The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-30

and Johnson and Mr. La Fraga and others having toasted
"the immortal Washington" Mr. Edward Lee Plumb, at
present representing as Charge the United States replied
happily in Spanish declaring that his Government was, and
had been interested in the Liberal of Mexico and in
the of all the Republics on the Continent that she
sympathzed with them ALL and further his was
opposed to intervention whether from Europe or from our
sister American Republics He offered the toast ITO Mex
leo, to Bolivia, and to the American Republics.
Mea, Igesas,. Castro, and many others made short
speeches. which heartily appauded and served to add
greatly to the happiness and satisfaction OF the hour e.
of the situation which every business man In the republic
will heartily ndorse:
vitality in all Mexico. The sagnaton now prevailing is
nexpicable although lately recovered from the recent
past which is yet fresh in the memory of ALL and notwh-
standing the present political status conceded not only by
the adverse faction home but by all the foreign world yet
it is There revolutions not even the ripple of
pronunciamento to excite the fears OF governments no
threats of from abroadnohng to impede the work of
craftsmanship shadow the future of Mexico
that we can see yet everything is sagnant the Dead
Sea- There is no confidence credit is gone is
anguishng, and to be on its last legs; all other
enterprises tmid the people are vacilatng between
the thousand and srmse and the imaginary chances
of misfortune. seeming overshadowing presenment OF
coming trouble is everywhere prevalent Who explain
all this? Mexico sad before; letters from the
interior all in representing this to be the condition
of things VIII of astue statesmen enlighen us
upon this subiect?
The most apparent for this state of affairs the
of the armies recently dsbanded who have
nearly all gone robbing the unsteady wayerng policy OF
the government which has brought general want of
confidence while the robbng has prevented shipments that
otherwise would have been made
The robberies committed becoming frightfully
merous. seems if the whole nation had turned out
highwaymen and bandits while within the walls of the
capital itself burglares garrotng and kidnapping are of
daily and nightly During the last twelve days
the papers have announced the OF not less than
fifty highway robberes etc., among which are several cases
where wealthy men, member of their families have
been seized carried off, and held for Three gen.
temen Seniors Dosa and Vilar with one OF the employees
of the latter taken from the Touca diligence last
week. and carried off by armed force of thirty forty
men, who afterwards released the clerk and sent him to the
families of the prisoners with the information that they
pay $4,000 for their release within given time or
they would be shot, On the 23d u, five armed and
mounted appeared at the Hacienda Gonzalez and kidnapped
Senior Don Jesus Vaquez wealthy planter for the purpose
of obtaining large a ransom Senior Herrerias,
wealthy Mexican recently abducted from his house,
situated almost in the of the city of Tascaa and he
gave order for the payment of 0O0 which paid
when was aerward nhumanly buchered his captos fear
ing Nigh recognize them and bring them punishment
robbed in one day on the Tenago road The bands of
Chavez and Coml in the State of Jalisco continue their
depredations under the very of Corona who has
goodly in the city of Guadaaara but he seems like
the authorities here prefer that his soldiers shall remain
in the city, each day making their appearance with music
and displaying their arms and equipments, to the
amusement of their officers and the city gans The BAN
dts are permitted profession without Interior
ence and in the meanwhile the country hourly suffering
more and more If they chance to catch young fellow in
church robbing the saints they shoot him but to the
bands twenty fifty and hundred they give no atten-
ton and apparently little thought