The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-10-13

We are permitted to lay before readers the follow.
ing extracts of letter from a reliable source dated
VERA Cruz, sept IL, ls46.-The government of Mexi
is said to be without dollar in the treasury; nor
have heard oil ats having adopted any obtain
would be at Monterey on the Oath of August with 1000
men. t'~1 - "
report was prevalent in Mexico the Sd instant,
that santa Anna had given orders for the Mexican
at Monterey and other places that quarter to fall bac
on San Luis Potos and that he would meet them with
30 900 men,
The plan of the Ciudadela ss it is termed seems TO
have been accepted by the military and civil authorities
throughout the country with great unanimity, and
without difficulty.
From private sources however entitledo some degree
OF credi learn that great portion of the people,
amongst them men of influence are opposed to Santa
Anna and place no conhdendence in his promises 1t is
was still al his country seat Of ii Encsrro, on the sth
meeting of Congress, until his party gained decided
prePsnderance am OF opinion his presence will add
feelings of parties, and finally lead to a civil war.
Letters from Mexico Of recent date mention the arrival
Sloat from Nlazatan for the United States.
The province of Yucatan manests disposition to
surrender her independence and to throw herself
more into the arms OF Mexico, under the rule Of Santa
Anna. =
Journals from Vera Cruz to the sh Of September, and
from the city Of Mexico to the I'd of September nclu
sve have been received at the Navy Department
The Dario, or the official paper of the Mexican gov
Mr. Buchanan the Mexican Secretary of state with
the reply OF the latter preaced by the following edito
1--WE publish day. we promised in our editorial of
the day before yesterday the note transmitted
government by that of the United States the answ
returned by our Secretary Of State The conduct of the
present cabinet frank and honorable as it is possible
for it to be- and of the administrations which have
preceded II, has been so explicit with the nation We
now see that had snch claims confidence; the
present cabinet can hardly be said TO direct AFFAIRS is
the people who really govern"
The same paper contains the following item Of intell
gence:-
The supreme government has received, by express,
communications from General Don Pedro AmpuSia dated
the 26th ultimo lAugust) They state that he would
reach sato on the 9th with the brigade under his
command part, but not the whole, of the enemy's
army had moved from Camargo; Of two thousand four
hundred men who had left that town, four hundred had
arrived at China, and two thousand were still between
Carnage and China three thousand more having re.
NAMED IN Carnage General Ampudia preparing
counting the renforcements to arrive there were more
than four thousand men, full of the greatest enthusiasm
suits"
he following is the editorial of the Diaio of sepem
Der 2d:-
not to swerve in degree from the national WILL has
deferred replying to the proposition made by the govern
the questions pending between the two countries until
the nation itself assembled in Congress- through its rep
resentatves, shall decide matter important; without
consenting in any manner to waive discussion OF the
causes OF the war the petence that they should be
considered merely as past events belonging to history
and ann uncng that until the Congress shall determine
the relations OF Mexico with the republic OF the United
States they will continue to be such the present
cutve found them on taking charge of the administra
ton In conformity with these manifestations the exc.
cuve is necessarily occupied in endeavoring, by all
possible means to place the republic on respectable
footing of Defence will be by the DEGREES issued
by the Secretary OF War, which we publish under the
official head IN our paper of today and which circu
The DEGREES referred TO- issued in the name of General
Saas as head OF the government are in substance,
l. decree of August 2s declaring all Mexicans be.
tween the ages Of Is and so years. under obligation to
shall be requiredso to do
A decree of same date declaring free for one year
the importation into any part of the republic sale in
it, of muskes carbnes sabres brass and iron cannon,
with gun carriages and, in general every species of
any import duty and declaring that e Will
purchase OF the arms and proectes referred TO- such
quantity as it may require at such prices as may be
g. Another Of the same declaring an extraordinary
contingent OF thirty thousand men, be contributed by
the several States in the following proportions =
Mexico $500 Micheocsn I ea0
Jaiisco, 1000 Vera Cruz, 1000
Puebla, $500 Durango 500
Guanajuato 1900 chihuahua, 500
San Luis Potos 1880 Sinaloa, $50
Zacatecas, l,60O Aguascalicntes $40
Queretaro, 600 -
Osiaca, 1000 10000
1t WILDE perceived that Yucatan not enumerated in
This decree declares that citizens who volunteer will
be required serve only two years, but levied
drafted will be required to serve six years
L. Another of the date, psrdoning all who may
have deserted from the regular army provided they
give themselves up within three months and permitting
them to serve in such corps as they may select
o. decree of August 3lst issued through the Depart
ment OF State declaring that all officers civil or militia
~ employment who shall refuse, without good cause
in the opinion ofthe such services
as may be required OF them during the which the
republic is at present engaged shall be dismissed from
their employmens and declared incapable of being EN-.
played hereafter military officers being liable lore.
to the punishment already provided BY law for such
offences as they may have committed
The Loeomofor Of the Sd and 9th of September
ains the documents relative to the capture of the Amer
can brig of war Trasttsis (Truxton among them two
letters OF Commander Carpenter to the commandant at
Tuxpan, both dated the nth of August The first is in
reply to summons to surrender; which he declines do
he says he had sent to the commodore for assist
ance In the second he says that being there
was hope Of saving the vessel he
der the vessel ocers and men, and requests that the
latter may be landed as soon possible.
The accounts that have reached us via New Orleans
indicate that Captain Carpenter and have arry
Vera Cruz for the of being parolled exchang
ed but il they to be exchanged was proposed by
the Mexcans the transaction had not been
because Commodore Conner had yet the de-
nitve answer of his government, to which he had re.
ferred the proposition.
frl t.- OF Naval Intelligence. sl
We are panied to learn of the decease of Henry L.
Chapman late aeutenant in the navy He died last eve.
ming at Browns hotel Mr.. c. was citz en- we believe
OF Michigan He resigned his position in the navy few
weeks O-Washinsfou Oct