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liiielii 14 STHl DALLAS, DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS, SATURDAY, 20,1874. VOL. XXI, NO. 10 KSTAHLISI1K1), 1848. v.

WEEKLY HERALD rTBllKHKD KVXHV tUHKHAI Hf JOHN W. SWINDELLS. TICItMHl HnliHoriptlnii, pi-r annum, In lulvunoo llllllltllM, 1 11 APVEKTIHlNd One wiunrn (h-n llni of llitMMUf tvpo) ftu fur tin- Mint, und "Senilis forHli aililltloiiiil Insertion. ns-OiimliaiKM iiruiiiioiiiii'lnK enmlliliiti' for any nlniHlHl5, niiviihlc Invni'lubly wlii'ii tue uiiuouiiuemHiit iiiHeiteil. AGBNTSl MomHM.

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To suffer and to weep 1 Even as tlie grass which siirhiKeth up to-day lo-morrow prostrate 'nenth he slekie keen, EvenjiM the streamlet rlpplluK, cool ami gay, The mock-ll rd pouring forth his roundelay The rose that buds and blooms mid fades away, Bo life and love and liope Tlme'H Hinlles between Are bora to earth lo die To see a loved one fude To watch the finely moulded limbs grow thin The nostrils pinched, the rosy cheeks wax pale, The bright eyes sink beneath the fevered skin; The curved lips quivering pitiful to win Borne hopeful smile, and oh to feel, tld" Our soul. Death's ley fingers will not full To bear the loved one home. To watch a baby face That, like a dream of heaven for three short years, Has lain soft pillowed on your throbbing breast, Fade silently away 'mid hopes and fenrs, As through the watches of the night your tears Fall thick, and every sobbing wind one heais Wails out a sad farewell, tho' opprest With Death's cold kins! Oh 1 darling, feeble one, Thy oomlng brought to me a world of bliss Thy little hand's aarresslng soothed each pain, And from the purity of thy sweet kiss, Life seemed to draw a measureless surcease From oare, to raise lrom out the dark abyss Of grief and deep despair, where It had lain My sorrowing soul I Of such Ills kingdom Is And so, If from, thy going liqrnp, wy heart, Led by thy hand, shall find the way That leads tu life eternal tear that start Unbidden all, shall ease the sorrowing smart Death socks to deal me with his ratal dnrt, Then, grieving much, yet shall strive to pray Bis will, not mine, be done Pallas, Texas, June 12, 187-1. tXl' DEU. In continuation of our subject, having spoken or the grounds on which Americans should hold iu esteem the -j ormau people, we next Irish anu proceed to offer some remarks to the youth or our country lu regard to the people or other nations.

We may reaffirm pir deep conviction, that contracted imtional antipathies are Unworthy of a great aud people, as we Americans claim to be, We shall elevate our position whenever we look abroad over tho nations and mirvey their oharactors from a standpoint above the mental horizon or the dark ages aud the superstitious days of incantation and witchcraft. By so doing, our vision will be expanded and our hearts prepuied lo uppreclatu virtue and the nobler passions in others, however their external adornments may differ from ours. Perhaps less than against any other non-English, speaking people, do our prejudices exist towards emigrants from Switzerland. They win a hold on us in our childhood, aud naturally so as citizens or the oldest republic in the world (excepting only the little free spot or San Marino). An Americau boy or fifteen, with ordinary intelligence, would stand seir-convlcted of Ignorance if ho harbored an ungraclous'stiitlinent towards J.he SountrVmen or whllaiu Tell, the peerless hero 'of Alpine tradition, whose Jnemory is sweet wherever liberty has an abiding place.

fa needless to combat a prejudice whoh does not i exist. The sous of the land or Tell ami or Zwingle encounter no antipathy iu our country. They are always hailed with a partiality imbibed hi our ear liest school boy days. But how about the French, the viva-clous and merry descendautsor the ancient Franks and Gauls, In the land made famous by Charlemagne, and odd or Arc, and renowned by the grandeur or "le grande monarque," pilU True, they are not, to 4'ny considerable extent, found scattered, like the Irish and Germans, among our agricultural population but iu the seaport in the ancient settlements or Louisiana, Missouri aud about Mobile and elsewhere, under the cognomen of Creoles, they are numerous. Differing widely froa the Ocrmans and their merits and their virtues are peculiar.

Their early career on pais continent aqc) tljeir tact and successful kindness In intercourse with the wild Indian tribes, stamp them as, In such matters, better pioneers than the stern and less politic English. For centuries their gallantry and chivalry have been conceded by all intelligent people. They are recognized, whether justly or not, we will not say, as the politest nation or Europe. Though of ten volatile and fickle, they will resist bayonets and charge battlements in defence of an idea. Track them from the first aDDearance or Bonaparte In 1794, to his tloal eclipse in 1815, in Italy, at Ansterlits.

