The Arkansas banner., 1847-08-23
PrrpLA, Mrxlco, July o5, 1917.


 Since despa,ching my last courier, three days ago, have not written you, for the simple reason that l had nothing to say.- Even rumors have no. been abundant as they were week since, the jade who circulated them with so prolific hand oa nur first arrival havlng either tired herself down or worn herself out. Not ten days since, and We had twenty different siorIes in relation 10 Santa Anna m as many different. hours--his stock, il may be allowed to use the term. was purely of fancy description, rising and falling wi,h every puff of wind from the capital. Now. we simply hear occasionally that be continues 10 lead Congress and the people by the nose-in shost, that he Is haviag eserylhing his own way. Dictator he was. al last accounts. to all intenis and proposes, and his measures, whatever tlev may have been, he was carrying out with high and most interruptions hand, The law of one day, fl II stood the least in his way, was abolished the next, and he who raised word pf opposition OF dissent was placed where his voice could mol be heard. iet him shout al his loldesi. Such was the state of affairs a, the capital four days ago. they may have altered since then.
 In my last, mentioned the capture of Mexican mail by party of drsgoons. Since then another package has been taken, and the contents of one of the letters was out rageous beyond belief. The writer, young man half crazy and ,wo-ihirds kuave. spoke of women being daily outraged by noi only our men, buI the higher grades of officers i; sad that the most gross excesses were per- petra:ed in open day; that females were not safe even in their own honses; that many good citizens of PnehIa had already dled o( rage, and that he himself could nol possibly live much longer and witness such horrible crimes as were hourly committed by the savage and per6lioIs Yankees--he must die from an excess of oholer. He winds ap hts letter by swearing to the truth of all he has written, and then asks hts friend in the GUY of Mexico to read and circulate the precious document. He is now safely lodged ln prison. and gives as ali excuse Ihat he only wrole the leuer in Joke As he has heea told that he must reBain Ill prison until he proves one of the statements he has so sol emBly sworn to, hts incarceration IS likely to be long one
 have seen an order, issued a, the eiIy ol Mexico on the l9sh inst, by Gen. Lnmhar- dinl, in which, after stating thai II IS HOW tune for the great Mexican nation 10 show the world that her sons have not degeuera- ted, the ccmmander-IB-chiefg goes on to de cree as follows That ou inc Americans drs, appearance la sight of the capital gun shall be fred in the plaza; that instantly all the bands shall strike up the alarm; that all the military shall al once hurry io sheis ap- pFopSia,e stations; that all the stores, save those where charcoal and provisions are sold, shall be immediately closed, tina, no carriage shall be allowed ia lhe streets, aud that there shall be no assemblage of persons in' any par oi the eiiy Such IS the plan of giving the first alarm, and of the after gov ernment of the city, The ilea of showing ,o the world ,hs, her sons have no. degenera- ted Is purely Mexican, bu, what pity they should noa have thought of this before II will take deal of hard fighting and blood