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TUESDA1T, MARCH 2, 1847,
Vol. 5. No. 15.
HOW SHALL I MEET THEE?
How shall I meet thee! With the trust,
The free fund trust of other years!
With the Jeep, fervent joy that must
Express itself in silent tears!
With eajer grasp and gladden! tone
Such smiles as for our childhood shone!
j-0f Friendship blooms no more for us,
Tia long since I have met thee thus!
How shall I meet thee! With the blush
That kindles at thine earnest gaze,
While quick thoushts o'er my spirit rush
The quivering lip my heart betrays:
With voice whose faltering accents breathe
The trembling jW that lurks beneath!
STo! Such vain dreams ore not for us,
I do not wish to meet thee thus.
( How shall I meet thee! With an eye
That hath no brightness, vet no tears;
"WItK lnvo.11r.ca trtriff onil rrM TPnlv.
' The chilling garb indifference wears;
With sadden'd heart yet cheerless mien,
Revealing nought of what has been!
Yes! changes sad have alter'd us,
Alas! that I must meet thee thus!
MEXICAN NEWS DIRECT.
We are indebted to the attention of a
friend for files of hte Mexican journals,
the Locomotor and the Indicador, of
Vera Cruz, running from the 31st De
cember to the 15th of January. Besides
their original matter, they embody copious
extracts from the newspapers of the capi
tal and of the Departments details not
found in the news brought us by the usual
methods. Of whatever such they offer
wc proceed to place before our readers
abstracts or translations, as cither may
Eecm preferable.
The journals of the towns through
which Gen. La Vega has passed, on his
way to the capital, vie with those of the
latter in welcome and encomiums to that
officer, as the soldier who almost alone
drew, by his conduct at Resaca de la
Pal ma and by his subsequent displays of
patriotism, honor from even that, to the
Mexicans, unfortunate fight. Since La
Vega's arrival in the city of Mexico, a
resolution has been offered in their Con
gress promoting him to the grade of Brig
adier General, and conferring on him,
with the public thanks, a gold medal.
In its session of the 24th December,
the Congress, by a vote of 73 to 2, passed
a law quite like the famous "Self-denying
Ordinance" of the Long Parliament, and
quite as like what Gen. Jackson thought
so admirable until he came into power.
It is a law that members of Congress
shall be incapable of any other public em
ployment during the term for which they
have been elected and for one year after
wards. The Indicador of the 31st December
replies as follows to a communication ap
pearing in the Monitor Republicano of
the capital, and averring that intrigues and
alarms were on foot at Vera Cruz, in re
gard to the erection of a Dictatorship:
That no such intrigues and no such alarms
have any existence at Vera Cruz; that
ill-disposed persons have attempted to cre
ate them, but have been compelled into
silence by the public indignation; and that
these few plotters, disappointed in Vera
Cruz, now hope, no doubt, to raise a dis
turbance elsewhere, by getting up in the
capital city fal se alarms as to disaffection
in Vera Cruz, which their own efforts
have not been able to bring about. The
Ixdicador then adds as follows: "The
war absorbs all our attention; and there
is not a citizen who would not deem it a
crime to countenance any thing that
might lead to disturbance, while the pub
' lie enemy is at hand to take advantage
of it or to rejoice at it. It is only through
'this feeling that the failure of the Go-
vernment to forward the supplies, &c.
necessary to the defence of this place
and of the Castle of San Juan de Ulua
is deplored among us.'
This same Monitor expresses great
dissatisfaction at what it considers the
failure of Santa Anna's plan of repelling
our invasion, by withdrawing his defen
sive force from the frontiers, and letting
us advance into the interior, until to extri
cate ourselves from a hostile population
and superior forces becomes impossible.
Now, it says, the Americans have got
through this system, unresisted posses
sion of large territories; and, instead of
pushing on into the interior, are sitting
down to secure their conquests. 1 he
Monitor thinks that the Congress ought
to call Santa Anna to a severe account for
this.unpropitious event.
The Diario del Gobierxo of the 30th
December gives a letter from Acapulco,
f the 15th December, which says they
have there intelligence direct from Monte
rey de California and the port of San
Franeinco to the following effect: That,
fcinre the late expulsion of the Americans
from Ciudad de los Angeles, they rallied
a force of 400 men, and returned to attack
It; but that at San Pedro, three. leagues
from Los Angeles, they were encountered
Vv the Califnruians. and driven back to
tV on:i?t with considerable loss. It is
; robutle tha( .he new uf thu' unexpected
resistance of the Cahfornians has led to
a proposal of about the same dale, in the
Mexican Congress, to raise a special loan
of half a million to aid the New Mexi
cans and Californians in their efforts to
expel the invaders from those territories.
