MISCELLANEOUS.
Governor Treland writes a glowing account of the progress of Texas. Containing an area of 274,000 square miles its population has risen from 50.C00 m 183(i to two millions and a half m 1885 ; while the assessed value of its property is 120 millions sterling. It has twenty million acres of mineral lands, com prising iron, coal, copper, lead and silver ; it ha 9 forty-six million acres of fores!, with 191 varieties of timber ; it hns 7300 miles of rail way, and twelve million head of live ttock maintain themselves on 353 varieties of grasses. Therefore the Governor invites all tho world to como and share with its popula tion the blessings of Texus.
