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Frorm the Picayune, 25th ult. IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO. The steamship Palmetto, Capt. Smith, arrived last evening from Vera Cruz, hav ing sailed theaee on the 18th inst. She touched at Tampico on the 20th and Bra zos Santiago on-the 21st inst. Although we are not in possession of letters from Kendall, we have advice% upon which we place every reliance as to the the movdments of Gen. Scott. An express from Puebla, by the route of Cordova had arrived at Vera Cruz, announcing that ' Gen. Scott commenced his march upon the cityof Mexico on the 16th inst. We'hear not a word morei in regard to the overtures for peace, said to have been madeto Gen. Scott. That ho marched on the 16th we have no doubt. Another express had arrived at- Vera Cruz from Jalapa,. which announces that all the sick had left there on the 15th for ,.Perote under a small escort. Col. Childs was to leave the- following day with all the S?' garrison. Gen. Shields would accompany hin. The road between Jalapa and Pue bla is represented as free from guerrilia parties of any kind. About-one thousand troops left Vera Cruz on the 17th inst., under the command of.Maj. Gen. Pillow, to join the army of Gen.. Scott. SThe Spanish renegade named La Vega - who lately repaired to Vera Cruz in com pany with the veracious Col. Mata from -this city, is represented to us-as already in command of a strong guerrilla party. - Bv:the express from Jalapa we have no .intelligence of Gen. Cadwallader, as the rider came by a circuitous route-toavoid the-predatory parties on the road. By this arrival we have received papers from-the city of Mexico of the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th.of June. Our previous files cane down to the 29th of May. The intermo diate datds we have not yet received, and presume. they have been forw'arded by sailing vessel- We have only had time to glance .hastily at the papers before us, from which we glean the following: :Santa Anaa still remains in power. His resignation we presume was with drawu; for it is intimated that a majority of Congress was anxious to accept it. -His administration, in consequence of this feeling in Congress, has entirely changed its policy and 'thrown itself into the arms of the paros. One great section of the pares, however, is not conciliated by this movement; the adherents of Gomez Farias and Gen. Almonte still continue their op position to the administration. Senor Re jon,. the former friend of Farias, is said to be the naain support of Santa Anna's Ad ' niinistration, although he holds no public office. He is denounced as a man without principle, a truckler, &c. It is represented that opinions were no ver more divided in the capital than at present.; No party seems to have decided upon what' course.,to take. At one time the paros and moderados appear inclined to unite upon allissolution of Congress and leave every thing 'in the hands of Santa Anniaandd hen again te pares 'talk of recalling the absent members of their par 'y, and ornif hai a workini majority 'to cairy theirmeasures. In i the' meat,tsme a qtdorium -f Congress cannin often be coilieredC If we jan give no intelligible i accottof5 the designs of parties and the Governinent,. it is because su'ch confusion and'amrcisy never before existed in the ci -ty of Mexico,'by the admission of-all. An important financial measure of Ana ya's administration has been summarily abrogated by Santa Anna, in difi'erence, as he says. to public opinion. Trhis has led tb the resignatio. of Senor Baranda, who C was not consulted as to the repeal of the measure. Saeor Lafiagua was then nome inated in his place as head of the State Department, but his- appointment gave dissatisfaction to the pares who remnonstra ted against it. The result was not krnown. Gen. Ajmonte was still in prisoit, nor are we able to learn any thing nyore definite as to the nature of his otience, his trial not having yet conie otn. -The State of Chihuahua voted unani -mously for Gen. Santa Anna for President. This is the only additional State the vote of which is given in the papers before us, ' ~ The votes were to be opened on' the 16th