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WASHINGTON LETTER.
Mexican Affairs Louisiana Matters-The White
Sulphur Springs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Gus
tom House.
From our Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. c., July 9, n.
1t is generally understood that Diaz's
orders instructing Genl Trevine TO resist
any crossing of the Rio Grande by our
military forces in pursuit of Mexican
marauders will produce no modification
of the orders given Genl Ord, but that
he will be required to firmly execute
them. In the event, then, of another
raid, and unless Diez recedes from the
position he is reported to occupy, an
armed collision would appear inevitable.
Would it lead to wal? The affirmative
is generally urged here, and the proba-
bility of such an untoward event seems to
be admitted in the highest official quar-
tiers. Mr. Blaine is censured by some
and commended by others, for the mat
ter of his Woodstock speech, the latter
holding that our critical relations with
Mexico clearly justified him in calling
the attention of the nation to them ard
to the greater peril-that of annexation
of portion of the enemies territory
as the only way in which we could en-
force an indemnity claim from Il bank
rupt government Of revolutionary
people. Every utterance of the Presi
dent and members ofthe Cabinet known
to the public indicates their lack ofsym
patay with the anexationist; but it isno
torious that a big lobby has been operat-
ing here for months to precipitate
wsI. 1t is largely composed OF broken
down politicians dead beats aud 4dven
turers OF all kinds. Uho lave nothing to
lose and everything 10 gain They are
not unlike the fillibusters who have ap-
pclrcd on the surface for brief time
during the last thirty Years of our his
tory, quickly sinking back into obsc!Iri y.
But the present is the most formidable
of any that have preceded it, and is suf
iiciently heavily backed to have assumed
4 quasi responsibility. There is a suspi-
cion that they have instigated many of
the raids in the past, and it is also init
mated that they would not hesitate 10
get up raid TO order, for the purpose Of
provoking an armed collision. Thus the
matter stands at present, and new devel
opements are awaited with intense in
terest.
The arrest OF Madison Wells and his
associates of the Returning Board has
created good deal of genuine excite
ment and indignation. The President
and his trusted admirers in the Louisi-
ana compromise" are reported as highly
incensed at this fragrant violation of the
covenant entered into by Nichols and
his friends 1t is urged in behalf of the
latter that they are not responsible, but
that it was inshgated by the extreme
fire eaters of their party. to force an issue
and get rid of all moderate men. Ad-
mitting this, even, it proves to those who
oppose the abandonment of Packard, that
Nichols was guilty Of an absurd assump-
ton when he promised to control the
bull-dozers of his party, and upon which
promise was based the withdrawal of the
troops. But even this charitable con-
struction of making Nichols desirous
but unable to carry out his agreements
rejected by many, and the periidious
precedent established by his party in the
reputation of the Wheeler adjustment,
after gaining their pointsis significantly
pointed to, in confirmation of the faith
less character of the Democratic partici
pants in the compromise engineered by
the Louisiana Commission. The enemies
Of the Administration could hardly have
suggested more mischievous move, or
one more fruitful, probably, Of embar
assing complications. Pitkin is in the
city and emphatically denies that he or
Packard have had ought to do with
bringing about the arrests as alleged by
the reformers ofthe Cincinnati Enquirer;
but his manner leads to the conclusion
that he, at least, viii remorselessly avail
himself of every favorable circumstance
to vindicate himself and the cause he
represented, no matter who is hurt.
The proposed gathering of the Demo
craic chiefs at the White Sulphur Springs
and the Presidents visit there the last of
the present month. have not attracted
the attention they would otherwise, had
not public attention been so much alb
sorbed in the matters mentioned. Still
they are both frequently referred toand
will have been thoroughly ventilated,
doubt not, before their actual occur
rance.
The excitement over the removal of
Weikins and the re instatement of
Thomas in the Baltimore Custom House,
has largely subsided, but it looks as
though it would require many months
to so soften the resentments aroused, as
to admit the re-estabhshment of cordial
relations between the factions into which
Maryland Republicans are divided, and
which has been rent entirely asunder by
this quarrel. MAXWELL.