The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-07-16
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The Case of Santa Misunderstanding
seward Declines TO Interfere.

The Case of Santa AnnR--.SecrcfarS
seward Declines 10 Interfere.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE ground
lessuess of the report that the United
States is about to interfere i'll the al
fairs OF Mexico, will appear from the
foil wing statement:
On the 9th inst. Doctor NaphegZl
who represents himself as the attorney
and confidential agent of Santa Anna,
laid before Mr.. Seward mass of letters
and documents regarding the affair oil
Vera Cruz, by which Santa Anna fell
into the hands of the MeXicans, and
asked for the direct interference of this
Government in his behalf. Mr.. Sc
ward took the case under ndvisement,
and on Friday last submitted his memo
randum concerning the matter to the
Cabinet.
1t is n document of great length, be-
ginning with an abstract of the papers
submitted by the Doctor, going on with
extracts from reports made by our Con-
sui Mt Vera Cruz, and by Commander
Roe, of the United States ship Tacony,
followed BIZ extracts from some OF
Santa Annals private letters, which
have come into possession of the De-
partment.
MIR, Seward reaches the conclusion
that there is no ground for supposing
the Virginia to be in our naval COM
mand, or Santa Anna to be prisoner
of war to the United States. He holds
that Santa Anna was of the cOnst OF
Mexico, in command of some military
expedition which he had prepared
against the Republic within the
United States, and conducted to Vera
Cruz in violation OF our neutrality laws
and rules of amity. lie definitely, and
IN the most positive terms, approves
the course of our Consul and Com
mander Roe, and finds by Santa Anna g
own admission, that instead of having
been seized, he voluntarily put himself
in the hands of the Republican forces
by going ashore at Sisal, in opposition
to the strong remonstrances OF Captain
Deaken. Of the Virginia, who had been
instructed by Commander Roe TO allow
him to land on any neutral territory,
but not in Mexico.
He then makes the significant state
ment that Mexico seems at last to have
triumphed over both internal and for
eign Toes, and if now left alone there is
reason to hope she will be able to found
IA stable Government upon the basis oil
freedom, and concludes by saying that
our Government will not interfere in
behalf of Santa Anna.
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, July 10, ls67.-The
President sent TO the Senate to-day the
nominations of Henry j. Raymond, as
Minister TO Berlin; Geo. Bancroft, Min.
lister 10 Austria, and John Hay, Score
tary of Legation to Austrin; c. S. Frank
lin, Naval Officer at New York; James
r. Booth, District Attorney of Della
ware; also the reciprocity treaty recent
ly made with the government of the
Sandwich Islands, and the joint treaty
between France, Great Britain and the
United States with Japan.
The report of the Commissioner oil
Indian affairs, in reply to the Senate
resolution, places the number OF lndl'
ans now at war with the United States
in the North, at one thousand six him.
dred warriors, being the same who per.
petrated the Fort Phil kearney massa'
cree. About five hundred warriors
compose the whole number known &c
be making hostile demonstrations on
the plains further South. The Commits
sioner condemns the military move
ments as inefficient to preserve peace
and recommends the location of lndi'
ans on reservations, and indemnity fol
outrages committed on them by oul
troops.
The following bill offered by Mr.
Holman, of Indiana, passed the House
and is now pending in the Senate:
BE it enacted, that in the alb
sence of minor children or par
ents, in the order named, oil
being honorably discharged from the
military service of the United States
shall be entitled to receive the addi'
tional bounty which the sol.
der would be entitled to If liv.
ing. The provisions of the 18th
and 18th sections of the act enti.
tied an act for making appropriations
for sundry civil expenses of the govern
ment for the year ending June 80, 1867
and for other purposes approved July
%, 1866, and the said provisions of sale
act shall be so construed, provided
however that minor children or parent!
shall only be entitled to receive suct
additional bounty in case where suct
soldier, If living, would be entitled un
der the provisions of said act to receive