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From the Galveston Daily Advertiser.
- SANTA. FE No. 4.
GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY, i-C. CONTINUED.
The principal settlements of New Mexico consist of
numerous villages scattered from Taos to El Socorro, 150
mileLsouth of the Capital, in the valley on both sides of
the Hio del Norte; though perhaps three fourths of the
entire population is to the east of this River, and more
than one half is continued to its immediate valleys or bot-
toms. The -settlements up the river from Santa Fe, are
collectively called El Rio Arrila, and those down its
valleys, El Rio-Abajo. El Rio-Arriba, includes the val-
lages, below Taos, of La Joya, San Juan, La Canada dc
Saiita Cruz, Chama, Ildefonso, Nambe, Pojuaque, &c
All of these, except Chama, are east of the river, though
there are several other small settlements on the west side.
This section is celebrated as having been the cradle of
the revolution of 1837 ; and La Canada as the rendezvous
of the insmgents. This is the largest village between
Taos and the Capital, and about 25 miles to the north-
west of the iatter, on the eastern bank of the river. From
the upper settlements of Rio Arriba (La Joya) to Taos, it
is about 30 miles, in which stretch a craggy mountain
spur makes into the river, over which the road passes,
there being no settlements but the village of Embudo and
Rancho de la Ciencguilla. These up country people
arc all of a poor class, there being scarcely a citizen whose
possessions could be valued at $5,000. " Taos, it is true
affords a little more wealth.
But the settlements of El Rio-Abajof are far more ex-
tensive and jopulenL They include, commencing to the
north, Cochiti, Pena Blanca, Sanio Domingo San
Felipe, Algodoncs, JlngoUura, Bernalillo, Sandia, Al&-
menda, Los Ranchos, Atburyierquc, Placcrcs, Pcralla,
Valencia, Tome Eulames, Casa Colorado, La Joya, Sa-
bino, and Parida, in the eastern valley; and Santa Anna,
Corrales, Paxarito, Padillas, Isleta, Los Chavez' Belcn,
Sabinal, Socorro, Sfc, down the west side of the river.
Alberquerque is the second town of the province, apait
from the valley of Taos, and may contain upwards of
1,080 inhabitants. The next places in order of magni-
tude, Indian villages excepted, are Tome, Belen, Socorro,
and Bernalillo ; after which there is hardly a village that
could turn out over a couple hundred souls.
The valley and canon of Rio Pecos isquite fertite, and
contains several villages and ranchos scattered from the
mountains down forty or fifty miles; which are Pecos,
San Jose, San Miguel del Vado, La. Cucsla Anlon-Chico
y-c, of which San Miguel, often called by the natives
simply El Vado, is the principal, containing perhaps
near 1,000 souls, and derives most of its impoitance fiom
its being the first town entered by the Missouri caravans,
at the ford of the Rio Pecos. Las Vegas, twenty miles
to the'N. E on Gallinas creek, a tributary of the same,
andMora thirty miles faither N. N. E aie recent seltle-
menls of little import. The latter was founded by some
Americans about 1333 or '34, but now contains seveial
Mexican families. It is situated 12 or 15 miles noith
of the Missouri trace on the tfteek of the same name,
which is a tributary of the Canadian, being the only
settlements on the waters of this river, though it and its
tributaries afibid abundant valleys of rich irrigable soil.
Its exposure, however, to the hostile depredations of the
prairie Indians, addi d to the too great scarcity of timber,
has deterred a.lvenunous pioneers from rearing villages
east of the mountains
Amongst the mountains, from twenty to fifty miles east
oftheRiodel Nortp, there are inconsiderable villages,
such as Cebolleta, Xeinez, Laguna, &c. In many parts
too, of the interior between Rio del Norte and the Pecos,
there are to be found unimportant settlements, such as
Chimayo, Tezuque. &c, to the north; and Galisteo,
Placer, San Antonio, Cienega, Maxada. &c. to the south,
with many ranchos, which term, pet haps the reader
knows is applied to vachcrie, sheep folds, and indeed
stock-farms of every kind, w here the shepherds or herders,
with perhaps their families reside.
