The New York Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1867, Page 4

4 MEXICO. Unmistakable Signs of an Im- perial Exit. Reperted Liberal Decree Against Eurepean Traders. Differont Views of the Military Situation. Queretare the Key of the Position. ry be Load ‘Arrest @aray—Decuments Found oa = a Bazalec—How His Re- des on the Fouce. &c. Mex1oo, Jan. 90,°186T. Tee msi, twig, as we were about to collapse from the big fret bm by the Junte’ta the patece, and the matinée of the Minin to capitalists at the Treasury building, tae following stimulus, labelled a ARREST, “The day before yesterday, by order of General Mar- juez, one Mr. Peter Garay was At the Momeat of his imprisonment ages of cor- Feapondence with the enemies of the imperial govera - ment were taken from Garay. These documents have been handed over with the prisoner to the court mar- tiai, and a report has been given in to the Emperor. Yesterday the com! tof the French military live, M. Demaussion, sue eor moral Joseph Ugarte, Di- General_2r Police; and Mr. Ugarte having esented.timself, through courtesy, before the ‘reoot Commandant, M. Domaussion ordered him ® put Mr. Peter Grray at liberty immediately, inasmuch as he could not be made a prisoner whilo holding a aafe-conduct from Marshal Bazaine. Mr, Ugarte replied, a8 was natural, that as he had not or- ered Garay to be imprisoned he could not direct him to be set fre. And asthe Commandant Demaussion Continued to insist upon his singular pretension, and Mr. Uxgarte with dignity retusod to yield thereto, the former gave orders that the Director of Pottce should remain under arrest at the office of the French Military Police until Garay should be set at liberty; and, in fact, Mr. Uj remained under arrest by order of the French , who has no authority so to treat the authorities of Mexico, The Minister of the Interior has addressed ‘an energetic reclamation to Marshal Bazaine against the irregular and unqualified procedure of the French com. mandant, asking that Mr. Ugarte bo forthwith placed at . Up to the hour of going to press we are ignorant of Marshal Bazaine. Our readers will doubt- fees be surprised at this occurrence. Why so great an interest on the pert of the French authorities in belialf of Garay, a recognized enemy of the empire? Why did Mr. Peter Garay bold a safe.conduct from Marshal Ba- waive? Was this safe-conduct to enable him to treat with the enemies of the empire? Does a safe-conduct, it eet it may, give sathortty ire. wi impunity ' against or the nation? Because & ten of Mr. Lneia G iy Jaw. But we ask of the French authorities that imme- diate orders be given to put at liberty Mr. Ugarte, who, 9s a Moxican, as a general and as one of the authorities of the empire, ought not to be treatedim a mann undoubtedly will arouse the public indignation. the very pertinent and categorical inquiries made =. tee oe Excoliency —— ee ~ be- $ a8 @ man, auswered asa soldier. Ugarte was stained 20 & prwoner, the editors of the Patria ‘were sent to sccompany him in his solitude, and are to be tried i Sngpacreed martial for the insult to I'rance con- inthe article, and the paper itself suspended in- A threat was thrown out that unless Garay the Ministry, Marquez and their abettors ‘arrested. Marques ordered the guards at ‘ks to be doubted, and intimated that ‘a force to take Garay from his prison uid be delivered. When evorybody lies, who had been locked in each long as the resources of diplo- not exh ir the Fren were ao‘ cranny of his prison for Mr. tleman was quietly sent oy 8 private Marshal Bazaine’s house; rte was after; bat the editors of Patria o who nave partici- in most of tho honorable dealinge of rr “gone i chief, Not a word can be éaid injuriously "@ character or conduct, who ten most re- |, @ consistent and temperate liberal, of the French intervention and its Ortega's arrest has destroyed the French eptertained of securing the evacuation of tho capital. treats with tho tiborals in the ‘Besighborhood for an exchange of prisoners, and their meafer approach to the city of Toluca, which commands of Mexico to the west, and opeus intercourse and the State of Guerrero, is to be pat in the wal Riva Palaeco, the same liberal chief of Bazain present of three hundred Martinez, Carvajal and others, subordi- ders, at a meeting in Pachuca, solemnly ity to the government of Juarez and Ortega, his measures, aa his coalition with the @onservatives. These officers also bave bean invited to ome nearer the capital to be ready with