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tun for its oxen and mules, lias been pushed right vigorously in 

 either direction, and will have crossed both the Brassos and Col- 

 orado, and i-eached Austin on the one hand, the Trinity on the 

 other, by next May. Two years hence, it will have been completed 

 from Fulton to San Antonio (400 miles), and will then have 

 brought the heart of this State within four days' travel of the 

 Commercial Emporium, where it will be known as one of the most 

 judicious and successful railway enterprises ever planned. It will 

 carry more Beef Cattle than any road on the globe, and it will bring- 

 in to Texas more immigrants than railroad ever carried into any 

 State till now. 



I close with a single instance of the spirit in which our Northern 

 railroad-builders are met by the people of Texas. The Legislature 

 having granted a' liberal subsidy in State Bonds to the Southern 

 Pacific Road, Gov. Davis felt constrained to veto the bill. The 

 Legislature thereupon repassed it by a vote of seven or eight to one 

 in either House ; and the Democratic vote in the affirmative was, 

 like the Republican, all but unanimous. And, while no man ques- 

 tions the purity of the Governor's motives, I have heard no dissent 

 from the satisfaction with which the triumph of the measure is 

 received. 



— I hope to leave Texas on my homeward way very soon, having 

 been dissuaded by heavy and extensive rains from my purpose of 

 reaching Austin and perhaps San Antonio on the one hand, or Tyler, 

 Marshal], and Shreveport, on the other. The time does not serve 

 for stage-rides or other travel oft' the line of operated Railroads. 



H. G. 



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[EDITOKIAL CORRESPONDENCE OP THE TRIBUNE.] 



Galveston, Texas, May 27. — Texas is as large as France, with 

 a more genial climate and far richer soil. She has to-day less than 

 One Million inhabitants, while France (as reduced by the late war) 

 has more than Thirty-six Millions. She has more and better Timber, 

 and more Cattle and Horses than France ; why shovild not her for- 

 tieth part of France's population be rapidly increased to a twentieth, 

 a tenth, and, before the close of this century, to a fifth or fourth ? 