The population of the several districts of New Mexico,
is about as follows:
Santa Fe and suberbs, say - - 5,000
"Valley of Taos, - - 5,000
Hio-Arriba, including Abiquin and scattering
settlements, ... - 10,000
Rio-Abajo, including settlements in the in-
terior. eastward and westward, - 25,000
galley of Rio Pecos, including Vegas and
-'Itfora . . . . 5,000
Total - - 50,000
which is understood to include the interspersed chiistian-
ized Indian Pueblos, who are reconed citizens
'This estimate, it is true, is made at random, yet I am
sanguine in the belief that the presnt population, is more
likely to come under than to exceed this aggregate. It
may be alleged ths.t according to the census as taken in
1832, the province contained about 70,000 ouls. I was
then residing in Santa Fe, and know by my observation
and what I learned from the govemnunt officers them-
selves, that the census was taken partly at random, and
that the returns were often at an augment of nearly 100
per cent upon the actual population. This was partly
intentional, so as to entitle New Mexico, which was a
territory, to admission into the union as o siate under the
Constitution of 1821, which then existed. It is well
known there that the population has not iurreased since
perhaps decreased owing paitly to the ravages of the
epidemia of '38 and '33, and the small pox of '32 and '40
and not replaced by the well known very slow increase
of Mexican population.
The rivers of New Mexico are few; the only stream
of magnitude being that universally known to the inhabi-
tant by the name of Rio del Nrlc, which in its passage
through the province s to the south, is in some paUs.callod
Rio Grande, in others Rio Bravo Its average width
from bank to bank, through the length of the province, is
probably 3 to 400 yards; therefore oaring freshets, which
usually come about July, it presents the face of a con-
siderable river; but though its banks are low it is not
subject to overflows, as its width affords ample vent to the
mountain torrents. Even then it is unnavigable, but for
small crafts, and this only in detached streatcb.es, as it is
full of shoals and rapids, and towards the south even falls,
which obstruct its navigation to within a hundred or so
miles of its mouth. In low water it is reduced in many
places to the width of a stone throw, and is fordable most
-of the year,being often cot more than knee-deep. During
freshets us Wdters are turbid with sand, and they are a
littleo even in low water in the lower sections, whilst
thrn'they are usually transparent above Santa Fe.
'This river has its source in the Rocky Mountains, 4 or
500 miles to the north It is called Rio del Norte (North
riv4?r, or river of the North) because it descends directly
Tforntthafpoint, and maintains a generally southern course
(th'oughjncliniug to the east) till it empties into the Gulf
of Mexico. ' It receives above Santa Fe numerous limpid
- nowing tributaries, such as the creeks of Taos, Embudo,
Canada, Pojuaque, and Tezuque from tho east, and Abi-
quin river and a few insignificant rivulets from the west.
But below Santa Fe, the traveller may at most seasons
pass dosvn the eastern bank of the river as far as El Paso;
nay, I believe to its junction with the Pecos, a distance of
500 miles, without crossing running water ' Santa Fe
' creek often disappears in the sand a little below the city,
and though it rises again at the Cienega, it rarely runs at
the mouth, although 40 miles long. Galisteo creek
which empties a few miles below, is of the same length,
and yet its bed is but a dry sand bar, for many miles up,
whilst at the village of Galisteo it is a beautiful rivulet.
Thus it is that many fresh brooks scarcely emerge from
the mountains till they are lost in their sandy channels
Fjom the west, Rio Puereo, a muddy stream of very little
water, though perhaps of more than 100 miles in length,
is -the only one of any importance, from the town of El
t Paso up to Abiquin river.
"ThustheRiodel Norte decreases in volume of water as
it descends, until it receives Rio Conches (a small tributary
from Chihuahua,) and a little further down, Rio Pecos.
This too, I am informed, is but a small stream here, (say
of large mill-power size,) as it gains no constant running
! tributaries, except Gallinas creek, unless it be a small
branch from the east, which joins it nea'r its mouth. This
river is erron ously marked on some maps Rio Puereo;
it took the name of Pecos from' a village of Indians of that
name 25 miles from Santa Fe; and is universally so call-
ed by the people of New Mexico, as well as Chihuahua.
The" name of Puereo (dirty or muddy) is also inapposite,
as it is a pellucid stream which decends from the snowy
mountains of Santa Fe. where it has its course from ten
to twenty miles to the N. E. of the city. The only Rio
Puereo known there is that before mentioned on the other
side of the Rio del Norte.
Thoe r.ot italicised are chiefly inhabited hy Indians,
t El Ro Ahajo implies the donn river country, and El iZio-
Ariba' up river country.
To be continued.)
THE TELEGRAPH,
BSousSon, Wednesday &em. 5, 14S.
