The New York Herald Newspaper, June 12, 1868, Page 5

MEXICO. The Government Harassed by Pronuncia- mientos and Congress. @mportant Action of Minister Ro- mero Regardiig Mexican Bonds. Proposed Repudiation of the Interest on the Foreign Debt. INTERESTING DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. Aspect of the Queretaro Rebellion—General Situation—Adventures of a Cubano-Vene- zuelan Patriot—Railroad Schemes Post- poned—The Mexico and Tuspan Road. MEXICO, May 20, 1868, How great a portion of the readers of the HERALD ‘W8l interest themselves in Mexican news now that excitements consequent upon @ Presidential cam- paign are being experienced it is impossible for one atthis distance to judge correctly; yet there must stil be very many late friends of Mexico who wiil @esire to be well kept up in what is transpiring here. ‘Fhere must be a large shipping, railroad and com- mercial community who desire to know from time te time what Mexico may do herself or allow others to do towards improving her geographical position, which exhibits such a narrow strip of land between ‘the Mexican Gulf onthe east and the Pacific Ocean en the west. We have been enjoying since my last Jetter our usual quota of pronunciamientos and petty revolutions; but, happily for the country, they @o not promise the immediate overthrow of the government or serious disturbance of the country. ‘Troops are returning from Sinaloa eastward, which Were employed there in suppressing General Mar- tinez. General Arce has sent northward to- wards this capital a portion of his command to join in the pursuit of Rivera and Negrete, and will himself very shortly arrive here. ‘The two latter, it is believed, may attempt to join their small forces, The revolutionists in the State of Querétaro, said to number five hundred men, at Spet declared for Marquez, but have since proclaimed Santa Anna as Dictator for five years, after which an election of President. They are said to be well aimed and equipped, and recognize as their leader and have for their warcry, ‘Religion and force.” @n the 10th they occupied the Punto de Mazazintia, where they commenced to fortify their position. ‘The same day they attempted to raise money by kidnapping the Alcalde Juan Rubio and Mr. Vicente Santos, demanding $3,000 ransom. The Monitor, of the 14th of May, the paper which Genounces the HERALD for stating that Mexico was not altogether peaceful, says that during the pre- ceding twenty days there had been ten citizens of Zoluca kidnapped by bands which require a ransom %m total of $37,900, “The editor further remarks:— “Occurrences like these need no comment, as the government takes no steps to follow up these bands of robbers and kidnappers.” Manuel Ruiz, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court, still remains in prison here. General Ochoa and many late officers of the liberal army are also in confinement. Dr. Larriazabal, the Venezuelan patriot, has been Mberated, hay been imprisoned for complicity with Aureliano Rivera. By some he is accused of hkaving written the latter’s famous proclamation, a Copy of which I send accompany! i, the letter. ers declare the author to have been Judge Manuel Ruiz. Iam informed. I cannot say how correctly, the following represents somethi of the history poral rd valle pag of ‘yh record since being here. He appears to be a man about fifty years possibly in order to give au sppearance of order to give an to his statement that he was secret var, the great liberator of South America. He is from Venezuela, where he is very well known. He Was once sent as ambassador from Venezuela to Holand, but the consul of latter country in Venezuela, sent such records of his char- acter and history to his own government that he ‘was not received, and was compelled to return to Caracas. Thereafter he Sought to become a revolu- ‘tonist, and especially a iiberal South in, and established @ fair reputation as a writer among his People by publishing a history of Bolivar. Dr. Lar- Fazabal is undoubtedly a man of talent, but too sixty, of consist- to Simon xs rye ws by the Sapa isean 0: a) 4 @ good musician, and in Wavels thro oe ugh the various countries which he has ‘visited he has not unfrequently, so it is said, felt the hings of pecuniary distress. His intentions wards Cuba on his first arrival here, perha} did not meet with accord of those with whom he aspired to unite himself, and he must therefore have telt a little sore towards the ctalaan that be” in Mexico, It is pos- sible that had he made less ions in regard to his intimate relations with the President, Cabinet and Senators of the United Fists, spd had he, gener- ally speaking, “romanced” | ie would have en- ed more Kporemacton naa? contidence of these people. it is atated here, by who should know, “that while lately in the United States he was intimate ‘with Cubans who are known as friends of the free- @om of the ever faithful Island,’? who gave him money which was to be employed in an expedition against Cuba, which resulted in a failure in conse- quence of the squandering of the funds. Subse- quently, some five six or months since, Dr. Larrazabal in Mexico, and, having failed likewise here ther arrayed himself against, peace, and has been rather a1 inst peace, n intimate “with those “who have ‘been. plowing revolution. He is accounted, among other with having acted prominently in several mectings of conspirators which have taken place in the Hotel Bazar in this capital. The govern- Ment having decided that he comes within the cate- Bory of “pernicious foreigners,” and having released from 1 have notified him that he will be accompanied by a military escort to Vera Cruz. The doctor off from the escort, and has, with some leniency, pormiied to escort himself ava from the city of Mex! He et go immediately by the whiete’ and New York will soon enjoy the doc- Sor, while he will felicitate on Broadway, west side, ‘Bndthank his stars that he was not shot and his Geek tent hunting after that of imilian, up and Sean freedom-shrieking On the 17th of May Colonel Plata, who commanded Sos Maarten ye cae aca, pronoun inst the government and joined ‘General Rivera, Captain who commanded a similar force in accordingly issued an order Geelaring them to be deserters and traitors, can- celled their commissions and ordered them eaptured and dealt with according to the law of 26th of Jan- wary—shot. Rivera has up to date made a few forced loans, Loe EY all to but a few thousand @oliars. A telegram to , May 20, from Querétaro,announces that the revolutionists there are ge! stro! politieal situa- ‘tion more complicated. Juan del Rio invaded, ‘and money and horses taken. The despatch fur- ‘ther says that the protection of the State requires the speedy and effective interference of the forces of the general government, and should this not be done the responsibility must rest where it belongs. In Sinaloa Colonels Palacio, Paz, Toledo and have been taken by Lozado, on oe a a May Aang anne Coleman manding Troops against Negrete, officially in- formed the governinent that his forces under Gen- erals Rodriguez Bocardo and Cravoto had succeeded in surprising Negrete and so nearly captured him ‘that he escaped only in his drawers and shirt. There were several men killed in the battle which place andsome munition taken. There was @ decree issued a day or two since in Tototian, that no more corn should be planted in the mountainous pa wth ~y i reason that food _ thereby 7 ts severely upon the poor ie Who inhabit those parts. The right to tive is aT the Present time, so far as your correspondent knows, Permitted, provided it can be done without corn. The series of falsehoods which appeared in the Jate German paper, in regard to Father