The Southern States of North America: A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland, Volume 1Blackie & son, 1875 - 806 pages |
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... horses lying The Alamo Monument , Austin ... 131 upon it " . 195 The Land Office of Texas , Austin .. 133 " The emigrant wagon is a familiar sight there " .. 135 Sunning themselves- " A group of Mexicans , " The stone house which the ...
... horses lying The Alamo Monument , Austin ... 131 upon it " . 195 The Land Office of Texas , Austin .. 133 " The emigrant wagon is a familiar sight there " .. 135 Sunning themselves- " A group of Mexicans , " The stone house which the ...
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... horses , mules , and advancing them food . He said that he would not himself hire a negro even at small wages ; he did not believe it would be profitable . The discouragement of the natives of Louisiana , he believed , arose in large ...
... horses , mules , and advancing them food . He said that he would not himself hire a negro even at small wages ; he did not believe it would be profitable . The discouragement of the natives of Louisiana , he believed , arose in large ...
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... horse and foot , fantastically dressed , and followed by hundreds of maskers . Sometimes he comes up the river in a beautiful barge and lands amid thunderous salutes from the shipping at the wharves . This parade , which is grad- ually ...
... horse and foot , fantastically dressed , and followed by hundreds of maskers . Sometimes he comes up the river in a beautiful barge and lands amid thunderous salutes from the shipping at the wharves . This parade , which is grad- ually ...
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... horses through the crowds . Stout colored women , with cackling hens dangling from their brawny hands , gravely parade the long aisles ; the fish- monger utters an apparently incom- prehensible yell , yet brings crowds around him ; on ...
... horses through the crowds . Stout colored women , with cackling hens dangling from their brawny hands , gravely parade the long aisles ; the fish- monger utters an apparently incom- prehensible yell , yet brings crowds around him ; on ...
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... horses were fed . In the swamps of Assumption parish wheat and rye have been known to yield forty bushels to the acre . The wheat may be planted in September , October , or November , and reaped late in April or early in May . Indian ...
... horses were fed . In the swamps of Assumption parish wheat and rye have been known to yield forty bushels to the acre . The wheat may be planted in September , October , or November , and reaped late in April or early in May . Indian ...
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Page 26 - His Catholic Majesty promises and engages on his part to retrocede to the French Republic, six months after the full and entire execution of the conditions and stipulations herein relative to his royal highness, the Duke of Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States...
Page 737 - Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Page 624 - The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first Colony in Virginia.
Page 616 - When Israel was in Egypt's land, Let my people go, Oppressed so hard they could not stand, Let my people go.
Page 314 - ... dressed mulattoes, or sometimes full blacks, who flit here and there with that conscious air which distinguishes the freedman. I wish here to avow, however, that those of the negroes in office, with whom I came in contact in Mississippi, impressed me much more powerfully as worthy, intelligent, and likely to progress, than many whom I saw elsewhere in the South. There are some who are exceedingly capable, and none of those immediately attached to the Government at Jackson are incapable. In the...
Page 227 - All the powers relating to the management of the schools are vested in a corporate body called " the Board of President and Directors of the St Louis Public Schools," the members of the board to be elected for terms of three years.
Page 44 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Page 307 - ... privileges' (a much more accurate term than 'wages') of the negro field-hand. In addition to half the crops, lie has a free cottage of the kind he seems to like, and the windows of which he or his wife persistently nail up; he has abundance of wood from the planter's estate for fuel, and for building his corn-cribs and other out-houses, with teams to draw it from the forest. He is allowed to keep hogs and milch cows and young cattle, which roam and feed with the same right of pasture as the hogs...
Page 693 - Levee at Louisville, Kentucky. tiful. In summer, when the shores are clothed in green and the vineyards are resplendent with foliage, there are many landscapes which charm the eye. Inasmuch as the channel in midsummer contains little more than a " light dew," as the Western captains call it, navigation is attended with peculiar difficulties, and steamboats of lightest draught are often detained for days on a treacherous bank suddenly laid bare. No river is more subject to extreme elevations and depressions....
Page 624 - Hattorask," now known as Hatteras. In 1588, when a fleet was ready to sail with a new supply of colonists and supplies, it was detained in English ports by Queen Elizabeth to assist against the Spanish Armada; and Sir Walter, who had expended ,£40,000 in these enterprises, was obliged to get others to adventure their money. In 1589, he therefore deeded to other colonists the liberty of trade to his new country free from all taxes for seven years, excepting the fifth part of the gold and silver ore...