The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-06-13
LATEST FROM MEXICO

"'PSo'So IIcSluent Jones, o.
Texas, in cohcert with the British charge
} Mr.. Elliott with having been engaged il
intrigues to defeat Annexation. The gov.
ernmen Of Texas, unknown to the people
made secret oyertures, through Elliot, 10 the
Mexican Government for the acknowledg.
ment of the independence of Texas, on con.
diton that she would no become annexed to
the United States. Senor Cuevas addressed
the Congress Of Mexico recommending that
treaty be negotiated with Texas on the
terms stated. BY the late arrivals we have
Mexican dates up to the 10Th ult from
which we condense the following facts:
The bill, allowing the minister of foreign
affairs the power to negotiate a treaty with
Texas for her independence with this pro-
Diso, that she shall not be annexed TO the
United States, passed the Mexican House of
Representatives on the Sd ull., by vote of
al for 10 ID against it, after stormy debate
of three days. 1t was Immediately sent TO
the Senate, where it was believed it would
be concurred in unanimously.
| Reports state that Santa Anna has been,
Or is TO be liberated.
Rumors of revolutions in various porions
of the Mexican Empire are rife.-it is how
ever ascertained beyond doubt that in Ca
lifornia the reg gular government has been
displaced and the insurgent leaders installed
in its stead.
Upon more reliable authority than mere
rumor, we may state that His Excellency,
Senor Juan de Dios Canado, passed through
Vera Cruz about the first of the month, upon
mission, as was said, from the Government
of Mexico, 10 that of the United States.
The following extract from letter dated
at Vera Cruz on the 9Th May is confirmed
by several other communications received by
the U. s. brig somers.
"Eliott and the Texan commissioners,
are about leaving the (Vera CRUZ in an Eng
lish frigate for Galveston, with the treaty
acknowledging the independence of Texas.
But they little dream of their reception at
Calves ton.
"These people (the Mexicans,) think that
the acknowledgement of Texan indepen-
dence will prevent Annexation, and thereby
they will get clear of declaring war, as they
had threatened. They swear, however, that
ifTexas prefers Annexation to acknowledge
ment, they will declare war;"
Upon these important movements the Gin
cinnati Enquirer remarks:-
"The mission of Smith, the ex-Secretary,
10 Mexico, in company with the British
agent, Capt. Elliott, under the crcumstan-
ces, shows degree of recklessness on the
part Of President Jones which must earn for
him all the scorn of traitor to his country,
if it does not involve him in difficulties of
personal nuture neither pleasant TO himself
or desirable in the people of Texas. Sail
ing for England, but landing in Merico,
shows what kind of fraud was intended and
what daring was risked for IFS accomplish
ment. In company with British intriguani,
it will bear no other construction than that
both were intent on the same oLiect-the
one tool for the other-both the enemies
of the young Republic and both the friends
Of that grasping nation across the Atlantic,
that has as good as officially proclaimed its
right and duty of interfering in the domestic
matters of this country. The mission was
stealthy-known to the Executive of Texas,
but carefully kept from the knowledge of the
people, for the good reason that they were
known to have determined that the end sought
should never be eonsumated.
"But a period of great excitement in Tex
as and Mexico is clearly at hand: 1t may in
volve this country and England. For II is
not to be tolerated that British agents, con-
niving with Texas tricksters such as this
Ashbel Smith, and carried 10 and fro in Bri-
tish Government ships, should intrigue and
ntermeddle in this way, with impunity, when
the rights and interests of this country are
directly at stake. The meeting of the Tex
an Congress, on the 10th, instant, will fully
bring this matter to light"
Gov. Yell and Mr.. WickliAe, who have
just returned from tour through Texas, say
that the people are determined to call con-
venton and consumnate anexation, should
the Texan Government throw obstacles in
the way, by delays for the purpose Of in
trigue:
The following from the Washington Un-
ion of May Doth gives the sentiments of the
Organ of the Administration upon the recent
news
The most stirring news of the present day
is the accounts we are receiving from Mex
ico and Texas. First, we have an arrival at
New Orleans from the Havana, with the cir
cutous intelligence which it brings from
Vera Cruz; and then, still later and more