Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-09-18

the Tyrant, Santa Anna is held.
1t may not be generally known to most of our
readers that Santa Anna has fled from Mexico
amid the Kisses of his countrymen and with their
curses falling thick and st upon him. lie es-
capped himself by a rlSe and cloaked the escape
of his wife by lie. As Madame Dolores Tosta
dc Santa Anna was leaving, alarming rumors
were put in circulation which caused ellis SUI
prcme Highness' to declare that she was merely
accompanying her mother, not flying from the in
dignation which beset both her and her husband
every side. Having announced this important
fact, he proceeded to remark =
''Let it be known in short, that General Santa
Anna, to his reputation, to his antccedents and
his ndomitable energy, will abandon the Prcsi-
Dental Char when the nation shall say to him,
We have no further need of you, or when death
shall cause him to disappear from the scenes upon
which he now fgures.'
Having thus, he thought, allaycd suspicion,
he pretends to march reg iment in defence of Il
certain point, and makes good his escape. An
account of what followed, we copy from the Sligo.
Immediately on the flight of Santa Anna, ten
thousand citizens met at the Almade and com
menced pilaging and destroying the residence of
the robber. ''Thc crowd after making Intellectual
attempts to get the arms of the National Guard of
the Republic into their possession, repaired to
Madame Tosta's residence, the mother of Madame
Santa Anna, and whose young husband, Vidal,
had recently been Minister to the United States,
with an advance of $4,000 on the ministerial
services he was to render.
The wife and Queen mother, like ChrStiana
who had conferred the order of Charles I'LL. on
the retiring Emperor, was known to have partic-
ipated in her full share Of the public spoil her po-
sition gave claim to. Her residence, therefore,
a.. ca -lol A.
ers-on which the plundered were resolved to
claim reclamation. The contents of vaiuables
were soon made food for fire in the Streets
From thence the movement was to the Minister of
Relations, (Bonila) by the light of Mime. Tosta's
splendid state coach, converted into u moving
lantern with blaze Of ishtwood in the interior.
The work of desolatOn of the interior of the
m nster's s;dence (the inmates having prudent
ly escaped) continued some time, from the i'm
mense quantities of public spoil in depost-con-
suming rich furniture, a mosaic table valued at
IS ,0UO, library of $4,000 volumes, paintings
costumes, &c. In the latter category was the
purp pie garment embroidered in gold rs one Of the
grand crosses of the Order of Guadalupe, and
said to have cost 81 800. All, all were commit
from the windows, were cast into Madame los
ta's carriage, and the whole were soon converted
ITO Il mole of black cinders.
This admirably disc plncd mass, steady in but
one MISREPRESENTATION upon their oppressors-
prohi ting plumber and respecting private pror.
orty, moved successfully to the residences of al
the ministers OF state, excepting that of tn, IIac
| eala, who hid come too recently and too late in.
TO Office to share in the spoil and of FromontO
whose residence fortunately in the public
building of the Menera. Two of the banker.
who charged with sharing largely in Santa An
mas denominations on the treasury, and the Uni
rersal and official journals, were among the dis
tinguishcd of this occasion. These two papers
were made to suffer what they had contributed to
infict upon the more liberal of the fraternitv.-
They had been cxtnguished from the daily Jour
mails, and the Monitor, which had been suppressed
on Santa Anna's usurpaton of power, and its ed
itor prescribed and prosecuted during his reign
takes their place.
Earrera is permitted to play Sancho Panza in
he capital. so long us he administers justice with
the s'me sagac.ty as did Don Quixote's Squire
1t was amusing to see the gathering Of Indian
women the next morning collecting the half met
which has no doubt gone into casts of their saints
before this. During the destruction of the prop
crty of the public criminals, not the least berry
was permitted. One Or two gentlemen, who at
tempted to rescue few choice volumes from
BOnllla's library, rs they were thrown from the
windows into the street, were reprOved with
''No robbery" s'Robbers belong to Santa Anna,' -
''Death to the Tyrant and all Kobbers.'' \ lep-
Gro, who was detected escaping from the crowd
with gilded mirror, was Immediately stabbed
to the heart, and the mirror consigned to its dcs-
nation.