Letter from Texas.
The following letter, addressed to the editors of the
Dispatch, and dated
Houston, Texas, July 9th, will be perused with interest:
A kind
Providence has smiled upon
Texas this season, in common with all the
Confederate States, and granted a bountiful and liberal yield of the products of the field.
Our wheat and corn crops are unprecedentedly good.
Texas will have an immense surplus of these necessaries of life this year.
A series of unfavorable seasons has stinted her resources in this respect, and has hindered emigration from flowing in as largely or rapidly as the attractions she possesses in soil, climate, and health, justify.
We have less land than usual planted in cotton, as it was considered prudent to cultivate a larger area in corn and wheat this season than usual;
we may need them.
The number of bales of cotton shipped last year from our ports exceeded 250,000 bales, and we estimate 200,000 more from the northeastern portion of the
State shipped down
Red river, and that are included in the
Louisiana receipts.
The direction of the shipments from our ports was last year as follows:
The change that a permanent non-Intercourse with Yankee land will create, is destined to benefit
Virginia greatly.
European capital, that now centres in New York, and which controls every foreign bill of exchange drawn against cotton, will seek some point South to continue operations of this kind.--
Richmond will likely be that point.
Your fine harbors, splendid water power and valuable mineral resources, will be the means of your State realizing great benefits that our Northern alliance has heretofore excluded you from.
Commerce and manufactures will cause the Old Dominion to prosper beyond all ordinary calculations for years to come.
D.
