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We are permitted by merchant of this city to make the following extracts from a letter written by David Hayden, Esq, under date of Natchitoches, Sept. 9th, lS43. Mir. Hayden was sent to Natchitoches, in 1841, as one of the Deputy Collectors of the Port of New Orleans, charged with the duty of affording facilities under the law, to new and important branch of inland commerce, recently sprung into existence between the United States and the Republic of Texas. His official position, and the constant and daily intercourse he has bad with the citizens of Texas, who bring their cotton to Natchi- toches for sale, and shipment to New Or leans, down Red River, have enabled him, in the absence of statistical information, to collect a mass of general facts, of much in- terest to the public, and which he has pre- sented to the notice of our Government. His attention has also been turned to the political question of the Annexation of Texas We would not be understood as assenting to all his views on this head, but publish them as the convictions of all intelligent mind, well acquainted with the subject of which he treats, and sincerely desirous of promoting ] the prosperity and happiness of the country We suppose there IS but little difference oi opinion among Northern people, as to the expediency of admitting Texas into the Union, if she Is to be subject to no restriction on the subject of slavery.