The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-19
MEXICO

Anna into Mexico is described a. b..;u 80
a splendid affair. A triumphal arch
erected across the street of Santo Domingo
The houses were decorated with flags ana
draperies, and the balconies were filled with i.
dies. The populace, Notwithstanding the re-.
sistance of the escort, took the horses from The
carriage in which Santa Anna was, and drap.
ged it to the palace. From the palace the cor.
tege proceeded to the chamber Of Deputies,
| where in presence of the Supreme Court Of
Justice, and large number Of civil and mill.
tary officials, Santa Anna took the oath Of
office.
Immediately after the oath was administer
| ed, Gen. Lombardini announced that the Pres
| ident had taken possession of the government.
His address was then read. In this he declares
his determination to do all in his power to
| disembarrass the nation from the difficulties
into which it is plunged, the extent Of which
he had no idea, he says, until he arrived at
Vera Cruz. He will undertake to accomplish
this object by a regular plan which he means
| to lay before the nation. He avows a determi-
nation TO cultivate friendly relations with for
| eign nations, to''follow liberal ideas to such
point as shall not amount to license, and give
an impulse to the progress which the age has
| made known" &c. His address is certainly
| the most common sense document which the
President has put forth.
After the reading of his address the Cabinet
was sworn in as follows Don Luces Alaman,
Foreign Relations Don Teodosio Lares, JUS
tice; Don Antonio Haro Tamarez, Trea su
| ry; Don Jose Maria Tornel, War.
| The Spanish Minister was then introduced
and presented to Santa Anna the cross of
Charles Ill in the name of his sovereign.
The cortege then proceeded to the cathedral
where the TIE Deum was sung. From thence
the President repaired to the palace where he
received the diplomatic corps, and was ad-
dressed by the Minister of Guatemala, TO
whom he replied.
On the 22nd, Santa Anna published pro-
| gramme of the government, which constitutes
FIVE Secretaryshps and proposes new civil,
criminal and commercial codes, and code of
procedure are to be formed. The Legislatures
| of the States are to take a recess, and rules
for the exercise Of power by the Governors
will be issued. The States and towns that
were separated from the Republic will reunite
with it except Aguas Calientes.
Arista in letter from Nanac amilpa, denies
that he had any connection with Falconnet
| affair.
| A large FIRE had occurred in Mexico in Pla.
| Ja hx zg
sons were rendered homeless.
Petitions for the abolition of the Federal
System had been sent in to the President.
The papers of Mexico reterate the decara
ton that Judge ConkliDg in note to the Gov.
ernment, promised that the American troops
should be Withdrawn from the Mecila Valley,
One of the assassns of Gov. Reyes had
been arrested, and his arrest would probably
lead to others. Oajaca and Chiapas were still
in difficulties.
LATER.-Gen. Arista sailed from Yer Cruz
on the 5th. His arrival at Havana was an.
nounced yesterday by us.)
| On the 1st inst. the council of State of 81
members was organized at Mexico, with Gen
Bonilla at its head.
sAlmonte had been re.appointed Minister to
this country.
A new law of the press was promulga gated
and several papers had declared that they
would not discuss political matters.
The order above alluded to about the prepa.
ration of regulations for the Govern ors, drew
forth spicy article from the Sisls, in which
it says:
"Does the sovereignty of the State exist or
not Do the State constitutions live, or not ?
| Do all the States enter an abnormal situation.
and have We twenty lone dictatorships at once !
IL it determined to carry out admin
istrative Capitalization, when its evils have
been acknowledged even in France and
Spain Does all legal liberty cease, in the
belief that power will thus be strengthened =