IodL Wasram, Jipeie, on thi sandy pisiua of tgypS through the snows or Ilinmln, see thorn In the baptism or lire under Mi-Donald under Vleniiu's spires, under Noy, at the Borodino, everywhere unclor theeye or their great emperor, till his iun went down In blood lit Waterloo, and who can embosom a imtlonul prejudbe against such a pooplu? Hut It is only necessary ror mi Amer- lean boy to traverso tho history or La- fnvotte. Koehambenii and their follow- era, lo banian ail peiiy leeungs agiunm I them. Our steadfast and earliest friend iu tho struggle for American independence, the tics of national friendship then formed have never been sundered aud but oiiee or twice momentarily disturbed. As one or the most refined, elegant, scleiitillcnnd learned of nations, its sons usually And a warm welcome us American citizens, and hence we have nothing to combat In the line of suggestions embraced lu these hasty reflections. Of the and Hungarian people it Is needless to speak, as but few of them reach our shores to become citizens.

Aud as to tho Dunes, Swedes and Xorweuiuns, most that we have said of the Glcruiuns will apply to them. The glories of Charles XII. und Uus-tuvus Adolphtis uro well known to our youth. They make excellent citizens, unci should be ever welcomed to our good hermitage. To conclude, we are brought tospcuk of race the most remarkable, the longest persecuted, und (in some sense) the least understood tho world has ever seen the chosen hut dispersed people of God the Jews.

Go where we may, to every city, village und hamlet, iu tills broad land, we meet them; and from Infancy to old age, we are accus tomed to hear them mentioned by in considerate epithets of reproach. Omit ting allusions to their inspired history, their trials, captivities, victories und glories, for nearly nineteen hundred years they have emphaticnlly been nation without a country dispersed from the center to thecircumfereuce of the earth, persecuted, plundered, exiled, tortured, often denied the rights or humanity, contemned, scourged, and yet, by the Inscrutible will or the great King of kings, they stand forth to-day iu ull the panoply of a peculiar and a conscientious people, true to their blood, their faith and traditions, uucorrupted by persecution and uude-flled by udultery. They have borne the frowns and scoils of the christian world for nearly nineteen centuries yet time, the great healer and purifier, has at last won for them the sympathy, aud among gen erous minus, tlie respect of tno world, The once detested name of Jew" no longer serves ns astigmu, except among unlettered men. Aud when we come to study the reul char acter of thU wonderful people, as con tradistinguished from the llctitious character painted by bllud prejudice and dark visaged intolerance, we Ilud them to possess many or the most no- -ui that, fiver udvuuced any peo- U1U plo in any age. Kaiso the emblem of distress appeal for charity to stricken humanity and who sooner than the Hebrew wijl respond whh a hearty good will? Kansiiek your iuemofy, id say who.

See that emaciated, poverty-strickeu stranger dying on the street and who, sooner thun the Jew, will give of his Bubstunee forhisreliefV Youwho have had occasion to test the matter, pause and ask who? When the pestilence comes, stalking through the city, respecting neither nge, ppx, nor condition, and multitudes flee, who, more than the Jew, stands his ground, bears his breast to tlie storm, and risks sub stance and life to succor the distressed' Let those who have passed the dreud ordeal recall their experience, and ask who? When the wail of ramlne comes to our shore from other lands, and the cry for bread is sped through the land, who, sooner than the Jew, responds iu liberal contributions? Or all people on earth, when an unfortunate brother comes along, who so soon or so uniformly as the Jw will laid him a helping Hand to appease his Wants and set him fairly afloat ou the sea or life? Again, or all the Jew you ever knew, how many were drunkards or vagabonds? How many robbers orraur derers? How many debauchees or adulterers? How many malcontents or enemies to law aud the peace or so ciety, demagogues or traitors? How many who swindled their credi tors, committed forgeries or made religion a cloak for villainy ltcfresh your memory, review your past obser vations and answer all these questions fairly, as compared with other people, and then say, in the honesty of your hearts, if your early Impressions of the Jews, however obtained, were not cru elly at fault. On the contrary, despite long cen turies of ostracism and persecution, the Jews have ever maintained a high order of learning. They have founded the noblest institutions of charity aud benevolence. They have, in the dark est hours, been the wisest counsellors or kings, even (n lands where they had been scourged, as in Spain, Portugal and Bohemia. They have, by their timely aid, rescued bankrupt nations from ruin.

Through the dork ages, when learning went Into an eclipse, the Jews or Spain, under the heavy load tbey bad to bear, still maintained the highest order or culture, and when finally driven forth by the cruel flat or bloody tyranny, they round toleration, If not liberty, in Poland, Bohemia and London, where, for centuries, they have maintained their own charitable Institutions, dispensed the noblest ben-faoUoDt. and financially saved the country la its greatest trials, until, by force ol their long ntteiitud window, they huvo lienlen down a heavy prejudice anil won their way to the fullest enjoyment or all civil an 1 political rights, mid we now behold a Dlsraoll a prime miulHtur, and a Rothschild In the house or commons or Great Britain, as wo have seon lu our own country a "Benjamin" ami a "Levy" In the sen- ato or tho United Mutes, 1 Hliull the youth or Texan, the land of liberty, cultivate the ancient antipathy against such people? Lot our answer be, now and forever, no! Hurst asunder tho bonds of prejudice, Judge all men by the light or truth und Justice, huve churity for all, as we need its protecting mautlo ourselves, trample bigotry under root and exalt virtuo where-ever round, at homo or abroad, whether lu the native or adopted citizen, whether In Jew or Gentile, and thus render our country a tit abiding place for ail mou inado iu the Imago of God. I KIOI NATURAL FACTS. Tnklui; the surface of the sea as a mean level, the life or man is limited above tho plane to 10,340 at Lursa, in Central Asia, tlie highest Inhabited portion of the earth, to the mines of New Saelzwerk, in Prussia, 1,093 feet below the ea level. The perpendicu lar or vertical extreme is three und a half miles.

