New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-01-19
sSlaaj Orleatrs 4ailg Qrtstfllt
syshe UnIted States and Mexico diplomatic
- C0rrespondencc.

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We take thc following from the st. Iouis Demo.
crat. It 50 dispatch from Washington City, under
date Of Jan. 10: /
yoluminous papers relative to emigration to
Mexico, and scheme Of Gwin and Maury, were !
presented to thes Senate to-day Senor Romero
tirst called tho attention Of Mr.. Seward, July 8,
1864 to an address of Gen, Magruder, and Gov.
Tidauris reply, showing al understanding between
The traitors In Mexico and the insurgents in the |
United States He intimated that the French Min
lister to Mexico, Montholon, was working to that
eI,d, and that armed emigration from the Atlantic
States and from California was in immediate con-
temptation |
Under date Of February 9Th 1866, he further
notified the Secretary Of his understanding that
settlement had been proposed by Napoleon, by
virtue of which the Mexican States of Tamaulipas,
New Leon and C0ahnla, with parts of San Luis
Potasi, Iaccateeas, Durango and chihuahua, and
almost The whole Of Sonora and the peninsula Of
Lower California, were to be eeded to France, and
that TO make 80 considerable a portion of Mexican
territory acceptable, the Emperor would plant a
military ceony which would shelter the remainder
OF the country from flibustering from the United
States.
a This arrangement again reminded the Secretary
of facts slightly resembling the present, when the
representatives of the French government in Mex
Mexico and the United States, which was Of much
yess importance than the present, only because of
vague rumors, more or less founded, that it had
been eoncudea and before they had official notice
Of it's execution.
Mr.. Seward replies under date of February rs,
1856, that the protest has been placed on file as
testimony to the course Of Mr., Romero.
In the month Of April Mr.. Romero communi-
Gated to Mr.. Seward the correspondence between
General Slaughter and the Mexican General Mejia,
relative to the capture of the Mexican steamer
orrataba, an additional proof Of the identity Of
political interests which exists between the insur-
gents Of the country and the partsans OF the
French cause In Mexico.
In a communication dated July 4th, Romero adj
duces further evidence Of Mexican completely with
the Confederates, and states that the commander
at the post of Bagdad informed General Slaughter
that he had secret instructions to permit the intro
duction OF arms aud munitions of war that might
be desired, and that they should pass freely for
the Confederaey
He also asserts that there was in Monterey an
agent Of the Confederacy accredited to the agents
of the French, and that Gen. Meja had promised
Gen. Slaughter he would do everything in his favor
He also shows that the Confederate States were
carrying on trade with Mexico and other countries
throughout the ports Of Mexico, and that it was
carried on with the consent ofthe French in Mexico
To all these statements Mr.. j. promises to give
\ them the attention to which they are entitled
: On July 8th Mr.. Romero communicates state
ment and letters relating to the schemes Of Mr..
Gwin for organizing colony in Mexico, and show
ing tlattSen. Bazne had authority to let him have
the needed assistance. Among the letters found
is one from Mr., Ben. Wood, Of New York, in which
he said soule is in the Gwin enterprise and the
French Emperor will give him ali the aid he de-
sres, and that he will 90 ont as Director General
in charge 6f a very peculiar kind Of colonization.
Mr.. Seward writes to Minister Bigelow, January
18th, inclesing these letters relative to Mexican
reconstruction, and requesting him to present
them TO DrOuyn de L'Huys, and frankly inform
him that the syrnpathies Of the American people
are already considerably excited in favor OF the!
Republic Of Mexico, and they are disposed to re-
gard with impatience the continued Intervention
of France in that country; and that any favor
shown to the proceedings of DIR. Cwin or the EN-.
peror Of Mexico by the government of France will
tend greatly to increase that iinpahence.
;. The Presient to-day ssent a message TO the
Senate in compliance with the resolution respect
ing the occupancy by the French troops of the
Republic of Mexico aud the re-establishment of a
monarchy there nclosing report of the Secre-
tary of State and the documents by which it was
accompanied The documents are very volumn
Gus, commencing as far back as March 10Th, 1864,
and ending with December 4th, 1865.
The first is a letter from Mr.. Dayton to Mr.. Sew
ard, which communicated the fact that pegotia-
tons for loan on behalf of Maximilian, as Empe-
ror of Mexico, had been completed on favorable
terms, and that he would Soon sail for Mexico.
Mr., Seward, in letter to Mr.. Bgelow, Sept.
4 6th 1866, says:
The intense popular interest awakened by civil
war during few years has tended in some degree
to degenerate the soliciiude which the situation Of
foreign affairs was calculated to create but that
interest is now RAPIDLY. .subsding, and it may be
reasonably anticipated that henceforth Congress
and the people will give large share OF attention
to questions Of an extraneous character, and chief
among these, Ii that of our relations toward
France, with regard to Mexico. Nor does it seem
unwise to take into consideration the fact that the
presence Of military force of two nations for
some time confronting each other across the
border hasa tendency which both regret to produce
The French government has hitherto shown
itself inattentye to this inconvenience hitherto,
while this government has been desirous to prac.
tce square prudence
4 dispatch, including letters from the French
legation with reference to Mexican refugees in
New York ard Washington preparing movement
in favor of Juarez the first as far back as July
1866, aE