The Daily Union

BY OVERLAND EXPRESS AND TELEGRAPH.

FOR THE UNION.

Augusta, (Ga.,) April 15, 1848.

Your express package has arrived, bringing New Orleans papers of the 9th instant. By the arrival of the steamship Ohio at New Orleans, from Vera Cruz the 31st ult., and Tampico the 2d inst., we have most interesting intelligence. It touches the designs of Santa Anna. In the latter part of March one of his agents obtained a passport from the American commandant at Orizaba, and went to Vera Cruz to charter a vessel for him. He secured a brig; which, at last accounts, lay off Antigua, twelve miles north of Vera Cruz. There Santa Anna purposes to embark; thence to sail for Jamaica.

A train from the city arrived at Vera Cruz on the 30th, under command of Captain White, of the Louisiana foot, with a squadron of cavalry, under Capt. Besançon, and a company under Capt. Kerr. The train met Major Graham at Plan del Rio. The guerillas were troublesome on the roads. All civil authority is turned over to the Mexicans in Vera Cruz and Tampico.

It was the conviction that Congress would assemble before the end of March, and ratify the treaty. On the 21st and 22d, seven senators left the city for Queretaro, to take their seats. General Scott was hourly expected at Vera Cruz. Purser R. M. Price came passenger, bearing despatches from the Pacific to the government. He leaves this day for Washington. Commodore R. Rudd and Purser Christian had joined the squadron. They were wrecked on the passage from San Francisco to Mazatlan, in the brig Commodore Stockton, near Magdalena; the brig a total wreck. The passengers were saved by the providential appearance of three whale boats.

The Markets.—Cotton has declined ½ cent on all descriptions under middling fair. Sugar without animation; molasses quiet; flour, market closes heavily; Ohio and Illinois $4 75 a $5. Freights have an upward tendency.

BY OVERLAND EXPRESS.

FOR THE UNION.

One Day in advance of the U. S. Mail.

From the N. O. Picayune, April 8.

The Latest from Mexico.

The schooner Creole, Capt. Allen, arrived last night from Vera Cruz, having sailed on the 30th ult., three days later than our previous advices.

A mail from the city of Mexico reached Vera Cruz the morning of the 29th, bringing dates to the 25th from that city, and to the 26th from Puebla.

The Monitor Republicano of the 25th announces the death of Gen. Valencia. He expired the morning of that day from an attack of apoplexy. This is the officer, our readers will recollect, who was in command of the Mexican troops at Contreras, and upon whom Santa Anna throws the responsibility of all his reverses in the defence of the city of Mexico.

The Mexican Congress had not yet assembled.

La Reforma, a paper published in Puebla, says, on the 25th inst., "General Scott will arrive in this city, probably to-day or to-morrow, on his way to the United States. It is also said that all the volunteers in the American army will soon leave the republic; all we know is, that yesterday 17,000 rations were caused to be deposited here. It is also said that Mr. Trist will arrive with General Scott. Although we do not believe this story, we announce it. We would like to know what influence the absence of the commissioner will have on the ratification or rejection of the treaty."

We have before us the Monitor of Mexico of the 25th in which not a word is said of the projected departure of General Scott.

The court of inquiry was still hearing the testimony in the case of General Pillow.

Major Burns, who claims the authorship of the "Leonidas" letter, was under examination.

The papers of the interior are full of accounts of the assassinations and robberies committed.