Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-01-30
FROM TEXAS.

BY the arrival Of the steam ship Neptune, we
| have received files Of Texas papers TO the 10th
inst. inclusive.
The Austin correspondent of the Galveston Cour-
ier, states that from |, to 800 Mexicans under
the command of Vasquez, Rodriguez and Brad.
burn, were concentrated at San Patrieio, on the
! Nueces. This intelligence is c%onfrmatory Of the
statement of Col Seguiu, who saw tho order Of
Canates. before bis escape from Nfgxico. They
have already surprised and driven off abnu. two
hundred head Of cattle, thirty miles from Bexar,
The writer Of the letter adds;-"I'he mos! scepti.
cal on tho probability of another Mexican invasion
are now giving up their doubts. There will
probably be an order issued Immediately for a
draft Of militia. Further delay would be madness
and ruin especially ruin to the West
Generals RuSk and Johnson are spoken of
in Austin as candidates for the mex. presiden.
cy.
News from Matamoras to tho 18th ult. gives no
indications of the raising Of troops for the invas-
ion Of Texas. On The contrary. the Federallsts
were returning to their homes 10 resume the occus
pations ofcisil life.
Business is improving and since the news of
The recognition of Texas by England, says the
Herald, there has been a decided improvement in
the money market, and holders of Treasury
Notes arc more firm. Several Instances ~ofspecie
being freely exchanged for these notes, at the rate
of i've Texas dollars for one specie, were known.
Crane Tnes-Last Wednesday evening you
advised the citizens to plant grape vines, but 1t
is not every person brought up ia the city who
knows how to plant them. / will inform them
how to do it, aid my vines are the finest that
ever saw. I dig a hole, in the fall of the year,
two feet six inches deep, by three feet in diameter,
| should there be any stones in the earth, | careful
" pick them out and throw them loosely into the
bottom of the hole-leave the hole open through
the winter AMI throw oil the fish and meat bones
in it from the kitchen, and occasionally throw
some of the earth in to cover them, and each wash.
ingsday have q quantity of the strongest soap-snd;
thrown in. The bones to be thrown IN within
SIX inches Of the SUI face, which six inches to be
filled with good mould, filed with two quarts q
SCOT. Plant your vine in March or April, one
inch deeper in the ground than it was originally
Cut off the vine to within eighteen inches ofthe
root, and when it begins to sprout rub Oft all the
sprouts but one, six or eight inches from th'
ground keep it clear of weeds, and the sronnt
,oose around tn Y Star.
4 INTERESTING T'RIAL-Our readers doubles
remember the celebrated mandamus which issue
from the Supreme Court of the United States, Oh
dering the late Post Master Geneal to enter o.
the books of the department a credit Of Sl22.o
10 favor Of The mail contractors, Stockton, Stoke
81 Co. Obedience to the writ was refused by M
Kendall, and an action on tie case for damage
the amount being laid at sl00.0o0 has been CON
menced against him by the surviving partners of I'll
firm, in the Clrcui. Court Of the District of Co
| lumbia.
By the National In,elligencer of the first Ii
slant, we learn that the case was still pending
M We are glad to see our contemporaries jon
with US in a fasorable5opinion of Col. Reeslde if
mail contractor. We had no definite authoril
for making this suggestion, bat we knew il wonl
be popular, and if the admiral has any notion
going into business, we just wish him TO kno'
that he is heartily welcome. If it was a matte
of yeas and nays, the thing would be settled IN
slanily by reclamation, and the Colonel wonl
have the mail bags buekied on hia hack whethe
J he would or would not-Picayuns.