Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-05-05
Santa Anna Sick.


The correspondent Of New Orleans Bee wri.
ting from the city Of Mexico under date 9th
ult., says: Aa, a
informed you in my last letter that Santa
/ Anna's idea of a voyage to Morela had been
abandoned. 1t has, however, been again taken
into consideration. Fl. NJ S. H. was TO leave
Mexico on the 22d with so pieces Of artilleryi
for Morelia, Guadalajara, and Zacatecas, and
to return by way of Queretaro. Santa Anna,
only deferred his departure until the arrival of
/ General La Vega, who is expected daily, and
is to assume the command Of the capital. The
present commander Martin Carrera, was to ac
company Santa Anna. Every arrangement
was made, and the journey was looked upon as
certain. But man proposes and God disposes.
/ Night before last Santa Anna received an ex-
press from Morelia; two hours later another ar
rived from Gnadalajara. Nothing transpired
Of the intelligence brought by the couriers, bat
| from this moment the President whose health
has been for some time impaired, became seri-
ously sick. His physicians we are told, are
really apprehensiye Of the result DIR. Martinez
del Bio, his chief medical attendant, declares
that Santa Anna hes in dangerous state of
| stupor, and issufierng from an infection of the
head and throat. The stump Of his leg lost at
Vera Cruz, is likewise considerably swollen and
infiamed. To-day, the report from the National
Palace is that Santa Anna is worse than yester-
day. 1850 alI 1854 9t1a.t
1t would be difficult to anticipate all the con-
sequences which would follow from the death
T of Santa Anna, at the present time. The Con.
sentative Cabinet would doubtless seek to profit
by such an event, but would not succeed.
believe that should Santa Anna die, the reyolu-
| ton, which is now confined to certain limits,
would become general, for public. discomfort
manifests itself more strongly against the stupid
Ministry, than against the President himself
CITIES OF RUssiA.-In all the vast empire
of Russia, not more than three cities contain a
population exceeding 10000 inhabitants. viz:
Petersburg, 470,202; Moscow, 349,O6S, and
Warsaw, l54, 700; the population Of Odessa is
60, 1856; Sebastopol, 4l,l55. Four cities only
have populations exceeding $4,000 inhabitants.
Archangel counts only $3.50 There are only
twenty-five cities In the whole empire whose
population vary from $4,000 TO 10000. The
respective populations of the othef cities ,0a7
in number) is small, varying from ten thousand
to few hundreds. The rest Of the population
Is dispersed over the country in the valleys;
but Of rural population, strictly speaking, there
is little or nothing. w. s..e ~. s., 49,.
trr Hogs Drank. 1'''.'
The Noblesville (lnd.) Patriot gives an amos
ing account Of the destruction Of eve hundred
dollars worth of liquors by the temperance
people. Some seventy barrels and kegs were
consumed The Dayton ale would not burn Of
course, and the Patriot says:oe 80 Nni
The next morning, droves of hogs licked |
the foam Of beer, drank fhe hnIffiozen spirits, |
and soon Mr.. PQker began to hang his head
and op his ears, swinging head towards tail |
and tail towards head, showing the whites Of |
his eyes, and opening his mouth as If things |
didn't feel right in his internal arrangements. |
They soon tooka line for the river, but occupy /
ing all sides OF the street--in imitation of his |
more noble boon companion, the biped. Didn't
seen for days after, standing sulenly and sa.
gaciously beside q fence, looking as II the
Maine law was in operation"