Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-01-03
Mexico.
The correspondent of the New Orleans
PicGy,me gives the following gloomy account
of affairs in that country:
MEXICO. Dec. 30. 1858.

The correspondent of the New Orleans
PicGsome gives the following gloomy account
of affairs in that country:
MEXICO. Dec. 20, 1858.
Guadalaiara has been retaken by the Gov
eminent. 1t fell on the 18th. and after an
attack of one day. The Liberals. with all
their advantages of superior force. good pO-
siti0ns. Notifications. good artillery, etc, have
been whipped and have retired. Here, then,
ends all our hopes of early peace for Mexico.
One year has rolled by OF perpetual revOu-
ton. The two armies have been on the in
crease all the time, from the absolute ueces-
sity of the poor labOrers thrown out of en-
ployment by this state of things, to do some
thing To obtain bread to live upon. One year
ago we had hopes of peace; now none, if the
country be left to itself
What is the United States going to do for
me? This now is the plying cry of every
body. 1t cannot he that the American Gov
eminent will abandon this country and allow
it to go to complete ruin in the very arms of
the United States. 1t seems to me that the
United States should send here some able
man. at once, to report upon the condition Of
this country. This person should be one who
knows the Mexican people and cannot he
humbuggcd by their blandishing words and
politencss. He should be stiff independent
person. like Gen. Gadsden, man upon whom
the most glttering brides would have no eff
feet. There have been ministers enough sent
here to 90 home again with new evidences of
breaches of treaty perpetrated in their faces
by the Government of Mexico, and the con
dirion of anarchy to which Mexico is reduced,
is abundant grounds for the United States to
intervene and establish order in it, while it
cannot take care of itself
On the 18th inst. n great discovery was
made in the late residence of the cX-Ameri-
can Minister to Mexico, Mr.. Forsyth. Some
$4,000. in silver bars made from the orna-
mcnts robbed from the Cathedral of MOrelia,
were found in the ex-Minister's house at Ia
cubava. The affair has created great deal
of gossip in this city.
The balance of our news is really unimpor-
tant The country is going headlong to the
bad. And what is to be done to save it? Send
another Minister here? | hope not. The
United States should send some one here to
report upon our case, provided the hopeless
ness of this cOuntry's arranging its own af-
fairs is not perfectly well known already.
This should be done at once, for what have we
to gain by time? Every day the wealth of
this country is decreasing. and vagabOndage
on the increase. The idea that these people
are going to kill themselves off is wrong.
For every unprincipled officer k He'd in battle,
a dozen equally unprincipled rush 'orward to
fiji his place. Certainly the United States
cannot allow this country forever to tester
and corrupt on her very borders. If Mexico
claimed the position of respectable nation
there wouid be found abundant cause to quar-
rel with her. but this the United States can
not nor will do. The United States are now
called upon to do just what one of your po-
licrmen is expected IT, do when he sees in
your streets lunatic and a lepcr. running
wild and threatening the health and lives of
innocent passers by. Mexico should be seized,
confined, and doctoTed until her ills are cured.
Any other treatment will be of no avail.