New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-08-08
OUR TEXAS LETTER.

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such an agricultural country was never
known. To give an idea of the rich harvest
of plenty with which this land is blessed
would present a picture to the reader SO
glowing and glorious that fear he might
suspect me of drawing on my imagination,
The rich, yellow wheat waved in the sun
light and bowed and bent to the fondly
caressing breezes, like an ocean of golden
beauty, until the farmer with his machinery
| swept through her masses of luxuriant
abundance, and garnered her generous
yielding into his barns, now grOaning un-
der their weight, while he smiles over his
easy comfort and rich plenty. The corn
fields are. absolutely beyond description.
The whole country will be flooded with corn
this fall, Breadstuffs will thus be very low
and in the greatest plenty. The finest beef
/ imaginable, such as would tempt old Epi-
Gurus himself to smack his lips in satisfae-
ton, may be bought, delivered at. your
door, for three and a half cents, while
spring chickens may be bonght from twelve
and half to fifteen cents piece, butter at
a bit pound, eggs at fifteen cents a dozen,
and vegetables, as fine as any market can
produce, for a mere song. FOOdstufs are
cheap, and labor dear; hence this is pecu-
Early the poor mans country,
; The rapid spirit Of improvement and the
great influx of population, which follow in
the track of the various railroads that are
traversing the State, are wonderful indeed.
Towns spring up almost by magic, and the
wild prairie is made to ring with the merry
song of the hammer and. saw; and what
yesterday was wild sweep ofopen prairie,
tomorrow will be teeming with human life.
Our little town of Ennis is fair specimen.
Four weeks since Ennis was a wild prairie,
with only depot or stationhouse to mark
its existence all. To-day it boasts several
large stores completed, several others build
ing, large, and handsome hotel nearly
completed, and other smaller improve
ments. Ennis NOW in the very early days
of her infancy must ere long grow into
town of considerable magnitude and
much Importance. From it's position,
the readiness of access to it from
all directions (having no unpassable
roads and no toll-bridges), the immense
stretch Of wealthy country whose trade she
must command, and her high, healthy posi-
ton, she must become a town of impor-
tance. Another feature which speaks well
in her favor is the high standing and relia-
BILE class of business mel who are settling
here. Merchants of influence in the bust
ness world are building large houses here,
and men from distant parts are already
having their attention turned to this point.
Ennis is situated quite in the centre of Ellis
county, one of the richest agricultural and
most highly cultivated counties in the State
She is only fourteen miles from Waxa-
hachie, one of the best towns in Texas, with
which she is to be connected by magnif-
cent shell road and the trade Of which she
must finally absorb, owing to her superiority
of position as a railroad town.
Our town has brave start and glowing
prospects for the future. Those enterpris-
ing spirits who, through unwonted energy
and noble industry, are now struggling to
build her up, will ere long reap-a glorious |
reward, and shall see their Golfers well filed |
with that an-powesfu1 article, specie, for
much wealth must be garnered here by the
wise At present Ennis exists las a town. |
in sort of crysalis state, but glorious must |
be her bursting forth from this her first |
existence. Men of the mercantile world are |
gathering here, but these Though the first |
and bravest in enterprise) are not the men
who lend permanency and fxedness to the |
life of town. This is established through |
the power of the schoolroom, the press and |
the church. What we now need, above all |
things, to give US real and permanent ex- /
istence is the hearty cooperation of these |
three agencies with our merchants. The /
prOprietors of this great Central road, real
izing this, have generously offered to give
handsome lot to the builders of our first |
church, and would doubtless extend their |
courtesy to any enterprise for establishing |
q good school here. There is nothing for |
which the whole surrounding country stands |
more sOrely in need Ennis is, even now,
mistress of her position, and commands her |
own future; ere long she will float her col
ors proudly to the breeze and hold her own |
with most of the towns on this road.
The remarkable rapidity with which the
Central road is pushing through our State, |
and the sure foundation upon which she is
growing, is indeed. wonderful. The shrek |
Of the locomotive is already bursting upon
the startled ears of the citizens of Dallas, |
and the road is being rapidly pushed on in
the direction of Sherman, thus making over |
seventy miles of the road completed and |
payed for out of the proceeds of the road, |
IN less than twelve months. Is this not |
Now, contemplating the glorious plenty, |
the splendid harvest of breadstuffs, the fine |
for an abundant cotton crop, the |
great sale of hides, the myriads of cattle
which bask in luxury on the plains, and the |
beauty of our natural sur
have we not indeed cause to lift |
up our hearts in gladness and hopefuInessl |
But one point in the future remains
upon which must hang all our hopes of |
greatness and power. One mighty point of |
import to our people. The pivot upon
which must hang our every hope Of future
grand nucleus around |
which must centre our every dream for the |
future. This, Of course, is the development |
Of our coming election; our political status;
cur power in the government. Let Horace |
Greeley fill the presidential chair and the
glory of Texas is secured. S. G. J.
Alfred B. Ely, who died last week in
Newton Massachusetts yras the ndidate