New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-06-12
Lste News from Mexico.

Pei seeamshiP ofl2aoa. Our latest dates are
the 4th from the city of Mexico and to the St
from Vera Cruz. The several files we have ez
amined are barren of political news.
: Senior Don Luis Parres, Minister of Finance
had resigned his office, and Don Manuel Olaza
: garre, a merchant Of Guadalajara, was spoke
ofas his successor.
Senior Don Ramon Lozano Armenia, SPANS
Envoy to Mexico, was received with marked dis
tinction and respect by the Government and hi
many friends. As Mr.. Lozano Armenia ha
had been Secretary of the Spanish Legation il
Mexieo for many years, he was well known AM
had made himself very popular there.
FL Sigto Dies y .Nuepe Of the Sd publishe
the names of 43 persons that have been shot il
the State of Jalisco, from 10th July to 31s
December, 1858, by order of Senior Jose Maris
Ortega, Governor of that State. Those mer
| were eourt-martialed and sentenced to death
convicted of having committed some robberiel
anal of being seditious
The same paper states that the small pox il
raging at Vera Cruz and in the ranches of Sar
Andres Tuxtla, as well as in the villages O.
Acula, Amatlan and Tesechoacan.
| Forty-one prisoners escaped from the Jail al
Saltillo on the 18th ult. They dug d hole
| through the floor, in which operation they worked
| hard for ten hours, and made their escape by
| that means Eighteen of the fugitives were re-
| captured
Subscriptions are being raised all over the
country to erect statue to His Most Serene
thghness the President Santa Anna. At San
Juan Bantista 1927 had been raised for that
purpose.
The Governor of Vera Cruz had sent q depu-
tation to the city of Mexico to welcome his Most
Serene Highness, and congratulate him at his
great triumph in conquering the rebels of the
South
Great preparations were going on at Vera
Cruz. Queretaro, San Juan del Rio and other
places, to celebrate with great pomp the ami
versary of His Most Serene Highnesss birth
day.
The village of Amatlan- was almost totally
destroyed by fire on the 29th ultimo. The fire
originated by the dress of girl, who was max
ing chocolate, having caught fire in the hearth
Over eighty houses Cor rather huts) were totally
destroyed, and the inhabitants are represented
to be in the greatest distress and misery.
A decree has been published in the city of
Mexico by which it is required that persons
under 10 inches, Mexican measure, will not be
admitted to enlist in the army. The Grena-
diers of the guard must be 70 inches (six feet.)
The Trait d Union of the Sd inst. publishes
a letter from Guaymas dated 24th May from
which we extract the following:
g On the 10Th, the British ship CHALLENGE ar |
rived here, in seventeen days from San Fran
cisco. She brings on board 800 Frenchmen for
he Mexican army, according to contract en-
cred into with the Mexican Consul at San
francisco, said contract being approved of by
'lr, Dillon, the French Consul at said port,
there are besides q Germans, 5 Belgians, 10
1nglishmen, / American, spaniards and
Portuguese, Chilians, 2 Equatorians, from
he Argentine Republic, l Swiss, l Italian,
Polish, from Bogota and II Mexicans making
| total of BIT men, who are now at the disposal
II the General Commander of Sonora Several
'ther vessels are daily expected with large
lumber of emigrants.''
The same paper publishes another letter from
iuaymas dated 18th May, in which we find the
blowing:
:" Five prisoners, belonging to the Walker ex- t
edition, were shipped, by order of the Mexi-
an authorities, on board the British ship
in order to take them to Mazatlan,
here they were to be tried
" When the Ethelbert was about setting sail,
boat from the British ship Dido boarded q
lie former, and as soon as it was near enough,
ne five prisoners jumped into the boat. Mex
an officer ordered his men to fire on them On
"a vi tIo, ~ No. A. n. | a
own all her boats, and about one hundred men !
oardea the Ethelbert and carried away the h
fisonefs by force, disarming the soldiers that e
nd charge of them. ply sician and the cap v
Tin of the port were Immediately sent on board
he Ethelbert by the Mexican commander at
uaymas, to attend to the wounded but the >
rtlsh crew would not allow the captain of the
'rt to go on board. The military commander !,
Guaymas had correspondence with the cap b
in Of the DIDO, the result of which was, that W
lie latter gave up on the 10th May the Next o
lans whom he had ON board The Ethelbert u
1t Guaymas for Mazatlan on the 11th taking n
spatches to the British Minister in Mexico. it
a the 18th the crew of the British vessel were it
actlclng with four gun boats, firing their guns "
ny near the wharf The Dido was to sail on l
g 10th for Mazatlan, to await orders from the
'itish Legation in Mexico. No one was killed
the fight; one of the parties wounded by one
the musket shots was fast recovering" y,
A rumor was current at Nueva Leon on the J.
til May that revolution was about to break ~
t at Matamoros and other points in the 80
rthern part of Tamauipas "
A large conducta from Guadalajara and .
larajuato was detained in the city of Mexico 70 70
: several days, but we cannot find out ON
at account.
The papers of the list inst announce that His -
rene Highness had decided that the cOaducta -,
ouid start for Vera Cruz on the ID, without 49,
'ther excuse or pretext, and that the consign- =
should be made TO pay the circulation tax. A.
The Mexieans are quite delighted with their -
IRA companies. The Sontag company is ~ ~
led the Russian party" and Steffanones
apany the "Turkish forces" Senior Bordas, Al,
the Orleans Theatre in this city, had arrived 90,
Mexico, and made his first appearance on the wv
inst. as 0theiIo. o"
HE Sfgio denies most positively that Mr.. n"
Fasseur is to return to Mexico as Envoy Ex-
ordinary of the French Government mi mi
new commercial code has been published m,
Mexico, and Chamber Of Commerce was on cot
eve of being regularly organized. CIV
he papers We have examined do not mention cav cav