The North-Carolina standard., 1845-11-05
LATEST -FRaM TEXAS


The latest dates in the newspapers from Texas
are up to the 18th Of October. The news is not
very important The following extracts from a
letter from friend at Galveston contain every.
thing calculated to interest the reader: q,
- = = @ t' GaEreston, Texas, Oct. 18, 1S45.
Monday last, the 18th, was the day to take the
vote for and against annexation and9on the Con-
stitutior. No interest was excited here on the
occasion. The vote stood in the City for annexa-
tion 270-against Ill. For the Constitution 284
against it S3. You must recolect that there IS
more opposition to annexation in this City than IN
any other part Of Texas, and that out of 800 or
1000 votes which can give, only about 59O
were poed. Ibave not heard returns from other
counties, but there is no doubt the Constitution
and Annexation have been almost unanimously
carried.
"There is one thing particularly, connected
with the two countries to which public attention
and the attention of Congress, ought TO. be call
ed in your country. Our merchants who import
goods from the United States compose by far the
most numerous class, and WELD by far the most
capital. The whole amount of our imports the
past year was $3.50, SOB 03. About $75, 900 of
these were from Great Britain and Ireland, from
the British West Indies from the Spanish West
Indies, from France, from Belgium, from the
Hanse Towns, &c. while nearly S600,000 were
from. the United States. Now the Tariff of Tex
as imposes higher rate Of duty American man
utactures than any others; and if your Iarl1f
should be modified by The Congress, ana your
revenue laws extended over US, the dealers IN Amer
ican manufactures must at once experience an i'm
mense loss. Having paid Tariff-tax OF from 20
TO 30 per cent on what they have, under our laws,
they must suffer under your revenue laws unless
some scheme is dvised for their relief. .g IF
: F." The latest news from the United States Ar
my at Corpus Christi states that there are about
in from four five thousand troops in camp. They
have enjoyed unparalleled good health, and are fine
spirits, and eager TO be let loose on the Mexcans
No hope, however, is entertained either by the
army or people of Texas that Mexico will
show fight. The Mexicans who come into Corpus
Christi to trade, state that there are few Mexi-
cans soldiers on the Rio Grande, and that they
evince desire for fighting. f-.. ...a,. =
The health of Texas never has been so good
as II is this year, and the city of Galveston, which
usually shares the fate of New Orleans to sick
ness, has been as heaIhy as any part Of your noun
tain country. The crops in the interior repre-
sented to be abundant fully sufficient to feed
10000 emigrants, which the people of Texas ex
pect from the United States this fall and winter.
The German Brig Herschel arrived here on
Wednesday from Bremen with 3S emigrants- an
other brig arrived on Thursday from the same port
with 125 emigrants. They report that II vessels
to sail from the same port time this fall
bringing about 5000 more! These people are in
dustrious, bring capital with them, andmake the
ry best kind of population. They to have bounty
lands, wherever they can find them unapproprated.
The German Association, formed some years
ago, obtained grant from the government of Tex
to colonize large portion of Western Texas,
provided they did it in given time. This Colo
ny has been in aourishing condition, but by some
means the contractors have failed to comrly with
the terms of the grant, and have lately applied TO
the Executive to extend the time. / am glad to
see these enigrants coming. They will fud this
a land flowing with milk and honeY," and a
bounding with every thing to make them comforia-
BILE and happy. And besides, l am the descen-
dant of Dutch ancestry, and love all Dutchmen,
my own people coming from my father-land."