The Penitentiary. The bill to establish a Peni-
tentiary has passed both Houses of Congress, and, proba-
bly ere this, has been signed by the President and become
a law. We hail the passage of this bill as a new era in
the history of our country. Vice and cu'me can no lon-
ger stalk abroad in our land with impunity. And from
this period we may date a new impulse to moral improve-
ment. The laws that have heretofore been in operation
for the punishment of crime, weie of so sanguinary a
character, that they defeated the very object for which
they were intended, and criminals were permitted to es
cape unpunished because these laws were considered too
severe. This state of things will no longer exist, the
criminal code will be so adap'ed to the situation of the
country and the slate of public opinion, that the laws will
be enforced with promptness and certainty, and as a natur
al conscauence crime must diminish. It is a well estab
lished fact, that the certainty of punishment tends more
effectually to prevent crime than severity. There is this
advantage in the Penitentiary system, the criminal will
be compelled while atoning by imprisonment for crimes, to
contribute by his industry, to defray the expense incurred
in his support. We believe the Penitentiary wherever
they have been established, have become sources of profit
to the states in which they are situated, and we have no
doubt that after the lapse of two or three years, the Peni
tentiary that may be established in this country, will yield
a fair income to the Republic. If a profit of several
thousand dollars can be made on the labor of twenty
slaves, why may not a similar profit be made on the labor
of twenty convicts'2 The industry of convicts can be
turned to as much advantage in a Penitentiary, as that of
slaves on a plantation or in mechanical pursuits. This
has long since been proved by experiments.. The sug
gestion comparing convicts to slaves, may startle some
who are peculiarly fastidious with regard to the privileges
of freemen. But we think the freeman who by his vices
and crimes has rendered himself a terror to the commu
nity in which he lives, and has become like a roamiug
beast of pre)r in society, forfeits all rights to freedom, and
should be treated as a slave. By confining him in the
Penitentiary and compelling him to engage in useful em
ployment; the objects of humanity, economy and justice,
are accomplished humanity, because he is taken aivay
from the society he would injure economy, because be
is compelled to sustain himself by his own labor, and jus
tice, because he is punished by being deprived of the
pleasures and comforts of society. By this means his
very punishment tends to his moral refoimation. The
advantgfs of this system, however, have become so gener-
ally known and admitted that comment upon it at this
day, is almost wholly unnecessary.
Emigraiion. We have learned with pleasure that
an unusual number of emigrants are daily arriving in the
eastern counties. Large numbers also are constantly
arriving by spa at our ports. This speaks volumes in
favor of the increasing prosperty of our country. We
have long labored under embarrassments and difficulties,
but the industry of a population rapidly augmenting in
numbers, will soon relieve us from these embarrassments
To these new comers we proffer a few words of advice
If you wish to ensure good crops plant early. If you
wish health, lay in a sufficient store of old corn to furnish
your families with wholesome bread, until your harvests
are completely ripe. Many by neglecting these simple
precautions have seen their crops fail from droughts, and
their families sink one by one under the appalling attacks
of disease. These evils may be entirely prevented by a
little prudence and foresight.
it merits the serious attention of our planters. "Wo hope
that ere ten years shalljiave elapsed, our citizens will be
enabled to boast that they are no longer dependant upon
foreign countries for their bread. A gentleman from
Red River has informed us that wheat is raised in that
county as easily as in Ohio or .Kentucky, and the crops
are equally fine. He says, moreover, that the seasons for
planting and harvesting this crop are such, that the same
hands that are employed in cultivating cotton, can also, in
the same year, raise a full crop of wheat; it may, there
fore, become quite a profitable article of culture to the
planter.
