Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1872-08-03


course, labor is plundcred all the
time. While you can buy this coin
at ten per cent, what you purchase
is generally twenty per cent, in ad-
vance Of that which yo1 can pro-
cure elsewhere or in other words,
you buy in grccnbacks they dc.
duct twenty per cent. The vote
stands S73 white to 191 colored.
After pulling through some 20
miles of sand and morGss, we grad
ually ascended the plateau, and for
the first time met the
TEXAS PRAIRIE.
l wish | could fitly describe the
sceno and is effect upon my com
panions. AS | have since noted by
| The ph;laI-ir i-;'s arrd 1te" Infk pa
pors. you were then smitten down
in the streets, or driven into your
homes, by the dreadful heat, yet
here, $500 miles from Phila.
delphia, in the extreme Southwest,
VIC rested our horses and mules up.
on an elevation which commanded
u prospect unspoakably Curious.
Far as tho eye could reach there
was nothing but living green inter
sporscd with groves Herds Of
CATTLE OXEN AND HORSES,
were browsing on the rich pastur-
age, their flowing names and tails
waving in the free air. felt as |
have often folt, after leaving Phila-
delphia on Saturday afternoon for
the healthy breath Of old ocean at
Cape May, Atlantic City, or Long
Branch. We literally bathod in the
wholesome atmosphere. A strik-
ing contrast was presented between
our trying rides over rough roads
and the heavenly zephyrs that
courscd around us on this peerless
prairie. Not tie level and careful
ly macadamizcd paths Of Fairmount
Park at Philadelphia, the Druid
Hill Park at Baltimore, nor the
Central Park, New York, surpass
these natural boulovards. Differ
ing from the Western prairics in
the fact that they are still undis-
turbed by population, save where,
here and there, some
ENTERpRIslNG settler
has already built his home, as if to
wait for incoming population, you
ride on and encounter an occasion
al grove Of well-watered timber. In
the distance there is an abundance
of the famous Cross Timbers, whick,
beginning at the north, run through
this great empire in vast broad
belts. Here, as we'll as afterwards,
when we coursed over the prairics
leading into Kaufman, between
Kaufman and Dallas, and between
Dallas and Fort Worth, ! felt that
Texas was, ADORE all, The home for
the Whlte man,
There is a theory that in the 9th
er Gulf States, assitudc, enerva-
ton, and indifference to .oil are so
many results Of the intense heat
and that no white man can perform
the labor essential to the develop
mcnt of that section; and | met
gentleman in New Orleans who
predicted on this theory the dogma
that gradually the wnolo Of these
States would be absorbed by the
African race. But here, in Texas,
with its healthy solltudes, its broad,
life giving prairies, its diversity of
climate and productions, its wheat
and cotton, its sugar and its corn,
its .coal and its iron, tobacco, and
every variety of vegetable, we have
the assurance Of future which
should invite to its alluvial soil mil
lions of the mulitudes of the earth.
This, indeed, is the country Of the
,ChitG man.
Our driver, an enthusiastic Con-
fcderate, polite yet somewhat scorn-
| ful Of Yankees, seemed glad to sec
us, and told us after our raptures
over the first prairics, that ho had
u place to show us that he regarded
as God S own land. He pointed
with his whip, saying, "That is it, !"
as we entered Scycnc, and it was q
picture indeed worthy tho pencil
OF Claude or Salvador Rosa /;
and yet, like all these magnificent
stretches waiting for the foot OF pro-
gress and the hand of labor Maay
other spots, not less sweet and in
viting, greeted us, like Garden
Valley" a cluster of lovely hill and
prairie, where we gathered some de-
licious plums as we watored our
horses in the groves.
At last we drove into Kaufman
and had q hearty welcome and a
sound sleep, though our landlady,
Mrs. Gibbs, thought that instead of
thirty-fvc miles 10 Dallass We
should prepare ourselves fora good
round forty.
Early next morning, called up as
usual by the chanticleer voice of
Col. Scott, wo had another prairie
ride into Dallas, one of the chief
points of the Texas and Pacific
line, where we found our friends in
waiting, and were regaled in the
evening by serenade and a pleas
ant interchange OF compliments.
Ifa Pennsylvania farmer, anxi-
GUS to select the best location for
his sons, had gone forth TO Texas
to lay down the line of the Texas
Pacific Railroad, he could not have
chosen a more delightful section
than that traverscd by Col. Scott
and his companions, between Shrevc-
port, Louisiana, and this very town
of Dallas. 1t is the scat of the
county called after our PennsyI-
vonio Vice President, and like most
of these Texas towns, has good
deal of the cosmopolitan character.
You meet people from all countries
and from all The States-tho Ger
man, Scotchman, Frenchman, and
l talked with many Pennsylvan-
ians. We met the editor Of the
Herald, Mr.. Josselyn, who, altho'