TEXAS.
Extract from letter written by gentle-

 man Ill Texas to citizen of Nashville,

 dated .dastta's Cotony, Dec. r, I629-

 .exsss is ROW la very prosperous #condition-There has been more enli- grafton this winter than ill several years past. The road Is at present full of mo- vers. This colony is also overIlowing wlthspeculaters from the United States.

 h anticipation Of the province falling into the hands of the United States, lands have taken an egregious rise. From two to five dollars per acre can now be ob- talned for first rate lands. Some of the purchasers can conlmalld any amount of capital. A recent expedition against ssiiiii4isss the Wake Indians has resulted in the exploration of a part of our grant hith- erto but little known.& The troops pro- eeeded along on the dividing ridge be- tween the Brasos and Colorado for 25O miles above the St. Antonio road. am assured by at least twenty persons,s en- tirely to be relied on, that they travelled for days together over timbered hilly up. lands of the most fertile description, a. bounding in the real limestone rock. with an abundance oft best of springs. 4tleast one halfoft the expedition would desert this colony for that if they had any way of securing lands up there.

 The hills, the valleys of the limestone rock and the pure spring water, have charms for them that are irresistible. There is at least ten times the amount of good land in Leftwich's grant, ever imagined by any one before this sum- mer. The truth is, sueha body of we'll timbered, well watered upland in the south is entirely unknown any where else. The dividing ridge between the waters of the Rrasos and the Colorado, 1 is within two miles of the latter river. \ league ofthe land in Leffwich's grant secured by settlement, could now be sold for S3000.--JVash0ille BmneY.