The quarrel which had sprung up be
tween Santa Anna and the authorities of
the State of Zacatecas, concerning an or
der issued by the former about the time
when the Congress was assembling, to es
tablish martial law throughout Zacatecas,
has been brought before the Congress,
and quieted by the decision that the step
was warranted, both by the gravity of the
conjuncture and the temporary powers
which Santa Anna was then legally exer
cising. The papers contain notices of various
voluntary contributions to the expenses of
the war. Two of these merit particular
mention. In Vera Cruz a number of
private individuals were called on to as
sist in furnishing suits of clothes for the
soldiery, and they at once subscribed for
one hundred and ninety-three full suits;
in Puebla, another body of persons has
given the example of a sort of contribu
tion still more likely to be effectual.
The have each taxing himself in pro
portion to his means raised a present
sum of four hundred and thirty-nine dol
lars, and further engage to contribute, as
long as the war shall last, a monthly
amount of one hundred and thirty-seven
dollars.
Under date of January 14th, the Lo
comotor gives a view of the new plan of
operations for which General Scott is sent
out. New Leon and Tamaulipas are, it
says, to be left to an army of occupation
only, and the main forces, with as many
fresh ones as can be raised, are to be sent
to the attack of Vera Cruz. Our Go
vernment, it says, is confident of success
there, with a force of 25,000 men; and
expects, after taking Vera Cruz and its
castle, to march upon the city of Mexico.
The attack, it adds, may be expected
within from forty to sixty days of that
date. It exhorts the Government to as
semble an army of observation there.
At the entrance of a new year, one of
the Mexican journals (the Regenerador
Reptblicaxo) reviews the comparative
condition of that country, at the begin
ning of 184G and 1847. It says: "A
year since this nation presented a specta
cle the saddest, such as seemed to promise
nothing but its perdy ruin. It had suf
fered a revolution ending in nothing but
the illusion of all the public hopes; and
the army assembled to protect the integri
ty of the national territory, had shameful
ly turned its face from the enemy, in or
der to aid in enslaving us at home," &c.
Proceeding thus in its picture of the
hopeless state of tilings a year since, it
next comes to the present: "The year
1847 opens, then, with better auspices.
The nation is governed by the constitu
tional forms for the restoration of which
it had long sighed; it is free; the Slates
have resumed their sovereignty and inde
pendence; are reorganizing their internal
administration; are raising and arming
their militia; are casting about for the
means of replenishing their treasuries;
are endeavoring to find further financial
aids for the General Government itself in
the war which it is waging, and are pre
paring all the elements of national defence
which can be devised. At the beginning
of 1816 we could see nothing but omens
of calamity and dissolution; at that of
1847 only signs of regeneration and of
recovery greet us."
Mexico, in short, has derived from this
war onlv renewed union, a reanimated
public order, a freer Government. We
wish all the world could say as much!
National Intelligencer.
A Democrat ox "Democracy." Mr.
Wcstcott, a Democratic Senator from Flo
rida, in the course of a speech upon the
resolution to exclude Mr. Ritchie from
the privileges of admission to the Senate,
said that since he had been here he had
been rather puzzled to know what was
democracv. lie had followed some of
r
the great lights of the democratic party,
Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Benton and others,
but he fo-ind it impossible to follow all
of them at the same time, as they went
different ways.
Sir, said Mr. W., in a loud and em
phatic manner, and amidst perfect silence,
what is modern democracy? At this
day and under this ttdinlnislration, it is
nothing more than a party combination to
secure the loaves and fishes the spoils
of office!! Great Sensation. Sir,
the people of the United States have no
idea of the gross, feculent, festering cor
ruption that exists here; they have no
conception of it. Increased sensation
and close attention. Sir, if the people
of the United States suppose there was
a twentieth part of the rottenness and cor
rrption that is to be found here in the ci
ty of Washington, they would assemble
nerc ana pitch the whole government,
the President, heads of departments, both
Houses of Congress all, into the Poto
mac, and set up a better, and thev would
do right. Much merriment and sensa
tion. , ... - , ;
THE RELIEF OF SUFFERERS IN
IRELAND.
