Mobile register and journal., 1845-06-21

and the people, speaking through their chosen or gans. will now determine they shall judge right; but in ihe meantime and until their pleasure can be lawfully and conslu0nally ascertained, it IS the duty of the Executive 10 the nation the ex- ercse of choice between the alternatives Of peace with the world and Independence. or Annexation and it's contingencies. and he has, therefore 10 issue the following proclamation
 WHEREAS, Authentic proof has recently been laid before me. the effect that the Congress ol Mex ico lms authorized the Government 10 open nego
 tatons and conclude treaty with Texas, subject to the examination and approximation of that bodyi and further, that the Government of Mexico has accepted the conditions prescribed the part of Texas, as preliminary 10 final and definite treaty of peace:
 Therefore I. Anson Jones, President of the Re- public of Texas and Commander in Chief of the Ar my and Navy, and Militia thereof, dc hereby make known these circumstances 10 the citizens of this Republic, until the same can be more fully communi caed to the honorable Congress and Convention Of the people, for their lawful acton, at the period of their assembling the 18th of June and 4lh T July next; and, pending the said action, by virtue of the authority me vested l do hereby declare and proclaim cessation of hostties, by hand and by sea, against the republic of Mexico, against the citizens and trade thereof
 In testimony whereof, have caused the Great Seal
 of the Republic to be hereunto affixed.
 Done at Washington, Ihs fourth day of June,
 m the year of our Lord thousand eight IL ] hundred and forty five, and of the lndepen
 dence oflhe Republic the tenth.
 By the President: AEsoN JONES.
 EBEN'R ALLEN, tu'y Gen,
 and Acting Sec'yo of Stale.
 This proclamation contains sentences that indicate clearly enough the opposition of the President to Annsxation-suC as the presentation of a choice between 'tlndependence and peace, or Annexation and it's consequences" The people ol Texas, how ever, understand the Presidents posltian t,uly G. nough; but ihe document establishes certain facts, To which we have endeavored to awaken public at tention Tn their progress which were let to know were germnating long before they sprouted above ground-lo wit: that President Jones was engaged in secret intrigue to defeat the popular will; and that Great Britain, or her Minister, thrust herself. Tn an ofhcious, insulting and steadily manner, into the affairs of he Unlted States and Texas and that negotiation unirlendy to this Nation, hostile to our policy. and subversiye of the national will, s proclaimed through tho constituted authorities of the Republic, was ihe dr of the various nirigues which we have often exposed.
 The publication of this proclamation created no lit'le excitement in Texas. I he particulars o the negotiation the terns of the treaty dud not accom- pany It.
 Among the names of the delegates elected to the Convention we notice those of Col Love, Judge Hemphill, Col May field, Judge Lpscomb, Ex Pres ilent Houston, Gen Henderson, &c., Ec , all warm ly m favor of Annexation, if we except Gen. Hnus- ton, who s too fond Ot coquefng tU he placed in d crisis of this description, until il is known how the matter is to terminate. There will be no show ol l opposition in ile Convention.
 l By the arrival at Galveston from Corpus Christi of the Texan revenue schooner Alert, recent intel | igence has been received from the Me ican iron ter. The regular force along the Rio Grande had not been materially augmented, but the frontier had been strengthened by armng and drilling the militia. company of militia, numbering 80 men, under the command of Manuel Lella recently attacked a party of 70 Indians and defeated them, Killing 40 of their number and dsDersing the others. The Mexicans pursued them and slaughtered many more. The peo- pie of Corpus ChrisI, hearing lhat Mexican force was hard by, went out to give them battle. The par ties met and, after conference, separated without coming To blows It was not before coming up with ihein that the Texans learned that the Mexicans were in pursuit of the Indians.
 Gen. Arista is sand 10 be deeply afflicted with the troubles and confusion in Mexico, and il is reported endeavored short time since to destroy his life by poison.
 Advices had been received from Bexar to the SOtl uh. All was peace there. Several Camanche chiefs had visited the city and expressed their qualification that "he blood of their kindred, slaughtered a few years since had been washed away from the walls o Bexar by the water of peace"
 Capt. Hays started on the 30ih ult. on an expedi. ton to the Perdnales, whence it was inferred that the report that large body of Mexcans had been stationed ou the Nueces is incorrect. He mentioned just before he left Bexar, that he apprebended nc danger from either Indians Mexicans so says the Telegraph of the Huh inst.