It is announced, apparently on good authority, that Gene- ral
Franklin, who was supposed to have been sent to Mobile, has really quitted New Orleans in order to enter Texas. He is accompanied by nearly thirty thousand men, with whom he is expected to hold the State. It is rumoured, of course, that the State once subdued, he will march into Mexico ; but the Federal Government is only carrying out its most obvious duty. From the day Vicksburg surrendered the first business of the President was to seize the regions west of the Missis- sippi, and among them Texas is by far the most important. The majority of its settlers are Germans, and though they, holding no slaves, are not disinclined to the Union, still the name of the German Archduke has for them a charm. By occupying Texas Mr. Lincoln at once injures the South and anticipates France.
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