At a public meeting held in the city of
Philadelphia, on Wednesday evening last,
to consider of the means of affording re
lief to the individual sufferers in Ireland
by the dearth of the usual crops of that
country .several gentlemen spoke eloquent
ly and appropriately. Our attention was
arres'ed, in reading the report of the pro
ceedings, by the name of Horace Bin
ney, long distinguished equally in public
and private life by political integrity and
true American principles, whose voice is J
now seldom heard in public. Our read
ers, we cannot doubt will be pleased to
hear what a citizen of his mark had to
say on this occasion. We copy his re
marks, therefore, as we find them report
ed in the "North American," as follows :
Mr. Chandler having spoken with much
applause, was succeeded by
Horace Binxey, Esq., who was re
ceived with marked approbation. He
came, he said, to speak a few words in
furtherance of the purpose of the meeting,
not merely to testify his own good will,
but to offer suggestions to demonstrate
the necessity of a great and combined ac
tion to correct and alleviate the distress of i
the suffering country.
It had been remarked by the previous
speakers that meetings for the purposes
of benevolence are not un frequent among
us. They are not. Nor are the appeals
to the community and their sympathies
made in vain, for prompt and cheerful aid
is always extended. But he desired to
speak of another class of meeting, and to
contrast them with this, in order to see
how their character and partial views do
in some respects serve to misrepresent a
broad the character of our country.
Town meetings generally represent us as
a divided people, with separate action and
hostile feelings. Some are political, some
general, some local, and in consequence
those who know us as divided and disuni
ted, are busy in provoking opposition and
in offices ot ill-will.
Such a meeting as this is a practical ref
utation. At bottom, fundamentally, we
are a united people; and so, if divided up
on the great principles of benevolence by
which man can come to man, and men to
men, when necessity gives occasion. We
are here assembled in the spirit of the
Apostle's saying "Considering one ano
therand to provoke one auother to good
works."
This was not the first movement for the
relief of Ireland, for others had been en
gaged in the good work of relief of suf
fering Ireland. But this meeting, he un
derstood, was to second the effort begun
at Washington, for the purpose of produ
cing a great national and universal move
ment in her behalf; for a common and
united effort, upon the principle that if
you give it will be of no good if many
give it will be of only partial benefit but
if all give it will be a powerful means to
alleviate the suffering. It was begun in
Washington, and continued here, and
would, he hoped, be propagated both to
and beyond the mountains, and into eve
ry hamlet, village, town, and city, that ev
ery one might enjoy the privilege of aid
ing to succor the distressed.
They must shut their ears who would
not have a knowledge of the details of
suffering. The winds of the Atlantic will
be freighted for months to come. No ca
lamity so great had ever visited the civi
lized world, and he desired briefly to
place before his auditors an idea of the ex
tent, in order that they might be enabled
to measure the effort necessary to afford
relief.
A large portion of the Irish nation is de
pendant on the potato crop. It is their
bread, their money; wages are often paid
with this article of food, and in some ca-
f . i
ses a portion ot me lortncoming crop
stands so pledged. Oat meal is also a
national dependance; and, if these two
crops potatoes and oats fail, a million
nd a half of people would at once be
struck with paralysis. With this state of
affairs, let us inquire into the opinions ot
eminent English statesmen as to the pres
ent condition of Ireland. Mr. Labou
chere, in his reply to the Queen's speech,
stated that having obtained accurate statis
tics, with much trouble, and from high
authority, he was enabled to say that in
Ireland 1,500,000 acres of land were
planted with the potato, the value of the
crop bejng 10 per acre, or abount .15,
000,000. Of this crop, five-sixths, of
the growth of 1,260,000 acres, is all lost,
and on the remaining sixth the crop is
poor and below the general average.
The oats crop is but three or four mil
lions in product, and the total loss in val
ue of food amounts to between 15,000,
000 and 16,000,000 sterling. '
Need we look for details ? Close your
eyes, if you would not have your heart
racket! by the most painlui spectacles in
our sister nation. 1 here they win oe;
and, if editors record them, their papers
will be black with the tales of wo. In
such a cause all distinctions will be for
gotten, and all spring forward to place
whatever their means may permit to save
the wretched remnant of a people from
this visitation. - .
