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the roads not being in a state to allow the rapid harvest of cotton, & the navigation of the roads but badly attended to -- March 23rd. Capt Elliot returned from N. Orleans - Monsr Saligny still in the crescent city.

 31st. We have reports that Alimante the Mexican Minister, has demanded his passports from the U.S. Govt owing to its inthynes

relation to annexation & that the British Minister has protested against such measure.

 A few days since Cols. Williams & Hockley returned from Sabinas some 40 miles W. of the Rio Grande, not having effected^all the objects of their

mission, owing to this new phase of annexation.