Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-07-11
ATOM ROUGE, LA. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY IL, 1866 x

foreign troops, all well-dressed, we'll
drilled and subordinate and as COM
pletely strangers in a distant land as
they would be in the moon. No.
dances, no social reunions with the
people; but all quiet, grave and re-
served on both Sides"
WHAT THE MExICANs THINK OF
-.a. AMERICANS. 4
Thousands who took part in the
war with the United States in 1867,
still remember the presence and Gus
toms Of the American troops and con-
trast them with those of the present
invaders. Although the Americans
captured their country and killed
tens Of thousands of their people, yet
they were overAowing with money
which they threw away right and
left, with a recklessness of expendi-
ture peculiarly American. Every
soldier had money in his pockets,
and was always ready to disburse it
for anything in the shape of fun, and
always managed in some way to re-
plenish his purse. The movements
of an American army are notoriously
more expensive than those Of other
nations. Money and temporary pros
perity followed the American armies
in Mexico, and the Mexicans, men
and women, to this day remember
their presence as sort of holiday
as a time when the country was never
so prosperous and lively.
That speciality of the Americans
of walking into country and at
once adapting themselves to the hab-
its Of the people, associating with
them and making acquaintances
among them, outdoing the natives
themselves in their own customs, and
creating a reality Of money and fun
and activity in their path, as if by
the magic Of Alladin's lamps as
much matter of wonder to these
French and other foreigners as it is
an impossibility for them to initiate.
It is the consciousness of this want
Of colonizing genius in the French
people that has caused Maximillian
who has no love for them--to look
to Belgium, Austria, and other parts
of Europe, as well as to the United
States, for that immigration which
he intends shall in time infuse a new
life into apathetic Mexico, and by
this element of industry, for which
extraordinary inducements are held
out, raise the people Of the country
up to level with its immense re-
sources. ~ ...r -.
MAMMALIAN WANTS TO GET RID OF
.. THE FRENCH.
Maximillian, in the opinion of all
who know him, will be only too glad
to get rid of the French, and with
them the tiresome surveillance, or
rather domination of the French EN-
peror. True, they have been the
means of placing him in power and
of sustaining him there; but he is
fast reaching the point among these
volcanic, irruptive people where he
can maintain himself all over the
empire with his Austrians and Bel
gians and the large Mexican force at
his disposal. The intelligence, for
bearance, enterprise and wisdom Of
the man have made him the most
popular ruler that Mexico has ever
had. ... ....
THE EMPERoR's REMARKS ABOUT
RECOGNITION.
"Let the United States understand
me, and recognize my government"
said the Emperor not long since,
"and / will open market. here for
millions of the products and manu-
factures and inventions of the North.
To become my enemy and break up
my government would but remand
Mexico into her former state Of
anarchy and disorder. The U. s.
should wish for a valuable, progress
i've, thrifty neighbor in Mexico, not
a slothful, unproductive people who
can never do anything with Mexico
themselves, nor can make Mexico
useful to the rest of the world"
EUROPEAN AND AFRICAN TROOPS IN
MEXICO.
There are now in Mexico about
forty thousand European troops, all
told. Of these, twenty eight thou
cand ora Franoh fmnstIv XouavagA .