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 Agitation — Storm — Revolution — Manifesto — Resembling a game of chess — Position of the pieces — Appearance of the city — Firing — State of parties — Comparisons — "Comicios" — The people — Congress — Santa Anna — Amnesty offered — Roaring of cannon — Proclamation — Time to look at home — The will of the nation — Different feelings — Judge's house destroyed — The mint in requisition — Preparations — Cannonading — "Los Enanos."

31st.

afternoon the clouds, gathered together in gloomy masses, announced a thunder storm, and at the same time a certain degree of agitation apparently pervading the city, was suddenly observable from our balconies. Shops were shutting up; people hurrying in all directions, heads at all the windows, and men looking out from the azoteas; but as these symptoms were immediately followed by a tremendous storm of thunder and lightning and splashing rain, we trusted that the cause had been very simple. But these elements of nature are wielded by the Hand that called them forth, and can stay them at His will, and the sun breaking forth smilingly and scattering the clouds, made us feel that the storm had but refreshed the parched earth and cleared the sultry atmosphere. Not so with the storm which