Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-04-24
OFFICIAL INFORMATION.
FROM rHE "uSIos" or THURSDAY NIGHT.

"uSIoN" OF THURSDAY MIGHT.
We have letters from Vera Cruz the 9Th April in
elusive which that the conflict Of between the
rival parties in the capital has ceased SANTA ANNA is in
full possession Of the Executive authority and Vice President
FARIAs has resigned been expelled There is longer
opposing party in IL is reported that all the inei-
gent wealthy and minded citizens Of the capital and
elsewhere anxious for peace, and willing yield
the basis the left bank the Rio Grande and Upper Caor-
MIA Ii is said, the other hand that the popular
in favor of continuing hosties Our troops about
to advance upon the National Bridge and alapa, thirty and
sixty miles, respectively from Vera Cruz. No serious
sistance expected the Of Perote, (niney me
il there.
The National Intelgencer of this morning epubishes
with evident guso article from :" The New Orleans Del
Ia, under the caption O" The Aocha and Yucaan Fos"
How the editors Of the last respectable journal could have
been much imposed upon to publish such trash in regard
the pretended mission Of Senior Aocha Mexico and the
reception by Government of Sgnor Roba, commits
sioner from Yucaan utterly oss to conceive. We
feel ourselves authorized say that Sigor Atocha
invested "with the high dignity and responsibility of
American penpotentiay 20 Mexico, the "Dea sup
poses with any diplomatic character whatever He
merely the bearer of despatch to the city of Mexico, and in
this capacity he faithfully performed his duty.
Again Don Jose Robira received by this Gov
eminent cas- the accredited agent and representative of the
sodsant independent State of Yucatan" any other
diplomatic character has the independence of Yucaan
been recognised any thought entertained of such recg
non Nor have any obligations of any kind been contracted
with the Government of Yucatan.
much be regretted that the editors Of distant jour
mails should for facts the unfounded statements which
some Of the Washington etter-wters in the daily habit
Of presenting the country and upon this foundation should
h,;I Wa
surprised that respectable journal the New Or
leans Delta should have been deceived in this and
feel confident will promptly and cheerfuy correct its
roneous statement.
But general this subject. In
ticing this article Of the New Orleans Delta ranspanted
has eagerly been into the columns Of the National In
ielgence Of this morning. deem proper to state that
frequently statements put forth by the letter writers
from Washington, by the opposition PRESS which we do
not think il necessary TO notice.
This last article, of which we have copied from
the Union" only what appears to us most material
of it, demands brief notice at our hands.
The information concerning the official character
OF M. ATocHA is such as it was high time that the
government paper should give. So far from copy
ing the article Of the Delta'' I" with gusto,' we
copied it with feeling of deep modification. Had
we distrused it, we should not have copied it. And
why did we not distrust it Because the Union"
itself the example of propagang these stories
about Atocha's powers and instructions. 1t was
not until the Union did so that we gave credit,
much less currency, to them. The statement Of
the propositions made by M. Atocha to the Next
can Government, on behalf of the Executive Of the
United States reached us on the l7th instant in a
New Orleans paper, (the Pcayune,) being copied
into that paper from the government paper of Mex
leo, in which it appeared without comment. 1t
was published in the Union of the same night,
(l7th,) also mithom comment. Did it become US,
in matter at once purely Executive, Diplomatic,
and Confidential as this was, to doubt the endorse
ment of the government paper! Or was it not our
business to let our readers know what the Govern
ment itself had, through its organ, given tac assent
to- in matter in which all the People of the United
States are so deeply interested! This is all that
we have done and, as far as concerns the National
Inteligencer at least, the government PAPER might
with some propriety have spared its homly to /" the
Opposition press"