Domestic MANurAcruiiEs We have lately seen
some cloth of domestic manufacture and of an excellent
quality. It was made by the wife of a planter residing
on the Colorado, and by the aid of a newly invented and
very convenient loom. We understand that a gentleman
from New York has recently introduced this improved
loom into the country, and has already set up a large num-
ber of them in the eastern counties. Several of the planteis
in the vicinity of Nacogdoches it is said, have clothed their
families with homespun cloth there manufactured. We
have hitherto been of the opinion that our citizens could
not be induced to turn their attention to the manufacture
of cloths; but that thpy would find it more advantageous
to exchange the agricultural products of the country, for
foreign manufactures. But it seems the genius and enter-
prize of our citizens is lo surmount every obstacle, and wc
shall not be surprised if within a few years the spinning
wheel and the shuttle shall be plied to as great advan-
tage here, as amid the bleak and frosty hills of New
England. - -
., Scarcity of Money. List winter thoie was a gen
eral complaint of the scarcity of money thioughout the
Republic; this winter, although it is still scarce, the 1 lrge
amount of valuable products of industry, and especially o.f
cotton, enable the rilizens to procure the necessaries, and
in many instances, the luxuries of life in abundance. t
Cotton, the main staple of the country, has answered all
the purposes of money; and the planter who has been in-
dustrious, finds himself comparatively at ease from pecu-
niary embarrassments, as with this article he can supply
all his wants. Thus has been veiified the remark we
made list winter cotton is monpy; it is but a modification
of the maxim of Franklin time is money which means
no more than this industry is monpy. Those who are
industrious need not fear pecuniary embairassmcnts
The planter especially, nepd not fear the want of money,
since with a few hours labor each day, he can raise a
crop of cotton which will purchase that which can be ex-
changed for tho articles he leqtiirs for the support and
comfort of his family. We trust the success that has at-
tended the culture of this article last year, will stimulate
the emigrants who are daily arriving, to imitate the exam-
ple of the planters who hate been thus successful, as by
this means they can aid most ( ffi dually in relieving their
families fiom want. There is this advantage in the cul-
ture of cotton : not only the adult males of the family, but
also the children can turn their industry to advantage, and
effectually increase the profits of the planter.
Impeachment. The Senate was notified on the 28th
ult. by a committee of the House of Representatives, that
by a resolution of the House of Representatives, articles
of impeachment would be preferred against John W.
Hansford, Judge of the seventh Judicial Disti ict. We un-
derstand that the principle charge preferred against him,
is habitual intoxication.
Acaton. It appears from recent accounts from the
Rio Grande, that this notoiious bandit has lately met with
an accident that is likely to cost him his life. After the
sack of Refugio, he was summoned by Arista to apprar
before him at Monterrey, and answer for the outrage he
had committed, as he had express orders not to injure any
Texian citizens cast of the Nueces. As he was unable to
palliate his crime, he was put under guard until arrange
ments should be made for his punishment. In the mean
time he made an attempt to escape and was shot by one
of the guards, and wounded so severely that his life is
dispaired of. This account may be a mere fiction of
Mexican traders to conciliate the citizens of the West;
but as it has been confirmed by individuals coming from
various sections of Mexico, it is by no means improbable.
This scoundrel has committ J so many outrages on the
western frontier, that he merits the severest punishment
that civilized men could inflict.
Sheep. We are glad to learn that vast flocks of sheep
have lately been driven into the western counties from
the Rio Grande, and the citizens of the west are turning
their attention to the rearing of this useful animal. The
climate and pastures of the west are admirably adapted to
the nature of this animal; and from the success that has
thus far attended the labors of those who have engaged in
the rearing of sheep, we have every reason to believe that
wool will in a few years become a staple of the country:
not less profitable than cotton. The sheep of the Rio
Grande are quite similar to the coarse woolled sheep "of
the middle States." The breed can be easily improved by
the importation of a few Merino or Saxony sheep. We
believe the climate of Texas is not less mild than that of
Spain, where the Merino has attained such perfection ;
and we believe wool of as fine quality may be raised in
the western and northern sections of Texas, as in Saxony
or Spain.
Wheat. The planters of the Red River counties aie
preparing to raise wheat in large quantities. Extensive
preparations are also making to renew the culture of this
valuable grain in the valley of the San Antonio, where it
was formerly cultivated in immense quantities, and formed
the chief article of export from that section, while the
country was under the dominion of "Old Spain." The
climate and soil of the whole lime-stone region of Texas,
arc so admirably adapted to the culture of this grain, that
Indians A party of Indians supposed lo be Wacoes
and Towaccanies, lately made a descent upon the settle-
ments between the Guadaloupe and Colorado, and killed
the mail rider, (a Mexican,) between Gonzales and Aus-
tin, on the morning of the 23d ult. They d'd little other
mischief. About thirty horses were stolen from Austin
on tho 12th ult. A party of ten or twelve men pursued
the Indians about eighty miles, but were unable to over-
take them.
