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FROM TEXAS.

By the arrival of the schooner Shenan-
doah, from Velasco, at New Orleans, ud.
vices are received from that port to the
nth of Oct ober. Mo news from The army.
1t. jeremiah F. Johnson Of the Toxican
schooner Independence, died at Marion
about the 10th of October.
The Texinn Telegraph Of Oct. S, con-
tains the (unimportantl proceedings of the
first Texan congress, and the message OF
President Burnet, from which last the New
Orleans Bulletin gives extracts.
The President describes the means re-
sorted to for obtaining funds, the ordinary
plan Of loans having proved Intellectual.
The government has appointed agents in
New Orleans and Mobile, authorized TO
issue scrip for one million acres Of land, al
the minimum prce of SO cents per acre.
The military organization is declared
defective, and the President intimidat es
that new accessions of ''those generous
champions of liberty" to wit, volunt GERS
from the United States, are desirable, bu,
| reprobates enlistments for short terms.
A continuation of The land system is rec
commended.
The judicial department is also pronoun-
ced inefficient, especially in regard TO the
admlnist ration of criminal Justice. We
have no doubt of it. A district judge-B.
e. Franklin, EsQ-has been appointed for
| the district Of BruZos, for the adjudication
Of prizes.
The President concludes with an earnest
| admonition 10 danish from the counc lis
all party spirit and political intrigue" and
to b have in other respects like honest peo.
pie and good republicans.
MEXICO.
The last news from Malamoras, saws the
Mexicen army is in a melancholy condition
that commerce is at a stand: Mexican
troops deserving for want of pay, clothing,
and food, and probably from some indispO.
siiion to encounter the men of San Jacinto.
Gen. Urea has resigned, and in fact every
thing wears sorry aspect for the Mexican
cause while the star of Texas is greatly in
the ascendant
LATEST FROM FLORIDA.
The steamer Meridian from TAMPA Bav,
arrived at Apalachachola on the i1h OF
October, bringing news Of the failure oil
the deputalion sent 10 negotiate with the
Seminoles for peace, of which We have
given full account. Aaijo, the chief o
the deput ton reports that he found the
chiefs Of the Semlnoles 10 hammock in
the Withlacoochie swamp, surrounded or
all sides by deep morasses, ponds. and NJ
almost impene,rabie under brushW God, will
about three thousand five hundred of lhei
people-mcn, women and children. Or
the proposal being made to Oseola to 10,
down his arms and retire TO the Westward
the reply was firmly and decisively-" Nev
er-the land is ours, and We will die on it.
They bonsed of having beaten off o,he
armies of the whites, aud speak confident,
of their ability to Withstand the presen
preparations against them.
| More DIsAsTERs.-The U. s. steamer
Gen. lizard, in attempting to ascend th'
Wi'hlacoochle with supplies for he depo,
got aground OF the mouth of the river, wit
her bows on he bank on one side, and he
stern on the other and feet water in tn,
middle Of the channel. In This awkwar,
position they remained Till the tide wen
out, when her centre tlmbers gave way
aud she broke down Her stores being
mostly wet it is supposed will be saved
How she came in this awkward position
seems not TO be well understood. II il
said that she was made fast over the nigh
by bow and slern line and in the morning
il was found that her bow line had BEEF
losened, and that she had foated roun,
into the position above stalled. Mr.. No
body appears TO have done the deed-per
hsps a bold and crafty Seminole.