The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-04-13
Late and Important from Mexico.

inst, and from the City of Mexico our correspon
dence reaches to the Both ult and, as usual, witt
the letters of Chaparral, will be found of much in
terest. The proceedings of the Court of INQUIRY
which will be found in other columns. are fou
days later.
SANTA ANNA.-The Free American of the 31s
ult says that 50 Santa Anna requested Col Hughes
Governor Of Jalapa, to receive him. as he had {
passport to leave the country. We understand
that Col Hughes went out with two companies o
Dragons and one of artillery, to meet the gentle
man at his hacienda of Encero He will probably
embark on board of the English steamer for Ha
vnna. He will go TO Antigua-there he will take
boat-and finally he will proceed to Jamaica, tc
await there an offer from John Bull, to come back
to his native country He is worthy son Of his
country" A later date states that Gen. Santa
Anna sailed for Jamaica on the morning of the 4th
The same paper, Of the same date, contains the
following singular announcement:
I" Runaauay.--Lieut. Smith did not like his Uncle
Sam. He left his friends, and is now giving HELM
to the robbers, guerleros and towards -
The succeeding number of the paper throws
some light upon the above mysterious paragraph
although it leaves i'll doubt as to the identity of
the officer alluded to- For the credit of our State,
we hope he is not from Louisiana.
Er-Lieu. Smuh-Ihis worthy left our city
day before yesterday, with about twenty men, after
having sold his pay roll three times, to our Know
ledge. We have learned that since his departure,
he went to a farm about one league from this city
there he robbed all he could find and forced one of
the laborers to lead him to place where he could
find horses to rob. At the same moment, it seems
that he was going one way with this laborer Capt.
Connolly's troops arrived at the hacienda which he
had Just left; but as none on the farm knew where
they had gone to, it was thought they had taken the
Medelln road, and In consequence, Captain Connol-
ly's command went in pursuit of them. They re-
turned the same night, having seen nothing of the
deserters.' -
We since learn that Lieut.. Smith, who recently
deserted with several of his men did belong to the
Louisiana Volunteers. He has been delivered up
to Col Wilson, by the band of guerrilleros he had
joined, and is now confined in the Casile.l
We extract the following items from the Star of
the 26th ut -
San Luis.-The Progreso at Queretaro. of last
Thursday, says the imprisonment of Gov. Adame
was creating much excitement at San Luis against
the Supreme Government. 1t was believed that 1t
was the intention of those who arrested him TO put
him out of the. way, in consequence Of his having
been the only one, at the meeting of Governors at
Querttaro who was for war. We do not know
how this is but we presume the Government had
good reasons fer its course. The reader will
member that we have already stated that Adame
was taken to Queretaro. He was probably arrest
ed in consequence of being privy to the late revo-
lutionary movements in San Luis.
Puebla.-The Monitor states that party of ban
dts, four days since, pundered the town of Nopa-
ucan, and also robbed the diligence going to Jala-
pa, taking whatever they could find, including
large basket of crOckery ware for the hotel in Pc
rote. They took, also, seven horses belonging to
the diligence mentioned. The MONITORS correspon-
dent censres the authorities of the towns for not ia
king means for preventing such outrages.
Queretaro-The interior mail last night brought
US the Progreso of the 23d. The editor has occu-
pid nearly all the paper in =" blowing" against los
ydpquies, against peace, aud against every thing
that is decent
Gen. Valencia, the commander of the entrenched
camp at Contreras, died at one o'clock yesterday
in this city, of apoplexy.
Effects of the Administrations Vera Cruz friends
seem to be very much dissatisfied with the change
in the state of affairs since the armistice. The
Free American of the LIST inst seems to be particu
larly irritable upon the subject, as, indeed it is but
natural it should be, if the state Of affairs described
in the article we quote below, really exists No
thing can better exemplify the coWardce and mean
ness of the Mexican character than such course
of conduct
The new authorities entered in office one year
and one day after the American flag was for the
first time hoisted in front of the National Palace, III
the main plaza of Vera Cruz. Only two days have
gone by since the governmental the city has been
granted to the Mexicans-and in two days these
have made more changes in the differ
ent Offices than the Americans in one year and one
day
All the Mexicans who held office under the Amer
lean government have been discharged. Some Of
them have even been threatened by the new office
holders!
A friend of our assures us, land we believe him.
that young man, a lawyer, was forbidden to plead
cause before Mexican court of this city unless
ne should show proof that he D0s not an American,
He happened to be Spaniard.
When the civil authorities were in possession of
he Americans, Mexican as well as American law
gers We're heard in tribunals, and now that
hese men are in power, lawyers must give proof,
before they are admitted at the bar, that they are
aot Americans +.
These impudent towards who xhave run away
before the American soldiers, have come back as
oon they heard of the armstice Their patriot
SIN is called by us egotism-ther honor, mScahty-
heir bravery, coUardice'
This is the biography of the present authorities
# the city of Vera Cruz
They fled before the enemy, and as soon as they
leard that their respective Offices could be filled
gain by them, they rushed into the city to step in
o them. Their first action, when III power, was 10
urn out of office, honest fathers of families, be-
aIlse they have made their living and that of their
hdren, honesty-they have worked for the pay
which was allowed TO them by the American Go
ernment, while the present office holders We're
obbng both Americans and Mex;cans-whie they
we're extracting tax from the poor unfortunate be-
ngs who come to this city with one or two dollars
worth of vegetables or milk
Their patriotism does not allow them to let an
american lawyer defend case in their courts See
where patriotism has hid itself.
Fools you incorrigible, and weWill have to
bandon you to your fate.
From VERA CRUZ.-The ship Christiana, Capt. |
arrived yesterday from Vera Cruz,
whence she sailed on the 18th inst.
The U. S. ship John Adams, left Vera Cruz on
he Sd inst for N. York, and was passed on the 9th
v the Christiana, in lat. 24a long 92o-all well.
The following passengers came over on the Chris
ANA: Capt. Merchant, Lieuts. Mclean and Best,
!. S. A., Lieut. Bulterfeld, Marine Corps; Sur
con Minor. u. S. n; W. A. Eammick, @. VI. Dept