Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-13

sident johnson on the MertedR Ours
ton, Nth accompanying State Papers.
WAsaTNGroN, Jan. q.
The Senate to-day confirmed the fol-
lowing nominations:
Alvin Saunders, of Iowa, to be Cover
nor of the Territory Of Nebraska; reap
pointed VIM. Pickering, of Illinois, to be
Governor Of Washington Territory.
Reapp0inted and also confirmed APP
pointmeat Of the following deputy Post
masters:
VIM. Bevens, Goshen, Elkhart county,
Ind; Alexander w. Myers, Oil City,
Pa Sidney /. Wilson, Dunkirk, Erie
county, n. Y, rice r. $. Cary, super
coded.
A memorial of the st. Louis Union
Merchants Exchange, presented 10 the
Senate to-day by Mr.. Henderson, de-
II clarcs the number of registered steam
boats on the Western rivers TO be nine
hundred and ten, valued at tweuty-four
million five hundred aud ffty-six thou
sand and six hundred dollars, with two
hundred and n~inety-tWO thousand one
hundred aud forty-fcur tons capacity. IL
is estimated the imports into st. Louis
in eighteen hundred and siSty-fve to be
two hundred and thirty-five million dol
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twelve million dollars, and Louisville
one hundred million dollars. 1t asks
Congress to improve the navigation Of
the Mississippi and other rivers, by
means Of snag boats, and by locks or
dams at the rapids of tho Mississippi.
repairing falling banks, etc.
The following message was received al
the House to-day:
To the House Of Representatives:
In compliance with the resolution Of
the House OF Representatives of the eigh-
teenth ultimo, requesting information IN
regard 70 the steps taken by the sO-called
Emperor of Mexico, or by an European
power, TO obtain from the United States
a recognition of the so-called Empire OF
Mexico, and what action has been taken
III the premises by the Government Of
the United States, 1 transmit a report
from the acting Secretary of State, and
the papers by which il was accompanied.
tsIgu6dl ANDREW JOHNSON.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 1866.
The fist 0[these papers is a commune
cation from Senior AfrerO, to Mr.. COrWin,
dated March second, eighteen hundred
and ~siNtv-fve, in which he expresses a
desire To see Mr.. Seward extra officially,
and 10 ascertain whether the recognition
of our Consuls can be obtained because of
embarrassments which exist in cOnse-
quence of their standardization while in
Mexico, that the exercise Of their fUnc-
tons has been continued without EN-
harrassment to the American C0nsuls,
aud stating that Government, which was
that of Don BentO JuareZ, does not exist
dc fdctD or Gs jure.
\ memorandum Of Mr.. Seward notes
that Marquis de MontholOn, on the
seventeenth Of July, called al the De-
partment Of state, saying a special agent
had arrived from Mexico, bearing letters
from Macmillan to the-President of the
/ United States, with papers making Ger
tain explanations relative to transactions
on the Rio Grande, upon which the
| United States Government had made
representation 70 the Imperial Govern
nient OF France. The Secretary, on the
eighteenth, after a conference with the
| President. returned the letter to Mon
thOl0n, saving the United States was in
/ friendly communication with the Repub-
lean Government of Mexico and the
President declined to receive the letter or
to hold intercourse with the agent who
brought Ii.
August first, Minister Romero informs
/ acting Secretary Hunter, that San Luis
ArrerO assumed TO act as Commercial
Agent in New York, without an exequa-
tur OF other recognition by the United
States Government, and asks whether
the Government recognized the right of
Maximilian to make such appointment
or whether, as he believes, in case this
Government only sees in the Republic
of Mexico a war between it and France,
without recognizing Macmillan even as
government dc JHct0. The charge he in
Inmates may seem to show that the Gov
eminent of the United States recognizes
French intervention in Mexico.