of' the present month. Our impression is n - that Con~ress will have to imake choie between the two highest candidat-es, as no one will probabily receive a nmjority of all the votes. On various occasions Congress bas.displayed great respect for-Gen. Hier -rera, which' leads to the opinion that lie will 'be chosen. We find no mention made of the mnea sttres taken for the defence of the capitol. * ' 'The papers say that Gun. Scott pretended to his troops that they wvould march into Mexico on the 15th inst., but that this was e a m ere boast in orler to keep up th.e spirits ' o'fhis men; that he was in no condition to -wove, lacking reinforcements. Letters froin Puebla to the capitol re present Gens. Scott anid Worth as saying that if Santa. Anna has charge of the do ~. -v-. ,, ~ feiice 'of theity of Mexico, they will be' zble to take it with'the loss of two or three hiundred men only.; but that if Bravo or - Valenia command, it will cost thenm more dear. The Republicano derides this gossip, thougtt it sounds very natural to us. The -Governmnent is urged by' letters from Puebla and its vicinity to fall upon Scott, now the is weak,, and crush him. They say hot has really but a little over 5,000' men,:though lie pretends to have 6 7,000. They seem to dread lest General Taylor should proceed to join General Scott. The proposition which Mr. Trist is au thorised to meake are said by the Mexicans to be that eachi Republic shall name three 35 commissioners to discuss the claims of the & United States, and that if Mexico will not T consent to this, thetn the war is to be pros. 'We find in the Republicano of the 7th iiist..a. long despatch from the Secretary April. It ihfotins him that by thie end of June the President supposes General Scott will'hat e 'tiven'ty, and Gen. Taylor ten thousand men under their respective com mand Ft asks fotthe views of General Scott on vsrtonds questions suggested, and gtve 1mnduiections how to operate with disafldctedt Mexicani.Slates. The Repub Wiane regcrthis latter portion as very importnt. butpronounces t he-Secretary's to he in the field utterly false. How this letter was intercepted we are not-informed. The Mexicans' appear to have intercept ed- a good number of private letters. Several to Col. Childs are particularly re ferred to. One is from ! rs. Childs and coutains much pleasant gossip as to the state of parties in the United States. Other letters of an entirely private nature are commented. upon. The success of some of the guerilla par= ties near Vera Cruz are duly chronicled and commended in the papers. The afternoon of the 6th inst. Santa Anna reviewed at Tealpam the troops from the South of Mexico under Alvarez. This general's command had not all arriv ed, but it was expected to reach 8,000 men in a few days. Senor Pedro del Castello has been re moved from the command of the regiment of Hidalgo in the National Guard. The act is strongly censured. Gen. J. Gomez do la Contina'bas re signed-the command of the battalion of Victoria of which he was colonel. Three hundred troops from Morelia ar rived in the capital on i be 7th iost. Diligencies have been established be tween these two cities. One of them has already been robbed. The Vice Governor of Oajaca has re signed his office, and his resignation has been accepted. Gen. Scott appears to preserve perfect discipline among his troo.s at Puebla. The Mexicans admit this indirectly. though let ters are published complaining of our ex ceases in general terms. The case of a New York volunteer is mentioned, who was tried by a court martial for assaulting a woman with a vkw of robbing her of a silver crucifix. The casting of.a piece of cannon at To luca on the 2d intt. is formally mentioned. We have thus glanced at the papers be fore us, but will recur to them again, and should they contain any thing of import ance, lay- it before our readegs. Frnt Tampico we learn little news by this arrival. The only thing which gives animation to the town appears to be the false alarms which frequently occur. We are inflamed by an oflicer- of dragoons that he went out with a party on a scout on the 18th inst., and proceeded some 40 miles from the city in the direction of Al lamira, but saw