Galveston, dept. 30, 1836.
Dear dir;-
since the receipt of yours of the 8th, if I have had an opportunity of answering it, I have not been aware of it-----------
I had heard of the high tiroes at Harrisburg. The new town of Houston outs a considerable swell in the paper. I wish its projeotors and proprietors success with all my heart. It will injure Harrisburg City greatly when it gets into successful operation. Property must begin to depreciate ahere already.
As for Hew Washington and Lynchburg, dcotisburg and all the other burgs, not forgetting Powhatan, all must go down now. Houston-burg must go ahead in the newspaper at least. ---------------
Truly and hespeotfully yr'ses Oapt. A. Briscoe.	J. Morgan.
--Southwestern Historical quarterly, V. 18, p. 806—
Hew settlements and towns began to spring up and gladden the wilderness. Among the latter was the town of Houston. The Messrs, .i. 0. Allan and J. K- Allen, proprietors, having laid cif the place into lots, presenter them for sale on the last
of August (1836)...........—.Vooten, Comprehensive History of
Texas, V. 1, p. 308.--
3y the time the first congress of the Republic assembled at Columbia, in October, 1836, the Allens were prepared to offer sufficient inducements to the government., not onl,, to secure for the new town the title of capital of tho Republic, but also to make it the county seat of Harrisourg, afterwards, Karris, County.
The first map of Houston seems to havo been made by G. and T. K. Borden, and was used for advertising the new city. It was announced in the Telegrapr. and Texas register of Uoven’oer Id, 1836, that it could do seen in the denate chamber at Columbia.......................................................
The first session of tho Congress of Texas, having adjourned on December, 1836, met at the newly laid out city of Houston,
on May 5, 1837. All roads now led to Houston...................
—History of Harris County in southwestern Historical quarterly, V. 19, pp. 38-9.—
The Telegrap/h and Texas register was moved from Columbia to Houston in xpril, 1837, and the first edition of the Aegister was published in Houston on May 8, 1837.
On January 14, 1839, Lamar signed an act creating a commissiion of five to select a site for tho permanent location of the government. On April 13th the commissioners reported that they had selected the village of Waterloo on the east bank of the Colorado as tho most available location. The President had already appointed