Wilmington Daily Gazette

The Prosperity of Texas.

The revised returns recently published of a late election in the State of Texas give the aggregate vote at 158,000, indicating a population slightly in excess of one million. This is an increase of nearly 200,000 over the population only four years ago, which was placed by the last census at 818,679. The population in 1860 was 604,000; so that the increase in the last four years has been almost equal to that of the previous ten.

The area of Texas is equal to all New England, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, both Virginias and South Carolina combined. This area has a great line of coast, and is suited for almost every variety of productions. It raises corn, potatoes and wheat, and also cotton, sugar and rice. It has mines of coal, iron and salt, and also, it is believed, of precious metals. In some counties grape culture is made a specialty. The whole rolling interior is unsurpassed for grazing, and hence its great cattle production also. Texas is soon to be connected with the Pacific by one line of railroads with Mexico by another, with Northern California by another, and with Kansas by two. All that the State needs is population, and this, it seems, it is gaining, indicating thereby that the political disorders that interfered with settled industries and tranquility are subsiding; and forecasting an era of development and prosperity.