San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1879-06-14

| no speaks Of, and which, having losi
sight of by some turn in the road, he
afterwards COMPOUNDED with the Court
House, which by the way is above the
general average in older States than
Texas, and for which he should have
gwen us compliment rather than dis
parasement. His testimony it will be
seen agrees with that Of oil travellers as
to the fine appearance made by our
town at distance. and this by what
| ever way you approach it. 1t is tue
that distance lends enchantment, but
| not more SO with respect to our town
than many others. Then bis charac-
| terization of it as dirty is unjust, for
| such it is not, but the reverse. Again,
| We need not say that his school for
boys is really the female department
of Coronal Institute, the male depart
ment being in o separate building in
another part OF town.
As to his personal reference to the
editor of the FREE PRESS, we need
not say to our readers that we have
assumed no such role of superior
knowledge as he represents, nor if we
had, would we have been so sadly dis
appointed as to the progress Of the
country, which has been encouraging
rather than otherwise. We will only
add that we have learned much that
was new and profitable to US since we
came here from the old settlers, and in
our opinion if the Tribune CORES.
pondent we're to sojourn here for a
time, he would abate very much the
idea of his vast superiority to the
whites, whether poor or rich, of the
South, which now evidently possesses
him, and would thereafter write in a
less fippant and dogmatic style Of
matters concerning which he ueces-
sarily can know little or nothing.
Even as to the pride of San Marcos,
its spring; he does us injustice. He
did not know however. we suppose,
that save in a few points, the river is
too deep to be forded-sometimes twen-
ty feet or more. If he had gone to its
source in boat be would have seen
q vision of fairy land in its crystal
depths such as he has probably never
seen in all his travels. But had his
Imagination been reasonably active it
seems to us he need not have jumped
to the conclusion that there was but
one mill on the San Marcos. He might
have heard of another in town, and of
a good many more further down.
Then he might have learned further
that it is only within q few years that
wheat has been extensively grown in
this prrt of Texas, so as to call for the
erection of many mills, or those of the
highest class, one of which we now
have in Hays county, and more of
which we shall soon have. Then we
should say his fancy must have been
sadly at fault not to see behind the
sign-board of Mountain City post Of
flee anything of one of the best settle
ments in Texas, teeming community
of good people, devoted to education.
morality and the best interests of so
ciety generally. But he evidently
thought himself Gas he expresses i)
on the frontier Of civilization, SO much
SO that he expresses his establishment
at finding a sewing machine in house
where he stopped for dinner Poor
fellow
In conclusion we will remark, that
while it is too much perhaps to ex-
pect to escape the Misrepresentation
of this class Of correspondents, it is
best to take them good humoredly,
and philosophicslly, and to profit by
their criticisms, where they make good
points against US, as we confess the
writer under notice occasionally does.
To see ourselves as others see us from
other portions of the country, is, after
all, wholesome discipline, although
it may not always be go very pleas