Fisher, has Deen toted to this country and, we ret to see, translated and published in the Diario oficial. The infamous document is so void of truth and correct- ness that not even the prominent feature in his his- tory, his having been educated in the United States at the University of Virginia, is even men- tioned. It isa simple matter to explain the origin of the paper, when it ia known the number of Ger- man butters and palace brokers, whose swindiings Were so frequently exposed by Father Fisher, and ‘who hope to forestall the truth, and to save them. Gelves the dis; of being held up to public shame by adopting the military tactics of attack. ‘The clo- Yen foot of a German who swindled the late Maxi- miltan is evident in this document. ‘The “so-called” Mexican Congress, which has now ‘been in seasion since last fall, is very soon to close its arduous labors and will return to their homes to be admii by wondering children and ignorant Indians, ‘e doubt not their proud crests will adorn many 4 rostrum while they expound liberty and the Jaw, true clements in human government much talked of in Mexico, but little practiced if we except the liberty to act and to be the sole judge of one’s actions and the law of natural powers. These wiseacres have, after a for six Months or more, brought forth a bill—and that bill's railroad—a road with rails; yes, a real, live, jackass road; and Congress is as proud of their bantling as pe ie Ser dreamed of being of her first born. 01 men remarked to yous cor- Fespondent that Mexico proposed to test the tcability Of & jackass wer road and Fes r) all the rest of ‘world were mis- therefore Congress hes given origin’ fi 1 fae’beree NEW anda fool. This and will probably be looking for in the New York market soon. It is whis- its projectors count upon a change in the government and ly @ change in the con- cession; that steam will be ull used aud that the “animal power attraction” was merely a pretext to bling Ho oe tals who have already become sightless by their empty heads against the commerce and industry of the people. moveth this great nation, this republic, ‘The steam railroad enterprises have all been @ cross between a knocked in the head. The proposition of Mr. Anson | ith government aid irom the United States border to Mexico city and tne Pa- eific, after Davieg. been tediously trided with, has been most prov. ingly knocked in the air like a foot Pa ‘The representative of the jackuss road is a Te het in ol 8, a8 in politics, the peopie of the United States must jearm that Mexico will not surrender herself or her enterprise or open up her country to their capital, It is but too reventiy that she whipped the armies of civilized Europe, and even though sore boasted. that her spurs are too long and her sword too sharp to admit that, ajded by the United all accomplished and the republic restored. If not elsewhere, then here can possibly be discovered sthe secret of the extraordinary decisiveness and acrimony with which ali proiters of commercial, in- dustrial and mechanical aid have been retused by Mexico when coming from the United states. Mexico refers to accept nothing trom the United States— her oflicial paper has said not even money—and as she has not the educated and skilled labor, she pro- poses to retrograde and to die game, What great cure can alchemy reveal for this fata! illness which allicts poor Mexico? Gentiemen who represent the projected road from Mexico to Tuspan have arrived here, but there are too many Americans in the party to save tie enter- pe. from being annulled at the earliest moment, as hese concessions were given by i’resident Juarez belore the existence of the Congress. No action has yet been taken by Congress up to the proeens Moment toward the restoration of rights to the American and Mexican Kailroad Company, and the final action has rather been taken with reference to the Mexican and Vera Cruz Railroad concession, though at hopes are entertained in favor of the latter. It is contemplated that at the closing moment of the session the Congressional arena will be strewn with the carcasses of defunct railroad projects, leaving the jackass road the “mon- arch of all it surveys.” J noted 1p the badent of expansion for the current year that in article six, which appears in the official paper of to-day, the two largest sums are one of $200,000 for upon the gates and the national Palace, and the other of $308,400 for draining the valley of Mexico. The extraordinary sum of the former has occasioned much comment and the latter is supposed to be the “old saw.” Formerly, when Santa Anna, Miramon or Maximilian required money to buy up a few disquiet generals or a few genteel Toad agents (called in some countries robbers and murderers), tt was found convenient to have some “‘desague”’ or other fund from which to borrow a few thousands, Congress a Stumbling Block—Dismantling of the Vera Cruz Worke—The Queretaro and Other Pronunciamientos—The Threatened Matamoros Rebellion—Mr. Romero’s Action on the Mexican Bonde—American Bank Pro- Ject—Earthquake. MEXICO, May 29, 1868. The situation has somewhat changed since my last letter, 80 far as the increase of pronunciamientos and the indication which they furnish can go. While they do not threaten the government now in existence with immediate destruction, yet they evince a state of disquiet which promises to ulti- mately require determined efforts to harmonize. It is evident that the President and his Cabinet appre- ciate the necessities of the hour; but the Congress, unhappily, contains too little common sense to cal- culate upon results which threaten the country. The determination to declare their independence, even of the opinion of the world, is daily becoming more manifest, and Mexico moves headlong without 4 Considering the necessary issues of certain lines of Policy pursued. If the world is united in the opinion that the geographical position of Mexico gives her an influential position if she chooses to as- sume it, and if ald be offered to. take advantage of the situation, then there is too great a disposition on the part of public men here to glorify themselves and their country and at the same moment utterly and almost insolently refuse aid in improving her position, although, from the want of capital, machine shops and skilled labor, she is unable to help her- self. This spirit of deflance and of challenge has become a decided mania, and we despair of the future unless it bean element in the “grist”? which the Great Jehovah may be grinding out toward the fess mae ofarace which has emasculated itself e: “ithe recent order dismantling the works upon the land side of Vera Cruz may readily be considered in- Serre ofa Dyas of faith in ee security of wt honr on e Secretary ‘ar, a, if the ‘tow be taken that thereby, should Vera Cruz Modiavely against a foros marching ‘sgainst it trots a force my the interior, Why should Vera Cruz_ not follow the example of so many of her sister States and cities and provinces ? The revolutionists in Querétaro continue to make their loans of money, corn and animals, They are reported to be increasing in numbers, and declare they are not robbers, but patriots, and that they will not down their arms constitutional Mexico be restored. They still declare for Santa Anna as dictator for five after which an election. It is supposed, that the troops mov! eastward, and which have been recentiy employed in suppressing Martinez in Sinaloa, will be sent against “dis- turbers of public order” in Que Negrete would not whipped, and although the official paper announced many Gays ago that he was surprised and his forces were killed, captured and routed, and he barely escaped—that he wanderer flying from justice