But the permanent dwelling pluecs of man on the earth's sur face are limited to a perpendicular line of throe miles. The lowest places where men live are In the valley of the Dead sea, 1,300 feet below theseulevel, and tho highest at the convent of llaule, In Asia, which Is 15,177 feet above tho sea. It is Inhabited by twenty Thlbetlan monks. The port house of Sauta Anna, iu the Andes, is at the same height. The limit of perpetual snow decreases iu latitude as we leave the equator, north or south.

Ou the equator in Quito, It Is 15,700 feet. In Mexico it is 14,050 feet. In the Rocky mountains, latitude 42, it is 12,500 feet. In tlie Alps, latitude 45, it is 8,000 feet. In Norway, latitude 71, it is 2,250 feet.

These are fecta we gather from the lamented Commodore Maury, lu his great work on physical geography, the most exhaustive work of the kind ever published, teeming with the dry details or scientific discoveries aud the peculiarities of tlie earth and the seu, in a manner as Interesting as tlie lighter literature of romance. Truly, Commodore Maury, aside from his world-wide discoveries on tho winds and currouU of the ocean, has left another legacy to mankind in his physical geography. It ought to be in every advanced class of students in the land. MWRPIIIH HISTORY OF TF.JSAS. Colonel M.

Morphia, as our readers are aware, has been for some time collecting facts and material for a complete history of Texas, which lie has gotten so far advanced an to insure its early publication. It will be a volume of some live or six hundred pages, and from the known ability and opportuni ties for collecting facts iu the history of the state, we may promise ourselves a veodable and complete hook, Is now ill our city, and Is eunyasslng for suuserioers to uu wym, mi wi call on our'citizens lUhe next few days. We take pleasure la commerding hira as a gentlempH who will oH he promises. He remembers Pallas as it was twenty-flve years ago, anil liavlug been a resldout or Texas for over a quarter of a century, and familiar with many of the prominent cit teens or the stale who made Its history, he possesses peculiar advantages for the work on which he Is now engaged, and to which he has deyotpd much, of hlS In to-day's Herald will be found a communication from a gentleman of this city, whom we know to be a consistent aud life-long democrat, in which the propriety of holding a democratic convention for nominatinB a candidate tor congress in this distflct Is ahd'a strong argument iiiailo against the necessity or such a convention. We ask a careful perusal of It by our readers.

The arguments used by our correspondent are evhent to all who have watched the action or so-called conventions of late days, and we confess that we acknowledge arid appreciate his views. Our uelahbor town, Terrell, is proving very rapidly, we are told, and tilling up with good people. '1 wo new hotels are in contemplation there this summer, one or which will probably be built or brick. Several other brick buildiuirs will also be erected there within the coming month or two, Terrell is handsomely located, with I rich and well populated. PHtry ius rquudjpg and tributary to it, and its future as a good business poiut is, we think, an assured fact.

Thb plan adopted by the patrons of husbandry of Dallas county, as published In yesterday's Herald, for the pursuit aud arrest or horse thieves, is admirable, and cannot rail to accom pli8h greai B4- I' persevered in pn ergetically for a few months, thieves Will be deterred from operating in the county, or wherever else the same plan may be adopted. F.very good citizen should cooperate with the in the good work. General Ghakt, In a conversation with a prominent member of the United States house or representatives, recently, asked the member if the bouse would pass the civil rights bill. "Yes, I think so. You wish it passed, don't you T' was the answer.

"Yes," responded Grant, grimly, "I want you to pass It so that I can veto SI M)AVS ABROAD. I From our Hpeelal Our dear good American friends who have th pleasurable prlvllego of attending church and Sunday school every Subhiith, und the rest of the day can remain In the comfortable quiet of their own homes, reading good hooks and papers, who, at meal time can gather with dear ones around a table spread with wholesome and delicious looti upon whlcii (lie messing ot uou has been asked, und who, at niirht, ran now iHirore tho lamliy altar, may tniiiK that we poor wanderers ought to do the same, and not Join the wordly pleasure seekers of this country, which Is vir tually without a Sabbath. How hap py we would be to nud here the advantages which we would have at home. In a few cities we have found Protestant servico, either the church of England or the Scotch Presbyterian, and tu lieriin an American cnurcn nut in smaller towns, even where the service is rotestaut, It is coiiiiueceii in foreign tongue, und so or little ayail to us. Were we to shut ourselves up in our room ull day, we should kuow nothing or how the Sabbath is employed in the different countries that we vlbit.and thus lose much interesting aud valuable Information, und you, dear readers, would not have the pleasure of hearing about our "Sundays abroad." Therefore, while we refrain from traveling ou the Subbath, we do as far as seems to us proper, take the opportunity of observing the iliflereut customs and manners of toe people about us, and thus fur the effect has been to increase our respect for tlie Sabbath aud our appreciation of the importance of its religious observance, na-tlonully ns well us individually.

