The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1874-08-22

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H.efofenee was made Yesterday
io Che statement made in the San
Francisco Commercial Herald.
that oyerlures contemplating the
cesion to this couuiry 81 elarge
section 81 Tie northern portion of
Mexico have been made by she
Mexican government How much
81 truth there Is III the statement
ID Is impossible 70 say. although
the Herald asserts thak the source
from which tile informalion was
derived IS authentic lt is but
proper io add foo, that The paper
itself Is notably reliable. and
scarcely Tie sort 81 4 journal to
start haaeless, sensational can
arc. This much stated however,
I'M palliation Of the credulity of
such as may accept Che rumor as
true, IL may readily BE confessed
that tbs statement seems extreme
III fshr
By one Of The other San Franz
cisco papers fhe report IS repub-
Iished with tie heading "a Start
ling Rumor, but that It IS only it
irna. For there Is nothing start
ling 10 the bare conception Of such
d cession Of territory, since the
eventual realization og the sug-
gesied annexation may be soberly
regarded as 8 very probable event.
Something like the very line of
division indicated in this rumor g
tie boundary between this conn
try and Mexico, has long been re-
garded by those familiar with that
portion ri the country, as the nat
ural dividing line between the two
republics. More than this, the
propriety ~ making some effort
to secure a cession 81 Tie needed
portion of Mexican territory has
oittimes before this been the snb-
iect Of serious discussion, and
there are great many reasons to
believe that, sooner or later, man.
ifest destiny must bring that much
of annexation. iii this respect,
then, there is nothing startling IN
the rnmor. Scarcely a twelve
month ago, when tie iucursions
81 tlievirg Indians aud Greasers
from Mexico into Texas bad in
censed the suffering people in the
frontier counties of that State to
an unusual degree of intensity,
she question of annexation seemed
likely Ia find speedy settlement
bv q sudden coup d'etat. The
Mexican governments however,
was indisposed to resent the inva.
sion Of ITS territory by our troops,
aud the cattle stealers being Sc
yerely punished, have been COM
paratively quiet since. Still the
necessity of the United States get
ting control Of the territory IN
habited by the bands making these
inroads, remains as great rs ever,
from TIE fact chat tile Mezieap
government is wholly incapable oil
representing them. a peaceful
cession 81 the territory il Is mani
fest Il tie surest means 81 agertinp
trouble between the two govern
ments. In addition, other causes
viii shortly intervene, which will
operate 10 no small extent in pre-
cfpitaling d speedy dissemination
of this annexation question. With
III TIC mountain businesses Of this
section 81 Mexico and IN tempting
propinonity 10 the United States
border, Il Is well known there ex.
FIT inexhausiible stores of mineral
wealth. Anid TIE political disor-
ders Which have disrupted Mexico
Tor years these notoriously rioh
silver mines havo been either
wholly abandoned or most imper-
ieellv worked, 81 that they ars
yet lilled With millions upun mil.
eli0ns 81 tho precious ore. Civil
1asi0n has been he a stand-still
and railroads in tho mining omar.
tiers have been undreamed oi IN.
derd TeleefuI trayel enn only TX
secured III Tie protection az pow