Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-06-15
From the New Orleans Picayune, June 81
THE NEWS FROM MEXICO.
CERTAINTY OF PEACE,

ship A. r Hetzel, with intelligence of The
passage OF the Treaty through the Mexica u
Senate. We have since received our Next
can files and correspondence by the steam
ship Souherner, chartered expressly for this
service.
We give such extracts from the contents
of our flies aud cores pondence as NAV be
interesting on account ofther bearing upon
the treaty. and the information thew afford
touching the condition in which Mexico
will be when our armies eVacuale her terri
tory.
/, will be seen that Gen Smith has been
ordered 10 superiniend The embarkaion of
the troops at or near Vera Cruz. General
Kearny has been appointed 10 FIJI the Office
of Governor of Mexico in Gen. Smiths stead
and to take command OF his division of the
| army.
Gen. Butler has indefinitely postponed
the execution of the officers engaged in the
horrible burglary aud murder in The city Of
Mexico.
l(sPEcIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE pICAYUNE.
Cry OF Mexico, May %, 1913.
The commissioners, Messrs. Sewer and
Clifford, left yesterday morning for Quere-
faro, uaVlDg T6CSlNcu an lnFIdtiOH lIOU tNG
Mexican Government to exchange talifca
lions at that place, They were escorted by
Two companies of the Sd Dragons, under
the command of Major Polk. Your able
and attentive correspondent, I'D. So also
accompanied the expedition, and his des-
srpIions Of country almost entirely new 10
your readers will doubtless be richly inter-
S esing.
t The Quereiaro' mail has just arrived,
bringing letters from your correspondent
| there to the 2lst. The vote on the treaty
in The Senate will be taken on the 24h, TO-
! morrow,) but as there is little or no doubt Of
= the result. il is not looked Tor with much in
i ierest. AS the elections in Morelia are over
t and as this election completes the conslitu
J ional number required to enable the Senate
t, to proceed 10 the choice of President, "A
e successor 10 Pena Pena will be chosen as
soon as the Senators from that State arrive.
: In the deoate on The treaty in The Chamber
$ of Deputies, the Two great champions were
e Cuevas against and Rosa for peace. The
" former is a brother OF one Of the negoiiators
e OF the treaty, and his speech created a strong
s sensation. The answer Of Rosa, til, Minis
d ter oil Relations, is said to have been mos
( powerful in its reasoning, and compleely
q contounded the guerreristdS Que of the
J. Monitors correspondents, writing on the
a day previous 10 the final vote, says: 'fht
lie decision clnnut be much longer delayed
n we shall shortly know what the result IS
, This city (Qneretaro) is in frighifnl stale
&c of anxiety, awaiting the sentence of life o
- death, because, although the whole Republic
If is interested in the subject, this cite wouIc
= be the fIsi TO suffer the Consequences il
W case Of no ratification" Isend you list o
n the votes for and against the treaty
lie Gen. Smith leaves here TO morrow TO
Vera Cruz, to make arrangements for 'h
% embarkation of The troops, either at that Por
ID or some other on the coast. II was at fir,
IS IN ended 10 send Gen. Patterson down Ia
10 that purpose, and | believe So announce
of il to you, but the fact of Gen. Smiths lon
Id residence in Louisiana pointed him out a
The finest person 10 stand the climate ofVe
le ra C-uz.
+ A train arrived from Pachuca on Snnda
RS last, under command of Mqor Laly, bring
a ing down silver for one of The companies
j. Real del Monte. They will take bac
O. quartermaser's stores and camp equipag
Ill Tor tie troops on their march 10 the coas
u as | unde sand they will cross the counlr
Is, io TO Perote, and not return 10 this city.
Is An incident occurred al the principal the
ID atre the ether night significant Of the seelin
ed which is gradually but surely growing u
nd here on the subject of religion. The piec
all was called Carlos Segundo, and represen
IL ed period in Spanish history when the Ii
y quisiion, with its soul crushing desPoiisl
- - reigned triumphant and trod alike upon III
in necks Of king and peasant. The interest {
of The piece turned upon the unholy love of
ty Friar for young glI. Finding himself ba
nd fed in his attempts upon her virtue, he bt
"a comes enraged, aud denounces her 10 III
ne Holy Tribunal as sorceress. She make
W. her escape and. takes refuge in the palace {
- the King, who subsequently ascertains he
nd 10 be his long lost sister. Her pnrsuers 'rac
In her 10 The palace and claim her, and III
II King finds himself unable 10 protect her.-
Ter At this par, of the peice the audience b'
iai came intensely excited, and several person
e .W cried out in loud tones, "deaih TO The monk
OF and fiars!' This cry was immediatel
M caught up, and echoed from all paris Of til
in house. The Monitor notices the circun
it. stance and thinks il was highly indiscreel
Va ItpfeScui SuCH pciSC ou 'h% S'"6N3 % -
es, ding TO bring religion into contempt. 1
IA ia CdngrGo, (The Crab,) sairical paper pu
CO. lished here by a number of Mexicans, III
en- doubtless had its share in producing this fee
me ing, as it omls no opporturi of showing {
at the crimes and extoftions Of the -presthoo
ed, Several other more influential Mexican p
en- pers have also translated and republished
series Of we'll written articles from the An
leJ erican Star, in which the monks and fra
- are handled rather roughly. The snjourn
an the American army in this country will n
old be unproduciive of good, if these signs {
-er- for anything.
tri-
to CRY OF MEXICO, May "a, lS4S.
we A pronuncidmento has been made III Ag
axe as Calentes, and the leaders of The revol
I'M tiouists are Paroles, Jarauia, and son
Gomez Farias. The objects Of the NOV
ment are announced TO be continuation