The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-05

of the latter, that they would gladly confirm
the appropriation Of much larger sum to out
bid their competitors in the Legislative market.
The Decline or Mexico and its Dangers
fer Us.
The letter Of our City OF Mexico correspon-
dent which we publish in another column to.
day, presents, without art or effort vivid
picture of the actual condition of that unhappy
republic.
While the clergy are engaged in desperate
war with the constitutional government, striv-
ing to establish the privileges of the Church
and the rule of selfish theocracy, the land
everywhere, even to the very gates of Mexico,
is given up to plumber by rowing bands Of In
dams, who are already beginning to breathe
spirit of destruction to the whites; and within
the walls of the city a few selfish and short
sighted money changers and diplomatists en-
gage in manufacturing large amounts of pub
lie debt and foreign claims, in the vain hope
that they will be paid by State whose very
lifeblood is running to waste through their in
sane connivings. The republic of Mexico has
been undergoing the process of disintegration
ever since the war with US in ls4S, and it is now
rapidly returning to the possession of the Ma
zahuas, the Popolocas, the Huastecos, the Oto-
mics, and the Mayos in the centre and south;
while the northern provinces are being depo.
pulated by the Navahoes and the Comanches.
Amid this growing desolation, the march of
events has turned the hatred of the insane
priesthood and ignorant peasants against our
fellow countrymen, and little by little they have
been murdered or driven out from the posses
sions which their industry had created, till at
last our commerce has dwindled to shadow,
and our name has become an object of insult
Surrounded by such elements, there are not
wanting few far seeing men who hope and
strive to coDjure the rising storm. The legid.
mate government of President Juarez has en-
deavored to provide new sources of reorgani-
cation and stability for Mexico, by a closer
union with the United States; and President
Buchanan, foreseeing the dangers and the temp.
tations which broad and anarchical country
contiguous to our frontiers must hold forth,
has brought his best efforts to bear for the same
end, and has initiated the establishment of Ame-
rican influence in that country by the negotia-
tien of treaty with its legitimate government
With true patriotism he has endeavored to pro-
vide for the safety of our fellow citizens in
Mexico, by extending our protection over
them, and to secure the peace of our frontiers
by obtaining the right to exercise force in
behalf of our countrymen, whenever the spirit
of lawlessness should render such action neces-
sary. The ratification of the treaty he has
negotiated will be the signal for the establish
ment Of permanent government in Mexico,
and the beginning of new era for that repub-
lie and for its trade with us.
Unfortunately spirit of selfish partizanship
animates the black republican Senators at
Washington, and they refuse to lend their sup
port to the only policy that can save us from
wasteful career OF war and conquest in the
territories beyond our Southern border. The
fruits of such a policy are already beginning
to be evident. The contentious of Mexi-
can parties have been brought down to the
sea by the purchase of the Miramon
steamers in Havana, and their despatch to
make blockade of Vera Cruz, vexing, thereby,
the commerce of the Gulf The spirit Of hatred
to us that animates the clerical party, exhibited
itself in the conduct of its naval commander,
Marin, who, blinded thereby, committed an
overt act of aggression on our flag, and rem
dered his capture an imperative duty. Unless
we meet this antagonistic feeling with an
energy that shall give an impulse to the reor-
ganization of Mexico under our influence, we
may be sure that the combinations for Spanish
Intervention there against us, which are now
preparing, will be carried out, and our future
policy in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as in that
republic, will eflled with thorns for us.
The only remedy for the evils of Mexico,
and preventive for those that loom up in our
path, is the early ratification of the pending
treaty with its legitimate government, the es-
tablishment of regular and frequent mail COM
munications with its ports, and the natural re-.
suit therefrom of the permanent influence of
this country in its affairs. Such a course will
save Mexico from the anarchy into which she is
now sinking, and ourselves from the evil of
having barbarous population of six or seven
millions of Indians and mixed races in CONT
guilty with us.
THE PAY OF Our NAVY OFFICERs.-We publish
to day some interesting facts in relation to the
pay of our navy officers, and the bill now be-
fore Congress concerning that subject. There
can be no doubt that the pay of the navy Off
cara ia misorahlv small and enfirolv fnadaouafo