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THE NE?S.
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The President (Gen Itusk continues to discharge
. .his duties admirably and is 'Vet popular. He will
.If he chooses be one of our first Senators. There is
'little sickness in town. 1 he seat of government will
pebably remain here till 1850 and then be perma-
nently located.
SATURDAY EVENING AUGUST 9
t 55" The Sarah Foyle arrived this morning
from New Orleans having leftjHhe latter place
n Monday last
SYe are indebted to CaptG. W. Phillips for
latStew Orleans nauers'to the 2nd inst.. from
rtrich however we can flean nothing of
rt(.
s. . imprisonment: His unexpected return was
tir U.H.. ui.u. luiici iciuiueu lo lesr
U - l.on Ylm 1T:.1.- J . m..
i
as by the McKim last Sunday morning. IfeS
is in good health and spirits. The death of
his father about the time of his liberation from
the prisons of Mexico made it necessary for
him to Visit bis family in Virginia; and this is
his first return to Texas since the great.battle
f Mieri-i which he commanded. He will
receive a cordial welcome by the people of
Texas Jut" mare especially by his-'fcirmer
companions in arms who are all now leady
once more 1 1 do good servicejfor their adopted
ounjjy.
Hy Th result of the contest for the Presi
dency of Mexico between Herrera and Go
tnes Farias which was to take place on the
on ine 1
first iusU will be looked for with considerable!
interest ileireia is said to be in favor or
Centralism and Farias has the full coufidence
of th liberal party. He advosates the resto.
ration of the Constitution of 1814 it is said
his prospects of success are far the most fa
vorable. Possibly his election may give to
Mexico a period of comparative repose from
the oppression and anarchy of a succession of
civil revolutions. With the exception of the
right of trial by jury and the freedom of
religious worship the Constitution of Mexico
is sincuy analogous to mat ot ine uniteat
States. But such an exception seems to d&concusTe as te5Pects tlic activity of which the man
atroy all resemblance as regards the great es
aentials of civil liberty These two prov
ions are undoubtedly the principal pillars of
American freedom without which the whole
geniui of our institutions would be changed.
Even under her Constitution Mexico would
still be ruled by the iron power of her priest-
hood and the rights oi the people adjudicated
by the same system of bribery and conuption
that now pte vails. But still even that con
stitution gives more liberty than Mexicans have
yei oeeu aoie 10 enjoy.
P
D40UERREAN Gallery. We would'invite
particular attention to the advertisement iu our
columndnder this head. Among the f por-
traitsHMr. Allen's execution are some of
the moslperfect likenesses we ever beheld.
We believe his apparatus is if superior excel-
lence and power. Mr. Allen lias had a long
experience and much practice in this busi-
ness and his thorough knowledge of the che-
mical laws upon which the whole process is
.based is the strongest guarantee that he will be
able to give general satisfaction. It is proba-
bly known to all that when the spparalus is
ptrfect. the likeness must of necessity be true
to nature. Mr. Allen expects to lemain in
this city only the piesent mouth Those
therefore who desire exact likenesses of them
selves nr fripfiris. shnutrl nnf nporlpnt the nn
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k. uhliu aiiu aiAin. z'Jkt'iK.a ur utniitAL 1
Stephen F. Austin. We have already ad-
vised the public of our intention to publish
same of the most interesting and important
papers of the great Pioneer and Founder of
bis Republic- For this favor our readers
will be indebted to the kindness of Gen. Aus-
4ff Nephew Mr. Guy Ws; Bryan to whom
those documents belong by inheritance out
few if any of those papers have ever yet been
published It '.vi'I be seen that they possess a
high degree of merit and general inteffest.
Many of them have a direct bearing upon im-
portant questions now pending or such as
must soon be settled either by the arbitrament
ot the sword or by future friendly negojiations.
itTeroreTniee&tjearjijiLJiis life
'"to the prosperity and advancement of Texas;
and no man ever made himself so thoroughly
acquainted with all her various relations
whether with Mexico on the one hand or with
the UniteS States on the other. His writings
discover a comprehensiveness clearness and
precision of judgment wlueli evince his great
familiarity with all those complicated and ab-
truse questions of boundary and political re-
lationship that have since assumed a charac-
ter of so much interest to surroundingnations.
