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Show GRATITUDE FOR THE 11AIL.1KGJ OF JEFF. DAVIS. The old whie-hatted reprobate of the New 1 rurh Trih it nv, Horace Greeley, has just been down orating at a donkey don-key show in Texas, and gloating over the woes of the South, which ho has done as much as any other one unhung I malo actor to produce. On his way hack Yankcedotuward, he stopped at U-alveston, ana oi course was caneu on to tell "what he knew about farming" and things. In the course of his harangue, har-angue, he let slip the following astounding astoun-ding contradictions of every paragraph aud lino he penned, every word he has uttered in the last five years: "I believe at this day not so much violence occurs m Texas as in New York city;certainly there is not so much said about it. With but an equal population in Texas as in New York, there arc more desperadoes in that city than in Texas, and it is harder work to niunngo them. The North does not think Texas a laud of bowie knife !in,l nistol. The proof that Texas is iu good repute is shown by her steady increase of porjulation. From other States there is a great desire to emigarte. In this perhaps Texas is a single exception, without it may be Oregon. Texas alone is rapidly rap-idly paining ground. Other States may increaso because losses are replaced re-placed by larger gains, but Texas docs not lone any one, and I intend to be just to her. All letters I shall write from here, and all I shall write about her hereafter, will show that such will be my representations, for 1 can testify that property and life arc safe in Texas." This from the antique hellion, whose "Ku-Klux" and ' Michel Outrage" lie factory has run without ceasing, morning, morn-ing, noon, and night, unter a full head of bell-engendered steam, for years! S'ell, the world does move after all. And yet the old miscreant will go back to New York; and as soon aa his stock of Texas whisky evaporates, the same huge black-loiier-hcadcd-skull-and-cross bones talcs of Southern horrors and atrocities will be revived. Never mind. There's a hell somewhere, soiui time. And Universalist as he i., old Greeley's good lor a"rescrved seat" whore blue blazes are fiercest, bubbling bub-bling brimstone plentiest, and red hot pitchforks sharpest where the worm 1 dicth not, and the tjre never svuinoh-I svuinoh-I eih. Lix'uiijt'm Caucasian, |