Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-10-13
TEXAS.
The CONSTITUTIONS COnVenfiOm-What
Has been Accomplished by 1T
The Pacific Railroad and
Hard Money.
From an Occasional Correspondent.I

FORT WORTH, Oct )ber 9.-Our con-
stitutiOnal convention has been IN session
about a tn, and while the term will not
be as short as the reformeTs expected, yet we
have an able body there, and one in whom
the people condde, and we expect an instru-
ment fully adapted to our expansive pro-
gresslon. regret to say that they have be-
come SO severely economical as TO vote out
stenographic reporter of tt cir debates, that
would have given us light now aud hereafter
on their actions. The measure to employ one
came near passing at one time, but some sky
sCraping, Spread-eagle, Lone-Star blather-
skite got up and so bespangled that body with
stars and feathers and sich, till they got oD
big disgust, and said the State should not pay
for such luminosity. They said they mad just
experienced one tidal wave at Galveston and
on the coast, and that they considered was
sufficient calsmity to supply the market,
without deluge of words and a drought of
ideas that high up in the State. They mean
business. The working members are mainly
on the committees, and 1t is only occasionally
that these warning intellecis do clash out OF
the harmony that perVadeS that body. They
had struggle over the resolution OF
a member from the extreme north
western portion of the State, favorlng
female suffrage, put they eXpunged
the resolution of our brother ,Weay-
er and voted him in a "weaying" way,
and said he was "a little too previous, to wait
till Centennial No. 2 came round, when air
ships and pneumatic tunnels and the spirits
of Just men would walk the earth in cUmpo-
site shape and then we could talk OF poetic
justice. The resolution Of Senator DoOlitile,
or rather the idea he advanced at an aST+cul-
tural fair in one of the northwestern States
not long ago, seems more in order which was,
you remember, to give each head OF family
two votes, one for himself and one for his
family, as a check and balance to the tyran-
ny of mobOcracy. But for tear that some Su-
san B. Anthony will say, II bound for you
men always wishing yourself in the best
place" l will subside and glide OF on to the
TEXAS AND PACIFIC RAILWAY.
You are not too antiCuated ~ to remember
the story in one of M'Guffeys Is readers about
the lark, her little ones and the farmer? Wei,
with this point moral and adorn the tale l
am about TO tell. The field of grain was ripe,
you know, but the Cid man was always talk
ing about getting his neighbors and kinfolks
TO nelp him reap it, aud as long as the little
ones reported this kind of talk TO the old lady
lark she told them TO feel secure in their
nests i the grain field, but one DAY
the old man got desperate and told his boys
they must quit depending on Providence and
foreign intervention, and pitch in and cut 1t
themselves. Then IL was the old lark said
"Children, 1t is time to move now" Imbued
with this moving spirit, depuTatiOn of our
cit zeuS waited on Major Frank Bond, vice
president Of this road, at Marshall the other
lay, and asked him II he cou q get here by the
first Of January with the road from Dallas.
lie answered that he could not, in these days
OF specie payment, when IN ,ney meant golu,
and when there is not gold enough on the
earth, or in the earth, or under the waters be-
meath, TO meet the demand of the rapacIOus
hari-mOney men. They then asked II they
would be permitted TO take The contract of
grading the twenty seven miles rom Dallas
here and the emolumentS Of their charter.
He answered, they could; and he would give
them the iron when they got 1t ready and
nov they are hOb-nObDing on cur streets with
contractors, and We will soon see what this
Will amount TO. He satisfied them that the
difference OF gauge, which Senator Johnston
50 much harped upon in mis- letter to The
Richmond Whig, twas the least difficulty in
the enterprise" aud pointed TO Texarkara,
in our own border, and showed how
defty the ImbOden patent Obviates
iais changing Of gauge. Major Bond
has recently answered through the press the
letter Of Senator Johnston, which struck us
Win such force, and / cannot better say how
successfully it has been met than by
Beauregard 10 Senator Gordon, OF Georgia, in
reference TO these letters. He says: The OBJ
iecrlJl OF senator Johnston to the difference
%. Gauge betwva the CJXaS and Pacific raj
TUa1 -four le=t eli hit a ID 3 half incheSj and
the railroads OF the clS-MisSlsSippi southern
states idye fset) has bean 50 successfully an
IS cred by Mr.. Bond that l will only add that
engI LeeTs do not attach al present much i'm
pOrIauce 10 tha. obstacle, which, not long
since, was considered almost insurmOuntsble.
a to The delays and difficulties OF trains cross.
lug The Mississippi river at Nicksburg or Mem
puiE, they Will exist, whatever may be the
gauge adopted, until a tunnel shall be con-
strucJed under the river at either pOint-an
undertaking doubtless many of us VIII live 10
see. Meanwhile We can adopt the plan Of fer.
ryiug the trains across the river, so success
fully, economically and eXpeditiOusly prac-
iiced daily by Mr. Charles Morgan on his New
Orleans and Texas railroad. But any delay
due TO difference in gauge or crossing OF the
river will be more than amply compensated
BY the shortness Of the routes from Fort
Worth to New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola, So
vannah and Norfolk" Now is not this enough
10 unite Us all? think so. C.C.C,