The Weekly Arizonian, 1859-03-03

the leaders ot that important taction have beeli Lerdo de Tejada, Viduurri, Degollado, Zarco, Arringa, and Mata. Intermediate between these extremes is the modprate party' the Moueuados in power frpm 1851 to 1853, in the person of General Arista; and from De December, - cember, December, 1855, to January, .1858, in the person of General Conionfort. Juarez, Zamora, Gar Garza, - za, Garza, Parrodi, Casteneda,. Yanez, may be named among the morp conspicuous of the moderate arty, although many of the Moderados of 185G lave, by the drift of subsequent events, been carried into the ranks of the Radicals. For immediate purposes, indeed, the Moderates and Radicals are in strict alliance, under the com comprehensive - prehensive comprehensive names. of "Liberals" and "Consti "Constitutionalists;" - tutionalists;" "Constitutionalists;" the restoration of the Liberal Constitution adopted by the National Congress at the City of Mexico, Feb. 5, 1857, but set asido in the subsequent December by tho joint effort of Zuloaga and Conionfort, being the common object The three great parties, thus discriminated, enjoyed vigorous existence in Mexico at the . moment when, in 1855, Santa Anna was driven1 out afresli. A liy.ely contention for the succes succes-Bipn - Bipn succes-Bipn follqwtjd. The Radicals triumphed; Alva Alvarez - rez Alvarez became Provisional President, surrendering the office, however, at the end of a few week? tenure, to Gen. Coinonfort, understood at the time to be as thorough a Radical as the hero of Guerrero. The earlier measures of Conion Conionfort - fort Conionfort answered the expectations of his friends. His programme of reiorms was undeniably rad radical. - ical. radical. It enacted the Constitution of February, it opened a long vista of legislation before which the power of tho Church and tho insub-. ordination of Ihe Army would alike succumb. But it was not long ere the incapacity of the new President for the great task he had as assumed - sumed assumed became evident. He appeared terrified at the storm he was provoking. To counter counterbalance - balance counterbalance a measure offensivp to tho Conserva Conservatives, - tives, Conservatives, ( ho adopted measures offensive to the Radicals. The law of demortization drove the Church to frenzy; he endeavored to equate the mischief by a decree abridging the liberty of the Press. The Liberals bade him proceed with his mission; lie drew back, and cast him himself - self himself into the hands of the Conservatives. His whole Administration, its earlier days excejited, was a rapid retrogression from Radicalism to Conservatism; from tho people, suffering under the weight of an intolerable hierarchy, into the arms of the hierarchy itself. It was Conion Conionfort - fort Conionfort who aided Zuloaga and the Conservatives in overthrowing the Constitution It was Corn-

not be understood as saying anything to dis discourage - courage discourage them, but at the same time feel called upon to protest against the useless and extrav extravagant - agant extravagant manner in which the appropriations are usually expended, and confess a thorough disgust for the small amount of labor and the immense quantity of bloviation which usually follows. v Lieut. Beale, with his party, wintered at. Al Albuquerque, - buquerque, Albuquerque, and before this time, has started out on his route along the 35th parallel. He intends to make a good road i and construct bridges wherever they are needed. He. has a strong force of men and animals, and being an officer, of great skill and energy will doubtless make a fine route, to California. , i . "News" from Arizona! The Washington correspondents of the New. York journals possess wonderful facilities for obtaining intelligence from this region. In fact, those journals publish so much that is original, rare and strange, from this far-off portion of the Union, that it is quite a treat to read it Looking over a late number of the New York Daily Times, wo discover an arrt.j of "news" from Arizona, a portion of which we quote, con confident - fident confident that it will bo interesting to people here hereabouts, - abouts, hereabouts, since the intelligence is eminently "new" and no less wonderful I In reference to the Gila river gold mines, wo find the following : At the date of these advices about the mid middle - dle middle of December, there were over six hundred men at work with the rudest means of opera operation, - tion, operation, and making from four to a hundred and fifty dollnrs per pay ! A few of the miners had struck tle "bed rock," at the depth of pver, twenty feet, and were taking out an average of, pver fifty dollars per day to the hand. The above paragraph is a tissue of humbug humbug-gery. - gery. humbug-gery. No such number of men as is stated' above, have over been at work on the Gila at one time not over three hundred at tlie very highest estimate, At present there are but few persons at the diggings, and most of the num num-cer - cer num-cer are barely clearing expenses. A few ener-

The Mexicahs can neither govbrll themselves nor lind anybody strong enough to govern them; and the State, if it can still bo called a State, is simply tumbling to pieces for want of anything like vitality or cohesion, "The ordinary interest which might attach to a spectacle like this is materially enhanced by two important considerations: On the north northern - ern northern frontier of Mexico lies a formidable neigh neighbor - bor neighbor already aggrandized by large acquisitions of Mexican territory, and prepared for the ab absorption - sorption absorption of more. What gives this contingency still greater weight is thu fact that the internal politics of the North American Union will be intimately affected by any further annexation towards tho South, and its wisest statesmen are apprehensive of the results which might ensue. Certainly, up to the present time the Govern Government - ment Government of Washington lias exhibited considerable forbearance in dealing with the provocations to which the anarchy and license prevailing throughout Mexico have naturally given rise. "In Mexico there is not a vestige of nation nationality. - ality. nationality. Of its seven or eight millions of popula population, - tion, population, about one million only nre whites, tho rest being Indians or mixed breeds; and these Mexican Spaniards' hove not succeeded, like thp French Canadians, in preserving the spirit which they brought across the seas. Mexico lias broken up from pure incapacity for self self-government. - government. self-government. The license which ensued on the extinction of absolutism forty years ago has never been exchanged for any regular or stable Administration, so that what should have been a mere temporary suspension of authority has proved a permanent abeyance of order. Des Despotism - potism Despotism might have relieved the country, but no Mexican has been strong enough for n despot,

