New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-29
iii sNs en- MEXICO.

nElE5Ns nN MEXICO.
4 among the papsrs transmitted Y HE Senate
ftg Her with the rssident recent SPECIAL mes
saga on Mexican ashirs. Nas npmpen q aogu.
naeiiss relatlng Is Mexiean afialrs Rhcn Pfesee
soma curious lions 81 the manner az Whloh
opipiols III ia Irrational comfy md views 81 ~
term tionaE iii NAV he Affected BY political sym
nathfss lid pfeiud These documents embrace
= ss,;ea n oorduounio from Mr.. Romero, the
Nalsi ofs gnarez At Washing ton, 70 MI Seward,
on 9l s1ect 81 liz intimate relations asserted TO
ss;sf betwear, 4he so.called Y traitors0f Mexico
HI she Imperial authorities, and the Z 10
caIIed IL rebels pf the United States, toswit: the
EpeSlsle aiad goyernment of the late Confederate
Sfstes
Il Under date efsJuly d, 1864, MI. Romero calls
ME- Stewards attention to the report of those
pleasant post prandial congrat ulatons and senti-
merts which passed between Cen MagrxeeT and
Gov idanrri, DIT dinner party ID Houston. These
mutual celebrations Of the Confederate commander
and the fngacious Governor are supposed to be-
token some deep and dark conspiracy against the
precarious existence Of the Juarea government.
But, after III III mot very creditable to M. Be-
nero q sagacity thathe should to persuade MT.
Seward ut an Intention the part of the Confed.
crate States to take part in the war in Mexico, 81
Ut wish On tie part Of Macmillan 70 array
aganzt himself the formidable power Of the United
States.
Oh The 6th of February, 1865, Nj. Romero rer
news bib warnings This time be places before
Mi Seward q budgeto Of alarming intellg quite
sufcient to eanse The hair That venerable states
man to stand on end. This is no less than the as
| sumed cession By Macmillan to france OF we
Mexican States d Tenanlipass New leon a 81
Goahuila with ports IF San louis Potosi, 1acate-
cas-, Durango and Chihuahua and almost the Who q,
81 Sonora and Lower California u TINS terrtory
France was To plant military colony % shield
4 exico from The incursions and attacks OF Ameri-
4 can a fiibnsters q
i Ar. Seward replies, under date OF February 70,
ls8ss shat Tie protest has been placed on Ole az q
Testimony ia the course Of Romero additional cyl
dence of lid zealoas and patriotic discharge Of his
lions ard for such other purposes and uses as
future esent may render II necessary to apply it,
| pn the 30 Of April MI. Romero nunicated
/ To M Seward . corresp dence between the Con
federate Gen. slaughter and the Mexican Gen.
Mejia relative to the capture Of the Mexican
steamer orizaba, captured by the Confederates
unde the plea that she was manned by citzenssof
lie United States, ali Az additional proof Of the
IDENTITY Of political interest between the Confed-
crates and lie partisans Of the French cause N
Mexico. ssis
III j COMMUNICATION, dated July 4, Mr.. Romero
SAYS that The commander Of the post Of Bagdad, a
Belgium, informed General Slaughter that he had
secret instructions to permit the introduction Of
alI arms and munitions Of war that might be de
sired and that they should pass freely for the use
ef Tie Confederacy. He also asserts that there
WAS in Monterey an agent Of the Gonfederacy &C
scredited to the agents Of the French, called thu
imperial authorities, and that General Mejia, thu
French agent in Mexico, had promised Genera
4 Slaughter be would do everything he could in hi
/ favor. He also shows that the trade which tn,
i ConfedeTate States were carrying On with Mexico
and other countries, through the ports Of Mexico
was carried the consent of the French agent
/ Ill Mexico 10 all these statements MIR. Sewart
i promises to give the attention to which they or
l entitled Ssss$
4 Mr. Seward writes to Minister Bigelow, July Is
i inclosing these intercepted letters relative t
i Mexican colonization, and requests him to presen
4 them to M. Drnyn de Hugs, and frankly informe
Il him that the sympathies Of the American peopl
n are already considerably excited in favor of th
II republic Of Mexico, and that they are disposed
n regard with impatienee the continued nterVentie
81 France id the country. That any favor shown
lie proceedings of Drs win, By the titular En-
pefor III Mexico, 81 by the imp erial government
France with reference to those agents, viii ten
greatly 10 increase the popular npatience, beeaus
A Ii viii be regarded, perhaps justly AZ impartin
dangers To; or 1T least as d menace against th
4 United States. II these statements are to b
\ believed Nh. Seward assumes, with the sanction
4 of the President, that the Emperor Of France ha
u deserted hla position Of neutrality