New-York daily tribune., 1845-02-06
FARTHER NOTES on TEXAS.

n write out some OF our notes from memory alone
Texas, according to Its natural and ancient
boundaries, lies between the 9th and 35th de-
prees OF Nofta latitude and between the 10th
and 2;;E, degrees OF West longitude from Wash
npton City. and Is thus four times as large as the
State Of New-Yo ok. The climate Is generally
warm, but very variable-the Southern portion
being intensely not in summer, Jet subject to Sc
we're blasts, called Notthers,' il winter. The
soil is on The average good though there is great
/ proportion Of waste land-desert=, invlncble
swamps. marshes. &c. Next to the Gulf IS
strip some thirty 0, forty miles wide OF low. wet
| land-swarnp, canebrake, &c. The water is here
very bad, and the Country extremely unhealthy
| Back of this lies region one TO two hundred
miles wide OF intermingled prairie snd forest,
with extensive deserts toward the West, stretch
ing to the Piedra Pin;a and San Saba Mountains
Some Of this land is rugged and broken, and the
water is no; generally good, bat on the whole
il is favorable to cultivation. Cotton, Corn &c.
are here cultivated, as Rice and Sugar may be in
| the lower bal and Cattle are raised easily and
in great nun bers. Bilious diseases prevalent.
North Of this lies wider and healthier range Of
Country, with climate like that Of Virginia and
Kentucky. 1t is said TO be well watered By clear
rapid streams the sources of the rivers which
traverse the lower country. OF course, this re-
gon, having been little explored, is reputed q
! Paradise We presume tits nearly equal to Mis-
souri, except that il lacks navgable rivers and
mncral.-two rather important drawbacks
Mines have often been reported 10 exist there, and
mav vet be found and made productive. The
rivers are not TO be had There is yet another
drawback to be considered-nearly or quite all
this portion Of Texas belongs TO the Camanche
and other warike tribes of Indians, who not mere
~ have clear night to il, but are abundaniy
able to maintain il. Every male Comanchc Is an
exnert horseman and trained warrior from early
youth. who rides at full speed toward or from an
enemy. Ioading and firing while exposing but the
knuckles Of one hand and a part OF one foot to
bullet. These savages will not be cheated out
of their lands or driven from them very easily.
Texas is sadly wanting in Harbors and naviga-
bic Rivers The strong current OF the Cult has
blocked up all the mouths Of her Rivers and In
lets. Galveston is the most accessible harbor, yet
has only - l-2 feet water on the bar, and can OF
course admit none but small vessels. The coast
is eirded by a succession OF long, low islands or
promon,ores-that is, large sand-banks washed
by shallow seas, which will always render the ma
yigation difficult and perous.
The chief Rivers Of Texas, counting from East
TO West, are the Sabine, Neches, Trinidad, Bras
SOS, Colorado Gaudaloupe, San Antonio, and
Nucces The Brassos the Colorado and the
Trinidad are the largest and most important But
all are obstructed by bars at their mouths some by
heavy RATS and nearly all are, by the shallowness
Of the water, rendered difficult of navigation by
any but the smallest steamboats, The Rivers
converge toward the coast, and the level prairie
country appears to diminish rather thar increase
their volume. One Hudson in place Of the Bras
SOS would be richly worth them all. Northern
Texas will inevitably engage largely in Alanuiac-
lures at an early day after its settlement from the
impossibility Of transporting her Agricultural pro-
ducts to distant market, except at rninous ex-
pensc.
The White Population of Texas ranges from
5000 to $50, O,000 and is rapidly increasing by
emigration from the United States and Europe.
lis moral and industrial character is bad, but i'm
proving. Houston, the capital, had 5000 inha-
bitan,s four years ago. composed in large proper
ton of spectators, gamblers, soakers, and ugi-
tive felons. Forty-seven grog-shops to no church
was the proportion there and throughout Texas.
A single Protestant house OF worship existed in
the whole country in 1899, while the number OF
rroggeries could not have been less than thou
sand. The Catholics had erected some good
churches in former times, but these had been
abandoned on the expulsion Of the Mexicans, and
many have fallen 10 decay.
Col. Stiff observes that, at one place in the
course of his Texan rambles, he stopped al a ia
vern. such as it was, and found as his companions
there, fourteen fugitives from the United States
and Canada, eight of whom in the course of the
evenings conversation admitted that they were
murderers, while the others had been guilty Of
less henous offences. This was doubtless an ex-
cuprits in Texas is very great, We believe the
proportion OF such is decreasing But the laws
are as vet small terror 10 evil.doers and the pub
lie functionaries are deporaby remiss in the per-
formance of their duty.
We hope 1.-The Texan Emigrant' properly
edited, may be repubshed on this side of the AL
lcghauies l, has no literary merits. and many
glaring faults, but the author writes what he has
himself observed, with evident honesty of pur
pose and thus gives us many lights and shades OF
the picture which more polished writers would
have neglected or suppressed. Those cOniempla-
ing emigration 10 Texas, and not under the ne
cessity OF sacrificing every other consideration TO
speed, may find much valuable information in this
volume.
NEW WY0RK LEGISLATURE.
MONDAY, Feb. 3, 1915.
IL THE SENATE, ali the Constitutional Amend