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lmarpo; Of two thousand four hundred men who
had lof that town, four hundred had arrived at
/ China: and two thousand were still between Ca
MARCO and China, three thousand more having
remained in Camargo. General Ampudia was
preparing to defend Monterey, where at present,
and without countingthe rcinlorccmenls TO arrive,
there were more than four thousand men, full of
the greatest enthusiasm; so that the nation may
expect the most fatterng results"
The following is the editorial Of the Diaro Of
Sept. 2d.
The existing supreme government, being de-
termned not to sweryo in any degree from the
national will, has deferred replying TO the propo-
sition made by the government of the United
States to come to a negotiation upon questions
pending between the two countries until the ma
lion ITSELF assembled in Congress, through its re-
presenlaliyes shall decide matter so Important
without conserving in any manner TO waive dis
cussion of the causes of the war, on the pretence
tha, they should be considered merely as past e.
vents belonging to history, and announced that,
until the Congress shall determine the relations
of Mexico with the Republic of the United
States, they will continue TO be such as the pres
ent executive found them on taking charge of
the administration. In conformity with these
manifestations, the executive is necessarily occu-
pied in endeavoring, by all possible means to
place the Republic on respectable footing of
defence, as will be seen by the DEGREES issued by
the secretary of war, which we publish under
the official head in our paper oGtoday, and which
are circulated under this date"
The decrees referred to issued in the name of
Gen. Salas as head of the government arc in
substance as follows:
/. A decree of Aug. 20, declaring all Mexi-
cans, between the ages of 10 and 50 years, un-
der obligation to take arms in defence of their
country whenever they shall be required so to
do.
9. A decree of the same date, declaring free
for one year the Importation into any part OF the
republic and sale in it, of muskets, Carbines, sa-
bres, brass and iron cannon, with gun carriages,
and, in general, every species OF warlike arms
and prolectlles, without the payment of any I'M
port duty; and declaring that the government
, will purchase Of the arms and proectiles refer.
red TO, such quantity as it may require, at such
prices as may be agreed on with the importers.
3. Another of the same declaring an eXtraor'
I dinary contingent of thirty thousand men to be
contributed by the several States.
1t will be perceived that Yucatan is not emu
merated in the above list
5 This decree declared that the citizens who vol.
unteer will be required TO serve only two years
but men levied or drafted will be required TO serve
l six years.
4. Another of the same date, pardoning al
= who may have deserted from the regular army
provided that they give themselves up within
= three months, and permitting them to serve il
, such corps as they may select.
5. A decree of August 3lst, issued through
l the Department of State, declaring that all off
GERS in civil or military employment, who shall
| refuse without good cause in the opinion of the
government, TO render such services as may be
required of them during the war in which the re,
public is at present engaged, shall be dismissed
I from their empoymens, and declared incapable
; of being employed hereafter as military officers
, being liable, moreover, TO the punishment area
; .dy provided by law for such offences as they
, have committed.
The LocOmotcr of the Sd and 4th of Scptem
!, Der contains the documents relative TO the cap
, ture of the American brig of war HurtuSiS
; (Truxton;) among them two letters of the Com
. mandcr Tuxpan, both dated the 17th of August
The first is in reply to a summon to surrender
. which he declines doing, as he says he had sen
l to the commodore for assistance. In the seconC
, he says, that being convinced there was no hope
of saving the vessel, he consents to surrender
the vessel, officers, and men, and requests tha
they may be landed as soon as possible.
The accounts that have reached us via New
= Orleans, indicate that Captain Carpenter OnC
men have arrived at Vera Cruz, for the purpose
of being parolled or exchanged; but if they are
to be exchanged, as was proposed by the MeXl
, cans, the transaction had not been consumated
because Commodore Conner had not yet received
) the definite answer of his government: to which
he had referred the proposition.