The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-05-13
THE LATEST SENSATION.
F ilibussering Expedition Extraordinary.
WASHINGTON. Nav 10.

IE1E LATEST SENSAllON.
F ilibussering Expedition Extraordinary.
| WASHINGTON, May u.
The Evening Star to-day publishes
the following as reported facts: Ever
since the arrival of Lerdo De Terjada
in Washington, the leading spirits of
the Mexican movement which was
started two years ago, and abandoned
for want of financial backing, have
been busy inaugurating new one.
The principal mover in the present in
stance is a gentleman well known in
California and the southwest, who was
the youngest member Of VIM. Walkers
ill-starred expedition to Costa Rica,
and who long afterwards, at the head
of about eighty Americans, seized the
government of Guatemala and held it
nearly two years. For the last four
years this gentleman has been car
rying on a coffee plantation in southern
Mexico and waiting an opportunity,
which he now thinks has arrived. Ac-
cordingly he left Mexico about four
months ago, via Acapulco, and came
to San Francisco, where he organized
the nucleus of new expedition, and
then came east to look for funds and
other material support.
The expulsion of Lerdo by Diaz was
Il godsend to the master-spirit afore-
said, who straightway put himself en-
rapport with Lerdo to obtain the color
of his authority for the movement.
The capital necessary to fit out three
expeditions has been provided, and the
leader of the movement is now in
Washington, negotiating for an under
standing with the State Department as
to what course can be pursued without
incurring interference of the Federal
government. Great reticence is, of
course, observed, but enough has
been ascertained to show that
the following plan of operations
has been determined on: A
joint stock company has been formed,
ostensibly to develop mines in Arizona,
and several hundred thousand dollars
are subscribed by leading railroad cap
italists in San Francisco, New York
and Philadelphia. The funds will be
used fitting out three expeditions. One
is to start from Yuma, the present ter
minus of the Southern Pacific, which
will push directly through Sonora by
land to Guaymas. The second leaves
San Francisco in ships carrying sup
plies, and will meet the first at Quay
mas by water. The third is to rendez-
vous at Ell Paso, and will push through
Chihuahua to the interior of Sonora,
where it will be met by reinforcements
from Guaymas. This column will be
the heaviest of the three, and now is
being quietly reunited in Texas, New
Mexico, and as far east as Missouri.
1t will be mainly composed of ex-Con-
federate soldiers, and probably COM
manded by 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 gentleman who is now here
conducting the aforementioned nego-
tiations.
The fate of the whole movement now
depends upon the assurance of non
interference from the administration.
If satisfactory assurances are given,
the middle of September will see $500
armed Americans in Sonora, govern
organized and a state declared indepen-
dent of Mexico, so far as the Diaz gov
ernment is concerned. This movement,
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 enterprise,
oO Aol tto SiiC uudilSidi puib Va ~ Az SoAA
cerned.
The foregoing publication is the SEN
sation of the hour, and calls forth
widely varying comments. The preva-
lent opinion is that the project, even if
seriously proposed, will come to moth
ing, as it appears to be contingent upon
the assurance of non-interference by
the administration, and whether the
government of Diaz shall remain un-
recognized by the United States or not,
our duties to friendly country will
remain unchanged. On the other hand:
no small number of sagacious persons
believe that the filibusters only pretend,
by waiting for such early and improba-
Bile assurances, and that, under the
cover of this blind, they will shortly
carry out the project.
The Confederate officer referred to is
Gen. Joe Shelby, of Missouri. The Or
ganizer of the movement and intended
leader of the California column, is
Col. Vaughan Thomas-the ''King of
Tigre, ,''-of Joaquin Miller's heroic
poems. He and Miller came here last
week, occupied the same room, and
left Washington together to night,
keeping their destination secret.
Lerdo's Adherents in the Libre Zona.
New Orleans, May IA Matamoras
dispatch says information has been re-