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August 3, 1845
From Texas
The fast-running steam packet Alabama,
Capt. Windle, arrived yesterday morning from Galveston, bringing us
files of papers from that city up to Wednesday last, the 30th
ult.
The Alabama arrived at Aransas on the 25th
ult., and on the following day, with the assistance of the Undine which
had just got in, landed Gen. Taylor and the U. S. troops the former had
taken over. The A. sailed from Aransas on the 30th, arrived
at Galveston on the same day, and left on the following for this port.
Capt. W. reports that off Galveston Bar saw a barque, but could not make
her out.
The steamer Monmouth, now in the service
of the U. S. Government, arrived at Galveston on the 31st ult.,
short of fuel and water and requiring repairs to her machinery. She was
to leave on the following day for Aransas. On the 1st inst.,
off Ship Island Shoals, met brig Hop Howes, Capt. Shaw, and on the same
day steamship McKim 60 miles west of the Balize – both bound to
Galveston.
From all accounts, it would seem that the
Texas Convention is progressing rapidly with the business before it. It
is thought that the members will be through with every thing by the
middle of this month, August. The seat of Government, it is said, will
probably be continued at Austin for the next four or five years. It may
possibly have nothing to do with the business of legislation, but we
hope the fleas are not quite as thick there as they were three months
since.
The Galveston Civilian of the 26th
ult. Contains a fling full one half column in length, and all levelled
at the Picayune. We had no idea until we read this amusing article,
that we had touched the friends of the Civilian – the small
anti-annexation clique – on points so tender. Had we room, we might
give our Galveston contemporary a fresh column in relation to the
movements of Elliott and his Texan friends and co-laborers that has not
seen light yet, and not one word of what we have already uttered does
the Civilian pretend to deny. “Much yet remains unsung” and we have all
the music by us.
Dr. D. A. Perry, of Washington county,
Texas, was murdered a few days since by a negro, formerly the property
of the doctor. Although there was no witness to the act, the negro was
suspected, accused, confessed the deed and has been hung.
According to the Civilian, the health of
Galveston continued remarkably good. The weather had been dry and rain
was much needed.
A semi-weekly mail has been established
between Washington and Austin, to continue during the session.
A correspondent of the Civilian, writing
from Washington City, has the following: —
“I find it impossible to make the people
here understand that President Jones is in favor of Annexation.”
We should think it would be rather a
difficult matter.
The following extract of a letter we find
in the National Register of the 24th ult. It is dated —
Austin, July 19, 1845.
There is but little of interest going on
here: the members of the Convention are becoming a little more excitable
as time progresses. Yesterday there was a flare up between Gen. Davis and
Señor Navarro. Davis, in advocating some measure, introduced into his
remarks a comparison rather disparaging to the Mexican nation, at which
the “deputy” from Bexar took fire, and demanded if the remarks were
intended as personal; to which Davis rejoined, by denying that he had said
what was alleged. The Seat of Government question, I think, is destined
to raise a row, the “West” having divided upon it between Lagrange and
Austin.
Below we give an extract of a letter from
Capt. Grice, of the Undine, giving an account of the landing of the U. S.
troops in Texas. It is dated,
Aransas Bay, July 28, ‘45
On Saturday, the 26th inst., the
American flag was first planted in Texas by authority, upon the south end
of St. Joseph’s Island, upon which I am landing the troops from the
Alabama, inside the bay. There are now 500 men encamped here, and the
scene is full of interest. The other vessels with troops are not expected
to arrive for several days.
The various committees in the Convention at
Austin have reported the different provisions for a Constitution of the
State of Texas, and these are published at length in the Civilian of the
30th ult. We give some of the more interesting articles and
sections as they appear in that paper, premising that the editor thinks
that various alterations will be made in many of them before their final
passage.
Source: The Daily Picayune, Sunday,
August 3, 1845.
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