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Show The City or Mexico is apparently afilictcd with, a missionary telegraphist j who had considerable to tell the people of tho United States, this morning, of the remarkable spread of .Protestantism .Protestant-ism in that republic, and the ire of the i Catholic priesthood; and this in coc-sequence coc-sequence of a law which permits Protectants Pro-tectants to preach and make converts. All this will sound very gratifying to old ladies and pious hectaries, who devoutly de-voutly believe in mch things; but when ihii inisai'jnary "lightning striker" explains ex-plains why Roman Catholicism is rapidly spreading io Ptotcstant Britain; why IJismarck has to resort to rppret-wivi: rppret-wivi: measure in Protectant Prussia, to pruvi ut its siireaJ; and why it is grow-! grow-! lug more rapidly in this land ol free dcbito and free liibluH, thin any other religium faith, tliere will be room fr bun to bring in a lew strong paragraphs cuncTtiing Mexico. Probably, though, thy Mexicans, being Daturally lazy, may pichT the easier means of Pro tea- . tantiiin to reach heaven, than the pvniLCHH and punishments of tie Catholic church, with purgatory added. |