The New York herald., 1866-05-30

dollars TO runners employed In said frm and
the balance equally divided between the firm,
with the exception of two thousand dollars
given to the examining physician. 1t also ap-
pears, according to this deponent, that persons
would be enlisted in one place and allowed TO
run away and enlist at different times
ct several other Offices managed by the
same parties. BY this beautiful system
bounty jumping became popularized and
regular profession during the war, the
jumpers themselves not being so much to blame
in really as the brokers who engaged them and
connived ct their nefarious transactions. The
affidavit is not very clear on some allegations,
but, taken as whole, II is evident that citizens
were systematically deeced out Of their bounty
money and the army deprived Of recruits by
party who should have had more respect for the
laws and more fear of the State Prison. It is
curious that these discoveries appear just at
this time, when the exposures in regard to lot
terry gambling are being made. How is this
Is there or has there ever been any connection
between bounty jumping and lottery jumping
Were the two imps ever twin brothers; II 80,
why were they sundered? That query suggests
some queer thoughts. What virtuous genius
has opened this remarkable book Of rascally
| revelations? We find among the accused par
ties the name Of dashing and well-known
character who has Washington endorsement as
an official inspector of lotteries. Has the gov
ernment also an etics insr:1!r- of s:; s-.y
i1mpings If it has, It may be to his good
Offices that the public are indebted for this
interesting expose. After all it looks very much
like game Of diamond cut diamond.
The Mexican Muddie.
Fenianism, which few months since was
the all-absorbing question, is now superseded
by the excitement about Mexican affairs. The
several Head Centres who have been managing
the Fenian nuddle have succeeded so we'll at
the business and reduced it so low that the
public no longer manifest any interest and
care less for the developments in regard to it.
But while the interest in that movement has
been dying out the Mexican question has been
looming up and is now attracting the attention
of all classes The variations in the phases
of this question bid fair to furnish us an ex-
element more substantial and lasting than
that Of the Fenians. There has been for some
Mexico; but, unlike the Fenian muddle, 1t
grows more interesting thu more intricate 1t
becomes and is every day increasing In inn
portance. Men Of another stamp and alto
gether different calibre and position are work.
ing sway in this pool, searching for prizes in
the shape Of an empire, republic pearls, silver
mines or express companies, according to their
individual tastes or fancy.
First Of all we have Napoleor, with his
agent Maximilian, trying to manufacture an
empire. They succeeded in making consider
able Roadway until the rebellion in this coun-
try subsidized. But over since the dispersion Of
the Confederate armies this empire business
has been sinking deeper and deeper into the
nire. just now Napoleon has as much as he
can attend to nearer home; he has no time to
look after his Mexican muddle and Is trying
to turn Macmillan over TO Austria. All de-
pends upon the course Of events on the Cont
nent whether Napoleon ever agsin tries to
make anything out Of tho Mexican business.
In opposition to the empire scheme we find the
whole liberal party of Mexico, with Juarez, the
representative Of the republic, at its head. As
il to make the muddle moro complex we find
Juarcs forming an alliance with a set Of repre-
sentatives In the Lower California project in
which sre associated q mixture of radicals and
copperheads with General Butler and Alpha
bet Barlow as representative men. In this
coalition IL to be found singular jum'le of q
struggle to maintain republic, digging for
silver or land and diving for pearls in Cali
fornia bay, where it is said they are
as plenty a. oysters in the Chesapeake.
Just as this part of the muddle commences to
assume an interesting phase, Santa ANN, the
father OF the Mexican republic, turns up with
doubt, be developed in due course Of time.
His great prestige at once attracts the attention
OF Secretary Seward, who considers himself
shrewder than Governor Marcy and Is there
fore maturing his plans to use Santa Anna for
the special benefit of the AImperisl Mexican
Express Company" Thus we have q compli-
cation Of interests pulling and hauling ON tlAs
Mexican question, forming on the whole
somewhat curious and intricate muddle.
With all OF these varied interests ut work in
and out Of Mexico; with the intrigues and
diplomacy resorted to TO capture the numerous
prizes, including the empire, republic, pearls
and express company, this Mexican muddls Is
bound TO become the great question Of the day
and to overshadow everything ehe. Every phase
Of the affair will have its special interest and
peculiar attraction. The arrival Of Santa Anna
in this country, ct this particular juncture, in
crcsses the excitement The public look to
him as the only man that can clear up the
muddle and unite all the parties interested In
the several schemes in a movement that will
secure the complete rs-establishment Of the
republic. He Is, therefore, the Head Centre
that looms up above oil otherA Understand
ing fully the Mexican character, knowing all
about the numerous factions In that country