their forces on the Fyne the French army to co-operate with Porfirio Porfirio Diaz, as meriting, from his humane con- ‘dirot pon mg more confidence, ia called to the com- weand of affairs, Agents have been sent to quicken hie ‘maroh, and itis expected that within ten days he will be in YP ) to enter Mexico by one gate asthe Feeach withdraw through its opposite. Arrangements ere making likewise for the restoration of the olty Cor- i HE i i I i i ii i f 5 5 i z 5 rm i | ' 5s ereeyti assashe iis and judgment will render unnecessary the ‘of foreign residents for their own safety that of the inhabitants at large. Such an dion, only justified ina lact resort, would, un be offensive to the Mexican tat commander of the ‘ of, fe Bul either has Gonera! Marquez discovored the propriety of Gurnishing him with arms, nor the forcigners discovered bidden qualifications for the command Caornavaca is still closely becet by the forces from the Teyva. The goverumeni dare not ‘ince Marshal Bazaine's refusal to lend f three hundred Zouaves to drive the aloo within the valley disables them undertaking any raili(sry operations beyond the incon Galtarto, with his otficera, hag just his adhesion to Juarez against the om- favor he Lad beeu inthorio milisating. 18th Inst, was to loave Gradalajara wit! men and opter into active campaign to- Luis and Guanajuato, continues at Qu where Mejia joined his retreat from San Lt ‘hes generals have nie. euccess jn izing and the want ‘of money and UTE ! f if if I i 5 equipping an from arms, as well ave tee | ietrust fol eure the former qovernme! ul ire. Sia mont 0 pe eone. his 13 coanequence of allies, ithdrew to Or'zaba, int alice, nd SO ee abn be cone fe Fe General Monde, tm the State of et yy ty a af haglen vers in cou bitanon Me destare thelr noc: z ste | F : 4 ao Bee See: Onetom House questign remaint in atu gus, dos Deke sn eed NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16. ee MAP. OF: AGNAS CALIENTES< CoaNinnw WOH WK Bsn Rowe Sow. GORANI de QaLanno.Con. 3.700 Merchants afraid to employ the offer of French armed interference to oxtract tl Capitalists remit by every convoy their funds, Wit a week Con ead hein — ee have = away $600, jor. Teran $300,000, two among: many Layo who fear more the exaciions of Marquez, Miramon and Lares than the excesses of the liberals. ‘This Mr. Mier. Teran was assessed {by the Finance Min- ister in the amount of $30,000, which was collected by an armed force, to whom Mr, Toran observed, he could not resist the bayonet, and therewith threw the key of his patent lock safe to them. The bogey Bed journal which has caught up the echoes of the silenced Patria, closes a long and search- ing article upon the “anomalous” bebaviour of the French in this wise:—“This is her the place nor the fume to examine or estimate the new policy which has deemed proper to adopt in the Mexican ques- tion; but it seems to us, not only proper but necessary, ‘that the imperial Mexican government, in order to know its own elements of life, in order to turn them to proper account, in order to ascertain if it be or not in a position ‘to maintain itself in power, and, last of all,sin order to obviate a serious conflict in the Arst city of the country, Ought to solicit of the representatives of France a dis- tinct reply to the following questions:—First, will the French army leave the places, which it actualiy holda, jeaving the imperial government of Mexico and agents to exercise their functions in them? Second, should their determination be otherwise, what will oe Bg yg noel Poy als — the means, with which they design carry io effect? The decision of these very important points would the byte ae og of the Mexican . erameut and of the Fr army, and either would re- establish between the one and the other complete harmony, to the avoidance of a ropetition of difficulties and contilete of authority yon plorable; or, in case or adverse to the established order of things, Would doubtless obviate the evils that result from un- Certainty on occasions so delicate and critical as the present. We desire tue decision of these points in behalf of the country in general and of tho city of Mexicd in ar.” Not one of the two diplomats, Marshal or Commis- sioner, we veniure w anticipate, will trouble himself to reply to thee most natura! and home questions. Polite- ness and are no longer proitable to France with the Mexicans, and been ee ae een ne ~ Bome future intervention perhaps in Japan, per! in when the Suez ‘canal shail flont the Gloire to India, The Are Nouvelle more than intimated something of another intervention om diferent terms and in @ different maw of in be Tenor of Mexico. This Menace, most graciously emphasized, appeared some toate ago; and Fa Ro atteution has been given to the subject, i the Henaiy ask Mr. Seward to settle that int before closing his correspondence on the French Taterteronce in affairs of this continent? A teply has boon received to the inquiry whether the French should take Maximilian sway by force if he re- fased to abdicate, From the Tuileries the French agents are instracted to leave tho.