The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-03-13
The Latest from Mexico-The mexicnn Pro
parations for the BOmbardmcnt OF Vera
rIlZ

parations for the BOmbardmcnt or Vera
Cruz.
We have received the Diario de la Hapana,
and the Diario de Ia Marina, to the 9th ut.
They contain intelligence from Vera Cruz to the
9TH, inclusive.
The authorities of the department Of Vera Cruz
were expecting attack from the Americans,
and were taking active measures to resi- IT them,
and were terrifying the National Gate andanoher
point called Chiquihute. The State Legislature
ofVera Cruz, assembled at Jalapa, had author
ised the Governor to absent himself from the seat
of government, for whatever point he Thought ne
could most advantageousy act for the defence Oh
the State-they also clothed him with extraordi-
nary powers.
Senior Reion has finally been appointed Minis
ter of Foreign Afairs-Senor Canaliso still re-
mains in the War Department, and fSenor DO
blado, Ex-Governor OF Guanajuato, has been APP
pointed TO the Judiciary.
The question of supplies is the one that has
rs yet been the principal one with both the go
vernment and Congress. Our readers will re-
member that Congress, on the 18th uit, passed
law authorizing the government to hypothecate !,
or even SELL the property of the clergy and mort
raged possessions. They will also recollect that
part of this department, VeIa Cruz) and the
legislatures of the other departments, protested
against this law, and pehtioned for its repeal; and
they will also recslect that up to the end OF Janu-
ary. the government had been unable, under this
law, to procure any supplies whatever. In the Jour-
nails before us we that these protests have been
continued, and the Bishop of Michoacan has been
very prominent among the professors. We also
read that Santa Anna himself, who at first, in
some private letters, seemed to accord with this
law, on the 26th January, In replying to mani
festo, which we give below, that was sent to him
at San LUIS Potosi, appears TO have changed his
mind.
% Ii appears, then, from this, as well as other
indications, that Congress was about to devise
some other method Of raising means, and with
this view there had been proposition presented
to Congress to repeal the last law, and substitute
for it a loan from the clergy Of $450,OOO, monthly
There was also pending, on the I'd ult., resoiutcI
by which government was to have carte blanch
to raise means by any manner that it could. Blu
besides all these projects, one thing Is positive
that Santa Anna declares, in the aforementioned
document, TO Congress, that che had found it ne
cessary to seize 90 bars OF silver, mostly belong
ing to Spanish merchants in San Luis" and nj
moreover says, 81 have again given my own in
divdual security Tor this, as far as can" 1t ap
pears, moreover, from references in this letter
that he had previously taken other sums unde
the same guaranty. On the other hand, tn
Secretary of War states TO Congress on the 2Stl
January, that he had very recently RENTED $35,
600 TO the army.
As regards the war, we will, in the first place
notice the previously referred to. In this, ht
answers the accusations Of apathy which have
been brought against him. He depicts the sac
situation of the army under his charge, theil
wants, moral and physical; his own conduct al
every period his disposition to retire to private
life, and his willingness to undergo exile, if neces
sary; and finally, his resolution of marching
against the enemy if he is not interfered with
This same resolution was expressed in the com
rnunication which he sent to Congress along will
this document
On the 9th January, he issued proclamation
to his army, which have before given.
appears to be beyond doubt, that on the 9th ia
nuary, the army commenced their march, az
parently in the direction of Saltllo and Monte
rev, towards which he had already advance
some brigaGes. The brigade which was at Tul
on the 18th January, under the orders of Gene
raj Valencia, had been transferred to those
Brgadier General Ciriaco Vasquez