New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-01-02
Later from Texos.

By the arrival on Monday of the steam
ship Meteor, Capt. Forbes. we have received papers
from Galveston TO the 10Th ult.
A rise IN the BraZos River has been caused by
heavy rams.
The late cold spell was experienced severely in
Texas. Ice an inch thick was formed at Galveston.
The sugar cane in Brazos County was much injured
by the frost
The Mafagorda Tribune states that the injury in
that region Is less than was expected. II saws: We
learned last evening by a gentleman from Wharton
and Caney tdat all the standing cane has not been
materially injured, and that the sugar crop is turn
ing OUT abundantiy. Many Of the planters indeed IN
those sections are nearly or quite through grinding
opptan,ty 70 dive tSeT WORK col Hewkes n ss
already turned out 300 hogsheads Col Horton has
nearly completed with about the same quantity, aud
Col Henry Jones will probably make 300 hogsheads.
The Houston Telegraph says II II Is reported on
the frontier that The Cananches were again pre-
parng to attack the settlements on the Rio Grande.
The body OF Robert Holmes, master Of the Sch.
Sophia, was lately found on the beach, AZ -. 10.
sephs Island. The coroner's Jury returned a YER
dict OF accidentally drowned.
The Galveston Ctiiian has accounts from Austin
to the 18th inst
An Internal Improvement Bill is before the Legis-
lature, providing for the assistance, the part of
the state, OF Railroad Companies, and the improve
meDt Of the navigation OF our rivers 1t seems prob-
able that some law on the subject WILDE adopted but
al yet there seems to be definite arrangement OF
the details.
Msny other matters Of interest are under consid-
Grafton but III such shape as affords no means Of
Judging as to the final disposition which viii be
made OF them.
The bill authorizing the Controller TO proceed to
Washife ton 10 receive the indemnity, or that pOr
ton OF the same due the State, has passed to third
reading By a vote of SO yeas and Is nays.
An Austin letter writer says mat he candidly be.
lleves that the records OF the AdJutant Generals Of
flee Will show that there have been issued from that
Office alone bounty land certificates TO persons,
for certain services, than there soldiers IN
the army and more issued BY the Land Office TO ci
uzeDs than there are voters IN the STATE. There
have been, since the organization Of the Adjutant-
Generals Department. SIX hundred AID fOrty-hye
thousand seven hundred and sixty OF land scrip
Issued 70 Administrators ON deceased soldiers estates
alone, and equal amount TO their heirs or their
agents, and ye. the cry IS still they come"
~ PicaydEe. Dec %
j. " Jones Of Galveston. publishes a correspond
ence between himself aud Powers, the sculptor,
which passed at Florence IN June last, on the sub
Ject OF II marble statue for tne contemplated State
Capilol-a statue embiematic Of the STATE. and EN-
bracIIg IN It's design the glorious and romantic his
tory OF Its early career
Mr.. Powers, for want OF suficien, information in
relation 10 the history, arms the Institutions and
peculiar productions Of that State, expresses his
difhdeBce N his ABILITY 10 furnish a proper design,
but thinks the State might be repre- sented stand
Ing by the sice OF column con posed OF rods bound
together abe fasces) and surmounted by the cap Of
liberty The names ofthe States existing at the pc.
rod OF annexation should be written upon The circ-
ling band Of the fasces-and Texas might be adding
her own name to the list. Her left arm might De
embracing the column, while her right would be oc-
eupled 10 tracing her dame upon II, and she might
lean contdngiy and gracefully against IT, The
broken Nord ard chains 81 Mexico might be at her
feet, ard she herself might appear as a beautiful
virgin no' yet arrived at, but giving promise Of full
womanly proportions.
These Mr. Powers throws on. merely as sug.
gestlOLs