Year: 1868

With its throo hundred and od'


blooks ~ lots, and It's locations III


publlo buildings, etc, lr has quit


lhe appearance Of a ilourishing set


lemenl Aud from the aVidity will


which all lhe choice lots were b0ugh


at the sale recently, there Is u,


question but that tho town vii


show ere long something else thar


native prairie, DO not know how


many lots were sold, but "a frien,


who has bccn up the road assure


me there were over s9O, 600 worth


When We consider tho immcns,


value this road has been To III,


country, a valu, largely increase,


with every milo OF new track laid
. il IL sometimes matter of wOndcl


where all the hostility TO IL c0mc'


from, Never u Legislature meet
at Austin but threatening and un


friendly bills are constantly before


il, Rarely n month passes but tho
organ of some community up the
country that almost depends on thin
enterprise for its existence gives
voice TO bitter complaints. These
complaints are first of one so called
imposition and then another. Why
don't the Company, says ono, lot
everybody have n chance at their
cily.buildiHg, instead of buying the
ground all around aud making the
city themselves And why, says
another, don't they carry goods and
passengers cheaper? a third is
worried because passenger trains
arc not run in numbers and at times
TO suit his interest. Another VOWS
that il is making tho fortunes Of its
managers and ought TO be put down.
Aud so il goes to the end Of tho
chapter. These complaints all re.
solve themselves into tho question,
Why is not this corporation man
aged by fools? And the reply is, If
il were il would be no moro success.
inl than other corporations in the
State have been, whose managers, if
not open to that implication, at least
are to that of wasting their talents
and money, as well as the money Of
their stockholders, to no purpose
1t is within reason that the Central
Railroad, so far built at cost of
about two millions of dollars, has
added ten millions to the value of
property in the State. Imagine it
wiped out of existence, and where
should we bc2 People who don't
like the way the Company manages
its affairs should be consistent and
declare their independence. Either
return to OK wagons, or what is bet.
ter, build an opposition road. l
happen to know several of the Di-
rectors of the Central Railroad, and
| know that they think they have
good thing, and arc determined to
put the enterprise through to Red
river without loss of time. Their
interest requires it, and it will be
done.


Rains have been general and al
most of daily occurrence through
this lower country for two weeks
past, and | now hear of fears being
expressed that the worm will appear
and do damage. No authentic ac-
count has yet come to hand of actual
threatening of this pest, but July
rains have so frequently been fol-
lowed by the ravages Of the worm
that planters have connected them
together.


The health Of the lower country
is excellent, and as no sign of yellow
fever has yet appeared anywhere on
the Gulf coast from VeraCruzaround
to the Havana, it is hoped we may
entirely escape visit of the disease
this year. 1t has very rarely been
the case that yellow fover has found
a foothold in Houston or Galveston
unless it had begun to appear in
Vera Cruz, Havana and NcwOrleans
before June. The only exception
in my memory wasin 1859. But in
that year the streets of Houston
were good deal worked upon in
and it is generally under.
stood that the digging up of the soil
was the cause of the evil here.


The recent meeting of the Demo
cratic Convention at Bryan was an
old fashioned revival of political
zeal, and brought out the old chief
tains of the untcrrified in all their
glory. Their temper and tone was
of great hopefulness, and l do not
doubt if thero was to be an election
this fall they would carry the State.
But their belligerent front has scared
the Radicals out of what little idea
they had of having the voice of the
people heard through the polls SO
long as they can help it. We shall
not have an election, even if we
have a constitution finished before
of which there is good
reason to doubt. .r.s


Brains and good sense, what there
is there, seem yet to rule the Con-
The Alb lnitio was killed
and now the Division question seems
likely to share the same fate solely
by the good management and tenn
perate views of Jack Hamilton and
his coadjutors. They deserve pro-
per consideration for this effort.


Aftermy friend Stuart had under
taken to stew out his wit at my ex-
pcnse, thought | should hear no
more criticism of Captain Johns
philosophy, but from the jostlin'
observed in a late number of the
State Gazette, | think it likely that
| shall have TO set up a notice for
all trespass on the cool and
pleasant height | have pre-empted
ior myself and others who do not
zee fit to get excited on matters that
10 not concern them, and who can
oOk down upon the crises Of the


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