no armed Mexicans. The country people appeared friendly, and like the rest of the inhabitant of Tamaulipas did not seem ill afl'cted towards our Go vernment, The Louisiana regiment stationed at Tampico has sufered severely from sick ness. Many haye died and there are yet many sick-not less ihan 150 accounts say. Not more than 180 men are reported fit for service, and yet this is the only regiment doing duty. Reinforcements have been daily expected, br.t in vain. Lieut. De Groote, of the'Dragoons, who arrived on the Palmetto, has been ordered hither.to recrit men to fill up his company to the full compliment. It consists now of only fifty four men. This is the compa ny with which it is intended to open the road from Tampico to San Luis Potesi. ~Deah of CanilW' Brother -Asi tl train cams dwn from Monterey, tha brougnt us'niews~fromn that place, up to the; 31st ult., the guard -arrested at Ceralvo, a Mfexican who had become notorious for daring thefts and murders. Upon being examined, enough was elicited to order his immediate execution. The condemned up to die motnent of his sentence, main tiined a dogged silence. When he found that his hour bad come, he grew quite loquacious, and taking out his flint and steel, he lit a cigarette, and cooly puffing it, he walked otut into the plaza to submit to his late. Six Soldiers were selected as executioners. The Mexican was first turned from the platoon, but he resolutely objected, atnd wished to look death in the face. WVith an eye unblanched ho saw the dleadly weapons raised, remarking that lhe had only one life to lose, whil., he had taken forty. In another instant he sprang forward a corpse, one ball peno tratinig his head, three others his body. Upon examination of the papers found on the dead bot'y, it was discovered that the brother of this nototious Canalces was the victim just executed.-Daily Nationtal, 19h~ inst. - Corresponadence of the N. 0. Comn. Tines. VERA CRUz, Jnnie14, 1847. I am informed, and I know my authori ty too well to treat it with contempt, that sixt men, Spaniards, from Havana, have laded, or will to-day land in Vera Cruz, and who will each in less than four days command a party of guerillas. I also lain from the same authority, that two hundred Spantiards, withsix or eight small ield pieces are expected to land on the unas), within fifty milesaof this city, during the next ten days, wheni they will at once organize into formidable and desperate uerilla bands. These men are to come from Cuba, but not, I believe, all from ifavana, All the leading men amongst the gue-' rillas, now arc Spaniards, and also many of the ruank and file. A Spanish General, Saturnino de Ia Vega, has been isi this city for some days, and had just left for inteior, -where he is to find a command or an ollico giving him the conitrol of sev eral comnmands. It is doubtless to his in luence that we owe the departure of the young Mexicans to whlich I have before adverted, and ho and others have itspmirt d all the uative classes with mnoro hope thin they have before enjoyed for a long ie. By an arrival which gives us later in telligence thapU that brought by Duperu, from the train, we learn that it was again moving cautiously forward, and expected opposition at the Bridge. Jaranta was falling back upon Etncerro, .wvhere he e x pects to be able to keep the Americans in cheek until reinforced by Rebolledo, and the rancheros from the suirrounding coun try, who are drawn rapidly arouind by the prospect of sharing in the division of the specie-about halt a million of dollars in the train. Rebolledo is said to have ifteen hundred inen that lie can bring forward, and they hope to have a force, such as will entable them to take onr fele lows in front and rear, and route them completely When thbis is done-, a descent is to lie made upon Vera.Criz! tlisattreaty will be made, upon our own ierzts, with a government de facto. SSorne days ago, I stated the fact to you c aiid 'Irepeat that Gen. Scott has orders t nd'power-to form a government in Mex- r ico, if he can find none there, and with it t make a treaty, -according to the terms c t ni out by Mr.