Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1838-01-04
NATcHITocuEs, La,

To the Editor Of the y. o. Commercial Bulletin.
DEAR SIR-I have recently travelled entirely through
Texas, and as find your paper has an extensive c'Icu'
lation in that country, suppose a few items of news
from that country would not be unacceptable 10 you.
The country 10 in Il very prosperous condition. The
Indians on its borders are entirely p%caceable. Provisions
are plenty and comparatively cheap. All The different
departments of Government are quietly performing their
several duties. Several candidates are spoken OF for the
next Presidency, among whom the most prominent are
Lamar and Rusk. Emigrants continue TO pour INTO the
country in immense numbers from all parts ut the world
III travelling from Gaines Ferry on the Sabine River 10
this place, met ut least one hundred persons. The
steamboat Black Hawk, which landed at this place this
morning, brought at least fifty passengers bound for
T~cxas-many of hem men OF wealth and intelligence.
Lands are rapidly rising in value and immense specu'
lations are being made. But the quickest ana snTes'
speculation take place in some Of the new towns; The
town of Aurora, on the Sabine Bay, has not been known
10 u the world three months, and already the proPrietoEs
have sold fifty thousand dollars worth OF lots there, aud
yet the most valuable part of the property is unsold.-
This town is all the rage in eastern Texas. IL has en-
,irely cast al. the small towns into the shudc. in a com,
pany of emigrlnts | saw Il wagon marked in large let
lers, Aurora, and found that It's owner was vending
his way to thut promising city. lis favorable location
Immediately on the bay, and near tie mouth oil the Sa'
bine and Snow Rivers, renders il an important CONNER.
clal point, and consequently many capitalists are invest.
iug funds in the place. 1t is thought that it will con
tain a population Of ten thousand in five years.
The Texans are talking very lamiliarly and positively
Vi lUpIuIUn tIG IlCNSuh ASPeDiN1 1919
seat Of government TO the City Of MEXICO.
Improvement in every respect is progressing rapidly
Even the morals of the country is on the advance
Churches are building in several Of their towns, and Sc
vcraI intelligent men are preaching in The county. ''
The people are generally intelligent and treat a stran'
ger very hospitality and kind. | travelled fifteen hun
dred miles through the country without any weapon
larger than a pocket knife, and was not only permitted
to pass unmolested, but was every where treated with
all the poIiteness could desire.
So fare we'll Texas for the present! Farewell to thy
beautiful prairies, thy delightful climate, the bew'lch'ng
smiles of thy fair daughters and thy kind citizens gene
rally! and when agnin visit thee, | will inform ,lhG
world thereof throug h the columns off the,Edltor vii
ne rmjt-,Le Commercial Bulletin. ~AMERlCUS.
(From the N. Orleans Courier Of the 26M ut)
BY the Mobile, which left Galveston on the 18th, we
learn tina, Congress had adjourned: The President wa:
in good health, and all quiet. Provisions continued
some What scarce. :,
MExleo.-'By the schr. Creole, from Tampico' with
SlO4, 900 in specie, to merchants in this city, we learr
that a large body Of Indians, having been recently seer
to the South of Tamopico. had oceusioned the assembling I!
pursuit. These arc, probably, tic same forces mentioned
tv Capt. .Meroinc, as haoing crossed The Rio Grands"