Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-01-29

The lev extracts which We give below will sivs
tho reader idea Of The present depIorsbls con.
dision Of the Mexican Republic. Il SCENE to Us
chat this unhappy and wretched Republic must
soon be numbered among "the things that wsrs.'
The people are incapable Of self government.
The Voc del Pss6ia, leading Mexican paper,
gives sad picture Of the condition Of that Repub-
lie. OF tho standardization Of tho departments, /,
ssys:-
1.-THE pen Of Jeremlaa could not ade-
quately describe tho fearful ravsges re-
Gently committed by the wild savages OF
onr frontier settlements. We have re.
celved papers from SatiIIo, Monterey,
Durango and Zacatacas. In those de.
partments the knife and the firebrand turn
entire villages into rivers of blood and
heaps of ashes. There are constantly
enacted those irighHul tragedies so often
noticed, so often lamented there are fell,
the awful effects Of that guilty neglect,
that deadly apathy, that lethargic slum.
Der Of our governments living shame
to civilization, TO religion, to humanity
there the wre,cheo inhabitants pray with
imposing looks, but alas in vain, for .
protecting arm to save their wives and
daughters from pollution and murder
Year follows year and brings no relief, no
respite to the dreadful sacrifice of thous-
ands Of human victims. The press of the
departments is filled with applications to
put stop to such atrocilies-bu they fall
on deaf ears meanwhile, tributes, mono.
poles and custom houses are kept in full
force"
The annexation OF Texas ia referred to as thing
beyond recall Texas is gone," says this Next
can paper, "gone forever and beyond redemption
TO our natural enemies, the Angl mericsns, who
know but too well how TO estimate u, at our true
value" 10 view Of the future destiny of Texas as
part Of the great American Republic, confes-
.iou is extorted from the Mexican Journal which
il says is bitter indeed, and adds
"That Department, wrested from us by
an act of usurpation and perfidy never
before equalled. will at once start on a
new career OF improvement and prosper.
ty--sate from savage inroads, arbitrary
exactlons, unjust prohibitions and mono.
poles, fertile soil will plen,iuly rewsld
the honest labor of the husbandman, the
mechanic arts will flourish, each citizen
will be Tree to arm himself for his own
and his country's defence, and each will
have the right to practice, unmoesed,
the religion which his conscience dictates.
Texas, by renouncng her separate sove.
reignty, will cease to be, as heretofore, a
country oil outlaws, and become a part OF
powerful naiion, whose growing pros.
perlty will shed its benefcent influence
over the new territory. Such is the des.
tiny OF that Department, severed from us
and now forming par! Of the American
Union. The tendency of an example so
prnIcous is clear to ALL"
The last Washington Union contains the follow
Jog important in,elIigence:-
LATEST FROM MEXICO.
by the arrival, on the l4lh instant, OF
the United States brig Porpoise, a, Pensa.
cola, (twelve days from Vera Cruz,) the
intelligence Of revolution in Mexico has
been confirmed.
II appears that on the morning Of the
3osh, the troops relied upon by the gov.
eminent to defend it against Paroles
pronounced in his favor and the govern.
ment entered into Terms of capilulatlon
with General Paroles. lie entered and
took possession of the city OR that day
without opposition.
The rumor was, that General Paredes
manifested less opposition to the reception
of Mr.. Slidell than the late Presiden.
Herrera.