Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1841-01-30
EHOM TEXAS.

4 Virgil, arrived last evening from Gal |
yFy'pp, bringing US the Courier Of the 9Th |
hpN' There is no news, The Texans
nQnpt believe there is any danger tina,
-AtIeta will invade the country. They
think 1t possible that he may hover over
xhe frontier with small force, but believe
he will retreat the moment there is show
NJ Iorce against him.
From letter OF the Editor of the Couri-
xieF, dated al Austin. December 18Th, we
sx,Fac, the following:
AT leng b have reached the I" city OF
Woods" the seven hills OF Rome" |
have been six day from Houston, but
neither bad weather nor bad roads have
prevented me from making a more rapid
moyement-other unavoidable and unfore.
seen causes have pro,racted my journey to
this uncommon length-(four or five days
being the usual tme.) am pleased with
the appearance Of Austin. 1t is a larger
place than had anticipated. The build.
lngs are finer, and in better taste than |
bad anticipated. 1t is really n city, and
larger than any other, except Galveston
and Houston, in the Republic. Travel
lers and Historians (see Bonnell's "Tex-
$50 have so often described the place, that
tOrbear recital, as it would only be q
repetition of the same thing. There IL
room, however, for the flight of poetry in
The natural scenery Of the place--it is al
MI events, to iaded and way.worn irav'
eller, an +E Dorado"-a mountain para
pisc. | am satisfied with il as il is, and
would not travel six days more in the same
way TO find city twice as opulent and
fvc times os populous.
The country have passed through is
every way delightful. Iadeed, the fine
weather we have experienced for the last
elk days, would make one forgive old de-
tormities, If there were any in its contor'
nation, and extoI the beauties of nature Il
they wera only Of ordinary stamp.
The route have travelled has
led me thror gh the counties of Harris
Washington, Fayctte, Baslrop, Travis anc
Austin. The bottom lands Of the Brazos
are proverbial for the eXuberance, and
will lonty say of the internal and prairie
lands between the Brazos and the Colora
do, that have never yet seen them excel
led in fertility. l can only compare then
10 the lands l have seen on the Nuece'
river, and the internal lands between The
San Antonio and Nueccs river. They
only require the magic wand Of the hus
bandman TO bring them into life apd pro
duc!iveness. At some future period | vii
speak more at large on this subject.
Congress has been for the last ten Of
twelve days engaged upon the Cherokee
Land Bill. The prominent speakers have
been in its favor, Gen. Samuel Houston
and Mr. Porter, and against it, nearly all
the remainder of The talent in the House
Messrs. Kaufman, Mayfeld and Menfee
have hundred long and loud against the
bill, but all to little effect. General Sam.
Houston has been ("solitnry and alone'O
host. His eloquence has been like "A
mountain torrent-it has born down op-
position. l would rather have the gcner-
ais popularity than the richest dladem
that potentate or throne on earth can
boast.
Two or three expresses have come in
from San Antonio, representing the Mexi-
can son their oPproach TO that place with n
force of from six to twelve hundred men,.
There is very little doubt but they are this
side the Rio Grand, but their object is more
TO gather spoil, than 10 make conquest,
and very liule heed is taken of these a
larms.-There is no doubt it is thought, that
there has been an alliance formed between
the Federalists and centraIisls. Even
Canals has bargaincd himself away to the
power he once opposed, and furnishes an.
other example Of the laithessness Of Mex.
lcan7. 1t is reported that COL Seculn
has joined The Centralists, but the rumor
is not generally believed. Col. S, can.
not, think, be guilty Of such az perfdi-
~.
7. 5. ! had almost forgottento say
that | met the president today about eight
out OF the city, on bis journey out of the
country.
ESCAPE OF DIR. HINEs-We learn tina,
the notorious DIR. Hines, who was sent 70
the pcnlteniiary at Baton Rouge last sum
mer Tor fourteen years, has escaped and is
again at largely some means he got
possession of false keys, made his way bv
the AID OF them to the cigar shop in the
upper part oil the prision, cut a hole in the
rool ana then LET himself down by means Of
CORDS; An lrishman escaped at the same
tme but was afterwards retaken.
II seems that the runaways kept com,
pany' with the prsion chains still fas, 10
i DEM lot some six miles back OF Baton