Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-05-29

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siIaHssrs. Ihs IseIis " Dallas sTe noi
I,sF 04ssii~f', = siif-nsstsi people bat
lhsy have weaknesses suishle weak
Asss. b. il said, 10 hear tlse,x is~A aul
ssuaiy praised, AID especially ~ gsn,is-
sen vt,o are saProssd 10 Be Ssal advised
as 10 shat constitutes a gool eoaairy, This
Is a kujsbls fssliRg anl eOIsGsadabls
vAniiy.
Oar little sig, Nl,h lie FoEs az brick
basiEess hassss-iis white villas aud
I.AiAisd lsutes.-iis wealth II csdsss sas
sl'FublsIy-.ils raT,isrFss Of Fssssls, yisls's
aud ssrsaiuas, sesniias ihe aiH Ia really
swest plaoe.--A charming plaee-sna
one d Zoe gra,lemaa 10 live Ia "a very
llrasl,siar'. oas priHviPal fashioRahls
s,vs,s srs veil PAyed, aud have veA gras-
lied eide walksi ba. ia ZONE Of the
hack streets and lanrs, the sand ia uneo,n-
fOriably dsePi this is not to be dsniei--in
fact, tho oldss, inhabiian, VAS aware Of
this before Mr., bosgv.t easIc with bis
structures,
The tasteful yi,sas, the handsoIEe lawns
aud gardens that Adoyn our suburban
streets are not 90 widely separated as 10
remind US Of Angels visits, nor SO seat
tered as TO reader evening calls very IA
iiguelng 10 visitors, unlsss they we're
laboring under an attack Of ris hleria,
which semelinI,s becomes chronic when the
visitor Is not bore, MIR. pOggeit does not
rtlish III Is feature ia tho primitive srohi-
lecture Of Dallas, lie Is opposed to "mueh
walking" In the sand. /, is true, also, that
We have many small houzes-bui then Dal-
las is not anlshed city will not DO IA
ished for many years-we do not intend
that II shall boz the praities for hundreds
Of miles around may all be taken In out Of
tho wet before We can say at is finished !"
hence, people need not DO surprised to
know that improvements arc tho order OF
the day, and will go on in spite OF all
spasmodic sicie,nres as those contained In
the CnRIsrIAS ADVOCATE, from the pen Of
Bishop Doggeii.
MIR. Doggoit visited Dallas during his
pastoral visitation in the State, and must
Of course have :elt constrained to say
omcthing about tho town and people. lie
has said something, but that something is
SO negative. in its character that it might
as we'll have mol been said at all. lie said
nothing tina, could give positive ofcnsc,
nothing unjust, nothing untruihfa,, for he
is too much gentleman 10 be ungcnerous,
and TOO cminontly pious to be unchristian'
But there is a something left on the mind,
vague and almcst indeiinablc-somc thing
positively REPRESENTATIVES, reading his
letters, like The uncomfortable feeling that
scizes upon us when unseen dangers arc
about us. II seems TO be something like
this; that Mr.. Doggcit wishes to say to us
that "Dallas is not such place as she is
ncraoked up to DO; that your people orc
Ton siilts about your little town with sandy
"strccls, &C., and you may as we'll come
''down and you need not put on airs, since
"you cat dinner al ~ o'clock, NJ, while at
"nchmond they dine at 5 o'clock, PM"
The reading of his letters leaves such an
impression on the mind, and some people
have got angry; but no maticr--it is evil
dent that Dallas is not his ''style," and VIC
feel assured that Mr.. Doggett must feel
gricved that this frontier country and town
do not look SO old, 50 stylish, and so finished
as Virginia and other States. We do not
know what have been his opportunities for
acquiring that enlargcdness of mind which
make the true cosmopolitan tourist and
traveller; but the impression produced by
these letters is that they have not been
great as he might have known that Texas,
although giant is but in her infancy
We have always admired Mr.. Doggctt, and
loved him for his Christian virtues; but
Dallas will mol believe that he has told one
half of her glories.
The tone of tho letters HAYS been con
demned as out of tastc but ste do not con-
,icmn them, nor their tone. Their pcrusal
produces about the same sensation VIC have
often had in taking q nauscous dose of
mcd;cnc-it may do some good Us a COR
receive md Alternative or reconstructive
and must be swallowed anyhow; SO down
it goes. And so it is with Mr.. Doggett's
letters. They may do us some good and
arouse the Mayor and Council to attend to
the back streets, and order dinner to be
served at 8 o'clock Pm in the best families,
as they do at Richmond, instead of the
village hour of II NJ, the hour, healthy and
sensible as it is, when working people are
supposed ''to feed"
After all, then, The sum tolum amounts
simply to this Mr.. Doggett, with fne tastes
and cultivated fancies, objects to the situa-
tion Of Dallas not being on an "extended
plain;' that the back streets nre very
sandy and the houses arc scattered promis-
cuoasy along regular strcets-and--
and, tell il not in Richmond, that the best
Pm ;i;oo dina !, 10 ainlnhk n t.