Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-08-21

readers will say, ii YOU don't, lha
this is enough Of advertising fol
ono day, We will change tho sub
ioet,
Have YOU seen the new Paper Al
Navasota, | refer, Of course, q
tho Tablet. IL is a we'll got up pa
per, is ii nOtg II Is spicy aud in
iolligcnt both, and doubtless enter
prising. Qnisenbcrry, tho author
and editor, takes his place In ia,
front rank OF Texas journalists, and
will, | think, make hls mark upon
the passing times.
Nayas0ta has passed tho crisis 0I
its existence. Tho terminus Of the
Central road being now seventy
miles above, this place has built M
u permanent trade, that not only as'
sures il of existence, but promises
TO mako il ono OF the first towns IN
Texas. It's population now is csIi'
mated at over 1000, and IL boasts
OF schools and churches and public
spirit unsurpassed in the State -
Navasota viii always bo tho ship
ping point for Grimes and Walker
and other counties, and when Col,
Camp gets his road built from thcro
TO Cairo, il will become ono OF the
centres of America. QuiSonbcrry
has chosen his field of operations
wisely, and if his paper grows with
its location, IL will not bo long bo.
foro its daily issues will bc sought
all over middle Texas.
Did you ever SEQ such nonsense
rs is called information and inhu.
cncc at Washington Jack IIamil-
ton, Judge Paschall, Col. Haynes
and halfa.d dozen other leading men
disrcgardcd, and Moore of the San
Antonio Express, n one-horsc pop.
Inlay, looked TO for adviccl Gov.
Pcaso received with frigid polite
ness and Quick, late orderly to Gen.
Magrudcr, and afterwards success
lively agent of tho Telegraph and
editor Of tho Transcript, and in all
positions the same, received with
open arms, his tales Of woes drank
in with eager ears, and his inilu-
cncc felt in tho councils of the ma.
ton! Faugh!
Said l not that politics is n low
pursuit at best, and even contempt
iblc2 1t and most Of its votarics
arc beneath contempt.
The burthcn Of all our letters
from the older States, especially
from Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and
Tennessee, is of the tide Of emigra-
ton setting towards Texas. Per.
sons who have been out this sum
mcr TO look at the country go back
with it and determined to
come and bring their friends next
| think, largo as Texas is,
that it is going to fill up, and at
least double its population in the
next five years. I suppose you
have room for numbers yet in the
o-called wheat region. Will it al
ways be the wheat region, Swim
dclls? Will not tho completion of
the railroad turn these wheat fields
into cotton patches? | hope not
For although cotton-raising is very
lucrative when successful, it is not
rs q general thing so conducive to
wealth and independence to a farm
irg population as the growing Of
grain and stock. Still speculation
always has attraction enough 10
urn the heads Of tho people, and it
will not be surprising to me to see
.ho people Of Dallas importing
heir flour from st. Louis, and bor-
owing money from their cotton
actors 10 pay for it. Stranger
,hings have happened. Your lands
ire fino Tor cotton, They are be-
,ond tho reach Of the worm, the
)cst of the lower county, and
seventy five gold dollars an acre
or produce is a big thing to think
lbout. But soventy-fvo dollars is
10 certainty. l have seen cotton
'old in Houston less than thrcc
Icars ago for thirty-fivc dollars per
,ale. BY the time your farmer had
'aiscd bale to two acres and got
t to market at that price, he will
lavo to mortgage something else
han his next crop to got the neces-
aries of life. Let lis hope the
Wheat region will continue to be
he wheat region. A certain indc-
,endence is far better than n doubt
ul future. The emigration that is
oming gives us some hope of this.
Sven when Indiana people settle in
his lower country, as they have in
ONE numbers about Galveston bay,
heir full attention is given to corn,
nd the crops they mako beat all
heir Indiana crops. / trust these
raising people will pour in in
erds. They are a sturdy race,
nd shiftful, and they will bring
ur country out.
CAPTAIN JOHN.