Year: 1874

FROM GALVESTON TO AUsTN-TEIE IN


AUeURATIoN BALL-A PENITEN1


BAcHM M,oR-sPooNEY OMAN ANGEL


IN vELvET-THE TEXAS RAILROADS


THEY OUGHT TO ADVERTISE N


THE GAZETTE-THE SENATE ANE
ITS LEADERS THE GREAT


TEXAS FINANCIER - RADICALS IN


THE HoUsE-NEGRO MEMBERS NOT


INVITED TO THE INAUGURATION


BALL-A CoNUNDRUM, ETC, ETC.


HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 9.


DEAR GAZETTE :-If had any in
fuence with the emigrants to the
United States | should certainly adj
wise them to come to Texas, if they
did not like East Tennessee. My visit
to this State was one of business,
and when l reached Galveston, by
the Gulf route, I met with some ac-
quaintances who were expecting to
leave in a few days for Austin.
was strongly urged to accompany
them to the capital Of Texas, as the
legislature was in session, and the
new Supreme Court would also be in
session by the time we would reach
the city. / was satisfied these two
events would bring together many
persons L wished to see. My friends
also incidentally mentioned that the
Inauguration Ball came off ON the
4th. This last had very little infiu-
ence in determining me to make the
trip, but if were sure that l could
meet such another gathering of beau
ty and graceful loVeliness as I found
assembled in the legislative halls on
Thursday last, I would willingly en-
dure the sea-siclkness of q gulf trip,
even if I had to take a rickety old
sail vessel, instead of the splendid
steamships which Charles Morgan
furnishes for the travelling public.


had formed some pleasant ac-
quaintances among the gentlemen of
Austin, and when the evening came
for the grand entertainment I took
my seat in the gallery with those
who had served their day, as l had
mine, in similar festivities. Soon af-
ter the promenade commenced in the
Senate chamber I got to think of
my age and became thoroughly con-
vinced that AZ years of bachelor life
was wicked and sinful, and that the
time for repentance had come. /
went through all the fears and felt
all the guilt of a camp meeting re-
pentant, who was resolved to see if
there was any balm in Gilead and
any physician there who could af-
ford relief. l was very we'll aware
that lady with the green silk dress
and black velvet body had q good
deal to do with my troubled spirit.
| left the gallery and sought a place
on the floor below, where could see
this blue-eyed beauty, and as she
stopped with her partner and / went
through the formalities of an intro
duction, l thought then. as 7 think
now, that I never saw q more intel
lectual face-never saw more woman
ly Ioveliness and grace than did
then and there in the person Of Miss
L. b.


BY this time one of my friends
discovered that was becoming very
much interested in Texas ball, and
as the lady of whom l have been
speaking bowed herself away from
me, my friend took my arm and led
me to different part of the room,
and directed my attention to a lady
with gray silk dress and pink trim
mings, a real gem of beauty and
face full of loveliness. Miss A. Ia.
was not quite so tall as Miss B.


/ only learned the names of these
two ladies, and do not suppose that
either viii ever remember the con-
victed sinner, on the anxious seat,
who knew there was balm in Gilead
but found out to his sorrow that the
physician could heal only one, and
all the rest must die without grace.
If had only been called in to pre-
scribe for the one, who seemed at all
times during the evening. to win the
smiles of Miss b., there would have
been a first class funeral at Austin
few days after the ball. and new
law Office opened in the capital of
Texas. But there was no funeral
no new law Office when 1 left, and
the writer of this, in a few hours.
will be sleeping in one OF Pullman's
cars, en- route for st. Louis, dream.





ing:


'sshewa good as she was fair,


None, none earth above heri


As pure in thought as angels are


TO see her was to love her.


The Supreme Court was not fully
organized, as Mr.. Ballinger. Of Gal
weston, declined the position; and /
learn since my return here that
Judge 2. w. Gray, of this city, has
been appointed.


| was very frequently present at
the capitol during the sitting Of the
legislature. The Senate is really IN
able body. l regard Culbertson,
te,Ir