£mperor Maximilian to his fate, ald he decline to accompany the army On fis re- Urement from Mexican territory. State of Affairs in the Valley and Why of Mexico—Meji: -Resiqnation--His Succes. sorBad Effect ‘of the Change—Miramen’s French Levies Leave Him—Ortega’s Pros- Uge Lest-A Tergiverenting Ex-Minister of° the Empire—Robdles New Advises Max te GLeav i bias Mecxi00, Jan. 29, 1867. ‘The history of the empire of Mexico is being daily ciroumscribed within the narrow limite of the valley in WHICH ite capital in seated. The imperin) forces are all Concentrating at the city, bere to make a last stand in a cause which, though for a moment it might ve sustained Dy the frenay of hate and dospair, must shortly perish from the lack of cvery principle of vitality or duration. General Marquez, now virtually ruie? Of the destinies of the Ubureh party, has called in from every direction the various commands of the departments yet held by the imperialists. Mondez arrives to.day from Michoacan, leaving that State t6 the liberals; Texcaco has been evacuated; Cuernavaca ix occupied by General Leiva with the forces of the south Palacios has, om retiring with the garrison, come to swell the numbers that aro to dofend Mexico, Miramon alone refuses to obey the eummons to Riva Palacio is in Toluca, from which the government troops had been withdrawn. Marques, ‘with these several divisions and other fragments, reckons that be will unite at least ten thousaed men in defence of tho capital, and expresses his determination of seoing the inhabitants die of hunger rather than yiold the city to the liberals, The prospect of being at the mercy of this assannin upon the departure of the French has given # Rew impolse to the migration of residents; and foreign. ors expecially confess that the time has arrived to look (o thoir safety, now that General Marquen i¢ to hold au irresponsible command. The terror has been increased W goede \sather watt Wiatk | by actroular from the French government inviting its milliary in the Mexican service to return to France with the expeditionary corps, and by a notice of the delay of the peers for Vera Cruz until the 1st of February, in order that French subjecta who desire to accompany the army may have more time (o prepare to leave by eonsiders- tions for their property’ have been driven to a sudden decision by the oe ent of various wealthy individuals who sought evade the Bo boage ot the forced loan assigned to them oy the Finance Minister. General Napoleon Zerman failed altogethor in his at- tempts to unite and organize forcigners into a guard for protection. Marquez very naturally viewed with jealousy the arm! Of 4,000 strangers who might operate against bis rear ¢! ld the city be attacked from without, and represented to the Emperor that Zerman wasa libera!, an American, and would employ the for- eigners against the empire. Our ex-brizadier's disin- terested scheme of sacrificing himself in a conspicuous ition was opposed also & mecting held at the Jnited States Consulate on the 23d, on a call thi fh the newspapers, The meoting resolved it t be injudicious to form any armed organization, as tending to arouse the suspicions of the government and offend the Mexicans | MEXICO. - ——— TAOOPS QVERET ARO Selves and receive the awount ia which they had been | the latter is concerned, and it is also believed has made taxed, an act of morality most faithfully complied with. A fow more instances of good taith and disinte: ness of this nature will revive the almost lost. expecta- tron rahigrd Mexi:ans being capable of establishing a per- manen' at all upon the course of events, His time and thoughts ete chiefly upon the question. of his stay or de- Pparture, bis abdication or continuance in a tottering . He oither believes or is made to say that he will not gratify and give the French @ color for evacuation of the country by leaving voluntarily. exproased a