The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1849-09-07
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We find in the New York Herald

letter fromNcwOrlea under date
Of goth July, which processes to dis
close the particulars Of the move
ment on foot in that city, and which
elected the proclamation of the pre-
sident. 1t is very similar to the ex-
petition contemplated about this
time last year, and Which was effec-
tually suppressed ~ the government
without the preS@ent's issuing a
proclamation. The following is the
letter referred to:
"Having seen no motion. in any
Of the public journals at either the
north or south, or even an intimation
Of an important movement which has
been going on in this city for some
time past, and which is at this mo-
ment being conducted in a secret
way, cannot do better than TO de-
tail to you its origin, progress, and
prospect,pledging myself that, start
ling as it is, and important as it will
be at no distant day on our relations
with the neighboring republic Of
Mexico, what shall state may be
relied upon as true and authentic.
Now for the facts.
"For some time past, several men
calling themselves agents OF an ex-
peditionary enterprise, have been
enlisting men in this city, with the
understanding, private and secret,
that they shall perform duty in any
service in which their heads may be
required when the expedition shall
have arrived at its destination. I'M
mediately after the in!istmcnt Of each
man, he is made acquainted with
certain secret signcs by which he
can recognize his fellow associates,
agents, or officers, and, as | also
learn, each man binds himself to keep
the fact that such an expedition is
being process Of formation to him
self, and to reveal it to no one.
"Another stipulation which those
who enlistin this enterpaizc are obi
ged to enter into, is that the destina-
ton of the expedition is not to be
made known to them until the vessel
in which they agree to embark shall
have reached a certain latitude and
longitude. When the particular
point shall have been reached, the
object and interest Of the expedition:
as well as the point Of destination,
will be fully made known to them,
and they will be expected to obay
their officers, and to perform the nil
litary service which they entered in
to III this city. Fifteen hundred men
Or more, have at this time announc-
ed their readiness to embark in this
enterprise, and the number is in
creasing every day. \ formidable
quantity of arms has also been secur-
ed, consisting Of fifteen or twenty
thousand mrskeis, which were
purchased OF government contract
ers in New York, Philadelphia and
other places, and they are safely Sc
cured in the place appointed for the
expedition to land at. The active
men in this affair, the leaders who
command, and are now carrying it
on, will visit the northern cities,
where in New York particularly, J
they expect to get all such addition
al recruits as they desire.
81 have as yet said nothing of the
object of this great movement, nor
the point at which the expedition
will debark. You recollect very
well, that, for some time past, there
have been rumors of revolutiona.
~ character in the northern part of
Mexico, and that it has been expec-
ted by the Mexican government that
an independent republic in the nor
them states, to be called the Repub-
lie of the Sierra Mrdre. The sub
iect caused great deal of anxiety
to the central government at Next
CO; and troops were sent there some
months ago, and other measures a.
dopted to nip it in the bud. Now,
the object of this expedition is to
carry out the formation of the Re-
public Of the Cierra Madre, to sepa-
rate that territory from the Mexican
Republic, pro claim its independence,
and maintain it by force. 1t was in
this way that the separation and in
dependence Of Texas was brought
about; and the scheme in thatS.,,
stance hayino e"c"ana~' Jo'" y
:" selves with the old abolition par
the darling scheme Of the Ci,ize
accomplish which, no pains
means, no measure Of falsehood
be spared.
Cholera at P0ntiQc.-We kn'