Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1841-06-03
Foreign.
NEM.OR1EANs, NAV.

as passengers VI. II. 1000, Esq 'ue a.
merican charge d'affaires and commodore
Moore. Her cargo is unusually large i0r
Texas, consisting of 32l bales and 10 hail
bales of cotton. We learn by her that the
Texian war schooner San Bernard, Lieut..
Commander Crisp, left Galveston on the
18th inst. for Vera Cruz, having on board
lanes Webb, ESQ. Minister Plenlpoten-
tiary to Mexico, and G. A. Hemmlkln,
Secretary Of the Legation.
The papers in Galveston are discussing
what should be done with the Texian loan.
The Advocate is Of opinion that, if nego-
tiated at SIS, it Should be rejected with
seoru. This is stilted dignity 10 say the
least of it.
A Galveston paper says: "We under
stand an interesting examination willcome
of this morning before John NJ. Dor, Esq.
relative TO the passing and receiving Of
about $500 in counterfeit money on the
Commercial Bank of New-Orleans. No
particulars are given.
The British brig City of Perth got
ar, :a,,etound on the bar of St. Louis on the 18th
inst. The Savannah had attempted TO
tow her out, but found il impracticable,
as she draws IL feet water, aud was COM
pelleJ TO leave her, after many fruitless
attempts tu get her of. We have since
learned by the Neptune that the City of
Perth is a total loss. She had about 100
bales cotton.
A violent and Lisgraceful collision ex-
lists between Judges johnson aud Shelby
of the first judicial district, as to who holds
the valid appointment and who shall re-
ceiye the salary Of this cffice. II seems
that Judge Jack enterlains constitutional
,criioles as to his competency 10 preside,
and his declension has given rise to the
undieni6ed controversy alluded TO. AT
the fastest dates the affair remained unset
lied, neither of the parties being willing
TO resign.
itis now said that President Lamar
will not convoke an extra session.
The steam packet Savannah, from Gal
weston to this port, is aground at the Eng
lish turn, A tow boat has been despatch
ed 10 ee, her of. She brings Mr.. Saligny
on board, as passenger.
A company for the St. Fe expedition
were to leave Houston OIL The 2Olh for
Austin, the general rendezvous.
Important.-The Houslonian publishes
the following information, very important
certainly, if correct:
=. eve have, through the politeness OF
friend, been favored with the perusal OF
letter just received from o gentleman at
tached to the commission for running the
boundary between his Republic and the.
q. States, from which We leran that the
work is rapidly progressing. and will
probably he completed in June: The
point at which the parallel line OF the 23d
degree crosses the Sabine, aud from which
our line turns north, was found TO be far
south of any other observation previously
taken; and the whole of the l7th range;
and three four,hs Of a mile IN the lolh VIII
Tins bsincliuedin Texas. giving us,a tract
of country more than 4OO miles long, by
6 in breadth which was supposed to be-
long to the United States, and included in
their surveys. -,
This land, we understand, has all been
located bounty claims, are said 10 have
been sold in some instances as high as ST.
so per acre."
The following is the language of the Off
cial paper: ,,
Most Of our readers have, doubtless
heard of difficulties having occurred be-
tween M. de Saligny, Charge d'Affalres
for France near this government; IN the
course of which NJ. de Saligny thought
proper, contrary to our Laws and Constr.
tuition, which guarantee 10 all men iu!l
and impartial trial before jury Of their
peers. to demand The immediate and ar
bi,rary punishment OF Texian Citizen;
on this being refused by the President, un.
ill Mr.. 3. should be first tried and found
guilty OF the offence alleged, the French
Charge d'Affaires thought proper,o break
off ali correspondence with this govern
ment, Presiden, Lamar, has in consequence,
instructed the Texian Charge d'Afaires
at the Cour, Of St. Cloud to lay the whole
subject before his Majesly the King oflhs
French, and requested the recall of Mon
sieur deSaligny.-Austin City Gdz.
The Houstonian of The 18th makes the
following judicious remarks on the para
graph of The Gazette. The apparent diff.
ficulty will uudoubted be explained and
arranged 10 the satisfaction Of all parties
"How far Mr.. Salisny may have been
wrong, we do not pretend to say, as we
are not in possession Of all the facts 10 re-
Iation 10 The matter. lift be true, how
ever, as stated, that the cause of his break
Inc of the correspondence with this gov
ernment, was the refusal on the part oil The
government TO inlict on one of our citizens,
an immediate and arbitrary punishmentin
direct violation Of every principle of the
constitution, he has certainly been guilty
of conduct in which his own government
canpoi, and will not justify him, We
know nothing Of the correspondence which
passed between him and the Stale De-
parment on the subject; but have no doubt
other causes might be found for the apPa-
rently strange course pursued by him. than
the one 10 which it is attributed /
From his long residence in the United
States as an at0che Of the French Lega-
lion at Washington, he must certainly have
acquired too intimate knowledge OF the
character Of our institutions, not to be a
,vare. that the punishment of citizen with