Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-07-23


VHRA CRUS, July 6.-Affairs in this coun-
try appear now TO be at a crisis which can
not but result TO the great advantage Of the
Constitutional party, as | will endeavor to
show in a few words.
To leave out of consideration the family
quarrel between Miramon and Zuloaga as to
who is President of their faction, il now ap-
pears that the military prestige Of the former
is at an end--his army having ignominiously
retired before the Constitutional forces Under
| 0gazon, and taken up q defensive. position in
Gaudalaiara, though il is even asserted that
he is in full retreat upon Mexico. Upon his
| arriving at the Capital, he will find matters
| materially changed during his brief absence.
His friends are at their wits ends fol
money-the two great bankers upon whom
he has chiefly relied, Jecker and De la Tore,
having lately exploded. Meanwhile, Pach-
eco, the Spanish Minister, has not been idle,
but with consummste diplomatic tact has
been seeking to convince all persons of re-
spectability, outside of the army and the
priesthood, what a wicked, running thing
civil war is. Thus appealing to pockets il
not to hearts; il is understood he has sue
ceeded to induce great number Of infuen-
tial persons TO petition President Juarez to
entertain proposals for peace, or at least for
an armstice. l..H
Whether Juarez will accept any thing
short of an unconditional submission re-
mains to be seen. Certainly his experience
of the treachery of the myrmidons of the
Church should teach him caution. But the
present representation can not be said to be
on the part of either the Church or its army,
but emanating rather from the people. 1t
may, therefore, be taken rs indicative of the
wishes OF the peoples party" and if Mex.
leo only had sufficient number of such peo-
pie, the unhappy country would soon cease
to know the horrors of war, and would en-
ter at once upon her path Of prosperity and
peace.
Propositions instigated by a Spanish En-
voy to this country are, doubtless, to be
taken cum grdno. II may be only another
ruse to gain time and lull the Liberals in a
fancied security while the other party are
making preparations to capture this de-
voted place by coup de mdin in the autumn.
At least the last would Justify suspicion
that such may be the tactics of the party
whose watchword is "Religionl"
No doubt both parties are pretty well ex-
hausted, and it would be difficult TO state
which side has the least money. There is
vitality, however in the Constitutional party
not possessed by the hoary old despotism Of
the Church, and liberal principles must ulti-
mately prevail. Of course the failure of the
ratification of the McLane-0 0campo treaty,
huo DCCu u lHCOHNcultuCG W lulb
Government, but it has got on without our
aid so far, and will be able to continue to do
so to the bitter end. Perhaps after all, the
United States will have the more cause to
regret the blind folly of its Senate, for no
such advantages as those afforded by the
treaty, shall ever offer again. 1t could not
be renegotiated here to-day.
You will have heard Of the capture and
destruction of the Indian village Of Tlacolu-
lam by General Robles, former Minister at
Washington. It is considered to have been
very small business, for civilized Chris
tian to have been guilty of.
Gen. Uraga remains at Guadalajara
wounded and prisoner. He is treated with
great hardship, ard allowed only the ration
of the common soldier. Indeed Miramon
would have shot him, but for the protection
extended him by Woll, who, with a spirit
that is refreshing in these days, claimed him
as his prisoner and threatened to pronounce
if hair of his head should be touched. Vol
and Uraga campaigned together in Texas q
quarter of a century ago, and it is pleasant
to see that the brutali5ing practices of civil
war do not always extinguish every speck of
ancient friendship. Miramon was offered
Gen. La Vega and twenty-five other officers
in exchange for Uraga, but he refused;
whereupon, La Vega and the others were
Internationally set at liberty, and supplied
with money to depart Such acts should
"plead as trumpet-tongued" before the world