The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1873-05-01

plant painful emotions IN the heaft Wh'ch
has CLEANED with roseste shadows OF JOY,
which her existence, i'm health, always
cast. Ere long however, hope to be on
thctrail Of 'star Of empire" and once
again rejoice with your free people In your
free country, where the "plain white" is
a. good as the blacklist negro ever pro-
ducsd by the tropic suns Of Africa; where
.axalioa is levied and collected for tho in.
tsrsst Of The Government and not for tho
Governors where our future is gilded
with brightest prospects, md whore oil the
ends and aims OF the people are upward
and onward,
The prevail ne disease here Is " Texas
on the brain" Everybody is crying for
information, for descriptions and accounts
from Texas, tha, great receptacle Of strong
arms and brave hearts, where honest in
dustry is rewarded by profitable results,
and whore Plenty has inverted her copious
horn from which your prosperous people
are feastiug
Texas is moi 20 far from the focal centre
Of civilization now as ii was q few short
years ago. The iron horse has overlesPed
tho tedious obstacles of travel, and has
beaten down firmly Gnd permanently the
highways which lead through its fallow
fields, its rich valleys and boundless
prairies,
Your correspondent toek in the Indian
Territory with its gorgeous landscape
sceneriCs, Kansas with her we'll titled
farms, and Missouri with her magnificent
fields, in his route to st. Louis, but failed
anywhere to see finer country, happier
people or better cultivated estates than
those which lie along the railway from
Dallas to Sherman.
The green hcat-felds, so hourishins in
your section, are leading of the harvest
dance Of the nation, and will be in at the
autumnal feast long before those Of the
mighty West is ready to sit down with
the money changers. They are just be-
ginning to break ground in Missouri,
whore chilling winds still blow, and icy
GOODNESS fingers "on the lap OF earth" At
st. Louis the writer fingered for ono day
only, went ION Change" and saw an
abundance Of sights, "too numerous to
mention;" bu! st. Louis 10 the coming
metropolis Of tho continent, and already
has her banners on the outward walls,
ready to contend with the mArts Of the
East in oentering the trade Of the whole
country within her bounds. Tho bridge
being built across tho Mississippi there is
one Of the wonders Of the age, and when
completed will present as much Of strength
and beauty in its proportions as can b.
found anywhere in the world.
A gradual waking to the fact thai
Texas is rising in tho commercial scale i,
being experienced by its merchant princes
who are getting ready to control tho
trade Of the whole State. Many Of them
who are strangers to our people, will soon
tell their own stories through the columns
of the HERALD, thus inviting that liberal
interchange ofideas essential to tho mu.
tual interests Of traders.
From St. Louis the Iron Mount tain rail.
way furnished quick transit to Column
bus, Ky, where your correspondent en-
counered the south-bound train on the
Mobile and Ohio read, which brought him
safely to Humbolt, Tenn where he took
the cars on the Mississippi Central, now
owned and managed by the celebrated
MeCombs whose success as a railroad
king il second to no man on the CONT
nent.
On Monday morning at six O'Clock he
left the railways and took hack for the
"homestead roof where wife and chill.
dren and kindtst friends made his vel
como not only hearty but glorious. Since
then, he who now burns midnight oil fol-
the dclectallor of your readers, has been
constantly subjected to cross-fre Of
questions, in winch Texas, her interests
and her people have figured with pre-.
psnderauce truly exhilarating to one fresh
from the future great city of the State
No exaggerated statements Of its prospect,
have been detailed, Notwithstanding the
fact that -four fresh from our mills has
been promised tho merchants at the season
in which the Northern rsapers 60 out to
reap" This is the biggest item in all the
interests which Dallas possesses, and the
one great aim her live men should strive
to attain.
Let the grain elevators and tho grsai
mills 60 up at once; let the heavy eurren-
cy Of Dallas seek investment in msnufao-
lures Of this sort, and her influence will
become as perceptibls upon the hunsrey
mouths in this section 10 that of St. Louis
The purchase Of the North Louisiana rail.
road has been effected by Col. Tom Scott
and ere twelve months more shall 60 into
the shadows OF the past, Dallas and Vicks-
burg will DO bound together with indis-
soluble bands Of iron. Then our hours