-Trist, C - itis certainly true that there has been communication between General Scott I 'gid Mr. Trist. But the government has r aiproved of Gen. Scott's proclamation, t aud his given him power to eff'ce a treaty, t i 'above stated without reference to Mr. r Trist c " The report of the board of visitors of s West Point Academy is highly favorable i to that institutioni. The state is of its die- 9 cipline, police and instruction is found to I be eminently satisfactory. A late article in London Times, upon a the various bills iow before Parliament, in relation to the British army, draws a strong- contrast between the system of making and selecting officers in the British service. . The contrast is strongly favora- i ble to our system, and it is recommrended c to the British government for adoption. I The science and skill of our West Point a officers is duly acknowledged and com- e mnended by the Times. We should not, within a year, have a have been able to carry our arms through thirty degrees of latitude, but for the sci ence:otour offlicers. Our engineers are i the aoI -skilful in the world ; and in ti everiisich of the service, there is mark- ti ed superiority' on the part of our officers, ti over any now employed in any service. 3 For all this we are indebted to West Point. t -.. n From the N. 0. Picayune, 23d inst. u Many of the officers of .ol. Doniphan's a command, noiv in this city, are startled n by the accounts received of the utter dis- I organization of the troops left at Santa Fe under Col. Price% Whilst Col. Doni phan's regiment remained in New Mexi- s co, that of Col. Price was held in good c discipline, and the colonel himself was s esteemed a competent person to :maintain a order in the camp. The insubordination e and demoralization of the regiment, of b which such deplorable and-frequent re ports have been received oflate, are attri- a buted by several officers with whom we a have conversed to the corrupting in fluences v of the society of Santa Fe upon the sol- h dliery. In all New Mexico society is or- I ganized upon the most abandoned notions .. of domestic fidelity. There is little- mar- s rying or giving in marriage there.-Un- e restrained concubinage is a recognized I feature of the social system, and the man- li ners of the people are not formed upon any acknowledged right or obligation per taining to wedlock. It is feared that after e the suppression of the insurrection in wpich tl Gov. lent and many .other American it citizon. wore murdered, that the soldiers u distributed through the towns to keep order and watch the movements of the citizens, Il became contaminated by evil example, tt until the disorders of the camp reflected it the licentiousness of the country- The it St. Louis papers; which may .he supposed a to takelittle :pleasure in repimting such n things, publisheslevfer afief letter dwell in et the 't a, of o f rg andvicious 'occupations. With the. ex ceptions of the aitillery ,companies from St. 'Louis, and Capt. Agney's e~mpany frm-Jeffceon City, the troops are said to haveglven themselves up to a depraved nd barbarous course of lif.-This state of-thingsis so different from that which eised at- the tinl'e of Colonel Doniphan's departure from Santa Fe, that those of his ffers with ii horn we have conversed are it a loss to account for it unless it be that . the soldiers were not able to resist the - influence of a society which made a merit f prostitution. It was perhaps in view of - ho power of evil example upona the mtor als of men that one of the most intelligent >flcers of the Chihuahua expedition said to us, that the "more of ' that country we nnex to the United States the worse off wve will be." In Chihuahua there does t not appear to be a better social organiza tion There too, as in New Mexico, a, ross sensuality predominates over all ,1 iensi of shatme. The country from Sant a Pe to Chihuahua is barren in soil as the inhibitants are destitute 'of principles of k irtue. No rivers of water moisten the rid rocks whuich are piled up in continuous si ranges of motuntains, oririgate the scorch- jx ig plains between. Nor do streams of ci moral sentiment fructify minds which iave beeni withered and parched by lust tad ungodly incest. F-rom the N. 0. Ddta, 27th inst. .LATER FROM MEXICO. We have received our Mexican pa pers ce rom the 30th of May to the 5th of Jn, d nelsive. The Mexican Generals.