The Arkansas banner., 1846-09-30

In witness whereof. have hereunto set my hand and cansed the -seal of the Chi led States to be mixed. Dome at the L. s.eiiy of Washington, this fifteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one 1 thousand eight hundred and for.v-six.
 and of the independence of ihe United l States the seventy-iirsi.
 JAMES K. POLK. By the President:
 JAMES BUcHANAn, Secretary of Staie
 NEWS FROM MEXICO. Files Of Mexican papers io the 18th Of August, inclusive, have been received ut the Navy Department. They contain lit,le of interest except the address or manifesto of General Santa Anna 10 the people of Mexico, dated the 18th of August, the day of his lan- ding al Vera Cruz. Is Is paper of some length, ably and carefully framed, and tem- l perate in language and sentiments. (Is has been sent to the department in eriya form in which il was published in the Spanish lan- guagr 1t will make probably more than four columns of the Union. We may. per- 1 haps, publish it eniise.) He commences with sort of apology for the part which he played, subsequent to fS3i. in forcing strong central government upon the coun- | try, which he admits did no, result in is quiet or prosperity. and he attributes to the discontept of the people, the failure to pre- serve the province of Texas. He then brief- ] ly reviews the conduct Of those who have successivelv administered the government since his exile. The aegressions of the Uni ted Sta,es were encouraged, he says. by the pe.6dy of the cabine, of General Herrera. Paredes, he says, had always been m ohsti- nate enemy of any popular representative government, when he heard of his projected revolution at San Luis Poiosi he hoped that his opinions had changed, but when he saw PareAcs's manifesto ef adhesion so ihe plan of Ss.. Luis Potosi, he found il to be rather a diatribe against the independence of the aa- ton, than the patriotic address of Mexican general seeking in good faith a remedy for the dissresses Of his country; and his sinis- ter designs were fully developed by his aet conyoking Congress, and by the attempts to reconcile the people 10 the idea of a non- archy and foreign prince
 He denounces aud discusses at length the proposal for moDarchical form of govern nleut, which he considers absurd and impFac- ticable. He accuses those in favor of mon arehy of having, almost in direct manner, provoked the United States to take posses sion of Texas, and advance an army into the interior, in order that the nation might be reduced to the alternative of submitting to Anglo-American domination, CT adopting monarchical form of government. It was with this view, he says, that in l844 and lSi5. when they had the. control tn Congres, they { refused tue aid which the existing admins traiion asked for the purpose of defending the integrity of the national territory.
 He makes no direct or earnest profession oT an intention to prosecute the war against the United States, and does not speak of lhis country in inc usual terms of villi6cation. lie concludes by disciaiming any desire or intention to exercise dictaiorial power, and therefore proposes that the Congress about to be assembled shall be empowered to regulate all branches of the administration oi the xuvernlneui. and that the provisional executive bc entirely under lis control. He also recommends that, until d new consiiiu- ton be proclaimed, the constitution ol lS24 be adopted iof the internal administration of the departments.
 Santa Anna left Vera Cruz on ihe 18th of August for the city of Mexico. The papeis give no account of his arrival there, but one of them, the Republicano, complains of their waiting his arrival to forward reinforcements 10 the army of the north. Santa Anna, ii says. Is not the nation; nor Is General Taylor q knight-errani, waiting the arrival of new champion
 An official letter of Gen. Ampndis. address sed to the Mexican Secretary of War, and dated at San Luis de Pososi. August B. speaks of the nase.. of General Gaines upon Mon- nrey; aud Ampndia promises to set ont the next rnorning with the brigade under his command so retrieve the iaurels lost at Paio Alto aud Resaca de Ia Palma, though he says hc himself is not well, and the greater part oF his men are recruits, without clothing and without arsiiiesy,
 X lstser from Monterey dated the ssh of July, says, ihaLtiey expscsed General Fay Tor there sbou. the 15si. ef Auguss; and ai- ihough their small army wss prepared to make good defencs, they expected 2 adeieat unless the first brigade oi the afmy-which iefl Mexico under the command cf Garcia Condo -ehould arrive sexso8ably. The General of slivisiau, Don Pedro Coz sazar, had been appointsd genersi-in-ehisf of the army of the north. This was subSe- aueni io the overthrow of the late govern msns, but previous to he arrival cf Sanis Anna.
 Pafsdes wss prisoner h she city of Mexico, but aes n stxlct rpaiineElSczzt =''s:ss. hsd ssked for his passppstss which q ss ssid uould bs given n hin.
 Quies prevailed h he city Of Mexico. kas the papers do not seen sD indicate much en- lhusissIa n lssor q SanN Aana.