Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-08-23
INU. u.
SECRETARY OF WAR AND Navy.

Centre Section-First Dipision.
GExERAL made known to his Excelency the Pre-
siden per interim, your communication dated, Right
Shore of Rio de las Nueces 3lst ullimoin answer TO
which, have to inform you, agreeaby to the supreme
orders have received that the Whole OF this cominuni-
cation has been looked with the greatest Indignation
.Your Excellency will have to answer for the serious
offences YOU have committed in not adhering TO points
which the supreme Congress ordered you TO maintain,
what they might from that rsemen serious charge
lays YOU Tor having forgotten the dispositions OF Art
g title s. chap. of the Military ordinance, which in
vested you with the command of the army In no light
whatever ought you to have considered that the Gene
r,ln Chief was in full exercise of his functions, while
in captivity And had he even been at the head OF the
exec uvc powcr order emanating from him, carried
with it obedience, unless countersgned Oy Tue secretary
Of the department from whence u would nave emana.
ted The President, per interim, is greatly surprised
that you could have accepted such conditions
mon sense aleae rejects and which only could have been
adopted Through the grossest ignorance OF the DISPOSE:
tions Of our military laws and particularly the circu
stances under which the executive power executed in
a republic like ours
Consequently the President, per! interim, condemns
all the stipuations Of the convention gned at Felasco
the 18th May 1886, because the General who signed II
had neither the power authority TO do he more
particularly condemns contempt OF The rights OF ma
tons all that part of le concordat which grants The IL
tie of republic 10 portion of one OF the revoed states
of the Mexican confederation and the little OF PRESIDENT
TO the chief Of these bandits.
The President per interim concudesb by requesting YOU
if YOU have already done TO remit Immediately the
command of the Army unto General D. Jose Urea, and
that YOU repair witbo&t delay this capitol and there
answer for your conduct before the tribunals of your
country.
God and Liberty! Mexico. 25th June, 1886.
TORNEL.
To His Exceency the General.in Chief of Division,
TTue Copy IL. VELAseUEs DE LEON.
Mexico, 25th June, 1886.
(From the Nc,o Orleans Bulletin, Of Aug d.
BY resident of Texas who came passenger in the
IeIian schooner OF lnGenpnSoncp
that the political affairs of this country we're in very
tranquil state and strong evidence had been given by
the people, OF the'' discrimination to support the
tive government The order writ for the elections
Of President Vice President Senators and Renres,n,a
tiyes had been issued by the executive cabinet and will
take place on the hrst Monday in September and Con
oroposed to the citizens Of Texas by the Covcrnwon,
that they should invest the Members Of Congress- with
conventional powers to alter and amend the Cons,i,u
tion made by the late Convention, lnasmuch the dis
arranged state of the country had prevented It's being
printed aud circulated amongst the inhabitants. Gen
Stephen F. Austin is a candidate for the Presidential
Chair. Dr. B. T. Archer having declined, and declared
bis determination Of supporting Gen Austin for that
office. 1t understood that DR.. Archer would be
voted for as Senator. Z
The spies which had been sent by the Texian army to
the banks of the Rio Grand reported the Mexican army
inactive at Maamoras. There was no expectation Of
movement toward Texas, as the extreme trough, and
want of water renders such step impraccabe and be-
Sides it is we'll understood that the Mexicans who have
once visited Texas have lost all taste for the country
and are not likely to relish return. The army bpe,ie
official reports from % to 2700 strong, and the Govern
ment would form army Of reserve on the Brasos or
Trinity of 1000 men.
We further learn by the arrival Of the Independence
that the port of Maamoras is blockaded by three armed
Texan schooners and that large land force is in prepa-
ration march upon it, and cooperate with the feet
All the inhabitants of Matamoras without distinction Of
aenage subjected to contributions for the supper.
of the place. 80
The Mexican schooner, commanded by Thompson (of
San Felipe memory was lost on her passage from Msa