So try indeed would we be tosec the European Sabbatli become an institution of our our own land, a day without sanctity. For those who desire pleasure, merely a time for recreation, while to those whom love of gain prompts to labor, merely a duy of toll. A FL'NEKAL. A few days since the dauehter of our landlady died, and thus we had the opportunity of witnessing some of tlie Uutholtc customs on such occasions. As soon as the breath had left, the body, the family knelt and united in repeating a prayer for thedeceased.

A notice was immediately published and circulated among the friends of the family, giviuginiormutiouoi tneueatn. It was printed on a paper ten by twelve inches square, bordered with black, and may be thus translated: "Dorothea Ziwicrziua gives, hi her name und In the names or her children, Curl, Franz and Caroline, information of the sad departure of their dearly beloved daughter und sister, W1LIIELMINE ZWIKUZI.NA, who, Friduy April 4th, at one 51., after a long and very painful illness, aud after receiving the sacrament of the (lying, iu tlie seventeenth year of her life, fell asleep in Jesus. The earthly tenement ol the departed will, ou Sunday, April Uth, at live r. be carried from tlie house of mourn ing, No, 10, London Gasse, to the church of the holy Trinity, there blessed and afterward conveyed to the cemetery ut Wuhriug, for its final re pose. Three masses will be said Monday, April 7th, at nine a.

in the above named church, tor the repose ot tue soul of the departed, to which all friends aud acquaintances iu the Lord are iuvited. Tho deceased was dressed lu white, und held a rosary In her clasped hands. A wreath of white roses eucircled the inside of the collln, and a crown of white flowers was placed upon her henij. Around, and about her were laid iuopy little' pictures' of 'religious Whlcii had belonged to her in life, iver me wuoie win bjhcuu a nieceof white tarltah. Qua table, by the side ot' the colttt), stood, ft tumilng WHIP HUH a pun uj whvci, turn whibh each one, as they came to-take their ttual leave, dipped asprigof evergreen and sprinkled three times the dead maiden.

No ceremony" was per formed at the house. 'Iho six poll bearer, lu a uniform of black, decorat ed with silver, came and curried the coffin to the hearse, aim from me hearse Into thecuurob, where it was placed before tho high' Two priests hen a'ppeared, tarrying lighted, caiidies, jtul cliauted a Latin service, swung1 fUHJDeei' three times, and poured three tiny suoveis ot eartn upou tue cofltn, saying "Dust thou art) to dust shalt thou return." A soux of mourning was then sung, after which the collln was conveyed to the cemeteiyi followed by the carriages containing the mourners, 'AC the grave the pall- beitrcurs 'said a few words ol a lorm, eucn menu iurew a handful ol earth into the grave upon the coflin, and the ceremony was over. Oil the way home the drivers of the but perhaps' a3 near to it as the law would allow, and after arriving at home, a few guests remained, and, as is usual, coffee and cigars, helped make thP evening social. As we passed through the busy streets, the gay Bhop windows all open, 1 could but tlniiK mat one wouiq omy kuow it was Sunday because the streets were more crowded tbau on wmk da vs. aud nearly every man in the throng took ott his hat lu recogni tion ol tue passing or luuerai tram.

Kveu the rouitn stauie ooy, engagea in washiuir a carriage, took timelo fasten the sponge with the three fingers of his right band, and with the thumb and fore finger, gave a lilt to nis pap, while his face Lore a broad grin, as he Joked with friends 1 lA lltaititalnm hoff-ira hilt bad scarcely given it a thought; but now, as this was, to a oertaiu extent, "our funeral." 1 kept a jealous watch over all passers-by, to see that we were duly nouorea, ana couia paniauy ap- Ereciate the reelings or those whom I ad often seen pass by in mournful o-nrh without ever thlukimr that thev would care wnetner i para uouor iu their dead or The General name for cemetery In hem is Friedhof." Deaoe yard or court, a beautiful aud appropriate Dime, but, hKe netriy everyunng. much more expressive in the original than in the translation. Here, at the gate or this court of Deace. stood four cripples, earning their living by appeals to the sympathy or sorrowing hearts, and rewarding the gifts tbey receive with prayer for the giver. They do not beg in words, but who can resist the appeal of those withered, pinched races, those crooked forms sod the crutches that speak so loudly of pain and deformity? So there they stand through theday, in rainorsblue.

telling their beads in silent tears, and "chanting their doleful prayers." Poor, pitiable gleaner after the great bar YHtofdeatfel two carriages containing uo lamny aud immediate friends, had a friendly rlvnlrv as to speed, hot exactly a race. It 1 1 LAN. We make the following ex! mi i frutu the forthcoming history or Tcaim, by Colonel J. M. Morphis, luenlloui'd In the Hkkai.I) of Sunday last: No city In Texas or Iho south has grown so fust lu the lust year as Dallus, which Is beautifully Hltualed on theTrln- Ity river, ut the junction il tin Icxiih Pacific railroud wllll tbc lloiihlcn mill Texas Central.

