Interesting from Mexico.
--We take the following paragraph from a letter dated City of
Mexico, October 29, and published in the New York
Herald:
‘
Strange whispers are on the air that the agent of the
Confederate States, learning the proposed disembarkation of troops at
Guaymas, offered $2,000,000 to this Government for the use of the port of
Matamoras; all of which being reported to the Legation, the
American Minister held out a counter offer of $6,000, 0000, and that, in great disgust at the discovery that the
Mexican Cabinet has only been playing with his eagerness to extort a higher bid from him,
Mr. Corwin talks of going home in November.
He will carry with him such treaties or conventions, for ratification at
Washington, as the alarm of the
Government shall suffer to remain intact. --Startled at the fact that
Col. Pickett has denounced as an act of hostility to the rebels the license to pass U. S. troops through
Mexican territory to invade
Arizona and
Texas, these people — Cabinet, Congress and all — are eager to undo their work, and absolutely deny the celebration of any treaty or contract for the sale of lands.
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