The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-02-13

HAT Young Man from the Country
SECS Ia Warrington.

a few years ago q youth from tn,
country made his first visit 10 the Ma
tlonal Capital He was fresh from on
somewhat raphsodlo school histories o
the United States, and full OF the bunk
um spirit OF the Fourth Of July. Ii,
gazed upon the dau6s of Revolutionary
and historic scenes in the rOtunda o
the capitol, with something OF the
alteration Of savage for the sun
These pictures, "rhe Landing of the
Pilgrlms,n "Ihe Surrender OF Lord
Corvallis etc, have been repro,
duced on our national currency, and II
Is hoped the reader may be able, II he
likes, to refresh his memory from his
pocket.
But, 10 return, to our hero. He was
young and enthusiastic then. Had II
not been for the presence of . hlend,
younger IN years but older IN cynicismi
and some young ladies who were III.
viding their silent admiration between
him and the picture Of "The Marriage
of Pooahontas," his patriotic emotion
would have oyorllowed at the eyes.
His visit lasted for three days, dur
ing which he was almost alone in rev.
erential reverie amid the grand archl-
tectural monument of this city, which
excel anything in Europe in proper
Tomato expense. Congress was not In
session the President was not in the
White House; Boss Shepard was work.
ing at the plumbers trade the country
seemed to be recovering from the war;
the month was May; there was much
to inspire patriotic hope. Just about
this time the party Of "progress and
moral ideas " was sending such mis-.
sionaries as Spencer, West, Patterson
and Moses, with their little saChels, 10
the cotton States.
Experience will, OF itself, relieve n
man of much Fourth-of-July etllores-
cence; experience ut the national cap.
ital will relieve him very soon. This
young man was consumed with de-
sire to live in Washington amid the
| scenes and influences which ale the
essential elements of the mighty fl-
ture, to hear statesmen thunder In the
Senate and in the House; 70 see the
President receive foreign dignitaries,
Spotted-Tail, G. Washington Childs
and Dick Harrington; and to behold
Boss Shepherds marvellous wealth
grow lsometric with the debt of the
District, We're to him, rs the poet says,
4 desire and an attainment. He found
living in Washington by no means 50
expensive as Is generally supposed.
True, the President requires fifty thou
sand dollars per annum, and perqui-
sites Of about fifty thousand more for
his yearly visit to his furnished man.
sion; a member of congress ekes out
existence on five thousand dollars; n
government clerk lives eiieminately
on fifteen hundred, and Boss Shepherd
WHOM. honest toll has taught frugal
| ity-spends perhaps not more than
eighty thousand per anuum. Our hero,
neither member, clerk nor boss, found
that he could eat, sleep, and wear
clothes comfortably, and even respec-
tably, for about S7OOa year. This left
him little margin ortheatrical tickets,
but in lieu of tragedy, he sought seat
in the Senate gallery and listened to
the great delineator OF historic fiction
| detail the horrors that lived in his
sombre Imagination, and, which his
t'c"ical fancy located in the provinces
assippi aGd Louisiana. These
aiuments lie loaGd quite as
1g ns anything IN the Greek
$50 If the delipn atoms were
i certain air of reality,
ouud fox instance in the
of1ophocie ~ the writ
ron Munchalsa, and which
The ubseryal .es of time,
- probability, the speaker
q 10 make anends by fire.
i,efution
wac ,rue tina intimate ac-
Is not Oh atmosphere Of
IN II sur y lessons our
u for come of our "truly
hn but the, there is COM
IN me fact nat We become
bd with those who, though
Gown, have all the
greatness. For instance,
soH Senator from
Whose Greatness had not
ilded, lie was very little
deed scare ly known to ex-
Il bythDs ior whom he mixed
10 a New YORK bar ROOM until
ok his sent iu ne highest Legis-
hC4y 10 this hemisphere. And
80 VIII deny % this man, whose
: worth has not been blszoned,
E,ibUr. af greatness as repre-.
81, .H he United States Senate,
,eat party Of progress and moral
Iii, vote cancels Thurman's !
ftGmulu,1ns are pimps and black
legs IN 10 viii he difficult, in looking
over tie f'os q tne daily papers, to
find one ,ult doe not contain the an
noun gamgnt that this worthy has
called upon the resident. Our Nepo-
l'e was " a, aw re that the hackneyed
quotation Ho man is hero to his
rdlet,u mas bcen answered by the OBJ
servation that no rdiet is capable of
measuring hero, but, 1t puzzled him
long to understand why the great party
that had been represented by Seward,
Chase. Summer and Wilson now so
frequently choose its hearers from
among the UdietS.
may ia the future give other cpl.
sodes from the experience of this young
man, who, though he looks at the
world spectaculously, sees deeper than
the trappihgs of 5the pageant 1t Will
not be unpfoiitable, in this hundredth
wear. to stuSly the influence of certain
political phases on the rising gener-
/ Q.i0n.
Jefferson has received 2s,52S bales
Of cotton i'm 'e the first of September.
Tho Heapstead oil mills are turn.
,ag cat S00u ge3ars cotton seed OIL
per week
.-.The Bapist losti,u,c at Cleburne
,oas s5ld the other dey under mort.
E pqve ion 5000