Year: 1868

The telegraphic news from Mexico via
Havana, which we published yesterday, in
cluded rumor that revolution had taken
place at the capital, and that President Juarez
was flying to the Texas frontier with seven
million dollars in his possession. AS the Vera
Cruz Journal and private letters are silent
upon this rumor it is not improbably canard.
But the enterprising newsmonger who invented
tiff it be an invention-has but anticipated
what must inevitably take place as natural
result of the Confusion worse confounded
into which Mexico is sinking. Juarez has
held, or at least claimed, supreme power
longer than almost any other Mexican ruler
during the past forty years. He could not
himself be surprised at being suddenly forced
to play the part of fugitive assigned to him
by the rumor of the I'd inst, which the English
steamer Mersey brought from Vera Cruz to
Havana, and he might well consider himself
lucky to have seven million dollars in his pos
session while flying to the Texas frontier.


But so much of the telegraphic news which
comes from Mexico by way of Havana is made
up of contradictory rumors that it is difficult
to distinguish the true from the false. When
it so happens that the news is derived chiefly
from the opposition journals in Mexico the
prospects of the Juarez government look
gloomy enough, but they seem to brighten
when the news is derived chiefly from the
government journals. These very contradic-
tions, indeed, indicate the chronic revolutionary
excitement which afflicts Mexico.


Nevertheless, it is noteworthy as shown by
our Mazatlan letter of April Is, published to-
day, that there is a significant concert of ac
ton between the government of President
Juarez and the military commanders Of the
five districts into which the republic was
divided Immediately after the re-establish shment
Of the liberal government at the capital.
Moreover, the loyalty as well as disnterested-
ness exhibited by General Alatorre in the
Yucatan affair and by General Corona in the
Sinaloa insurrection would seem to indicate
that the civil and military authorities of the
republic are in perfect harmony and accord.
The submission Of General Jiminez in Guer-
rero is another evidence that some of the
ablest among the partisan chiefs believe at
last that nothing can be gained by resistance
to ''the powers that be-" Still another. note
worthy fact Is that in the Yucatan and Sinaloa
revolts one Of the greatest advantages gained
by the national government consists in the
promptitude with which the national COM
manders have Immediately set to work restor-
ing to the national treasury the customs
revenues Of the ports in both States A long
standing grievance has hitherto been the
smuggling on the Pacific and at Sisal and
Campeche, invariably covered up by the re-
volts fostered in both sections of the republic
by foreign merchants. The loyalty disin-
terestedness and ability Of Corona and Alatorre
have at length restored to the nation these
vast revenues. Favorable, however, as the
circumstances which we have just mentioned
may appear TO the sanguine friends Of the
Juarez government, we cannot resist the gene
raj impression created by the predominant tone
Of our Mexican news-that the overthrow of
that government in its turn at any moment
would not be more surprising than was the
overthrow Of any previous government which
has risen and fallen In Mexico. The history
of Mexico is history Of revolutions