The Arkansas advocate., 1830-06-30


 a considerable number of cotton gins. It's produce Is sugar, cotton, wheat. rye. Indian corn, &e., with an abundance oi timber of various kinds. The produce oi the last season consisted of 1000 bales of cotton, 150,000 bushels of corn. ;as.... | | i4O hogsheads of sugar. The cotton raised II the. colony is mostly shipped to New-0rleans for market, and other produce are sent to Matamoreas, Tam pico ald Vera Cruz. The greater part oi the inhabitants are agriculturalists. Grazing receives due share of atten- tlen, as 1t affords handsome profit, with very little labor, and 10 other ex- pense than is attended by occasional herding. Ihe local government of the colony Is administered by officers elect cd hJ the settlefs3 these officers consist oi an alealde. who has civil and judicial jurisdiction, two regidores (aldermen), aid one syndic, forming a municipal hodys styled ayantaIniento of which the alcalde is president. The alcalde and ohe of the alderman are elected anu ally, ard cannot be reelected until two years afser their the F retirement from office.
 De Wits colony lies immediately west of and adjoining that of Col. Aus tin, the La Baca being the line of sepa- ration between these two colonies. It an area of 35500 square miles. ald the Guadalupe, which, with some of its numerous branches, serve to irri- gate its soil. No settlements of impor- lance have as yet been made in this CO lony.
 Eetar's Grant so called. Much has been said in the public prints respect ing q grant alleged to have been made by the Mexican government, comprising an area of nearly 63,000 square miles, ((4ii0,3oG,o00 acres Where this ini- mense tract is, or where it can be locat- ed, il is difficult to conceive. unless all the previous grants, which are rumer- ous, should De abrogated; should such a grant have been made in addition to those already located, there will remain but small portion of Texas fer future purchasers. Although t is well known that the Mexican Government pufsues aliberal policy towards actual settlers. in granting them lands on the most fa- Yorabie terms, It can scarcely be credit ed, that eession nearly co-extensiye with the uAappfopriated parts of the province should have been sanctioned by that government, by which no title has recently been given, except to the class Of purchasers just mentiened.- Land can be obtained by emigrants with great facility from the empressario. founder of the colony,) and from the commissioners Of the government. under colonization laws, which authorizes the grant to families who are actual settlers of one Mexican league equal to 4445 acres. Unmarried men can obtain the fourth part Of that quantity, the expen- ses of which will not amount to four cents the acre.
 Naeogdoehes, Bexaf, Victoria, sfidl Goliad, formerly called Babia, are the only towns remaining to be noticed. Nacogdoehes is situated on the head wa ters of Neches river, in the eastern part of the province, and about I6G miles, il q direct fine from tie gulf coa [. Ii is on the great road leading from New Or leans and Natchitoches, in Louisiana to the city of Leona Nieario the capital ol the state of Goahuila and Texas, and is 72S miles northeast from that city. Fort Nacogdoches, the germe whence the town of that name sprung, was erected shortly after the first settlement of fthe country, and was for a long peri cd the only settlement in this part O Texas. The town itself never attained to any importance in point of population and its commerce was chiefly confined to the supply of the garrison, and { small trade with the surrounding Indi an tribes. Since it's destruction in 1891 the town has been rebuilt, and the rum Der of it's inhabitants considerably aug mented by emigrants form the Unite' States.
 Bexar, or San Antonio de Beiar, tn former capitai of the province, is situa ted on the western prong of Salad hcreek, an inconsiderable branch of tn San Antonia river, 393 miles south-wes from Naeogdoches l53 west from Sa Felipe de Austin, and 335 miles nortf east from Leona Nieario.
 Goliad is situated on the right ban of the San Antonio river. about 4Gmile above its entrance into Fspiritus Sait
 bay, ll5 southwest from San Felipe q U