-Gemn. Arista p was apprehended on the evening of the et 9th of May, and was ittimediately sent, -I under escort, towards Acapulco. TI'he ft reason for thiis arrest is unknown-Gen- w Alonte was still ini prison, and had been ai removed from St. Jago Tlalteloeo to thec aity of Guadalupe. He was at first accused af conspiring against the person of Santa ' Anna, and afterwards accused, in some of t Lhe public journals, of treason; but a cor respondent of the Republienno suiggests ' hat the sole motive for his imprisonment rt is. that he is too great a friend of his contn- l try to suit the purposes of those in power. g en. Ampudia having refused to proceed t t Cuernavaca, as ordered, was sent thtith- - er under escort, Santa Anna.-Wo have noticed, here tofore, the resignation of General Sant a P Anna, and the fact that lhe was still at the head of the Government; the matter is ~leared up by the withdrawal of his resig- e nation. But though the general continues in r< power, he has no enviable situation; he h has abandoned his old friends and taken si up the pwu or Farias party, and there were strong symytoms three days after he had been "forced" to wit hdraw his resig nation by the popular wish, that the pop- ~ ular2 would deprive him of powver, with ut the formality of a second voluntary renunciatton. T ke Defence of the .Capita.-On the 1st oJune all the natives of the United 5tets were ordered ta leave the city of ' LMixio, foe the States of Jalisco or Morelia C arithey would he dealt with according to e the aw of nations. Gens; Gutieros; a ioana, Martinez aid'Palomino are en rusted with the comma'od of the .lines of lefence of the city. Bodies of the Na ional Guird are said to be on their way md constantly arriving from.;he adjoining states, and it is believed that from sev= Lmteen to twenty thousand troops will be oncentrated for the protection of the city. Guerrillas.-Accounts are published, rom all quarters, of the formation of guer. illa bands, but little is said of their per orinances, and we are led to suspect that he records of the newsp'apers are rather to evidence of what the editors hope than of what their countrymen do. There is a tory of the guerrillas under Jarauta hav. ng, on the 30th of May, captured 80 hor. es, and killed 200 Yankees, between lera Cruz and Antigua, but this we uppose to be the Mexican history of the ttack on Col. McIntosh. From Vera Cruz.-The ship Southport ,apt. Griffith, arrived yesterday at the S. N. Pass from Vera Cruz. On the ~12th nstant she lauded at' Vera Cruz three ompanies of the 15th Regiment U. S. nfantry. They were all in good health t the time ofr-heir debarkation, and were neamped about three miles from Vera ruz, under orders to march with a train f wagons to Jalapa on the 18th instant. Railway Speed.-It is recorded as an stance of the rapidity with which they ravel on English Railways, that a special rain of five cars was taken from London a Birmingham, recently, in 2 hours and 0 mtnutes, the running time not exceeding wo hours, being an, average speed of 56 piles an hour. The maximum speed for pwards of a mile was 75 miles an her, nd the last 21 miles were run in 21 mi utes. The engine used is called Ste benson's patent. Murder in Virginia.-Win. J. Arm trong, a deputy sheriff of Hampshire ounty, Va., was murdered about two reeks since while attempting to brake up den of desperadoes at a house of bad haracter near Ridgeville. He was shot y a pistol ball in the right breast, and gx ired almost immediately. The individual ho committed the act has been arres'ed, ,td is now in the Romney jail in company rith three others, who are charged with eing accessory to the murder. The Char stown Verginian says that Mr. A. was niversally beloved, and his death, under uch circumstances, has produced intense xcitement throughout the county of ampsbirc. Ile was in the prime of 'e. Interesting to Corn Shippers.