The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-04-09
ARps TRAVELS.
Tho mannero aud ous,ems Of Tozas.

4Rp'S TRAVELS.
: Tho Manners aud Custems Of goxas.
DALLAS, Tex, March 25.-Where do
all the people come from and what are
they after. The cars are full of them
and the hotels are crowded wherever
60. They come aud they 60. They seem
as restless as the troubled sea. The
crowd that was here yesterday ia not
here to-day, but their places are filled
and SEQ new faces all the time. The
hotel register here at Dallas shows arri.
walls from seventeen States In the last
three days, and most all of them mean
business. As 81! among them in this
great large lounging room I cannot help
wondering what 10 their business and
what they are thinking about, and how
many are happy and how many have
some secret so-row, end I wish was q
| mind reader and could follow them in
their thoughts of home aud family
wife, children or mother away off some-
where. How much we are all alike if
we only knew it. Sometimes I venture
remark to stranger who sits near me
by tho stove, and am glad to say ] have
always found them courteous and willing
to talk to me. When L draw them out
on home and distant Kindred It seems
welcome subject, aud as We get more
familiar, they warm up, snd will venture
to tell me of their business. Strapgers
IN strange land are very quick to APP.
preciate civility. A man may be ofiish
and uncommunicaive when at home, but
when he gets away off he looks longingly
around for friend--somebody t6st,
knows.. At times have felt, awfully.
lonesome in my wanderlngs over here.
and would have rejoiced with unfeigned
gladness to haSs aceu my little dog Fido.
could have almost cried over the affac.
tionate wag of his little tale. This ever
constant mingling of the people from all
the States Is Obliged to do good. We arc
oil assimiiatiDg We are rubbing against
| each other more and more every day,
| and we understand each other and find
that we are all just human and are sailing i
In the same big boat upon tho gea Of
life. The North and the South, the East
and the West arc being fast drawn
together, aud not even the politicians
can much longer keep us apart. Wheth-
or we are independent States are q nation
makes mo- difference now. We are ell!
Americans and are proud of our county.
Dallnatisa q beautiful city of about forty
thousand inhabitants. Dallas is rich.
Her banks have two millions of paid up
capital. Her merchants do large
Wholesale trade With the smaller towns
In "a large circuit Of country-a farming
country that Is rich and fertile and in
higher state of improvement than any
that have yet seen. Dallas is speckled
with old Georgians and their descendants,
and have had continuous love feast
with them. The old gray haired men
talk to me with glistening eyes and ask
a thousand questions about our Georpia
dead and their living children, What
reverence and affection they have for
Howell Cobb and Stephens, aud Toombs
and Col9uit and Judge Underwood and
Major Cooper. An old gentleman called
on me this morning AID said his name
was Lyon, aud that he had been living
In Texas forty.niae years. He isgs o
brother;in.lsw to Dr.. Powell and Colonel
IStevenson, the diamond man Of Gaines.
Vile. He asked '.affectionately about
Judge Underwood, and said, "Oh, how T.
used to- love his wife when che ynsjas
school girl, but she didn't love me- and
80 joined company to ayepge the
death of Fannie and Bowie aud Crockett
and that settled me In Texas.nt i{s;it
| lectured hero last might to q large
Iaudlence that did me moro honor thanI
deserved, and by way Of "Reminiscences I
paid q tribute 70 the grand old whig
party of the South, tho party that repro:
sented the wealthand culture and aris.
tocracy of Georgia, and after the lecture
many Of the old time wings in the audi
ence gathered around me and thanked
me. What bond there was among tho
members ;,of that.party. How they ds.l
love and honor and idolize their leaders,
l. Thpv pvvnra nv Il anrtr 4 yv:l1.-.
lend Stephens and Toombs and John
Bell and -the code Of honor-and those
who are alivoswea by them yet. + '4lIl 4
dined yesterday with General CabeIl |!
o noble Virginian, the, mayor ,oe, Dallas,
and who Was tho Qnartermastesa General
Of the army of the Potomac, or course
i We indulged In memories of th6 WAR
and itiwea delightful &c s: i19af I'm uf
Il those sad and glorius days. ii FIJI q e my
\ old friend Major Aver, said he,; 4 the
I gallant hero Of the great battle ~ Of
y Drainsviile !; the man who took 600.
wagons over into the valley 20 70 c capture ajtr rire
and carry away oil the hay, and when
the yankees got alter him he turned hfs
6-hcrse teams In narrow cuts that were
only ten feet wide, and fed with alaerity
back to Centerville, and the roaring 81
his wagons over the pike for twelve miles
was like the sound Of many waters. II We
q saw the clouds of dust that foilTed their
track and &c was Ike the simeon of Tho
desert. Old Joe Johnston had the long
roll beat, and the; universal. cry, was, 10
arms, to arms, yel brave; bnt before the
boys got fairly started, here come the
wagons driving Ike 4Jehu and the fss
major was doing bis best to keep up, and
as he dfsmounted he was covered all over
I With dust and peuplration, and, salnting
tho general With B o. solemn manner,
exclaimed &: General, have brouaht.
i your wagons ba,k bnt I,left the hay and:
Tom Taylor be bind. & How isSS faior;
layer He; sWas a leadid officer and
\ could mount and ride a horse witt more
ease and gtaca than any, fit man I eyer,
iI saw. shall dine to day with q. nest OF
u Georgians---for Georgians are clSnnish3
still and go ara the people from any other
State. They. love to ges, together and
talk OF. their old homes and The scansn OF,
their youth land this Is natural and III Id
i right State ppride eand late rights. cfop3
out everywhere. These Texans ;are not
at all pleased with the appointments of
Henry R. Jackson 10 the Mexican Eniss-
i i6n: They '.say shat exass Was certainly
entitled 20 that apb6in fnenrt for Mexico
is her ;neighbor and the Texans know her
language and her people halter than
Z anybody g Who 10 j ckaofi, 4 said q ns,a n
i 10 mo. us he q spaniasd or: q traseief
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