The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-05-13

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Maestro Verdi, who has expressed the highest
hopes for his future. Among Muzio's compost
tious are several operas, and he has just had
issued by G. Breusing, 70l Broadway, two grace
full and spirited works-the "Canlbon and Baby
and "Piccolomini" polkas. We are glad to
know that 80 excellent musician as Maestro
Muzio intends to reside permanently in the
United States He will do much towards i'm
proving the musical taste Of the country.
The News from McxicO-Present and Future
| Condition Of that Republic.
The advices by the steamer Tennessee, from
Vera Cruz, do not show any great change in the
chronic evils that afflict the republic Of Mexico
| Nothing is said of the whereabouts of Degollado
| and the mass of constitutional forces that were
recently besieging the capital. The troops of
| TYaconis and La Lave, who were to ca oh Mira
mon at Aculcingo, and were reported fortnight
| since as being within twelve leagues of and in
full march for the city of Mexico, are now repre-
| scented as hemming in Robes at Jalapa, who, it
is said, will pronounce if hardly pressed If that
is the case, why they do not press him "hardly"
we cannot conceive. Certain triumphs Of the
constitutionalists on the west coast are reported
confirmed, yet for months past we have been
constantly told that no other party than the con-
stitutonalists held single port in the country.
Mejia is represented as having been defeated,
but which Mejia, where he was beaten, and who
beat him, are not given.
| On the other hand it is stated that Robes has
| stopped the American mails from coming down
from the capital, that Mramon is in great straits
for money, and that the priests are endeavoring
to raise loan of forty millions of dollars on the
| pledge of the church property. They might just
as well have made the sum hundred and forty
millions while they were about it.
From these facts, however, meager as they
are, certain truths are evident that should teach
both Mexicans and foreigners what is the true
condition of Mexico. The power of government
has been lost by society there, and every place
lives in anarchy till some Of the troops of the
contendng parties march in to plumber it, when
great victory is chronicled. AS general thing
| the country obeys neither Juarez nor Miramon;
but every partisan leader or robber chief is ruler
for the time, wherever he may be. Under this
state of things, property, debts and wealth in
Mexico are rapidly ceasing to be anything but
mere name. As for the priests raising money
on the pledge of their possessions, it cannot be
done. A year ago, when they were much
stronger than now, and when Juarez was fleeing
from Mexico to Queretaro from Queretaro to
Guanajuato, from Guanajuato to Colima, and
from Colima to New Orleans, their paper was
being discounted in the capital at the rate of
thirty six per cent per annum. To-day it can
not be done at ninety-six per cent.
And yet this very property is the only
pabulum Of Miramon, and the only hope of
Juarez to provide the means for establishing a
government, recognizing society and paying
their debts. Nominally this wealth is great
in fact it has little or no value whatever.
The church party, with title that has been re-
spected for centuries, cannot raise dollar on it,
for nobody has confidence that they can transfer
permanent possession. So also, should the libe-
rails gain possession Of it, they will not be able
to raise dollar from it, for no one can purchase
| from them their disputed title with any conf
dence in its enjoyment. In the meanwhile
| struggle between the two claimants is going on
that is breaking up the roads and bridges, tear
| ing down the towns and cities, corrupting and
converting the people into robbers, and turning
the fertile fields and beautiful haciendas into q
| wilderness.
1t is stated that Traconis aud his forces were
expecting advices from the city Of Mexico, and
this would indicate that Degollado, Zuazua,
CARA, Blanco, Alvarez, and numerous other
constitutional leaders, are lowering in the vicini
ty of that capital. Perhaps they are waiting ad-
vices from Traconis and La Lave But it
makes no difference The capture of the city
will not end the conflict. It will only reverse
the position of the parties. Miramon will then
be outside, and Degollado & Co. in.
DIPLOMATIC REsERvE.-If anything were want
ing to confirm the propriety Of the course pur-
sued by the President in the case of the Hon.
John Forsyth, our late Minister to Mexico, it is
furnished by the recent conduct of that indi-
yidual. Had Mr.. Forsyth been wise he would
have accepted quietly his necessary withdrawal
from the Mexican mission, honorably covered as
it was by the good nature and considerate deli
cacy Of Mr.. Buchanan. He belongs, however, to
a class of men who, with the fairest intentions,
are continually being betrayed into blunders by
an exaggerated estimate of their own impor-
lance. He has had the misfortune, too, to in
herit name Of some distinction-the worst
legacy that can fall to the Let of a vain man.
Hence it is that we have four column manifest0es
informing the world why it is that the country
does not still enjoy the diplomatic services Of the
Hon. John Forsyth.
If there is one reason more patent than an
other why this gentleman is untitled for so re-
sponsible post as that which he lately occupied,
it is to be found in the general tone and charac-
ter Of his letter to the Mobile Register 1t is
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