The writings of Gen. Austin are extremely
voluminous. This is a matter of some sur-
prise when we bear in mind that Gen. Aus-
tin's life in Texas was spent amidst scenes of
almost constant activity enterprise danger
and exposure in travefsing the then wildet-
nessif Texas and prosecuting various hazar-
dous negotiations with Mexico for the belt
interests of his colonists. But no person pro-
bably ever surpassed this distinguished man ii
ihe unremitted application of both mind and
body. 'His days and nights appear to bare'
Jicen apent in the laborious prosecution of his
othist
he saciifised his
health beyond recovcrybut never ceased his
labors until he had procured the eternal sep-
aration of his colony from the Mexican des-
polismand laid the foundation of a.n indepen-
dent nation. His achievements are almost if
not absolutely without ajparallel inHistory.
he found Texas a wilderness of foaming and
hostile savages. He settled it with a hardy
and adventurous race of freemen: He suc-
cessfully repelled the tyranny of the parent
country in its very first approaches: He
I boldly confronted the Dictators of Mexico in
great enterprise. T
inte-imeir own caP"01' at !tie Peul '" ms lle: ana
penuurea ine sutienngs oi a long ana uiDiuary
welcomed with public demonstrations of joy
ind gratitude" and he was hailed as the Sa
viour and founder of a new nation: His hand-
ful of fearless pioneers were speedily organ-
ized and arrayed in opposition to an ancient
empire of eight millions of soulc: To this an
nals of history present 1.0 parallel in success
ful and daring intrepidity. In the biief space
oj fifteen years this remarkable man planted
"sovereign aird"independe7rtsTaTe in the mild
solitudes of America and left it with a free
and well organized government in successful
operation having previously opened negotia-
tions for its restoration to the American Con
federacy. No man was ever so emphatically
the founder of a nation none has ever more
cjeary vindicated his claim to the croud annel-
ictin of ..pather of his Cnuntrv:" nnrf this tit!
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will be accorded to him by impartial history
nol?FjJlBtwdiug-o4herfrfa'y-for-atme) enjoy
the honors which" alonebefmigaoliim.
Foreign sews. By the arrival of the
Gre.it Western and Britannia we have news
from Liverpooljto theJSth ult. Wilmer and
Smith's Times thusspeaks of the cotton mar
ket
The cotton market closesjwith firmness. Thejdai-
Iy transactions are large and the sales of the week
t will be seen amcunt to 60000 bales a Urge de
mand in the absence of active speculation and most
ulacturing distric s are the scene. An advance of
an eighth 011 the middling classes of American has
..Uenjplace. Spinners are said to be taking large
stock but it is questionable whether tbey purchase
beyond their immediate requirements.
The price of grain is said to have advanc
ed inconsequence of the unfavorable season!
and public securities had an upward tendency.
In the.House of Lords on the 27th of June 1
"The Duke of Richmond piesented a petition
signed by thebankeis andby ajarge nu mber of ihe
most influential merchants andtraders of Liverpool
praying that the tree navigation of the river .Plate
up to Paraguay should be given lo them.
Lord Broughman presented a similar petition from
the merchants bankers anil traders of Manchester.
The Earl of Aberdeen should be happy to open the
river or any other river in the world that would ex
lend our commerce; but the petitioners did not cor-
rectly state the treaty with Buenos Ayres. This
country only had a right to claim the same advanta-
ges as the most favored nations. There was every
propect ot an improvement in the trade with Bue-
nor Ayies as the government was engaged with
France in endeavoring to restore peace the result of
which would be a great.cxtension of our commerce.
But tbey should lose more than they should gain if
they sacrificed the principles ol justioe in dealing
with this nation." "
The proceedings in Parliament are said to
- possess out unit: uueresi.
While Hacket was ptainj in the Hajmailet Theatre
recently in Monsieur Mallet across of a Cheralierof the
Legion of Honor fell from bis breast nhen Prince Albert
who was in the house at the time accompanying the
Queen sent his private secretary Mr. Anson ivilh an
elegant breastpin which be lird ben wearing at the same
time as a priucnt to the American ac' . M Cuhman
:s d.tiiy growing in f.vor with the Cockneys. To exhibit
her lately in lijlit comedy ihe -'School for Scandal" has
been produced.
There is said to be a scarcitv of laborers in
England! ! and this is said to bi "the most stri-
king proof of the country's prosperity and of
W
the people's happiness."
