The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-19
IMPNR TANT e We N'N0'
Thorough Disorganization Of the COun-
try-Dcfeat Of Marqucz's Forces.
OUR CITY OF MEXICO CORRESPONDENCE.


MEXICO, Oct 90, 1851.
Defeat Of Harques-The Mexican Congress-Serions Com
rlicatms Of The Count,y-Ercesses Of Bandai-A6sence
Of All Security for Property ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Of Confederate Agens-Mr. Co,1vn About Leave for
Home-7he Allied Expedition, dc.
The month has gone feetng INTO the dusky past, and,
unless record the of Marquee the champion Of
the church, Pachuca by General Tapa left
the page Of Mexican history The defeat though pro
nounced TO be complete, with the loss Of the enemys
arms, munitions and artillery will contribute nothns
towards bringing crisis tho revolutionary disorders
Of the country, become chronic and beyond the skill
of native remedies Congress, still session. is
the the display Of wordy gymnastics, wherein
few senior wranglers well preserve the eqdpoisc OF
that neither the government the opposition
advance line in the respectable programmes drawn
up for their guidance.
Under this condition Of affairs the land lies pant
ing her resources grow beautifully less }" her finances
more entangled her foreign relations com
pcated and life and property more precarous,
I'll all classes desperation confess the vanity of demo
cracy direct mstfu looks to the Old World beyond
the Murmurng that peace, however akin to des
potsm, is preferable to the lywheel energies of tho
liberal idea they like their Aztec ancestors, impatenty
await the avatar of some unknown deliverer Nor is
this reprehensble when it is told that scarcely dill
gence departs whose passengers mails are
not rded by the robbers swarming the highways
that TO the very gates of the capital bandtt approach
robbng and numbering all they encounter and that from
housetops can be deserted during any week. the eecy
smoke of combat rolling along the sides of the
mountains which hem in the valley OF Mexico
To add to this accumulated confusion the government
heralds meditaes resumption Of all the church
property conscated under the law of and purchased
by individuals companies the faith of q subsequent
ii may appear is justified by fundamental law of Mexico
which authorizes the State her to any Of
her property aenated prices VIGOROUSLY below jus,
valuations warning to those Teutonc gentlemen who
cked by ideas Of "the cheap hurryng settle
Sonora Chihuahua and the contiguous provinces upon
lands already kneedeep in titles and mortgages thu
Baron Gros Macintosh and the British bondholders In
fact with the exception of the mines the results Of which
developed dormant at the will Of the holder, offer no
temptation to the appropriation there no secu
| rity for investments Of any kind in this republic.
Among the many contracts and privileges made pass
the ordeal Of this "saving clause report numbers am
sorry say the concession secured by Mr. Plumb of the
United States Legation, for n line Of mail steamers be
tween New York and Vera Cruz. blow would
be to Americans here, dependent, as we are upon the
monthly British packet and eated the prospect Of
obtaining from the seat of intelligence through our
own papers, the direct arrival of which, before pass
ing through the alembc of the English and Spanish
press our relations here greatly influenced.
We sincerely trust while acknowledging obliga-
lions the foresight which reached at such advantages
that the MeScan government may properly appreciate
communicable to be fruitful in benefits soon as
tho rebels at home shall have been disposed or
Hundreds Of paintings borne away from the suppressed
churches and converts must at all events, be exempt
from the retroactive ongngs Of tho higher law hav
ing here market value, very many have been bought
up with the design Of RENTING them Europe, rather
than of intrinsic merit pecuarites Of fervor
thought struggling for expression through the only
art allowed by the Spanish system to the children of tho
soil. Against this sweeping condemnation the Mexicans
claim 10 have had originals OF Vcasquez Murio,
and the pupils Of their school.
Strange wins the air that the agent Of the
Confederate Stas6 ming the proposed dsen oarkatioD
OF troops at Guym~s o7ered s. 900 to this govern
ment for the Of the port Of Matalnoros all which
being reported to the Legation, The American Minister
held out counter Offer 0t 50 600 CO., aud that N great
disgust Al the discovery that the Mexican Cabinet has
only been playing with his elgetness 10 cxtolt higher
bid from him, Mr.. Corwin talks Of going home In
November. He will carry with him such treaties
or conventions, for ratification Washington, rs
tho alarm Of the government shall suffer remain intact