Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1847-06-01

dictate severe and effective measures to enforce
compliance N the part of every one with those
duties which society and the laws impose upon
him. If this is not Gone-if the nation does not
rise rqsse 10 Ceend its most sacred rights, I'M
Justly and barbarouslv trampied upon. with in
fanny an1 scorn, the loss Of our nationality Will
be the results. For my part | shall spare no
sacrifice IN behalf Of the coRntryi my lite and
my blood, my repose and my fortune are entire
Iy consecrated to It.
For the present have established my head
quarters here, where l shall receive the orders
which the supreme Government may have oc-
casion TO transmit.
Accept assurance, &c. Goa and Liberty.
ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA.
! To the Minister of War and Marine.
A short letter which Santa Anna wrote the
same day 10 President Anaya IS hardly worth
publishing. He begs him not TO despair, not to
make a treaty with the enemy, and 10 defend
the capital. lie begs most plteousy lor some
money.
The same number of Ell Republican,. which
contains the first letter, defends the National
Gauri from the reproach there cast upon II of
the loss of Zorro Gordo. Santa Annals i2Se dirt
has already lost much Of its power. But notw nh
sanding the evident dissatisfaction felt with him
by his countrymen, the supreme Government
has confirmed him in the command Of the army
by express oriers. The necessity of such
order indicates that his authority had been
vrrely shaken. The Republican, scores Gen.
SaAdtlZO iDf MS tioSfdCtIui night ne - IouOif
denounced for not h4:ing defended La Joya AM
Perute.
Each step in the march of Gen. Scott towards
The capital is chroncled, and the excuses Of our
troops denounced Ia unmeasured terms.
Gen. Bravo, in commani at Iuebia, has for
biided the GilI-ences TO come further down to-
wards the coast than that city. Every day the
diIigeuces are robbed. One WIS recently robbed
three times in the same day
The Legislature Of Pueblt has adjourned, at
ter ha~iug conferred extraordinary powers upon
their Governor, Senior Iuzunza. Many banls Of
guerrilIas have been formed IN that state. Al
the regular troops appear 10 have left this city as
early as the 2}a or II Ii.
The press is loud in its deuunciation of the
proprietors Of haciendas who selling grain
to General Scott, from which we infer that he
does not lack supplies
A Yankee was arrested the Goth, having
presented himself to the President 10 confer with
him upon the propristy of peace. but in no au-
thorised capacity. No clue is given to who
the Is He is negotiating ION his own
hook
A general and absolute decree of amnesty for
all poitlca! Offences is announced III the papers
OF the 2Ith.
In Touca the casting of cannon was imnle-
diateiy to be commenced, the prelates of San
Francisco and La Mcrcede having Offered the
bells necessary for the construction of cannon.
The NcXlcans speak Of the conspiracy which
entered into among their countrymen in
Tampico to obtain possession of that town, as
they Indulge the hope that another attempt will
be more successful.
ID. Miguel Orbe, the curatc Of Huauchinango,
ia raising d company OF guerrlas ana upon the
following terms:
IuArcHrsAxco, April %, 1877.
He who srbscribrs TO this pledges himself to
the five following articles:
|. To die defending and avenging Our LAZY
of Gua4a!upe, and the Catholic, Apostolic, Ro-
man religion which he processes.
? To defend the integrity and indePe ndence
of his nation
3. To pursue with death the Anglo A'ncri-
cans, their followers, defenders or allies, who
! ever they may be.
4. To ALLURE and detest the personal party of
whoever have DESTROYED their country.
To respect all legitimate authority, whatever
it may BE-. in every thing not rePngnant TO the
preceding articles.
Tho five articles shall be the fundamental rule
of their guerrilla, and shall be denoninated Lu
signed MIGUEL ORBE.
/ number of the Deputies in Congress have
protested formally against the deposition of
Gomez Farias irregular and unconstitutional.
The Republican, interpos=s a defence not very
plausible.
: Letters have been received in the capital from
San Luis Potosl, announcing that the Governor
of the State had promu gated decree that every
citizen should take up arms, ANA that the en-
thusiusm TO defend themselves was very great.
There Were about four thousand troops of the
aralv Of the north then the city. Gen. TAYLOR,
they supposed. was to move upon them from
Salfilo about the lst of May.
Letters have been received in the city of
Mexico announcing that on the 9th of Al nj,
Ave hundred American troops left Chihuahua
with fourteen pieces of artillery aud thirty wa
Cons for Parrai a town about fifty leagues south,
on the road both to Durango or to Parras