From the A. Y. .dncrltau.
{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser.", "edition": "01", "page": "p3", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 2469, "word_count": 428, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9628000259399414], "ccnet_perplexity": [1426.300048828125], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}



Boiipar as FaaHcier.-A letter lies be-
fore us written by an American at Porto Ca.
bello, Gated the 21th u't. which furnishes
the following intoi nation as to the Liberia
tors notion Of raising the ways and means
to meet the debt of the country, The ex-
tract is given literally.


stately Bolivar has laid an Alcavaila duty
on all produce, say s per cent on the vana-
tion, which is taken from tho current sales
He has also laid n tax of $500 on all mcr-
chants transacting commission businrss--on
Nil retail dry good stores one ol s150-and
OH smaller establishments, one OF from $50
to 500 per annum.


"Ihese taxes will produce revenue of
from to million dollars. lie has dis
charged all military officers of duty, giving
them preference in civil employment,
when they have capacity to fill them; he has
reduced the present pay one half-abolish-
ed the reception ofthe government paper for
season in the custom honses-and, IN fact,
has made such alterations as will in nine
months pay the interest il not part OF the
principal Of the national debt. More than
tqpo hundred : !! di&aNectcd fer$on$ hare
been shot IN Cumann and .dburc, and Gen.
Paez has carried all before him in executing
Bulivar's decrees. He is desperate and
strict to every order of the l.lherator"


The writer Of the above Is a plain, fair
man-and his statement is remarkable on
several acc counts.-Fiist, as communicating,
as we believe, the first intelligence OF the
very decisive steps Of bolivar in exciting
for SO il must be called-suppiies. Second
| ", shelving, by the natural reference to
4 Bolivar, aud to him alone, as the author Ct
4 an measures, that he is the only power in
Colombia thirdly, as justitying by the fact
Of the execution by two hundreds, OF the
disaffccted--a word Of large in,rort--the
caution to which we haze before referred,
Of cur correspondents Al I.sguayra. in with
holding their names from their letters


Altogether, the state Of Colombia IS lar
from satisfactory.


We learn from a gentleman who has ar
rived at Norfolk, from Mexico, that the
Congress at Tacubaya, had not commenced
about the middle Of April, but probably
in about three or four weeks, some OF the
ministers not having yet arrived Mr. Der
gcant and Mr.. Poinsctt, we're III cAccllen'
health at the time he left Mexico.


Commodore Porter was held in high esti'


nation by every class Of citizens in Mexico


The misunderstanding lately existing be-
tween Mexico and Texas has been settled