Mr.. Seward replies August ninth.-NO
law of the United States, prevents a per-
son from advertising himself as a consul,
but this Government in all its official cor
-respOndence has recognized no other
Government in Mexico except that Of
JusreE, and assures him such a CONNER
Cial agent can perform no consular act
relating to affairs of his cOuntrymen in
the United States. To prohibit him from
attesting invoices and manifests, saws
the Secretary, would be tantamount 10
an introduction Of trade between the
United States and those Mexican
ports which are not in posses-
sion of the Republican Government of
that country. The COnsuls of the United
States il Mexico, who have their eXeQu-
aJur from that Government only them
selves discharge duties as commercial
agents in ports which are not under con-
troll Of the Government, in all respects
like those which the person, Arrero in
same way and to the same extent claims
TO do in New York. In respect TO said
ports, Senior Romero, on the seventeeth,
complains that no positive answer is
70 his inquiries, and notifies Mr..
Seward be has submitted the cOrresDou-
dence 70 his Government, and will wait
ar HAfrHrHHrLnE D. arInn4H.
ton Mr.. Seward makes a formal
acknowledgment, November seventh,
further explanation. On No
vember six the Secretary of State
addresses Minister RigelOw, and
represents that the presence of a French
army in Mexico, and its maintenance of
IN authority there, Is q cause Of serious
TO the United States. Neverthe-
the objection Of the United States is
still broader and includes the authority
which the French army is thus
maintaining in direct antagOnism 20 the
policy of this Government, and the prin- I
on which il is founded. Every .
experience of its operation only ,
adds some new confirmation Of the ius-
ice of the views which this Government
expressed at the time the attempt to !
institute that authority first became 7
known. The United States having {
hitherto practiced the utmost frankness
IN that subject. They still regard the I
attempt TO establish permanently a For {
and Imperial Government in Mex I
co as disaliOwable and impraeticabIe :
or this reason they could not now agree [
0 a compromise of the situation they Y
heretofore assumed, They are not q
prepared % recognize, or pledge them !
themselves hereafter % recognize, anV [
POLITICAL Institutions in Mexico which S
re in opposition TO the Republican Gov 7
with which we have so long Il
nd 50 consistently maintained relations {
f amity and friendship. He a W in
that II is hardly necessary to say g
hat we should not be dwelling 50 f
srnestly upon this branch of political p
Citations, If il had not been our convic- u
ion that these relations, at the present b
moment, supersede those Of commerce f
Il the consideration Of the American 1
s
Mr.. Bigelow, under da@ Of November b
lirtieth, reports reading the dispatches h
Mr.. Seward to Mr.. DrOuyn de LHuys, C
thanked him, though he was obliged b
say that he derived neither pleasure II
Or satisfaction from its contents. b
Mr.. Seward, December sixteenth, says: ;
{ Is the Presidents policy that France Il
Mould be respectfully informed on tive b
First, that the United States h
4rnestly desire to cultivate sim :
ere friendship with France; and second, T
lat this policy would be brought into IA
imminent jeopardy unless France could r.
eem 1t consistent with her interest and p
onOr to desist from the prosecution of al
-med Intervention in Mexico, to over tc
ROW the domestic Republican Govern hi
tent there existing, and 70 establish in
pom its ruins a foreign monarchy, which pl
as been attempted to be established in VI
lie Capital Of that country. And incon- er
usion he said, that the United States 81
i'll not recognize Macmillan, W If N
.e French troops should be withdrawn bt
om Mexico. sc
The papers submitted include a conf 70
letter fromM. Drouyn deL'Huys az
Marquis de MontheloH, dated Paris, 81
,tober eighteenth, eighteen hundred pr
Id sixty-hve, saying be had received TO
surances ofastrong desire of the French to
)vernment TO withdraw It's auxiliary as
rps 50 soon as circumstances would al ac
il. The French Government had 81,
en- ready 70 adopt without a moments en-
lay, the basis ofan understanding with RI
Z Government Of Washington. What ga
asked OF the United States was to be ab
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