personal investigation of distribution of supplies. Iu Laconia Circle, a ortiAnUrWrieh and flourishing section, great suffering exists. Houses are be-fng used lor the refuge oi both cattle and human beings. The steamer Dick Jones, just returned from Sunk Lands, reports the horrors more and i more terrible. The people were still eating drowned carcasses and Borne few a little boiled corn.

A St. Louis dispatcn says auuu $8 000 in money and large amouuia oi provisions and clothing have been raised here for the benefit of the over flow sufferers on the Capt. Lee, in charge of the Government A nnthA Sunflower and Yazoo rivers, estimates the loss of hogs total in the Yazoo county, the loss oi cattle fully 75 per and the fencing, with many of the smaller houses, (mm Natchez. re- nnva. PU1 13 A teiCKlulu "rsatcnez is muhusu Ke 1 TQvja from theneich and droves of stock are passing Lke Concordia and Tensas rt reat destitution.

The wa- many peopie had to -wftpra of their take relug0 there, they hav- nf rrettine away, and these house8 are tottering from in force 01 1 lie uuuwi. Jjeiorce ox in twouty.four hours, and if it continues a ui the lives of these peopio e--danger unless they are speedily relieved. There is a perfect panic among the ne- groesmany being eo leinuc "1 ..1.. thrt least effort toward saving themselves or families until roused by the whites." Inauguration of the Sibley Mill, Augusta, Georgia. An interesting event in the history of cotton manufacturing in Augusta, Ga took place on Wednesday, 1 ebru-arv 22.

On that day, in the presence of i invited cuesti aud interested spectators, the head gates of the canal were raised, water turned on, and the entire machinery of this mag-nilicent structure was set 111 moiiuu. no doubt the most elegant as well as the i Siblev JHUl is wiiuouv 1 ll.n,ntm1il stories nigu, Mr finishing room, anu UOUUIOWv, house. In the construction and arrangement of these buildings me Kreatct possible attenUon has been eiven for the convenient and economical bundling of the cotton, from its arn-t1 on the premiss tLU its departure in the shape of manufactured goods. Oa the upper floor is the opening and mixing room, wijh a capacity for oO bales of cotton, the floors bu-J with slate to allow the dirt to fall through. On this floor also is the warping and spinning machinery, lte third floor is occupied by the cotton bins and picker rooms, in whicn are .1 flnifdier Dickers, the works of the Kitsoa Machine cSSpauy of Lowell, separated by a substanUal brick wal from the cid room, which contain eight double sections of nine cards each, in all HJ Fobs Fevey cards.

The second and first floors will be occupied by 1,000 looms, about 200 of which are Cramp-ton's fancy looms; the others, together with the carding, spinning, and warping machinery, being built by the Lowell Machine Bhop, Lowell Mass. The rooms are all high, will aimi'J ably ventilated, and fitted with every convience for the comfort of the oper-atives. In front of the main entrance stands tho office building, a handsome two story structure, having on the first floor offices for the president, superintendent, and general business, and on the upper floor a capacious designing room. In front of the office stands as a monument of the past, the giant chimney of the Augusta Powder Mills, the property of the Confederate Survivors Association, standing guard over an industry of peace, as it once did during the manufacture of munitions of war. Near by the main building, and overlooking the grounds, is the residence of the superintendent, and at the other end of the mill are six brick tenements for the overseers, while it ti.a nnrnmnT has fifteen across me ra acres of land on which are built twenty houses of four tenements each for operatives.

The capical stock of tho 00m- pany is $1,000,000. Tne oincers urc Kihlv. president; Jones fc. Davis, superintendent. Mr.

Davis is well known among northern mamuac-turers. Industrial South. Cotton Cultivation. A planter of Georgia, gives the fol lowing plan of cultivating cotton uy the level system, as superior to the old Wlion vet Trfinn Olir lands level, which can only by giving proper distance in widths of rows, we have aunifoim soil, the sun and atmosphere penetrating and affecting all alike a uniform moisture, which is just as attractive to a feeder in one place as another, each root haung its own way, coursing at its will A rrrrr tcI dth of rows brines out a larger number of feeding roots, be- cause tne attracuou i the centre of the rows as at any other ocality, with the same opportunities nf. to a snnnlv of moisture, and under such circumstances cotton will stand a drouth of twenty days with less injury than by the old plan, ono of ten days, and I am 6aying little enough for the wide rows and level cultivation wueu affirm that such is my experience.

Cotton cultivated, if possible, on a perfert level does not require more than half the rain that is necessary to make an ordinary crop ditched and ridged up with rows hardly wide enough to walk between. Our wide system 01 rows and level cultivation fills our soils With roots, which, when decayed, forms a loam mm 1 that is, a natural soil mixed wun ae- A vArrPt.fthlfl matter, and in- creases the productiveness of our lands annually; also we nave a laigci ouu more Dortlv stalk and foliage which naturally yields larger and better de veloped fruit leaves ourianasinmuuu better condidion not as to its quauueo, but less liable to be washed off and better fitted for any crop that is to follow. Owing to the level cultivation, securing the advantages named, we get a larger proportion 01 vegeiaoio manw, which adds to the productiveness of njir ortila hot.h intfimallv and external ly, and the larger the external growth the larger the yield, and tne larger ine yield the greater the benefit to the soil. Stonewall Jackson's Toddy. Having lingered to the last allowable moment with the members of my family "hereinbefore mentioned" as the legal documents would term them it was after 10 o'clock at night when I returned to headquarters for final instructions, and, before going to the general's room, 1 ordered two whisky toddies to be brought up after me.

