Southern telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1834-1838, 1838-01-09
THE ST AN > ARD.
FoR THE STANDARD.
AFFAIRS IN TEXAS.

-"'' A-1'o' '--F rom your proximity
the new Republic, and from the fact that b
your orn doors, and through your our
streets, passes such tide Of emigration I
that beautiful land Of prairies-that land
the orange and the grape-of salubriou
climate, and delightful scenery, and fertil
soil from the fact of YOUR town be,no one
the great thoroughfares, one Of the princip,
crossing places on the great Mississippi
for emigrants to Texas, you, doubtless, fee
deep interest in all that concerns its we!
fare. 1t gives me pleasure to inform YOU
! (having recently spent some time in tn,
country, and travelled extensively over its
territory) that Texas never was in more
Furnishing condition than at present, nor
we're her future prospects erer brighter
Her Indian neighbors are entirely peacea-
BILE. There is not the least danger tina,
ever Mexico will again send an army into
her country which, should she do, will on
ly meet with defeat even more signal tina n
that which befel them on the plains of San
Jacinto. Union and harmony pervade the
councils and deliberations of her statesmen
al home. A crowd of emf grants is rushing
from all parts of the world, eager to partici-
pate in the blessings which she proffcrs so
generously, to bestow upon all her citizens
Lard IS rapidly rising in value. New towns
and embryo cities are daily springing into
existence, and rapidly settling with an in
teligent, enterPrizing, industrious, and adj
ven'urous population. Churches, semna-
ries of learning, moral. religious and benc-
VIOLENT institutions of various kinds, are
every where coming into existence, and
receiving the patronage and cordial support
of the Texans
| will give you one instance (and this
will serve for many of a similar kindly of the
rapid rise of property in town in Texas.
About the first of last October, town call
ed AURORA was laid out on the Sabine Bay,
near the mouths of Snow and Sabine rivers.
AT first, n few shares were sold quite low.
The town was ridicnled and opposed by
few ff1focrat and enrious men. The pro-
pretors, nothing dauntcd, ,ccnt ahead, and
before | left the country, Gin less than three
months from the origin of the town. proper
ty then had risen at least one thousand per
cent. Such will be the case in regard to
many other new towns in that Furnishing
Republic In fact, the speculation in torn
property is, at present, the safest, and
yields profit the quickest of any other that
man can en2nge in in that country. For
tunes have already been made in that way,
even while the persons engaged in the
specuIations were laughed at by the com
munity.
am not the owner of a single acre OF
land in Texas | do not know that ever
sh,II be, or that shall evor again be per
United to visit that beautiful country, to in
hale its pure atmosphere, to feast my eyes
upon its delightful scenery, to mingie with
its open hearted and hospitable citizens. ]
hope the Star of my Fortune may yet guide
me to that region again. But, whether 1
be permitted this pleasure or not, to all who
desire to find country combining fertility
of soil, salubrity Of climate, co'nmercini ad-
van,ages, and even good society-(liere |
know many cold hearted Nortaerncr, and
over-righteous Pharisee, will cast sheer OF
increduloms contempt upon my assertion
but heed it not! have the incontestlbie
evidence of experience to sustain me 10 the
remark and with a perfect knowledge OF
all the uncharitable feeling that is felt TO-
wards the Texians,) | repeat the assertion
and say to any and all persons who want !"
find all the advantages enumerated, tose'hef
with good society, co TO TEXAS 20 there !
and be sure that you set as good moral ex'
ample as you expect to find among the ctr
zens Of that country, and you will not DC
disappointed.
An AMERICAN.