Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1853-11-24
By Orders. Cooper, Adj. &c

A3 AhS ioiioWiHB HUM tiie Dan AnlOulO
(Texas Ledger, describes q region of coun-
try as much like Paradise as the imagination
can conceive. Those however who have
visited the delightful region of which the
writer speaks, will readily acquit him of
all exaggeration. We believe with him, that
the world does not contain another district
of equal extent, for which Nature has done
so much, and where 80 little is left TO be
achieved by art: vss
We really believe that the eyes of the
Union are to much extent directed to West
ern Texas, and that the cynosure of West
ern Texas is this self-same San Antonio.
We have written much about our favored
section. We now reiterate our firm belief
that the hundred miles square, shooting in
directions from this old yet regeneration and
time-honored town, has not its equal in the
known world for its fertility of soil, for its
grazing facilities, for its abundance of pure
and cool and refreshing water, for its health,
and for its susceptibility of variety products.
This is saying much. But come, go with
us now to those portions of what we are &C.
customed to style the San Antonio Region,
and inspect for yourself. Yet linger
moment in the town San Antonio. During
the past season, we charge you by the most
diligent inquiry, 10 ascertain single death
occasioned by ia fever originating in the
town. Yes, during the entire past season
which, elsewhere has sent SO many thousands
to the grave. We pledge you our word,
you cannot gather solitary instance. Now
look farther about you. Taking the heart
of the town for centre, we will venture the
assertion that within square mile you can
count up at least FIVE hundred springs, tut
ting their pure and linpid currents, fresh
from the alembic Of great Nature. Now
start forth on the prairie. Every foot you
traverse over is soil as deep and as fruc-
tifying as the richest points on the Missis-
sippi or Brazos bottoms. Look at the lux
uriant growth of musquit, richer and more
nutricious than the most cultivated grasses
Of the North or Europe. Do you wish
proofs of our assertion? Then gaze at the
innumerable herds of cattle, and the cab
allodos of horses equally as corpulent in
winter as in summer time. But stop before
we look at the agricultural developments Of
the country, .let us linger a moment at the
sweet stream that courses through the midst
of our town. Rising some three miles above
us, ere it reaches the city that bears its
name, il has become fierce tide, competent
to force the boldest and strongest machinery
in the world, and with its natural falls and
cascades, it continues for one hundred miles
the finest natural manufacturing stream in
the world. Now for its products. Cibolo
is its most densely populated agricultural
stream. On its banks fourishes in most
productive perfection, corn, cotton, sugar,
hemp, flax, wheat and vegetables of every
hue. Each and more of these tropical pro-
ducts have been fully tested. We have but
instanced one single stream. Go 10 the
Guadalupe; go TO the Medina; go upon the
prairie itself. Towns have sprung up
around lis in every direction with the rapid
ity ofmagic. Within very few years past,
where the wild beast traversed unmolested
by the huntsman's rifle, and the red man
with IMMUNITY roamed, are the dwellings of
the husbandman and well-tilled fields. No
country has ever been settled with more
rapidity than Western Texas. But scarce
the beginning of emigration is yet. The
hordes that have come in among us are con-
stantly sending entreatics TO their relatives
and friends TO wend hither. They write
they have at last crossed their Jordan
have found the promised Canaan, and would
beseech others to enjoy their luxurious abid-
ing place. Thus do we answer our MANY
correspondents. We will tell them in the
language of the text, ''to sell all and follow"
on. One drawback exists at present. The
difficulty of egress to the coast. We must
be honest in the premises. A contract has
been entered into for a railroad between this
point and Matagorda bay. As yet we have
no reason to believe that the contractors
will fail. If they do, Pacific route will
not course far from US. We have wealth
and energy here, and, in any event, if the
Pacific road does not pass at the doors of
San Antonio, San Antonio will tan il
Thus will we not only have egress to the
North and the Pacific, but this San Antonio
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