Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-01-25

Relations and exhors Santa Anna TO submission General
Bravo too who had been called the command Of the army
ON the eth December addressed Santa Anna, appng him
Of his command and urging him suspend actual hostes,
and spare the efsion Of blood We cannot go at
length into this correspondence Upon reading it, is
what difficult to form opinion TO the relative positions Of
the three Generals Santa Anna may have assumed all the
audacy which chaIactezes his portion OF it, but his march
ing upon the capital looks though he were IN earnest On
the other hand, the mder and almost suPphcang tone Of
Herrera in some passages may be dictated by real humanity
and patriotism not unmnged with magnanmous regard fol
the fortunes Of an old fellow soldier whom he allows to have
deserved well Of the Republic We think that Santa Annals
superior craft and dexe coupled with his great energy,
ale more dreaded by both Herrera and Bravo than the phy
cal force under his command
The city Of Mexico has been declared in state Of siege,
and the inhabitants obviously afflicted at the prospect
Of bloodshed.
On the 18th of December Senior Cuesas, Secretary Of Fo
reign Relations addressed the Governors Of Depart
ments congratuatng Them among other things, that the
sells Of war; just returned from the United States, had been
placed at the disposition of the acting Government He an
nounces Santa Annals march upon the capital but says il has
put in complete state of defence, and he expresses per-
feet confidence Of triumph Generals Valencia Guzman and
Morales have declared for the Government and the first named
appointed second in command of the army The citizens
work digging trenches and bacang the prevent
| the advance Of the tyrant
/ The downfall Of Santa Anna time deemed
certain Mexico that the poets pued their wings and
their ampoons and affected lamentations the
tunes Of the late President
II is strong indication Of the dread entertained of him
Mexico that the roads leading to the capital had been torn up
to etad his march, AT the me the Sisters Of Charity
in anticipation Of desperate conflict and with their charac
ersc pey and humanity, had rendered their services the
War Department to be employed in the hospitals.
The Comandant General Of the Department of Vera Cruz
under date Of December 81, addressed the Inhabitants nd
eating to them the probability that Santa Anna might atcmp
to establish himself in Vera Cruz with the of securing
the means of escape in emergency He calls upon thu
citizens to take up and prevent his entering the city,
small force, he says, will suffice for this purpose but lear
verbally that the Of the city closed daily NJ
that martial law had been proclaimed and the nhabtant
mustered with in their hands daily to be drilled Th
looks though they thought it would be easy
stay his approach
Gen Ampuda, Of barbarous notoriey, declared agai
Santa Anna address TO the inhabitants Of Tabasco,
the 10th December One might think him. from its TENOR
} true friend of human freedom.
The mail due at Vera Cruz the morning Of the st instaI
brought nothing from the capital Letters from Puebla date
the 18th umo, received which state that there
small force Of cavalry the route, under command of Scnt
Torreon TO intercept communications with the capital