The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-26

We learn 10y our advices from Mexico that
the defeat Of Vidaurr has thrown the constitu-
tionalists there including President Juarcz and
his Cabinet, into CONSERVATION, and that just now
great doubts are entertained of the result Of the
present contest. AT the same time, our Washing
ton correspondent writes that Senior Mata, the
agent Of President Juarez, has left Washington
for Vera Cruz, hoping to return before the close
of the session Of Congress in shape that will
warrant his recognition as Minister, and with
authority to negotiate treaty involving rail
road route to the Gulf of California, commercial
reciprocity for the northern frontier, and the
neutrality of the Tehuantepeo isthmus
These are the dreams Of men who insist upon
looking on Mexico as she was, and not AS she is.
But the republic that once counted on q revenue
of sixteen millions Of dollars from her customs
alone, and found no great trouble in keeping an
army Of one hundred thousand men in the field,
has ceased to exist. Mexico knows those things
no more. Her revenue has dwindled down
to few hundred thousands, which are
grasped in transtu by factious local leaders long
before they come into the Golfers of the State,
and is fast coming to the point Of nothing. Nei-
Their Of the contending Presidents that now con-
tend for the government of the country can
bring into the field more than three or four
thousand men, and these are kept together by
regular system of pilloge, forced loans, and the
capacity of Mexican soldier to live on hand
full Of cornmeal day. Whichever party obtains
a triumph now will obtain it by the utter ex-
haustion Of its opponent, and it will come into
power in such state of dcstituton that it will be
seriously threatened with death from the loss Of
the counterirritant which ii now receives from
its antagonist. For the last five or eight years
no administration that has existed in Mexico has
possessed any real power beyond a radius of six
ty leagues from the capital, and future admins
trations there will not possess any beyond six
leagues, unless radical change takes place.
Mexico is disintcgrated, and she is now rapidly
approaching state Of absolute anarchy. A SEM
blance of order may be kept up by Zamora in
Vera Cruz, Alvarez in Guerrero, Yanez in
Sinaloa Pesqueira in Sonora and vi
daurri in New Leon; but everywhere else,
and beyond the immediate presence Of the
reduced forces Of these leaders, the men who live
by plumber will rule and destroy the country.
The working of the mines must stop, the guard
ing of the haciendas cannot be kept up, and
their cattle and products will be swept off by
hordes of Indian and halfbrced maurauders.
Commerce is completely destroyed and indus
try paralyzed, so that even the springs for its re-
suscitation are dried up. Nowhere has the go
vernment the power to give order and peace to
the country, or even to protect the highways
Six months ago we sent Special Agent to
Mexico to look into the state Of the country
and his report to us demonstrated the existence
of all this weakness, and pointed out the fact
that Mexico needs something more than paper
treaties, moral influences and few dollars to re-
suscitate her.
She must have new blood and new brains.
Not that strong men, wise men and honest men,
do not exist there; but they have lost the power
of awakening the public confidence and drawing
out the hidden resources Of the land. The rob-
bcrs can command more physical force than
they, and thus come into the high places In this
both OF the present contcndants are very much
alike. Osollos and Miramon sprang at once
from the command of half dozen highwaymen
to the command of the armies of the church.
IIuerta and CARA are alike robbers. Cobos, a
Zuloaga general. and Pueblita holding the same
rank under the constitutionalists, are both high
waymen by profession. In the long list Of ex-
listing Mexican generals few Of the old names Of
commanders are found, and none in active SER
vice. These men must be superseded in Mexico,
and the honest men existing there must have the
try. But this cannot be given before il i asked
for by them. and il cannot be asked for by them
until they are Certain that they will receive !, on
asking. Should they ask and not receive. the
robbers who now command the physical power
there would sacrifice every man Of them, or CON-
pei them TO foe for their lives.
These are facts that should be- taken into con-
rideration by our government. II may wait till
doomsday for something TO succeed in Mexico
that shall be entitled to it, moral influence and
physical aid. and IL will then be disappointed.
Nothing entitled 10 such aid can succeed, and If
II could succeed IL would not want the assist
ance. The government should determine it,
policy toward Mexico Mt an early day. and then
send acapable Commissioner down there TO find
the means Of having Chat policy carried out
Such means do exist. and a man of the right
stamp can find them. If some such course il not
taken, Mexico will never again know the bless
nes Of internal peace, and our citizens and those
of other countries now there will be plundcred
and ruined and the Mcxcans themselves viii
then prey upon each other to the bitter end
STATE PorITIcs.-Whilc the political cauldlon
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