The Steam Ship Great Britain had arrived
at Liverpool preparatory to her voyage across
the Atlantic.
Tju Tim0" hQs speaks of a direct line of
cm commurf cation between Great Britain
anrjSfaina.
Sn Tuesday the first monthly mail direct to China
n as detpatched via the overland route and may be con-
sidered as an epoch in the history of our intercourse with
that vast empire. Il will be conveyed to Ceylon by the
Oriental Steam Company's vessels carrying the Calcnl-
ta mails ; arid at Ceylon will be transferred to one of the
same company's vcssles foiming the branch linebetween
Ceylon and Hong-Kong louching at Penan; and Singa-
pore. By tliis arrangement. Hong-Kong is borught with-
in 48 days post of London.
The London Atheneum offer s one thous-
and pounds for the best oil paintings -of the
Baptism of Christ Two years allowed for
the performance.
The ship Victory lately rarr;Tea :n England from Ihe
Mediterranean reports that on the 8th June in lal. 16 deg.
40 min. 86. sec. and Ion. 13 d.' j. 44 rain. 35 sec im-
mense balls of fire were seen to issue from the sea. The
papers state that during the last half year no less than six-
teen criminals have been executed in England. Caleraft
the hangman of Newgate strangled thirteen out of the
number for which he was paid at tbe rate of HO per head
ThftNatonaWays that M. Guizot has had anew at-
.ckef illness which caused ome alarm to his friends.
A leltei from Brussels says llnt.King LcupolJ seeing that
the tleclions were going against the Ministry thai a.
-Ministerial ''crisis' was impending and that he could not
succeed for the present in forming a new Cabine ery
coolly left the "crisis' lo itself and betook hirrsctf 10
London on a visit of pleasure. This had occasioned much
surprise and all the indignation the Belgians arc capable
ofcxprcssing.
Sweedcn seems to be making large strides
towards liberal and free principles. The laws
of primogei iture (the only support of the
Aristocracy) have been abolished. Political
privileges are now extended to the people
and family successions equally divided among
the children.
It is said the young Queen Isabella of Spain
is impatient to be married and that her mar-
riage is absolutely necessary to calm down
the "effervescence that exists."
For the News.
Mr. Editor. The Civilian of the 6th inst.
has given an extract from the New York Tii-
bune with an expression of approbation by
way of comment. The Civilian speaks of it
as 'retaliating wjth interest the charges'' of
bribery &. formerly made by the Democratic
Party." Now the extractilself charges the
Democratic party with having bought up the
support of all the lukewarm and neutral pa-
pers throughout the country to the cause of
annexation by a soitjof conditional fee in the
shape of "Government securities'' "Bonds"
"scrip'' "Treasury Notes &c" ar.d also :cer-
tain peculiar claims and titles" dependent for
their validity and value upon the extension of
the jurisdiction of the United States courts
over Ihis country. These claims are said to
be ''the old Spanish and colonial grants'' made
upon certain conditions which conditions nev-
er having been complied with the claims them-
selves would be set as:de as worthless by the
courts of this country being "constituted in
complete dependence upon public opinion or
rather the popular will or local interest."
Wnereas it is said the Supreme Court of the
United States agieeably to their standard de
cisions will certainly sustain those claims
"even though the condition has never been com-
plied withy The corruption charged upon
the Democratic party by the Tiibune is there
fore.a promise to the advocates of annexation
that all the claims of the above description
which they have got or can get shall be sus-
tained by the Supreme Court and that all our
government liabilities which they can purchase
will in alljprobability be redeemed and paid in
full by the Ui.ited Slates. But this prospective
speculation is contingent dependent upon tiro
success .of annexation. Among those who ha V
been thus bougbrpver Mr Ritchie.of theWasH-
ingtonUnion.is especially named. The re-publication
of those charges in the Civilian ap-"
pears to amount to an endorsmeut of them
more especially as we are told "there may be
truth in some of their recriminations" upon
the Democratic party though they are accom-
panied with "a'.want of temper" ccc. It will be
recollected that the Civilian lately ohje6ted to
giving the Supreme Court of the United States
nnnpllntp inrisrlirtinn nvpr lhr l.nnrl t?.tpi
. . . . .Jvieniiort with foreign powers than of utility 10 tbe Re
of this country. And this anomalous c" "" n ' '
limitation upon the
Court seamed tto be
jurisdiction of that
predicted v iip.ori "'
icrf tiends of justice
idea of corruption by whi
would be perverted and fraudulent claims es;
tablished to the overthrow of those widen "are
genuine. The same idea is evidently urged by
the Tribune in the extract copied by the Civil
ian and is also followed up by other leading
Whig Journals which have declared perpetual
hostility to annexation. It has been stated
that the Civilian is a Democratic Journal but
it seems to me a strange incongruity for
a democratic paper to copy with approba-
tion the "recriminations" and abuses which
the most violent abolition Whig journals are
casting upon the Democratic party and all
. . 1
ihelnenasoi annexation.
