Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1868-07-11

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power u the Conservatives a. u0uli
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Ear sighted Conservative ia lhe land
were debating every mOyo va that
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error il lglirr iel alone than cor
res-tesi, flr ihe rra,on that not one
reader ia tea thousand will notice
anything WnoRg In 0Re, ani those
who DO will nalily make ihe o0r-
roelion, Slill | rann0l help saving
that when you made me say ~
asfi- siarrFy DraernIf (meaning ten,
GranD is now the chosen leader u
the radical Republicans, you would
have put the case ia a stronger light
as well as more irulhfilly II yon
had printed him an naturalization
nraerNIi, which lao always was
clean down into ihe sixties, aud |
am not certain lao changed before
last year, Also when you made
mo say that the Rdr'im men III lho
war are now tho most bitter IT all
Ia their demonstrations II the Rali-
eals, YOU stated what was not the
fact, aud wrote il or the HeUinIi
men,
An effort Is apparently being
made in New Orleans a. attract at,
tontion aud capilai to the New Or,
leans and Houston connection by
railroad. Whether il will amount
10 Hnyt ling ! cannot say, but the
names OF some of the best ilnancicrs
Of That city are connected with the
movement. And il they do not
succeed they will disgrace them.
selves, This great enterprise is now
Of paramount importance, aud no
time can be justly lost in putting il
into operation,
| notice that tho Houston Ship
Channel enterprise is again being
talked about, and projet for u char |
ter has been prepared which looks /.
to mo quite feasible and under
which the work may lie constructed, |
If only the Convention will give liiG I.
TO the organization by extending TO |
il n charter.
Speaking Of the Convention, char
tcrs, etc, IL occurs Ia mo TO ask, in |
case the State is divided who will |
make constitutions for the frag-
mcntsf Not the present Convention,
assurodly, which will have rs much
and us little TO do with those new
States, us it has with Louisiana.
Will tho controllers of the Conven.
ton risk another clcction2
Tho city Of Houston has lately
contracted for $4,000 barrels Of
shells for the pavomcntof the streets.
As barrel of shells will cover
about ten square feet with. shells,
and rs Main street is so feet wide
and other streets 60 feet, this will
be enough to shell about two miles
of streets. 1t will be but begin.
ming, and we must have at least a
million barrels of shells to make
really good streets all over town,
still 10000 barrels will do great
deal Of good
Yours. truly,
CAPTAIN JOHN.