The Arkansas banner., 1847-07-12


 TLs New York Eaqarsr has the following from iis correspondent in Washington Cfty, as lo the prosPee, fer peace with Mexico The auslos, t is said, has the confidence of ths administration, and speaks from reliable Information:
 WAsBISGTox, June ]. iS47.
 Al length Gen. Scott and sMa-. Iris. have met al Jaiapa, and have, no doubt, arranged the best mode, under lAeir joint auspices, ol opening the negotiations with Mexico. If the arrangement caa bs eiIec,ed at once, lhsre MMeaieo. M es .s and, sishia Ie~ so lhs e''y q hear that negotiation is opened. lf that is accomplished all the rest will be essy and certain. The treaty viii be ratified b5 the Government of Mexieo--the three millions will be paid-hostiliues will be suspended and the President will at once eonvoke, not the two houses of Congress, but the Senate only, Itraiify the treaty on our part.
 1T, however, the peace party in Mexico Is no, vet ready for immediate action, Gen. Scott and Mr Tfist may wait for some time in Puebla; when 1t is expected that, to ter- minate the anarchy which prevails in the city of Mexico, the merchants, and the bet ter part of the industrious classes, backed by the clergy, viii compel the Congress to re- store peace.
 Indeed, if things remain for many weeks in their present posture in the ely of Mexi- co, without peace. there is every prospect that the leperes the ia5ronss, and all the rabble population will sack the city, as was once done-and it is the fear og this result, more than all other causes combined. that is most likely to hasten and conclude this negotiation.
 The news from Jalapa confirms all have said to you about the mission of Mr. Trist {; and you may rest assured that ali the articles of the intended treaty are written out al length-that Gen. Scott has given them his entire sanction and that he will most cordi- ally cooperate with Mr. Trist in bringing the negotiation, upon the basis of these articles to a speedy and honorable conclu- sion. The idea held out that Mr. Tnst is a mere bearer of despasches, IS preposierous. Why send for such an humble purpose, the second officer of the State Department :- Why need we have advanced to JalaPa Why his long and confidential conferences with Scott and Perrys
 desire you 10 record the fact for future reference, when the whole correspondence, as ii ultimately must be, shall be published that Mir. Trist carries out tke ireaty and thai il is expected, with the cooperation of Gen Scott, to be ratified by Mexico, precisely as it has been prepared by our Secretary oI State, after having first sounded ia advance the peace party and clergy in Mexico, by agents previously despatched by him.
 This treaty was shown tn Commodore Perry and to Gen. Scott, and its contents have gnt out pretty extensively among in- fiusntial officers of our army and navy both at Vera Cruz and Jalapa. Indeed the ad- miRissration might have known that 1t would be impossible long to keep secret such a mission and such proposals; and ''the organ'' at Washington might as well come out al once and acknowledge that MT. Trist took the project of treaty with him for raii6ca- ton hv Mexico.
 In the meantime, if negotiations should fail, Gen Scott is collecting, under onless from the War Department. minute infouha- ton as regards the internal resources ogatcx- ico, with view to establishing an effective system of collecting large sums by every practical method of ,axation; direct and in- direct embracing all occupations business and property, except the churches and their appendages. Gep- Scott considers the present prosals for pcaee more moder- air and reasonable; and if Mexico should obstinately persist in rejecting negotiations, you must expect to see him enforcing the most rigid exacuons and lhe heaviest con tribu,ious, to compel speedy ;eFHsisa:ioi of hostilities.
 A SPY IN WASHINGTON. f
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