few days the determination to remai and in proof thereof pointed to his — just dra: ws Again he announces that be tionary army. "rent structions not to faterfere longer in milian shall choose to take confine their influence measures which go to demonstrate the futility farther reliance upon their (pres Dna is done by the publication of circu’ said, all mon in the the nearest French detachment, and the reproduction of the twenty-first article of the Code Ni informing generally, who regarded, partioularty at this moment, | French subjects of ‘the penalties attached to and follow- movement of ey an ‘of the sort as an inter- | ing their mill service under the banners of a foreign ference with the national righte—a point upon which | Power, However intelligible may be all these intima- these people are ai present peculiarly sensitive. It was to his Majesty their effect can never be decided that citizens of the United States should be while Maximilian’s stay is ive of any ready at the summons of the Consul to appear at any father Fischer and his coalition. Gon- time and placo; to which effect those presont subscribed es frankly told the Emperor that he should their names and noted their respective residences. Zer- | have retired from the country twe months and man has the credit-of the best intentions towards*him- | that his continuance must beattended only with the self and mankind at large—honor enough to soothe the | vain expenditure of life and property. But while the discomfitare of heroic deeds and a loca! reputation. soft persui A priest. engage Max’s ear, the General ay to whom ene of the three military | honest counsels of a mau of sense aro interpreted as the divisions into which Mexican territory was divided by | ginister opinions of an enemy or of » wearied friend- imperial decree was entrusted, bi on account of fil | ship, . health, given up his command to General Severo Clis-. AQ anonymous communication comp! of the tello. Mejia joined: Miramon at Queretaro after | failure to the eeveral servants, prof and abandoning San Luis Potosi. ‘The pretext of ill health is, of the civil list, having been shown to his therefore, most significant in tho leader who controls | Majesty, he ordered a notice to published advising throughout the mountain revion the largest inflaence. | all ‘creditors of the imperial house to it = Severo Castillo, the best qualified by military education | go! and provided for their payment by the sale of and strength of character of any of the imperial f. bis plate and eguipages, wi are now advertised in als, is, unfortunately for his imasier's cause, a white | the newspal acing city, He has likewise manifested man, and enjoys but little prestige in the country the command of which Mejia bas resigned to him, Miramon has been seriously damaged hy this Lg fete ines of bis brother-in-arms, and more ro by the circular Moershal Bazaine. Upon the pubiication of ite c6ntents Mejia, to whom the Marebal Lad s:jdreased amost letter requesting “him to give publication to the wishes of the Jriperor Napoleon, all the French soldiers under the order of Miramon at once determined, to leave, Siramon called ont his Mexican: t ap the Frenchmen and commanded them to lay down their ara il strip off their uviforme; the arms and uniforms belonged to the Mexican government; they, . idence Mi ight tary hi nee Father Fi asions of y } ony | pay th others, yi goner. pers from entire Marshal private, near Ori tue Oantom at the imprisonment 4 — who a to imposed Please Minister ot Hacienta, or Finance. While these different acta prove Maximilian’s kindness of heart, they also show, by the existcnce of abuses which claim his inter- ference, his incapacity for the thorny position he pretends to hold, heavy convoy leaves on the Ist of Fe! Pe me Mars takes Tae epattons from the city on ail be abandoned to the lamb. may the soldiers, bolonged to Bazaine, aud they should de: shalt ob mark as eu or a8 Clviliana from his limits, Thig litue aten . Frouch, it ns sili ferts there se Jeft him with the loss given 4 i trenched camp at Ori: designed, division the presence of Freuch ora, and with jzaba, A rumor coming from a French journal, hat six hundred infantry. At last dates he wae near | and republished here, to the effect that ten thousand men Leon endeavoring to enlist men and extort money, in | of the Expeditionary would remain it the close which exertions (he inhabitants were not co-operating. of the next summer on Mesican territory, is wanting in The