Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1847-06-09

eIGei 10 0"O JnaC MeSSrS B0rland and
Gaines, Captain Clay and the other officers taken
in the North, together with passed Midshipman
Rogers are at liberty in the city of Mexico, The
next step is to insist upon the immediate release
of the men who were taken with Major Gaines.
Mr.. Kendalps remarks upon peace party in |
Mexico will attract attention. He has facilities |
for forming opinion ON the subject which the |
upon the latter alone we should form q Judgment
very different from our associate, but we do not
doubt at all that he has to sources of infor
nation far better than our own Tar f-sas'4a
Correspondence Of the Picayune.
VERA Cruz, May, 13, 1s47.
GENTLEMEN: A band of about 200 Mexicans
has been prowling about the mounted riflemen,s
camp, four miles from this place, two nights in
succession, and last night men were aroused twice
by the approach of Mexicans. r. s-...... . =,
Early this morning our gallant Captain Walk
er started out to give them battle and had a nice
little skirmish, killing four of the enemy by the
time my informant, an officer of the rifles left
and he represents Walker long way ahead of
the scene of the first brush following them up. L
guess the enemy will find that they have got hold
of the wrong chap before Walker has done with
them. - isEt So
This morning dragoon came in from Santa
Fe where he had been left with seven others to
guard some stores belonging to Government, and
he states that body of about 200 Mexicans at
tackled them last night killing all his companions
and taking possession of his stores, and he only
saved himself by running There is another COM
pany of rihemen following up Captain Walker,
but regret to say that do not know by whom
it is commanded. l am assured by an eye wit
ness that he saw four dead Mexicans on the
ground when Captain Walker met the enemy. It
is generally supposed that this party of the enc
my are near here more for the purpose of plum
dering small parties and stealing horses than a.
nything else.
Editorial Correspondence of the Picayunel
JALApA, Mexico, May II, 1847-6 o'clk, P. M.
Since the diligencia went out at noon to-day
for Vera Cruz, another diligencia has come in
from the city of Mexico full of passengers, and
bringing news of not little Importance. Among
the passengers was a Mr.. Kennedy, who, after
being badly treated here about the 1st of April
was driven to the city of Mexico.
All the passengers confirm what wrote YOU
this morning. They say that at the capital there
was no government, no order, no responsibility
all was anarchy. Anaya was still President pro
tenn, but had neither influence nor authority. A
new President is to be elected on the 18th of the
present month-the tenth Chief Magistrate this
distracted country has had within the last eight
cen months. l cannot stop to count them all up,
but such is the fact. a., -,-..->-....-,
The ladrones- -guerillas suppose they should
be called now-are busy at work on the roads,
especially between Puebla and the city of Mexi-
co. The same passengers were robbed the other
day no less than seven times in one stage and the
inference is that the last robbers must have had
rather poor picking, if the first were very search
ing in their operations The diligencia in which
Mr.. Kennedy came down was robbed twice on
the road &., ss.a a-~A
1t is stated that the propositions made by Eng
land some months SINCE to offer her Intervention
in settling the difficulties between Mexico and the
United States, have recently been taken up by
the Mexican Congress, and after a warm dis
cussion, in which one of the members said that
the whole affair was but another attempt of the
menarchists upon the sacred libertise of the Mex
lean Republic, the motion even to consider
them was lost by a vote of A to 33. From this
it would seem that the present Congress is deter
mined to shut every door against all proposals of
an honorable peace. / .-...... E-.
Santa Anna has sent letter to Congress from
Orizaba He gives his own account of the battle
of Cerro Gordo, and claims great victory on the
first day of the fight. On the second day, Provi-
dence, according to his story, gave the advantage
to the Yankees He says nothing about the ex-
ertions ofthe latter. Santa Anna states that he
now has seven thousand men, and that his force
is rapidly increasing, and moreover, that all are
burning to encounter the Americans again. He
wants money to carry ON his operations, but Con-
gress has not seen fit to vote him q copper-one
reason probably being that it has not a copper to
give. Santa Anna, so far as can learn, is the
only man who has been spoken of in Mexico as q
candidate for the presidency, and he is in very
bad odor with the mass
The States North of Mexico-Guadalaiara
Guanajuato, Zacatechas, Durango, San Luis, and
others-talk openly of separating from Mexico
and letting her take care of herself Not dollar
in the way of supplies, are they sending for the
relief of the General Government in its emer-
gency.
They were stin doing little in the way Of
fortifying the city of Mexico, but Spaniard
informs me that all the distractions they have e.
rected so far could be kicked over with the foot.
The city had been placed under martial law. and
the direst excesses were anticipated. The citi-
zens had all been called upon to take up arms in
the common defence, but unfortunately nine
tenths of them had no arms to take up Nor were
there any cannen at the capital, other than q few
small and Indifferent pieces.
IT. There is certainly a party and an influential
one, in Mexico, which begins to talk of peace and
where, four weeks since, they did not dare
breathe their sentiments, they now come out O.
penly and avow themselves. Still the measure
is fasr from popular. The peace party is composed
OF the more honest and intelligent property hold
ers, the merchants and perhaps the clergy; to
these are opposed the military who have ali dis
graced themselves, and all the demagogues among
the lawyers. If the priests could be made GER |
tain that they would continue to hold their rich
beneaoes securely, they would probably he all in
On the approach of the Americans it is said that
Congress, with all the archives of the Republic,
will move to the city of Moreiia. Of course, ali T
my news is verbal, not a paper having come
through. / have despatched a man to the capital
for full files of the public journals, and if he gets
back safe, they shall be Immediately forwarded to
you. -
Majors Borland and Gaines, Capt. c. M Clay,
md all the officers taken in the North, were at
liberty in the city of Mexico, as was also Mid
hipman Rodgers. They are all said to be well
md respectfully treated now although the latter
vas infamously abused on the way up to Mex
co from Perote. @
Gen. Canalizo was at San Andree, place
lorth of Orizaba, at last accounts. The force \
Eith him is not stated, but is undoubtedly small
lie is an old friend of Santa Anna, and is proba-
ly working at present for his master. :
l write this in great haste, and have no time
oreomment. One thing must say, and that is, S
nat there undoubtedly would be a very large v
eace party in Mexico, were it not for the over /
eening pride of the majority of the inhabitants.
is hard to be thrashed into peace, that's cer-f
lin. s4e --ssgs.i ~ q
send this by q Mexican to Vera Cru, ,vr5,o | :