Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-01-26
From the Cincinnati Chronicle.
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| lnhabltanLs, and is rapidly increasing. 1t
will always be place Of great lrade-we
I consider It, the New Orleans of Texas
New houses are springing up like mush-
rooms almost every day, the frames are
| all brought from Maine, ready jonted, SO
| as to be raised and boarded in few days.
They are Of very uniform size and appear.
ancc; generally two stories high, twenty
three to twenty five feet long, and fifteen
to eighteen broad, and let readily at five
hundred dollars per annum in good money
They arc almost invariably painted white,
which gives the town a beautiful appear
ance from the ocean. There is always
one, and generally two steamboats, that ply
regularly from Galveston across the Gulf
10 New Orleans, and half Il dozen that run
up the Trinity, Buffalo bayou, the Brassos,
and occasionally coastwlSe TO Matagorda.
Thetc are likewise above twenty Packets,
that run regularly between Galveston and
various parts Of the United States.
think Maine is more strongly represented
here than any State in he Union. Almost
all our house frames are brought out in
coasters from Maine, and good White Pine
lumber is about as abundant and cheap
here as in any Of the Atlantic cities north
Of Portland. There is also plenty of Pitch
Pine timber brought here from Mobile and
North Carolina.
When this island, (Which is rather low
and good deal Of it sandy,) is drained,
diked and shaded with trees, it will be the
most beautiful city IN Texas, and in fact,
| do not know Of any city in the South
West that will surpass it, as there are no
unsightIy log cabins, (excuse me as you
are whg,) or old shantees on the island
Almost every house, as have observed, is
a good frame building, painted white, and
built with great deal of uniformity, and
as the streets are laid out regular and wide,
they make fine appearance.
Last year there were bat five trees TO be
found upon the island This last spring
many hundred fruit trees were set out-al
so many shade trees. The winters are
so mild that even the orange is seldom in
iured out of doors, the Fig never, and for
the peach, the climate must be unrivalled.
A good many vegetable gardens have been
successfully cultivated the past summer,
and some ornamcnted ones laid out with
great taste back OF the city, surrounded
with a neat dry ditch, and bank Of earth
four feet high, to be covered with the beau
tirul Cherokee Rose of the Southern States.
This makes cheap ard durable fence,
and keeps out the hogs and cattle.
One popularity in living here, soon ar
rests the attention Of the stranger, a strong
sea breeze blows ovcrthe Island incesSant-
", and every night we are luled TO sleep
by the everlasting roar Of the MeXIque
Bay" as they roll over the beech on the
south side of the Island. But when we
are visited by northern of three or four
days continuance, | sometimes think we
have too much of good thing.
| forgot TO say that we had Morus Null
ticaulus sent here last spring by ship loads
sufficient TO stock all Texas, 4 few were
sold for a song, some given away, and
more dried upon the wharves. | doubt ii
enough were realized on them to pay cost.
We have now five Wharves, built and
building, one Of these 1,Sl0 feet long,
and is said to be tho longest in N. Ameri-
ca, not excepting the long wharf il Bos-
ton. which was built before the American
| Revolution.
There are about half dozen really good
| schools in GaveSton; besides one excel
lent high school, which is kept in two
story building, in the upper story OF the
which is a small Presby terian Society,
! composed Of about twenty females. and 90
/ or 50 young men, who have worship two
times each Sabbath, under the pastoral
! care Of the Rev. Mr.. Allen. Six thous-
and dollars have been subscribed towards
erecting a new church. and the Sabbath is
as rcverantlv observed as in Cincinnati.
all the stores are then closed, and business
suspended as it should be. Our city 60
vernment is composed, generally, OF very
efficient, sober-minded, intelligent young
men, who have families and property here
and who feel the responsibility of their sit
uation, and take great pride IN the pros
peritv, appearance, and welfare OF the cl-
ty.
You will rcccollect that our Congress
passed a law last winter, funding Texas
treasury notes: which are called In, ana
certificates Of the same amount ISSUED,
bearing interest at the rate of 10 per cent
per annum, payable in specie, and semi
annually. Ii our government should be
able to do this, of course Texas money will
rapidly appreciate in value, and princely
fortunes will be made by those who have
been buying up large quantities at New
Orleans at 90 cents on the dollar. jacob
Barker Of Y. Orleans, who is well known
TO be a sagacious operator generally, Il
soid 10 have invested an immense sum II