Reports from Mexico. New Orleans, December 22.
--The Times's Mexican correspondent says that General Dias is carrying all before him, and that the whole State of Oajaco is in arms against the Imperialists.
The Liberals are masters of the whole coast between Vera Cruz and Tuspan.
The Austrians have met several defeats, and Marshal Bazaine says that the northern frontier must be put under the double protection of the Emperor of Mexico and the Emperor of the French.
undly the natural position, necessities and spirit, to speak otherwise; and while the report of the Secretary of War shows the immense amount of military material we have on hand, and the facility with which armies could be raised in case of emergency, it also shows what energetic measures of a pacific character have been carried out."
The New York News evidently regards the above as Mr. Seward's views; for it thus speaks of the Mexican question:
"Mr. Seward may mean well in his Mexican diplomacy, but we cannot discharge our mind of the suspicion that he is preparing to compromise American honor in that delicate negotiation.
We have an instinctive aversion to the arts of diplomatic intrigue; and when a Secretary of State shuffles and temporizes, we instantly apprehend some concession discreditable to the dignity of the nation.
"We perform a friendly office for Mr. Seward when we admonish him that this people will not be trifled with in the Mexican business.
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yesterday morning, states that General Grant will sail immediately after the holidays, in the flagship of the Gulf squadron, for the Rio Grande, and that Commodore Winslow has sailed in the Champion, vies New Orleans, leaving his flagship behind for the General.
This is one of a class of a paragraphs sent from here from time to time, which, taken together, are intended to create an impression that the Lieutenant-General intends to go at once to the Rio Grande, with special reference to Mexican difficulties, and an ulterior purpose of driving Maximilian from Mexico.
We have the best authority for saying that General Grant does not expect to leave here until he has progressed further in his work of re-organizing the army and decreasing it to a peace basis.
Secretary Stanton, in his reply to a resolution of the Senate requesting him to report whether any person was employed by the War Department who has not taken the oath prescribed by act of Congress, says: "None have bee
Mexico.
--It is a matter of difficulty to obtain reliable intelligence concerning Mexican affairs.
At one and the same time both the Imperialists and the Republicans are represented as carrying everything before them.
The latest intelligence, direct from Mexico, represents the Imperialist cause in a bad way, and we are told that Napoleon is preparing to abandon Maximilian. The news from Mexico, via England, warrants a different conclusion.--The London Observer undertakes to say that Napoleon has prevailed upon the Mexican Minister at Paris to proceed to Mexico and endeavor to dissuade Maximilian from abdicating.
If the public expect any cue from journalists which of the conflicting stories from Mexico to believe, we have only to say, in the words of the showman, when asked by the lady which was the zebra and which the giraffe, "Whichever you please, my dear." The ways of potentates and politicians are unfathomable.
We are inclined to suspect, however, that if Napoleon in
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Five years of bureau, as an arm of military authority, is equivalent to saying there is to be military rule, more or less, in the Southern States during that long period.
The conclusion is not endorsed by those who are at the head of army affairs.
The razeing of military forces now in the South will include a large number of black troops, for the reason that their presence there is regarded as hurtful to the interests of good.
offer. Garrisons, therefore, will be composed chiefly of whites, limited to the smallest possible number.
The reduction of our fighting forces is highly significant just at the present time, when the quid nunes will have it that a row with France upon Mexican affairs is inevitable.
Indeed, nothing could more plainly show that no difficulty whatever is apprehended.
The arrest of Warring, of the North Carolina Times, may be set down as a warning that the Government will allow no disloyal utterances.
This is the real significance of the arrest.
s, diplomacy is busy.
It is probable that Secretary Seward, through his written dispatches to Mr. Bigelow, and his live dispatch in the person of General Schofield, has by this time come to a final understanding with Louis Napoleon in regard to Mexican matters.
The pride and prestige of the French Emperor are to be saved by simply giving him an opportunity to withdraw his support from Maximilian, without menace from the United States, and with the understanding that the United States Governme common with other powers, made against the unjustifiable aggression of Spain upon Peru and Chili, seem to have had no effect.
No one would be surprised if the Spanish-Chilian question should soon take the place in the public mind of the Franco-Mexican question.
The best way to Rule Jamaica may be the best for Ruling the South.
The commissioner appointed by Earl Russell to visit Jamaica, and there personally investigate the circumstances attending the late insurrection of the blacks, a
Garibaldian corps being formed at Genoa.
The General himself remains at Caprera, and enjoys moderate health.
Queen Emma of Hawaii has gone to Hyeres.
About twenty thousand dollars have been raised during her visit to England for the Hawaiian Mission.
The King and Queen of Portugal arrived in Paris on the evening of the 10th, on their way to England, and slept at the Grand Hotel.
The death of the King of the Belgians prevented their visit to Compeigne and the Tuileries.
The Mexican question — the Beginning of the end.[Correspondence London Observer (Ministerial), December 10.]
The Empress Charlotte has left Mexico for Europe en route by Yucatan.
The French Emperor is apprehensive lest Maximilian should shortly follow his consort, and has prevailed on Senor Hidalgo, the Mexican Minister in Paris, to proceed to Mexico and endeavor to dissuade Maximilian from abdicating. Senor Hidalgo will go out in the French packet which is to sail from St. Nazaire on the 15th inst
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Imperial papers announce that Don Manuelruiz, Judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic, has abandoned Juarez, and protested against the latter continuing to act as President after his constitutional term has expired. Herald's Vera Cruz">
Events at and in the vicinity of Vera Cruz do not indicate any intention on the part of the French to withdraw from the country at an early day, but, on the contrary, are regarded as showing a disposition to contest their occupancy of Mexican territory with the United States.
Arrivals of soldiers from France continue--twelve hundred being landed at Very Cruz on the 6th instant, and about three hundred more on the 11th, all of whom were immediately sent into the field.
French cannon and other war munitions and supplies were still daily arriving, and the defences of the city are being greatly strengthened, and remounted with the heaviest and most improved guns.
The work is being carried on secretly — principally at night.
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