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THE AUSTIN PAPERS
I am bitter-that Brute Butler has just arrived
I have a letter from Gritten 18 inst- says that Cos was expected on the 22cL_ that Congress declared itself a national convention to make a new constitution (good for us because this step is an outrage on all the rights of the nation)- that Zacatecas and Guadalajara were in array against San tana etc The mail rider says it wa:; reported at Goliad that Cos had turned back and gone lo put down a revolution in Tamaulipas Western writes me from Goliad-says nothing about Cos- So I sup- pose he is not near at hand or Western would have mentioned it W. gives no news. Men enough have gone to Gonzales I think for the present- tho I will stop none- s. F. A. [Addressed:] Mr James F. Perry Peach Point
MATAGORDA COMMITTEE TO AUSTIN
Town of Matagorda
To
Committee Room Sep. 30-1835.
COL. STEPHEN F. AUSTIN, We received last evening, a Brazoria paper, containing your letter to the- Committee of Columbia, dated the 21 st inst., and unanimously approved the course there recommended. We had, however, already dispatched two suitable persons to Caney, and up 8. Prairie; to raise a volunteer corpse: which we have this day recommended to rendezvous at James Kerr's, as speedily as possible, to cooperate in the common defence of Texas. There has been some opposition here to these movements-but at present, it amounts to little more than want of concert, and among a very few, and we have good reason to hope for a respectable showing when all convene. Fifteen or twenty days ago, the Vera Cruzanna appeared in the offing of the passo Cavallo, and sent in her tender, a small sloop, said to be com- manded by the notorious Cooper-a small boat from the latter, with 3 men, landed at the Pilot's house. One of the three, an englishman, who says he was pressed into the Mexican service by Thomson, deserted; •and came to town. He says the V. C. Anna is loaded, as he was informed by those on board, with Cannon, small arms, ammunition, and iron hobbles; and bound for Copano; that 500 Mexn· troops were expected there in a short time from Matamoras; and in the mean time, the cargo, when landed, was to be guarded by 5 of the Brig's crew. We have since learned from Mr. John Linn-that, she had not a few days ago, been able to effect a landing; nor did he think she could procure the necessary small boats to enable her to do so. Arrangements are made through him, for procuring
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