Stock Commissioner The few remaiks relative to
the situation of the affairs of the Stock Office, published
a week or two since, it seems have drawn forth a very
angry leply from the late Stock Commissioner, who from
some cause unknown to us, regards those remarks as a
covert aUernpt to "stab him in the back." Now we will
assure him we had no such intention, nor did we wish lo
cast any imputation upon his character. We received
the information from a gentleman, who had examined the
records of the committee engaged in the itnestigation of
the accounts of this office, and of course considi red the
statement-substantially correct, and under this imprission
published them, for wc believed they would prove interest-
ing to the community at large. We undeistand the re-
port of this committee will be submitted to Congress
within one or two weeks, and we shall then have an op-
poitunity of publishing the document entire, unci if we
are not grossly mistaken, the facts published by us in a
previous number will be found to be substantially correct,
the statement of the late "Stock Commissioner to the con-
trary notwithstanding." We will however in justice to
that ge ntlernan, here observe, that as the books and ac-
counts of the office have passed thiough the hands of three
or four Stock Commissioners, and, probably through the
hands of four times as many clerks, we do not know, nor
do we wish te intimate that any malfeasance can be justly
attributed to the late incumbent.
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT.
By and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
Anson Jones, Secretary of State.
George W. Hockle-y, Secretary of W.ir and Navy.
George W. Tern 11, Attorney General.
Asa Brigham, Treasurer.
Francis R Lubbock, Comptroller.
James Reily, Charge d' Affairs to the United States.
Gail Borden, J , Collector of the Port of Galveston.
Richard Morris, Judge of the first Judicial District.
Peter Gray, District Attorney Fiisl Judicial Distiict.
SANTA FE EXPEDITION.
The letter which follows was leceiveel from Mexico by
a mercantile house of New Orleans and published in the
papers of that city.
Chihuahua, North of Mexico,
Nov. 4ih, 1811.
To John G. Chalmers, M. D., Austin, Texas:
Sir: He who now addresses you, does so with some
personal risk, and therefore must use the precaution which
prudence suggests. PI is agents in New Orleans will be
able, from the autograph, to inform you of the writer's
name. He has never been in Texas, and is not aware
that he has a single acquaintance in that country. But
there are sympathies which extend beyond the circle of
personal friends By particular request of Col Win.
G. Cook and Dr. Richard F Brentiam, I sit down to cive
you a narrative of theii disasteis, as detailed to me in some
biief interviews with them, during the-ir shoit sojourn i.i
this city as prisoners of war. Eactness of dates I cr-n-
not. pretend to observe. Theconfusion and strangeness
of the evtmts preclude the possibility; but tho general
chain will be faithfully narrated.
The advance party, of about one hundred men, had
reached the ncighboihood of Santa Fe, leaving the rear-
guard, with the wagons and artillery, some two hundred
miles behind Four or five men were then sent forward
to announethe purposes of their mission to the authori-
ties, and to say that they have com more as friends than
foes that they wished to cultivate the acquaintance of
their neighbors, and open commercial relations with them,
and not to provoke hostilities. Of the avant couriers, one
cvas a Capt. Lewis and another was Mr. Kendall, editor
of the NiW Orleans Picayune. They were seized, and
two or three, some say four of them, were, by order of
Gov. Armijo immediately shot. The Governor then, with
ia aro-cbouvot iew Mexicans inarms, went out 10 saiuie
their visitors. The latter had, however, taken up a strong
position, and prepared to acton the defensive, should it be
necessary hitheito ignorant of the fate of their emissaries,
as of the reception they were likely to meet.
In a ravine foimed by the freshets, having a stream of
some manitude in their rear, stood Col. Cook and his men,
conSdenUhat from this, position they coald not be dislodg-
ed. Here they waited the approach of their adversaries,
doubtful yet whether to regard them as friends or foes
impatient for the order to lire, yet restrained oy tneir paci-
fic mstructigns from the Texian government, they watched
Gr some act of aggression to justify them in testing the tem-
per of then guns. At this critical moment comes forward
Capt. Lewis, accompanied by a nephew of the Governor,
(who speaks and understands the English language well)
and begs Col. Cook not to fire, nor be concerned. Re-
assures him there is no need of an engagement, as the
Governor isflisposed to receive them kindly, and th it ar-
ticles of agreement had been already entered into for an
armistice, which might lead to a friendly alliance. On
the other hand, he represented the Mexican force as num
erous and strongj that in.an hour they would be surround.
ed by five thousand men, all armed and ooeaient to uieir
chief; that it was vain to resist, and the Governor was
anxious to avoid a conflict, and would deal better by them
than they had any right to expect.