When they appear 1 offered one of the glasses to Jackson, but he drew back saying: "V.v tin polonl. ven must excuse me; I never drink intoxicating liquors." "1 know that, general," said "but though you habitually abstain, as 1 do myself, from everything of the sort, there are occasions, and this is one of them, when a stimulant will do us both good; otherwise I would neither take it mvself nor offer it to you. So you must make an exception to your general rule and join me in a toddy tonight." lie again stook his head, but, nevertheless, took the tumbler and began to tip its contents. Presently, putting it on the table after having but partly emptied it, he said: "Colonel, do you know why I habitually abstain from intoxicating drinks?" Aud, on my replying in the negative, he continued: "Why, 6ir, because I like the taste of them, and when I discovered that to be the cae, I made up my mind to do without them altogether." rhVadt'phia Times. Thf.ee is a famous bare-back rider in Virginia, not a female but 'a mail rider, who has a pony that has been in the service thirty yearr.

He can carry more, and carry it farther than a Krcpp gun on an Armstrong rifle ordinance. Once Le carried a cook stove and sixteen fectcf pipe over the greater part of his route, which lies between Warren ton and Washington. Electro-Magnetic Drake. Mr. Edison's recently patented el iro-magucuu ub its designed use on any style of railroad vehicle.

is more especially intended for 1 unnnAntinn with A nvntm eiectro. maguot railways. The invention consists in placid electro magnet in Buoh relation rotating metallio portion of the rnt that tho magnetic circuit shall through the rotating metallio portion the electro-magnet being fwniahed with movable heads, which may roovi toward and clasp the rotating portion whenover tho cirouit of the magnet closed. Upon- an axle, and at or its center, is rigidly fixed- a disk of iron, which rotates with the 'axle and between the polar extremetiea on tn electro-magnet supported from thebot. torn of the car.

The cores of this eleo-tro-magnet are extended beyond the IllUK rB1 w- OO cons, loriumg opiuuio, wmcn la reduced in size when necessary, the end being screw-dreaded to receive tut-. Upon each spindle is placed a block of iron forming a polar extension, secured in place by the nut. The orifices in the blocks, into which, the spindles pass, are elongated, 80 that the blocks or- polar extensions ms.y havo a movement to or irom the fixed disk upon the axle rotating between them. The polar extensions are normally held away from the disk by suitable springs of low resilience. When it is desired to use the brake a circuit from any suitable souroe of electricity is closed through the coils of the electro-magnets, when the polar extensions mutually attract the disk, and the attractive force causes them to move to the disk and grasp it between them, causing a retardation or stoppage in its rotation, and so acting as au effective brake upon the wheels.

Who Keprcsent the People. According to the directory of the Forty-seventh Congress, there are in that body 293 members One hundred and ninety -five lawyers. Nineteen professional politicians. Three railroad officers. One capitalist.

One clergyman. There are sixty-five members representing the useful employments of the country, as follows Seventeen merchants. Eleven farmers. Twelve editors. Ten manufacturers.

Five physicians. Two civil engineers. Two miners. Two mechanics. One metallurgist.

The useful employments are still worse represented in the Senate, as the following shows. There are seventy-six members whose professions are as follows Fifty-seven lawyers. Five bank officers. Three railroad officials. Three professional politicians.

Of 'the useful professions there are eleven. Three merchants. Three manufacturers. Two miners. Two general business.

One farmer. One Editor. The Newspaper as an Educator. The newspaper the universal literature of our people is itself becoming a library of knowledge and art. No man could read habitually even one of our chief newspapers without an immense opening of his horison of thought, a substantial relation with the thought and feeling of the whole world.

The difference between a man who can read well enough to enjoy his newspaper and one who cannot is hardly to be estimated. I suppose our newspaper education is the most influential of all in this country. But it depends for its existence and its improvement on the preparation for its use and enjoyment made in our common schools. It rises in tone, spreads its intellectual breadtn and increases in moral purity as the reading class becomes more numerous and varied. It is a great mistake to 1.

nni.rs The DreSS, 1 think, has a somewhat romanbeana nn IT) exaggerated idea of its supreme -creating or leading public opinion, DM in its general educating influence, i stimulus for thought, it has a certain tendency to create a taste for better reeding than it can itself supply. 1 not believe it is easy to overrate its national importance. Rev. Dr. n.

Belloics. Size or Newspapers. Many persons, otherwise clear headed, are inclined to value a ne8l; according to its size, and instance larger ones published at the same price preferable to the smaller one. the smaller one condenses its article so as to get the -kernel" of the subject a column, wnue larger cotemporsry requires a wh column in which to state the is not the smaller paper more J0 inasmuch as it required but a lew utes to get at the pi ten yi instead of being obhged to through a quantity of verbiage, which is indeed confajg Almoi anybody can write a winded" article, but it require iWJJ tact and skill to write a which shall contain all the pots ly atated. It is not the ore, so what it contains, which the value of the nawrpeper.

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