Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1864-03-18
TEXAS HTEUs.

We have full files of the Houston Telegraph
from the 22d of January to February lOsh. As
the Federal forces keep close to their works at
Brownsville and on the Gulf cOsst, there is but
Etas war news of interest given. We CLEAN,
however, other items Of inierest TO our friends
from Texas in the armies.
Cotton was selling al Eagle pass at twenty
csnls IN specie; in Matam0rOs il Was worth
taI;y-6ve cents.
The Telegraph, OF January h, ssys:
We hear of sales Of ssvsrsl Stgts bonds for
$1,000, paying Sper cent. interest in specie, st
S255 specie. This is about toe best Investment
We know Of, as it pays over 81 per cent. inteT-
ess-Iuly coed return ioT capital.
The weat; er Just now IS extremely favorable
TO farming operations. We are glad ta learn
that planters are preparing to make the best
corn crops in their power. We hepe TO see corn
enough made tkis year TO feed both the army
and me people.
1t Is said that Col Majors, who has done SO
good service in command of a brigade of Tex
ans for year past has been commissioned as
bTigsdieI-geneIAL
General Price was on visit to bis family in
Washington county on the 26.h of January.
Vidal, who wss taken up By the Yankees on
their arrival at Brownsville, and commissioned
as major and who raised quite large battalion
Of recruits for the Yankee army from the Mex
cans, has left bis nea friends very much dissSi-
itfsd, and Joined Cor.ins in Asisuoros.
The same paper, of February oh says:
We are informed that Brig Gen. Slaughter
has been appointed chief-ol-stsf to Maj. GsI.
Magruder. General SIsughter's staff is attach
Cd to that of thg Maj. General.
We learn from Ellis and other counties in the
wheat region, that the Y3hest il coming out much
bsiteT than was feared since the freeze, and that
there is prospect Of considerable crop after
all We hope nothing viii cut it of.
On Saturday morning about 9 o'clock some
cot oR on the platform at the Central depot took
FIRE from sparks from the locomotive. Tne alarm
was given and the people rushed to the rescue
Of the heecy hing. The frs wss exiinguisAei
with ths lo5s of few bales.
The latest dispatches Tepor! the enemy quiet
ct Deckrow's Point and IGdiaRols. Oar fOItif-
cations along the coast are completed snd every
thing in readiness TO gives them warm Tecsp-
ton shoald they try 70 advs2cs.
Ire schooner Frederick tie GreEt" owned
by firm in this eity, was rsa ashore near the
mouth OF Csaey river on the % inst, by the
gunbosls Of the enemy. She had very valuable
cargo, aud it wss sll saved by the e1ertioR Of
the 21 Texas regiment, who will each receive .
nice sum for salvage.
The Telegraph of January 30.h has the fol-
lowing:
The weather has been better adapted 30 seri-
culture daring .he past few weeks, than we
remembered 70 have sssn for years. We belisYe
that pl9wing is being done all over the country,
and IN some Of oar lower country lands, corn
planting on small sale, has slready begun.
If frost does not sffeei early planted corn any
more than 1t did last year, that planted now
will escape. The best crops we saw in this re-
zion last year, were planted in the last week in
JsnusTy.
We learn that smallpox is prevailing in
BrenhAm, Chapel Hill, Fairfield and other
towns in the interior. New cSses continue TO
occur in this city, but it attracts little OF no at
tsntion. We hear OF few deaths.