Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1868-10-03

I lCk Tue Nhilu Inil nNs "a lfAAAh sNh
Is counted out aud laid up on
shelf Nevertheless, lot mo whispe
a word of comfort to the Democrats
They will not carry u single New
England Slate-prObably, aud f6
! the same reason that they shoul,
carry tho entire West, namely, OF
the bond question, II may be tha
they will come out all right yet
though, soolh to say, il has at NJ
time appeared To mo equally certain
with u demonstrated mathematical
proposition, u thing my friend Ben
Tarver could put a 20 T. D. TO,
Tho new steamer "Bagby" hai
arrived with n heavy cargo offroighl
all tho way from Cincinnati anL
Louisville. She is n stauneh. wei
finished boat, and will undoubtedly
become n great favorito with the
travelling public, She il commanded
by Capt, Sterrott, who has now for
thirty years done little else than
navigate tho bayou and bay, and
is said to know every wave aIsi fish
between Houston and Galveston,
and TO have separate name for
each one, lilo is popular as q
steamboat captain, The "Bagby"
enters the trade at once. Have You
any idea how many times Stcrrelt
has made the trip between Houston
and Galveston? First and last il
has been over five thousand! What
a shuttlccock he has been to be surel
This morning we have the first
norther of tho season, and wooden
garments are comfortable to thin
blooded humanity, though the NOR.
curry barely touches 100 Fahrenheit,
n grade that certainly ought not to
seem very cool. But after the long.
continued heats of summer, the first
approach Of temperate weather
chills the frame more than frost in
tho winter. What a singular thing
is u northcr. Generally, whcthor
in summer or winter, n dry parching
wind, that sucks the moisture all
out Of everything and goes career.
ing over the prairie, whence or
whittier no one can tell. 1t begins
within n fow hundred milen North
Of us, and is lost within u less dis.
tancc South. Two hundred miles to
the East it is more felt, and its lin
its to the West are tho mountains of
Mexico. 1t is truly Texas insti-
tuition, and not the most favorable
we have, or inviting to strangers.
Gen. Hamilton, Judge Bell, Judge
Il. d. Evans, DR.. r. X. SIN tn and
and. various other politicians have
been in Houston for day or two
past, what for no ono seems to in
luirc. In fact the arrival and sale
Of several hundred bales of cotton,
moro or less, n day now, together
with the opening of the heavy
stocks Of goods keep our people too
)usy with commercial affairs to per-
nit them to inquire much about
politics, | see some Galveston cot
on buyers in our market filling up
heir lists for shipment, and these
nen gain twice the attention and
given to tho politi-
,ians. The inference is that at tho
present juncture cotton bales are
more valuable than politicians and
command a better price in tho Hous-
on market.
Both arc, however, useful in their
,lace, and though Captain Johns
is not of tho kind that
ests its hopes and fears much upon
ither politicians Of cotton bales, it
till admits that there are advanta-
res in both. Together they furnish
current of circulation. Cotton
'alcs supply money, politicians
pend it. Cotton bales feed and
ltten negroes, without which poll.
icians would just now have littlo to
ay or do. Cotton bales build cities
Or politicians to govern and quarrel
vcr. Cotton bales make railroads
or politicians now and then to soil
ut. Cotton bales have always
cen at the bottom of much politics.
md politics keep many men out of
ossibly worse mischief. Mind that
'ord possibly" 1t is used in its
teral sense, ,as embracing something
ardly rated in the doctrine Of
hances. SO far rs politics keep
egro men out of the cotton fields
list now, take it TO be unjustifable
n any consideration.
The end of both cotton bales and
olitics when exclusively pursued is
ad. Thus:
Politics. !