From The Nelo Orleans american.
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| mr.. Editor have just returned from vis


to Texas, and although prepared to be please,
with that interesting country, from the various


accounts of it had several years read, vet i


surpassed all idea had formed of it's beauty ane
! fertility. There is to be found combination q


advantages no where else to be met with. Or


the same part Of land the several occupations O.


planting, farming, grazing, &C.. can all be profta
| bly, pursued; and, withal, the country is as salu
brious as the Allegheny mountains. The mum
Der OF emigrants of wealthy and respectable
class, too, surpass all belief. independently O
the thousands who go by sea, the road from the
SHbine~to the Colorado seems like the train OF an
army. You are scarcely ever out of sight OF
hordes of wagons.


Towns and villages are springing up like ma
gic. am satisfied among all, that Velasco pro-
misses to be the emporium of the country. This
will appear obvious, when it is recolected that II
is situated at the mouth of the Brazos rivera
river nearly centralthe leading artery it were,
or in other words, the back bone of the country;
and furnishing more good land, according to its
size and length, than any stream in the world.


Houston is situated in the most sterile and un-
prepossessng part of the whole country, and from
the great influx of strangers, even temporary
sojourn there, is very disagreeable.


All the inhabitants being off the sea board, pre-
Ter their own government money to any other,
and willingly give Louisiana and Mississippi mo-
ney in exchange for it. am surprised at the de-
probation of Texas money here. The Govern
ment has only issued $5OO,O0O; making that is
sue, and gold and silver alone, receivable in pay
ment of public dues, which, at a minimum calcu-
lation, amount this year to $2,5OO,OOO. The
money must inevitably soon be at par. The last
quarter, the Custom Houses alone have thrown
back $l75,OOO of it in the Treasury. The di-
rect tax, and the fees for locating head rights, will
soon fall due. The Secretary of the Treasury
assured me he would have every dollar of the is
sue in the Treasury by the 18th day Of July next.
The money, too, bears an interest of 10 per
cent.


At Velasco, there is a spacious tavern, kept by
a gentleman from Virginia. where can be had, du-
ring the summer, ice, and every other luxury which
New Orleans can furnish. There is also an ex-
cellent rail-track, and an abundance of fish, oys
tiers, wild fowl, &Jc.


Land near the coast has risen 25 per cent. per
month during all this winter.


At more leisure | will communicate some in
teresting details connected with the geography,
botany, &c. of the country. +.
