TRAVIS COUNTY, TEXAS.

The soil is exceedingly rich, from two to ten feet deep, and when the seasons are favorable it produces from sixty to one hundred bushels of corn, and from one and a half to two bales of cotton, per acre.  From twenty-five to thirty acres of corn, or twelve to fifteen acres of cotton to the hand, are usually cultivated.

Our country upon the whole is fertile and well watered, has timber enough to supply its demands, and an everlasting amount of stone for building; it has an eternal range of mesquit grass, on which horses and cattle that never smell corn keep perfectly fat all winter.  The climate is delightful, the nights pleasant, a fine south breeze in summer continually playing over the face of our broad prairies, and the atmosphere so pure and invigorating, that it is more conducive to good health to sleep out in the open air than to sleep in-doors.  There is something so attractive in this section of country, that those who live here a short time are seldom satisfied to live anywhere else.

    Our citizens are generally intelligent, enterprising, industrious,
    religious, sober, and, laying politics aside, honest.—­Texas
    Almanac.

    COMAL COUNTY.

    BY THE ASSESSOR.

Mostly settled by Germans.  In this county there are in cultivation 600 acres in cotton, 15,000 acres in corn, 500 acres in wheat.  The acre yields 500 pounds of clean cotton, 40 bushels of corn, 20 bushels of wheat.  From 3,500 to 4,000 white inhabitants; 188 slaves; 396 farms.  Improved lands $30, unimproved $3 an acre. Most of the farms are cultivatd by white labor; a white hand cultivates thirty acres of corn.  Peaches yield abundantly; apples and quinces have been tried successfully.  The wild grape, plum, cherry, mulberry, and blackberry grow luxuriantly.  Wine of good quality has been made here.

New Braunfels is the county seat.  It has 2,000 inhabitants, and boasts of having the only free school in the State, supported by aid from the State school fund, and by direct taxation on the property of the school district.  Four teachers are employed, and there are 250 pupils.

The letters of my Texas friend give the following description of the climate of Texas:—­

The climate of Texas is very peculiar.  This is owing to the body of water to the eastward of it, and to the dry and elevated plain of the Llano Estacado, and the lofty mountains which lie to the westward.  To these two causes are due the moisture and the cool temperature, and at times and in certain localities the excessive dryness of Texas.

The Gulf stream, in its course along the coast of Florida and in the Gulf of Mexico, has beneath it, running to the south, a cold stream, nearly down to the freezing point.  The great equatorial current which strikes north of Cape St. Roque and