Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-07-09
FOREIGN NEWS.
From the Pleayaue, Jane 26
FROM MEXICO.
VERA Cruz June II. ls4s

made a, the city Of Mexico on the 9Th ius,.,
which at one time had a most serious ap.
pearance. A regiment broke through the
guard station a, the Government Palace.
aud took the Presiden. aud Secretary of
Foreign Relations prisoners but the revo-
lulionists were Immediately afterwards put
down by the citizens and soldiers, and The
above distinguished personages set at lib
erty. In this affair colonel, captain.
and about thirty of the privales belonging
TO the malcontents were killed, when quiet
was once more restored. Many men in
high station al Mexico are suspected of
having a hand in causing this new out
break, and it is said that ex-Secretary
Tornel has been arrested and imprisoned.
With respect to politics, Texas is the
absorbing topic of the day, and all eyes
are turned in the direction Of that country
in anxious expectation of The fnal solution
of The pending question. TIE Govern
mcnt and people generally are pretty we'll
satisfied that nothing can now prevent an :
nexation. The former sees the moment
arrive with regret when it must declare acar
or fall, and The latter wait with anxiety the
arrival of the time for the Government TO
take step which, but for them, would
have been taken long since, without re-
fectins on The consequences-,he declara-
ton of hostililies against the United States.
As one of your celebrated editors says.
nosS rerons. In the meanwhile, the Go
vernment is noiselessly marching troops
from Mexico 10 the interior; and allho'
their destination is said to be California,
still the knowledge OF the fact that in hal
department The Government has no need,
or immediate need, of new of more sol
diers than are there now, would lead one
to suppose that the real destination Of
those at present on the march norIhward
is The frontier Of Texas, or that vicinity.
II would he folly, perfect madness. for
a country like this, distracted and wilhou,
means. 10 so 10 war with the U. STATES,
and for a territory that does not belong to
them, butI still think the measure will ne
resorted TO. In my mind. the matter does
not admit of a doubt--if Texas is annex
ed, Mexico will declare war. Foreign
merchants are purchasing up all The coch-
meal that can be bought, and remitling to
Europe by every opportunity.
Yours, &c.
Besides our own correspondence, we
have been favored with the perusal of other
letters, received by the squadron, frum
which and our files we give summary Of
news that may be interesting to the pub
lie. We would add that from no quarter
do we hear 80 strong an expression of a
belief in declaration of war as from The
letter above published.
The following additional particulars OF
the revolution in Mexico, furnished US by
a correspondent, may not prove uni1ter-
esling. 1t seems thal"a part Of the corps
Of grenadiers, headed by Gen. Reneion,
raised the cry Of Federation, obtained pos
session of the palace, aud made prisoners
the President aud three Of his ministers;
proved faithful, and after skirmish sue
ceeded in putting down the insurgents and
rc-establishing ORDER"
The same correspondent who furnishes
us with this intelligence, and gives it as
his opinion that in case Texas accede 10
the propositions of the United States, Mex
ico will not declare war against the lat
ter il the smallest LOOP holes is left for her
to creep out Of The scrape. 1t would really
seem as though the President was i'll pre-.
pared for war while revolution in star
ing him in the face at his very palace
gates but some Of the factious which dis
tract the unhappy country may YET drive
him into the measure solely for the pur-
pose of putting him down and raising
themselves in his stead. They would not
hesitate to plunge their fellow. citizens into
war, so that they might be able 10 rise
TO brief authority, albeit at The cos, of
the disastrous defeat and utter prostraton
Of the country.
The Mexican Congress adjourned on
the 30th OF May, bu, an extra session was
eatted for sae s5th June, principally. it is
alleged, 10 regulate the tariff and remodel
the election laws. The cotton growers
will make desperate effort 10 have the
foreign article excluded.
Santa Anna, whose arrival in Havana
we noticed some days ago, sailed ftom
Vera Cruz on the 2d inst, in the British
steamer Medwav. He was not brought
into the city of Vera Cruz. but was en.
barked some miles to The north. The
troops s,atiored at Vera Cruz we're distrb,
uted in small bodies to prevent any rising.
The General who escorted him to The sea
side makes flaming reportupon The mer-
itorious conduct of his suballerns, and as
sures the ministry ,ha, i, was no, from
personal alarm that he look 600 men for
that service, hut for fear the country peo,
pile would attempt some outrage upon the
prisoner, as had been threatened. He
apprehended that had such purpose been
consummaied the enemies of the Govern
mcnt would make handle oft.
Santa Anua left farewell address to
his counlrymen. in which he throws him
self upon their judgment in their cooler
moments. He declares that he always
loved them and had been devoted 10 their
interests. He boasts. in good set phrase,
that his administration had always been
mild and bloodless !! The country appears