Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-04-18

leans ON the 1lth inst, bringing Vera
Cruz dates to the 9Th.
On the 29th ult., information was sent from
Michoacan, announcing the capture OF the
chief, Gordiano q uzman, with his son, and a
man named Ramos, and adding that the forces
under them had declared their adhesion to the
" national cause, -
The Diario, official, announcing that Senior
Don Ramon Lozano Armenia, who had lately
arrived, as Minister Plenipotentiary from
Spain, was the bearer of the ratification OF the
treaty entered into last year for the payment
of Spanish claims on Mexico.
The Eco del Concrete, of The 5.h, COM
plains that some sixty adventures had landed
at the island of Las Arenosas, lying east of
Sisal, and were illegally appropriating the
guano on it. sending it Oft in two vessels they
had there.
Senior Don Fade de la Vega had proceeded
to Mexico to give Santa Anna personal as
surance of his patriotism and fidelity, and was
about to follow him to the South for the pur
pose. ~ a-.5 Id.
A new CONSUMPTION law has been issued, in
which the population is assumed at 1861, 500
in number, and the army is ordered to consist
of $4,000 men and the militia of 80, 600
Don GregoriO Gomez Palomino has been ap-
pointed Director off the Post Office Department,
vacant by the death of Don Anlya
The Indians still continued to commit raw
| ages, notwithstanding the Government forces
were gaining advantages over them at some
points.
The Picaytnae of the 18th says:
| We learn that just previously to the sailing
Of the Texas frem Vera Cruz, telegraphic
despatch had been received there, announcing
| the cessation of hostilities between Alvarez
and Santa Anna. The latter, it is reported,
had offered concessions to Alvarez, which had
led to an understanding, and an arrangement
Of the difficulties between the two parties
A communication which we have received
from the city of Mexico, dated the 4th inst,
gives very different view Of the state OF
| affairs with Santa Anna and bis forces in the
South, from that which the intelligence gath.
cred from the newspapers would induce US to
believe. According to the statement of the
writer, the Government forces. since their ar
rival at Chilpancingo, had dwindled away
very materially. More than thousand are
reported to be sick in hospital, and the muster
roll exposes desertion of more than 1900
men. So that, without any serious encounter
the forces of Santa Anna are reduced at the
lowest estimate, by some three thousand ano
more.
Alvarez, on the contrary, is reportcd to be il
possession Of impregnabe positions, while ad
ditional chiefs and followers are joining him
daily, ana ne Is lnfuSlng terror into SAINTS
Anna, as will BIO perceived, says our CORES
pOndent, from the circumstances of the treat
meat of Torres, and the threat of Alvarez =,
avenge his death, and in which nothing blu
fear could have been the ruling mo i've witt
Santa Annain restraining him from immedia 9
ly executing Torres.
The hill of Peregrino, our correspondent
says, has been fortified by Alvarez. and is per
fectly impregnable. 1t is an exceedingly higl
mountain, accessible only by a winding road
along which there is not room for men to wall
but in single file. He has mounted a battery
there, by which all points are commanded
and he has mined many of these, SO that If an,
of the troops sent against him should escap
the effects of the cannon, they will have ye
more destructive assault to encounter.
Should Santa Anna be defeated at Peregrino
the people elsewhere would rise en- MASS
against him, and he must be overthrown-
Alvarez, he says, is destined to be the avenge
of the Republic, who will shoot him withOu
waiting for his confession.
The system of terror, our correspondent say,
continues in the capital. Wel-paid spies Gil
culate everywhere, and few days pass withou
three or four arrests of notable persons an
many respectable men are being punished a
criminals for having complained that SAINT
Anna governs badly. Gordiano Guzmar
VIII ose arrest we have already noticed, our COZ
respondent says had been bought over by SAINT
Anna for $4,000.