Gen. Mi ramo!.. iThis new President of the Mexican Republic is an addition td the list of" those 'who have reached the summit of -ambition in early life. Born, in 1832, he. is now in his 27,th year. He first figured conspicuously in the insurrection of Zuloaga, Inst winf er. Uppii the death of Gen. Osollos, he was placed at the head of the army, signalizing his promotion by a. great victory over Gen. Vidaurri near San: Luis Potosi, Spptpmber 29th. More recently, lib has beaten the Liberal Degollado without the gates of Guadalajara, and forced his way into that city. Ax enterprising sliowman is exhibiting a company of trained fleas in the cities of the Atlantic States, to crowded houses. Their feats' as described in the papers, are truly surprising. It is rumpred at Washington that a propo-. sition for the sae of Sonora and Chihuahua has been received from President Miromon. Tho price named is said to be sixteen millions. We do not credit the rumor. The neutrality of the Atlantic Cable, which caused so much discussion in the Senate, ono ydar hgo, has been fully established. hasn't a icord tq say on cither side, Iaxsas Gold MiXES'-rTho reports, from the South Platte gold region announce new discov discoveries - eries discoveries of the precious metal, and a large yield. Tlie gold is fine float, or scale gold, intermixed with boulders, coarso gravel, and sand, tho whole of which is from sixteen, inches to two and,, a jnf feet in depth, and dppptsitptl upon a. hard cement, resembling in appearance burnt clay or lava) this is termed f lib' bed rock, and" is reached at a disf anco of from three to sixf feet below the surface.

Mexican Politics. There are in Mexico (hrc6 great leading' parties, answering to tli6' type of ptirty wherever that' produel of impbrfect civilization- exists. The first, bepatisc the eldest, is tho CoJfSEUVA CoJfSEUVA-tive, - tive, CoJfSEUVA-tive, with principles cognate with its name; strenuously adhering to ancient realism'-as dis distinguished - tinguished distinguished from modern speculation ; anxious' to concentrate power in individual hands, and' therefore to weaken the authority of popular constitutions and popular legislation; depend dependent - ent dependent upon the sympathy of the Church and the superstition of the 'masses for its nnit'ertal 8troifgth; and suspected, probably without jus' tice, of a willingness to restore monarchy, if not in favor of the Spanish crown, of. some,', scion of European royalty. This party Avas.iii power, ill the porsOri of Santa Anna, from' April 20, 1853, to August 11, 1855.' It wits' again in ollice Only a, few , months. since, in the person of Felix Zuloaga,' whose administratiqn was an exhibition of arbitrary authority amounting to actual Dictatorship. The second great division consists of the Radicals, or liros, who discover the necessity of reform in every department of the Government; advocate a 'resort to pure democracy, and regard the Church, in its- un unbounded - bounded unbounded wealth, and malign influence, as the mother of' the manifold evils which afflict the1 people; The Puros were in power in'tho person.

..b . ycapmui, yua eit;yejv.iiio,m.ns nning ine aisiance , , Condition Of Mexico. lffroin Fort BelknaP .to.Meilia and an-ived i The. London Times uses , strong language" iB,tist in time to be sold out, not having been of itd articlbs rin Mexico'. In -aii article written whe. least- benefit. There nre circumstances directly after' the reception in England of thPconnected with tlie sale, which dd not speak President's Message, after a sketch of Mexico, jjftery well for the management, to "say the least, of the sixteenth century, the Timea continues, ij$f such operations. ' "' "i! "There is literally no spot in the- o.ntirei?''' The "water tanks"'made by Leech's exp6df-' American 'continent from the Arctic Seas lip t;on concerning which there has been so much Cape Horn, which presents such a spedtaele of ( , . ,, t, ','., disorganization. and. ruin. .Tho Indmhs;of Pat-4Slld the Eastern PaPera ment agonitv are better ordered than the Mexicans jf apologies f6r "water ' tanks" ever Jaid out- ot 1858. In the old seat of American civiliza-fmere shallow, contracted holes, floj5 out in tioinhere is now no Government no recogni7.cdJFthe ground, and generally locator in places

and affairs, therefore, have gone from bad to worse, with interminable convulsions, hopeless wars, losses of territory, and, at length, with such absolute political disorganization that no stagp of decline can bo more ruinous, and men are only looking to see what may follow." The Minie Musket. G. W. Kendall writes writes-to - to writes-to tho New Orleans Picayune, that in ono of Lindsay's recent scouts against the Navajos, one of the latter was killed at a distnncp of four hundred yards and another woundedl with a shot from one of tho now Minie muskets now used by tho U. S. troops. The, winnings of Mr. Ten Broeck pn thp En English - glish English turf the Fast season, are reported to 'htivd exceeded $15,000.