The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-02
p ieer .3rnnIisn.

Correspondent ce OF the Herald.
"Amongst the interesting calls the Post re-
ceyed yesterday was one from that veteran
If the press, Mr.. G. II. Hanson, now of the
Kosse Local. Mr.. Hanson claims
4 10 have published the first daily in the State
of Texas, to-wit. The Age Of Commerce,
which first saw light in the city of Houston
\ in the year of our Lord, 1857, 1t
is true that this paper was ante-dated by
several Others, 'mong them the Houston
4 Telegraph and the Galveston Civilian, but
these were weekly papers. p Houston Post,
May 10.
The statements above, in the very town in
which, and about the time of, the formation
Of the Texas Press association, seem badly at
fault with the actual f,cts. The Houston
Post published in city whose history abHn-
dainty dispgovesthe assertions, would do well
to examine old files no doubt preserved in
that place. 1t is claimed that the daily re-
ferred to was commenced in 1857, and was
the first daily ever published in Texas,
Doubtless there may have been such paper
issued at that time, but its existence must
have been short-lived. But fifteen and
sixteen years before that two neat and
talented little dailies wer published in Austin.
The one, by Ira Munson the other by
Charles DeMorse.
The Houston Morning Star, an able and
inau initial paper edit respectively by D..
II. Fitch and DR.. Francis Moor ir., vas pub
lished for several years, covering the y ars
1871, AZ, 43, Al or about that length Of time,
from IS to l6 years befor 1857.
The Galveston Daily Civilian, edited by
Hamilton Stewart and John Henry Brown,
tn daily being chilli of tn old weekly and
substitute for thu old semi-weekly Civil
ian, the former being then Is or 10 years old,
was issued from late in 1856 to the b ginning
fth' war, with wide circulation and spl H.
Idid adv rising patronage, and both the
weekly and daily printed on the first steam
printing pr IS ever imported into Texas,
which was in 1854, by the proprietors and
publish re-, Hamilton Stewart, John II nry
Brown and Samuel j. burnett q vering
that dat also the Galv ston News and Hous-
ton Telegraph and a paper in Austin re
published both weekly and tri-weekly, and
the Confederate in Galveston W ekly and
semi-weekly. TIL Post says: SIT is true
that this paper 1.-THE Houston daily of 1851
was ante-dated by several others, among
them the Houston Telegraph and Gal
weston Civilian. But these were weekly
papers"
"Ante-dated by several Others" is rich !!
/ have no doubt it was ante-dated by at least
q hundred other papers, strung along for
about thirty years, commencing with paper
each in Nacogdoches and Brazoria about that
long before, the Telegraph eighteen years
before at San Felipe, and removed to Hous-
ton in 1887 and soon Joined in 1878 by the
National Banner and Intelligencer, both large
papers, in Houston, and papers at Matagorda,
Brazoria, Washington, Nacogdoches, San
Augustine, and, in 1889, by the Gazette and
Centinel at Austin. Before annexation, con-
summated February 10, 1876, large num-
Der of other papers were in existence, several
Of which, as the National Register, Mt Wash.
ington, and De Morse's Standard at Clarks-
vile, were large sheets, conducted with rare
tone and ability. The Register contained MS
much reading matter rs the Dallas HERALD
of to-day. Between that date and the origin
of the 1857 paper in Houston, many Others
came into being, among which | can recall
the Victoria Advocate (lSi6) aud papers at
Corpus Christi, Brownsville, San Antonio,
Bastrop, La Grange, Bellville, Crockett, Pal
.estine, Tyler, Henderson, Rusk, Marshall,
Jefferson, Nacogdoches, Liberty, Columbus,
Gonzales, Dallas, Bonham, Paris Quitman,
Anderson, Lavaca, Indianola, Goliad Seguin,
New Brauntels, Waco, Georgetown,
.Centerville, Richmond, Brenham, Washington
Woodville, Columbia, Birdvile, Lockhart
and doubtless at other places. At the close of
1856 before the advent of the II uston pa
per referred to, there were in Texas sixty
weekly nanars two tri-Wppklv two semi