X. Y.
A Law for IU Kick and a another for the Poor.
The
present tariff taxer
Per cent. Per cont
Coal . . 72 Champaigne IHfie 12
Csarse :Coltons pO Silks . . 25
-JvSrun . 9 81 Fine Linen . . 2o
"Salt;
Precious Stones
I2i
"The poor who consume salt in any of lis numerous
preparationSj.pay'a tax of 72 per cenl on every pirlide
used. The factory slock owner after getting 30 per cent
dividends buys champaigne nine and is taxed 12 percent
only. The workman who buys a cotton shirt is tixed SO
percent. The manufacturer whose wealth makes him
afford a linen shirt is taxed 2Sjp-.T cent."
This system pf plunder fraud and injustice nwt be put
down fit all h.iz nds. The Administration is determined
to razee il to the revenue standard. Will not Louisiana
second Ihe efforts of the President of her choiie by elect-
ing a Governor and Lislatu e in favor of moderate tax-
ation and of .equalizing the burdms of government !
Jefr.ep.
Whehe is Gen. Sam Hou-ton ? Upon the arrival of
the news in this cily of the election of Gen. Houston lo
the Annexation Convention now acting in Texas the
Hon. Branch T. Arche- in his celebrated Idler said ihat
Houston would not dai ed not attend the convention
Immediately aflecwhieb he was said to be in Louisville
and as his friends estimated en route for this cily lo get
up a Democratic glorification: . By those "ho knew him
best it was predict that he never wonld show himself in
our good cily whiierfJr. Arfher was here. Mr Ritchie of
"The Union" has smce denounced f resident Jores utco.
as traitors. Houston feeling himself the senior parly of
said conce'r. and his drafts upon the Democracy not be-
ing honored'tte venture now lo predict that the next news
from him will be that he is somewhere in Tennessee vcy
much indisposed. .V. V. tfew.
PiAcn Poi-.T July 2Slh 1815.
Mi. Editor. In looking over my Uncle's (Gen.
Sthenhen F. Austin's) private papers I found the foI-sum
lowing "memoir on the western boundary of the Unit1 1
iron ine western ocunuary 01 me unu-t
l this particular time when so mucjjf
upon the subject of our western boun-1
ed States" al
interest is felt
dary I have thought it would not be amiss to give
the following a place in your paper.
Yours &c.
7J
GUY JrV. BRYAN.
MEMOIR ON THE-WES l'EKN BOUNDARY
OF THE UNITED STATES.
The rapid progress of our western settlements 1
renders it a matter of primary importance that the
limits of our tetrilory should be accurately defined
and our boundary fixed on an immutable basis.
By the cession of Louisiana it was understood thai
the United Stales became entitled loalf the territory
on this side of.the K'ver Bravo del Norte whilst it
remained questionable whether .the country on the
Oregon ever appertained to Louisiana as occupied by
France.
The disclosures of M. Marbois shew that the
French government did not consider that country as
forming part of the cession and -purposely lefl the
matter in obscurity.
Yet the United States have claimed and exercised
sovereignty over the questionable pait of the cession.
(that beyond the Rocky Mountains; and by thc-
Convention with Spain have relinquished their
claims to that more valuable part of it between the
sabme and del iorte Kivers.
How far this lelinquishment by Conventisn with
Spain should be considered binding on the
United Slates as relates to the Mexican Re-
public is an important enquiry. It would appear
fHma facie that as the Mexican Republic formed
pari of the Spanish empire at the period of the con-
vention its inhabitants were parties to that Conven-
tion as members of the nation which concluded it
Mid by consequence when that portion of the Enpirc
.eceded lrom the mother country it remained subject
10 all the obligations to foreign nations by which the il
mother country had bound it in treaty with such
powers.
