Journal and confederate. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1865-1865, 1865-05-12
From Mexico.

HcruH Of a late date gives tic following it ms
OF pcws:
1'ierre Soule, who arrived two weeks ago
from Havana, is reported in the newspapers rs
having ON haAd gigantic seccsii emigration
scheme, but of what particular nature is not
generally understood, perhaps it is IN otfsboot
of the exploded Gwin affair. 4 more than
usual number OF Americans. loyal and disloyal,
arc i'll Mexico just now. Maj. Calhoun Ben.
BAN, of the Icbel army, and formerly United
States District Attorney in California, has been
illness, at the lturbide HOTEL Captain l}eaurc-
gard, brother of the General is in Sonora,
having passed through this city some weeks
Since on his way thither. General Shields,
I'whorIfis been for some months n SinaIna, was
.arTcstrd at MazatIan recent by the FGeuch
authorities, as a'spy or suspicious parsonage;
but by the intrrcssslon Of Mr.. Barrow, Of Tc-
pic, who visi'e! lIazatkla for the purpose, he
WAS liberated, and is expected in this city to-
morrow, having arrived alrea,ly at tiuanajnato.
| lie Is believed to be true blue Uui"m man.
Mr.. Royal Phelps, well known citizen ofNew
York, has been here few weeks, and returns
tv this stt am r, via. Hawai- a Hr. MrL"od
Murphy, formerly Superintendent OF the Uni
ted States Navy Yard at brooklyn, has recent
| y arrived here, with the intention of cngagin.
in some extensive engineering business.
MOVEMENTS OF TRoops.--Over the great
Nrtional road between Mexico and Vera Cruz
inccsSant Detachments of Austri#ns, Bri-
gians and Poles are continually arriving Mt We
| ra Cruz, and arc at once marched' into the mp
lan'is of the interior. The Fre,.cl. are rapidly
iesSing, bnt not in proportional rulnLers.-
The second Honaves left Mexico on the 10th
for Vera Cruz, M their return to France and,
they al apr :. glad cuongh 10 go. Us is
well Enowu, the Mexican war is not popular
among them, and the sooner the. country is
cleared of French troops the better Muxmil-
ian will like it.
A TREATY BETWEEN SPAIN AND GUATEMALA
has just been published in the Mexican news
papers. 1t is long and full ofSpanish details
and supcrfuous verbiage; but in 1t Isabella ac-
kuowlea:gcs the independence Of Guatemala,
and formally renounces all. claim to her former
dcpendency-a decision which Spain has been,
it seems, forty.two years in reaching. Spain
udo aGFeI p"eu III udSLe W fCCO9ulZc TcpuuHCtlil
governments. She was the last to yield to
the United States seat in The family OF na-
tions, and long years interviewed before she
would renounee her claims to Mexico after its
act Of separation. 1t seems, however, that
she Was not long in making up her mind as to
the establishment Of Maximilian's empire. In
recognizing. Guatemala the Queen conferred
upon Rafael Carrera, President Dictator, Of
that country, the Order of Charles Third-
Whatever Carrera may have been in his
earlier career, he Is undoubtedly the nan for
Guatemala where his iron hand, like that of
DR.. Francia, inPatagua5, has preserved ORDER
aud maintained law among people about as
capable Of approaching OF exercising THE bless
} ings OF self government as So many H@ttenFets
or Lascars> Some Of the firness adhereuts OF
Ma5inilian sometimes wish that he u0uEa
show Less h%art and benevolencs. of character
| :snA exercise a little moSe of Carrera's InSizn
inGcxibiiity- It1equirvs ipq LONG residence
among thessa descendant Spanish American
pofcslations 10 Sec that they need not only a
master. but all absolute one whom they naust