It does not strike the poor alone. The
evil penetrates into the cottages of the
small farmers; into the homestead of the
large tenants, and even into the mansions
of the proprietors of lands. It has grown
so great that there has been justification
for an assessment upon real estate to pay
men employed upon works of little impor
tance, about which there is a diversity of :
opinion, aud simply for the purpose of af-!
fording employment. A million of pound ;
sterling had already been expended in ;
this manner. In September last, 125,
000 were paid; in October, 300,000;
and ih November 500,000. Four hun
dred thousand people are employed at c
leven pence a day, and three-fourths of
these small landholders. The crop has
gone fatally for him as for the laborer.
There is no means of paying rent or wa
ges' or producing a supply of food, and
he feeds upon his seed corn in the vague
hope that it will last until help arrives
from God knows where.
That is a state of things calling not for
a dole, but for large liberality, for liber
al contributions hero and elsewhere.
That is Ireland ! What is our own
condition? It is just such that it would
be crying ingratitude to God, it would be
unexampled hardness of heart, if we re
fused to give it to our superfluity. Our
harvests have been regular; our graneries
burst with abundance; and our iron roads
bent beneath the weight of passing trains
laden with the fruits of the earth. Nev
er were a people so blessed with abund
ance an abundance so diffused. There
is not a man not a dog from the Bay
ofFundy to the Gulf of Mexico, who
has not three meals a day, if he has ap
petite to eat them; and even personal mis
conduct docs not avail to cause a depriva
tion. Look at the Irishman. He has not
three no, not a half a meal a day, to di
vide with his wife and children; and the
dog, the faithful guardian aud companiou,
is drowned and buried, that his master
may not have another appeal of hunger
to satisfy.
Can there be any hesitation to relieve
want when we have abundance? Is there
any thing that can be advanced to divide
the proposed action? It may be said, let
the friends of Ireland : let the rich take
cara of the poor; but it will not avail
There is in her case a complication of e-
vils, which extends through and affects
all classes and paralyzes all.
Who arc their friends we if arc, not?
They are a part of our blood; their blood
flows in our own veins; our excellent ma
gistrates, our most eminent merchants,
have drawn their existence from that suf
fering land; and, in continuance, the spea
ker laid a beautiful and just tribute to
those who, in the fulfilment of domestic
duties, have exhibited the ever-ready sym
pathy, the cordial heart, the untiring zeal,
and the incorruptible fidelity which are
priceless. They are our brcthern, and
we should renounce the name, dishonor
the nation, and be false to nature, if wc
did not spring at once with generous im
pulse to their relief.
There is he saw it in the journal ol
England to be a painful contest as to the
causes of this alHiction. Manv will attri
bute to the improvidence, others to idle
ness, to bad government, to this or that.
There is a prying disposition in men to
look behind true causes, and direct and
pervert purposes of good, with evil intent,
against the sufferers; and he illustrated
his position by reference to the fall of the
Tower of Siloam and the Galleleans.
When we attempt to point His judg
ment to a case or nation we pervert it,
and these calamities under which Ireland
groans can never be just regarded as af
flictions brought on any one body of peo
ple. They may safely be applied by in
dividual as monitions to perform the du
ties of a brother to improve the heart.
and to deserve blessings by
kindness to those in affliction.
Mr. Binney's speech was
exercising
listened to
with profound attention, and his words
had evidently a deep effect upon his audi
tors. The Baltimore Paltiot, after giving
the proceedings of the meeting of the
Stockholders of the Baltimore Railroad,
appends the following remarks :
We think there can be little doubt from
the spirit abundantly manifested at the
stockholders' meeting to-day, and , from
the indications in the public mind, since
the intelligence of the loss of the right of
way bill again in the Virginia Legislature,
that prompt and effectual measure will be
immediately taken by our community at
large, to complete the Pittsburgh and Con
neilsville Railroad, from Pittsburgh to as
far this way as Smithfield, on the Na
tional Road at least. That done, Pitts
burgh is brought to within only forty miles
of Cumberland by the national road, and
this will effectually attract the trade and
travel to Pittsburg. Thus Virginia may
be made to realize the impotency. of' an
opposition to any reasonable route which
the company could pursue to the Ohio
through that State. Let the railroad from
Pittsburgh to Smithfield be finished, and
we shall have time enough to fill up the
gap thence to Cumberland, as soon as the
means are at hand and circumstances re
quire it. ;
Correspondence nf the Westmoreland Republican
FROM THE WESTMORETAND
VOLUNTEERS.
Ship J. N. Cooper, ofl Battle
Ground January 28, 1847.
