The daily republic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1853-1853, 1853-08-02
From the Ne,p Orleans Picayune, July &c.
From Mexico.

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The United States mail steamship Texas, Cap
tain Place, arrived this morning from Vera Cruz,
having made the run in fifty-eight hours from that
port
Left at Vera Cruz schooner Bonita, to leave on
the 22d instant for Tampico.
Passed on the 22d of July schooner Esther Bun,
entering the port Of Vera Cruz
No mail arrival from the city of Mexico on the
morning of the departure of the Texas.
We learn that the Mexican Ocean Mail and In
land Company had just got their express route
from Vera Cruz to Acapulco thoroughly arranged
and were about to begin running.
BY the Texas we have received files of our
Mexican exchanges to the 18th from the city of
Mexico, and of the 22d from Vera Cruz. The
news is of little interest.
The questions of Spanish protectorate and a
Spanish alliance have given rise to fierce news
paper war in Mexico, in which the organs of the
government are arrayed in sort Of semi-defence
/ of either or both against the Sigto XIX, which
vigorously opposes all return, whether partial or
complete, to the Spanish yoke.
Y The government gives daily signs of union
| between Church and State. The government por-
ton of the Espritu Santo building has been ceded
to the priests for the establishment of hospital
by the sisters of charity. A commission has been
named for drawing up the rules for the return of
the Jesuts. Crosses and decorations granted by
the Pope to several Mexican citizens are allowed
| to be worn. Labor and games on the Sabbath
until after mass has been heard has been strictly
prohibited by the government, but the parish
priests give license in case of necessity.
Regular cond,tctas have been established be-
tween Guanajuato and Vera Cruz, and San Luis
Potosi and Tampco.
The town of Hueiucar, in the State of Jalisco,
was overflowed and large portion of it destroyed
on the 2lst of June, in consequence of the bursting
of an irrigating dam. 1t was not known how
many persons had persisted, but at the last dates
twenty three bodies had been recovered.
! Table-turning is turning the heads of people in
many parts of Mexico.
! Count Raousset de Boulbon, who last fall at
tackled Sonora, had arrived in the city of Mexico,
via Acapulco, and was presented to the President.
He is said to be in very ill-health.
The commission for forming the new territorial
division make very slow progress, and there seems
to be little harmony among the'members. Re
signations and changes are continually taking
place.
+ A new paper to be established in the city of
Mexico, called the Eco de Espaia
The penalty of death has been established
against defaulters in the treasury department and
defrauders of the revenue, stealers of the public
money, forgers, or destroyers of documents relat-
| ing to the revenue.
! The British schooner Amethyst was lost neal
Vera Cruz. She was from Liverpool. 1t was
supposed part of the cargo would be saved but the
vessel would be total loss.
| I'm The 24tn ult. boat belonging 10 an lIngllS
brig -of-war was capsized on the bar of Tampico
Seven men and one officer were drowned.
| The Omnibus, which had for long time been
praising the law of the PRESS had been seized for
an nfraction of it,. and now thinks that it was in
error about the benefits of that law.
Active measures against the highwaymen have
been instituted, and several have been taken, tried
and executed.
General Yafiez was to have left Guadalajara fol
Mexico the 29th ultimo, having declined tc
serve any longer as governor of the State.
The papers say that his long administration pre-
sents only one bad measure, which was the clos
| ing of the Literary Institute.
Great complaints are made in the city of Mex
ico and through the country, of the rise in prices
Of the necessaries Of life 1t has been very great
and is attributed to the new alcabala tax law.
! THE KNIcKERBocKER.-This ever rich and hui
morous magazine, for August, has been received
in this city, and copies may be obtained of the
interchangeable periodical and newspaper dealer
JOE SHILLlNGroN.
"PuTNAm's MONTHLY" and HARrER's MAcA
ZINE, for August, are each on sale ut BUcKNG
HAMS, under the National Hotel
| VIsIToRs TO THE CRYsTAL PALAcE.---The Elk
hibtion of the Crystal Palace in New York is be
ginning to be thronged with visitors from all part
of the United States and Europe. Of those resi-
dents of Washington who have been attracted K