Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-04-20

prcme osurfN fk@ dciS}mmaNpn i. to have the constitutionality of the measure fairly tested.
 The Late Mexican News.
 A reccpt lctT from tho f-ffesdqNars ters ofo 4heg iAbeqsls,r lAt lQudrctar6,
 which the liberal sympthizers in this country have indiscrectly published. .cenfitm sus du tho ppinioR which we tTmilfian viii vet beat down own %aii opposi-
 tioAia MeNjcoh aad copsolin inate lsisiem-
 piree on imprc cgnabfe ground. This let tftr rNcoiifirins Fhe late Imperial defeat,
 but then tlfeo writer goes 6fisto say 2lfat several rostla for the escape of, Maxi miHian are stjlllleft open, and, that the
 people of Qperctaro aid him Ibeyallg with supplies. This scarcely coniports with, ouf previous intcuigemce sdefived from the samei"liberafp sourcc as this
 letter. that the Emperor was being
 starved out. and was anxious to throw
 down his arms, but that the Liberals ,would not pefinh him. The writer Ifarther says, 1.-the bcsiogingH army gre
 also suffering fsrt tipody and the Ic entest
 turns on the qussti9n, which n! army shall -fessionfor a besicging. army. hi the first place, it is notae.bcsieking" army
 at all, as it appearslthatt thefeihavo been
 no lines drawn around utbe city,. several roads being still open and, in the see
 6nd pface, the Writer admits that While
 the Liberals, to whoh the whole eoun- try outside. of tAecity1s Is open, are e'starv- ing, Masimillian is being supplied With
 -Wc taRe the true stAts Of tke case nsdt to
 be- that the smalts detached corps of llvagabonds who arc in theneighborhood of Querctaro. so far from hemming in Maximillian, would be very glad if he would avaii himself Of one of inc roads "leH open, ,rahd leave Northern Mexi- co prey to their rdepredations. gcs | Another veryimportantitemofnews Ifs given us by this indiscreet letter wri- ter He tells us that Escobedo, the big gun Ifitlie Liberals, aiitl the command .eninlcl,ief of the besieging army, is in- IcoNpetept. for Ais positionl b There can be no surer indication that things are going wrong with an. army than this Charge of fiincofnpetcncy against the ConImauding Geneis3. We all rccol- l,lect how oftehothis charge was made against the leaders of the Northern ar mics in our late war, when those armies were being beaten, and driven hithcr and tliither by hee and StoncwaH Jack son. {, The Northerns journals arc aglow just now over another piece of inteli- gence. Mr. Seward has interposed his good offices with1the Liberals. Jat the request of the Austrian Government as itw ouldSsee5n. in fdavoP of mercy to -Maximilian, in case he should be cap tured., ,. .ia.f, IA nt .,f " The New York Herald, commenting upon This act of grace on tic part of the Secretary of State, heads its article, "Closing Scenes of the Mexican Em- pire." Unfortunately for the Herald, like the boy in fhe fable, it has been icrying wolf! wont sooften V hen there. lwas no W ols that no one pays any at- iention.tc it. Tlicisimpic explanation qof this matter disesl that the Emperor Francis Joseph, of. Austria, hearing of the atrocious murder of prisoners some time ago, by the so-called Liberals, at Zacatecas, became alarmed fortlie safe ty of his brother, and supposiug thatin the uncertainties of war, he might pos sibly fall into the hands of the miscre- ants, and supposing further, these mis- -creants to be in sympathy with the en- and humane government of ton referred 10, to Mir, Seward. 1t is not because we care straw as to what particular government may establish it. self in Mexico,i that we advocate the claims of Maximilian. It. is simplytIat the much abused Mexican people may have a government of some Kind or other. The people ofthatcountry have bcen trying inlvain, for half century, to give permanence to republican in stitutions. The miAitarys have stepped in between them and their object, and have keptdhe country continued prey to vice and disorder hnntil they have ! sunk into an abyss of despairyd from which MaXimilian promises to raise them.
 In the name of humanity these disor- Fdcrs should fbc put ali end to. We re- ghrd theI United States goyeimneht as aiding and sabettipg these disorders by the open sympathy which it expresses for the Liberals. There is but one thing which can atall excuse it's course. If it really designs, in case MaximiIian should be driven out of Mexico, to take military possession of the country itself, and hold it.unt1l it can be, an Piexed to these United States, we shall Ihavc h nthiug gifurthert to object ButSif it does not design to do this, it will Joe guilty ofa crime against human nature if, through its,means, the military yag- abonds who. have, so long dominated and pIundered that fine. country. again get control of it.-t Memphis Bulletin.