I have, after much difficulty, found a
place to write you a letter, being on the
upper berth of one of the ranges of the
sleeping apartment, with a small portion
of the precious light of the day, that with
pain fiuds its way through the midship
hatches. After this preamble, whatever
conies in my head will be placed on this
paper. Yesterday for supper we had a
delicacy that some of our mess took from
a garden, consisting of tiunip tps, out
of which we made greens, and when well
scalded, we put on the vinegar fixins.
Our meals consists of coffee,(pretty hard)
boiled beef, and hard biscuit, with pork
for supper, and yet upon this diet that
may seem a little harJ. I am in good health
and increasing in weight, and so with all
of us. Our cooking accommodations for
nearly 400 men, consists of two grates or
fire places, about six feet each, and when
five or six camp kettles are hung on,
there is not much room to cook the luxu
ries; the consequence is, the men are
nearly always eating. The only tiling
that gives me uneasiness, is the fact that
I may take the gout on this rich diet
Articles of food that I turned up my nose
at home, would be acceptable, and yet I
never enjoyed better he.dth.
The sunny south, about which you
hear so much, is a pet feet humbug it is
variable as the humor of a flirt, some
times all sun and gratefulness, again clou
dy and surly as the One day it is
clear and pleasant with a warm sun, next
pouring down rain, and next a cold north
wind that produces chills and cold for
health and every thing else, give me Penn
sylvania, and that sweet spot home, for
"a charm from the skies seems to shadow
us there." You can inform any of our
ladies that we have all the elegant, classi
cal and fashionable sons: ever sung. The
last Rose of Summer appears to be a great
favorite witli some, whilst the Rose ot
Alandale has its favorites, and Sweet
Home has its votaries from amongst the
Dutch, English, Irish, French and Amer
icans, that compose our crew of live
stock. Death still continues to deal with
an unsparing hand in the Mississippi Re
gimentmen lie down at night with
buoyant spirits, and ere the sun rises in
the morning, the dark angel has passed
by and they are no more yet in the same
climate the Peiinsylvanians enjoy good
health, and are in fine spirits, that noth
ing will damp. I received a letter from
the other day, and it was as good
as one week in Greensburgh. When he
spoke of the dreary 8th January, so dif
ferent from others, it forcibly reminded
us that we were not forgotten although so
far distant among strangers, and in a
strange land but it may not be many
years nntil at least some one of us will
return to cheer them. Our company, al
though composed of some men who are
aliens to Westmoreland, yet by our good
example, we have lost one by desertion,
and that happened in Pittsburgh before
he received his pav. This morning a
guard was sent to the City for one of our
men, (not a resident or G.) with direc
tions to take him dead or alive, if he can
be found it is supposed on all hands, he
has deserted; if arrested; he will receive
his due, as an example for the balance.
He had received a great many liberties,
and borrowed money from the men his
meanness ought to be punished if not his
neglect of duty. The Guard were arm
ed with revolvers witli directions to shoot
any citizen that will aid or assist him in
case he is captured.
You can inform Mrs. Coulter, that
Dick is a noble soldier, and undergoes the
fatigue and hardships as if he had been ac
customed to it through life, and his health
better than at home. This kind of busi
ness devclopes the constitution of a per
son, and I am certain that our fare and ac
commodations cannot be were in Mexico.
Daniel Kuhns is in his element, and al
ways in a good humor, in sunshine or
rain, and his humor is calculated to keep
a whole company out of the reach of the
blue devils, even were they disposed to
make their appearance.
Our Sundays how different from that
quiet and subdued way we have been ac
customed to at home, now it is like other
days, the same noise and bustle never
thelesa. theBiblcs are carried in the round
, abouts, and you will constantly see the
soldier reading them. In order to write
this, I am in bodily pain, being compelled
to lay at full length, though I have no rea
son to complain, for one of our men in a
standing position, with a pan for his desk,
and occasionally it falls on the filth in the
steerage, yet he appears to be thankful for
small favors, and thanks his God it is no
Worse. The rain is pouring down which
drives the men in like rats. Yesterday it
was sunshine. If this weather continues,
we will not start, as the pilot of the tow
boat will not undertake the journey to
the Balizc. We expect an unpleasant
cruise across the Gulf, as they all expect
to be sick. It is supposed there will be
about 100 men out of the Regiment miss
in" when we leave. The chance for tra
velling is slim, as the ship is doubl guar
ded and no man allowed to pass, unless
by permission of the officer of the day.
