The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-11-07

In addition to the items of news from Mexico
which we gave in our last evenings edition, we
append the following, taken from our files of pa
pers brought from Vera Cruz by the steamer
Teviot:
On the 10th inst. an Israelite named Isaac, of the
tribe of Levi, renounced the ancient faith of his
iorefathers, and was publicly baptised Christian
In the Church of Santa Vera Cruz, at the capital.
The Governor of the district. General Don Pedro
Maria Anaya, was his sponsor the occasion,
and bestowed on the neophyte the name of Jose
Maria Pubic Juan Batista Anaya. He is about
twenty five years of age. On the same day a
sumptuous collation. was given to the new Chris
tan and his friends at Tvoli, the expense of which
betrayed by Gen. Anaya.
Juan Ramirez, the principal chief of the insur-
gents IN the Sierra, was MORALLY wounded by his
captors on the I'd inst. Gen. Busamente, in com
municating this fact to the Supreme Government,
congratulates the country that the long pending
intestine war is now ended.
Don Juan 5. Navarro has been sentenced TO one
years imprisonment for libelling the Secretary Of
War in an article in the Paanca
The subject OF the Mexican debt has been before
Congress since opening, upward OF three months
ago, and 1t was expected that the committee on
public credit would make report on it on the 18th
ult but up to the latest dates nothing definite had
been done, regarding the several plans submitted
tor gradually extinguishing it. MIR. Robertson,
the agent of the English creditors, was quite tired
out by the delay and was about to leave for home,
there to give an account of the failure of his mis-
sion.
A French hair-dresser named Charles Binchert
blew his brains out at Vera Cruz on the Sd inst
He was led to the commission of the rash act by
considerable losses which he had experienced at
the gaming table.
The government has issued orders to establish
four military colonies in the Sierra Gorda, the
seat OF the late instruction. They are to be in
places dependent on the four states bordering
thereon, viz Mexico, Queretaro, Guanajuato and
San Luis Potos They are to be organized like
those on the frontiers, and after four years resi-
dence the coloEists may become a resident popula
ton This is done with view to overawe the In
dams, who now constitute the mass of the people.
General Bustamentc has received orders to de-
spatch eight hundred men and Six pieces OF artil-
lery to Zacatecas, for the purpose of preserving
ORDER in the difficulty between the Governor, Co
sio, and the Legislature of that State.
Some abortive attempts had lately been made at
Ciudad Victoria, at Chalco, and in the valley of
Touca, near the metropolis, towards organizing
another revolution The prime movers in it were
the Santaniss, friends of the exiled Dictator
BY the energy of the government none of them
came to head, and with the exception Of few in
significant arrests, the display of force alone by the
authorities was sufficient to preserve order
The government has published a decree of Con
gress permitting the discount of bills of exchange
for importation duties, which may come into the
treasury from the maritime custom houses during
the last three months of the present year. The adj
ministration lately applied for an extension of the
time, but Congress had not acted on the subject
The bills not to be discounted for more than
one per cent. month, and hard money is to be
paid down by the discounter; paper certifi-
Gates of any kind were to be received.
Madame Bishop and Bochsa were about to give
series of concerts at Queretaro Herr had left that
city for San Juan del Rio.
The company owning the line of diligences and
transport wagons between Vera Cruz and the city
of Mexico have proposed to the government to es-
tablish at their own expense, an armed force Of
four hundred men, to secure travellers from the at
tacks of robbers between the two cities. With Sc
curity between the principal port and the chief city
of the republic, travel will materially increase,
which will accelerate the march of the prosperity Of
the country.
General Don Manuel Rincon, well known for
his valor at the battle of Churubusco, lately died in
the city of Mexico, highly respected soldier and
a citizen. He had successfully filled the posts of
governor and commandant general of many differ
ent states of the republic.
We find that our files of papers from the city Of
Mexico extend TO the 18th instant inclusive. Ell
igLo of that date states that the conduca of trea
sure lately despatched from Guanaiuata and San
Luis Potosi to Tampico, amounts to the large sum
of $l2,000,000.
A great number of insurgents, with their chiefs,
have fallen into the hands of General Bustamente
since the capture of Quiroz and Ramirez, most of
whom have received the amnesty of the govern
ment and been dismissed to their homes
El Siglo ofthe Sth instant speaks highly of the
Monplaisir ballet troupe, who are impatiently
waited for at the capital.-N. o. Pic, Oct 30.