Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1867-01-25
Letter from Mcxico-- The Situations
BGzaine Directly Acknowledges
JnaTeZ' Claim.

The Marshal, on his part, has not poen
| i1le. A messenger was dispatched BY him
10 Juarez to obtain from that generous In
/ dian recognition Of the debt claimed by
/ France to have been incurred in the inYa-
sion Of his country, running him out Of the
capital and in destroying robbing and kin
ing every one born a Mexican The extent
! TO which his Excellency seems TO think
/ Christian forgiveness can 20 suggests the
| suspicion that he has cultivated human pas
sions. The proposal, Of course, infers re-
! cognition Of Juarez as the authority in
! Mexico, and IS none the less offensive be
cause the bribe is kindly extended
A PICTURE OF THE POLITICAL AND COM
MERCTAL SITUATION
With all these blind efforts to unravel the
| difficulties Of the situation, the state of
affairs continues to be painful and oppres-
] siye in the extreme. Fdled with resent !
nient against the French because they feel
! that they have been befooed and BETRAYED,
! the conservatives yet turn 10 the best account
! the presence Of the expeditionary army, so
as to strengthen their position and to COM
| plete their preparations for the bloody strug |
| gle they arc determined to maintain. De |
/ crees are issued daily providing ways and |
means, the army is being organized and the |
battallions filed up by the odious system Of |
the press gang. Men are caught in the
streets, tied hand and foot and when a suf- |
fieient number are strung together, are hur
ried Of to the barracks to be shaved, drilled
and uniformed for the field of carnage /
Councillors Of the State run about in search
of the constitution of the United States,
which they are eager to examine as to the
electoral Law for Congress promised at Or
izaba. The conservative press prOclaims
with noisy confidence the empire to be the
| will Of the nation Able articles are writ
| ten. vaunting the resources of the party, and
| protesting against the United States as the
| arch enemy Of the Mexican race and OF the
! Catholic religion. All these articles are
/ draped in dark prophecies of the ruin Of
! their much cherished nationality II the An
/ o-American be allowed to interfere in the
/ affairs OF Mexico Notwithstanding this
/ stirring defamation, all enterprise is paraly-
| zed and business is brought to a stand still.
! Merchants foresee universal bankruptcy if
| the present situation be prolonged into the
next month. Merchants in Vera Cruz re-
/ fuse to recognize or pay duties to the French
authorities, who have entered into the Gus
4 tom House IN virtue of the convention of
| August last between Maximiiau and Napo-
! leon, while the Collector here notifies mer-
| chants that he shall exact the duties upon
/ all importatious into Y era Cruz, even though
4 they may have been previously paid to the
! French at that port.
| UNCLE SAN IN THE BACKGROUND.
/ All eyes are turned in the last extremity
1 towards the United States as the only hope
! of rescue from ruin for both natives and for
/ eigners and yet the day that our govern
4 ment ignores that wise advice upon en-
4 tangling alliances, the word situation,
1 as understood here, must find q place in our
/ vocabulary and quiescent acceptance iti
! to be feared. IN oar policy, both domestic aud
foreign. If Mr.. seward be misled by ncor
! rect data into active sympathy with the re-
publican party # Mexico, or deyiate ;r9m rom
of moral neutrality, he viii inherit, on The
departure of the French, a question more
difficult Of solution than even the suppress
/ sion Of the Southern rebellion.
ACTIVITY OF PoRFIRIo DIAz.
! General Porfrio Diaz, having cleared
! Oajaca of Its enemies, is organizing the civil
and military government upon the republi-
can basis Where there many such as he to
direct with the energy and probity the affairs
Of this distracted land, Mexico might hope
/ for future amongst the nations Of the
world. One exception to the mass ofrulefs
offers no prospect to population scattered
! over vast territory, without means of COM
munIcation on of civil and commercial in-
! tcTc0urse.
Disbanded by decree Of the Emperor, the
/ Austro Belgian corps is invited to enter the
Mexican army or to return to Europe at
I government expense. The invitation 10 re-
enlist, though accompanied by tempting
/ promises, will be accepted By few. The
- -, raf.tsco hon, -, IN,,rn,,x.
| be fulfilled. These poor fellows must either
staTye or join the liberals, for whom they at
! least entertain more sympathy than for
\ their actual masters. The empire can do
nothing for them.
QUEER BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS.
! The French are packing up rapidly and
selling oil at auction their army supplies.
The hospital stores were sold few days AGO
4 81 500 cash down aud the balance to be
/ paid on short tine at the War Department.
/ The purchaser, On presenting himself to
comply with the terms Of sale, was notified
/ that he must take back his money. as the
sale could not be recognized By the govern
ment, The Siaff- had been brought into the
| country for the use 0f the empire; and if
/ the French wished to dispose of them bv
sale, the customary duties must be preyi-
ously paid. Very many French residents
are selling OH 5mi making preparations TO
leave by the ljth of january, with the first
division OF tic army, towards Vera Cruz
They are ready to sacrifice their business and
property IN dread Of the return which they
are conscious OF merltlpg for the insolence
and overbearlng conduct they have OF all
occasions displayed toward Mexicans of all
ranks and parties. The exceptions to such
department have been so few that it does
not relieve the mass of them in Mexico from
the observation, that in prosperity they
are domincering, and in adversely as cring- |
ing.