Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1872-12-21
Latter nom Capt. John.
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John communicated with you. The why
and wherefore Of his long silence will
probably 10 Of little interest 10 The avet.
hgs reader. BE .aseh you and ine, howev.
eyr, bro. H., the truth a, Capt. John found
himself 80 much ahead OF The ago that no
hid to stop and let The average reader get
up within hearing. And between the fos-
sils who have been holding the said aver
ege reader back, and the barhatlcs that
hate citing 10 him, a. progress has not
been as fast as II should have been.
Where ore, oh, average render, have
done with fossils and scrape myself Of
barnncles, that We may have some chance
Of jogging along in sight Of the CIR Of
viii he do il, think you, brother S. |
win the'avsrage reader be done with fos-
sils ? and will no sorape of the barna-
Giles?
Hope told n fattering tale, but hope was
deceived. Still hope ever sees silver
lining to the cloud and II anything on
earth could give good reason for hope 1t
10 The present aspect Of affairs.
Not politically For neither with the
enormous centralism at Washington, nor
" it'll the awful rusticism about to 60 into
force at Austin, does there appear ground
Of hope. What with the sentiment on
which tho Washington dynasty bases its
power, that nothing belonging to State
Rights, nothing belonging to local good,
nothing but the supremacy Of the dynasty
is worth cultivating; and with the senti-
mont that pervndes our people, that the
world has not moved nor the government
changed in its fundamental principles
and objects and powers in the last twelve
years, 1 see no bright political vista
opening up before rs.
But politics are not oil Of public affairs,
and If mistake not there will prove to
be powers ere long in our State that will
be bigger and stronger than both democ-
racy and radicalism combined, if combi-
nation were possible. And I hnil these
powers, at least for the change, if nothing
else.
Do you ever, in these progressive days,
brother Swindells, stop to contemplate
what is going on? Two years is a short
time in hundred. Two years ago and
you were in the back-woods ! The nbo-
rigipal wolves Of the Three Forks bottom
howled almost within hearing of your
Office windows. Now, you are connected
with over thousand miles of railroad,
and almost hundred thousand miles OF
telegraph wire. Two years more and
twenty trains day will be sweeping
through your city, and every hour of the
twenty-four will resou nd with the shrieks
of their engines. Two years ago, and our
census barely told of eight hundred thou
sand population. In two years from now
we shall double that figure Do you think
il wild? Wait and see. Do you know
that unnumbered thousands of people are
lc ok ing to Texas as the home Of enter
prise and progress, as well as of active
wealth and vigor2 All the South regards
it as an Asylum from negro supremacy,
and all the North as the Paradise Of in
dustry. Both regions are forcing their
most enterprising population upon us,
and let but the railroad connections be
made, and the swnrms that will find homes
here, will be beyond all calculation.
Our first communication will, of course,
be by the NJ, X. & T., as it connects with
the Central. But this will be q monopoly
but short time. The rapid progress of
the Great Northern has been surprise
and wonder, and its recent practical
absorption of the international, has made
the plans of its far-seeing projectors
more manifest. Within two years the
through connections will be made to Cal
no and Memphis, and all Texas will seek
an outlet and all America nearly road
hither over its lines.
. Again, the Southern Pacif,, after being
prey for twenty years to the Philistines,
appears to have fallen into intention al
hands and to bid fair to become m actual
fact, at last, across our own territory, and
| am fully prepared to believe to Mexico.
Whether San Diego or not is very doubt
full. Of that hereafter. This will also give
us an outlet and inlet to Vicksburg and
the Southern system of roads, and let all
Southern people in upon us by a feasible
rou te.
These communications and routes Of
travel will open up this wonderful coun-
try, and bring q wonderful population up
on us. and have full hope, brother Swim
dells, now of seeing Texas, ere long, the
most populous and most powerful State in
the american Union.
To be dividcd2 Never! Tho day when
division was possible is past. These iron
bands are lightning the ligaments and
fastening the parts with an unyielding
power, and Texas will stay together. No
power now existant but the dynasty OF
Washington can divide it, and let us hope
it will have no occasion to exert its power
in this direction.
Progress, and Politics and Railroads and
all that are general. What about the cpl
zootic Well, there is great deal OF
humbugging in this world, and the cpl
zootic has given it chance. Think OF 1t
for a moment. A million horses have had
the distemper in the last two months, and
have been medicated by hundred thou
sand auacks, and still hardly any have
died Fearful disease quotha! So is
health! Let as many drenches, and pur-
gcs, and blanketings, and steamings, and
other quackeries be applied to as many
well horses, and as many would DIE rs
have been killed now. What then Blan-
kets, are humbug at oil times; steam
ings are worse, and plenty Of fresh air Is
worth them all. / have had three horses
affected have used them right along
same as ever, giving them an open shed
to stand in in mild weather, and close
clean stable, with q plenty Of COED bed
ding in cold, and they have not even shown
a rough coat; appetite fine, playfulness in
the lot unrestrained, and working quail
ties excellent--for sick horses. 1t is
very mild form of the ordinary distem-
per, so called, and should be treated IN
the same way.
Price of cotton2 Good. What will 1t
be Well, as my friend Paul would say,
having consulted the spirits regarding
gold, first it will go up and then II will go
down-or pice persa, or versa vice, and it
don't make much difference which. Cot
ton is good thing to bet on, 1t is so fair
for both sides and one thing is certain,
that the average speculator in 1t cannot
average more than five years Of business
life. 1t is sure to ruin whoever thinks he
can manage it.. As TO the resent affairs,
fifteen cents in gold pays very well. 1t
may 60 up to eighteen; it is likely to 60
down to twelve. In the first case, those
who hold may gain; in the second, those
who hold will be ruined. At any rate,
those who sell at fifteen are safe, and in
the long run will have money to loan to the
others. Via trita uia terta, the tried way is
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