Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-08-19

FROM TEX AS.-The steamship Alsn,mi'
Captain NIutic. arrived ON saturday morn.
ing from Galveston, briuging-papcr, from that
Ciuy To the 30jh alt. The Alabama carried
out the 81 Infantry to Aransas BAY, where She
arrived on the 23ni ult. On The following day.
with tin assistance of two small lighter, auI
her OWN boats, she laudedaI the tfonps. with
Tie exception OF l2j, which vcra landed un
he 9Th by thc steamboat Uudiur-thc place
OF Decentralization being 81. Jos-ph's l,laid.-
The Atabaul iylt Arulaas BAY ON the SOth
ut, AMI galveston ON ,hc m.Nt day.
ihe steamboat MOmnJuti, which hl- been
chartered b. the United States Government.
arrived oil Galveston bar Or Va, 5l,tult.. and
having injured hex steam pips. laid there and
mide the necessary repdirsa and clean. a ont hyt
boilers. She was 10 sail CA the Ist instant Tor
Ardns,s BAY.
The following extract from a letter writ,cn
10y one OF the 81 Infantry To III, friend i'm this
city, giving an account of the landing Of th"
troops and the planting of the siar-sp2pglcl
banner, viii be found interesting. Tie letter
IS dated Isl. Joseph's Island, Texas, July 18th.
io'J. The writer slys-
we had not been larrlci more than Give
hours, when Ne had iuur wells completed.
capable ot Nletdtng water enough Tor the W hole
regiment. Is. Company was the first that
landed and cHcamped. Lieutenant Chandler
planted me stdr-spanglcd bonner ou the island
mn less than an hour after the Alabama had
anchored. and exclaimed, "Woe be unto him
that attempts to harm the mother aud her in
liant daughter, Texas We will leave the is
landday alter to-mprrow-part OF the REGIMENT
for Corpus Christi and part Tor Live Oak Point.
at which stations, it isrUmored, we Will re-
main until late in the fall
The principal news relates To the CDnvcn-
ton now III session at Austin. IL is thought
that Constitution will be- framed and the
Convention be ready to adjourn by the middle
OF August. The seat of guvcrnInpnt willpro
badly be continued at Austin for the next llur
or five years.
The Galveston papers of the 30th, contain
the reports OF the various committees on the
subject of the new Constitution. They will
doubtless undergo material notifications dur
Ing tic debates oi the Convention. Thus far
the new Constitution resembles i'm many re-
spects that OF our State, which seems TO
have been taken asa model. The Bill of Rights
prohibits religious tests, bills OF attuudcrGr
post Jacfo iarS, laws impairiug the obligation
ol contracts, imprisonment for debt, mpuopo-
lies, laws OF primogeniture and entailmcnt.
1t Is proposed that the Judiciary shall be
nominated by the 6evcrnor, and appointed by
and with the adyiceoftwo-third of he Senate.
The right ot suffrage i conferred upon every
'lvC Nhltt maze CiilHCl III Texas who shall have
resided IN the Stale one year next preceding
the election, and the hast six months i'm the
county or town III which he offers To vote
Indians not taxed, and Africans and descend
ants of Africans excepted.
The first election To b. held on the first Mon
day and the lollowiugday in November. 1916.
and the election shall be held ON the same DAYS
IN November every two years thereafter.
The Civilian Is o%topiuion that the Convcn-I
ton VIII d~lsCountenanCc amy attempt 10 cstab-
lIsl an elective Judiciary. So much the better.
II thinks moreover thata proposition 10 prohib-
It the Incorporation OF bunhs will be introIuc-
ed and adopted.
DIR. ID. y. Perry, of Washington county.
was murdered lately by a negro who formerly
belonged 10 him, and who being suspectadaud
accused, confessed the deed and has been hung.
Galveston continued healthy. Rain was
much needed. Speaking of the crops, the News
OF the 10Th ult. say.:
"Al our accounts of the crops in Texas con-
extremely favorable. With the exccp-
ton ct the lower Trinity, the corn crop
throughout tie country is universally rrpresrti-
ted The best ever made i'm the memory of the
inhabitants. The recent dry wcatheris
doubtless favorable TO cotton, as the previous
rains had been too abundant for this crop
From present prospects it is thought the a.
mount OF Texas cotton viii, this wear. greatly
'Xcced what II has ever before been. Tobacco.
sugar cane and sweet potatoes are said to afford
he most encouraging hopes 10 our tanners
DOINGSlN WASiIiNGTON.-The Wash
g. "