This city waxM'Uh'd In HI-', Colonel John Nccly Hrynn, and naun-il In honor of Commodore Dallas of the United States navy, tlie enmity was named after George M. Dallas. Ill 1MU the legislature made it Iho temporury couniy site, ami in In.hi it tiecaiue permanently so ny tue vote oi tho people. In 1840, when the writer passed round it, there were but about Unity or forty Inhabitants, but in a few years ufter-wurds, when it became the permanent county site, uiuny nouses ami iiiiicu improvement were added to li. lu 1800, all the business portion of the city was nurnetl, auu tue war com ing on utter, mere was a si aim sun, while the tierce and bloody strife between Americans called many of Its citizens to the tented Held and the sol dier's crave.

Not until 1808 and I860 did Dallas again commence to improve, but iu July, 1872, the Houston and Texas Ceutrai reached It, loiioweu iu August, 1H73. bv the Texas 1'iiclile, anu men came the era of improvement anu uronrcss. Manv lame, flno brick stores and residences have sprung up like magic, while a second bridge, for the Texas and Pacific railroad, will soon span tlie river. A court house has been built of stone at a cost of about one hundred thousand dollars, und the population to-day, seems lo he not less than ten thousand souls, und Is rapidly increas- Inc. while Dallas county, witli its springs or pure, clear water, rich and productive luuds, is gaining population and wealth daily.

As the city of Dallas is about the center of one of the finest wheat, cotton and corn growing counties of Texas, of whicli about one-third is timber and two-thirds prairie laud, capable of producing a oale or cotton or irom twenty-live to thirty bushels of wheat, or from thirty-five to fifty bushels of corn, or from forty tu sixty bushels of oats to the acre; us It is soon to have two more railroads, one to intersect tlie Great Northern at Palestine, and the other the Trans-continental iu county, and the Denver city railroad in Clay county, it bids fair to be one of the largest Inland cities in the state of Texas. Tlie old streets of Dallas are broad and at right angles; their names, such as Latimer, Hurlbrd, Record, Cochran, Ochiltree, Bryan, McCoy, call up In tho minds of old Texans many pleasing reminiscences of past nnd by-gone duys. Latimer street was named in honor or the late J. W. Latimer, who, in 1840, founded The Dallas Herald, and edited it with distinguished ability, until the day or his death In 1859.

Mr. Latimer was a line writer, and through the columns or The Herald, like a vigilant sentinel, from the watchtower of liberty, sounded the alarm at tho stealthy approach or the enemies of freedom and progress. In the prime of his life aud usefulness, at the early age of about thirty-three, regretted by all who knew him, he paused away, leaving to his partner, Mr. J. W.

Swiu-dells, the coutrol of The Herald, under whose management it has from a weekly become one pf tllP leading and most UBtafu.l daily j'Urnnls in the state. Record street was named after the late J. K. and Utnford street after the Hon, Nut. M.

JUtrfold. who still defies the (lo-tl'oying effects of time, and makes glad tho hearts of his frieuds by his genial smile and great magnanimity. Judge Burford has beon called "Magnanimous Nut," from the following incident: Several years ago Mr. George Lawa. himself aud Jim Keeord (aVtue iitt! Senator J.

K- was fainthuny called by hU friends) went fishing, carrying with them lew bottles 1 41 tM unnpf and na an antidote for snake bites. Now it so happened from a rise In the river, not catching any Hsh, drinking too niuoh whiskey, or some other oaustt, that these gentlemen found themselves in their rlathont poles or oars, gliding dawn the turbid waters of the IVinjty river, when Record appealed to his friend, and saidi "Great God, Nat, what will, hecome of us? We will be earned away, and lost In the gulf of Mexico!" Whereupon atat arose, and. his friends of Ins ability tn anvil them, took up tlie loir-chain at- tached to tue euu oi ue iiuiuoiit, mum putting It around his neck, fastened the hook into one of tho links of the heavy chain, aud plunging into the swollen stream essayed to swim ashore and carry the boat and his friends to safety. After one lusty strnite as a swimmer be went under, when Keeord aud Laws seized the chain, and pulling him up from under the water thus saved his lire, and soon after, by catching the limbs or overuanging trees, goi me boat to bank, and returned to Dallas, wetter and more fatipued, if not as sober as when they sallied forth in the morning on their famous excursion. Another true story of Judge Burford is as follows Qne night, at Lancaster, Georgetown or some other place, in couse-uuenoe of the crowded condition of the hotel where he had stopped, he was placed in the same bed with an Irishman, whereupon he pleasantly remarked: "Well, Pat, I reckon you'd have lived a long time in old Ireland before you'd have slept with a Judge" 'YI.

