Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-14
INTERESTING LETTER FROM MEXICO.


The New Orleans " Delta publishes the follow
ing extracts from the letter of distinguished
American, now in the city Of Mexico" They will
be found instructive and interesting:
On the llth the anniversary Of the battle Of Tampco,
on which Santa Anna achieved the last victory the
Spaniards which expelled them from Mexico and this day.
to be the anniversary Of the Declaration of
Mexican Independence. which his Hghness and Minister
are 30 soctous to overshadow celebrated partcu
larry the hrst with great military pomp and display On
the first occasonsss on the sseond-there were three
thousand rank and file on the ground dressed with great
gew-gaw and gilded uniform. The exhibition was i'm
posing but in the richness and brancy Of the
than in the military essentials which give cha
racter to the soldier Uniform predomnated arms,
and soldier and officer seemed to convey spectators,
Look at me, more than fear me-" However, the re-
views went of fully well Of Fourth Of July
exhoitlons There was powder enough spent in honor
OF his Serene Highness who, having lost leg at Vera
Cruz, reviewed in open barouche and four horses
splenddly caparisoned followed by his civil and military
stan all In vehicles Of greater less decoration Santa
Anna certainly paying great attention to the organza
ton and discipline Of army and there is evident i'm
provement in the exhibition of this year the
on the same occasion last To his cavalry lsncers and
light artillery he seems to be devotiDg Of his
ges, and has large number of foreign officers Poles
and Spansh) in his service. The latter predominant
most in accordance with his views the Casan
caste in their ancient chvalry II is said however to
have given very great offence to the native officers par
tcuiary many Of those from Spain have received high
commissions and been entrusted with high responsible
ties The officers Of his Imperial Guards in the higher
grades, are oil foreign They will certainly preserve
the person and power of whom they indebted
for honors which only be secured through his nvo
liability You thus have pretty fair picture of enact
mens in this quarter all of which tend the farce
than the tragedy the drop Of the curtain The
ments in Guerrero Menochocan and Ueatan, with those
in the Sierra Madre Republics, though treated lightly
evidently creating much uneaness ut the palace II
the partisan leaders in each enterprise with discre
ton and in concert they will foreshadow end which
the beginnings promised.
On the of the Declaration Of Independence 1.-THE
l5th) we had quite display at the National NEW Thea
ire Santa Anna. The building is very imposing, the in
terror spacious and the arrangements very commodious
and tasteful The getting up for the occasion very
brilliant very elegant, and ornamental We had alter
natey patriotic speeches and music at which the oper
ATTIC corps politely assisted. As Mexico has patriotic
music the operate of ITALY, Span and France had to be
invoked. The performers however, too timid to
venture the Marseillase. Santa Anna not present
but he sends to all these public displays Mrs Sauadem
as bis representative She sat as conspicuous as an
and very attractive in her canoped box
with red damasked curtains and surrounded by the mill
tary staff Of his Serene Highness She is oil occa-
sions attended with body guard and all the display Of
royalty The empire is the horizon, and he who would
grasp 1t is Watching its rise with deep soctude If the
asprant had understanding and not misled to the
quo odo Of attainment If he could wisely comprehend
onsman Government literally administered be could
complish all his aims But he, like all monarchs who
have lost their crowns associates absoutsm with tyran
N.Y. with arbitrary and harsh Government His plea that
the people don't understand liberty and that to prevent
anarchy they must be bridled, is specous They are,
from long habit, the most manageable tractabe people
have seen, particularly the Indian portion that
stute the mob. The higher classes Indifferent and
obedient Give them their cigar and their quiet seclu
sons and they don't who governs until they feel the
rod Their instincts however all directed to
ter and to show that his Serene Hghness might crafty
oil his tastes for the latter and confirm nationality in
empire, make his displays with his Empress and body
IL
only administer his Government with beray and JUS
tce follow in the progress of other nations equally
single minded himself and like Russia, instead of be-
ing threatened with the loss Mexico her Danuban
provinces But these things these thoughts
cupy his mind He listens to the serpent in his Eden,
apd goes doing what higher authority cautions him
against until he will again be driven from what he might
enjoy and with popularity But, blind to the admoni
tons of the nge he has resolved despotc sway in
Church and State until he is made the victim Of his gnor
and ndiscreon he intended the public exhibi
tion of last night feeler of the public sentmentike
his attempt former occasion with the Yankee in
the Valley-it proved no less failure; not tribute
the to the empire The orators expatated alto
geher liberty spoke of of the early triumphs In
the cause but gensralized on political freedom, &c. OF
the two who made the most mpression-one, spoke Of
the of the revolution and their struggle with SPAIN
and denounced the mother in language which considering
his Hghnesss efforts to aternIe considered extra
ordinary but received with denfenng applause; and the
other mathematical despotsm in every FORM spoke of
the progress Of nations in liberal Governments and
cuded with the remark that however glorious might
seem the horizon the black clouds which settled it
were destined be removed by great patriot yet to
be born and liberty conferred Mexico. The applause
was convulsve than has been witnessed in the
United States and the had been bold enough
have named Washington there is knowing the extent
to which the welkin would have rung What has never
been known Of the audience insisted o repetition
The parts which had excited given with additional
emphasis The Royal Ministers not present, but
all of American growth, North and South, were the
seats courteousy assigned them The box of the United
States was filed with the Minister and family and
taries 1t was the observed of all observers and par
cularly when some liberal sentiment from the orator was
echoed from the pit. That division crammed and
accommodates between FIVE and six hundred with seats
The passage-ways were crowded with spectators The
BIKES being appropriated to families, not full
but could not have had less than $500 persons. The
gallery crammed overcoming appropriated to the
Indian racea quiet, humbed and we'll disposed caste
They are of great endurance economical in their
habits and easily governed They constitute the labor
ing class Of Mexico and under liberal Government and
proper direction of their employers semi-masers flor
the Peon system here prevals they would regenerate
this retrograde nation With the capabilities of these,
soil and climate with its varied productions can
estimate the prosperity and wealth which free trade would
stimulate But ignorance is bliss it is folly to be wise
RESERVE MAY BE VALUABLE, BUT NOT AMIABLE.-Mr.
StiHins and Mr. Starch very good sort of men in
some respects but in respect to neither had much
to boast Of Several times they had within the orbit
of each other but underwent collision. Neither
did they feel each others attraction in the least cold
clod of planet comet cannot approach another body
equally cold without showing sensbiity toward the
neighbor or stranger Not SO with Stins and Starch
Many time they thrown not far asunder, yet nei
Their could utter the first word Their hands fasten
ed to their Sides too mmovaby their tongues
glued to the roofs Of their mouths 1t utterly i'm