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York, Delaware, and Pennsylvania: then, for good measure, throw in the whole of the six New England States, - and the area of all these States combined will not equal that of the great State of Texas. It extends over ten degrees of latitude, and from the sixteenth to the thirieth degree of longitude west from Washington. It has more than two hundred and fifty counties; some of the largest - Tom Green or Crockett, or instance - are each as large as the State of Massachusetts.

France has a population of 175 to the square mile; at that rate, Texas could support a population of 48,000,000. Great Britain has a 260 inhabitants to the square mile; at that rate, Texas could support 70,000,000 people.

Within her horders can be found an immense variety of products. The soil is probably the most fertile and productive in the known world. Cotton, corn, sugar-cane, barely, and almost all the known cereals, grow side by side with the fruits of the tropics and the hardy plants of the more northern regions.

The United States are thirty-eight in number, and nine territories not yet admitted.

WHITE BEAVER.

[From Hereos of the Plains.]

The life of White Beaver, (Dr. D. Frank Powell) bears all the solors and shades of an idyllic romance; his character stands out upon the canvas of human eccentricities in striking originality, and finds never its counterpart, save in stories of knight errantry, when hearts, names, and titles were the prizes bestowed for daring deeds evolved from generous sentiments. His has been the tenor of uneven ways, with characteristics as variable as the gifts in Pandora's box. A born plainsman, with the rough, rugged marks or wild and checkered incident, and yet a mind that feeds on fancy, builds images or refinement, and looks out through the windows of his soul upon visions of purity and fields elysian. A reckless adventurer on the boundless prairies, and yet in elegant society as amiable as a school-girl in the ball-room; evidencing the polish of an aristocrat, and a cultured mind that shines with vigerous lustre where learning displays itself. A friends to be valued most in direst extremity, and an enemy with implaceable, insatiable, and revengeful animosities. In short, he is singular combination of opposites, and yet the good in him so predominates over his passions that no one has more valuable frienships and associations than these strange complexities attract to him. He is an ideal hero, the image which rises before teh ecstatic vision of a romancer, and he impresses hiself upon the millions who know his reputation as a brave and chivalrous gentleman.

A description of White Beaver is not difficult to give, because of his striking features; those who see him once are so impressed with his bearing that his image in never forgotten. He is almost six feet in height, of large frame, and giant muscular development; a full round face, set off by a Grecian nose, a handsome mouth, and black eyes of penetrating brilliancy. His hair is long, and hangs over his shoulders in raven ringlets. In action he is marvelsouly quick, always decisive, and his endurance almost equals that of a steam engine. His appearance is that of a resolute, high-toned gentleman, conscious of his power, and yet his defernce, I may say amiabiltiy, attracts

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