vir honor." reioined Pat, "but the likes of ye might have lived longer in ould Ireland, Upfure yes become a KuTiitMiris followed this rejoinder, and Judge Burford tucked the drapery or his oouch on one side or him, and i-i eh Pat Malonev on the other, laid down to pleasant dreams, whicli the great, wise and most merctful God always sends to the pure hearted and cr i 1 (MIA. Iu Dallas I beard the following laughable story: Billy Harlan, a noted character, was indicted a good many years ago, for stealing a palrorbames, was tried, convicted and senteuoed to receive thirty-nine lashes, without a scintilla of testimony being introduced to sustain the charge. Tom Jones, one of the jurors, being asked bow, under bis oath, be could bring in a verdict of guilty upon the evidence adduced, answered: Why, didn't bs steal old Mrs. Love- i.v's nppln dumplings out of tic pot while it was boiling; he ought lo have a liiiiiiHaiid lushes Instead of Tlie next morning, on the opening of court, Billy's attorney made an application foi a new trial, on account of the I'lmciice nl any testimony to war- runt tue mining or tno jury, imimin utely after tlie adjournment of court on tlie previous evening, (he sherlll took Hilly out, made blin fast to a tree, and in genuine frontier style iidinlnlslcred tlie -ciilcnceof the court. When Hilly was Informed of the an I ll nihil for anew trial, lie ran into the court house, interrupted his lawyer, ii.

A. Kvorls, by pulling his coat tail, mill saying, "Mop that, they have already whipped me." The attorney withdrew his motion for a new trial, but tlie court, Hon. Nut. M. Burford presiding, satisfied that there was no testimony to war-runt the verdict, against Itiliy'a desire, grunted a new trial; but before his rearrest, Hilly, not wishing to be re-whipped, hroko out of tho court house and lied to parts unknown.

If, in Hie course of his promiscuous reading, these few lines should ever fall under his observation, It may he well for Billy Harland to remember that tho rcccrd lu his memorable cose Is still in a state of p'rescrvatiou. The reception of suit In Dallas, manufactured at tho Grand Saline, ou the Hue of the Texas and Paclllo railroad, iu Van Zandt county, deserves more than hare mention. It is beautiful nnd clean article, and comes from a saline which has been more or less worked for thirty years. The saline Is considered sulllcient to justify large works, and bids fair to become a source of heavy supply to tlie country, f'ntil the completion of the railroad, like other latent sources of wealth in Texas, it could not be profitably developed on alarge scale. It Is but oneof numerous localities iu our state nt which salt is being made.

The frontier works nt Graham, iu Young county, are furnishing supplies to large scope of country. The people of Brown and Comanche counties are thoroughly aroused und resolved to liberate tliuir section from the imported thieves who have congregated there for the purpose of stealing stock. Captain Waller's company of frontier troops, by order ot Governor Coke, is cooeprati ug with the people and authorities in breaking up the gangs. Several desperadoes huve been killed. Throughout different sections forbearance lias well nigh ceased, nnd tlie predatory outlaws hud better return whence they came.

Hiiodk Island is electing a senator to succeed William Spraguo on the 4th of March next. It seems that General Burnside is desperately anxious to oc cupy the post. As a republican is bound to have it, we have no special choice, hut think Burnside Is about as small, mentally, as little lihody Is territorially, and therefore think they ought to select a man of heavier cali ber. Since radicalism bus so ruthlessly invaded tho doctrine of state rights, many think there is no longer any souse in lihodo Island being equal to New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio iu the senate. That idea will grow.

We were shown, on yestorday, a sample brick made by Messrs. Adler in the vicinity of Terrell, Kaufman county, which, for hardness and smoothness, we have never seen excelled, If ever equalled In Texas. Mr. t. informed us that the material fi'n which the brick is made is found in great abundance near Terrell, He has a kiln of one hundred aud fifty thuuw- nd brick already burned, of which, we learn, will pjrbuhly come to Dallas (a help, build up our city, Iplurmutlon Wanted.

OIL iSl'KINOs, C. N. June 5, 1874. To the Editor of tne Dallas Herald! Two nieu passed here on the 1st instant, for Cuddo Oil Springs said they were from Dallas, Texas vitlt one brown mare pony and, one dark mare mule, liid fuce, with white spots, bivuded 4 ou the left thigh. Said mule and wagon was found lu the woods, about five miles from Caddo, and is for identification.

A man whs found dead, with a hole in his head: a sack of flour, a Spencer rWe. and. check Hues were fouud six hundred yards from said wagon. The dead man had a moustache and goatee sandy beard. Yours, Robert h.

lore. Colonel John S. Mosby, ex-confed erate, isannounced as the independent, Grant-conservative candidate for con gress, in tho London (Va.) district Tho Loudon Enterprise thinks that, as a Graut candidate, Mosby will receive about hair a hundred votes In Loudon county. We are In receiptor the premium list or the Harrison Couuty (Texas) Ag ricultural and Mechanical association, for the fifth annual fair, to be held at Marshall, Texas, beginning Tuesday, October 2), 1874, and continuing four days. The ralr promises to be one of the best ever held In eastern Texas.

The Shermau Register, Itockwall Bauner, Decatur Guard, Denton Moni tor, Pilot Point Citizen, Gainesville Gazette and McKlnncy Knquirer bave all pronounced strougly in favor of Governor James W. Throckmorton for Coiiifress, and we have information that other papers will do so soon. THKpublio can look out In a few days for the Real Estate Bulletin of Messrs. John Henry Brown Venable, about beimr issued from the Dallas Herald Job office. It Is a new wrinkle in this part of Texas, and will be a valuable paper for reference.

