The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-01-03
Tho Hiiuafi0n In Mexico.

her an honorable and illustrious future.
Tho Situation In Mexico.
Our telegraphic news le tiers of yesterday
one from Mazatlan, by way Of San Fran, isco,
and tho other from the city OF Mexico, by way
OF Havana and the Cuban telegraph-giye us
late details of the condition Of the neighbor-
ing republic. From Mazatian we have char.
acteristic recital. For three weeks the Legis-
lature of tho State (sinaloa), which elects the
Governor, had been unable to make a choice.
AT the end OF that time the people of the
capital city assembled en- masse, and the Legis-
lature found It's senses as the hero Of Gadshill
would not give reasons--"under compulsion."
In fear Of their lives the legislators performed
the function of freemon and named an execu-
tive, and General Martinez acquiescod in their
action" This latter circumstance is particu-
larly fortunate II General Martinez had not
acquiesced, and the assembled crowd of the
people had insisted, we know not what might
have taken place. Perhaps the legislators,
between the upper and neither mllstones of
the General and The mob might have furnished
free government in the land OF the Montezumas
From tho city of Mexico we hear of the fur
ther discussion Of the changes in the consttu-
ton and definite statement of what they are.
The changes are proposed by the President,
and are principally notifications OF The rola-
tons between the Legislature and Executive
adapting them especially to the principles of
our own government An important point is
tie proposed provision for the succession TO the
Presidency in case OF the death, resignation or
removal Of both President and Vice Presi-
dent In no country is it more important to
have this point fully determined The decree
banishing oil persons from Mexico who had
been active imperialisls, including the par
doned, and which is said to have been induced
by the troubles in Yucatan, gives n certain
vitality to what all the world had supposed to
be absolutely defunct 1t recognize imperial
ism rs still possible cause of trouble. Taken
in connection with the state OF facts existing in
Yucatan, it implies that the republic is not only
not supreme but is not even confident of its
power or sure of the people.
The Social Coalition In Chnn-FIoods, Fam
Inc, Fenians, Explosions and n Rebellion.
The special telegraph letters from Hong
Kong and Shanghai, China, which appeared in
the HERALD yesterday, reveal the fact that the
hoary empire of the Central Flowery Land,
with oil its rigid exclusveness, walls gates
and river barriers, is not exempt from the in
fuences of the great upheavings, natural and
social, which have 80 disturbed the equilib-
rum of the globe by their shakings and
belchnys, from the islands of the West Indies
away to the crater of Vesuvius, thence to Cal
cutta, India, and back to the scene of the
recent earthquakes in Ogdensburg and Oneida
county, New York, and which are also pro-
ducing such signal yet silent revolutionary
changes from London to Cons!antinople and
in the very interior OF the Roman Vatican.
Our correspondent reports that in the prov
ince of Shan lung the Yellow river had burst
its protecting bank, and laid the surrounding
country under water to tho extent Of thirty
miles the river Han was 80 swollen that the
great city of Hankow was threatened with
submersion; two most destructive fires ragged
at Shanghai; a powder magazine was ex-
imperial palace was blown in the air and
many lives and vast amount of property
lost; Si-Wang, an aged rebel chief-a sort of
venerable JEFF Davis-was suddenly arrested
and sent to prison, but no had scarcely been
fitted TO his iron, whom IL was announced that
aformidable rebellion, under moro modern
leader, was advancing on Pekin, tho capital
In addition to all this we have tho facts that
the Chinese police are given to squeezing
term applied TO tho taking OF brides by the
oficers-so that criminals are permitted to
escape; that the Christian authorities license
gambling houses all over the towns of open
ports, to the great scandal of the moral rule
dull, and that tho Emperor is obliged TO send
an American as his envoy, bearing ON olive
branch message to tho "outsdc barbarian y
Powers
This fine pen and ink sketch OF the existent
condition of affairs in China, conveyed 10 our
RAIDERS by steam and electricity in o won
dcrfully short space OF time, goes to prove
that the Brother OF the Sun, setting
in Pchin, Is placed in q situation just
as full Of anxiety as is that filed by
his royal sister in London, who presides over
territory on which the sun never sets, that of
bis royal and most venerable brother in Rome,
who influence extends urbi Ct orbis, or that OF
the sublime potentaio who occasionally greets
him from tho Bosphorus.
Not only are tho effects identical, but tho
causes are almost exactly similar. Mind and
matter-the matter in most instances directed
by mnd-are rapidly changing tho face of the
globe ami away off in China the puff OF the
steam engine "blowing or in one of her