RISE, PROGRESS, AND PROSPECTS
"Texas is one of the finest countries in the world; and yet the Europeans, eager as they
have been to make conquests in America, have seemed, almost to the present day, ignorant of
its existence."
History of Louisiana, by M. de Marbois, Peer of France, First President of the
Court of Accounts, under Napoleon and Louis XVIII.
R. HASTINGS, 13, CAREY STREET,