Scrg't Kuhns has just pr ssed slung, and
requests you to inform his father and mo
ther that he is well, and would write if he
had a place to put his paper. Do the la
dies and gentlemen have as many acci
dentals a formerly? if so thev will ccr
tamly miss some of the dancing meterial,
for we have a good share of it with us,
and if we had room we could pitch into
the coltillions, as we have fiddles, drums,
flutes and mess pans and all we want is
rosin to raise up a Crawford county fid
dle, which music the ships might dance.
Corp'l Ross, who left the camp on
Saturday evening last for the City on the
sick list, has reported himself, he looks
bad, but he thinks the complaint is remo
ved. It was fortunate he left for he had
been unable to walk, and during Saturday
night his tent was a foot deep with water.
The storm continues to rage, and I sup
pose wc will have to sup on biscuit and
postpone the use of coffee and bean soup,
until a more convenient season. The vo
heave, ye hove, of the sailors on deck, is
quite musical and with these hardy tars.
I think our good ship will weather any
thing, tho' of that I can imform you when
we get to Mexico.
GEN. SCOTT AND THE EDITOR
OF LA PATRIA.
FROM THE "UNION.'
A story has been going the rounds of
the newspapers that General Scott hail
employed upon his staff, in a confidential
capacity, a Mr. Gomez, one of the editors
of a Spanish paper, "La Patria'f'publish
ed New Orleans, and that the latter had
thus become possessed of the plan of
the campaign against Mexico, which he
had disclosed in his journal, we take
pleasure in laying before our readers the
following extract of a letter from an offi
cer serving with an army in Mexico, to a
friend in this city, giving an authentic ac
count of the transaction referred to. The
facts stated in the letter may be fully reli
ed on, as the position of the writer gives
him access to the very best sources of in
formation :
Exteact ojr a letter from an officer,
of the army to a friend in Wasii
in6too, dated
Brasos Santiago, January 21, 1847.
"General Scott wrote from New York,
to General Brooks and Colonel Hunt, to
look out for some person in New Orlonns
who would be a good Spanish translator,
and, at the same time, a man of gentle
manly habits. Col. Hunt employed, or
rather recommended for the place, on the
General's arrival in New Orleans, a Mr.
Gomez, who assists in editing a Spanish
paper there. The General made some
inquiries of Colonel Hunt relative to the
feelings of Mr. Gomez concerning the
Mexican war. He was informed that the
sympathies of Mr. Gomez were with the
United Stales, and he recommended there
upon that Governor Johnson should give
him the commission of lieutenant colonel;
which was accordingly done. The same
day, however, 8 ven 1 gentlemen informed
General Scott that the paper upon which
Mr. Gomez had been employed had not
been sound on the subject of the Mexican
war, and that it had contained a great deal
of abuse of the Aministration. The Gen
eral immediately directed Mr. Gomez to
be notified that his commission was revo
ked, and that his services would not bo re
quired. This was done, and all these
occurrences took place during oe day.
The General was not in company with
Mr. Gomez three or five minutes during
the time, and if this gentleman has dis
closed any secrets of the campaign, he
must have guessed at them. He certain
ly was not informed by General Scott or
any member of his staff."
FROM MEXICO, via HAVANNA.
A late arrival of the Charleston furnish
es the following items from Mexico:
Santa Anna is still at San Lnis Potosi
at the head of 22,000 men.
The clergy have refused to contribute
the $8,000000 attempted to be raised
from them; they arc much excited against
Santa Anna, and are endeavoring to get
up pronunciamentos against him.
The whole Cabinet of Santa Anna are
reported to have resigned. Great jealou
sies exist among the different General
in the Mexican army, and consequently
much confusion and disorganization pre
vails. Vera Cruz ifl garrisoned by 3,000
troops, dispirited, and expert the city to
be attacked by ibe Americans an the 2d
of February. The bet informed think
the resistance wl.ich will be. made by the
gnrrison will be feeble, v.r.i it will tall au
c:isy conquest. In the cattle there re
only 1,000 men, and badly supplied wish
provision, the chief depcnJfjr.ee being oa
Vera Cruz for supplies.
Many Vessels laden witii valuable car
goes have tr.rx th? blockade, and entered
different ports of Mexico; some ten have
left Ilavanna for Alvarado and Tuspno it
the last month. A large French. $hpf
with a valuable carjo, has 'ecn recently
captured, after having Wen grimed nif
once for a fecond attempt to c.r.trr, J
Y
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