Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-12-22
TEXAS AND COHUILA.

l To the Editors Of The Southern Recorder:
 As much interest is felt in the United States in relation to all that concerns Texas, have judged it expedient and proper to pre- sent you what observations have been cna- bled to make respecting the condition of that country, during brief visit, from which l have but just now returned.
 | It may be promised that entered Texas full ofprejudices of every sort and kind, and have been agreeably disappointed. Instead of a land of monsters and anarchy, have seen a region of country more fertile, productive, healthy and delightful than any had before seen. The notions entertained by ne, 1 con- ceive are those most prevalent, .and that they are only to be eradicated with difficulty The only fearful thing in which l was not mistaken, and which I found to be greatly exaggerated itself, was the state of the coun- try in relation to law and morals, this to me, would not be endurable if it were not a mere evil of the time and daily lessening. A few years more will set all that right.
 TEXAS is a vast region of country, extend ing westward from the river Sabine, which is here the west border ot the United States, and southward from the United States south border, and comprises with another province of nearly equal extent, the political division of the Mexican Republic, known as the State | of Texas and Cohuila. Its capital, SaHiAo, is situated 80 leagues beyond the Rio Grande and very near the S. w. line of the State- This State contains population of thirty-two thousand inhabitants, and it is thought by the Agent 200, GOO Indians. Two-thirds of the population are American, a large portion of whom have been introduced within the last five years.
 Of the Indians, there are some 20 or 25 tribes who occasionally visit the hresidios--it is said, indeed, that in the town of Nagado- ches, there are spoken during the year Gin cluding five or six civilized languages) no less than thirty-two different tongues. The policy of the Mexican nation, and the wis dom, sagacity and promptitude of the Agent, Col. Bean, operate to'keep them in friendly disposition towards the whites. They may, perhaps, be considered rather benefit than otherwise; for unlike the northern and Allan tic tribes, they furnish the commercial world an inconceivablc quantity of furs, peltries, jerked-beef, buffalo robes and tongues, horses and mules. The Cimanches, who inhabit the immeasurable northwestern prairies of the State, are very numerous, hardy and brave; and considered as people leading a wandering life and having no towns. The Shawnees, Cherokees, Choctaws, Kickapoos, Anadoquas, Cooshatees and Delawares are also numerous and active. in Texas. They are permitted to govern themselves in their own way, and even to exercise jurisdiction O. yer their own people on the territory of each other. saw in the public square at Naga- doches, a most barbarous Cooshatee execu- tion, and it was not thought just or lawful to interfere.
 lam informed that the Americans coloniz- ed in Texas are doing well. At present, they seem to have but one cause of complaint, viz: the difficulty of acquiring confirmed ti- ties to their lands-they have complied with all the prerequisites, and so long awaited a commissioner from the government with pow CTS to confirm them in their titles, that many of them are almost desperate. There is, however, one thing winch gvies some toruble