The New York herald., 1865-05-27

and declining On Change the markets were nearly the
ssmo Thursday, with the exception that wheat,
corn and whiskey rather higher.
Texas and Mexico-A New Solution or tlse
Monroe Doctrine.
The Mexican difficulty and the Monroe doc
trine are destined to q speedy and effective
settlement. The closing military scenes Of the
rebellion, like beautiful dissolving view, will
melt away into an Anglo-American occupation
of Mexico. The ending of our troubleswill be
the beginning Of those Of Maximilian. The
exodus of the fag ends of our great Southern
rebellion will be the occupation Of their
promised land over the border.
The rebel trans Mississippi generals-Kirby
Smith, Sterling Price and Magruder-
probably now within call armed forces amount
ing in the aggregate to fifty or sixty thousand
men. These forces, largely composed of bor-
der rufians, busbwhackers and veteran
guerillas, are among the most desperate
fighters and reckless adventures of modern
times. They are headed also by desperate
military and political leaders, ready for any en-
terprise that will save them from "submission
to the Yankee government" The great body
Of the planters of Texas are possessed Of the
same implacable spirit The whole batch Of
them, leaders and followers, soldiers and civil
ians, are in state Of hot excitement for con-
tinued war. The government according to our
advices on the subject, fully comprehends the
Importance Of an overwhelming force and
prompt movement in view Of the breaking up
and dispersion of these concentrating rebellious
elements in Texas, and is taking its measures
accordingly.
Thus it appears that General Sheridan, from
our Western armies still in the field, goes out
for Texas with authority to muster an invading
land force of hundred thousand men, in CO.
operation with powerful feet of Galveston
and the mouth Of the Rio Grande, under
Admiral Thatcher from Mobile. Against
the land force under Sheridan, the
only alternative on his approach that can
be adopted by Kirby Smith, Magruder and
company, will be to disband and disperse or
surrender after the fashion of Lee, Joe John
ston and Dick Taylor, or retire with their plum
der across the State of Texas, and over the
Rio Grande into Mexico, and with the fixed
purpose Of q permanent occupation Of that
country. That the rebel military and political
chiefs directly concerned, and the mass Of their
soldiers and camp followers, will adopt and
are preparing for this last alternative we have
every reason to believe. Their means and
facilities for this enterprise, and the induce.
ments which invite them are, with the loss Of
Davis and his Southern confederacy, too
tempting to be resisted.
This is the programme which we expect to
be carried out. Sheridan will advance upon
Texas from the northeast corner, by way Of
the Red river and Shreveport. On his
approach the rebel forces will fall back. He
will follow; they will continue their
retreat southward, clearing the country as they
60 of its stores Of cotton and -four and corn,
horses, mules aud wagons, cattle, swine and
sheep, till they reach "the River Jordan"
Then, as the advancing columns Of Sheridan
begin to darken the plains behind them, they
will cross over Jordan" army and camp fol-
lows, horses and mules, cattle, wagons and
plunder; and then, taking Juares under their
protection, they will proclaim the Mexican
republic on new platform. Who, then, will
there be to come forward and dispute their
right and title to Mexico, backed as this South
ern Anglo-American emigration force will be
by veteran fighting army Of fifty thousand
menf
Let this inviting, and, as it seems to MS, this
inevitable programme, be carried out thus far,
and then let Maximilian and Napoleon attempt
to put it down, and one hundred thousand
Union soldiers, as emigrauts, will cross over to
the rescue of the republic In short, before
next Christmas we may expect q proclamation
from Juarcz, under the protection Of Kirby
Smith, from the "halls Of the Montezumas"
. JEFF. DAVIS IN IRoNs.-Therc is a sensation
story published in one of the Philadelphia
papers that JEFF. Davis has been put in irons;
that he resisted terribly when the manacles
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