-Our xchauges say it has been ascertained that e "shrinkage" ofcorn shipped to Europe about equal to six per cent. An account f sales of 13,000 bushels sent rroni New )rleaus to France, gives a loss of 40,000, as. . Irthis be true those who ship ought take this item into their calculation, as is an important 'one, and would he equal many cases to an. iverage profit, upon cargo....Corn from Georgia .'and T eni essee.would probably shrink less than' m rat. which ishbconseefently e tted to Art of' -nrdPde.-eoitdt a5 e nou atta InrdPgewoi ill be remmbered, w s are wih avn -le Mr *oehQateam na frya Incileafprp-Sio uro last, weays, haitd maidhers ofattenio ih Engave boefte emntrop. e tsttdta po h ry mArrest has benc tadr-edn abandnedt aheit or atheStha Deonhifhred t wosi ilo rhap logepsat i oeatn, ii atl aprov bun Accoring in this Lodsrit sotnea Ties, e.Dvnn has reend comitted torked ay, ictihavy and th iht corgtsan mide xerieateont inv bEengln omientimeu ocefu. itgt rihs a spheto ntoeri et in thatle )lhineitwas bni and andigtoned, uter etheni SothDevo line, vPeymout ast othaps lr ontineation, it was stilapprsve I mcords inceo thate prdoinciplwa Timroes, egDevon lby asostri presspeel wtorke tnExeton the Charliston i evRyossible ayvie heavanotin wfith recently Wreihts ait st b ll Withegh eightspenedietr of is Nashuriwle oanedaandwga Raitoad.-A0 100in tos a seedr of Mr.0 to3Er hopron rtherha maesisourvey lindsae toPor n to >adar the aosuteireommene ws tben ste'd for themporaryeuoses Rai Road. the ;matsb rl for the enhned re for o this ni Road Tohe an of t etin throdis nes Nooasc abo uta ogmiRes' froCarleston rding tois reorto iscomplahi clitypwil ohasae a t unicyation wsimte ft great rest, bythe roueori reainRods, wil aread andedind ily mies great adaTags mayich eaarlson the Tevnnesse wldrive foro theyse Froadshe chst of taislentof oards e Gent!emen -C lonei tery. came in with a at partst o iTato, which had halted, and wasWh, ing a ronewal of the attack r i > Mox icans, who were-gathered n t -nd chapara.ls ahead in ladgea orce The attack wasmnades a small party, upon-aa ado dragoons, wvhoi. commander ofiheescor "" 'a, ahead of the agones e mounLecl and eellaimed, -fel -back upon 'i te;isiai.b 0I'a inferior force .Of Meicicaa ie the first of its kindtili g;t a dT sincerely hope it mae The guerillas, thus inspir confi deace tok advantageof the ,pro; duced, ind avoidingthstiogp uch-as possible., fell upon the rago ales, which vrere stretched along n ce. of some four miles, and were g along. the whole line by a number of ps; net exceeding four hundred-nan dltese, of courao',-rushed for their siare 'e fight leaving'large sections of triestr tirely unprotected. The consequent _a that twenty-eight wagons, and. be a. one and two hundred pack mules, rie the property of the guerrillas. The train left Santa Fe wit und red and thirty-two wagons, an m five to six hundred packed moles u will observe 'he lose forms a per centage. I am glad to learn letter which I have seen froi:.Mojo nnett, the Paymaster who had ha f the money which went up-it-he .a, that notone of the wagons coutaini "Ie gov ernment funds -was takeof ogh a considerable sum belonging td ci rswas taken in the different bagga aons. The most important of our i re the ordnance stores, n ith which (' "f the captured were loaded.- About r eight of our men had been captured, Fsome fifteen or twenty wounded, du he en gagetnent; and the Mexican lo as sup posed to be'much' greater. %tW t has happenel since Col. Banks ief 'dbefore Gen.Cadwalader reached tlie:g ad: is'a matter of deep interest-aot to. appre= hension. The confidence iatura spring-. ing from the discovery thatsthe ericans are not invincible, has doubtles aduced an early renewal of the attack,, - which case I am not without hope tha he repu tation of the Americans arms w - fully maintained.. . . A great fault has been foli tiedwith reference to this train. I'left t. ity with an insufficient escort, while to untred' cavalry were lying here, read f nearly ready, to move on the sarneo ,lf not exactly 'beady, their- prepara : could have been hastened at least t ty-four hours, and the train could hap aen de tained at least an equal lengt time. That this was not done,.wil; cy, be come a matter of 'future ac' ta llity. Unpleasant stories, too, are cur ,t sich ing the habits and condlitionntila rtiular juncture, of an importantji'er age at tached to