The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-05-29
From the New Orleans Picsyune, May 81.
LATER STILL FROM MEXICO.

LATER STILL FROM MEXICO.
The Mexican schooner Reianpagos, Captain Tai
duondo, arrived here yesterday from Vera Cruz,
which place she left on the 10th instant She is
said to have been chartered by the Mexican gov
eminent for the purpose Of bringing dispatches to
her consul at this city! A Mr. Frederic Johnson
came passenger in the Rsampagos, and is thought to
be the bearer Of dispatches from the British minister
in Mexico either 10 the United States government or
the English minister at Washington. Owing to
these facts, and certain mystery in the movements
OF this vessel, her bringing over but single pack
age of papers and no letters for ts post office, rumor
obtained general currency in this city, shortly after
her arrival, that Mexico had actually declared war
against the United States The probabilities are all
against the credibity of this report, the Rsian-
pages LETT Vera Cruz on the 10Th, and certainly ad.
vices of the fact would have reached the United
States before this time had declaration of war been
made before that date. A portion Of the United
States gulf squadron consisting of the figate Poto-
mac, the soop fwar Falmouth, and the briggs Law
renee and Somers, have been anchored at Isa Verda
Immediately off Vera Cruz, for some weeks, and
we should have heard from them ere now had wal
been decided upon anterior to the sailing Of the Re
iampagos.
Ii is understood that the authority asked of Con-
gress by the Mexican executive, to treat with Texas
in the spirit of Seiior Cueva's communication, which
we published yesterday in full, has been granted,
and there appears be no doubt that the recognition
upon condition that she declines to be annexed to
the United States.
Report states that Santa Anna has been, or is to
be, liberated II has been months since ventured
the opinion, upon what we considered good au-
thority, that the fallen dictator would come of
scatheess from the perils that menaced him.
Rumors of revelations in various portions of the
Mexican empire are rife-upon what authority we
cannot speak; one of these duplicates California in
an lnsurrectlonsry movement.
Upon more reliable authority than mere rumor,
we may state that his Excellency Sefor Juan de
Dos Cahado passed through Vera Cruz about the
first Of the month, upon mission, as was said,
from the government of Mexico to that Of the
United States. This circumstance, taken in con-
nection with the negotiation then pending with
Texas and the secrecy with which the object of his
mission was kept from the public, caused no little
commotion in that city. One of the journals, APP
parently more favorable to war than peace, in re-
marking upon this mission, exclains;
Everything it appears has been confded to diplomacy
the hands 81 strangers thrust into His business How
shall we liqudatea What will become Of the country
The storm is raging headsthe thunder reverbe
rates above usw
We have been permitted TO publish an extraci
from letter written at Vera Cruz, on the 9th day
of May, the pnrport of which took Us so COM
pleely ahaek that, were it not for the respectable
source from which it comes, one would pay little
heed to it indeed. The letter is from an individual
whose word might challenge the belief Of every
man in the country--not to say of the government
ITSELF and yet the announcement we make upon its
authority will startle all our readers. The extract
is in these words; we transcrbe them literally:
elliott and the Texan commissioners about leaving
this Vera CRUZ in an English irigae for Galveston with
the treaty acknowledging the Independence of But
they little dream of their reception at Galveston These
people he Mexicans think that the acknowledgment of
Texan independence will prevent annexation and thereby
they will get clear declaring they had threatened
They swear, however that Texas prefers annexation to
acknowledgment, they will declar war"
What will astonish the American people in this
extract, is the intelligence that Elliott is in Vera
Cruz, and that the President of Texas has secretly
sent commissioners to Mexico under the patronage
of England, TO treat for recognition upon the basis
alluded to in Se1or Cuevass letter to Congress.
Can these things be possiblei Can it be that Capt
Elliott who left Galveston with the avowed pur-
pose Of going TO Charleston, South Carolina, has
sneaked off to Mexico to get sly advantage in a
negotiation which the people will battle, should every
sceptre in Europe be raised in menace tbem
Can il be true that President JONES' in the crcum-
stances which now surround him, has had the te-
merity despatch secret agents TO Mexico to form
treaty in which the people of Texas are to be sac
rifcedi We have seen 40 much dupiclty and dou-
ble.dealing in this whole affair, and heard SO much
official mendacity IN regard to the purposes OF men
unfortunately in high places at so momentous a
crisis, that prepared 10 believe that some of
the actors in the busy scene before capable
OF dong any thing however low, and asserting any
thing ~owever false; but we confess that these two
little items in letter from high source excited
cur amazement. Yet here are the words before us,
in black and white, and signed by honorable and
well known name; and one of the British vessels
(the Eurydice) composing the armed express kept
up between Galveston and Vera Cruz was at Sacri-
fcios-an anchorage adjacent to Vera Cruz-ready
to translate minister commissioners, and treaty, to
Galveston. Perhaps some of the conspirators
against the popular will may repent them, when too
late of their pertnacity in this miserable and cor
rupt proceeding.
Besides the American squadron and the Eurydice,
the two French vessels heretofore mentioned be-
ing at Vera Cruz were yet in the harbor or in the
offing. Both of the war steamers, three briggs of
war and several smaller armed vessels belonging to
Mexico, were in port.