advance of the liberals has kept pace materially’ | iroth, as best authority can be with the concentration of the conservatives (for it is no Messra, Lohse & Sona, doiained in @ question of republic and empire), and far out- Mexican authorities, were it tu moral resuits. Gonzalez Orloga hat livered to them by a of denounced throughout the couniry, and resolutions. to identify and receive hie disavowing and ting hia pretensions, other too in the matter, the jo cont the sen peal of the liberal — Ker affair having boen acevpted ‘Bow holds his subordinates under proper conti authorities here, Rreskacorseeral uate == un the cf Cautious, nnd eon a VERA CRUZ CORRESPONDENCE. from quarter, Precaution of Ii appear an Insult to the good. Tath of a Pen rehg of Imperial Emt- were there uve repeuted examples of & = z—Aaxtety ter the Trans over and again upon the Mexicans, who word of ene officers. ae Corona passed throngh Guadalajara onthe 18th {i to Unive greta eel CF liberal hear Queretaro, Whien <:.; they expected to enter 15,000 men, and at ones crash should he resistance, These are but preliminary moves the Co pent Though necessarily slow, they and strangers who now rel: the liberals for saf » layed. Such is the appear to life and Teeny, a too Tour de of Marques, founded om ant Juarez is to arrive at overeat strengthen the different military are given ‘be nearer the poone of. actual’ oj credit his government apocryphal paM ap eb a — iil will towards fue and intercourse w! reign wath Juarez and his party. The jah ‘pol nad = without Leg of Foo gig ad P mi nown that ali rel Rovornments which Tecogpized the ‘Empire My 3 feextio vsoad, and that to ronew thoso relations new ministers. must be appointed by their respective courta, the retail trade throughout the entire hencefoich prohibited to foreigners, Thie aimed at the Leng by hegre’ who, ty have monopolized ty little ehop business in city and beyond its district, ba phen ict. Fortunately i Toroed toang bad py of Bazaine’s Circa. lar te French Soldiers—Marqnez, Forced Loans and the Vern Cruz Merchants, &o, Vera Cava, Feb, 8, 1867. Notwithstanding the junta of January 14 ana the Polite invitation to Maximilian of a large portion to re- main in Mexico as Emperor, and notwithstanding it ts given out at Mexico that he is prepariig for 8 three months’ siege of the city, yot it is positively certain that Maximilian intends to leave Moxico immediately, if he has not already loft. His private horses and carriages ‘Were disposed of at auction ton days since, On the 28th of January twenty-dve pieces of his baggage arrived here by Tail And fs waiting its ownor here at Vera Cruz, Farther, the preliminary arrangements for his safe ‘pas- sage to this point from Mexico city were mate some days since, He will be here within one week, and, it ‘Might not be unwise to predict, will sail hence for Mira mar in the Dandola, although bis own steam yacht is here, and be may finally conclude to go in her, He will Pass over the rond from Paro tel Macho to Vora Orns, with bis staff and retinue and a train of first class cars, preceded by a train fiftoen minutes distant and contain. ing & special guard of 600 Austrian troops, Marebal Bazaine ip said to bo in full accord with Digs, #0 far a8 bis evacuation of the citt and it4 oooupation by such disposal of munitions of war as will be for the best Jaoterests of the liberal government. Vera Cruz is full of French families on the way home, end the seats in the stage from Mexico are engaged a month in advance, Robberies occur as frequent as ever. ‘The French are moving heaven and earth to bein Feadiness to embark upon their-transports, which lett France in December taxt, and which aro hourly looked for, Not any have Je:arrived im the harbor or off San Juan, although it wescurrent last evening that two steam, transports bad made their appearance coming from sea Jnst before sumset, They appeared about thirty mites distant, and a steamer was to meet it, despatched to mee Fraare noe ‘has not yet roturned. Small of mee constantly arriving from the fnterior siuco I Jast wrote, ‘and the arrival of the trang will be the signal for the arrival of all the troops the imperial railroad can Five million more of silver (Mé Maximilian dollars have left Mexico for France, 82,600,000 on the 224 and $2,500,000 on the 27th of January. The safe caret. a snore ‘amount is anxiousiy looked for by Circular No, 6,626 of Marshal a.copy of which Teead you, is stout i contra wih te orders and juducements prevalent mont