Mobile Register

July 2, 1861

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            TEXAS-The Governor has issued his proclamation ordering the annual election on the first Monday in August, for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Commissioner of the General Land Office and Representatives in the Congress of the Confederate States.

            The Galveston News, of the 22^d ult., says:

            Mr. Samuel B. Brigham, an old and highly esteemed merchant of Matagorda, died there suddenly on the 4^th inst.

            Capt. Buguor’s company of infantry, C. S. A., from San Antonio, have arrived at Camp Verde and gone to work to repair the damage wantonly done by Capt. Caldwell’s company of 1^st Infantry, U. S. A., when they left the post.

            Col. Van Dorn, C. S. A., accompanied by Lieut. Col. Luckett and Lieut. Keyworth, arrived here on last evening’s train from Houston.  Lieut. Col. Luckett is State Quartermaster, by convention appointment.  Col. Van Dorn, we understand, is appointed a Brigadier General in the C. S. Army, and to hold command in this State.