The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-06-30
BALTIMORE.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 80, 1853.

Who is to be the next dictator of Mexico? Yes
terday the intelligence reached US that ZuLoAGA
was about to quit the capital and take refuge III
Tampico ready to launch himself INTO exile IN 'he
event of the defeat of OsoLLos, whose army OF hVe
tbous,rd mon is the largest force which the reac-
tion;sts can brino into the field. When that army
learns Of the flight of its President and that his
exchcouer is empty, it will scarcely fight with
much spirit against the better appointed forces of
VrD,rRRI. Affairs in Mexico are becoming
complicated in other respects. The seizure of the
goods of American residents to satisfy their quota
of the forced sssslz AA led femon-
STRANGE on the part Of our apxay stre'Ir. FORSYTH,
who, finding his protest unavailing, has demanded
and received his passports. But while Mr. FOR
sYTH is returning home by way of Vera Cruz ~
LoAGA is also making preparations for voyage to
parts unknown; and it is altogether probable that
his decree for forced loan was not designed to be
applied to meet the wants Of his Government but
was issued for the purpose of providing hmSefwith
funds to meet his travelling expenses. Mexican
Presidents rarely go into exile empty handed, and
from what we can learn of ZULeAGA we are in
cned to believe that he is not the man to shame
his predecessors by setting them an example of vr
tuous poverty. However this may be, it is certain
that the fortunes of the iberaliss are in the ascen-
dant; though whether the independent chieftains
will now unite upon JUAREz or CoMoNFoRT or
whether SANTA ANNA will be recalled, it is impoS-
sible to predict. All that we really do know is,
that Mexico is prey to military ogarchy;
that some half dozen different men aspire to su-
preme rule, and that the successful one of the six
may safely calculate upon having the other five ar
rayed against him. IA house divided against it
SELF SAYS the old proverb, "can never stand. y
But earthquakes convulse the South American Re
publics without doing any very serious damage,
and military revolutions appear TO be the sponta-
neous products of that volcanic soil. The people,
indeed, are oppressed and impoverished; but then,
somebody is glorifed, for brief season, aud who
would not fight for the honor of the thing, where
the soldiers rarely to close quarters and the
marksmen fire at random from behind stone walls
and barricades? An escopet is by no means re-
markably dangerous weapon, for the ball fits so
loosely in the barrel that lift is depressed in firing
it rolls out and if it is elevated it whistles the
heads of the foe, so that any one can understand
how it is that peaceable citizens more frequent
ly wounded in the street fights than the rival sol
diery Next to the interior of house, strongly
fortified against attack the safest place for those
who require exercise in the open air. is in the
ranks of the opposing armies. If they happen to
be struck down there it is altogether through some
unhappy mistake But that is ;fmatter that scarce
ly concerns us. We are far more interested in
knowing who is to be the next President of Mexi-
co. Most probably it will be JUARM, though he
will not long retain his seat.