unaccompanied—yet we just hear of him at head of a force, and that the government troops had just had another protit- Jess and unsatisfactory engagement with him. The whereabouts General Rivera are not accu- rately known. It would waliene that the govern- ment has some fear of a fot lable movement of the revolutionists less than three miles from Mexico, tear bn that ae eeiten Bx has been com- man e ion legrete toward Tulancingo, has Telieved from duty in that quarter, and now commands at Tacubaya. There have been whisperings that immediately upon the adjournment of Congress some desperate revolu- tionary movements will take page The special excitement of the day is the pronun- [gees ap oe = rome cages army, who has,pronounced in Pachuca, not man: infles "tom the capital (sixty-five miles}, for Porfirio Diaz. He claims to have already in the fleld three hundred and eighty soldiers, and is a Seal nd declares he is contending {oF the constitution and that Diag is the it. Fragoso, who has also been making joans throughout the country, has, so the ré announce, indicated his preference for Dias. We have then, at least, ho ig ge Betanzas and Fragoso in the field against the peace fl the country, beside many lesser but more cruel On the 8th of this month @ most serious revolution was threatened at Matamoros. The merchants to whose knowledge the contemplated movements be- came known hastily sought some safe place of de- posit for their funds and papers as there was every Teason to believe that cessful revolt against the authorities would take place that day and a change in officials and plunde: of property follow. Haj pily the want of a few thousand dojlars, which the troops deman as their reward for pronouncing, prevented or delayed the disturbance. At what moment the funds, which are a great motive power in Mexico, shall be obtained and so all of the seaport towns pronounce a the general government remains to be seen. There has been for a few days not a little excitement resulting from a report widely cit- culated that Camargo and other small towns near the Texas border has been occupied by filibusters from Texas. It has been reported here that for along time the Mexicans are accused, on the Texas border, of having crossed over and driven back and sold many thousands of cattle, horses and mules, and that the occupation or visit to Camargo or other towns may be by armed parties in search of their stolen property. The whole story needs confirmation. How- ever two days since Congress called for information from the War Departinent as to the action, if any, taken by that department in pursuance of @ late act ofthat body establishing military colonies on the northern frontier. B; by, the late news from Washington city to Mexico up to the 27th of May came from San Francisco, This is a comment upon the country in these latter aays of te} hing, The proposition of General La Barra and Mr, Wm. Pritchard to establish a line of steamers from New Orleans to Vera Cruz and seeking a subvention of $2,000 atrip has finaily come up before Congress, These gentlemen thought they had every reason to expect a favorable issue to their business, but like all other projects which have been presented to the country it has been most unmereifully snubbed, and received forty-three votes in favor and seventy against it. Mr. Mata argued that the nation was te Poor to aid a line to New York and to New Orler x2 th; and havin, eae aid to the New * ADS lne he favored doing nothing for the Now 0 rain line. Mr. Mendiolea, the Congressman who? “teans 8 dislike fora people who have “light hal ,48ssuch eyes”’ and say ‘Yes, sir,” the ie blue it would ruin the interests of the small * 4Al! because ing vessels, ‘The same argument ar oes Maile discussion of railroad questions that fed ip the. Infringement on the jackasses, 1" 9 pet nents Ln ve A sy many years carried ” 6 freights of this country. ‘On the 20th of this month up the discussion of 4 bill there occurred a dis- Mr. Romero's Anat jatior Rat at all who hold Mexican ae which inter ited Stat Bonds oF the Uni Sta! #8 (Corlles & Co.), English er-cent, or Spanish bonds, of was a Os ee coat or three p Pho hold whe bonds ” sr the internal debt. Mrs Rome: ro tha , «+ Con should ay riate EN Sn eM interest on t' “© 20,estimate for mond, to pay the Mr. Mata, ¥, wag forte explanations from ne Secretar’) of the ry, and so at last it became necessn: for the governiient, through Mr, Romero, A. to expose more fully mapelier. Mr. Romero stated that the government hopes that some negotia- tion might be entered into with the representation of the foreign debt which woutd result to the benefit of the Treasury and that if any appropriations were made to pay the interest on it now such action would render any negotiations possible, Mr, Komero also remarked “It is undoubtedly better,” and “The opin- jon of the Executive is that in ne manner ought the interest to be paid;” and aga, “In regard to the debt due in the United States it will not te imconve- nient to strike out of the bill that part pro- viding funds for the interest on it, and as for the other debts they cam remain the same as the English.’? Mr. Lerdo de Tejada, Minister of Foreign Relations, remarked duriag the discussion as follows, speaking of interest on English deb “The interest on the debt ought not to be paid for the reason that justice does not require it, 1 say justice, for im regard to the debt contracted In Lon- don it cannot be claimed that the law of the léch of October, 1850, remains in force because by joining in the intervention, the holders of their bonds have gravely prejudiced their rights and re- quire anew treaty, May 20 there was also pre- Sented to Conzress a petiiion by tue gentiemen Who have lately arrived here frou the Staces and who are understood to ave in charg? the construction of the road from Mexico to Tuxpan, ‘These genue- men apply for a charter for a bank to be established here, and to have brauc! to various purts of the republic, to consist of American and Mexican mah- agers, capital $10,000,000, a portion of whieh shall be sliver and baiance paper money. No action has been conciuced with reerence tnt by Cong Sy nor bas a final resolution been reached with regard | commercial community, to the amencdimeiits to ti Mr. La Leére is here auntepec grant, which till ser ng. ‘The Engish com- pany which has established gasworks in the city at an expense of hit a millon of dollars has not as yet been able to effect a contract with the city govera- ment. ihe old system of ghia by oll has so y endearment: in consequence of its beng such a able “milch cow” tkac so great an improvement as gas cannot be introduced without meeting the oppo- sition of those intereste ' in the “milch cow.’” On the morning of the 27th quite a large delega- tion leit Mexico for their homes in the United States, among whom were Mr. Anson Bangs, of the Mexico and United States Railroad, Colonel Gray and family, Mr. Tollin and others. eir testimony will bear witness to the present deplorable condition of Mexico and the decided indisposition of the people to permit or encourage any business relations with Americans. Mr. Romero has been hoping to get off on this steamer, but the delay on the part of Con- gress in ny upon the appropriation bill and the opposition which it has had to contend with may occasion his remaining over until the next steamer. Romero says he goes to Washington to wert, . Jiminez is announced to be on his way to Mexico, and Alatorre to have arrived at Vera Cruz. General Diaz remains at home in Oaxaca, On the 22d of May, at half-past twelve M., we ex- rienced another earthquake. The tremulous mo- ion, Which was of very brief duration, was followed by several gs, Which