New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-13
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4 DESPERATE STATE or AFFA1Rs--B4s NDs OF GrER-
TT4s+ CALLING THEMSELVES g 4 lBERALs . ARE
COMMITTING pEPREpArIoNs AST, FIESDIsH OUT
RACES on ALL CITIZENS.
new YORK, Nov. s. A 60 respondent who left
tie city Of Mexico on the s42d and Vera Cruz on
the 26th, gives the follow .ng account Of the con
dition OF AIexicos
Cen. Castienau, the aid-de-camp Of the Emnpe-
ror Napoleon, and srlecal commissioner from
France to Mexico, az rived in the capital suEi,ay
night, October alst. .fe met fhb Ehn, aror MAN.
mlilah ~ Ay9,s4 y tb ROAD near Mexico, and
sIssr All o9mrs Oh went his respective way
~ ulitst'i' .dnieaton appears to have passed
9esg;ee em. Maxmiiian is reported to have
fs ID communicating with the general on the
airs of the country until his return to Mexico.
/ 1t is very doubtful if Gen Castlenau has much
business to transact with him. The coming of
this commissioner has been waited IN Mexico with
i the greatest interest, and even anxiety. Every
i thing is afoat there, and all are waiting the
development Of the new policy, whatever it may
/ be. Some say that Bazaine will be at the head
Of affairs, others say Castlenau, and others Jua-
i rez, or Santa Anna or 0rtega, under American
/ protection. Every one has his say about the
future Of this poor country, but no one seems to
Il know what it will be.
d The condition of the country is quite as bad as
it well could be in every respect. The finances
are exhausted, the crops of barley and Indian
corn, the mainstay of the people, are short. Corn
is worth twelve dollars the cargo of four bushels
in the capital The neighborhood OF the city and
the country generally is overrun with bands OF
guerrillas, professedly Liberals. but in practice
4 bandits and cut-throats. A band under one Anto-
MO Perez took possession last month of Apam, a
A village fifty miles from the capital, sacked the
houses carried of some of the inhabitants for ran
son. and finished by violating the best women in
the town in the public square. under the direction
Of their leader. At the same place they stopped
Il the work on the railway to Vera Cruz, and took
two Of the locomotives used in the construction,
4 to hold for ransom demanding $1,000. The main
road to Vera Cruz is infested with these guerrilla
bands, in some cases numbering no less than a
4 thousand men, who commit rob bberies and violence
n on all alike, be they French, Me&ieans or Amerl-
cans. On the night of October p they entered
Passo del Maeuo the present terminus of the rail-
n way from Vera Cruz to Mexico and stole two hun
i dFed mules from under the noses OF French gar
rison. The mules belonged to Santiago Smith, a
well known American, who has large capital In-
vested in the business of transporting freight to
Mexico. few days before, these Liberals ex-
acted on the highway $1,000 toll of the wagons
going to Mexico.
| A Washington dispatch Of the 9th says:
The Mexican legation received to-day official
/ dispatches from chihuahua .up to the 10Th inst.
/. Gen. Amada was already on his way TO Doriargo
| It was thought that She Imperial garrison would
evaeuate the city before the arrival Of Genera
/ Amada.
The official paper Of the 18th nit, publishes the
French at Paes Puerto, near aIazatlan, onthe lTtt
September last.
4 decree from President Juarez dated 18th ot
October, is also published 1t declares that tbs
San Luis and Tehuantepec Company to openste
communication by the Isthmus Of Tehuantepet
having failed to fulfill the obligations imposed
upon them by the DEGREES of September 7th, 1857
March 2Sth, 1859, and October 25th 1850, have los
all their rights to that undertaking
---as -es----
MoRE TROUBLE BREWING IN GERNANy.-Ne1
York, NoU. S.--A Munich letter Of October q
calls attention to the fact that Baron Won Beust
! ex.premier Of Saxony, the greatest of German
!, statesmen next after Bismarck, and the sworl
= = and lifelong enemy of Prussia has lately beel
making q series of visits through South German,
b that appear TO be of some significance. First HI
y y was for many days alta watering place in Austria
! and was almost every day several hours in con
: ference with Francis Joseph, Since then he ha
been in Munich, Stuttgart, Carlsruhe, and Darn
2 2 stadt in succession.
Berlin correspondent of a German pape
7 writes as follows: 'sThe visits that Won Beust ha
I been making to several of South German court
i have caused not little suspicion here anon
Y several official correspondents. do not hesitat
I I to say that he has no other purpose therein tina
: to set on foot new plots against Prussia"