since, inviting French officers into the army of Maximil'an — ing officers from their regular commands ia Frenoh army, for the of giving the ald of their experi+ nee to the imperia! Mexican afmay'—- ~ Orncvn an No. 5,626. pqvaatrns ExrrniTioxany Conps 1 M: Heal The Marshal recalls to the attomtion of French aii ty now In Mexico the provisions of article twenty-one, cade who, without the consent of his ment, shall take service ni foreign military body, sh: Sao shall Baas i ae a ation oo o rerament. and shall ot resuver ihe * Fronch citizen exeept on fulililing the conditions: ty site become naturalized in & country. Provided in. a! Cases, that Le shall remain liable (o the puaisbment or: Ly the eriuniaal code agais Of France as ns any Nn accordance with the above it is e. not only that all Frenchmen bound to servies in the army shal ately join their corps. but alee that alt have out their ‘terms of eniistment and wish to enter the miltiary service of Mexico should take messtres to the regis: Buthority to that effect from the a permission will be gran all such will have to without delay, ot from Al previgus, & ereniar are levee order acahe . of the Marahas Comm eudes-{-Chite?, the whic Salm Salm =~ -a¢ ums Tan, 26, 1867. ‘The way of the traveller in Mexico ia hava. Jt # no light matter to be shut up for ten or twelve bours at & stretch in # siz by nine diligence with the fag und of 0 cireus company, including the performing dogs Noro fiddied when Rome was burning; and Chiarini is on his ‘way to Mexico 10 celebrate the fall of an empire by an equestrian performance. Thus it happened that your correspondent, on bis journey from Paso del Macho to this point, found himself in canine company. Very unpleasant company, these same canines wore in pri- vate life, whatever their morits as public performers, Searcely more agreeable was that eallow Mexican ip the coups, who beguiled the tedium of the road by « ool- tection of guerilla anecdotes, pointing out one spot where @ French Opera company had been robbed and outraged; qnother place whore qp American. miteh recombling Betide'? Ghd bebe barbervusly mutilated and lett te | wre t te cath, beoanse ho attempted to roalst the gueet laa, and never failing to discern tn every horseman trains of mutes, pass the Wage 4 faulstaotion or intel nt Ther very mulew maa cot more sagacity than for os se Ereuen the knowing brutes halt w: it ‘ . rowd from ‘@ thwack, which spedlenoe ‘has 5 & tion of over the end of an which = evel ‘go disastrous tothe country. Ni of the ind occurs. ° Under a brolling sum, as the bottest July in New York, with ciouc dust so-dense thas erect ste te fs Guana eh jum! roug! the it redeeae or the confederate ek! out a miserable Sameon in Wmsnidaies, saturo's plenty, livi or, and 80 to Orizaba, s Pyyfactraian’s quondain palace hore is tiff vacadt, an poaxtbly before long will shelter its ‘august occupant once more o? hia final frem the country. The goods dea.or and the tobacconist rented ¢ 4 the building when the Em; lived there are the sole soprenahtet ives uf wanened Tapely. ‘There are oog: German 1.00p8 in the town, batthey: en row'e for Vera Crug. F T was not a little su 5 £0 find tn the’ o mandant of this post no ocker {han the geal! Satm-Salm, “the bully boy with ti Fourth rho will remem! wi served in the Artay of the Cimeraaa, bls gallant caicieate asa soldier than for ‘his re fd imperial chief, is. pee ey the Frowh avd ing w& i Hands—Whelesale Press Gang—A Rival Republic in Contemplatton—: te be President—Revegaition me to write a burried despatch to the taldnight we resugie our journey. More trocy down, more dust, and, if possible, more Guerilias to the right hand and to the left; authe Stories of stages stopped, a dozen or two persons an@ passengers, ladies included, to the skin; plenty of wayside crosses, each marking ‘spot where so point that the earliest intelligence of the plans ‘et Juarez is communicated, and it is from this cy that: movemsnts of Porfirlo Diaz, who will play the primelpal part in the approaching drama in Mexico City, are reg- ulated. The tects I subjoin have been obtalndd: fiom original despatcheg received here from Porfirio 1az and from confidenti=t a in the*city’ of “Moxico-way must be taken With’ a Certain allowance Of salt,’ which, usheppily, midst al- to verify them, I believe them tebe correst.! sind Yresident Juarez has left Zacatecas for: His journey from that point to the ‘three hundred and fifty miles, will of necessity be Jverez i ue i Ei i} ie 4 z He