Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1843-07-01
MEXICAN AFFAIRS.

from them the following summary for to-day, and
shall proceed hereafter TO give more at large the
news which they afford:
The Estandarte Of the 18th May mentions that
Seniors LAFRAGUA, GoMEz PEDRAzA, and RIvAPA-
LAcIo Qhree Of those arrested as participators in
the lately alleged conspiracy have protested against
the jurisdiction Of the military tribunal before which
they were brought, and have in their examination
made no discoveries. The Sigio declares that no
proofs of the existence of conspiracy have yet
been brought to light in the proceedings against the
several prisoners Ii appeals to the Justice and
magnanimity Of the Government TO set them free
Under date of the Goth April the Secretary of
War publishes circular to the Governors of the
departments, directing, the part of the President
that in all future evies of draughts of men for mill
tary service Indians shall not be exclusively taken
forasmuch as every citizen owes like duty Of de-
Tending his country in arms when his services are
needed.
An annual fair of FIVE days, at Pentecost, has
been granted for the term of FIVE years to the town
Of Chimalhuacan Chalco, with the usual exemption
of all goods brought thther and sold then from all
duties.
On the 18th of May the Secretary of the Trea-
sury publishes decree of the 1lfh, by which the
President directs that twenty-five per cent. of all
the receipts at the custom-houses of the Republic
shall be set apart as sinking fund pay the pub
lie debt This fund is 10 be involable for any
other purpose. The decree goes on to provide for
a sort of consolidating and funding the internal
debt, at the rate of six per cent. stock for which it
will be exchanged by such as choose. Those who
do not embrace this arrangement with the Govern
ment will have their stock lquidated only when,
out Of the sinking fund created, they shall have
first been paid who accede this exchange Of stock
By letter to the editors of the Siglo, dated at
Nav A,y he oa,c
said in the Government paper, the Diario, to have
received from Don MANUEL GOMEZ PEDRAzA the
plan of the intended conspiracy for which the latter
is now under arrest, denies the fact of his having
received any such revelation from PEDRAzA or any
body else. He goes on to say that within the dis
trict which is in his charge, from the river Papa
guyo that of Las Balsas an absolute tranquility
prevails and freedom from every thing like revo-
lutonary projects. They have, he says, sworn to
submit themselves to the new Constitution which is
in progress, and will do in good faith and he is
confident in the competency of the measures which
he has take9to suppress all attempts at revolt or to
disturb the hpblic order The. country about him
suffers, he says, great Distress but suffers it patient
ly; for they have there perceived that the national
mschiefs under which they labor to be cured
by arms or revolution-resorts Of which Mexico has
seen enough.
General ALVAREZ we should think, is man Of
and patriot. 1t is not political freedom or
perfection at which Mexico has now to aim but
public order, in the first place. He.who will give
her that, no matter under what form name, will
accomplish for her the greatest public good of which
she is capable, and open for her, moreover, the
only path by which she may in due time become free
The Mexican journals attached 10 the cause Of
Federalism are attacking the proposed terms Of pa
cifcation with Texas, which appear (from their
being copied and commented on in the Government
paper) to have been really offered, through Judge
ROBINSON, to the TEXANS. The Federalists urge
and not without force-that the terms offered are
too liberal unless, indeed the federal system is to
be adopted throughout Mexico for these conditions
would really confer on Texas the local indepen-
dence, the government by her own local laws, and
the exclusion Of all Mexican troops from her terri
tory, which none of the existing departments pos
sess. They object, too that treaty like this will
not subj ect Texas, in common with the rest of the
country, TO the provisions of the new Constitution,
unless it chooses to embrace them.
All this is, indeed, rather difficult to answer; and
there must be formidable mpedments to the pro-
posed compromise with the revolted State. Its po-
puation has become to large degree foreign.
Estimated by its active eements-those on which
will depend its capability of adopting new politi-
cal control-we think it must be considered inca
pable Of peacefully submitting to Mexican rule, al
though that rule may apparently be quite as good as
its own. The submission could scarcely be in good
faith on either part or any thing but temporary
accommodation. Mexico will be obliged, in a short
time, TO govern Texas like the rest of her territory
and to that the present population there will scarce
ly submit.
1t seems that the Mexican Government has re-
moved one of its officers (Senor PEzA) Gas having
forfeited its confidence" because, on the question
of the protest of Lafragua, Otero, Rivapalaco, and
Gomez Pedraza against their being tried by mill
tary commission, he voted that they could only be
tried by civil tribunal. The act Ito do the Mex-
can Government juslice) was known and open, and
so far better ground for the removal of the officer
than that lately alleged, in some instances, in a
country to the north Of Mexico, where people are
thrust ont of office because believed to be at heart
opposed to the President"
The Mexican papers of the Goth contain the fol-
lowing circular, which, though dated on the Cd, had
not been till then made public 1t contains impor-
tant facts as to the intended revolutionary attempts
The Minister Of War and the Nary to he Governor of
Zdcdtecos.
EXCELLENT SrR There has been discovered and
the know ledge of the Government plan of which ii is the
object begin the revolution the south of this department.
and extend afterwards those Of Mchoucan and Jals
co. converting them into of every horror The conver
Is in the hands of the law, and Investigations going
forward to discover who in this capital and in the depart