The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-08-08

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Our correspondence from Mexico depicts
wildly the characteristic progress of the libe-
rails in pacifying the country. This latest
budget Of news opens with another public
murder, tho shooting of old General Vidaurri
In the open streets-s performance quite in the
Spanish-Indian taste, made up in part of the
triumphal rite of the Indians insulting and tor
turing fallen foe-in part, of the elements Of
the Spanish auto da te. In the name of inde-
pendence and liberty an old man, brave and
humane, but who happened to be on the
wrong side, is bound hand and foot by ruffans
who were highwaymen few weeks before, is
dragged through the streets like an OK to the
SHAMELESS and made to kneel in the Ordure Of
a common square; crowds struggle for places
on the housetops and the walls and jostle in
the streets with their Latin humor; it might
be gladiatOrial combat or bull fight; the
bands play lively airs, and the old man who
has grown gray in struggling one way and the
othef in the service of his country is blown out
of the form of humanity by the guns Of the
corporal's guard-half q dozen bullets into his
body and coup de grace close against his ear.
In this murder, more, perhaps, than in any that
have preceded it, there is apparent peculiar
significance in the liberal revenges. Many of
the liberal soldiers were, before the war, COM
mon cutthroats on the highway, and men like
Vidaurri were their peculiar terror-the
guardians of order and firm snforcers of wise
laws. Now, for the time, the cutthroats have
the name Of law on their side; they have the
upper hand, and they spill with peculiar
gusto the blood Of the men who once filed
them with wholesome fear.
Not only does the mob inspire and force the
government policy in these points, but it does
the same in considerations and DEGREES. Insane
fury against foreigners is still the dominant
tone. It has secured the decree preventing all
but Mexicans from engaging in retail trade.
This kills the whole retail trade OF the country;
for 1t was all in the hands Of foreigners.
Foreign capital had built railroads, telegraphs
and other paraphernalia of civilization, and the
property in these enterprises not sympathizing
IN politics at all, is now confscated because
the constructions had been authorized under
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such savage want Of reason. The voice of
protest raised in this country against the liberal
barbarity having reached Mexico, the mob
organs put their interpretations upon it and
say that these protests do not come from the
American people, but from drunken editors.
Such is their notion in Mexico of the perfect
propriety of all their brutal acts that they
attribute to rum an appeal for mercy. If q
man would desire that they should spare their
fallen foes-show generous forbearance-he
cannot be sober he has lost his reason in the
fumes of gin. One illustrious Mexican writer
inquiries what business the American people
have to NEEDLE in Mexican affairs. If we have
no such business 1t is pity 1t had not been
found out before our medd1ng in Mexican
affairs induced the Emperor Of France to with
draw the thirty thousand French soldiers which
had driven Juarez to the last town on the
Mexican border. Had our "meddling " been
stopped that early, Juarez and his brutal fol-
lowers would never have returned to Mexico
city to inaugurate reign Of terror which pro-
misses to obliterate from the country all evil
dence that II was ever inhabited by a civilized
people.