Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1848-05-17

enclosed exirccts fromlhe American Star.
81 f(lUERETaRo, April l3. l64S.
Senators and Deputies are arriving here
daily from all paris of the States Of the
repnblic. Those who are here meet fire..
quenlly in caucuses.
lis genurally believed thai Congress
will lsmeet after the Easter HOLIDAYS, thai
is from the FIRST To ihe fifth ofneXt month.
The numbor Of Deputies wanting for a
quorum nowsis is sixteen to eighteen. and
The number Of Senators waning is four.
The army Of reserve and The munitions
have left here under Generals Buslamen,e
and Minou, for San Luis PJlosi, under
the .prelest of preserving order and iran.
guilty., which are threatened by the rising
OF the Indians of The Sierra Gorio.
All the opinions expressed up to this
time by the members Of the new Congress
are in favor Of peace.
Some officious Mexicaus have induced
several American officers, as it appears re.
iuclantly, to come TO Queretaro, and they
have enlisted in the army. Three OF
them have been sent to Gaudalajara. and
The others are waiting here for their ap.
poin,menls: In my next letter I will
give yon their names. The two baualions
of the San Palicio consist of from hun.
dred 10 a hundred and twenty men.
The slago which left this city for Qua.
najuato yesterday was attacked by band
of robbers about FIVE miles from here. The
passengers fired and killed one of the Oh
bers, who was carried off Immediately by
bis companions. The passengers return.
cd 10 town, and asked the Government
for an escort, which was refused. They
lie, the stage go on empty, and entered
their protest agains, he refusal of the 60.
yernment to prolec, Them under such cir
cumslances.
ClTY OF MEXICO, April 19. 1915.
Herewith you will 6ud the second letter
of your Queretaro correspondent, dated
the 18Th inst. and had it not been for the
breaking down Of the dilgencia on The
road should have had letter from him
This letter will be found exceedingly in.
tereslng at The present momenl, in view
of the. possibility of the treaty not being
ratified. at Queretam. and reopening of
Tue war,7inasmuct as il gives in detail the
present military resources ofllle Govern
meni, 10 case prolongnlnn OF the war is
determined upon; buin case such de.
Termination is thought OF, how appalling
,.muslilhese statistics be to any Mexican OF
sense. who desires 10 preserve the nations
alitytof his country. Eleven thousand five
sllundred3inen into the field.
Fromths Pieaynne o. the III May.
The. e.brig Selma Capt. Black, arrived
ed Yesterday evening from Vera Cruz,
whence she sailed on the ,29th ul,. She
brings ius papers nfthat date
g ,lnJhe Free American Of the 2Sth, we
find the following article-exlracled we
presume from the American Stnr-which
is Of manifest.itnporinnce.
SAN LuIs.-Gen. Paredes.-New rev,
,olnlionary ymovemenls appear 10 be break
ing oat 10 San Luis, in consequence oflhe
presence or Paredes in that city. Accord
ing 10 the correspondent Of the Monitor,
,under.dale OF the l2h,s the people were in
a snd condition, and nothing like reslo
ration ofpublc order was looked for until
he should leave the city. On the night OF
The llth Tuesday Of last week. ono OF the