The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-04-19
BY THE MAILS,
Affairs In Washington.
WASHINGTON, April 1

WASHINGTON, April II, 1917
The Progress Of tie Par-Ine Prospects Of q
Peace-IHe Plan Of Subsequent OPERATIONS
Santa Anna--ddranfages Of his Re-estajhsb.
menf IN Po,cer- Terms Of Peace California
Huasacuaico-DIr. Uebster-Mr. Riiehie and
Gen. Taylor and the President, &c.
We have an intimation this mornng-and !,
is only from the responsibility of our authority
that we give II wider sea-room, TO within,
plea, or overtures, or suggestions for peace have
been laid before the cabinet from the clergy in
Mexico, or from an instrument OF that faction
that powerful faction in the control OF the do
nestle government oi that country.
Our observations OF yesterday on the return OF
santa Anna 10 power were in advance Of the
news from the South of his triumphant installa-
ton. II appears that he was inaugurated several
days before the reduction of Vera Cruz so thu,
his ultimate policy Of peace or war. remains We,
TO be known. Within week or ten DAYS We
shall hear from Mexico of the sentiments
there entertained on the question of
peace, after the reduction of Vera Cruz
and the castle, and the forward move
mcnt Of General Scott, en- route for the
capital. Our impression is that it will brinc
Santa Anna to terms for the entire route be-
tween Vera Cruz and the city of Mexico seems
to be thrown open and abandoned, except a
small battery at Puentc Nacional, and garrison
at the castle of Perotc on the plateau table
lands Inc country will afford supplies to the
cient for the march upon the halls of the Monte
zumas, in the present dsorganized and disturbed
condition of the country: simultaneously with
learn in Mexico Of Mr.. Walkers or Gen. SCOTS
tariff system. This measure will illustrate most
conclusively the fact, that the United States are
determined to fight out the war TO an indefinite
duration, if the Mexican people are agreed
Taking all these things together, with the utter
exhaustion OF the Mexican treasury, without
hope OF repenishment, save in sequestration OF
the treasures of the church, is very fair TO pre-
sumo that Santa Anna will be induced to submit
overtures OF peace to his cabinet, with the saving
reservation of the army at his back to enforce "a
compliance, especially with the connivance OF
the clergy.
The two brigades sent down by Santa Anna
to the relief of Vera Cruz, if not captured bv the
forces of General Scott, will have been informed
by rumors OF the state of affairs in season TO an
their escape, uia Xalapa as there is no other
route through the mountains for their retreat
| into the interior, saving retreat back 10 San
| Luis Potosi.
All the old stagers and revolutionizers, except.
ing Santa Anna, the ablest and most perfidious
Paroles, Arista, Ampudia, Salas, Rejon Gomez
Farias Zone OF their very best and most advanced
of their statesmen), and even Almonte
the p,rofege and bosom friend Of Santa Anna,
are all thrown overheard, and yet before
| thirty days are over Santa Anna may be exiled,
and one or the other of the rejected indictments
placed again at the head of affairs. But Santa
Anna has learned too much of the power of the
army to let that slip from his fingers II the
army leaves the capital, he will leave it and if
Gen Scott has TO encounter further resistance,
1t will be the resistance of an army headed by
Santa Anna. So far, then, from experimenting
the danger OF a supersedeas of Santa Anna, il
would not be surprising II the next ntelli gence
by assent of all parties, pronounced a conditional
or unconditional dictator. If this is DONE he
will be shrewd enough to refuse the empty title,
satisfied, like Cesar, with the substantial author
lily: and by such modest declination establishing
| the authority of the Office which he declines
| We are gratliied that Santa Anna has been SO
trinmphantly sustained. Looking at the grea,
ultimatum OF peace, we regard his ascendancy
| as most essential desderatum, on the single
| ground Of the presence of an authority compe-
ten! TO make peace, and powerful enough to
| maintain IT and hold IT sacred, after such peace
| shall have been concluded.
From all the lights around us, and from consul
tation OF them most deliberately, il is proba.
bic that treaty, ceding a boundary TO the Unit
ed States along the line Of the Rio ;rande to the
thirty-second degree of north latitude, thence in
a straight line from the Paso del Norte, across 10
the Pacific, will be satisfactory TO this govern
ment. This will give us, including the disputed
territory of Texas, some 500, 900 square miles foi
an extension of the of freedom or of slavery
or OF BOTH as the question may be settled. IN
addition 10 this cession, however. the gov
eminent of the United States will ask right
OF way across the isthmus from Huasacualco
to Tehuantepec; for which privilege a bonus
will be allowed TO the Mexican government =
This will be, perhaps, the most serious i'm
pedinent TO a treaty, with all its advanta-
gees TO Mexico, to the United States, and
to the commerce of the world for the Next
cans may construe II into a scheme for outflank-
| ing them, with the design Of their total subuga-
ton and extinction as an independent conlede-
! racy. But reryOns.
From late advices from Captain Fremont who
| II appears. is still alive and hourishng il Is said
! that the Great BASIN OF Upper California hanked
| on all sides by almost impossible mountains and
stretching through ten degrees Of latitude, north
and south, and al least six degrees east and wcsl
so far from being the utterly waste and unin.
| habltable volcanic desert as supposed to be from
the previous partial explorations, is in the
interior well watered, productive country
| country, possessed of all the facilities for
hne grazing region. and capable of sustain
ing large pastoral population We wish that
I Ih may be case bur, from the scarcity of the
| Indians, and the absence of game we still are
apprchenslyc that the Great Basin is not for pur.
| poses oil coionlzation, worth two of the poorest
cabbage-heads ever sold IN Fly market. But that
Is not the object. The purpose is compact,
open territory 10 the harbors of the Pacific from,
the east of the Rocky Mountains
| We understand that the President proposes 10
call out ten thousand volunteers, under the ffty
thousand act of May Is, 1876, to fill up the yacan,
! spaces OF the regiments and divisions i'm The.
held. From this II woul appear that while all
are expecting prcminarlcs of peace the admins
traiion rs stll dubious of the continuance of The
war. II rs all right for these recruits NAV
be necessary to keep open the line between
Vera Cruz and the halls of the Monezumas.
Meantime, Gen. Taylor is to push forward upon
San LUIS, and through that route form a junction
WIN Gen. Scott, by march southwark along
me eastern base of the mountains 10 Xalapa,
thence IN the straight road 10 the capital, taking
no trouble TO garrison any town south of Saltilo
because the base OF the combined operations will
be at Vera Cruz, 10 which place supplies will
| come more readily by sea than by a land march
OF al least five hundred miles from Monterey
| southwark to Xalapa.
Mr. Webster is still detained in the city, and
| may be yet for several days.
Father Richie, we pcrpend, gives himself I'M
| necessary pcrpiexity respecting the wings thu.
| democratic wings, running Gen. Taylor for the
Presidency, and goes into an untimely argument
| 10 show that the old soldier won't run any how