Later from Texas
Judge J. B. McFarland is made Judge of the Federal Court at Brownsville and Corpus Christi, and the work of confiscation has commenced.
The bulk of the Yankee force has been withdrawn from the coast to Louisiana, leaving about four or five thousand men for garrison duty and offensive operations.--They profess an intention of marching on San Antonio and Houston. A Yankee force of three hundred attacked Loreda on the 19th, and were signally repulsed by Col. Benairdo with a force of less than one hundred.
The Yankees evacuated Indianola on the 13th. They are still in force at Fort Esperance.
Messrs. Peebles, Baldwin, and Senlac, who have been for some time under military arrest for treasonable designs, applied for a discharge to the Supreme Court on a writ of habeas corpus. It was not contested, and they were discharged, only to be re-arrested under the new law suspending the privilege of that writ.
The cold weather has made the crops in Texas somewhat backward, and rendered the prospect less flattering than last year.
The new currency and tax laws are causing quite a financial sensation. Gold is now twenty five for one in this city. It is said to be twenty for one at San Antonio.
The spirit of the people is good, and all are prepared to resist the enemy in his advances against the State, and fight the war through to the end.