In the early settlement of Dallas county, but one patch of blackberries were known. Now they are scattered throughout the timbered portions or the county, and that delicious fruit has become quite abundant Tharpo, lam a woman's man," bellowed the Irrepressible Flanagan In the senate. NonnH TiioruiiTM. Texns is a new and growing country, promising In due lime lo become dciit-cly populated and teeming with prodiiellon. It Is the mission of the press to note the progress ofu country, study Its Interest, warn the people ol danger, and, In so fur as It can, to point out tint road of safely.

In our humble hut conscientious way wc desire to fulfill Ibis mission. Looking abroad In our laud one evil Is every where pulenl. That Is, the i pronei.c-s of parent. lo start their sons Ill professional life. Wherever we go, lu town or country, we find communities over-supplied with lawyers, doctors and men of other more vicarious callings.

Hundreds of worthy young men fall Into the one or the other of these vocations and fail, simply because tho field Is already occupied, and there Is no room for them. Every ob serving man Is aware or this general fact. It Is pain ful to see a gifted and wor thy young man, standing forth as a lawyer or a physician without practice, aud virtually wasting the better years of his life. Often have weexperienced tliis feeling, while entertaining tlie highest respect for the parties. But If, us we believe, it is an evil and growing one, It ought to be corrected.

The question then comes up, how it is to be corrected? The answer is simple. Instead of putting their sons in the line of professional life, let parents teach them to he good farmers, or have them taught to be mechanics, machinists or artisans. What life more nohlo or honorable than that of an intelligent, frugal farmer, ever profiting by tlie improvements in agriculture made from year to year? Who is more cer tain to prosper and he respected In life than the educated mechanic or machinist? Go where they may, on a small capital, they can start business and build up to positions of wealth and influence. Compare the frugal and propcrous mechanic with the lawyer or doctor without practice, and who would hesitate to choose? The spirit of the age is that the man who creates supplies for the wants of man, is the object or respect and popular esteem. Whether a farmer, creating breadstufls or cotton for raiment, whether a mechanic fabricating shoes, or hats, or clothing, or implements of husbandry or of the household, he is a pillar of progress and a public benefactor; and if to his occupation he briugs intelligence, moral rectitude and gentle manners, he is entitled to occupy tlie front rank in good society, not among sup-headed shoddyites, but among the good und virtuous.

Men of mechanical origin now wield the greatest influence in the United States; for instance such men as Eblin Barrett, Vandorbilt, Stewart, Morgan, Asa Packer, Henry Wilson and Andrew Johnson. Look at Galveston, Houston, and other towus In Texas, and you will see already mechanical men aud machinists in the front runks, and steadily rising. Our only object Is to combat a popular fallacy we might say weakness and to urge parents to stop the suicidal mania for professional life in an over stocked market, and look mora to their sons as educated farmers, mechanics, machinists and artisans, of whom the country Is In need. Do not cast the suggestion aside as a waif among newspapers, but, we beseech you, consider it well an. affecting those to come after you the children of your own loins.

Ose of the really gratifying signs of the times is the sturdy opposition to the cAvii rights bill manifested by vari ous leading republican journals of the north. It is not simply their opposition either, but the hue of argument used against It. which shows a greut change from, their former rancorous aulmositiea towards the south. It has always been munifest to us that the cup of reconciliation must come from tho victorious section. The highest Impulse of manhood forbids that the weaker and defeated party should make first proffer of the olive branch; but, when tendered by the strong, it may be readily accepted by the weak, without a sacrifice of that honorable feeling of pride which actuates all states.

The fate or the unwise and odious measure, however, is still in doubt LFrom Colonel J. H. I by man, ex-colo nel or a North Carolina regiment in the late war, now a citizen or Eastland county, ou our frontier, we are glad to learn that that county Is rapidly filling up with population and is now organ ized. It is a noble county, and while well watered, covers the dividing ridge between the waters of the Leon, Hub bard's creek, the Bosque and Clear fork of the Brazos, and was named in houor of Captain William M. Eastlaud, one or the seventeen martyrs to Texan lib erty, who drew the black bean and was shot by order of Santa Anna, in aiexi' co, in 1843.

Moreover It belongs to this congres sional district, and has not a radical in its territory. Ix the proceedings ol the Dallas county council patrons of husbandry, as published by us last week, a resolu tion appears inviting all the granges within the wheat growing region oi the state to meet, by delegates, In the city of Dallas, on tue 21st This date was a typographical error; the day or meeting is ou Thursday, the25th day or June. We hope this will meet uie eye of every one interested, so that there will be no misunderstanding as to the day or meeting. Remember Thursday, the 25th inst How. Jefferson Davis arrived In New York from England on lha 14th, left Immediately for Tennessee, Trinity Council Palroimol It uabniiilry.

OVII.I.A, Kl.l.IHfOI'.NTV Juno 12, 17-1, To Hip Kd I tor of Iho Halliis ilimilil Trinity council patrons ot' husbandry, organized under form at Ovllla, Kills county, Texas, June 11, Is? I. Tho foN lowing oflieers were duly elected, viz: G. W. livens, W. lied Oak, No.

252; K. ('. Newt W. Ovllla, No. 31; J.

M. Crockett, W. Lisbon, No. .1. If.

Price, W. (rove Creek, No. 210; J. li. Kimble, A.S., Grove Creek, No.