were repeated and con- tinued a minute or more. Citizens were running to the street and falling upon their knees, imploring to be spared from a speedy and horrible death, No destruction of property resulted. The shock was felt over many portions of Mexico, and occurred just four weeks from the last one, which was equally severe. There are no indications of an eruption of any volcanos of our neighborhood, which have been sleeping so many years, The Atalaya, the paper of Montery which dared to tell the truth in regard to the recent outrages upon American citizens at that place, has been suspended; cause not known. We only know that the press at the capital and elsewhere has denounced its editor for publishing the article, wpich it is declared may cause some serious international complications. Mexico boasts of a free press, and as she cannot openly suppress the publication of a Py Tr, not & little speculation has been indulged in here as to whether the Governor of the State interfered or in apy way contributed to the suspension of the paper. At last moment it is announced that Rivera is Within twelve miles of this city since last evening, and about midnight the government sent a large force in pursuit of him. It is rumored that the gov- ernment have confidently said they expected to cap- ture him this morning. On the 8th of May an attempt at revolution was to have taken place at Tampico. The merchants sought a place of safety for their funds and awaited the out- break. Money was demanded by the a for their expected overturning, and not being supplied amply the entertainment was postponed, Minister Romero and S. 8S, Cox—Efforts to Compromise Between Romero and Fremont on the Ochoa Bond Question. The following are extracts of the official corre- spondence of Mr. Romero, Minister of the Mexican Republic in the United States, to the Minister of the Republic in Mexico, published in the Diario Oficial of February 22 and 28, 1868:— * * * Mr. Cox has been my friend and a friend of our cause. While he was a Congressman he rendered us very good services. Now it seems to me that he is interested with Mr. Fremont, although he seems to be & disinterested friend of us both, who only seeks for a satisfactory solution to the pending difficulties in favorof the same. Mr. Cox told me afterwards that the said project had been written at the suggestion of General Fremont. APRIL 28, 1866, On Monday, the 6th instant, Mr. 8. 8. Cox came to see me in the name of Mr. Fremont in order to state to me that the General desired that the points con- tained in my letter of the 28th of last month should apa the form of a contract, I answered him I had no objection to do so, and having asked me the interpretation I gave to certain points in my letter, he commenced to draw up the project of @ contract, containing the same wards as my letter, together with the evplanations I had just given him, which he wanted me to sign immediately, in order to take it to Mr. Fremont the same any i enclose herewith @ copy and translation of sald project of contract, marked Nos. 1 and 2, Of coui I refused to sign it in such a hurry as he desired, but offered him to examine it and return with my remarks as soon as possible. On examination I found the object to be to make me tacitly recognize the validity of the contract signed be General Sanchez Ochoa, receiving the $3,000,000 I offered him, not ‘as pay for the services of General Fremont, but as a credit for the six millions which were offered to him in said contract. The haste with which Mr. Cox de- sired that | should sign said contract appeared to me suspicious. To-day I have written a counter-project, &@ copy of which, together with translation of same, pe satarine od Page 3 and 4). ~ bee coin yiel e points agreed upon, I cleared uy doubts which could arise with regard to them. I for- warded them to Mr. Cox by mail of to-day, with the letter, @ copy of which 1 inclose with transiation, marked Nos.5 and 6. Mr. Cox, in his hurry while here on the 6th, left his ketbook. In it I found one or two blank powers of attorney, which probably he desired me to sign, copies of w! forward with translations, marked Nos. 7, 8,9 and 10, from wiich it appears that they desire to have a greater interest in the loan than | am inclined to admit. Kenewing to you the assurances of distin- guished consideration, MATIAS ROMERO, Minister of Foreign Relations, Minister Campbell and the Juarez Govern- ment. The following document will throw light upon the considerations which kept Minister Campbell from joining the Juarez government. The correctness of the appreciation therein made of the policy and statesmanship ef the Mexican government can now be more easily tested than when the document was written:— {CONFIDENTIAI.) CONSULATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, July 9, 1867. Sir—In the ie. that the department has come to no positive determination as regards our re- ineermeng here, I consider it my duty to offer the following s1 ‘ion, which in the present juncture of affairs in Mexico appears to me of the highest im- rtance to our relations with this country in future. e time ieee in his instructions, October 25, 1866, for Campbell's arrival passed. The circumstances which rendered our Minis- ter’s presence in Mexico desirable immediately after the evacuation of the French expeditionary corps have changed, both in regard to the situation of the country, its relations with European governments, “ the Gispeaision of the people towards foreigners general. President Juarez will arrive ina few days, and re- or ation in all the branches of administrative Policy, &c., 18 said to be the task devolving on those who are at this moment charged with the govern- ment of Mexico, The question then 1s, whether our | Seem te prey to place its representatives iN @ position where we must unayoidably take an active part in the organization of this country—a serious responsibility in itself, and one for which we may hereafter have to account should the other than anticipated—or where he ctator, to be charged result must continue a@ passive 8] with no less serious responsibility of a course of mea- sures which his character a4 @& ign Minister would not permit him to control or direct, The basis for the subsequent organization of Mexico has been settled in San Luis Potosi, where we had no repre- sentative, could use no influence and have accepted no re’ sponsioility, The department, in possession of these facts, cap, determine Whether it were better to Stand aloof and await the development of the “poltoy of those who to-day are endeavoring to shape the destinies of Mexico as a sovereign anc independent nationality, or to incur the danger of sharing hereafter in the failure of Mexican statesmen to regenerate their native land. It will not #ttract pertiosing attention should our Minister not present is credentials during the prevalence of the vomito Vera Cruz, ‘The reasons which prompt the foregoing sugmes- tions are to be found in tne results of an experience, during six years’ residence, of the character, habits and d) spostiion of the people and of political parties in Mexico, and that I am not more explicit is due to the diticulty of expressing as thoroughly in writing what can only be explained orally, and of the danger of ent to the mails subjects of this delicate nature, While, then, it is my duty to give information, I feel a certain reluctance in so far submitting the resuits of an experience which might even prove available for the benefit of government, from 4 doubt as to the manner in which an unso- licited opinion might be received in matters of 80 grave an Importance, and from an unwillingness to overstep the limite marked for the intercourse of & consul witn that department under whose instruc: wi f Thave, ni a, venta w regoing, it was, because I felt that there wv 2 eircumstances, no option, and YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1868—TRIPLE SHEET. tives which actuate me to-day, would not censure if they did not approve tuis effort to present a true and impartial statement of affairs at the capital of Mexico. I can more satisfactorily and perhaps more advan- tageously explain should the department by retarn of mail Consent to my absence froin Mexico, m con- sideration that the business of this orice during a lengthened period of extracrdinary tria!s and exer- tion has previously aifected my health, to the restoration of which @ change of climate and life has become absolutely necessary. My desire is to leave as 6000 as the season permits (end of Septem- ber) for the United States. T shall, if the department do not determine other- wise, leave Mr. Crepps in charge until someone else be appointed. He is a gentieman thoroughly ac- quainted with the duties of the office and acts uader my responsibilty while the department is making those dispositions which it shall deem proper. I have the honor to be very respectfully your obedient ser- vant, MARCUS OTTERBUKG, United States Consul in charge of i United States Legation. Hon. F. W. Sewarp, Assistant Secretary of Slate of the United States, Washington, D. C MEXICAN BONDS, New York, June 10, 1868, To THE EpiToR OF THE HERALD— Your article of this morning on Minister Romero and Mexican finance 1s worthy the attention of the It is certainly well timed and may have the eflect of preventing many of our citizens from being legally robbed out of their hard earned greenbacks, The repudiating procedure which you mention has been gone through in my case, and in hopes that it may save some other “brand from the burning” fire of Mexican robbery I will, with your rmission, helene recount it. In the summer of 1866, when Maximillan ana the Mexican republican forces were fighting in the provinces, through the representations of some gen- temen in this city I invested in some Mexican bonds issued by President Juarez and countersigned by the Legation of the United States of Mexico at Washington. When. the interest (according to the coupons) became due I applied for it, but was quietly informed that there was no money to pay it in the agent’s hands, ‘the Mexican war closed, the bonds were eg acknowledged by the first Congress at the city of Mexico, and then, surely, with all tne other bondholders 1 thought that some appropria- tion would be made to meet the interest then due; but no such thing was done; on the contrary, pro- positions were actually made by the Treasury De- {peepee (Mexican) to a gentleman from this city in lexico endeavoring to get some money for the bond- holders, to buy in the bonds here at about ten cents on the dollar. These facts will, perhaps, show: that there is more than a rumor in your telegram from Havana, of Sunday last, which says that Mr. Romero, Mexican Minister of Finance, had left there in the Columbia to arrange the detais of a scheme to wrong American citizens who hold large amounts of Mexican bonds which were taken in payment for war material furnished Juarez during the war with Maximilian, MEXICAN BONDHOLDER. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE, Five Tiinutes’ Conversation with Sener Don Romero. The amiable and patriotic representative—Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary—from the republic of Mexico to the government at Wash- ington, Sefior Don Matias Romero, is in this city, stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel; but it is probable he will leave to-day for the national capital, where it is his, intention to present to the President his letters of recall and thus retire from a position which he filled with credit to himself and government dur- ing the most critical period of the history of Mexico since the conquest. ‘The Sefior, during an interview which lasted five minutes yesterday afternoon, informed us that next CUBA. Strange Proceeding of an Ofticer of the United States Steamer Gettysburg. Havana, June 6, 1868, Jt was commonly remarked and commented upon that when the United States steamer De Soto entered this harbor last week she did not salute the Spanish flag, We believe it is arule that all American war vessels below ten guns do not salute, and the be Soto has but nine; yet there are reasons for surmising that the salute would have been rendered notwith- standing had there not been other causes in the way supposed to be well understood between Com- modore Boggs and Acting Consul General De la Reintrie, who was received on board with the usual cordiality. On Monday Her Catholic Majesty’s war steamer Churruca returned here from Carthagena. Thus there only remains two war steamers, Vasco Nufiez and the Guadiana, in port to watchthe movements of that old fillibustering hulk, the Rayo (formerly the R, R. Cuyler.) A military commission was lately sent to Sagua 1a Chica to put down the evildoers in the district of Taguayabon. In seven days no less than thirty-six individuals were apprehended, accused of a diversity of crimes. Among them are the well known bandits Zanchas and Guanche, the terror of the district, They have both confessed to a number of robberies and murders and there is no question of their being ere long garroted, with others of the thirty-six. In the district of Sibanicu a similar commission has caused the arrest of twenty-eight malefactors. The energy and activity of these military commissions are beyond all praise, and soon the many bandit infested neighborhoods of the island will gather in a most beautiful vintage of peace and tranquility, the production of their untiring labors. The pleasant reunions of the Mexican refugees and their abettors, at the fashionable residence of the Countess de la Palma, have rather unpieasantly ter- minated. The most prominent Mexican refugee in Havana, his Excelentisimo Senor ex-President Santa Anna, was said to have been guilty of the im- propriety, to use the mildest appropriate word, of introducing into the assembly his then favorite “friend,” Zoila Lopez, as his niece. The Countess soon learned of the fraud practised upon her and her guests, and at once forbade the entry of her house to his Excelentisimo, This, it has been said, was the cause of the breaking up of the reunions, much to the regret of many Mexican refugees, who highly condemned ex-General Santa Anna’s conduct. It is stated that the President of the International Ocean Seeeraph. Company has decided that no more commercial telegrams can be sent from here in ciphers or other combinations of abbreviation. A scheme was reported not long ago, which tended to economize enormously in the cost of telegraphing by the cable, and an agent of the Associated Press was said to be offering to receive and transmit the mes- sages from the merchants at an enormous reduction on the Cempany’s rates by means of his key. At first it appeared juite a temptation to a few of the smaller firms of this city, to profit by such an im- portant scheme of economy; but upon after con- siderations most of them seem to have compre- hended that the promised economy might, sooner or later, cost them very dear. The action of the Presi- dent has, however, removed all further doubts upon the subject. On account of deficits during the past year in their financial reports most of the interior cities are cur- tailing expenses; but benevolent and charitable in- stitutions are made to bear the main brunt of these retrenchments. The municipality of Holguin, tor example, has struck out all appropriations for the Santiago hospital and the city high school, and made no allowances for the repairs of streets and roads. Trinidad city-and vicinity from one extreme has gone to another—from the drought to a semi-diluvial condition, The whole country for miles around was visited on the 26th ult. by a heavy rain storm that to Mexico there was no country he so much ad- mired as the United States. He had resided here many years and claimed to have some knowledge of the People, and the more famillar he became with their 1 Hoayncrasies, which to a stranger were pe- culiar if not striking, the more desirable they tohim. If he should ever be driven into exile by the misfortunes of his own land, to whose fature he proposed devoting whatever ability he pos- 7 |, he would choose the United States for his ome. His leave of six months’ absence having expired, he had returned to the States to perfect or close rivate matters, and then on formally ending his liplomatic career return to Mexico, where he thought in the present condition of affairs he might Prfexico, le remorked, Was gradually growing ont of ico, he remarked, was gradually growing out of her troubles. Her people were more law abiding than many here and in mx bed posed; and as the military and political chieftains of to-day were bet- ter educated their , they were not 80 hotly disposed to raze society to its foundations to gratify personal or political animosities, or by the strong hand hold vo Sonny ower. With regard to revenues, he hinted that sum- cient was collected to meet, without resorting to arbitrary measures, the current expenses of the government, which were moderate. With “among the people and economy aud consolidation in the executive and legislative depart- ments of the government fully demonstrated, he was reuaded that the capitalists of the North and of jurope would be inclined to invest in enterprises which would develop the grand resources, mineral, agricultural and commercial, of Mexico; and these in time would not only Hyd them fully for the use of their money, but add immensely to the aggregate wealth of the world. Mexico possessed much wealth in her mines and her lands, in her harbors and on her sea coasts, and as her climate was of that char- acter which permitted the cultivation of the vege- table products of the temperate equally with the torrid zone, he saw no reason why the country, the psn enforced and respected, should not be fully de- veloped. Senor Romero is a man of exceedingly prepossess- ing manners. He is short in stature, but is possessed of a magnificent head. His eyes have a gieam in them which bespeaks dauntless courage and un- swerving purpose. He is evidently a man of patriotic impulses and of that singleness of purpose which makes him ambitious to serve in any capacity, from the highest to the lowest, that may be found most consonant with the best interests of his country. Du the interview the Minister spoke with the utmost frankness of his own position and the inten- tions of the Juarez government. He answered un- peaiterinah, every question propounded, of which the above is the substance. SOLDIERS’ MESSENGER AND DESPATCH COMPANY, OFFICE OF THE SOLDIRRS’ BUSINESS, MESSENGER AND DESPATCH COMPAN No. 2 PARK PLACE, NeW YORK, June 11, 1868, To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:— 1am instructed by the Board of Directors of the Soldiers’ Business, Messenger and Despatch Com- pany to reply to the article in your issue of this date concerning the management of this company. Without attempting to premise the metives which prompted you in publishing such an artige permit me to say that the allegations against the company are # collection of falsehoods. First, the soldiers employed are not “defrauded in @ measure of their earnings,” but on the contrary receive every cent which is agreed to be paid. sSecond—The soldiers are not ‘‘compelied to yarchase their clothing of the company.” Third— The soldiers are not charged ‘several hundred per cent advance on garments that are not superior in eine of cloth or make to those on sale .? the slop shops,’ but on the contraty the compafy have never t received the first cent for any clothing furnished he employés. Fourth—The Superintendent's salary is not $7,000 per annum; the President's salary is not $5,000 or any other sum; the Secretary’s salary is not $3,500; the Inspector of Booths’ salary is not $2, or any approximation to the amounts named. Fifth—A reduction of $2 per week ‘has not been made nor attempted to be made in the pay of the men in the booths, but on the contrary an in- crease of fifty cents per week has been made. Sixth—No employé has ever been told by the Presi- dent or Superintendent that $3 per week ‘‘was as muchasacripple was worth, and if he would not take that he ought to beg or starve,’’ but on the con- trary crippled soldiers have always been preferred for such work as they could perform, and none have received less than $7 50 per week, Seventh—No or- der has been promulgated, signed by the President, to strike $2 per week from each man’s wages until the amount of SRaneue have been paid for gar- ments furnish ern. * : We invite the closest sctutiny into the manage- ment of the company, and if any respectable citizen ‘will call upon the President or any other officer be may soon satisfy himself that the objects and inten- tions ofthe company, as set forth in the charter, with a view to the employment of soldiers, are being Taithfally carried out. LEXANDER SHALER,, President 8. B. M. and D. Co. MURDER OF A NEGRO SENATOR IN SOUTH CAROLINA. Particulars of the Unfortunate Affair—Trouble Brewing. {From the Columbia (8. ©.) Phoenix, Jane 7.) ‘We are informed that while a negro man, one Dill and his wife, were sitting in Dill’s house, they were fired upon. The negro man ana Dill were killed and Mrs. Dill wounded. Dill, we believe, was the Senator elect for Kershaw district, under the recent constitution, and a violent radical, re | much influence among, the negroes of Kershaw district. At whose hands these parties met their death we do not know. In any event we regret the occurrence and the necessity that devolves upon ws of recording such an outrage in our usually quiet and law-abiding community, Since writing the above we learn that quite an excitement prevails in the neighborhood of the killing, which is near Longtown, in Fairfield, and not far from the Kershaw line. ‘We believe that the mititary authori, sent @ pare to preserve the peace. eee ete Pll made @ speech to appears that some time the ni wherein he them that if he should be killed they must avenge his death upon the whites and kill them “from the cradie up.” The negroes, ‘we are informed, have Ley pes and threatencd mischief, But we take it for grant bang os ba a down ony ‘ ce? on part, lasted two days and a half, filling the river, creeks and works to overflowing and flooding the greater part of the land. The growing crops of minor arti- cles of production were destroyed, and a large num- ber of horses, mules, cattle and sheep drowned. On one single estate six horses, eight mules and forty- eight head of cattle were thus lost. There were other serious damages to property, and altogether the dry spell was succeeded by a vast superabund- ance of water. The effects of the rain storm ex- tended as far as Sancto $piritu, but were not so dis- astrously felt, ‘3 ‘The place of a clerk‘having become vacant in the military administration of this department, no less than fifty-eight persons applied for the position, The selection, it has been dec! shall be the result of &@ competing examination. e United States, after all, are not the pape erg wide flelds for the wild hunt after office. We learn from the last number of the “Gazette of Medical Sciences,’ a periodical lately started here and whicn displays great abilities in its editorial de- partment, that there were two deaths in the govern- ment poepital of Havana during the past year from hydrophobia. One was that of a young mulatto boy nd the other of one of the nighi watchmen. Bot! were bitten by mad com in ara hand, both re- mained forty days without showing signs of hydro- pes and both died forty-eight hours thereafter. her strange coincidence, wasn’t it? Smallpox is reported to have almost entirely dis- pce tape from Puerto Principe. The journal of Hol- guin denies its ever having been there. The government has authorized the formation of a savings bank at Trinidad, with a capital of $50,000. A free mulatto, named Tiburcio Izaguirre, died at Bayamo on the 27th ult., aged 110 years and eleven months. He continued in ae health and vigor until a few aan preceding his death. The Spanish actress, Ramona Garcia, died at Guantanamo on the 25th ult., of yellow fever. She was the most prominent actress now on the island, and last December was a member of the Valero troupe, playing at the Tacon theatre. The Captain General Opposed to the Gold Speculators—Religious Celebration of the Month of May—The Captured Slaves—An- other Vessel Fined. HAVANA, June 2, 1868, The iniquitous measure inaugurated by the muni- cipal authorities here, and immediately afterward adopted by other authorities and nearly all the mer- chants and business men of Havana, to refuse re- ceiving Spanish American gold coin, without regard to their weight or value, has been very severely but justly reprobated by the Captain General. The Oficial Gazette of last Saturday evening contained a proclamation of his in which the measure 1s de- nounced as the production of an unworthy spirit of speculation, and all departments under his cop- trol are ordered to continue receiving and paying out the coins in question, and good citizens are asked to assist in putting down so reproachful a move. The results of the proclamation were almost instan- taneous, all authorities and parties guilty of the ini- quitous repudiation at once backing down from their positions, and to-day Spanish American gold coins again circulate freely among all classes. The action of the Captain General has considerably enhanced his popularity. The paper, La Prensa, which from the jump made itself the champion of a measure contemplated to drive out of circulation over $3,000,000, merely because it was not Spanish coined, published the proclamation, but has not a word to say on the gubject. General Lersundi appears to have rendered it dumb. On the 6th of July the contract for carrying the mails between this city and Vera Cruz, and also be- tween here and Porto Rico, will be allotted to the lowest bidder, under sealed proposals made in con- formity with the order of October 29, 1867. On Sunday terminated the religious ceremonies called ‘Feasts of the Flowers of May,’ vouchsafed during the month to the ee Mary. The closing exercises at most of the churches were of great length ‘and unusual magnificence and forgeousness at. tended by vast concourses of people, the fair ok, as always is the case on such occasions, largely in the predominance. Advices from Guanabacoa, Matan- zas, Cardenas and other places show that there, too, the terminating festivities were brilliant and nu- merously participated in. The consumption of flowers on Jast Sunday throughout the island cannot be expressed by any less comprehensive word than prodigious, w By &n order from the Captain General all the Afri- oan biacks taken from captured slavers, except those from the Aguica, Dominica, Third Neptune, Lezo, Guadalquivir, Gato and inte Hollandesa, and hired out for a number of years, are now declared having completed their lease in conformity with the royal decree of October 27, 1865, and are to be hired out anew by contract, under the rules prescribed by the decree of May 1, 1367. This will in no way beue- fit the Africans, the government, as heretofore, re- ceiving alfthe money paid for tl jces by the con- tractors; and the present mes having the preference of proposals in all probability they will renew their contract, and thus the Africans will not even have a change of masters, To put Money into the govern- ment coffers is the great object of the order. The negroes of the excepted vessels remain in their pres- ent condition on account of not having completed the five fail years of service required by the royal de- cree of October, 1865, before they can be hired, out anow like the otters. A so-called “emancipado” is a life. “trom th of Trinidad I learn that another From the ci ce hn vessel Maa Jaen 4 a prey o the ning and confiscating Vv! e House authorities. The brig C. V. Williams, Capra ‘Thompson, of Philadetphia, has had about one-hal confiscated because Swat lum represented pounds Instead of }Oo- Pye the standard weight, The case is now in the hands of the Acti ~! - General here, itis to be to remain a long while unsettled, ju: from its dozen or more pre- decessors, now is sublime statu quo, inseparabl from the dolce sar niente of this climate and the ab- sence of the Captain General’s summer aa at Guan: which precludes the rendering of de- cisions cases on to As an evi- pos ‘oft the destructive the island, A po torte commerce | ehtmeinands Sder Mdiculous preteusious of Viola: 5 tion of the revenue laws, imposed particnlarly apon American vessels, jet me say that there were but ninety-three vessels in this port on last Saturday, aguinst 129 the same date last year and 166 the year preceding. Yet the sugar crop is an unusually large one this year, and over 180,000 boxes were reported on Saturday in the hands of shippers and three hun- dred thousand more boxes and 15,459 hhds. in ware- houses, Such figures need no commentaries, The United States steamer De Soto, Commodore jeft here yesterday evening for Pensacola, under orders from Washington, The De Soto will be in Key West by the 8th of July, at which time the Admiral of the squadron is expected there. VENEZUELA. Dissolution of Congrese—Falcon Resigwe—The Rebels Fighting in the Suburbs of Caracas. : La Guayna, May 7, 1868. Since July, 1867, the government of Venezuela has existed but in name, It possesses no means and is Without any funds to pay either its soldiers or em- ploy(s, For the last ten days Caracas, the capital, has been menaced by the revolutionary party, and in conse} quence of armed forces being permitted to roam about the city, the President of the Congress closed the Legislature under protest, General Falcon, by permission, vacated the rresi- dency some time ago to head the Venezuelan army and enter upon active service against the revolu- tionary party; but, so far from doing this, he spent two months at Puerto Cabello and returned ut three weeks ago. Finding things mucu better than he expected, he left again to concentrate tis forces at Coro, or Ambro, @ Dutch ssion, Where he has rovided himself with a property, upon which he tends to setile some day When his power in Veue- zuela comes to grief. Within the last few days the revolutionary party have entered the very city of Caracas several times, sometimes with success, at others without; the loss on both sides being more than the rulers would be disposed to acknowledge. At this moment, four P. M., there is a hue and cry in the town that a Fev olnWOnAPy Parez have entered and are fizhting in the town of Mayguetia, about half a league from this place. The Battle at Carncas—How the Adherents of Both Parties Divide the Country—Wretched- ness and Misery—An Advance Towards Free Navigation of Colombian and Venczuelan Waters. ‘ Sr. Tuomas, May 30, 1868. We have private advices from the Venezuelan capital to the 22d, which show no