The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-20

NEW YORK HERALD, Z
The eparse population of Tehusntepec looks for
lie future In the opening of the Transit route
across that IsthmuA The Central communities
of the Mexican republic may yet hold together
Tor while, but they must be- before long d.
vidtd by the conflicting interests Of the Atlaa-
tic and Pacific ports
1t Is the growing evidence of this state Of
things that has led the 30 called government OF
Mexico to hold in slight regard Its international
Dinietraticn expired in two years OF inanition
Santa Anna endured for two years through the
virtue Of a sale Of territory to this country
COmOnfort existed for the same period en-
gagged in constant struggle with petty
revolutions; but at no time we're the DEGREES of
the government capable of perfect execution at
distance of seventy leagues from the capital
The federal government was therefore incapaci-
tated to render protection to foreign merchants
seeking its markets, and its whole intercourse
with the foreign legations has been little more
than continued series Of demands for repsra-
ton on the one side and evasions ON the other
The GROWING act of the priest ridden govern
ment Of Zulosga, to rob the foreign merchants
as the only means Of perpetuatiug its own ex-
istence, has given the finishing blow to govern
ment there. No government exists that can
make reparation and our administration has
adopted the true policy In refusing to recognize
any longer Power that is but sham.
What course we must pursue for the future
can only be decided in the future. Many of our
citizens will cling to the hope that miracle will
be performed there, and q government brought
into existence which shall render them justice
The British bondholders, confding in their
mortgage upon the revenues of Mexico, still
look for the drawing of wine from the jar that
does not now even contain water. They have
received no interest since the payment that was
made them out of the American indemnity in
1853, and they will receive no interest for all
time to come, because the revenues as we have
already shown, are absorbed by the seeding
States. The whole country is engaged in one
conflict of disintegration, and priest and lay
man, soldier and civilian, have all given them
selves up to the pillage of ruined society.
A New PARADISE For ToURIsTs-Our spe-
cial correspondent, writing from Salt Lake City,
gives the most glowing description of the
scenery on the route from Fort Bridger TO the
capital of Utah. Itappears that the grandeur
of the Old World mountain peaks is eclipsed,
and even our rugged Northern cliffs and rs-
vines must give way before the massive heights
which environ the Mormon plateau. This
Rocky Mountain region was almost terra inceg-
nita until the explorations of Fremont and his
followers, and now but little is known of its
real condition. By ell accounts it is impossible
to give an accurate painting of its splendid
views, either with the pen of the tourist or the
pencil of the artist.
AS lis opened up for travellers and settlers
We shall find some adventurous spirits taking
the lead in pleasure excursions across the plains
to the Great Basin. 1t has already become
fashionable among the young men of England
to make the tour Of the States instead of going
to the Continent, and some of the more daring
of them have hunted the bufaloes and Skin.
mished with the indians upon their own q Nj
ries We hear that the scions of the noble
houses Of Cavendish, Salisbury and Grosvenor,
who are now on tour through this country,
contemplate making the excursion to the
plains, and the time will undoubtedly soon ar
rive when the whole fashionable world will do
sire to follow in the track of Ere
mont and Carson. Already our pleasure
seekers are beginning to tire Of the same
round of travel and the same faces year
after year, and to pine for something new. The
yschtsmen, who were formerly satisfied with
barber and river sailing, now begin TO enlarge
their cruises, running down in the winter to
the Virginia capes or the Havana, and in the
summer dashing away TO the northward along
the Atlantic coast to the sandy shores of Mas
sschusetts or the wooded inlets of Maine. The
time will come when travellers by land will
avoid Saratoga, Lake George, the White Noun
tains or the Catskills and fit themselves out
for q journey to the Rocky Mountains and back
If the Mormon war has done no more than to
open this almost unknown section of country,
no one will grudge the money that 1t has cost.
II seems almost like q paradox, but 1t is true,
that war and military operations generally
have always been the pioneers Of civilization
and it's attendant blessings.
BARSUxs LAST HoAx.-Om London CORES
pondent, in a letter which we print elsewhere,
explodes Barnum's last enterprise, which had
already received the coup de grace on this side
of the water. 1t appears now that Bar
mum had no authority to use the name Of
Mr.. Lumley that the director Of her Majes-
tvs theatre never answered the letters written
by the proprietor Of the mermaid, and that
in no event could the artists which Baroam
announced have crossed the Atlantic this sea
son. The whole matter, IL seems, was q dodge
of Bsrnums to keep bis name before the public,
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