But the Mexican government denyjthe soundne5s
of this position and contend that the devolution has
abrogated all tne treaties of Spain o far as they re-
I j to Mexico.
This they have enforced in relation to the articles
in the treaty with Spain which stipulates that frea
ships shall make fiee goods.
Now ir all the stipulations and conventions wit!
Spain prior 'o the Mexican Revolution bej not bind-
ing upon the Mexican nation as the then part of the
Spanish Empire no part of them can be held to be
obligatory upon thelUniled States; and it follows that
the question of limits remains open as at the time of
the convention of cession and limits with Spain.
The relinquishment of the Territory in question
was no doubt made in .a spirit or compromise to
induce bp-.in the more readily to cede the rloridts to
he United States. Aicording to the Mexcan"Doc
trine that cession is not valid as relates to the Mexi
canand they have a right.lo ta!:: it aa parjo'-lhe
domain of Spa'n whenever tbey can ! !
To put all these questions at rest for ever in an
amicable manner seems to be a very desirable ob-
ject; and this object can without doubt be attained
very readily at this moment not only without sacri-
fice but with important benefit to the United Slates.
The teiritory beyond the Rocky Mountains is well
known to be an arid valueless region; its remote po-
sition renders its occupancy ot doubtful policv as no
pottion of our citizens save only the fur traders!
could be materially-benefilted by it and their pur
suits promie.to.be a more copious source of conten
) t 0(ier band the Territory of Tex?s and San
I Fe this side of the del Norte is not onlv of vast
exie-t bill is welHmown to be the most desirable
bolli fbj soil and climate of any portion of this conti-
nent; it is .styled emphatically the Italy of America.
'I he northern part of it on the River Puerco i said
to contain the lichest mines of oilver in the Mex-
ican Republic and the best fur region is found on
life hill waters of its rivers.
Many of the principal tributary streams of the Mis-
issippi have their sources in this region and some of
Ihe settlements 'of the people of the United Mates on
those rivets have already been pushed beyond the
boundary as now understood.
Large settlements have also been formed in Texas
by citizens of the United States on lands granted to
them by the Mexican government whereby such
citizens have transferred their allegiance to the Mex-
ican Republic to which government it is their inte-
rest to remain faithlol their titles having been deriv-
ed from it and the tenure of their possessions being
very favorable to them.
The number of citizens thus lost to the United
States a; this time is estimated at thirty thousand
souls and their numbers are rapidly incrcasln; by
emigration from the United Stales.
Within a very short period Texas will rival Louis-
iana in the export of Cotton and Sugar its soil and
climate being more favorable to the culture ot those
staples.
It would annear therefore that this tenitory f-
Texas and Santa Femightbe made- of immediate
value to the United States.
Its acquisition would remove many copious sources
of jealousy between the two republics and it i nor
only convenient for incorporation with this Republic-
but its limits (the river Bravo del Norte) would form
a permanent and unequivocal boundary on the west.
On the other hand by the relinquishment of claim
to the territory of Oregon rjeyond the Rocky Moun-
tains the United States would lop off at once an
excrescence which threatens to involve her in colli-
sions at no distant day with more than one foreign
power.
It is not lo be presumed that the Mexican govera-
ment would under any ordinary circumstances relin-
quish it3 claims to the valuable region of Texas and
Santa Fe on tliis side of the del Norte in exchange
for so remote and valueless a tenitory as that of Ore
gon. Hat ai IUIS moment or pecuniary pienurep
when the expenses.ot tfie Revolution have exhausted
its treasury the influence of a comparatively nnaii
of money tog"'1" with its desire to place the
question of boundary en such a footing as" to give no
question ui uuuuuaiy uu aum a iuuuu lujgi.c
room for future differences between the.two republics
wuuldin all probability determine that government
to.mafce the exchange.
One or two millions of dollars would at this mo
ment he or incalcnable benefit to that government
and to the United Stales with its overflow ing-treas-l
ury that sum could be of no importance.
To the existing administration of the United Mates
government the conclusion of such an arrangement
would be v.-rv advantageous.
It would secure to it the soppatt of all those citi
zens who delight in the prosperity of their country
and perpetuate their names as benefactors of the nation.
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