The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-06-24
Our Texas Correspondence.
DALLAS, TEXAS, June 13,

for writing from which on Sunday semi-relig-
ious traveller ought to be excused, 1 struck it
when got to Dallas. The glare of gas from
the wide-opeu saloons; the eager crowds that
are seeking the inviting portals the clink of
glasses and of billiard balls, and the evidences
of gaycty and festivity on every side are well
calculated to make one lose their reckoning,
and forget that this is the day set apart for rest
and worship. Don't suppose though that this
is any worse than any of the many other new
cities that have sprung up on the western from
tier. The population Of these cities is COM
posed in great part of men who cut loose from
their old moorngs to seek in new fields more
propitious fortune than their old homes gave
them. Freed from the restraints Of old asso-
Citations and old obligations, and deprived of
home influences, they embrace pleasure in any
form that she presents herself. They are not
bad at heart at least not more so than their
brothers in more sanctimonious communities.
They contribute literally to the support of
churches only asking that they may be al
lowed to have their own way about attending
them. From the number of spires that see
pointing heavenward, I should say that in
church buildings at least Dallas would COM
pare favorably with any other city of its size
in the West 1t is beautifully located city,
and has enough snap and goaheaditiveness to
make it in time what its people are fond of
calling it, "The Chicago of the Southwest
Being situated at the intersection Of the Texas
Pacific and the Texas Central Railroads, and
with as fertile surrounding country as God
has bestowed upon man, there is no reason
why the predictions of those who prophecy
great things for her in the future should not
be realized.
"The year ofjubilee has come," is the excla-
nation of hope realized that is going up from
the farmers throughout this whole section.
Never before in the recollection of the oldest
of them has the earth borne so bounteous
crop of wheat. 1t is now being harvested, and
the yield is even greater than it was estimated
at when standing on the ground. This county
is thirty miles square, and have heard some
of the leading commission merchants conclude
their calculations with the statement that the
surplus yield in it alone would amount to one
million bushels. The most of this grain finds
its way to market in the form of wheat-the
grinding being done at extensive merchant
mills in this city and in other parts of the
county. Corn, cotton, oats and barley are as
promising as they can be. The corn only re-
quires one more good rain in the next three
weeks to insure a full crop. The cotton started
off badly in the spring, but the hot days and
frequent showers of May have brought it up to
its usual standard at this time in the season.
In consequence of the great failure made last
year, large number Of planters turned their
attention to wheat, so the acreage of cotton as
compared with last year is much reduced. Of
the crop of 1873 there was shipped from this
depot $4,000 bales The shipments of the
crop of 1874 have so far only reached about
10000 bales.
1t was great pleasure last week to be greet
ed with the old familiar face of the LnteMgen-
Ger, bearing date the 3rd instant. Right nobly
do you sustain yourself against the trucking
sheets that seek to throw the mantle of obliv-
ion over the heinous offences of Gov. Cham
berlan in the days when robbery and rapine
ran riot in the land. The honest people of
South Carolina, I can we'll conceive, may prop
erly condone their sins in part after the lprit
shall have shown fruits meet for repentance; !;
but in the interest of fjustice, humanity, of civil
liberty they should never be forgotten. Cham
berlan is smart and is playing his hand with
all the adroitness of the polished trickster
Having foated on the high tide of malignity
and oppression with wealth and place, he is
now trying to keep himself on the top wave of
the ebb-tide of concord and fraternizaton SO
as to reach haven of respectability and social
position. If the people of South Carolina are
true to themselves and to their glorious past
he will never find it within her borders. By
the way, the telegraph has just given us an
account of the little JMet-douring between
Gov. Chamberlain and Gov. Porter. Did it oc-
cur to you that they were both little "too
previous" in their history in speaking of our
forefathers laying the foundations of American
independence at Bunker Hill, when the fact is
the idea of independence had not at that time
entered the head of the most pronounced rebel
among them?
Texas is preparing to hold a constitutional
convention in the fall to throw off the incubus
that was placed upon her in 1869 by just such
fellows as Leslie, Whittemore, Corbin, Cham
berlain, ct i'd on,ne geaus. The present organic
law is in many respects monstrosity, and has
many provisions that check enterprise and
progress. A change is imperative and will no
doubt be thorough
The population of Dallas, I learn, is about
$4,000. The city is lighted with gas, and sup
piled with street cars A New York company