Year: 1867




principles and chief provisions Of
the bill.


TThe following letters were on file for
publication last week, but were crowded
out.


Correspondence Of the Dallas Herald.


Letter from MilliCan.


MTLLcAN, March 18th 1867.


1t is very cold, slccting and blow
ing, and the houses here are not
sufficient to protect us either from
the wind or sleet. AS / write the
sleet covers my paper and my ting-
ers get SO cold | cannot WELD my
pen. 1t is an extraordinary spell of
weather for the time and place
wonder how it is in Dallas. You
are happy though in having good
houses. The houses here are tenn
porary and indifferent at that
This comes Of the place being only
Rail Road station. Bryant, the
next station to be made, is County
Seat, and will justify q better class
ofbuildings. The permanent houses
already built there are very good,
much better than any at this place
That town has grown at least one
hundred per cent since Christmas,
but the new buildings are mostly
quite small.


Signs of progress are seen upon
the Rail Road in way of newly
thrown up earth and grading, but
the work progresses slowly and |
think the prevailing opinion is that
the cars will not run to Bryant be-
fore the first of September. All are
sanguine, however, that that point
will be reached by fall and are look
inc forward to the change, 80 that
in the unsettled condition Of things
no one is disposed to make arrange
ments for the future until they can
be made to date from Bryant


There is much speculation here
about the intentions of the company
after the road is completed to Bry-
ant. Some say it will be built rap
idly by way Of Horn Hill to Dallas
on the route that has been surveyed;
others think it will be built slowly
and follow the Brazos to Waco;
while a few think it will stand at
Bryant for several years, at the
risk Of forfeiture Of the charter
Their only fears may be the build
ing of another road by some strong
and energetic company, We would
be most happy to see this company
finish their road and reap the re
ward of their toll in setting on foot
such an enterprise at the time and
under the circumstances this was
begun hut self preservation is the
first law of nature, and as Rail
Road is of vital importance to our
interests, we would hail with pleas
ure any company that would con-
struct us a road for the transporta-
ton of our immense products to
market. 1t seems to me most sin
gular, that with all the capital and
enterprise of Houston and Galveston
they do not tap this wheat region of
the State, with Rail Road, at once.
The improvement of the country
would certainly enhance those cities
several hundred per cent, while the
trade would add greatly to the
wealth of the country in every de-
partment. 1t is great pity our
people could not have an immediate
outlet for their great staple and en-
Joy the profits they have so richly
merited by wrestling the country
from the savage and reducing the
wilderness to a garden. But capit-
alists will not be long discovering
the value of investments here and
Rail Roads will be built.


There was very little ofinportance
or interest attracted our attention
on our way down. We came by
way of Waxahachie, Milford, Horn
Hill, Eutaw and Port Sullivan. We
found the farmers very backward
with their planting. We saw but
few persons ploughing and but lit
tie ploughing done. The Brazos
valley was no forther advanced than
the hill country or prairie and much
of last years cotton crop has been
abandoned for the want of time to
pick.


/ remained at Port Sullivan day
or two to look after the case of the
State VS. Ferdinand P Hord late of
our county for the killing of Fuller.
/ The Grand jury returned an indict-
ment for manslaughter. There be-
I ing no business for trial on the
1 Docket the Court would not hold
for the trial and the case stands over
till the next term.


But enough. 1t has sleeted all
day, sometimes very fast and heavy
and has fallen TO the depth Of three
or four inches, decidedly the coolest
and worst spell Of the winter
Nothing but the attentive care Of
the clever gentleman who is now
the proprietor Of the Exchange
Hotel could have kept rs from suf-
fering and as high an estimate as.
We place upon our kind and bosFita-
bic friend the Major, late proprietor
Of this house, / must say TO y0uand
vour readers that Mr- d. G. Apple
white has few superiois as an Host
and viii render an who call upon