The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-05-15
DAILY CRESCENT.
Further Items of Mexican News.

The last news from Mexico bv the steamship
McKim, was no later than had been previously
received. The following items we extract from a
file of the Free Americana:
On the 24th of the present month (ApriD gene
raj order was published in Chihuahua appointing a
governor of the city, and guaranteeing the rights of
both Mexlcans and Americans in respect to persons
and property. None but private houses Were to be
taken for barracks and all religious edifices We're
taken under the protection of the United States
government.
A Journal of the capital says, that on the arrival
of the American Commissioners, $500 600 had been
advanced to the government. Who advanced it,
for what purpose, is not stated, which is some
what mysterious.
We have been assured, thafa few days ago Gen.
Paroles wrote to the governor of Aguascalientes
desiring to know upon what force he could rely in
case Of a pronuncian,iento Padre Piedras, of the
South, was in this city few days ago, with the OBJ
ject of arranging his mOnarchical plan.-Eco del
Comercio.
The Arco IRIS of the 26th, under the caption of
The Armistce,'' says g We understand that in
Alvarado, 'Eacotapa pam and other towns south of
Vera Cruz, where individuals belonging to the navy
OF the United States, have been placed governors
or commanders, the contribution imposed by the
commander in chief of the American army, is still
collected from the people, and when it represented
to said individuals that by virtue of the armistce
they ought not to collect this contribution. They
answer that they are not subject to the orders Of
Gen. Butter, nor to those OF any other General of
the army, and recognise others but those of their
commodore This means that the General-n-
Chief of the United States army in Mexico, could
impose a contribution, but cannot abrogate it, be-
cause the officers of the American Navy think it
their duty to obey his orders when they are intended
to Cypress the people, and not when their object is
to alleviate the burthen which weighs upon them.
agreeably to the armistice. We hope that the
Mexican authorities, when informed of the abuse
which we now denounce, will make the most ener-
getic declarations. that the stipulations of the
armistice be carried scrupulously into effect
The editors of the Arco IRIS ought to be aware
that the commander of the navy, in Mexico, in
derng contributions to be levied the inhabitants
of town in the possession of his orces followed the
Instructions received by him directly from the Sec
rotary of the Navy. The commander-in- chief of
the army has no control over Commodore Perry
Because Gen. Butler has concluded the arnistice
on his own responsibility, it is reason for the
commander of the squadron TO follow his example.
The Commodore has too much experience to take
upon himself to dsobey the orders of superors. and
until he receives the order to discontinue to collect
the tax above mentioned, from the Secretary of the
Navy, he will continue to follow the instructions
received from his government.
Is it not strange to hear the Mexicans complain
of the small tax imposed upon them by our govern
ment in comparison to that extracted from them by
their own government.
In all the cities and towns occupied by troops
the salaries of the workmen, the rents of houses,
the produce of the country all in fact has greatly
increased in value, therefore the citizens can with
much more facility pay the contribution demanded
of them.
But the article in the Arco IRIS was not dictated
by the peopl; of Alvarado, Tlacotalpam &c. 1t
was simply the editors who thought they had found
a mares nest.-Free American, 27M