Indiana State Sentinel

TEXAS.

The Washington Union, after expressing the opinion that the Executive of Texas should take steps at once to drive from its territory the Mexican troops who are crossing the Rio Grande, says:

"We hazard nothing in saying that such, too, would be the decided preference of our own government. We had understood, indeed, that such was also the determination of Texas, if the Mexicans should be found hovering in the country between the Rio Grande and the Nueces. We do not mean to say that, if the Texans should be found wanting to themselves, we should suffer a hostile foe to tread her legitimate soil, as soon as her Congress and her convention have ratified our propositions. The United States will never be found wanting in what she owes to her own high character, or to the best interest of her friends."

The Galveston News comments at great length and with much severity upon the presumed machinations of President Jones, Mr. Smith and "the man with the white hat," to defeat annexation by a triple alliance with England and Mexico. The Telegraph, which is said to be in the confidence of Jones, declares that that functionary "has made no proposals to Mexico and authorized no messenger to proceed to Mexico with proposals;" and suggests that all these negotiations have originated in fraud, and a forgery of the great seal of the Republic. This extraordinary explanation will find few persons credulous enough to swallow it, more especially as Capt. Elliott had reached Galveston in a French sloop of War, from Vera Cruz, and had proceeded to the seat of Government bearing with him propositions from Mexico, acknowledging the independence of Texas. We have no doubt that the whole of this deep and dark intrigue will be defeated by the people of Texas.

The Louisville Democrat has the following on this subject:

Texas-Jokes.—There is pretty strong evidence that President Jones has been making a dunce of himself. A proposition has been made to Mexico purporting to come from Texas which was accepted by the Mexican Congress. This proposition, it seems, was fraudulently made; the great seal of Texas was counterfeited. So says the government organ. The solution of all this is easy. Jones was opposed to annexation—intended to prevent it if he could. For this purpose, he wished to try what effect an acknowledgment of the independence of Texas on the part of Mexico would have. Perhaps the people of Texas would be persuaded to reject annexation. To persuade Mexico to make this acknowledgment, was a difficult task, unless the proposition should be made by Texas: but this was hazardous; for Jones "feared the people." Here comes Smith—John Smith. The name is suspicious, for John Smith may be a great rascal or a clever fellow. This Smith was an Englishman, and wore a white hat. He carried despatches to Mexico, which—scoundrel that he was—he forged; and now he is in parts unknown. Things have turned out as might have been expected. The people of Texas are all for annexation. "The candidates for the convention, as we see, from the Galveston News, are not discussing annexation, but what kind of a state constitution they are in favor of. It is therefore necessary for President Jones to disown the whole matter—call it a fraud and forgery committed by John Smith.

This subterfuge is an indication that all this maneuvering was only an experiment: that England is not going to war. The hope was entertained that the people might be operated upon—a hope entirely fallacious. As to a war with Mexico, she had better attend to California. She has just lost that country, and had better attend to it in time. She has some claims there—let her make them good. They will not last long.

The business seems much more likely to end in a farce than a tragedy. The people of Texas will disregard the act of Mexico. The English minister and Jones will know nothing of the man with a white hat who carried the despatches to that country. England is very anxious to make a tool of Mexico, to annoy the United States; but she will have nothing to do with it—know nothing about it, except as mediator, when she will be looking out for her own advantage. In the denouement Mexico will find herself miserably duped by John Smith, about whom Elliott will be the most ignorant man in Christendom; and Jones will spend the rest of his days explaining how the rascal got hold of the great seal of Texas.