These representations and assurances, coming from
their own interpieter, and supported by the Governor's
nenhew, e.xercisi d a fatal influence. They inclined to
listen to terms of capitulation, which were agreed upon as
follows: they were to lay down their aims, and return
foithwith to Texas; their persons were to be safe and in
violate; the Governor was to protect them against the
populace to escort them to the borders of Texas and
there having restored lo them their guns, despatch them
for their homes.
These articles were ratified in the usual manner in such
cases, and the Texian party in good faith, surrendered
their arms. They were instantly seized, tied and plun-
dered of every thing. Even their uniform was stripped off
Hats, boots and shoes shared the same fate, and in this
condition they were ordered to march under a strong
escort to the city of Mexico, a distance of near two thou-
sand miles ; and answer to the authorities there as prison
ers of war. They arrived here about ten days ago, hav-
in"suffered jjreatly from fatigue, hunger and thirst. In thi.
place they receive d as good treatment as could be expected
in their circumstances. Though restrained of all liberty,
their personal wants were attended to, and by 'voluntary
subscriptions of both foreigners and natives they were dad
(near 100 men) in a light but comfortable suit, and then
sent forward on their dreary march. They are expected
to reach the capital some time in December next. Among
the prisoners is a lad of the name of Combs, whose father
in Kentucky, was named minister to Mexico. The boy
heard of this in Galveston and presuming his father would
accept the appointment he resolved to accompany this
expedition to Santa b e, and trom thence go to Mexico to
ioin his parent
The names ol some ot the officers are L-apt. button,
Engineer Hunt, Lubbock. It is not known w hether Cap'
Lewis acted from lea r or treachery, or whether he was
himself deceived. The most, charitable supposition is the
latter, although the result has not mitigated the suffering
nor lessoned the perils of his companions. He alone
unbss Kendall has been saved remains with Amijo in
Santa Fe. He is doubtless detained to aid Armijo s ope
rations upon the party and wagons in the rear. The in
structiotis oftheTe ian President, together with h'sprocla
mation to the mha! slants, private letters and other docu
ments were taken ar.d sent to this place for translation
During this piocess some suspicion tell upon the foreign
residents, two of whom, Mr. Thurston and Capt. Dryden,
were thrown into prison, the former was detained in du
ress about fifteen days, and the latter is still in dose con-
C i . - T C ...U.t .-..III Vv Y.r. nt?nr JrPTp,
nueiiieni uncertain ui wiiui win ue u scmcuic. u
thought it will be death.
Much speculation has been had upon the probable des
tinv that awaits the prisoners. Santa Anna is now the
the Chief Executive, having lately made himself absolute
Dictator Their fate will depend solely upon his wiff,
and there is serious reason to believe that they will be
ordered to execution before they reach Mexico a la Fannin
Our latest intelligence from the Capitol is, that he has
ordeied a force of iu-clve thousand men lo be equipped for
Texas.
P S News has arrived here that the command under
Gen. M'Lrcd has surrendered in a mannersimilar to that
under Col. Cook, and with similar treatment, corroborat
ing the surirlise that Lewis was saved for a tool in the
business, They have bef;n some twenty days on their
match toward Mexico and are expected in ten or twelve
more. The Governor in his despatches says he has de
tamed as prisoners two Commissioners, one Secretary and
one undesenbed, probably Kendall. .Lewis, tor his hdelity
and activity has been set at liberty to wend -his way to
Texas or the De il, alone, as he prefers: here he cannot
stay, much less live.
An extraordinary courier arrived with despatches to the
Governor last night; the purport of which no one can
ascertain. Conjecture says the prisoners have escaped.
November 8 The above is a plain statement of facts.
Your obedient'servant.
the city of Mexico'ibr trial, and the balance to be retained
at Santa.Fe, as prisoners of war. .
We shall give a detailed accountjof the whole afiair so
soon as we can obtain a translation."
ADDRESS OF THE CARRIER OF;THEt J
..,,--rr'ji nrn Till TVTn ..Irn'T tCfT X-TJ IT-" "
iUvJrt.iMiHejr a i aix -a.rti-' " j. .cujchjiwx.i..j.t.o
TO HIS PATRONS, Jan. 1, 1842.7
Goot mornin, friends, how dosh you do1?
