In truth, it appears that this desperate class of men constitute no inconsiderable portion of the population of Texas;--and our author relates that on one occasion he sat at the same table with no less than four murderers who had fled from justice. True, there is a large portion of the country extremely beautiful and fertile, and the labors of the planter and herdsman are richly rewarded;--but these advantages are greatly counterbalanced by the insecurity of the government and laws--the intolerance of religious bigotry--and the absence of most of the elements which constitute a virtuous and happy community. Minor evils and inconveniences are also felt. The spacious plains and luxuriant prairies--though they furnish abundance of food for horses and cattle, are scantily supplied with wood, and altogether destitute of stone;--and the usual incidents of southern latitudes,--bilious fever,--poisonous reptiles and insects, and alligators of enormous size, serve to fill up the revolting picture. We have no fears therefore, notwithstanding the enchanting coloring which even the temperate feelings and chastened imagination of our author have thrown around a Texas landscape--that there are many persons of sober minds, when they shall have balanced the good with the evil, will be much enamoured with the thought of a permanent "visit" to that region. The book, therefore, may be recommended as a tolerably certain antidote to any lurking desire for a ramble across the Sabine,--and if perchance the spirit of migration shall have become too obstinate for cure,--it may still have the effect of confining the wanderer's steps within the limits of our own republic. There are many things in our author's narrative both curious and amusing--and not among the least so, is the account he gives of that intractable animal, the _mustang_, or wild horse of the country. With one of that strange species he was necessarily obliged to cultivate an intimate acquaintance, having no other means of transportation between different parts of the country. The manner in which they are reduced to subjection, and the untameable perverseness of their nature, are thus related: