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4 xIco. ! £4 adb Maximilian Leaves Queretaro to Attack the Liberals. Mexican Press Comments on the Inter- yention Loans. HISTORY GF THE CORDOVA COLONY. &e. &e, &e. New Oneas, March 12, 1867. Mata s advices of the 7th instant say that dates were received on the preceding evening, by stage, from the interior of Mexico to February 25. ‘At Queretaro on that day a strong column under the sand of the Emperor Maximilian marched out to » position occupied by the northern republican It was probable that the expected battle between milian and the liberals would take piace within a Corona’s army in Zelaya, about ten leagues west of Queretaro. General Porforio Diaz was near Puebla, which place was occupied by the imperialists, under General Gdélvez. ‘Advices from Brazos of the 7th inst. say that Cortina is reported at Meier, with a decreasing force—all Aimeri- cans. The other foreigners, except four, have deserted The report says he has only sixty-five mon. fromjhim. ova and Orizaba Abandoned by the Im- inlists—They Retreat to Vern Cruz—De- sertion Among them through Fear of Yel- low Fever, &e. Cor Wasnmetox, March 13, 1867. The following is an abstract of a letter received to-day by way of New Oran General Bazaine arri The liberals, under Sal taken Orizaba and Cord ed to this bat it ore they rea Rodrigues The imperialists re- t they will all devert as they are very much v fover, Puebla. General Benavideo with a large force. He o occupy Vera Cruz when abandoned by the n with the interior is entirely cut D commun! Thi off; we have no news west of Orizaba. The French are between this city and Paso del Macho. ‘They all expect to leave early this month, Their iron-clad fleet is still her OUR VERA CRUZ CORRESPONDENCE. Passports Required at Vera Craz—Excobedo’s Deerce Against the Foreign Prisoncers— France and Mexican Loans. Vena Crvz, Feb, 28, 1867. There are no mails between Vera Cruz and Mexico city. A great state of disquietude and uncertainty is said to exist, and the movements and intentions of the impor- stant cha in the pending drama are not known. vellers are nitted except with passports as per e following decree issued at Vera Cruz, February 23, 1867 -— Domingo Bureau, Impe ments of Vera Cr In the Emperor’ \l Commissary for the Depart- in and Tehtantepec:— e, and in the exercise of the facul y isp to lend security and g adopted: as also those of giv: raniees to the citizens sl 0 the authorities the r of boing acquainted with the persons who legally pass within thetr respe: jurisdictions; Th decree the ollowing:— x 1, Ali those who, from whatever motive, have to of Vera Cruz from the date of in each place, shall provide pasport which the political authorities he Departine ication ot th with a di shall furnish them fre» in the expital and municipal towneof the other districts ‘Thos are also obliged to pro- mselves with a ument which they will y request from al authorities ii their place of embarkation on paying th ry duties, Ant. 2 All those who (rirel in, the department withont ll be detained panded over the place ir place of {, the necessary inquiry having be dealt with according to law. sptalns shall prevent the exit of all cut attheirofices the necessary pass. he Heal, the military and miu- responsible in so far as concerns ‘of this deerce. ted, published and circulated, &c. T order t Viera Cx I send you the following orde: of Escobedo relative to the execution of foreigners captured by him at an Ja cinto; also an article from the Courrier of Mexico, to prove that Mexico owes notbing to France, Order of General Escobedo with reference to sundry Frouchinen, siated to be one Lundred and one, captured by bim near San J. artmont of Zacatecas :— The constitutional forces have boen tremes with the armed stran war against this nation, the most un. at registered an our annals, when these at borne a bau which, althongh an enems manner shelter der the recognized rights of But when that separated Ir from th inter wished to {impose upon us, and wh who serred it wil more belonging to. sail fag or to ¢ hav voluntarily engaged tsemselves in the service of the usurper, to mix themselves in uw. domestic dissensious—inflame the pas- sion# and agitate civ"! war—committing moreover depreda- tions and outrages which hi manity aud eivili hose wh Date (such as were © byt vaded the capital of ¢ the rig to all con sn themseives into banditti; dec morals and repose of sodiety, and render it indispensable to them an example and proper warning, and satisfy @ public Vengeance for the horrible ravages they have ited. clore this commission wili im! ex ail the fore hand in the glo 1 cept the wounded s-reudering ait account of the execution of this decree, de., 4c. MARIANO ESCUBEDO. To Colonel Miavet, Parsctos. San Jaciyto, Feb. 3, 1°87. The Currier of Mexico (French), examining the sub- ject of the loans raised in Paris, is of opinion that Mex, ico owes nothing in respect of them. “it appears (0 us,” says the Currier, “that in France there is alaw relative to minors. Any guardian who borrows for minor, on rendering his accounts ought to prove that the funds borrowed have been used in favor of the minor. Welt, France has been for four years in the part of a guardian to Mexico. Let us see in what mannor the funds borrowed for Mexico have been used by France:— ‘The first Mexican loan, according to the France. Convention of Miramar, amounted to.... 168,000,000 The secund producsd Tota’..... seees France bas reserved reasury ag: ‘ommission of Finaves, to rennburse Or government for the war and other emenses..... Tota, Balatee..... Thus (xen of the 338, duly to ener the Mexican treasury tor the fied by the convention of Miramar. But not even these 34,000,000f. have entered—since it has beon necessary to deduct from them the expenses ambi? Emperor's journey, the of the extraordinary jects dora, and 10,000,000f, employed in various ob- What could may 4o with the miserable sum placed = at her disposal, Duta: swat of the French treasury in Jexico And withont reticence, we find in a dispaten of the Monieter of Foreign aifurs in France, dated Jan, 14, 1866, the following passage:—“Our expedtion had no otver end io view than to realize the revindication of Our credits and thegreparations due to our nation. If we have judged it useful to lend our belp to the efforts of a Nal that asp red to recover order and welfare under © Tegular government, if our legitimate taterests cou! Us to aid the principle whieh consecrated so gorcFoUus & task, our co-operation ought to have limi Itself to the precise bounds that the conventioe Of Miramar intended to determine. The reciproca! rules ed in this act have fixed the proportion aad the condttions im which we were licensed to em) the forces of France Jn the consolidation of afriewtly government, It were superfluous to dwell on 1}~ motives which they place on the court of Mexico, »twithstanding the rectitude of their intentions, ip rie manifest impossibility of aecom: Piishing such ont eee future. ve have wi "produce ail this paragraph of despatch of Mr. Drayn de Lauys becouse it aan os & pontion to prove, without possible repiy, the responsi- bility of France in th ne, aS We bA\e endeavored to show in the preceding article, and the irresponsibility of Mexico Which Constitutes the object of this. Wo you wish, Sefior Minister, to confine us to the conditions of the comvention of stimmar? Roe ft go! Bat then, why bave you conducted us, of rather, why have your ts conducted themseives in the manner they have? The convention of Miramar stipuiated that the sams of he loan or loans should ve applied to something usefal to the empire which you ie here to found ; DUL AF What purpose have those Yo pay the French army and nothing more, You had engaged to form a national army. Whore is this aring which you ought to have rai Nowhere. The en of the chiefs whe command since your retirement has been necessary.to put any people on a war footing. You had engaged to leave here daring six years eight thousand men of she foroign legion. Where are they You made them fol: low you. And thus you say that Moxico has not complied with her engagement with you, Juhor eay that you have not accomplished wih Jiexico, Rather gay that you have been ly served y in come here to object speci: ont Agonta, who have preferred their to those of the enferprit@ hich they Badyiake, Bus do ng ays? others Of ee injury ; which they have done here. They have dono nothing, create! nothing, regenerated nothing. ‘They have des. troyed, they bave ruined everything, Such has been the work of the mtervention. ‘And do you wisb, after this, to make Mexico responsible for the expense which you have incurred against her interests? We will close, repeating, as in our fret article, “real responsibility of France for the loans,’’ adding “no reaponsibiiity on the part of Mexico.” GUR ORIZABA CORRESPONDENCE. The Cordova Colony—Brillf Dismal Renlities—Causes graceful Conduct of the ot History-Generals Shelby Smith—Kindness of Marshal Bazain: Confederate Oticers—Sickness and the Colony, &c. Onizapa, March 8, 1867. ‘The Cordova colony is a thing of the past; the last two families bowed themselves out of the village of Carlotta a week since, Others went last month, six months ago, and during the interim, There were no sorrowing, nor sighs, nor tears; but rejoicing and gladness as cach one shook the Mexican dust from his shoes, and turned his face gulfward. The streets and plaza look a little de- serted, and the broad mangoes wave their branches in the winds, and sing, in company with the sad night breeze, a sort of mournful requiem. Sterling Price, now in the land of civilization, sat under the shadow of these noble trees, and slept there, too, with Ex-Governor Harris, without sbelter from storm and tempest. It was there he composed those romantic missives that, published in the United States, sent out hundreds of fortune hunters, and exiles and adventurers to gather the silver bars and harvests of sugar, and coffee and cotton, and sleep in the lap of this Aztec paradise. You ought to have seen the new comers, brimful of joy, dash on horseback into the village last summer, lauding the emp're; the chivalry of the Mexi- can race—looking in wonder from the mangoes towards the plaza, that the weeds and shrubs had hid, asking for the spring of cool water that was not there, and the ico cream saloons, and ice lemonades, made of Orizaba ice bars and snow, and bending thoir cheeks to the cool winds from the mountain peak, which for the first time they learned was forty miles distant, Colonist faces were a study at that time, going in and out of the village. Going in, with prospect've music from the crystal fonntain, the sight of snowslides from the peak, and orange trees, yellow with golden fruit; bananas hanging in buge branches; figs and peaches mingling their rich colors; distant coffee groves in bloom; cotton fields, white for the harvest, and sugar mills, with the pusy hum of operatives; the click of mill hammers from the Rio Seco=all romance and hum. bog and swindle, But people came and swarmed over the valley, and hoed, and built, and planted, and praised the soil, the climate and government; talked lightly of, and swore roundly about, the “red, white and blue.’” These brave men—generals, colonels, captains, gover- nors, judges and preachers—swearing eternal fealty to Mexico and eternal hatred to the United States, pro- mised never to set foot on soil where the Stars and Stripes wave. There was prospect, indeed, of an early and for midable rival on the western shoresof the Gulf; and as the multitude came the valleys filled, and settlements extended outward and southward thirty miles. The roads and donkey paths everywhere, the thoroughfares of families and men and pack mules—all hunting new lands, no matter where or whose, to grow rich, and creat, and wise, and happy under the genial skies of Mexwo, All the while the village grew, and people came; lots were high and speculation was rife, Increase brought selfishness; the supply was already heavy; that pro- duced dissensi strangers were not welcomed as be- fore, and land could not be had at any price around this charmed spot, Some with wire edge worn off in ono week turned back, and left all the way and st home an ‘nvarnished and damaging record of the place and country, But then letters had fonnd their way into print; old generals and disappointed judges and govern- ors indited fair stories and Munchansen tales, that did the work. Golden apples were thick on trees, and silver nuggets were Iyinz round loose everywhere; the vere clourts showered down beefsteaks, and empty pala and blossoming coffee haciendas, acres of mazucy, cotton fields resdy for the laborer, waiting, all wailing for the coming cotonist. They nover dreamed of disap- poiniment and ruin, nor the cold fares of native. Span- iard and Frenchman set against them; of the freezing sentences dropnod from the lips of the land agent here or the ealm indifference of founders at the colony; no, only of dollars and downy ved2, perenn’al showers and anger mills, Those were the delnded ones; honest, many of them, but most meanly and villanously taken in. ‘The mon who founded the colony had acras of Iaud, hut gave none, would eell none to the anxtous colonist. The adventurer came too, the dishonest man, the specu: lator and swindler, and harbored here; robbing his countrymen, the natives, every one he could; then went home again to practia morals in his fatherland, The wave went to Cordova, overran that town, so that people woke from their sleep, put up their rents, their goods, their lands, and waited, We had American hotels, livery’ stables, American hacks and mannfactories, all in aweek, Then these political and pions brethren bid against each other, ran up prices, bought and sold and speculated, borrowed money of each other, opened large honses for hotels that never pai, monopolized bnsiness, broke, and then fled the conniry, leaving their friends and the natives unpaid and bankrapt, A large portion of them came to grow rich, eame without monev; per- suaded others Into w ld apecutations that they knew were awindles, rejoiced 1a fine outfits. flourishing and flashing signs that meant notwing; spent and played at faro and monte, and then went ® night, in disguise, any way to evade the law and their Victims, to ths States, Thoy ac- cepted land of the government—it cost thom nothing— sold it to the unsophisticated and believing; drank, ont- eroded the veriest ereacer, and. cvraing the country and people, went home as they came—robbers, drones and rascals, When tho rush was at its height diseontent grew apace and marmurs waxed loud, the fathers ¢ the concern were roundly and devervedly denounced. Vd Sterling Price, the good, kind old man, with tho fire «f battie gone, exiled, now tradnced in his age and helps lessness; Harna, ex-Governor of Tennessee, strong and unchanged by reverses, with a voice clear as when he rode trinmphant on the fletd of Shiloh —bim they spared not in their wrath; Jadge Perkins, of ", in Paris, the head of the land buraw b of bis words when colonists come, proud polite and uncommun:cative, withoxt shadow of sympathy for his. countrymen or for any one—him they tracked down and traduced, had him suspended; bad the le disgraceful colonizing scheme, Maury and all, abolished; loft him in his glory and solitude, and homeward they journeyed, monevless end disappomted, in si e disgust with counts officials and themselves. Then came trouble with th natives, Indiscreet_men squatted on private iands; fed and blustered; appropriated by right of posses niayed the rol of overgrown fools; made trouble, diszraced themselves and the Amorican nam ended at last in their capture—in the destruction o 1 ttle proj y. a four weeks’ iwhrisonmen! on starva tion tortilla rations, and 9 peremptory order to quit the c pantry, Then also syevecded other raids on the Car- Jotra District, inte the village itself, and a general scat- terment of citfzens followed, loss of property, and tremor in the founders themeelver, ‘rom that ti the colony grew weak and people lost faith init The French wero wi lly, the natives hostile, the Ameri- cans demoralized. The Ymperial Railway Company went bogging, stopped work, and sent employ¢s and contract- ors hither and.thither without pay or even the promise: of it, The tide swept backward then. Panic stricken, they sold ovt; sacrificed their sections of land, crops of corn, cottox and ‘obaceo, their cabins and borses and hoes, and downward, toward Vera Cruz, on foot, horse- back or wagon, they journeyed. When too late land owners grew generous made voluntary offers of tracts and lots of lang in and around the village gratia, Then it wae that the selfish and speculative spirit took fright, then buctness flagged end crimination followed, and men swindled each other, litigated In the courts, sued for trivis! = sum id, through — spite, quarrelied and leafed, and drank snd grew tur- Dulent; ridiculed the Mexican religion ana dsnreciated the country and jeopie. Prices went down in &@ weak: rents ard Credits went the self eame way; and men wha cams Withonts dollar and specntated upon thoit fellows, with hotel bills enpaid, stole, ike thieves as they were, out of the country, and landed om the other side of gulf with tales of robbery and misfortune and nati treachery im their mouths. Soores, who had sworn, in their toward the empire, never to set foot again on Areerican soil, were seized with leave-taking—calls of Ousiness from the Stores—started on a visit—disposin, pe fad their plautations and traps for a song, and waited not till on board a steamer, and in raptures swinging their bats for the Stars and Stripes and thank- ing Providence and he fates that Mexico waa out of sight forever. The United Statos, with free schools, and free negroes tack’d yn, was not so finished a humbug after all; although cauritses and barroom gangs, fired by st wrongs and brady smashes, did expend bits of corrigible logic tocrush the litte American republic, What a breaking up followed ina few month:—a swal- lowing of bitter terms and savage invective—in vulgar phraseology “dirt exing,”’ humiliating excuses trumped vp for going homs again—a pulling down of fiarin hotel signs—dropring of Newspaper notices and defian' lovter writing—a shirking Of f¥* contracts and a general swindling of honest men. Natives fessionals were putto the bingh and felt more thas over like honest men; and then com a system sf detraction in no Wise creditable to the American Chatscter, You could see blustering men “buttonholing” eact othor on the streets der colonization, toning miley the wrongs from yh they paving the way for aw, spectable retreat out of country, traculentiy se-king pardons, sacrificing aah as blus- tering bravado ever does he fell erly, fet! first; even the se Judes, e\-Senaior from Louisiana, struck + pushed of from Vera Crag, leat Was Instrumental in bringing hither to rough the triais and revolution alone; General Price, for whom there is Some slight palliation, broken down and famitiee nae grief, “left, wineot ree wealth acd hn!y and peace Fae Rese 06 Wail th cotant, rst to’ leave How te Oe ther home, it ons pT strangers to take bin excuse It it he can Har la merken eet mai et ent than his oo: gratis, more consist- moors, waited till the last footfall of re- a Colonists at Carlotta was heard d: then took ship for Havana." Shelby. falthfal to Bie test Drvualog, Waited Wo eve the last oug homeward way. He has been engaged in anew colonial enterrrise in Mexicn, which at prosent is no nearer om- pletion 4han it was four monthe ago. The present stormy times will discourage the bravest spirit Let me recite here a little scrap of unwritien history. tola me by acolone! of Texas cavalry, Th General Shelby, it will be remembered, was the moet cavalry officer west of the Mississippi. When the { of the confederacy wasa “fixed bog hlhaed with many other officers of the trans-Mississipp! ment, were eacamped at Marshall, Louisiana. Shelby, with others, conceived the plan of denosing Kirby Smith, who was incompetent and unpopular, and placing the supreme command tn the bands of some other officer, cross to the Brazos, raliy there al! confederate troops, make a stand at the river, and hold Texas; but in case of failure cross the Rio Grande, enter Mexico, atid decide the destiny of that country by arms. Generals Price, Buck- ner, Shelby and many other officers were pres- ent. Smith must resign or be at once do- posed by fore. A di bim (I will refrain from particulars), He the command was given to Buckner. Thus far things bad proceeded smoothly, Officers of divisions were hourly expecting orders to move, bat none came. Two davs afterwards Buckner and Price, to the amazement of all, mado a surrender of all their troops. I may be mistaken as to Price's icipation in the conference The undaunted Shelby, led in his refnsing to surrender, led his command through apd across the Rio Grande into Mexico. selling arms, as the public knows, to the liberals, his men scattered—some enlist. jag vaier the lil flag, some under the imperial. Others became colonists, and snbsequently went home. Brave and generous to a fault, had he, in the beginning. Joined his fortunes to the etars and strines, instead of the ill-starred confederacy, Sheridan would have had in him a most formidable rival. Hindman, with the will to do, had ten much fear of the “wolf at his door,” and most gracefully lowered his colors, applied for pardon, and is now on the way to New Orleans. Po-erty was, in most cases, more potent than patriotism: and, indeed, many an bonest man, who came upon principle, was at last whipped by prospective starvation to take the backward step. Robbers put an end to agriculture; the railway work was suspended in- definitely. What else wan there in Mexico to put bread into the mouths of dependent ones? It was an open, quiet tug between principle and starvation, and the latter won—always ns, of money- won. Yon have heard, perbay leas men footing it all the way along the coast to Texa: and of hollow-eved want on the streets of Cordova an: Carlotta, The first was not true; the latter was, Prodigality and pride, American characteristios, travalled all the way to Mexico and were deeply bumili- ated. Money was thrown away in amusement and lost at monte that onght to have been hushanded for a rainy: day. Tandand hotel, all kinds of epecalations, swal- Jowed the few hundreds, and when circumstances com- pelled a retreat to the States, nothing was left to pay the passage, Repentance came when there was no re- mission: hundreds to be helped and none to help them. Not to mention the desperate means need to ald them in fightmg back to the fatherland, it will be doing but jas- tice to state that Marshal Bazaine and his chief of staff furnished transportation to Vera Cruz and passage free to Now Orleans and Havana, to many destitute Ameri- cans, Roeverly Tneker and Son (who, by the way, had been robbed seven times and snffered sundry injuries io addition. all in the space of eight months), with half a dozen others from the Carlotta Colony. accepted grate- fully the kindness of the French Marshal. Every clase and profession was represented in the colony But lawyers were briefless:and doctors barely managed to live, Preachers came, ton, brim foll of the divine affatus, strong in the faith of universal conver- sion to Protestantism. One read sermons awhile under the mangoes of Carlotta, then left his little flock to gather funds mm the States for a_temnle in th forests of Mexico. So he braved the yellow fover at Vera Crnz, suffered perile by Iand and sea, and, it is understood. made the necessary appeals for aid in the way of church collections, but never returned. A brave mis- sionary enme, promising, as his eves fell wpon the broad, green Cordova valley, to cover every hill with a chapel and turn the delded Aztecs by thonsends into the narrow way. Arrived at Cordova he wasted bis eloquence upon audiences of from five to ten for two enecessive Sabbaths, at least, and then went to teaming for a living. The ‘missionary effort was spasmodic— mule driving was no better; and in three months he took passage for the land ‘of pealm singing. funday schools and civilization. Convert a Mexican Catholic to Protestantism! the iden ftrelf is quite humorous— Americans left their piety on the other side of the Gulf; they tabooed sermon makers and homilies, ‘When their dead was lowered into the grave it was in silence, in haste, and without religious service. The amenities of life were scarcely recognized. The sick in many cases were neglected by countrymen and natives, and when the season of fever came on, and strong men dropped into the death sleep ina day the saddest sights were to be seen; ecores, there wore, of alle men on the streets, but none at the death bed; crowds in the barrooms and at billisrds, none at the burial. [sp-ak of the mas-; there were noble excep- tions Employment wasto be hat nowhere; eo men wrangled instead, fonght over their baities, fought each other—when opportanity offered, sued ea h other, shirked the payment of debts, borrowed and decamped, Tenndiated contracts and sales, reeled on the streets, 1m- sulted strangers, insulted citizens, bullied and bonsted ta the end. There aro a fer cases on record where these immaculate follows died their hon st coun- trvmen and made beggars of them, most shamefully robbed and flecced the unsuspecting natives, then ran away at night time —crossed the Gulf, entered a news- Parer office, and denounced heartily and roundly, with plous, pretentious horror, the whole Mexican race, cail- ing them robbers, murderers, treacherous—everything denunciatory, What a marvel it 1s that ten Figuera’s instead of one did not pounce upon them, good, bad and indifferent, and escort them, not to Oajaca, but to the Rio Grande, with the injunc- tion never to return, But to-day not a footfall is heard in Carlotta; ten months ago busy with bustling life and swarming with fortune hunters, tenantiess houses, weedy gardens, flelda of unharvested corn; ploughs, axes and hoes Iving where they fell; the mahogany buck- et hanging in the plaza well, and’ tall sprouts running riot with straets and prospective lawns, one is painfully reminded of a deserted town and a woodland wilderness. The lanted gentry, the speculative exiles who held their acres at fabutons pricas some ten months since, where arethey? The robber band of Figuaroa swooped down upon thom when arrogauec and velisiness were high in feather; when ofMluence and Mexican dollars in prospect. tve haunted their sloep and aparkled in their eves, aud when a poor, feotsore, brother Contederate could not get an inch of the precious land for love nor money, It must bo with a sort of savage pleasure that the deluded ones who were so heartlessly swindled, read how the iron features of that most finished official of the Cordova cirexmioention office settled down into a gray paleness, when he Jearned that his land rection was a bubb! his invested doubloons sunk into the bottomless an imperial hnmbag. I have heard it said that the colony deserved to fail; that it was a speclative enterpriso— the founders looking upon it only in the light of a money. moking machine; andindsed the condyct of many of these exiles warranted just svch a finale as has occurred, Insult a people of whom you ask a home; curse the man whose property you have basely appropriated? Be he vlack skinned Mexican, straght haired Aztec image Wershipper, no matter whom, yon deserve no particle of couieat when your thatched roof tumbles in, your cattle are driven off, corn tramp'ed down and yourself tramped off 1% captivity. [twas unfortunate for the good men who catne +s few honest. noble moa who quit ted home to avoid insult and hu ilintion, for all shared a liko fate—went down in th general melee and returned home, penniless and Usappoin'ea. Jt js 10 be presumed that men who pretend to exile themsetecs in a foreign land would be desirous of clinging to each other, strengthening each other and aiding each other, Bit Potty jealousies sprang in’o life st tho beginnteg: clans grew, like mushroons, in a night; Lnes (birds wt a feather) were drawn; then detraction commenced and scandal travelled, and m+n who served in tue army com- bined, in drunken brawls, to oppress, to bully and put down the weak, t» perpetuate wrong, defame honest colonists and defy justice, decency and Mexi- cin law, A Yankre was petted and shonned—noticed only when a loan or favor was asked, ( 9: troat in prospective, The Mexican never bad much tun in Americans He looked upon them as 8 grasping, a ditions, en ic, covetone, wise as serpents, sort ce, American ple. In Cordova, after one year's ex: character is associated with whiskey, ‘ia, rod ness, dishonesty and indolence. If any one Gonbts that let him apply, and he can have the bess refer. ences and siccaes’| Res (A het = Tye? mer chant he pen a caldes, In and acores of there, jative antipathy to our race may be offered in extenuation : let it be, I deai in facts only, In one month from this date, a colonist of Cordova telis me, not one American will be left in the place, There are but half a dozen there now, and all setting their houses in order for ‘ap early exit from the country. Not one will remain be- hind the retreating French army. No tears from the natives for ther feins. only rejoicing and gladness, no is the brief history of the Cordova colonization scheme. NEW YORK FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. tenertant to Warchousemen and Store- keepers. Atamecting vf the Executive Committee of the Board of Fire Insurance Companies, held on the 8th fust., the following regulations relative to warehouses were upanimously adopted :— First. That from all stores, warchoures or buildings occupied for merchandise purposes, in che cities of New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City and’ Hoboken, located in streets of less than eighty fect tn width, hi a fire proof iron shutters on front, rear and sides, on all the win- dows, (to bo fter the business hours of each day ‘by the occupants), the doors of which on the street front and one window on each floor, are #0 constructed that they ean be opened from the outside in case of emergency, a deduction of ton conts may be made from the dard rate; provided, such buildings have yn inspected and approved by the general Sur- veyor of this board, ‘Kecond-—That any store or building which stall have hoistways, dummies or elevators inside of said build- ings, aud without iron slides or coverings to tho sai oneach floor (to be closed at night by each occupant having the use or control of the same), ball be charged ten cents in addition to the standard rate of said store or building, Said iron slides or coverings in all cases to be iy cry and approved by the General Surveyor of the THE ATTEMPT TO BRIBE A JUDGE, TO THR EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Naw Yorn, March 13, 1867, In your issue of this date, under the head of “Court of Special Sessions,” and under the farther hoading of ‘Attempt to Bribe a Judge,” you state that Charles Ulmann handed Judge Dowhng an envelope containing $100, intended doubtless as & bribe; that the Judge severely censured auch conduct, and in reply the prisoner's counsel stated that he was informed Mr, Sha‘Ter was the mn Who advised Ulmann to pursue the above course of action. I say that the state- Ment that I advised such a course {is false in its incep- false in its utterance, false in Ty Ae any lawyer giving such advice should be QHAUNCEY SHAR! NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. CENTRAL AND SOUTH ANERICA. GEORGIA. CUR ATLANTA CORRESPONDENCE, The Military Bill—Chunge in Pabiie Senti- D tion in ss Wact of Capital, &c. Atiant4, Ga, Mareh 11, 1867. When suffrage was given to the negro the whole fabric of slavery fell, The patriarct-al institution had deep and broad foundations in the hearts of the people; and not until suffrage was given the slave was be made a free- man, True, the negroes will all be democrats, and this new eloment of strength to that party may serve to place it again in the ascendency. It is idle to say that the negro will remember with resentment his former master. Very rarely has this been the case. On the contrary the strong attachment between the two classes during the period of servitude has survived the change of relations, and the master’s interests will still be the servant's. Nothing has shocked the sensibilities of the people here more than the negro suffrage or Military bill. It was bad enough to free the negroes; still worse to allow them a hearing in the courts, It was a grievous hardship to force the Civil Rights bill on the people; but how can they endure to have the negrocs invested with all the rights of freemen—in short, to have them vote? And yet the tide of public sentiment 1s setting {n° that direc- tion. Only give them time to take breath and they will submit gracefully to this exaction. I see no danger to the industrial |e of the country from this measure. master, Necossity is a a The severe freshets on the streams between this city and Nashville having destroyed several railroad bridges, corn has recently a rise, en oe the ae month there have been bi it Into this Gate City two hundred thousand bushels of corn, which has been the maximum that the only road leading to the West could transport. From this point it is distributed throughout the State, What would the Stato do if it were now in rebellion? Half the people would perish, The Gov- ernor has left for Washington for instructions. The people are impa‘ient to ascertain who is to be the military commander of this district. The tone of the Papers is considerably changed since they have found Con; in earnest in its reconstruction measures, In- deed, they do not receive the patronage they did when they controlled the public sentiment of the State. Now that the nezro question is finally disposed of, and for- ever, attention, it is to be hoped, will be given to the resources of this part of the country, There is much room for entorprise and capital ia every industrial department. Capital being rendered secure by a strong military government, will seek iis level, and as it is abundant at «the North may be expected to flow here where it can be so profitably employed. Good farming lands can be bought for fifty cents an acre; the gold interest of the State, the iron interest, not to mention other mineral interosts, are but slightly appreciated. When they are ctpadt the State will be benefited, and the whole country besides, Many Northern men who came here have confesved their apprehensions in regard to safety for life, as well as roperty. All such apprehensions are groundless, There are few idlers and loafers, necessity having driven near- ly all to some kind of Inbor, A title patience on the mn of the Northern people, and everything will be well. THE MILITARY BILL AND THE IMPEACHMENT. [From Wilkes’ Spirit of the Times, March 9 } Wasnxetox, March 3, 1867. The evidence which has been flashed to this centre from all portions of the South, since the passage of the Military Dill, to the effect that the excluded States wiil muke haste to organze under its provisions, bas im- parted a shade of concern to the countenances of many of the liberal members of tue House and Senate, Taken in connection with Mir. Reverdy Jounson’s vote, it looks as if the southern politicians had discovered in the bill a method by which they cau elude the designs of the majority and recover their places in the Union, free from the disabilities imposed upon them while under political duress. Many a member who had fought fiercely tor the bill while it was on its passage, and who was prepared to resent, to the extreme, apy course by the President which would prevent Congress from finally endorsing it into a law, acqnired serious misgivings while the measure Was pending at the White House, They saw, in the sud. den dispos.tion of the South to accept, nay, to snap up, a measure that was ten times more odious than the constitutional amendment which the Soutuern States had recently spcrned with every indication of disdain, a change that suggested the snzpicion that the majority had fallen into a trap; aud this alarm agitated many of its members even in the Inst ordeal against the veto, with the halt formed hope that the bill might fail, But the bill passed, aud 1: was then they clearly saw that under it “ihe man at the othor end of the avenue,” who now stands utterly without a friend or party, may in icss than 1x months have at bis back the compact power of thirteen States and all the copperhead party of the Norti, The day %! two-tuird votes will thon be |, and we shat find all Southern questions, including the question wheiner State constitutions «hich were forced upon them while under duress and at the point of the bayonet, are vahd, endurable or binding. With the repubitcan mem- bers who are of this way of thinking, those provisions of the bill which require universal suffrage :n the formation of the constitu'ionat convention: do not inspire much reliance; for these members know the expertness of Southern politicians, and they feel that, under such Military Governors as ihe President is likely to send to thelr assistance, It is not very probable that many of the freedmen will ‘got to vote,” or that the making up of the returns will be subjected to a very rigid scrutiny, Everything wil! look regular, but the freedmen will be egularly done,” and, worst of all, the majority wili be <o demoralized, through the resiit of its own failure, that it will love votes enough in conservative defections, to soon render it powerless for any more | wo-third moas- ures, and also powerless to resist the now delegations as they come. Bat the bill has passed over the veto in both houses, and but one remedy remains to save the country from the dangers apprehended under it. That remedy 18 the removal of the President, in ord:r that the military machinery of the bill may be'placed in upright hands; and to this end the inciinat.on of the House to press the process of impeachinent is increasing. 1am now wriing at five o'cock on Sunday morning, bet down to this time, the Judicary Committee of th? Huse, to which the impeachment resolutions etand referred, have not presented a report. It is understood to bo their intention to make a report; but it is likewise s'ood that, instead of windmg up with a resolution indictment, they will content themsclves with pro- posing & cpetinuases of the procuadings into the next ngvess, in order that the (stimony already taken and the labor perforined, may ba eaved to that body. This result will be very largely induced by the fact that the commiitee Lave been over worked, and do not feel they have time to draw a report emvra%ing all the charges which have been put bervre them, or to draw 60 responsible a paper as a soletan process of impeach- ment. With the view, however, of relieving them of a portion of these difficulties, coveral of the leading mem- bers of the House, whose convictions of the ne essity of impeaching the President at the Present session are very absolute, are entertaining & plan of asking the committee to report forthwith, whether they do not find the President's erection of ‘isional governments the South, his appointment of men to oftice who bad becn rejected Dy Senate, and his incitement of the unpacitied v poputations of the -outh to resis the lawful leg:sladon of the national Congress, by Ins official denunciation of laws which had been pa:sed over his veto, be not un- constituuonal, seditious and timpeacigble? It is con- erent es dnd Nair nies — have Le emogend in re. ig vely upon these points, for the proo: Ero already on the records 0° both Houses’ and thus the committee, by this simple process, juits itself of its responsibilities, and transfers the of Damocles to the hands of the Senate. Anmdctment, embracing the and referring to the proofs by title, a3 he res, id be va drawn, All would be v A oe whieh follow wowrd f pon i try tnen the Senate, AY at nted, then politel, to aitend, ei do or not, the court, with the way wh of th wi 1e Dor i valiag theo of hisauthorty jurmbeten cn ee there can be no éor the President t interfere with ob Soaeraerema ateen eeccs ial President ask 4 all pretended ons in the way of long de- om cuntile ot aus, or ion of popular disorder, are wi and the “finding” of the court, under the warrant of the constitution, will guietiy transform the present incumbent of the White juse into plain Mr. Andrew Johnson, and clevate Senator Benjamin Wade into President of the United Whether the preliminary to this groat movement will be taken before remains to be developed, The Spirit, meanwhile, must cuntent itself with being better informed of the method in which the impeach- ment may be brought about at this session than any Eine and await with patience the despatch, roe wilt send by telegraph to-morrow, baenlh. 9, Say ju . We CORRECTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. New Youn, March 13, 1967, The despatch from Hudson, published tn your issue of Sunday, March 8, repreeonted that Mr. P. 8. Wynkoop, as cashier of the First National Bank in that city, was charged with adefatcation to the amount of $50,000, That despatch has been widely copied into other papers, to the annoyance of the many friends of the gentleman whose pame was unjustly implicated. Mr. Wynkoop was the originator of the bank aforesaid, but resigned his connection with it in April last, was not the cashier, ‘and consequently is not the defaulter, In all this State there is not another gentleman who.e1 ful’ city of Hudson; as trove, rar of Columbin ony for two ‘erms; mf oy Md tho district war cormitves, and sac First ae ~ Arrival of the Steamship Ocean Queen frem Aspinwall. Mosquera at War with the Colombian Congress. END OF THE PERUVIAN DICTATORSHIP. &eo. &e. &. The steamship Ocean Queen, Captain Harris, from As- Pinwall on the 6th inst,, arrived at this port yesterday, bringing our despatches and files trom California, the South American republics on the Pacific coast and the Central American States, She brought on freight 2,016 sacks, 2,000 barrels and 4,022 packages of flour, a large quantity of hides and wool, and ten packages of gold ore. The following is her specie list:— QUA LIMA CORRESPONDENCE. End of the Dictatorship-.Message of the Pre- sident—The Spanish Difticulty—Resolutions Presented to Congress—Prado’s Constit: tio Cabinet—Comments on American Criminal Records—Exchange, &c. Liva, Feb. 22, 1867, The Dictatorship of Peru isa thing of the past, and no liberal minded man can say but that it did the country a great deal of good. ,It is a pity that it did not last longer, or at least till all the improvements that have been started are completed, On the 15th Congress was re- gularly installed, and Prado declared Provisional Presi- dent till the time arrives for him to take his seat as the legally elected incumbent of that office, Prado’s message to Congress was of very little inter- est. He occupies himself chiefly in showing the advan- tages gained by the Dictatorship. The message or report of the Secretary of State speaks of the offer of the United States to mediate between the allies and Spain, and the refusal thereof; of the credentials of our minis- ter General Hovey, being addressed to the President, and that he had to send home for advice before presenting them to the Dictator; of a note from the United States stating that they were going to use force to make Ecua- dor pay up (which debt was settled by Peru and Chile guaranteeing the payment within a certain time); of a question between the United States of America and the United States of Colombia, which is more of form than substance, and which Peru hopes to be able to settle. A bill has been presented to Congress containing the following propositions: — The nation is not responsible for damage caused by war. The nation does not recognize any Spanish debt. The Executive will continue the war against Spain till Congress passes a law to the contrary. The Executive will not enter iuto any correspondence with Spain, nor accept any mediation of any friendly American or European Power until spain has declared that the acts of her agents in tho Pacific, on the 14th of April, 1864, at the Uhinchas, and the 30th of March, 136! at Valparaiso, were in violation of international law. I that is done he can receive letters, but not enter into any treaty wilbout the consent of Congress. A freo pardon shall be granted to all political of- fenders, The new Cabinet, as far as formed, is as follows:—T. Pacheco, Minister of Foreign Affairs; 8. Tejeda, Minister of Justice and Public Instruction; General P, Busta- mante, Minister of War and Marine. Under the head of “Model republic” the Comercio, of the 19th inst., has a long list of crimes committed m different parts of the United States, which as the editors say, shows what a horriplo state of affairs must exist in that country. If the editors of the Cimercio judge a country by that, and think America the worst in the world, I would refer them to the long list of crimes pub- lished in every copy of the London Times, and they would think that Encland was herself worse. Congress has passed ‘a bill giving two years extra pay to the heroes of Callao, and six months to those of the bat- te of Abtao, Mr. George Marsh, a well known Boston merchant, died on the steamer from Panama, on the 16th inst., of yellow fever, To day, the anniversary of the birthday of the “Father of his county,?’ every American has his flag “thrown to the breeze.” At twelve o’ciock the ficet in the bay of Callao will Ore the usual saluie of twenty-one guns, Tho bark Chattanooga had arrived at Valparaiso, with ten 600 pounder Dabigren guns, Eight men, discharced from the United States steamer Waterve, go home on this steamer, their time baving expired. They were pad off in greenbacke, while officers are always paid in gold, In the language of A. Ward, Esq, “why is this thus' Exchangs on the United States, sixty days, ten per cont disconnt; exchange ou England, ninety days, 36d, ww the dollar; exchange on England, sixty d. 37d. dollar, ship’s biile, : - rates aes QUR PANARIA COSAESPONDENCE, Importance of Colombia and Her Influence on American Interests—No Mails from Boe otn—Mosquer: the Rampage Still—His ersion of the Burton Difticalty—Stif Resint ance of Congress to the Grand Generals Whims—Roptare in the Cabinet—Peruvian Revolt Gaining Ground—Outbrenk in Guate- mala, &c. Panama, March 5, 1867. Did not the government of New Granada (or Colombia, as the country is cailed in modern times), extend its Jurisdiction over the gateway to the Pacific, its rank among the Powers of the earth would be so utterly low as to attract little attention from the people of foreign nations, Having no commerce of her own, and but an unimportant domestic trade ~and being ruled in a manner vasily inferior to the system of barbarous ager, the position of Colombia would be among the last on the list of States and countries did not her boun- aries include the bighway provided by nature between the great sens of the Kast and West. If, for this reason, the people of the United States take the same interest {in the political affairs of this country that their country- men on the Isthmus do, they will seize with avidity all items of news pertaining to the ever changing aspect of matters in this direction. The French mail steamer Paname touched at tanta Martha on her voyage to Aspinwall, bat owing to the fact that President Mosquera Lad ordered the snppres- sion of mail communication with the coast, the usual correspondence and files of papers did not arrive from the interior. By private hauds, however, extra bul- letins and copies of the President's message to Congress have been received, as well a letters from the Ameri- can Legation. . Congress assembled on the Ist of February, after meet- ing with considerable opposition from Mosquera, who Meeisted that before proceeding to orcanize, the creden- als or qualifications of the members shou!d be examined Congress scouted the propesition, and the Senate pro- ceeded to elect Vincente Lombana as President of that body. In the House Felipe Zapa’s was olected Speaker. The President's message is a curious and rare docn- ment of ite kind—interesting in its manuer of trating the subject of foreign diplomacy, After a detailed state. Ment of the financial condition of the country, the deploratie charactet of which i painfully apparent, the Message ZOes va to spoak Of matters connected with tne Foreign Office, and wtter referring to various matters in connection with Venezueis and Evuador, alludes to the bad feeling ‘now existing on tue part of the american Minister toward the government Of Colombia.” Upon this important subject the President writes: — The Hon, Allan A. Burton, Minister of the United States of America, who, daring his long resideneo in Colombia, had maintained the relations between whe two nations with much cordiality, has suspended the exercise of his mission without caus or ronson, and in usual among diplomatic agents’ 1 did Toould to dissuade him from the resolution alt was in vain. He asked for his but 1 refused them on the that it Woe Tie boon yy? acknowledging his right to relations the govornment of Colombia, it was not one of those cases io which it may be ing 0 the law of nations, Tn the diplomatic o@ which will be Inid before Congress you will fad that which wat entered juto with said Minister ag Well as with the Minister from Peru. "Nhe President then goes on to speak in a favorable veay of the American Congress, which may comvene at ‘Gime at an corly date, alludes in rather flattesing terms to the French government, aud then considers the rela- tions now existing between bimeelf and the British Chargé d'Affaires at Logota:— it of her Britannic Mr, pointed Mr, raat General of Co- government . Bunch, Oharaé d'AGgaires and Oynsul ne and the lattor has beon recolved by the Seore- ioe ey Foreign Affairs accordin; to the law of nations, tal wwe questioue of midthag haperneee have been discussed 4 afranged Wit! him, Upon his arrival he Presume. (2 be 10C8}¥ed asa second class minister; but that T did not grant, adopted simplest ofitiplomatie oremonint a 4% Bunch has also demanded &n apology trom the government, and will back up the demand, by a British man-of-war at Carthagena, Mr. Bunch complains of rade treatment, extending back to the time that he first presented his credentials to this Th? war inaugurated by Mosquera Con, seems to have met with ‘uneompromi con sa the latter body, Both branches have red of all the important measures of the Executive during the past Me , inclading the agreements made with prominent ikers of England ing a national loan, the dhe Depa rman tangs ely ant was tem| i re Garrido, Miuister of Home and Foreten Aftairs, and Mos: quera’s chief adviser. Intelligence from Lima ma has been received to tne 224 of February. ccording to the followin; Paragraph; taken [nr ima Inter of that data, the: revo in Peru gain! und :— Fie munsancerent of the by last. steamer that the revolution at Cerro de was pat tionists have destroyed the mountain bridges so that they SS eee objects are abo- and the greater portion ve gone to join their comradés on their way to Ayacucho. There has also been a stampede among the troops, They have goneoft also to Ayacucho. The government claimed to bave pu’ astop to this, but it is well known this is not correct. oe eee these cases of revolt among the Cruz, ina nunciamiento, says that he has drawn bis sword in'de- rights of the people, which ~ law was tly declared the mil tary authorities, ah tes i oat troopa pepe sent to fence of the constitutional requisite for a military leader, and if the even partially arpa his polley the legitimate govern- ment of Guatemala may be ultimately overthrown. The Jands of Costa Rica are to be improved by means of artesian wells, A company bas been formed for the purpose of experimenting in the matter, and machinery is already ordered from the United States, The Grand Hot-l, Panama, was thrown open for the reception of guests on the Ist inst. It is undoubtedly the finest manila house on the South Pacific coast, and as such, fills a void of long standing in this particular line of business, THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. OUR HONOLULU CORRESPONDENCE. Exports During 1SG6—A Consular Change— Intolerance—Harbor Improvements—An At= tempted Outrage and a Queer Verdict, &o. - Hoxotviv, Jan. 19, 1867. The Collector General of the Hawaiian Islands, having published bis report for the year just closed, I lay the pfincipal items of export for the years 1865-66 before your readers, The comparison for the two years is um- tavorable for the year just closed, more particularly se when it is taken into consideration that the importations for 1866 are ifi excess of those in 1865, The value of ex- ports for 1865 was $1,430,211, while. for 1866 they are $1,896,621, showing a decrease of $33,690, 1865. 1886. «e+ 15,318,097 17,729,161 + 634,987 351,796 «164,25 438. 263,705 98,682 Salt, tens. . 12 Fungus, Ibs. 273,979 120,348 Poi, bbis.. 478 306 Rant 1,211 1,77 Cot 11,786 289 988 76,115 Hides, 1 131,806 308 Tallow, Iba. 179,545 159,731 Palu, Ibs... 221,: 2,038 Wool, Ibs. . 144, 73,181 Whale oil, gallons. 111,421 46,214 Sperm oll, gallons, 44,968 Whalebone, Ibs...... 83,71 56,840 Peanuts, Ibs..... 50,151 44,668 past year little has been done in this line. CONSULAR CHANGR Alfred Caldwell, who has been the incumbent of the office of the United States Consulate at this port, for the past five years, resigned his post week, and the office is now in the F, Wilson, Vice Consul, Mr. wel as much satisfaction to whaling cap'ains as the sa rality of consuls at this port, while he has, dou! mado more money. INTOLERANCE, During the past two weoks there has been among the foreign population of this city on matters, and the two foreign Con; ional churches have taken a vi prominent partinit. The — of her Sng ee iP Manly, unassuming young man, offered, addresved the tt schools, and his course it seems Staley to such an extent that the Bishop took occasion to censure his course to the but I am Informed he got very little satisfaction from worthy officer. ‘A NEW ENTERPRIGE, or perhaps an old one resuscitated would be more cor- ts about established for the they “A 4 3 * WRARF AND HAREOR IMPROVEMENTS. A ee ee front a few days since con- vinced me that one of public improvements was being pushed forward with commendable zeal, From the wharf of the steamer Kilanea, for three hundred therly direction a double row of for the erection of a wharf, between A 3 : ‘ i 3 = H é nalRE tle lie nat i Hes if spilissegllie! Seg etitidédeed GUE i z i ; 2 Q i u 5 zt i H i § a8 f i i gs ki if i i i i Tas Bopies or Two Cipres Foun on tam Beach. — Coroner C, M. Connor, of Northfield, 8. 1, on Saturday thot hail na Taageet en the RERUN Ueabemions Saba omigrant J verdict:—That the cbildren in oo i from causes unknown, and they ins of emigrant vessela throwii ‘of deceased pasvon; wit Se ae eee so prevont them floating ore. Presawtation,—On Monday evening last Dr. Sol, Am drowa was taken by surprise at his residence by the pre- sentation of the mombers of St. Paul's Methodist Episoo~ pal ehurch at Tottonvilio giving to him a silver pitcher; ther with a considerable sum ot money, as an ciatiow of thelr esteom. Tn nddition to thw & cake made by Mr. La Mond the part of regen by Mr. on congregation. Dr, ‘an tows entertained the ladies and gentlemen pros- ont with a splendid supper, and everything passed of, most agroeabiy. ‘VionaTIoN or THE Dxcist Law.—Adam Seblamp was - yesterday arrosted for a violation of the Excise lav, by officer MeTIha if Staploton. Tt appears that Ser, ta Crewe og matat oubcus u ltevese, td was Tully come mitted for the offence, Bourse to Deat.—On Saturday last @ daughtor of ‘Mr. Johneon, who resides in the uppor part of Factory. ‘villo, 8. 1, was burned by her clothos takfng fire from coming In contact with the stove, Her injorios were of so severo a nature that sho died ins few hours after wards. The dboeased wea only six Yerrs Of age