Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1848-08-16
THE SIERRA MADRE Project
The Senate received the following message from
the President on Tuesday the 9Th instant
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, lS4S.
TO the Senate of The United States:

the President on Tuesday the 9Th instant:
WASHINGTON, Aug. s, IS4S
10 tho Senate ofMe United States:
In reply to the resolution of the Senate of the 7th
instant, requesting the President to inform that
body 'whelhcr he has any information that any
citizen or citizens of the United States, is or are
now preparing, or Intending TO prepare within the
United States, an expedition to revolutionize bv
force, any part of the Republic Of Mexico, or TO as
sis in so doing and ifhe has, what is the extent Of
such preparation, and whether he has or is about TO
take any steps 10 arrest the same" have to state
mat The Executive Is not i'll possession of any inor
nation OF the character called fer by the resolution
The late treaty of peace with Mexico has been
and will be faithfully observed on our part.
JAMES K POLK.
ne National intellgencer, few days since, in
noticing the denial oil certain Democratic papers,
that any such project as that ofinvadirrr the Nnrib
ern part Of Mexico, for the purpose of inducing !,
revolution against the government of that country
was on loot, very plthily remarked, that the an,
'hority upon which it had minated the existence
OF the scheme, was much better than anv mon
which 1t had been contradlced. In reference to the
Presidents disavowal, the JnteIligencer of We'd
nesday morning says:
he President, by message Yesterday. in reply
to the inquiry of the Senate states thai he has M
Information that any citizen or citizens of the Uni
'eu states Is OF are now preparing, or intending to
prepare, within the United States, an expedition TO
IevoluiIonme by force any part of the Republic of
Mexico This is highly probable but it proves lit
tIe In contradiction TO the reports from New Or
leans That such an expedition is in preparaton.-
ihOSe concerned in the enterprise are not so green
we presume, as to communicate their purpose TO
thc Executive, and few others would care to do 50.
Inc flTst, probably, that government will hear
OF The affair officially will be proposition from the
Sierra Madre "buflao hunlers,1 some three or four
year hence, TO be annexed to our Union"
AT meeting Of the Board of the Trustees of
washington College, held on Wednesday the / lth
INST, TO select suitable individual to fiji the office
Of President. made vacant by the resignation of DIR.
Ruttner, WIN II. McGUFFEY. l.. H. D.. at pre-
sent Professor Of Moral Philosophy in the Univer
slly OF Virginia, was, wo learn, unanimously elect,
ed-Ler Ga=.
The amendment Of the Senate which pronosod
to insert the "Missouri Compromise in the Hill
Tor establishing Territorial Government in Ore
gon, was yesterday rejected in the House of Rem
Iesenatves by 50 large majority as TO leave lit
tie prospect OF the passage of any bill for the OBJ
JccI at the present session, unless the Senate shall
yield the point, which is probable. after the de
clsye vote of that body on Thursday NIGHT in r,
vor Of the compromise causc.--.Ncd. Int.