The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-24
From the Ne,c Orleans Picay,tne, Jan. Is.

! We have received files of papers from the citz
OF Mexico to the 23d and Vera Cruz to the 27tb
ultlmo. They contain some very interesting in
| The Chamber of Deputies had passed the bill
granting the privilege of opening a communica-
ton across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to the
GuanaJuato company, and it had gone to the Sc.
| nate Tor the concurrence of that BODY
NO Minister of Foreign Relations had vet been
appointed. Inc Sigio says that the portfolio had
been offered to Don Manuel Payne, while the Uni-
Ue1sa1 says that General Arista had offered it to
! the Governor of Michoacan, in order to decov
evil" inoNu
| The Orden has the following:
:" we are assured that the President il about
to offer to the governors of each of The States con-
| fairs.'' ga
Senior Prieto had sent in his resignation as Sec.
| rotary of the Treasury, but subseouentIv Win
drew it. '
The Chamber of Deputies rejected a motion to
adjourn on the Goth of December bill had been
passed authorizing the transit of goods which had
crossed the northern frontier during the continu-
| ance OF the Avalos tariff at Matamoros the gov
eminent arranging with the holders Sin pru-
Dental manner" the payment OF the difference of
duties. -
Another bill had passed the Chamber of Den,-
| ment. e0'e'N
the first preparatory junta for the sessions of
| as President Don Manuel Garcia Aguirre. Secre-
taries, Don Jose Cervantes ozta and Don Jesus
Palacio "7
The advices relative to the revolution are meaqre
and somewhat contradictory.
Letters received in the CITY of Mexico from, io1i
GERS IN Gen. Uraga's army state that thew shall
| soon begin military operations
Generals Mlnon and Camargo had left GUIANA
Juato for Guadalajara General Cardona bsd
been sent to Mexico to be tried by court rial
General Betancourt, who had been in prison eiobt
months, complains of the great sufferings which
ne ne mad experienced General Mejia had died on
the road from San Luis to Monterey Colonel
sanchez had been named Comandante General
OF the State OF Guanajuato. Colonel Andrade, who
mad been taken prisoner by General Vasques, had
escaped and rejoined the insurgent army
1t was said that on the 9th Of November a man
presented himself to General Uraga and stated
that he had obligated himself in the CITY of Mexico
to assassinate the President General Uraga sent
quez. -
The supreme government offered for sale ON
the 2oth two hundred quintals of powder at public
auction.
Don Manuel Payne and Others are said to he
lshed. ~ f
The earthquake on the 4th ultmo was yerv Sc
we're at Cludad Guerrero. Almost every edifice in
the city was more or less dilapidated and the peo-
pie had gone into the country and were living in
tents. Az
Letters from Acapulco of the 18th state that The
captain OF an American vessel which had arrived
complete eruption. The lava was thrown out from
the crater fully two hundred fee.. IL was gen-
orally believed that Jurullo was an extinguished
volcano. :
The Orden of the 10th of December nubl;sba,
extracts from letter to General BIanco, written
by the Count Raousset de Boulbon IN which he
gives MS reasons for taking up arms He saws
| that the company of Barron was put in possession
of the mineral district of Arizona against all law
and greatly to his prejudice. That General BIan-
cos motive IN OBTAINING them at Guayamas was to
keep them away from the mines, which he wished
to work for himself and his partners, who form the
company of Barron.
The Stelo says that arrangement has been
maze between the mouse OF Jecker and the company
OF Barron Tor the working of the mines This bouse
holds the interest that was represented nv the
Count de Boulbon. The government had ordered
an investigation as to the causes of the late diff
Guilty. 100 oiiii-
The Orden published long communicates,
from Senior Salazar, chief of the Mexican Boundary
COMMISSION, explanatory of the causes of its
failure. He states them to be want of paw and the
pauclty OF officers and men allowed him: that f,r
want OF these, he could not keep up with the
american corps, which consisted of over one hun.
dred persons, exclusive of their guard and who
were supplied with funds in advance amounting
to nearly thousand dollars day. To show more
strongly the difference between the American and
the mexican commissioners, he states that the
former expended, during the present year, eighty
thousand dollars in the single item of corn fogr
their mules. "
The Governor of Chihuahua had been authorized
by the Legislature TO treat with the Indians for
peace The Siglo publishes paragraph from a
ietter dated the 30h of November, stating that the
troops at Paso del Norte mutinied on account of
not receiving their pay. The comandante soIi
cited assistance from the American troops on The
o'ner slde OF the river, who were formed under
arins, out oid not cross over. The mutiny was
subsequently quelled and the ringleaders arrested