Dish tay, I pleevs, ish Forty-two, - a? :
Yash, Forty-two, by Christian date,
Quick, don't let Christian Rufiy wait'; t ' f.
But "stir your stumps" and gif a. lift - lr Z i
I comes to claim my New Yearns gift .- s&&
I comes to leave a bapermore
Srntr St iv T'sh rirnnt it at te door." - "&
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But here s a Tnegraph and alar
Vot speeks of Houston and Lamar,
And udder folks of lesser weight
Sich as te siu-a tors of State. -isrtn&&'
1'sh neider poet, nor a man,
But speeksh right goot American, " ", . -
Like mister Vox, or mister Fitch,
Or shust like mister "Sich and' Sich"
Te-boys all callsh me little B&ulch-
Put tat I tozent mind so muchr
If you will now shust be so kind
As help dish poy to raise te vind.
I vonts some monies vot ish goot ,
Not baper drash vot's stain'd mit bloot ; t
Rot siller msh. tif nut a nit. " '&&
I hatsh te baper gounterfeit.
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Te Chrishmas now hash all gone by
TaLfack you knows as veil ash l-
And Texas, -Texas, Texas, oa! i &$&,
Ish'-vot she vos a year ago. ' Jr- 5&g
Tat pubbte EC..N ish burst atiast,- r'
And rain ot-Merrypaviish. past;
And pright and better hopes np.w cheer
Us onward troo te comin year.
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Ter ish matters still of mighty weight ,,
Continues to disturb' le State :
Our Navy it'sh lent out you see
Our Sogers sent to Santa Fe;
And yet, mil all, no peace on trade
Mit Mexico hash yet been made. -;
Our red foes, too, mit tomahaw'h;
Round Austin City nightly stalled
And all te folks vot'sh livin tare ,
Keepsh lookin out to save ter hair ;
Vile Kongrrssh ; still ish movin on3"
TTnffm'n vnt tf formers done. " -i ' 4r '
H.fV -W-L.
Our money!! it hash got' so lowj
Tish mighty hard to moke it go:
Te butcher and te merchant too, t
Te Christian shaver and te Jew, . f-Troo-outrte
town, tere ish'nt,n6ne
Tat taksh it lesh ian ten for 07e'
But Stubblefield; a man votJs fairr-';r; f'
He taksh te baper still at pair, tf&si- - "-
And shust let udders.doo te same, ... &S t.
We'll soon pring uptebaperVname $ &
Tsfof rail it hv te name of ' trash." - "; " -13? f"
But take it shusWe same as cash. jt
I'sh put a poy l'sh not a poet
Tish 1 pteevesTF, and pleevesh you know it; r
But never mind shust gif a lift
1 vonis, I vonts my NEW YEARS' H GIFT.
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From-the Morning Slar.
Id3 An election took place on Monday, fortheiMuni-
cipal Officers of the city of Houston forthe ensuingyear.
,We are happy to say that there wasno undue excitement,
nor a-single breach of the peace or"dccencyofi the town.
The election resulted as- folldwsi -rot. ..
John D. Andrews, Mayor. xuft .
John Scott. Recorder ,f' --
H. T. Wooddy, City Constable:' & 4I
ALDERMEN".
M. Dechaiimes First Ward.
T. DONNELLAN, "
C. McA nelly Second Ward.
J. Burr. & J F. Torry Tied.
G. W. Kimball Third Ward.
Geo. Gazley " .
T. Stansbury Fouttk Ward.
E. S. Perkins.
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THE PRESIDENT'S IN AUGUR ALT
Recurring, as promised, to that part of this do'cumc'nt
in which additional powers are asked to be conferrcTupon
the President by Congress, we have to express, aifrregret
that the message of Gen. Houston was not couched In
more guarded language. The import of the terms used
by the Executive, unexplained by a reference to the prin-
ciples and measures which characterized bis former ad-
ministration of the government, renders his demand of ad-
ditional power obnoxious to the objection, in the mouths
of his enemies, that he desires and claims a greater scope
of authority than is delegated by the Constitution. We
are satisfied, ourselves, that he designed nothing more
than to ask a restoration of the powers, and means necessa-
ry, in his judg'ment, to administer the government prosper-
ously, which had been, in his opinion, improperly taken
from the President and a co-operation, on the part of
Congress, in the measurers which, under the Constitution
he had proposed, or should hereafter submit, to the con-
sideration ofihat body. It is obvious that he fs clothed
by the Constitution with ample powers for the exercise of
all legitimate executive duties: .vhich Congress can neith-
er add to, nor diminish. Thus confined and explained, a
call of the President upon Congress for its co-opeiation in
carrying into effect those measures which the exigencies
of the country demand, the message is not only reconcilea-
ble with his former aets and uniform professions of patrio-
tism, but the request is perfectly legitimate and proper;
and, so far as that body shall be convinced of the constitu-
tionality and correct policy of his measures, they are
bound, by the highest considerations of duty and proprie-
ty, cheerfully and fully to respond to the call, andaid him
in his patriotic exertions for the public good.
