Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1868-06-20
JOHN ". SwINDELLs, PUBLISHER.
OUR HOUSTON LETTER.
IuVsI0NI May ! lslsl

very ennA one AhlH ANsia NhA Alini
pototOss are for once abundant an,
cheap. They can DO had IN ON
market az 30 cents per bushel il
any quantity Aud this leads Us L
u practical minute, which is that al
this rich land Ia Texas is not 10 lal
lall0w or grow up 20 weeds, or b
turned over 10 the aborigincs be
cause We cannot raise cotton a
prolilably as formerly, Land il
Tho Brazos bottom viii produce iOl
bushels of Irish potatoes 10 the acre
These at 20 cents u bushol woulJ
give $50 per acre, The cost OF cul
tivating and seed Is not over S3i
per acre, The net proceed is there
fore $50 por acre or equal TO bal,
of cotton in old times, and that wal
always splendid cropping Pota
toes then are rs good as cotton for /
crop. But some smart reader al
ready -Ss il on his tongues enc
TO ask apt. John whore there is tC
be found n market for 80 many po
tatocs. ghcrc are always such and
] say TO be prepared for them. Sup
pose wo feed them to the cows, We
can from every bushel Of them
make five pounds of butter ol
cheese worth 25 cents per pound
Or if MIR. Smart is not satisfied with
that let US tell him that II starch
mill costs less than gin house and
press for cotton, and potatoes worth
90 cents per pound can be turned
into starch and it shipped to New
York and sold atNa hundred pei
cent profit! And still people talk
of going to the Brazilsl Why Tex
as will yet feed and starch the
Brazils and keep the cotton raisers
there impoverished to pay for it,
while as for free negroes ours in
Texas are no where compared to
them Of the Spanish American
States.
"Are you going North this'Sum.
mer?' is the frequent question one
meets in his daily rounds. Capt.
John says 10. Suppose you go
North, from the time you ttoot on
the steamers deck to the u.ty you
return home, not one hoi est enjoy
ment or solid comfort do you get.
Tossed about from pillar to post ;
your stomach rolled downsidc up at
sea; banged and begrimmed upon
the railroad cars travelling dsy
and night in dust and dirt; forced
to cat at hotels and restaurants, not
knowing who is your cook but with
the comfortable feeling that who
ever he is he don't mind what
of nastiness you may swal-
low SO it is glazed over out Of sight ;
trapsing up and down the streets of
Now York and Boston in constant
fume at sight seeing; bored to death
with Washington political slang
whanging; going to wateringpIaces
mountains till you wonder
if mountains were made for nothing
else than to try your muscles | say
of the chance for having
yourself torn limb from limb by a
railroad accident; and finally y COM
ing back homo worn out with the
SUNNI er trip, and according to the
size of your family from thousand
dollars upwards poorer for your
work. No, am not going
North this SUMMER, not |. Anybo-
dy that has taste for that sort of
thing may have my share. | will
stay at home in peace and quiet.
Fruit promises to be abundant
this year. Plums are already in
the,market-in bushels, peaches will
be on hand in due time. Such a
makes one forget the fail
ures of"Revious, years. Let us
however not neglect in the proper
season to take The necessary pre-
caution to secure n good crop every
year. 1t can be done. No frost
need ever to touch peach blossom
in Texas, if the matter is taken in
hand in time. i would tell all
about this now, but it is so long a
time before winter that everybody
would forget it. Reminl me of it
in January and + wills give NY
plan for keeping frost off from
peach blossoms. TaJt aah K "
The State Convention is now in
session at Austin, 1t will probably
make Constitution for us. What
sort of a Constitution it will be can
not yet be known. Meanwhile what
is the use of abusing the Conven-
ton and its members 2 What is the
use keeping the people all the time
in a muss2 ,I;reekOn J. tho white
members of that body at least arc
human beings. Many Of them are
no fools. Few, of them within the
acquaintance Of any one are really
and at heart bad men. l do not
know that / could pronounce this
Judgment on one OF them. some
of th> N in times past when under
political enthusiasm l have thought
were more or less prejudiced and
unwilling to listen to reason Pos
sibly they may have thought the
same of me, + they ever thought OF
me at al. Alter al, who is to judge
who was right? Not they for me
nor ], for them. So now, Pbiloso-
ply teaches patience, and likewise
that whatever commotions we may
engage in and however. much, dust
we may kick MP, the world still rolls
on. towards its doom, and a little
way off from, the leommotion and
dast, yeitbeI-in point oftime or space
it all amounts 20 avery little mat
ter I'd US il seeips<FN -r-r
Tie world is vide, those thines are small,
They 0Ay be noihing,- yet they be all,
but 10 ibe locker on they not only
nav be. bht they are nothing.
Philosophy teaches US not bo. car
ried away BY an idea, to be eooh 10
avid enihu ,iasn- Let ns also say