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We have received of lae a number of Texas pa- pers, chiefly from Cohesion. They seem to have a fair share of patronage for country, but great part their advertising of towns aud cities for sale In one aper, the towns fNew Columbia, Louis vile and Magnolia, anI the cities of Brazos and Aurora, arci ocred 10 purchasers, who are requested to call and examine the article for themselves They are to be sold, presume, like bundles of hay-one with the privilege. They do things on a large scale in Texas.

 Me find in one of these papers, an abstract of the report of the Secretary of the Treasury the finances .f inc republic The public debt is S7, ,300,O ,O0O which .ess than supposed. The revenue for the last

 car is nominally alge. With the balances in hand rom last year, it amounts to ll96,26S S3, part oi which is estmated the returns not having been received. The round sum of million is considered fair computation for the actual revenue, collected but when if is reduced to the standard of real mo ney, il dwftilcs into comparative insgnifcanec. At present rates is only worth, towards the payments l of the debts of ihe government, about %166, ,666- The Secretary proposes to fund the public debt at 2s per cent. interest The interest wou4 amount 10 $lS7 ,500, which exceeds the whole of the revenue for the year, and leaves the support of the government unproyded for. IL is suggested that by retrcnchment the expenses of government might be reduced 10 Sl00,OO0 per annum which would leave deficit of more than hundred and twenty thousand dollars per annam, towards paying the interest of the public debt, at only two and half per cent.

 Tine Secretary proposes to raise more revenue by taxing twenty millions of acres of land, at mini mum valuation of 50 cents per acre-lhe tax to be half of per cent, and to raise the duties on imports to s per cent-bnt there is good deal of opposition to this project oppressive and imprac- l icahla.

 Among the papers received from Tuscaloosa, is the report of the Commissioners of the Pententiary. It is brie stating the contract to be completed, but the buildings to be still imperfect. The cost agreed upon originally, was Ss4,s99-in addition to which, the commissioners under their general authority to make changes in the contract, and allow for the in. creased expense, have given certificates for the fur tller sum of ,743 50. There are further claims made by the contractor for extra work, which the commissioners did not allow, and have referred 10 the Legislature.

 They add, that there are other buildings necessary for the full execution of the plan of the State, but they were nol authorised to contract for them They put in, aso, by way of postscript, that they have not been paid for their own services and expenses.