Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1865-10-21
Texas and her ProsNaotS.

which meets at Mobile, Ala, about the lst
of November.
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Texas and her Prospects.
Those who have carefully read the ad-
dresses of tho Governor of Texas to TIE
pcople of that State cannot fail to reoog-
nizc in them determination to respect the
laws as well as maintain the Union. lie
wishes to have order in conformity with
law, and Union as the result Of an indisso-
luble Federal compact. From every quar-
ter of the State cheering cry Of welcome
arises, and with determination to set out
anew in n career Of prosperity the people
of Texas have already undertaken to grid ON
the panoply of Peace in order to discover
what triumphs may be achieved therein.
There may be pickering and little local
contests among the citizens, but the idea OF
secession or opposition to the General Gov
ernment is completely dead, and could not
even be so galvanized as to betray the
slightest symptoms of vitality.
No State of the Union has more glorl-
Gus future before her than Texas. With
territory sufficient for the founding of an
empire, and W ith SO rich II variety of soil
and G innate MS to render her self-sustain-
ing and independent in almost every de-
partment OF natural production, the Lone
Star State will in time become the greatest
and most populous on this continent. New
er having been very favorably disposed to-,
wards the peculiar institution, the Texans
are now anxious for n white emigration,
which will bring their wilds and prairies
under culture, and assist in the construc-
ton of railroad lines and the development
of the mineral and commercial resources
of the Commonwealth. The rapidity with
which these glorious ends will be accom-
plished will depend on the rapidty with
which the country is filed up by an indus
trious, energetic population. Labor wheth-
er skilled or unskillcd, will be welcome, so
long MS it is honest, faithful and prescrv-
ing. Land is low, mechanical skill is high
ly priced, capital is required, and in no
country under heaven could skill, capital
and energy combine more eifectualiy or be-
come more materially productive.
In stock-raising capabilities, Texas IS
without a parallel, and the profits are al
ways large and certain. n correspondent
informs us that man in Texas with $500
can buy 200 head of sheep, and in ten years,
by their natural increase, he vii be worth
$4,000. The raising of horses is equally
as protitably, for the cost of keeping them
is next to nothing, and the product is as
certain as the rising and setting of the sun.
Cattle raising is also another great Texas
interest and large rs the extent OF prairie
is over which the herds now spread, the
limitless extent Of prairie lands has scarce
ly yet been touched. Go to the upper Red
River, where the Buffalo roams and ma
ture's meadows are still spread out in
broad expanse of verdure.
Portions of Texas are peculiarly rich in
minerals. Gold, lead, copper, silver and
iron await the coming men, who, by skill
and labor, will cpnyert them into the uses
for which they were designed by nature,
and give them those new values WHICH art
imparts to raw materials. A country so
little penetrated by navigable streams,
must become, to considerable extent, q
manufacturing country. All thr coarser
and more weighty products of inventive
skill must be manufactured on the spot, for
it will cost too much to convey them thith-
er from distant States. We shall soon hear
that Texas makes her own railroad iron,
her own steam plows and engines, her own
reapers and mowers, her own wagons and
carts, her own bread and butter, and her
own sugar and salt.
Looking at the limitless resources of
Texas, and the easy communication which
can be had by lines of railroads over al
most level grounds, for hundreds of miles
in the interior, the most sanguine expecta-
tion will scarcely draw too bright pic
ture of the great future which must be hers.
Let us of Louisiana stretch out the iron
arm till we meet the Empire State of the
South at the Sabine, and the glory of her
future will in some measure be reflected
upon us.-N o. Times.
IsAUGURATIoy OF THE Prince ALBERT