Southern telegraph., 1837-04-18
COMMON HONESTY
MHxIoo, l0ih March, 1887.
Of bad policy.

MHxIco, l0ih March, 1897.
N.Y. Dear Sri bud the pleasure Of ad.
dressing YOU on the Sth inst via Tompicos
On the mourning Of the OH there was mani
fest disirust through the capital; about tea
o'clock the Government published Band
relative to the copper coin reducing
nominal value to 80 per cent discount
About ] ! o'clock the whole city manifesto
strong symptoms of commotion, collecin
near the palace and market place. &
dense mass Of poor miserable lopros nd
ing about like the waves Of a troubled saa
driven to desperation BY the deprecatloa
of the millions ofvalucless copper currea.
cy the Government have issued. In foH
minutes after ii there was general rush
through the streets, and all doors insianllf
closed and barrie ,ded excepting a saquea
In the mean time the troops made their
pearance, and cannon were drawn out
the plaza de Palacio, and about 10 o'cloe
the militia succeeded in restoring TRANQUIL
ily, and the Government issued ihreatenlne
handhills through the city against any per
sons who should refuse copper at the fixed
value, and the Governor ofthe city another
ordering all doors opened under fine Of
5000 to those who did not. A regular pal.
ro was established through the city, aud
keptup until this morning All is quiet,
but BY no means settled down so.
Saturday, llth, l2 o'elock--I walked odt
TO tho Porials--ne! a Mexican gentleman,
who toldme the coiiniry was on the eve Of a
blnody revolution, Sand that nohing could
avert IT. the wretched policy Of The present
Worvcrment have brought tho country 10
this lamentable condition, which, he re-
marked, | expect every moment to see burst
out into violence from the populc who are
driven to desperation by heir condition. |
passed on to a merchants store, and had
been Ihero bu. a few moments before the
human tide came furiously by, every door
was Instantly slimJed TO and barricaded.
aided by my worthy friend passed ont the
back way,--passed through the iurbulent
crowd to the Plaza de PAacio before
which, opposite The Presidents apartn,1nt,
were several thousand lepros crying oat that
thoy could get nothing ta eat with the cOp-
per- ! passed. on 70 my oflice--frnn the
window observed the market pInce one
mass uf people. lii few mements tha
troops charged aud iiecl on the Caihedmi
in The Plaza, aud about two O'clock the
, ,pulaco commenced throwing stones at
The stores, Mt the north coraer of the Portal,
by the Parian. and broke in all the wind
ows Of 30 or 30ttores, French, English and
American. Having no instrumentstofDrce
the doors of the stores or courts, the milf
Iary suffered this with impunity pleased
that their attention coald be turned from
The cause Of their misery, The gopcrRmeni,
to the foreigners, ag inst whom they cried
out with every opprobrous epithet AL
is apparently quiet; strong patrols, cavalry
and Io)t parade through the city, but can
it last? the poor ragged wretches have had
nothing to eat to-day--all ships are closed;
it is now p. Nj and there is no prospect If
any thing further,
lfa dreadful saqueo docs not take place,
it viii lie by interposi;ion of a mercf,il
II it does take place, the
foreigners will be the principal victims.
J.W.
Gen Santa Anna is still at his Hacienda.
Congress have been in secret session ever
since the message of the President Of the
jth utin,o arrived.
lllh, 8 P. M.--The stage has just orriy-
ID from Puehla that city was yeslerdly III
he rcvolutiopry condition Of the capital
here they have more degraded population,
fpossible, than Mexico. You may well
for your countrymen nov ia
his unhappy country.