The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1847-08-17
FROM THE n. o. TINES OF JULY 30.


The steamphip Massachusetts arrived
here yesterday, from Vera Cruz the 23d
instant, bringing us files of the Sol de
Anahuac and our regular correspondence
up to the time OF her departure.
PRosPEcTs OF PEAcE.-No intelligence
direct from the city of Mexico, or even
from Puebla, traceable TO any authentic
source, had reached Vera Cruz since the
date of our last advices. II will be recol-
lected that all was then in state of doubt
and suspense. Information in an unol-
fetal form had arrived there, intimating
that Santa Anna had taken the initiative
IN the question of the constitutionality of
opening a negotiation with Mr.. Trist,
which had lain between him and the Con-
gress, and had appointed three Commits
soncrs 10 meet the American Envoy at
San Martin Tesmelucan, on an appointed
day. In reference to this vital subject,
the Sol de AnaIluac of the 22d instant
states that rumors were in circulation
quite unfavorable to the success Of Mr..
Trist's mission. Indeed, from letters
which had come to hand from Puebla, it
was certain that the commission had not
been installed, and consequently that the
hopes of peace which had been founded
thereon had completely vanished 1t
adds, on the other hand, that from the
continued inaction Of Gen. Scott's army,
the only datum on which can possibly
rest the probability of commission for
the settlement of difficulties, and the total
absence of news for some time from the
interior, it may be that the Commander
in-Chief is waiting the arrival of fresh in
structions from Washington. The i'm
mediate nomination of Commissioners,
and the designation of the place of meet
ing, would seem to indicate sincere de-
sire on the part of the Mexicans for some
kind of a pacific arrangement. Difficult
ties of an accidental nature, delays, &C.,
may have interviewed to obstruct the con-
summation of a treaty. Engli h media
tion, it was stated, had been preferred and
accepted, which had progressed SO far as
to have the Secretary of Legation of the
British Embassy TO the headquarters Of
Gen. Scott at Puebla. In allusion to this
last means to which the Mexicans had
had recourse, the Sol de Anahuac express
ses its dissent from airy foreign inter-
ference, as being always costly, and some
times most fatal in It's results. In re-
viewing all the news, however, which
has reached us by this arrival, we are
bound TO confess that every thing seems
in sfafu gro, as at the last receipt of in
telligence. Nothing definite is known;
either of the sentiments of the Congress,
Of whose meeting not wosd is said, or
of the mode of acting Of the Mexican gov
ernment. Gen. Scott had not left Puebla
when the last accounts were received at
Vera Cruz from that city.
APPROACHING BATTLE.-In opposition
10 the foregoing speculations, however,
we find that a letter of the I7ih, which
has not come TO hand as yet. circum-
stance we much regret, is alluded to by
our regular correspondent, in which, as
we CLEAN from his remarks ON the 20th
relating thereto, he states that all hopes
OF peace are entirely crushed and that Gen.
Scott was to march on the capital on the
18th instant. Santa Anna, at the head Of
a large army, supposed to be $4,000
strong intended to give him battle at some
point between Puebla and Mexico.
GENERAL PIERcE.-This officer left
with his train on the day indicated in our
last advices. During his advance firing
had been heard along the road, by which