The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-11-25

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Tie United States mail steamship
Tennessee, from Vera Cruz, reached
New Orleans on the evening of the 10th.
She brings, besides the regular semi.
monthly mails, with dates to tie 18th
from the capital, and S542, 500 so in
specie.
The chief POINTS of the news were re-
mitted by telegraph from New Orleans,
and published some days since but the
letter of our correspondent will be found
worthy of perusal,
Correspondence of the Ashland Union.
MEXICO, Nov. 5, 1857.
The hour Of Dissolution Come for Nea-
ic0-- Result Of tqco Years IF Liberal
Rnle-GOyernntcat, Troops Thrice
Detcated-Cuernocaca and Quere-
tato en- Possession ofthe Re6eLs--Die-
content OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
CourSe0 ConcresS-A Pertinent In
quiry, &c, DE. =
The hour of dissolution for this poor
country appears near at hand. The
more a person endeavors to persuade
himself that a power from Mexican tai
ent can ever again be set up in this land
to govern the country, the more must
be be ~pu,suaded Gifts utter impossibilitv.
This may seema bold assertion, to those
who have watched the course of thirgs
here, the cass of destiny is perfectly
clear. Every day the country is crum-
bling to pieces, or l might use a more
potent and truthful f~gure-Mexico,
with all her natural gifts, is rottipg
down. Every change of government,
every new pkaa1i every success of liberal
or Conservative parties all have carried
along, by their dead weight, this poor
country to a poirt of dissolution.
Two years have elapsed since the lib
erai party, flushed with triumph, entered
this capital, and gave to the world the
most solemn promises of a good govern
ment. This party has worked for two
years. And what do we find to-day ?
Discomfort in every quarter three cities
of the republic Campechy, Cuernavaca
and Queretaro-in the hands of ~revola-
tionists; the Indians ruling and raining
IN Yucatan, Durango, chihuahua, So
nora and in ! arts of Zacatecas. Jalisco,
Coahuiia and Nuevo Leon the high
roads abandoned to robbers; commerce
checked, and in many parts ent rely
ruined T; the post routes broken up, and
the nation beggarly poor, without the
power to remedy any one of the existing
evils. On all sides we hear the same
cries against the existing state of things /;
but nc II can devise plans for remedies.
Within the past five days the govern
menttroops have been twice signally
defeated. On Saturday last the troops
of the goverpmentthat were sent in pur-
suit of the revolutionists who had taken
possession of C~uernavaca, under COM
mand of G Dos aud Moreno, two ~revolu-
tionary leaders were decoyed into a pur-
suit from C%uernavaca into the south
The ~reVolutionists kept up a show of re-
treat until the governments troops had
passed into. a dangerous position of a
Pass called Pl~ataniIlos, two leagues this
side of Iguala, when they fell upon them
with great vigor, and killed and disper-
sed the entire government force, and
killed their leader, Gen. Gonzalez, ore
of the most true and devoted officers Of
the government, and made a prisoner of
Gen. Buensostro.
AtQueretaro a similar mishap has be-
80 ~ SN'OI uSJld, iu0 Udu-
dit, feu upon that place on Sunday last,
the first inst and on Monday morning,
at 3 O'Clock, commenced an assault
The battle lasted about seven hours, at
the end of which time the government
troops Internationally surrendered. In
this affair Gen Astragawa dangerously
wouned.
There are d~iscontents in all quarters,
but the most threatened is that in Yu-
catan, where the revolutionists are in
great strength. 1t is reported here
that they have sent 100000 to the
United States to buy ships with, to take
possession of the entire coast.
While all these troubles are going on,
what Go we find in Mexico? The Con-
gress as coolly debated and splitting
straws as if their nation was in a most
h5urshing condition. Although, revolu-
tions rule on all sides and the robbers
and Indians have what territory is not
in civil war, still Congress cannot see
where the nation is drifting to. That
body has given extraordinary powers to
Comonfort, but they are still debating
on the subject and should things look
as though peace could exist for a week
/ think the power would be withdrawn.
What does Uncle Sam think of this
country2 1t is not an optional matter I;
he must do something with it. ait j.
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