The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1848-02-25
From Mexico.

From Mexico.
The Picayune of the Sth, has later advices
from Mexico. We copy the following from
that paper:
sour accounts by this arrival are ms con-
Trajectory in regard TO peace, as the rumors
which come TO US from Washington. One
OF our occasional correspondents who APP
prised us some time since of the transmits
sion Of important dispatches by the >loop Of
war Saratoga, reiterates his opinion that
''peace is made, so far at least, as the Mex
leans can make it. What has been done
only requires the sanction and approval Of
our Government" On the other hand. a
letter from distinguished officer dated the
] 10Th, in the city Of Mexico, says: The
Mexican Congress has not been able to form
a quorum and peace is just rs far OF as ev-
err We cannot undertake to decide be-
tween these contradictory opinions. but pro-
coed To lay before our readers such letters
as we have received Ivy this arrival.
VERA CRuz, Jan. 2i, 1878.
Gentlemen: We are i'll receipt Of news
from the city Of Mexico 20 the 10Th inst. All
was quiet at the capital. Peace peace, is
the cry. II is generally believed that Gen.
Scott and Mr.. Trist have succeeded in max
ing treaty Of peace; nothing is known, for
Of course, all the movements of these high
IN authority are kept secret. Many per-
sons Of responsibility, and some high in an
thority, positively state there is no doubt
there will be peace in three months. The
pronunciamcnio Of the State of San Luis Po-
tosi, against the Government. ard her iuyi-
tation 10 other States opposed 10 the Gov
erument. &C., making peace, 10 send depu-
ties to meet at the city of san Luis Potosi,
| mast confess, does not look very much like
any permanency in any peaceful arrange
ment made or TO be made by our gallant
General. 1t has rather trist aspect
We make the following extracts from the
Free American of the 2Ih ult:
From the mierior.-The mail from Orig
aba arrived-here on Saturday last papers
up to the nth, from the city of Mexico, have
been received by merchants Of this place,
and dates from Queretaro up to the Sth inst.
A letter inserted in the Monitor Republic
cGno of the 7th, dated Quere;aro, January
18th, states that the IuemberS of Congress are
coming TO that place very slowly, and that
al the last meeting Of that body on the 2Sth
ol last month, very few members were pre-
sent.
A brigade the American Army left Qua
jimalpe for Lerma ON the uh, and took pos
session Of that place without opposition.
The NORTH american says that the Amer
leans took possession Of Tomoa, without the
least opposition, aud that an American Gov
ernor was TO be appointed.
The irCO Iris OF yesterday, states that all
the newspapers received at that office, assert
thatthe MeXcanGovernment and the Amer
lean authorities are negotiating for peace.
This is a mistake, either Of the .irco Iris
or Of the papers received by that Journal.
We have seen a letter of later date than
any newspaper received here, from an un-
questiona6ly good source, which states that
there is no more prospect OF peace at pre-
sent, than when the war commenced.
From Tampico we learn that the L. S.
propeller Secretary Mason, returned TO Tam
pico on the 2Sth Of January, from an exper-
mental trip as far as Tancasnegui. The
1amassee river, hitherto unnavigable ex-
cept for canoes, has been opened by our
troops as far as that point, which is in fact
the head of navigation. BY order Of Col.
Gates, Col. De RuSsey, ably seconded by
Capt. Cole, lst Regiment Louisiana Nolun-
teers, has thus, after a deal of labor, sue
cceded in facilitating operations in case com
municaiions are to be opened with San Lui,
Potosi. One hundred miles Of land trans
po,tetiun, "Iv " these means obvia,ed, and
the supplying ola division at San Luis made
comparatively an easy matter. A post will
be Immediately established at Tancasnequi,
company Of dragons being ordered up the
day our informant left. They will keep the
roads open for the traders in that neighbor-
hood, and but little will be heard Of guerril-
las in tina, quarter hereafter
The trade of Tampico is represented as
more active than at any time since its occu-
patton.
Ldtcr.-The barque Archimides, Captain
Lane, yesterday arrived from Vera Cruz,
having sailed on the Goth ult. We have the
Free American of that date, but there is
scarcely word Of news in it.
Captain Whippie is said to have arrived
from the city Of Mexico, and to have broush,
down news that Orizaba has been taken,
and is now in possession of body Of Amer
lean troops despatched from the city of Mex
leo. The editors Of the American had been
unable to see Captain w. personally to as.
certain the facts.
Captain Lane reports the arrival at Vera
Cruz, on the Goth, of the ship Ozark, Davis
master, thirty days from Portland, Me-, with
a cargo Of hay.