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Later from Mexico — Rumored Cession of five States to France.
--A telegram from San Francisco, dated the 23d, gives the following intelligence, which seems to have startled the Yankees a good deal:
Letters from Mazatlan, to the 19th instant, announce the arrival there of Captain Beauregard, a brother of General Beauregard, of the Confederate States, in the capacity of private secretary to William M. Gwin, formerly United States Senator from California.
Captain Beauregard reports that Mr. Gwin has been created a Duke by the Emperor Maximilian, of Mexico, and that Sonora, Sinaloa, Chihuahua, Durange and Lower California have been ceded to the Emperor Napoleon by the Mexican Government, in payment for the troops furnished by the French Government to subjugate Mexico, and that Mr. Gwin has been appointed Viceroy over those States, and will soon enter upon the duties of his office.
This story is not believed, further than that Mr. Gwin has obtained certain land grants,