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of tvtent i inenlt;The taclu five ittiekFrom the New York Evenhg Post.Great Expedition from Texas to W ester n Mexico.—An expedition has been planned in Texas for crossing the uninhabited country back of Texas, and visiting the country lying on the western declivity of the Cordilleras towards the pacific | to fc Oceau. The object of the expedition is commercial. The blockade of the Mexican ports by France, has occasioned a I L great scarcity of merchandise in Mexico, chez Even previous to the blockade—says the scril New Orleans Picayune in givingsome ac- sink countofthe expedition—commercial spec- land ulaiions, in the quarter which the cxpedi- serii! t:on intends to visit, were attended with city | large profits. At present the inhabitants the arc represented as destitute of many of as h the necessaries of life. The necessity of | opp obtaining their usual supplies, has, it is said, softened the disposition of the Mexican people both toward the Texians and the people of the United States, and there is now by no means an unwillingness to arrange an interior trade with the United States by ihe^pSjteof Texas. The New Orleans print says:“A company of capitalists have associated themselves together and expect toob-tain a charter from the Texian Congress at the approaching session.—They haveHoiMaifar: f]Coilevlt;gun or 1 theThLa:atsc\rieitistheir agent^%i New York and other partsat)dasnnetJ1JJalieitsridtd,si-veor,inofa-of the United States, and from the rapidity with which preparations have been made hitherto, it is expected that the expedi-tto^will get off some time in November.The main object of this company is to establish a road for wagons, from Galveston Island,through Chihuahua, to Monterey—not the Monterey of new Leon, near (he Rio del Norte, but a town of the same name, situated on the upper part of the Gulfof California. In this pioneering expedition, which is expected to be merely the passage of more extensive rations hereafter, it is in contemplation to take along from forty to fifty thousand dollars worth of beds—and, as there will be two hundred and fifty men in the company, well armed and equipped, it is to be presumed that the caravan will proceed to its destination without much molestation from robbers, banditti, c. al-1 The leader we understand is to be no e- less a personage than Maj. A. Legrand, ies of Texas, so favorably and extensively ill-I known throughout the country to be tra-of versed by the caravan. If we recollect ocr I aright, Maj. L. was the first man that led icy a company of traders from St. Louis to and Santa Fe. It was in 1S24—since which time lie has made repeated trips on the ion, same route, and also to California. He isidel a gentleman of a shrewd and well inform-1En- ed mind, having been engaged foracon-lany Isiderabla time in a lucrative practice as a lese lawyer, which he relinquished for more 1.— active and daring pursuits. Ho has been ?sat concerned, on behalf of the Texain gov-few ernmenf, in negociating treaties with em- some of the Indian tribes, and we believe ecn was once sent to the city of Mexico as a lone commissioner on some business for TexaspeCO!sitcnthbecethJUBbtcitfctlrrsin1♦nd ftfthe 1 during her colonial existence.;ton.
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Logansport Herald
Logansport, Indiana, US
Thu, Nov 01, 1838
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