subject, each emigrant who shall serve faithfully in her armies for three months, will receive a bounty of three hundred and twenty acres of land; those serving faithfully for six months will be entitled to six hundred and forty acres; and those that serve faithfully during the war, and becoming settlers, establish themselves in the country, will receive two thousand one hundred and ten acres, if single men, and if men of families, five th.9usand two hundred and forty acres. The lawful heirs of those that may die or be killed in the service, or in going to or returning from the war, will be entitled to the same that would have been due the deceased, if he had served out his time and settled in the countTy. In addition to these munificent bounties in land, emigrants serving in the army will receive the same pay, rations and clothing allowed by the United States. Those who may be able to arm and equip themselves or to furnish a horse are requested to do so, and bonds on the Government will be given for the same at a just valuation receivable in discharge of debts due the Republic for lands. The person raising and bringing into the service 280 emigrants shall receive a commission as Colonel in the "Army of Reserve;'' half that num~er will entitle the person bringing them into the service to the rank of Major; the person bringing into the service a company of 71 emigrants rank and file, shall be Captain; and for half that number a Lieutenancy will be given. It is necessary to caution the friends of Texas not to give heed to rumors tending to induce the belief that the war is over, and that there is no farther need of volunteers. No reliance, no faith whatever, should be given to any arrangement made with the monster Santa Anna, or his minions. He was only deceiving the authorities, and lulling the Texians to sleep, wlulst the Government was engaged in the most active preparations to surprise them with a new and sudden invasion. There is a combination of speculators co-operating with the enemies of Texas by circulating thousands of ever varying rumors, whose origin the public cannot trace, and whose immediate object it does not perceive. This aUusion is not intended for all that speculate in Texas lands, for some of our most devoted friends are those that hold legitimate claims; but it is intended for those who have flooded the United Stales with spurious titles, dependent for their validity upon the future action of the Mexican Government. lt is the interest of this class of speculators, (and there are many of them,) that Texas should be subjugated hy her invaders, with whom, I do not doubt, they have an arrangement, by which their claims are to be ratified. Accord-
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