theescort. This' t Idther mattersMill, I presume, b aject for the inrestigation ofaiourt 'l and a mere direct reference.o'i tditer wbould1ae'^mp made at lisasso de-las's'tta i31 side of the Natioal tdadadaftifoiser and occiapied-ia a 1 its-inegdifficult pas eg, by the Mexican troops. i7DoolThoanas, Marin, an intrepid'offlcef oftf -old:l'fex ican stamp, well known forihis gallanm iefence of Alvarado, is reported to-have ight hundred men under him, with whomn ie intenas to occupy Cerro Gordo aaiu, ssisted, as he expects to be, by guerillas, wvho can be gathered around himj~at a few sour's notice, incases of emergen'cy.:But even if these reports prove true, that road :annqt be closed by Mexlean troops e.Scott can detach a division at any our, which would again sweep all iuch >bstacles away for ihe moment; and if he ad the troops which figure so conspicu >usly in the Adjutant General's report, he ould guard the road effectively, by occu ying with his own men the passed referred *.-This, it is true, wvouldvre&qude a good matny soldiers, but it is a dtter~if'very ~reat importance, and thebe ''sullers -om inability to do it. I am inclined to believe thnt ~Genteral niends to opejt the road to Puebra, lead ng through 0Orazaba and Cordova, as it eems to offer some advantages over that via Jalapa. By takinig prtssession of these wo citiles, he would -strike.at.the .roo'. of he guerilla evil, by controlling, to a reat extent,-the --mouninin hordes from w~hich this class of soldiers is -pritncipally aken.-- - It is believed that the besusblts would ~ollow the opsning and occtipation of this mad, and the General has :eceigvei asso -aces that the feeling of thte farnmers and bvalthy citizens is strongly favorabl.e to he Americans, having. beed rendered so >y the depredations of the nive badlds of uerilas. The countryfilu'di this road is ixtremoely .rich, atid its .prdducts most aried and cheap. Theclimate~i halshy ad delightful, after leaving San yuan and 'ajmills; and the roads -are, good- at all leasons -of the year. Itais --also a shorter -oute to Puebla than that through-Jalapa. From the Co'rrespondence ofi a&Char. Courier. WAsuiNGioN, June 26. Mr. Buchanan left the city tbis morning or New York,. where hej will, join the President, and proceed with-,.him to Ba on, via Hartford and- Spriggfield, Mr. Walker wvill also leave th-e esty;-upon an ixcursion for a few days. Dispatches will se forwarded to the 'Secretary of, State, hile ho is absent, and bein will not to delayed by the absence di te'.Secreta ies and the President. The time has arrived,,at hich it was xpected by the government; to hearssome0 hing of thu result, of Mr,..Tg s'smissiont. But the government has..re: ~no advi :es, either favorable-ortujfa le~b~ to the >bject of lir. Trist's mnission it is not yelieved, that at~ the last advides.Mr. 'rist had beld anycoymngatiwith ny individluais..comp sqghp Mexican ;overimen't. ThatgOVTPsenghas been asuch.a condton,t gcpij.wud have >een idle to atilempt a-nego uaiwith it. But shocild Herreraebott' Preside'nt, ome exett~itdiihathatb[t will. eat for peaice. Brit hcwld- thsepepcta4 iou be disappointedj-.iaen iest .assured r r The Miliary i .. tE~ Boar'd of Examination .gnaed' tary of War, tecently asseinmbli t The examination by the Boar.dwM verest. character. The pups.a e in Mathematics and other-bra cry thing which may -be iseflt i' Military profession. It is said;-t at lints objections there may be to thib stIn(Uo, tical or moral, a high standard liT obtained. Many of the iostiaIaiitt- ' cient officers in.ihe Mfexian vardareg of this school. The graduating' year numbers 39. This number may sge but none except those who are proficie he suf'ered to take a degree, or torpuwa length of time in the institution.It Iisw a of considerable dificulty to obtaiid into this instanution,~ rhe Cdtsrfe' Il cated at the public expene, and r the recipients of pay fromh e It is with feelings of'd sIforr announce in our paper, ii ath of K. Jourssos, Esq., of NewOrleansi o son was a native of South Carolii - eldest son of the Rev.' War.