New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-04-18
FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 1869.
Mexican Carrea1,onelencaI,... :

~ mexican .Correspondence. 552
Resnming Letter Whtine-Mexican lmbeogcs and their Flu.
ture-A New Programme the Tapis-Change Govern
ment Imminent-Msxco and the nfeaerate States I'm
friendly Relaions-Tfouble Brewing The Bio Grande.
Special to the New Orleans Crescent e -
i1. FATAxonos MEXICO March 81, 1852.
: Mr.. Ellor-After a long delay, your correspon-
dent again finds time to open his. correspondence
with the Crescent; and hencesorth hope to keep
you as regularly posted about matters on this
frontier as your interesting writer's do from Ten.
nessee and Virginia. The long and protracted
siege of Matamoros, and the general confusion
which has prevailed hereabouts. has forced many
a man besides your correspondent to vacate his
post; but gentle peace having resumed her sway,
we are again nthe city Of Matamoros, prepared
10 watch the current of events in Mexico.
{ Since my last letter, which was written long,
long ago, the changes in Mexico have been great,
and those that threaten promise to- be quite as
momentons as those which have marked the his
tory of your own country. wrote you Of the
election of serna Of the dispute that arose there
upon, and of the civil war that threatened. Since
then the war has come and gone, and now we are
expecting another, unless the programme which
shall sketch puts an extinguisher on all such tan.
trums hereafter. In the midst of the siege of Ma.
y
Nueva Leon, for assistance. He set his troops in
motion with the design of aiding Gov serna, but
some misunderstanding having occurred, he threw
his sword into the scale in favor of the malcon.
tents, and thereupon Gov. serna was defeated.
Not dismayed, however, serna commenced again,
but Vidaurri, 80 far, has proved to be too much
for him. Gen. Caryajal, who commands the Serna
troops, has consequently been forced to take
fnDa a1vIf {kI,.
he is organizing his forces for new trial of arms
The siDgularity Of the matter, however, turns
upon the fact that Governor Vidaurri has been ap-
pointed military Governor Of the States Of Nueva
Leon, San Luis Potos and Tamauipas BY virtue
OF this office he has virtually abolished the civil
offices of the State, and is now the undisputed
master Of all the States above named You will
see at glance that this is avery peculiar act for
entirely abrogates all State authority and con
solidates three communities into one, by single
decree from President Juarez. Lincoln might
learn lesson from his Mexican contemporary for,
according to my idea, by such course Of proceed
ing the twenty five States of Mexico may soon be
consolidated into one grand military centralism
and the federation would be destroyed at q single
blow. 49,
believe that this is the danger, and that Mexi.
ton to Capitalization. And further believe that
plenipotentiaries at Orizaba.
Your readers are no doubt aware that Manuel
Dablado, formerly Governor of the State Of GUIANA
juato is the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs,
and, in fact is the actual head Of the Government.
He has long felt the necessity of change in the
political status Of his country, and his idea has
also been to introduce q body of foreign troops
into the country, with which to sustain stronger.
form Of Government. He is at present negotiating
with the allied ministers, and the probabilities are
that he has accepted from them physical force,
with the assurance that Mexico should be remod-
2eled as monarchy or under a dictatorship !; that
economy should be enforced, and that the law
should protect the interests of all, foreign as we'll
as domestic. If this programme succeeds, this
country will enter upon q new history. Atpresent
Mexico is ready for any change, and the signs are,
she will come out as acentfalized monarchy. The
the foreign influence, and many of
the prominent men in the different sections, are
striving to this end, and believe they will sue
ceed. At all events, Vidaurri has consolidated the
three States of Tamaulipas, Nueva Leon and San
Luis Potosi and my word for it, he does not intend
to rellnqnish his greatness short Of big fight.
] He is accumulatng 8 large force, some say as
high as seven thousand men, in Tamaulipas, and
his officers hold, or are preparing to hold. the
principal cities Of Matamoros, Tampco, Victoria,
Reynosa and Camargo. He has friends all through
the country who are explaining the advantages
that will result from consolidation and as war is
becoming distasteful, it is not improbable that
hundreds wi be seduced into allegiance to him
under the impression that they will thus secure
peaceful aud prosperous times
In the meantime Mexican relations do not seem
to improve with respect to the Confederate States.
Commissioner Pickett, who passed through this
city lately reports that the Mexcans are as hostile
to the South as the Yankees are, and on this
frontier feel assured that you have had but few
friends. As matter of course, Mexico is not going
to attack you; but she will act perversey, as she
has already done, in allowing our Commissioners
to be maltreated, our mail to be seized and de-
tanned at Tampco, and in granting the right Of
way to the Yankees to march upon and attack you
from Mexican soil. These grave wrongs, as yet
unsatisfied, have been followed lately by the i'm
position of taxes on all goods expected from
Matamoros to ownsville and particularly in the
levying Of tax of two per cent. all cotton ex-
ported from Matamor0s. This simple act dis
plays more malice than any other of her fagitious
proceedings for the tax is levied by virtue ofa law
which has long been considered defunct, because
the season for it's passage has passed away years
ago. The law was framed at q time when cotton
was grown in limited quantities on the Rio Granle
and in order to prevent its expectation and sale
abroad, when it was wanted for The manufac turies
ct home the Government imposed tax Of two
cents on each bale sold out Of the States. This
old law was recently exhumed because we hap
pened to have some five or ten thousand bales of
cotton in Matamoros, and the effect has been to
discourage parties from bringing any more to this
market. In addition, tax has been levied on ali
goods, groceries and provisions exported to
Brownsville, at the rate Of FIVE cents for yard Of
calico, one cent per pound for potatoes, etc.
/ More than this, the Mexicans are considerably
excited against your people, because they say that
your authorities are allowing Gen. arvajal to or.
ganize an army on your soil with which to invade
this country, for the purpose Of restoring serna
to Office And last week it was reported that men
on the Mexican side Of the Rio Grande had been
shot at from the Texas side of the river by parties
Of Mexicans belonging to Gen. Carvajal's army.
Upon the receipt Of this news, Col Quiroga, in
command of,Matamoros, wrote rather formidable
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