2K; J. V. 'orech, W. Ited Oak, No. 252; II.

T. llaswell, W. Cedar 1 IJ1II tt' i No. Him; W. t'.

Hawkins. W. G. Ijebanon, No. 248; Emiuu K.

Lee, Ceres, lied Oak, No. 252; L. Dillon, Pomona, Grove Creek, No. 240; Ellen Vinccnd, Flora, Lebanon, No. 248; Sallle Luughlin, L.

A. Ovllla, No. 31. The followiuggranges were duly rep resented, viz Lisbon grange No. 3, Dallas Ovllla grange No.

81, Kills; Vulley Grove grunge No. 45, Ellis Waxahachie grange No. 71, Ellis; Harmony grange No. 7.1, Dallas; Ferris grange No. 83, Ellis; Lebanon grange No.

248, Ellis Grove Creek grange No. Ellis; ited Oak grange No. 252, Ellis Mansfield grange No. 200, Tarrant Tho following resolutions were unanimously adopted by tlie council Itesolved, That all subordinate granges, county councils and district councils are cordially iuvited and earnestly requested to meet with this council at its next meeting, to be held at Breckinridge, Dallas county, Texas, on tlie 2tith instant, at 10 o'clock A. to discuss and adopt Important measures for the benefit of the order of patrons of husbandry.

Resolved, That tho thanks of this council are hereby tendered to the brethren and friends of Ovllla and vicinity, for their kind and hospitable entertainment of the members of this council during its session. Itesolved, That the secretary, P. forward a copy of tlie proceedings of this council to the Ellis County News, Waco Examiner and Dallas Herald for publication. Council closed in due form to meet at Breckinridge, Dallas county, Texas, June 20, 1874. Jjy order or Trinity council patrons of husbandry, Ovllla, June 12, 1874.

G. W. Givens, W. M. S.

O. Larc'HB, Secretary pro tem. One of Mrs. Fink's Lnwsnlta Gained. From the New York Trlbune.J After several days litigation the suit of Lucy D.

Fisk, as adminstratrix of the estate or James Fisk, against the Liverpool, Loudon and Globe in surance company, was brought to an end yesterday by a verdict in favor or tho plaintiff for $10,050, 99. The suit wus for tlie insurance upon the fixtures of the Fifth Avenue theater, whieh wus destroyed by fire Jnnunry 1, 1872. Fisk hired the theater of Amos It Euo. with the agreement that the fixtures should revert, at the expiration of the lease, to Mr. Imio.

These were insured in tne defendant's company for 320,000, the amount sued for. At the time of the fire the theater had been sub-let to Mr. Dalv. On trial, in superior court, part before Judge Spier, the defense ad mitted the facts of Insurance and loss, but claimed that the insurance interest of Fisk in the property was a mere iu- sufructuary interest, the amount or which was calculable on tne principal or annuities, and that in the bal ance only Euo, to whom the property was to revert, had an interest. The court held that this was correct, and ordered the verdict as above.

Godey's Lady's Book for July has for its frontispiece, a handsome chro-nio The Cottage Door besides the usual amount of illustrations, fashion plates, etc. Its literary contents are of the usual order, attractive and inter esting to the ladies. Terms, three dollars per annum; address L. A. Godey, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The members or the Episcopal church, in Galveston, are erecting an elegant lecture room on the site or the old church, as a memorial to the late Rev. B. Eaton, who was their beloved puator for thirty years preceding his death lu 1870, and whose memory rich ly deserves such a monument. Tub new currency bill of the confer ence committee was taken up and passed in the senate on the 12th by a vote of thirty-two to twenty-three, eight senators not voting, but who had paired off of the majority voting. Six were democrats, one liberal and twenty-flve republicans.

The minority bad five democrats, two liberals and sixteen republicans, A Remarkable feat a( Cattle Driving Mr. Klmberlln. of Denton, arrived at Pilot Knob, yesterday, with a drove of seventy-five head of beeves, which he had driven by himself from Cory-elle county, distance, one hundred and eighty miles, without losing a beef. He was nis own nemsmau auu kbumi-man night and day, and says he had very little trouble with them. He will w- 1.1.

1 move on to jjenison wim uicm wuy ivi.ora ho will shin them for the north. This we regard as the masterpiece of cattle driving or tne season. no oau beat it Denton Beview. Secretary Bristow gives notice that the principal and accrued interest of a large number of bonds, known as five-twenty bonds, will be paid at the treasury or the United States, in the city of Washington, on and after the 6th day of September, 1874, and that the interest on said bonds will cease on that day. The rains of the last two or three days have been timely and abundant, and guaranty an overflowing crop of all kinds.

The Fort Worth Democrat aud Fort Worth Standard both express their preference for ex-Governor Throckmorton for congress. The beautiful white and blue limestone used for building fronts at Dallas and other point below here, is taken from a quarry about one mile east of this city. It is the only known quarry of the kind within reach of the rail-roadf, between Red river and the gulf. Mr. John Stewart Is (retting stone cot for the new hotel at Dallas.

Den-lson News. An TiliDois editor returns thanks for a centipede sent to him by mail from Texas, "It being," be says, "the first cent of any kind that we're reeelTed for several week.".