Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-08-19
LATEST FROM TEXAS

The PACKET steamer SaraEi EafnesY Captain
Jones, arrived az New Orleans the 18Th, with
dates from Galveston,
The Fevenae euffsr ssafffa Anna sailed ~
/ Str inst. fof Mafaaroross with Cart, fallen,
the bearer Of dispatches rem Ngxico TO the
government Of Texas The fret Texan vessel
| which has visited 4 Mexican port, with peaee.
fol intentions, since The Declaration Of fnda4
pendence.
Dispatches had been received from General
Adrian VOL, to the Texan Government, de-
signaling Laredo az the place 1T which the
commissioners from the two governments
may n1eefs md srtahee matters IN relation 10
the tte to,intTsssy on the immediate frontier
TO & bich bis command extends.
This negotiations with Mexico are prbgrasss
ing 81 satisfactorily IL tofld be- szpecfed
Money begins TO eircoIate more freely III
Galveston
Eotb Comnodors Moore and Capt. Lothrop
have been dismissed from office, BY order Of
President Houston, The reasons giv6h for
fhe Discharges If tbs Commodore Being die.
obedienee Of orders IN the eases enumerated
in the Proclamation, and Capt IL being Dis.
missed ff Fefasing 10 take fbs Command
when fhe Commodore was suspended and 6fs
dsred 10 report himself to The Department Of
1T Anb MATHIS III arrest
On the 18th they left their vessels and
went ashore at Galveston On the 18th he
remaining officers resigned, with sxcep
lions, and the vessels Hegs delivered up 70
HE Naval Commissioners The mel eefe
allowed the privileges Of remaining on the
vessels and being provided for BY he Com
nissioners or coming asbors. Those on the
brig renamed, but about tSo4thirds Of the
SHIPS efeN came ashors The circumstance
caused much excitement in Galveston.
Sam Houston, President Of the Republic
Of Texas, has been hung in efsay at Gaivss1
ton + in consequence of the course 81 action
pufsu ned BY him in ~fetstioh to Com r. W
Moors.
They talk Of Sending the Cornsrodors 10
Congress from Galveston county,
A secfet law for the future disposition Of
the navy has been passed. Although the
breefas tenor Of this enactment has never
besn made public, the prevailing impression
sppesfs to BEL that the sale If The gesaeis has
be6n ordered, without regard 10 fhe attitude
ofTsxss towards MaxFsol
On fhe 1Sth ult, che citizens ~ Galveston
gave q pubic dinner 70 Com. Moors snd ebe
officers frsdef HE command, in order, Gays the
Galveston Cronicle, 10 testify their approval
Of Commodore Moore's conduct against the
enefnies Of our country, and to show their de-
eidsd disapprobation Of President Hossfon's
Whofe coftdact, particularly his shameful pro-
cIsmatlon against Com, Moore"
The Commodore has published s5 address
70 fhe people Of Texas, explaining and jnsfi<
fling his alledged aisobedience 81 orders and
his professional condact generally He says :
Before the proper tribunal, 7 again say
that / mill nsaye that fha eharaa If Nj sahaf.
snce and INSTRUMENTATION, o. ffesehefy, mutt
ny and piracy, contained in ting Presidents
Proclamation and the Published letter Of in
s'ructlons 10 the Commissioners are an stter~
" false and I am also prepared TO prove that
the many SANDERS privately eireslstsd against
me during ny absence, BY rnasos Of which
( ans led 10 bellows that The mi sds Of INF cos,n-
try,s Representatives M Congress were pois.
oned, are totally false, and we're invented for
the purpose Of sacrificing An absent man,
ruheard and u~ndsfeHded, on the alter Of So
cfet Legislation.
A quarrel recently took plaee In Austen
between a Mr.. Nolan and Capt. Mark n.
Lewis, in which the latter drew 4 pisfoIs and
shot the former dead. Lewis il said to have
been taken into the custody, when two Of
Nolah's friends came upon the prisoner and
killed him.
Once Of the Indian agents gh6 was seht
by President Housfon to Galveston. some
weeks since, to PURCHASE beads and other
fof the Indians, has " dseamped' with
the public money placed in his charge. Hs
mads tracks for mexico.
A nsw college Is a5eIf TO be established Al
San Augustine, under tbs auspices of the
Methodist Episcopal church.