FORT OF HOUSTON.
From the Morninsr Star.
We clip from the "Weekly Texian" of the 15th inst.,
printed at Austin, the following further confirmation of the
intelligence (now almost indisputably confirmed; ot the
s id fate of the Santa Fe expedition. Pooi fellows ! That
ill-fated expedition was supplied with Volunteers who
constituted the flower of our cities Houston having fur
nished a Una and full company, composed of some of the
most worthy, respectable and brave of her young men ;
who, with the finest propects at home, embarked in that
ill advised enterprise as much from a love of adventure as
fiom the hope of gain We would not be in the position
of his Ex E-xcelh ncy, Lamar, for all the wealth, of Santa
Fe noi for llie. highest of the honors which have been
unworthily showi red upon him. Excused the consti-
tutional punishment which he. had deserved, for abstract-
ing the public funds from the Treasury without the
authority of law, and applying them to this fanciful pro
ject, not on account of the absence of proof of his guilt,
but, purely, from the sheer mercy of the lenient Represen-
tatives of the people; and, now, to be doomed to the se-
ve rest self-reproaches when he reflects upon the sad and
lamentable issue of his own breaches of authority and
good sense! terrible, indeed, and keenly distressing, to a
sensitive mind, must be the retribution which has been
visited upon him!
"Santa Fe A gentleman from San Antonio, ar-
rived in this city last Sunday, bringing the Dia Rea del
Gob'irne, a paper published in the city of Mexico, which
publishes the documents sent out by this Government to
Santa Fe The paper states that they were found in pos-
ession of the' Texiins, who were taken prisoners at that
place, by the Command int General of New Mexico.
Another number of the same paper contains a detailed
account of the number of men, equippage, wagons &c;
and also contain a cnticism upon the composition and or
thography of the President's Proclamation and other doc- i
uments And fjives it as an evide nee of the imbecility of i , . , . , '
our people , , . Ulu Jasuur. -J, 1M
A paity of lr-id rs w ho rere ntly .unveil as in An'ouio, t cONrTFS
also state that the whole cxnelition had ! mi takt-n pi isoii t ,, r, ,ir,.,.i. r-ve i,i,.. k" 'i r. r, . i , -
, , i r' i i- i I ftl 11 ssliryocK, tf W ielains, bhephera v Orv Jura, deursie
ers, and that a number of the officers were to be sent to Allen &Co.,JBiglow, Moore & Co, Poms & Co, Moro Philips
AnruvED, January the '2d, Steamer Dayton, Jenkins Master
from Galveston.
CONSIGNEES.
J Shackelford jr., "W M Rice, IT Henry, Geo Allen & Co.,
Adams & K'wg, W Barubino, J E Blish, M O Dimon, Chas
A Morris, J M Robinson, S Marion, M Shean, Ennis Kim-
ball & Holt, M Cavanaugh, Moore & Co., A S Ruthven, J. F.
Randel, Doct. Evans, Brown & Conger, W. D. Blackman, A.
Levi, Bachelder & Bailey, and J. H. Muldmue.
PASSENGERS.
Rev Mr. Huckins, Rev. M. Atkinson, Capt Eldridee, Capt.
j Blish, Mr O H Willis, ThosHope, Mr Morns, Coi.Lowry,
Jas Bairy, Judge siielDy, b Jf remiss, m (."arjony, vv Heclenbey,
U Henry, Mr McDonald, W "Wade Jr, J P Ranelel, J Shuekcl-
ford Jr, Mr Charles, E. King, B F Manning, TV J Dean, TV D
Blackman, H Vorgleman, Mr Barabino, M Carvanangb, M B
Terrell, A T Johnson, B G Marshall, P Filson, and TVm Hall.
Houston, Dec 2, 1842. Arrived at Galveston, BrigGalyes-
toa, from New York. v
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