Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-12-29
From the National hteligencer.
MEYHn

that month, we learn, that the first number OF
a daily paper was issued in the Capital, entitled
"Correo de la Federation Mexicana." Its eai-
tors are gentlemen Of talents and influence; and,
TO Judge from the first fruits Of their @labors,
possess a liberal and independent spirit. they
promise TO praise or censure, as they maymer-
it, the measures Of the Government, without
excepting the President Of the Federation -
And in an early paper, they take occasion to
notice the sluggish progress OF business III the
Department of State; and express surprise That,
whilst the treaties concluded at Panama have
been laid before Congress, the treaty with the
United States yet slumbers in the office OF For
eign Relations. /" 1t SEEMS" they observe,
Z" that The business of the Departments has fall
en- into the hands of the seUen Seepers."
From other numoers of this paper, we offer
our readers the following transfations:
Mprico, Nou. l2-The election of Toluca is
a subject of much public discussion, and APP
pears to have Gre ated no little excitement. This
election was Held to choose Deputies for the
Legislature cf the State, and for the General
Congress. AS party spirit ran high, great ex-
%ertions were made on either side 10 promote its
success. The contest lay between the lohinos
and Escoseces, as the parties are denominated;
lUC OI'lC OSluS III - oN y 3 obd Nhh'I
10 the existing federal form Of Government
The Escoseces are the opposition believed to be
advocates for a central form of Government,
and perhaps more friendly to the old Spaniards
than the other party think discreet. The York.
nos were, it seems, triumohantly successfully; and
efforts are now making by their opponents to
declare the elections null. The subject is un,I
der discussion in the Legislature Of the State
:, ,,iI,pol "hich fba cucapSSFul marry 6pcIara IL
be incompetent; because, say they, to put IL
the power of that body to try the validity OF
the elections of their successors, would lead
TO the anti-republican absurdity of making that
body perpetual: for they might always annul
them-and, NOR over, that could not be an i'm
partial tribunal, because the People had shown
their dissatisfaction with their conduct, and
had not reelected one Of them to a seat in the
succeeding Legislature They maintain, also.
that the elections were constituti0nally and de
facto lawful.
The battle RACES, in close columns, in the news
papers of the Capital: and in answer to a cal
of the Senate for information upon the state Of
the public tranquility, the Secretaries Of War
and Of State, in the session of the 9th (Nov)
report, THAT the validity ofthe elections held
al Ioluca, is the origin OF an earnest discuss
ion, in which the citizens manifest the greatest
warmth. In this is seen a cloud, charged with
electricity, which, with the least friction, may
burst; but, 10 this moment, there is nothing, in
the opinion Of the Government, which imme-
diately may i~nterruptthe public tranquility::&
it even @flatters itself with the hope, that, ii the
matter which divides public opinion be man
aged with the calmness, circunspection, mod
Grafton, and justice, which; independent OF
their station, the patriotism and intelligence of
the authorities promise, and OF the Govern
ment and others concerned in it, that the mel
ancholy appearances, which agitate the mind,
and hold all in expectation, will be dispersed"
"Merico, Mov. l4.-The Chamber Of Senators,
on the 9TH instant, approved a report OF the
Committee on the Treasury to the following
purport: The duty, which, by decree Of
the 9th August, 1922, was directed to be paid
in the interior Custom Houses, upon brandies,
wines, beer, cider, and other fermented liquors
imported, shall be collected on their interna,
ton, not only upon those that may be intro
duced hereafter, but upon those which may
have been introduced without paying it on Sc
con the 18th, the Secretary of the Treasury
read, in the Chamber of Deputies, a communi-
cation of Don Vicente Rocafuer,e, Mexican
Charge d'Ahaires in London, in which he men,
tons the transfer of the Agency of Mexico to
the House of Messrs. Barring, Brothers s Co.,
who had agreed TO pay the dividends on the
Mexican loans due in October. Mr.. Rocafu-
erte adds, that neither Colombia, nor Chill,
nor Peru, will be able 20 pay their October di-
only Mexico and Buenos Ayres will
pay, who have fortunately placed their agency
in the hands of Mr.. Barring
The Congress Of the United States Of Mexi-
had been in session Two months, but had
passed no acts Of general interest. The Tariff
and Public Credit yet "drag their slow length
both are subjects of urgency
the one necessary for the creation and perma-
hence Of foreign CONFERENCE.-THE other, to the
state Of the Of the nation"
A Trading Party, under the direction of Mr..
Manard, of Kaskaskia, Illinois, passed through
Little Rock, Arkansas, on the 18th ult. with
i've wagons and carts, and about twenty pack
horses, laden with Indian goods, on a trading
overture to the Cumancba Indians, in the
Of Texas.