Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-02-06
LATER FROM MEXICO.

Proceedings of the Mexican Congress-Vote on
the rejection of the Peace PropositionS-Eua-
sions of the Blockade, &C., &c.
The New Orleans Commercial Times Of the
20lh ult has received letters and papers by the
brig jefferson, which LEFT Havana on the 1lth.
The intelligence is Of interest and importance.
We copy from the Picayune:
Public Sentiment in the Mer,can Cdpitol.-We
hold ia our hand letter from correspondent,
on whose sources of information we repose per-
feet faith, who declares that nothing can now be
expected from the present Mexican Congress, in
the way of adjustment Of our difficulties with
that nation, except by positive force. We must
emphaticaily conquer peace. Nothing but the
pressure of misfortune will induce them to enter
on any negotiation for q renewal of pacific rela-
lions. The hope entertained by our Executive and
his Cabinet that the Congress convoked for the
9th ult would be more tractable than Santa Anna,
Salas, and other leaders in the supplanting of
Parades by the last pronunciamento' has proved
a broken reed. We must henceforth negotiate
with the arm of flesh, pushing on our conquests
with the utmost vigor, carrying our victorious
columns into the very heart of the enemy's coun-
try-aye, even to the gates Of its cnpto Too
much consideration has already been shown this
infatuated people.
the late offer of our government to treat and has
been decided by large majority in favor of re.
lection There were only nineteen votes cast in
fayor of acceptance. A few days before the ques.
tion was brought 10 q vote, caucus meeting was
held by a number of members of Congress, com.
prising majority of that body, at which Gomez
Farias presided, when a resolution was unani-
mously adopted, that all present should take ar
oath to vote against any proposition of peace
which might be made by the United States, ant
10 reject any mediation on the part of foreign
power, so long as a single United States soldier
stood upon the territory of Mexico, or an armed
vessel blockaded her ports. "Will, them" asks
our correspondent, "our government and our peo
ME still continue to look to this Congress fo
peace!"
Vera Cruz, Alrarado, 3c.--It seems, from thu
letters of our correspondents, that the Mexican
at Vera Cruz, are little. if at all, incommoded b.
the blockade established there. They say that tn
blockade must have cost US pretty round sun
already. The French. they remark, were block
aiding the Gulf coast for period of months, il
1885, during the whole season of northers, with
out losing even a launch: whilst our navy ha
been employed on the same service Tor seVe
months, of which four were summer months an
the steamer McLane, at Tobasco; brig Truxtor
at Tuspan; brig Somers, in view OF vera Cruz
and man-of- war schooner; were all iost yer
short time ago, &c. Our correspondent writes
our squadron has been stationary at Vera Cru
ever since the war broke out, blockading the por
while during all this time, the little cursed ho
of Alvarado, only forty miles down the coast, ha
been left open to any and every vessel who
chose to go and discharge her cargo, Or thi
there has been an instance every week since u
blockade commenced and in some instances tu
or three vessels a week. Expeditions are no
daily coming in from Havana, Within the Ia