- B. Joxsd of the Baptist Church in this place:He , educated principaly in thisStatspb a ed at'aNorthern Institution. No:longafs had finished his Coilegiae'Nouirseh ted a Tutor in the South CariIIIMC Colhmbia. From thatplacehem the city of New Orleans. and pursued l profession. He resided about nineyfarsat place,' and was fast rising to eminendat,;t. time of his death. In his early yodth da the period of his residence in South.Curo Mr. Johnson was among the.first tolvoan in the Florida war. in which ho seived-fait ly until he was discharged. To a,eomman and striking person, a pleasing and-preps as sing address lie united talents of a high ordep As a speaker, his elocution-was fine,'and writer, his style was gtaceful,.and his argameats powerful and convincing. Hewas, at.one t editor of a paper on the side ofItheiftNeai v American" party in New Orleans ad,ti scarcely necessary to say, that he eon-~ ted it with considerable ability. Hiel South Carolina, an aged fathera an e two sisters, a brother, and anotherkrohr; Rev. Francis Johnson, a Missionpry il Cjjm. But a few years since,,his parents.ware to mourn the death of atiotherwellibel son, who also died at New Orleans 6'Bou~l down as they were by these afflictiveilsp tions of Providcncetheir strong hope e forbade them from murmuring. His survivi parent will doubtless-,submit. meekly toe chastening of :the great and good esgw ordereth 'all things well:- s n * Since his death;;Mrs.John - n and paidiul lillness; which she bor th. fortitude. of a Christian, -has f(lhowed 1ei to the rave. he ,p ired on Mondayeqip Death of hn a-:Wt h fected re ref.we~hi ti" le tih toetallsl urit ker among ourisitizei.Offth elOO'( his scety-theyatrenio Al Ethe eloquent, and~wemayjidd yo'ung J'ohnson-aforin~Afie~ a? her physical as.wellas her):menfal sfs~ nature to him waseprodigji-.now~sIees a' the sleep which kcnoweth-nei aki , neath the waters of Lakse;Pontehactaiz -its waves his only winding-sheet. ~q On.Saturday revening hbetleft-thecty on board the steamboat; Yazoo.nft thought lhe when, as the boat put atfeo the wharf, he saw 'the atun salute tfte ctS waters of the hake,'which -blueshedeattthe~'. embrace, and then in their hosomd iiditth~ wooer, that he, like -the sun, hefore tb 4 second watch, would sink--beneat htqa waves of Ponchartrain;- but: unlike th.~ sun, alas ! never to arise again .*Tho writer of this paragraph- happened to by the side of poor Johnson when' --"He saw the 'siin'inking S' ,In liquid, his glory made brgh and heard him depict the sisinSo Vt' as woi'is extemporarily sioketil dd guerroetype the' sublime picture .hiwas successful ; he showed. atilenst plist'evo tint of the exquisite cdloring haisiftth~ impress of its beauty on his riwiihelrt'4 Mr. Johnson :went on hoaird astalbsi every one else 'did, wih~ Kyoh jeet than that of en joyinhe ifirigrati~ breezes of the lake for a dayahnifs sid the purpose of getting out at th64Bay .'o St. Louis. When the' boat'- adgboon about' twn hours on her way, he rpja dpd~ to a gentleman on board that they tale bath in the wheel-hnuse ; that is; that the~ stand close behind 'the wvater-wheeI,'ve revolution of which would dah over them, as from a showertbath.i$FoiT this purpose, Mr. Short, the''elerk,"first . thought to dissuade himn/ and sus~quent ,,, the wratchman of the hoat, when the went dowq to strip. Mr. Johnson, diw~ ever, stripped and-went in,-the watchi a egain cautioned him of the danger eifrga in at that time, in the darkesfIlt niht-lid him to leeve'the door piu old on to it.' H-e first welat lin I'or .e time and came out, speakitigiof'it'u fp place for a bath..- He' went in'sai~y~~ ing he would taeage~o'' shut the door as 'wed iidraithtish etZ ~' him. Wiien his friend ihduahftitim &~ him'to do~ utnn ivntytyh man rean'upadinformn'ed the- ffi - the boat ijhat a man was overboardThy $ stopped the'Eboai;' the word 'waenLard " among the passengers ihat it was Jobas~~ who hy the most'of the~m was eo I . known anti esteemed.'Thie annioincmf fur a moment 'seemedl to patalisi~~ the boat was now at ihe* ighe 1 . - Point, and all search .was deemed friil The hell was then rung for her to pi~oce onward; it was Johdss 'ahfeli A'n mournfully did it sund .toaho~.o boat's officers and 'pasner~ '~ From the s m~ Phneral of C.'K. Johz-A1 five o'blook yetrayastr concourse gathite'l -in'thiti~ the is giipi'hi'ty~ t'di