The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1850-08-15
Sad Condition of Mexico.

OF the raYageS OF the chOlera, depression
of business, and financial and political diff
fculties. The Trait d Union says:
''In the city of Mexico, from the 25lI
to the 2nd of July, the total number of ca
ses has been 1900; deaths ,234. 1t vii
hence be perceived that we have had 2St
cases of cholera each day, and Of tha
number l76 have died. We had hoped
that the plague was disappearing, bu
within two days past II has recommended
its work of death, and is more horrible
than ever.
From the first appearance of the chol.
era until the ID of July there have been
$4,000 cases, and 6,40O deaths.
Three Deputies elected to Con-
gress had fallen victims 10 the cholera
Private letters say it has disappeared from
Guanajuato, also from Queretaro. II is
now raging upon the Mexican gulf; Jalapa
Orizaba, and Vera Cruz, have Just enter
ed the fierce ordeal of suffering and death.
The authorities Of Vera Cruz have opened
hospitals, and have forbidden the use OF
vegetable diet, but the papers persuade the
people not to mind the edict.
The cholera has had a most depressing
effect upon the business affairs Of Mexico,
and above all on Vera Cruz. Many of the
merchants have fed TO the country, and a
deep gloom rests upon the market. Very
little business was doing.
The political horizon of Mexico seems
enwrapt in clouds. Hope of It's future
grandeur is fast deserving the hearts of the
people. The dismissal of Senor Gutiefres
from his post of Minister of Finance meets
with hearty disapprobation. He has been
replaced for the present by Senor Lucan-
"a, Minister of Foreign Relations. Gu
tierres made some astounding develove-
ments regarding the state of the treasury.
lie is said TO have been dismissed be-
cause he was too honest TO become the tool
of amhitiors men. The Trait IL Union
remarks:
"The treasury is not only empty, but
there are no available means by which it
can be filed. lat least legally fHed.) The
state Of the country arises from the evils
which have crept in and become part
and portion of lis system Of government.
They must all be changed. ere any perma-
nent good can result TO Mexico"
The "Siglo 18th 18th Century has
long article entitled "ApProaching Calami-
lltos " 4lItli gives q NAot n NANAAAAS VI tL4N
state Of affairs. 1t says:
"War and the plague have been our
portion within the pest few years, and now
are approaching two evils even more dread
ful--fan3i7ae and ciUH 1Car! A multitude
Of causes, beyond our control, occasioned
the war. The plague was sent by God,
and by him it will be Withdrawn in his
own good time; but famine and civil war
will soon be upon US. They are the re-
suit of the evils of our system, and the bad
management of the affairs Of our country.
They may be averted, and every noble
heart should be nerved to the contest. Let
the President be a man capable OF sustain
ing the coming trials, and our native land
may yet shine bright jewel among the
nations of the earth
In Durango the inhabitants are suffering
greatly from the attacks OF the Indians
The rancho of San Luis has been entirely
destroyed and nine women carried off by
the savages. Ten men were left dead on
the ground.
The Governor of Chihuahua has been
dismissed by the Legislature of the State.
The reasons given were the impossibilIty
of any cooperation between the executive
and the Legislative powers.
A train of wagons was robbed between
Pueblo and Vera Cruz, LIano Grande,
near Rio Frio. They were attacked by
80 banditti. The Major Domo was killed
and nearly all the drivers shared his fate.
The robbers then spent eight hours in Sc
lecting their booty. They destroyed a
number of piano-fortes, and, indeed, all
that they could not carry
away with them. The house of Jemison
& Co. had, it is said, sixty packages OF
goods in the train. The diligence had al
so been robbed going up from Vera Cruz,
and the diligence coming down from the
capital, in which were a company of ac-
tors The banditti searched them and
possessed themselves of all the gold and
silver they had about their persons. They
then selected all their theatrical dresses,
and examined them uttering exclamaions
of delight at their brilliant colors and tinsel
ornaments. Some OF the robbers dressed
themselves in them, and really the gold
and silver seemed forgotten in rapture of
those unusual possessions.
Nobility IN the WiIds.-A correspon
dent of the St. Louis hatelIigencer says
that Lord Calthop, Lord Cook and some
other English mobiles, are encamped with
a swarm of California emlCrants of Coun-