The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-01-21

Sam.
The Dutch Reformed Church. situate in Franklin
street. in this city, was sold yesterday for thirty
thousand and hundred dollars. The lecture room
attached to the church was also sold, and brought
fourteen thousand dollars
slight fire occurred at eleven o'clock last night,
in the United States Bonded Warehouse in this city.
1t originated in small private office upon the first
floor and was extinguished with very slight damage
Some of the books were injured by fire.
Mcxico-Mcssagc Of President Arista-What
Is to be Done.
The message of President Arista to the two
houses of the Mexican Congress, on the opening
of their present session. will challenge the de-
liberate consideration of the readers of this
mornings HERALD. During the last twelve
months the condition of Mexico. social indus
trial, and political, has been sinking from bad
to worse until at length she has arrived at
that extreme point Of decay and exhaustion
which marks the crisis of impending disso-
luton.
The tone of Arista's message is that Of des-
pair; yet. amidst the overwhelming aggrega-
ton Of evils by which he has been and con-
tinues to be surrounded, he maintains his po-
stion like true patriot. Thankless though
his task has been. and continues to be- and me-
naced as he is, from day to day. with revolu-
tionary expulsion from authority, he still
calmly counsels an imbecile Congress upon the
means and measures for restoring something Of
political and social order. and individual Sc
curity in the country. He says, most truly.
that social evils in Mexico are organic. and
and cross-breeds. Of Spaniards. Indians and ne
groes) 1.-The only natural condition of the
country appears to be state of perpetual
anarchy Still he pleads that, by persevering
and united efforts on the part Of the executive
and Congress, the country may be saved.
Els brief recapitulation Of his labors during
the late Congressional vacation, in the suppress
sion of the revolutionary movements in the
States of Vera Cruz, Tamaulipas, Guadalajara,
Oajaca, and elsewhere, exhibits highly credit
able activity. He makes it appear, too that
the strength and condition of the government
troops have been, and still may be, sufficient to
PROSTATE the designs-of the insurgents. But,
alas, the treasury is empty, the fifteen millions
of money received from the United States for
the cession of New Mexico, Utah and California,
are exhausted; internal and external taxation is
exhausted; loans are exhausted; and the Church,
which has monopolized the wealth Of the
country, is imperium in imperio, and will not
disgorge. Notwithstanding all this, as the civil
authorities of the revolutionary districts have
not fraternized with the insurgents, President
Arista still urges the cooperation Of Congress
in final effort to relieve the republic of the
organic and incurable maladies which threaten
its speedy extinction.
TWAS hardly to be expected that the Mexican
executive, pending the pressure of civil war,
would have much to say on the subject Of
foreign relations Accordingly, they are dis
missed in short paragraph, in which, however,
there is a general mercantile allusion to the
prospect Of an amicable settlement Of the
Tehuantepec difficulty. But that is all. In the
meantime a resolution from the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the United States Senate
is still awaiting the action of that body, tanta-
mount to declaration of war on this very
question Of the validity of the Garay contract,
but as we hear nothing of it, we may conclude
that the President of Mexico speaks by authority
and that this international difficulty will be
amicably adjusted.
The general tone, however, of Arista's mes
sage is melancholy; and, taken in connection
with the latest intelligence Of the movements
OF the revolutionists, it may be interpreted as
the very probable precursor to his displacement
by force of arms, and the substitution Of Santa
Anna and a dictatorship. A formal demand,
by revolutionary deputaton, it appears, has
been despatched to Santa Anna in his exile, to
come to the rescue. His patriotic aspirations,
at such crisis, if we may Judge from his past
history, will not permit him to disobey the voice
of his country. We may anticipate his return
and, once within Mexico, the speedy overthrow
of the present government. How far British
French, and Spanish emissaries may be impli
Gated in the present revolutionary disturbances
will probably be developed after the return
(Which is very likely of Santa Anna to the
possession Of absolute authority.
In the meantime, as it is impossible that
Mexico, under any form Of selfgovernment,
can much longer exist as an independent ma
ton, it will become primary duty of the ad-
ministration elect to look well to, and watch
narrowly, the drift Of her affairs. Whatever
may have been the real character Of the late
French military expedition in Sonora it is evil
dent that Louis Napoleon has an eye upon
Mexico, and is suspicious Of Yankee encroach-
ments in fulflment Of manifest destiny"
We must also remember that the debt
Of sixty millions due from Mexico to
England, gives John Bull lively and SUI
stantal interest in the good or evil fortunes Of
our helpless neighbor; and that Spain has re-
Gently been bristling up to her in style some
what belligerent and somewhat offensive, con-
sidering the crippled condition Of the govern
ment. Against any present or future colonizing