The daily republic., 1853-08-25

mitted to be sent to Houston.
The Galveston .Ne,cs gives the following table
Of the election for Governor, Lieutenant Gov
ernor and Congress, promising that the returns
are not complete:
For Governor.
Pease ....... .4,983 Chambers ........ 739
Ochiltree ...... .3,O37 Evans. ........... 144
Wood. ........ .2,OO7 Dancy.... l3l
For Lieutenant Governor.
Dickson. .4,O42 Robertson ...... 1878
Kirby .......... .l,779 Henry ........... 52l
For Congress.
Bell. ....... All Caruthers Il ,O59
Lewis. Il, ,359 Blake .......... 283
Scurry .l,251
We are far from assuming that the candidates
will stand in the same relation to each other when
the total vote shall have been received; on the
contrary, it is highly probable that their position
may, in some cases, be reversed; though our opin-
ion is, that the leading candidates, here shown,
will continue foremost to the end of the race.
Should this be SO, it will follow that Pease, Dick
son, and Bell are elected. ~
The report from San Antonio of General
Lamar g death is believed to be incorrect. His
relations in Galveston have news of such an
event, and his residence is only days journey
from them. q,
The Galveston .Ns,os says:
'sThe fall crop will now soon be coming to our
market, and us our planters are probably looking
for shipment, we will enumerate the boats that
expected to run on the Trinity and Brazos
rivers" asn
The lndianola Bulletin denies the existence of
yellow fever at that place.
Lieutenant Stevens, with twenty or twenty-five
men, has left 1ndanoln, to commence operations
on the Colorado raft.
From the returns it appears TINT the bill appro-
priating 900 for clearing out the Texas rivers
has been rejected.
The Galveston Ne,cs says: 3, M
: "Colonel Clute commenced putting down tho
telegraph posts in this city Monday last begin
ming at the post office, in the second story of
which he will have his Office. The posts by this
time all put down far as the crossing Of the
bay at Deer Island. The crossing is effected by
enclosing the wire in gutta percha and placing it
under water. The line, we understand, is COM
pleted from Houston to Virginia Point, and the
whole line from this city to Houston will now
the eastern part of the State is progressing fast
as circumstances will permit. The weather has
been very unfavorable for some days past and has
occasioned some unavoidable delay.
"The reports from the Brazos Canal are of the
most encouraging character. The superintendent
entertains no doubt that the canal will be COM
pleted by February next.
"Ourplanters are now generally engaged in pick
ing, and all accounts encourage the hope of very
fine crop, at least onethrd larger than that of last
year."
Four bales of new cotton in all have been sold
at Galveston for twelve cents per pound. They
classed as good middling. 3s
The Indianoa Bulletin says:
"We felt alarmed some two weeks ago at vague
rumors of the appearance OF the cotton worm, but
rejoice to learn that they have entirely disappear
ed, and that throughout the twelve or fifteen cot
ton counties Of tho West the cotton crop is very
We therefore anticipate a much larger
tt,ov, hofn do I
s'The wheat crops of Central and Northern
Texas are said to be excellent.
"Prairie hay has become an article of general
use in Indianoa, and is found to be very good and
much cheaper than northern hay"
The Houston Telegraph says:
"Mr. Kosse, the engineer of the Houston and
Austin or Galveston and Red River Railroad, has
recently surveyed another line from the Cypress
to Cochran g Shoals, on the Brazos, few miles
below Hills Ferry. The distance by this route
TO the Brazos is only four miles less than the route
to Warren. The company will probably cause
Brazos, above Warren, and near Rock Island Fer
ry. They have not yet determined what point
they will select to cross the river, or whether
hey will cross it at ALL There arc about twenty
hands still at work on the road, and they will
probably increase the number to one or two hun
lred in autumn. The section between Houston
and the Cypress will probably be graded in the
course of the winter. The crossties fot this Sec
ton will probably be furnished in a few months.
ssWe learn from General Orville Clark, who
arrived here on Saturday evening from Nacog-
loches, that General Rusk and Colonel Johnson,
with company of about thirty persons, intend to
start in day or two for Ell Paso, to examine the
route for the Pacific railroad. Dr. Salisbury, the
yeologist appointed by the Pacific Railroad Com
oany, and several other scientific gentlemen, will
be in the company They expect to return to
Austin in two months. General Clark is highly
pleased with the portions of Texas that he has Wis
ted He travelled through section of country
about four hundred and fifty miles long, near the
32d degree Of north latitude, and says the country
seems as if it had been formed by nature for rail
road There is not single range of mountains,
nor even continuous range of hills, from Nacog-
loches to the Colorado, that presents any obstacle
to the construction of a railroad. I"
A MAGNIFICENT ScHEME.--We learn that
gentleman of this State, who re-
Gently visited Europe has succeeded in organizing
company, with capital of ten millions sterling,
for the purpose of establishing more direct route
Of transportation thence between New York, San
and China. The object of the COM
puny is to construct a railroad direct from Sa-
vannah to Pensacola, Mobile and New Or
leans, and another road from the Gulf to the