Tri-weekly journal., 1847-09-21
TAcuBAYA: August. 26. 1917.

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We now have certain intelligence that Va
lencia arrived at Toluca with only two men,
his aid-de-camps, and they were thankful for
their good horses or else they could not have
kept up. 1t is asserted positively that he was
drunk on the night of the 18th inst, and pro-
NOTED all his officers for their extraordinary
gallantry in standing firmly to their guns du-
ring the afternoon when no one was returning
their fire. The account that he has pronounc-
ed against Santa Anna is not fully confirmed,
but there is no doubt that Santa has denounced
him in public decree, and accuses him of all
blame in bringing about the recent disaster to
the country. He must accuse somebody, and
Valencia by his disobedience of cowardly or
der, has made himself amenable-offers fair
target for his masters wrath.
The prospects for peace look brighter, al
though the treaty is far from being signed. Our
accounts from the city would certainly indicate
that strong peace feeling pervades the better
class of citizens, as well as those of the mid
ding order-they have evidently lost all con-
fidence in their own Wanting soldiers, and are
anxious to get rid of future taxes for their sup
port. For wonder, such places as Saguntum,
Mumantia and Saragosa, whose examples they
were to follow and even excel in the matter Of
defending themselves to thelast, have not been
mentioned nor alluded to for week past The
Mexicans are certainly becoming RATIONAL
No more do the Polkas, the "upper ten thou
sand" ofMexico, parade the streets petitioning
like, so many Claude Melnottes, to be placed
where their country most needed soldiers: their
shameless conduct before Churubusco, in run
ming without even firing gun, has taken all
the conceit out of them. No more do even the
noisy military demagogues talk of future; no
more do they fume, and brag, and vaunt of
what they are going to do, and how the rapa-
cious North Americans are to find a common
grave under the walls of their beleaguered city;
the blow has been too great for them. The
capital was their jumping-off place-there, by
an extraordinary proves they supposed them
selves to possess even against the evidence of
a dozen disgraceful defeats, the infamous Yam
KEGS were to be taught their utter inferiority
when compared with the valiant descendants
of the illustrious Hidalgo-there they have
been routed by force not one-third as large as
their own; driven from strongvantage grounds
without what would be deemed struggle by
the real nations of the earth; so shamefully de-
feated that even all the Mexican ingenuity of
lies and excuses can find no paliation for their
discontinue. Divide all the self-sufficiency
and overweening pride in the world at the
commencement of this war into two parts, and
the Mexicans possessed one half; and if they
had only chung to their batteries with the same
tenacity they did to their paper valor they
might have retained their credits even although,
they lost their guns. Now, all gone-means,
material, name, and standing in the woodland
there certainly is a portion of the proud people
of the Mexican capital disposed to listen to
peace and sheath their useless swords.
G. w X.