Liberty advocate., 1844-02-03
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In snswof 10 o coll made lpln pfssl
dent Houston " he Iiguse Of RaProson
/ ia,iyo1 for information Ar he spnt q
mcsgaga % tho ist inr,i dor.inIogto CON
IBIS with tho fcqaisi,on 1ha paper -
well rcas nod, aud would be o. weil sun
ol 10 our own country ~ TO loSns a-i'
will be recolcctod that Gex Houston had
previously beon ciilvd : M lsr CORES
pondonce by both houses. he thon oiief
ed TO submit everything 10 ihe senate
with closed doors 4 he now offers 10 allow
the Speaker Of the House and the mem.
Of The committee on Foreign Affairs TO
examine all the correspondence Of tho
Executive with foreign powers. He JUS
tihes his refusal to give 10 the House all
/ the information il asks by the following
supplementary hint, with which his mos
sage somewhat abruptly concludes,
The Executive isalso admonished, by
recent pobication in newspapers, ins,
commun cations made to the honorable
4 Congress under the seal Of secresy areii-
able 70 receive publicity without the sea-
OF secresy having been first removed
Hence he is more anxious 10 preserve tho
interest or the Nation from being subject
Ito tha great prejudice which perfdy and
i Ifaithessness to Official iujunctions might
entail upon them
! The Senate having adopted resolutions
4 requesting tho Presdentto recall Charles
I Il Raymond, Esq, bearer Of dispatches
! to the United States Government, he
promptly refused, and IN his reply took
I occasion to defend MS policy and motives
ngainsttho thousand prcjudicial runioTs in
! circulation as to his official action.
i The following extract We make from
Z The Galveston Star, Of late date
| COMMISSIONERS TO Mexico. MIR. Lind
say, who lately arrived at Washington
from Bexar, repotted that several traders
from the Rio Graude Informed him, that
it was currently reported Mexico that
the negociations Between our Conmis
e sioners and those Of Mexico had been bro
9 ken off, and that the object Of the Mission
ned eg,t;rel. -faae1. The raposss rensiv
: ed BY way Of the Rio Gr@a3e, are sogen
/, orally unworthy Of edt,hat we seldom
q place much reliance upon them. There
,Is probability, however, that this is CO IT,
+ rect, for il is confirmed ia part by anoth-
er report received by way of Corpus
2 Christi from Matamoros. According 10
: The latter report, the Commissioners had
been informed By Gen, VOL that he had
.lno authority to treat with them, unless
'Ethey were authorized 10 acknowledge tho
ft,,t,, y,f
,Istruclions, as now on file in the State De
I partment, expressly forbid them to nogo-
Iiiato upon any such conditions, and If
I they have been restricted to those ins,guc
! tions, it is quite probable that the "nego
Itiatons have been broken off" When
last heard from, the commissioners were
tstiil at the iittletown ofSabinas, waiting
for further instructions from our Govern
ment We understand thataspecial mes
senger, with dispatches for them, let Gal
vestoH few days since, for Corpus Chris
Itj.-They will probably remain u Mexi-
leo until these dispatches are received
4 Tho editor of the Houston Telegraph
has received the following lntelligencc
from Bexar, The trade Of which city Is
Represented as very dul:-~
A few traders have arrived from the
Rio Grande within the last six or oght
weeks, but they brought only q few hun
dred dollars 70 purchase goods. They
Iconfrmed the report circulated few
weeks since, that Agaton, the bandit who
Ihas long been terror to the border Sc.
Tiers, was killed about three months since,
while in pursuit Of a party OF traders,
The latter having received intelligence
that he was following their trail to attack
them, suddenly turned back and lay IN
ambush in a thicket-- Agaton and lew
followers soon after appeareds and while
passing, intent on capturing his supposed
victims, was shot down and Killed instant
lly. He had long committed crimes with
impunity, and ii was to be expected that
his career would terminate in 3 violent
eath.--There are only two smaA com.
panies Of troops now stationed between
Laredo and dio.-Colonel Seguin aud
Antonio Perez were near San Fernando,
Both Of tnem are anxious to return. to
Texas, The eiamily Of the former was
daily expected to retarn TO Bexar, and
Colonel Segnn would also return, il he !.
could have assurance that his crimes
would be forgiven by his fellow citizens
lie and his associates are suffering great
,riyations, and are almost IN state oil
'taryatlon- abitter rotribution for their
Feachery
The Texan Democrat announces the
the country of Gen. Merceru y
Ilstinguishedscitizen Of Virginia Gen
iercer is concerned in some Of tho re-
'ent contracts for colonization in Texas
-ctive measures for an tnmcdtatG ana
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