The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1847-03-02

resistance Of the Callfornians has led to
a proposal of about the same date, in the
Mexican Congress, to raise a special loan
of half a million to aid the New Next
cans and Californians in their efforts to
expel the invaders from those territories.
The quarrel which had sprung up be-
tween Santa Anna and the authorities of
the State Of Zacatecas, concerning an or
der issued by tbs former about the time
when the Congress was assembling, to cs-
tablish martial law throughout Zacatecas,
has been brought before the Congress,
and quieted by the decision that the step
was warranted, both by the gravity of the
conjuncture and the temporary powers
which Santa Anna was then legally exer-
cising.
The papers contain notices of various
voluntary contributions to the expenses of
the war. Two of these merit particular
mention. In Vera Cruz a number of
private individuals were called on to as
sist in furnishing suits of clothes for the
soldiery, and they at once subscribed for
one hundred and ninety-three full suits;
in Puebla, another body of persons has
given the example of a sort Of contribu-
ton still more likely to be effectual.-
The have-each taxing himself in pre-
portion to his means-raised a present
sum of four hundred and thirty-nine dol
lars, and further engage to contribute, as
long as the war shall last, a monthly
amount of one hundred and thir,y-seven
dollars.
Under date of January 18th, the Lo-
CoMoToR gives a view of the new plan of
operations for which General Scott is sent
out. New Leon and Tamaulipas are, it
says, to be left to an army of occupation
only, and the main forces, with as many
fresh ones as can be raised, are 10 be sent
to the attack of Vera Cruz. Our Co
vernment, 1t says, is confident of success
there, with a force of $4,000 men; and
expects, after taking Vera Cruz and its
castle, to march upon the city of Mexico.
The attack, it adds, may be expected
within from forty to sixty days of that
date. 1t exhorts the Government to as
semble an army of observation there.
At the entrance of a new year, one of
the Mexican journals (the REGENERADoR
REPuBLIcANo) reviews the comparative
condition of that country, at the begin
ming Of 1916 and 1S47. 1t says: ga
year since this nation presented a specta-
Gle the saddest, such as seemed to promise
nothing but its speedy ruin. Ii had suf-
fered a revolution ending in nothing but
the illusion of all the public hopes; and
the army assembled to protect the integri-
ty of the national territory, had shameful
ly turned its face from the enemy, IN Or
der TO aid in enslaving US at home," &c.
Proceeding thus in its picture of the
hopeless state Of things a year since, it
next comes to the present: "The year
lS47 opens, then, with better auspices.
The nation is governed by the constitu-
tional forms for the restoration of which
it had long sighed; it is free; the States
have resumed their sovereignty and indie
pendence; are recognizing their internal
administration; are raising and arming
their militia; are casting about for the
means of replenishing their treasures;
are e%ndeavoring to find further financial
aids for the General Government itself in
the war which it is waging, and are pre-
pairing all the elements of national defence
which can be devised. At the beginning
Of 1916 we could see nothing but omens
of calamity and dissolution; at that of
ls47 only signs of regeneration and of
recovery greet u.s."
Mexico, in short, has derived from this
war only renewed union, a terminated
public order, a freer Government. We
wish all the world could say as much!-
National lntelligencer.