Arizona citizen., 1877-05-26
S4TURDA ',
DESCENT ON MEXICO.
Reported FIIfbustering Schemes Three Expeditions tO be Organ iZed.

3 spirits of the movement which was started two years ago and abandoned for want of financial backing, have been busy in the inauguration of new one. The principal mover in the pres. ent instance Is gentleman well known in California and the southwest, who was the youngest member of Wm. Walkers ill-starred expedition to Gen. tral America, and who afterwards, at the head of about eighty Americans, seized the government of Guatemala and held 1t nearly two years. For the last year this gentleman has been car rying on coffee plantation in south ern Mexico. About four months ago he went to San Francisco, where he organized the nucleus of new eXpe- dition, and then came east to look for funds and other material support The overthrow of Lerdo by Diaz was a god-send to the master spirit aforesaid, who straightway put himself en rap port with Lordo to obtain the color of his authority for the movement. Cap ita! necessary to it out three eXpedi- tions has been provided, and the lead. CT of the movement is now in Wash ington negotiating for an understand ing with the State Department as to
 what course can be pursued without incurrIng interference of Federal gov ernment. Great reticenceis, of course observed, but enough has been ascer. tained to show that the following plan of operations has been determined on
 4 joint stock company has been formed ostensibly to develop mines in Arizona, and several hundred thousand dollars have been subscribed by lead ing railroad capitalists in San Francis co, New York and Philadelphia, the funds 10 be used Tn fitting out three eX- petitions. One is to start from Yuma, the present terminus of the Southern Pacific railroad, and push directly through Sonora by land to GuaymaS. The second is to leaye San Francisco by ships, carrying supplies, and is to meet the first at Guaymas by water. The third is to rendezvous at Fl PasO, and push through Chihuahua to the
 interior of Sonora, where 1t will be met by endorsements from Guaymas. This column will be the heayIest of the three, and Is nnw being quietly re- cruited in Texas, New Mexico, and as far east as Missouri. It will be main ly composed of eX-COnfederaie soldiers, and will probably be commanded Oy an eminent Confederate cavalry officer now living in Missouri, whose name is familiar in Mexico and California. The column is to be led by the gentle man who Is now here conducting the before mentioned negotiations. Tine fate of the whole movement now de bends upon the assurance of nOn-inter ference from the administration. If satisfactory assurances are given, the middle of September will see 2j0O Americans in Sonora, a government organized. and the State declared inde- pendent of Mexico, so far as the DiaZ government is concerned This move ment, while it is being promoted by some of the men who were concerned in the abOrtive movement of two years ago, will be independent of that enter prise so far as the financial part of it Is concerned.
 This publication is the sensation of the hour, and calls forth widely vary ing opinions. The prevalent opinion is, that the project, if seriOuSl Y pro- posed, will come to nothing, as 1t ap- pears to be contingent upon the assur- ance of non-interference by the admin istratiOn; and whether the government of DiaZ shall remain unrecOgnized by the United States or not, our duties to a friendly country will remain un- changed. On the other hand, no small number of sagacious persons believe that the filibusters only pretend to be waiting for such early improbable as surances, and that under cover of this blind they will shortly carry out the project. The Confederate officer refer red to is Gen. Joe Shelby of Missouri. The intended leader of the California column is Col Vaughn Thomas, the King of Tigre," of Joaquin Miller's heroic poem. He and Miller came here last night, occupied the same room, and left Washington together to- night, keeping their destination secret
 The foregoing Is published merely to let our readers know what schemes are beng talked up; and it is Idle to say that many men of energy, some means and power are not in earnest re- garding this or some similar scheme. When in San Francisco last Novem- Der, the details of project for similar purposes were told to us, and assured that prominent men then in that city were sanguine of success sooner or la ter. Here is an eastern dispatch re- lating to the foregoing, which is sim ply true as to the United States govern ment and does not pretend to be a de nial Tn any other respect:
 CHICAGO, May 1.-The Tribunc's Washington special discredits newspa- per stories of Mexican tilibusters be ing reinforced by the United States, giving Assistant Secretary of State Seward SS authority therefor.
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