amelioration in the political and military situations of the republic. On the 10th, at early morn, @ stubborn battle was commenced in the very suburbs of Caracas between the government forces, under the command of General Bruzual, and the insurrectionary army, led by General Michei A. Rojas, The last was the attacking party. The eagagement lasted until half- past nine, when General Rojas withdrew his troops, for want of ammunition, to the village of Antimano, six miles from the capital. He was unmolested in his retreat. The loss of the two sides is not exactly known, but must have been very heavy. Over five hundred wounded were brought to the gov- ernment hospital in Caracas, comprising most of the wounded of General Bruzual’s forces, together with such of General Rojas’ army as was not carried off by him in his retreat, On the 11th the Secretary of the Interior, Dr. Wen- ceslao Urrutia, had an interview with General Rojas and arranged a truce with him, which had not expired up to the latest advices. Many conferences had taken place between representatives of the two parties on the subject of a peaceful settlement of dificulties, but no conclusions had been arrived at, and on the 2ist the contending parties appeared further off than ever from agreeing ie of reconciliation. In Caracas people were beginning to believe that the truce was a trap of General Brugzual to gain time, as he was daily looking for re-enforce- ments from Coro and Maracaybo, which places con- tained the cole troops upon which the government relied with full confidence. Should these not soon arrive General Bruzual will surely be unable to sus- tain himself against his opponents. The truce, it Was thought, would be terminated on the 22d, and General Rojas expected to be re-enforced on the 24th by 3,000 men, under the elder Mon: who was re- ported on the 2ist at Rio Chico, but three days? march from Caracas. Then the revolutionists would enter the city unless General Bruzual was also re-en- forced in the meantime. The revolutionary fires were daily syrenning, end nearly all the central and eastern portions of Vene- zuela were held by other authorities than those ac- pongeiene allegiance to President Falcon. Most of the West remained favorable to him, whilst the very large but thinly inhabited province of Guyana, forming the southern portion, preserved @ masterly neu ity, and thus escaped the devastations of the civil war. President Falcon was at Coro, the place of hig residence and centre of his popularity, and he kept a war vessel near at hand, sup; nerally for the purpose of bearing him and his ousehold penates to other shores, a8 goon as dis- cretion, replacing valor, should render it advisable for him to feave Venezuela. Amidst all these political troubles and intestine wars wretchedness and disorder had reached their maximum limits, The government had ceased pay- ing its creditors, nearly all the legitimate sources of revenue had ceased furnishing money to the treasury, which was almost dry, the troops were on the point of losing all pay, forced loans and arbitrary impress- ments were of daily occurrence; the soldiers, half fed and half naked, were in some instances and pillaging in others; in a word, insecurity and misery everywhere were in the ascendancy. The sombre picture held good for both sides. ‘The great hopes of table men, even of the government party, centred upon General Monagas, Who might succeed, if placed at the head of affairs, in restoring the reign of law, with its accompanying blessings of peace, prosperity and tranquillity. But here arise new ditfi- culties. Even after the fall of President Falcon's administration, as fall, it was ey, conceded, it would, there were no certainties of a stable gov- ernment following. General Rojas had proclaimed the revolution his, and his rival pretensions, as well as those known to be entertained by Mendoza, might revent Monagas’ accession to the Presidency and ecome the fertile sources of new strifes. United in opposing President Falcon, the fears to the country were that this union of the three great leaders of the revolution would terminate the moment the common enemy was out of the way. The government has formed three important trea- ties with Colombia, through the latter’s Minister Plenipotentiary, sent expressly for the purpose to cas, Seflor Manuel Murillo. The first opens to navigation and friendly commerce the Orinoco river,and Lake Maracaibo, with ail tributaries. Ve- nezuela is to discontinue all custom houses op the frontiers of the two countries, and in lien thereof will receive from Colombia an annual subvention | of $100,000 to be paid by the Custom House of Cucuta. ‘The second treaty is one of peace, commerce and maritime navigation, and the third relates to tne duties requi of the Colombian and Venezuelan Consuls respectively. No treaty was made for a set- tlement of the boundary lines at dispute, the uncul- tivated condition and sparse population of the small districts doubly claimed justifying the Venezuelan vernment to remit to more ful periods of its istory the decision as to the justice of its titles. Minister Murillo was very well treated during his brief sojourn in Caracas, all classes and parties unit- ing in giving him proofs of their good will and esteem. DE LUNATICO INGUIRENDO, — To THe EpiTor or THE HERALD:— The second annual session at Boston of the super- intendents of the lunatic asylums throughout the country is a good text for some consideration of the system upon which these institutions are conducted. Some years ago Mr. Dickens and the late Mr. Charles Reade exposed, in certain of their novels, the infa- mous outrages perpetrated on private citizens in England by their detention in private asylums, under the plea of insanity. This course was frequently pursued in cases where avarice or revenge formed a suflicient motive, and so successful did the plan be- come that no man possessing wealth or enemies was secure in his person from such summary and unjus- tiflable incarceration. ‘This system, with all fts at- tendant evils, was finally introduced into this coun- try, and within the ‘ens few years numerous cases have occurred in the regularly chartered and en- dorsed State asylums, involving loss of liberty and property, separation from fu! d friends, and the recovery of freedom only by stiuiagem or accident, frequently followed by long and expensive lawsuits for the establishment of the rights of the victims. That 4 certiicate signed by two pliysicians, who may or may not have ever seen the victim before should be sufficient to close upon him the doors of a lunatic asylum and deprive him of liberty for an tndefinite period isso gross an outrage that the existence of the facts would be disputed by almost any citizen of this free and enlightened republic. And yet from tho evidence of Dr. Kirkbride, of the Pennsylvania State Lunatic Asylum, we learn that such is the case. This same Dr. Kirkbride, by the way, called the session of superintendents to order at Boston the other day, and we hope did not fail to relate his ex- rience in reference to this important te wo cases of this character have ly been made One of a lady who ublic, has just een’ released from an asylum where she had been detained at the instance of Ler hus- band, and the other of a wealthy ated in Philadelphia who had been imprisoned in Lop ‘gl sylvania State Asylum for eight months, 4 tle a brother and other members of his family sold ¥ 3 property ahd divided the proceeds among them- selves. Such occurrences as tl need no comment; rm of the law or the still mightier power of pat fy ‘opinion should be used to prohibit nd prevent them. ums 80 mau are fit only for such insane nat as roy cried Butler and Old Thad ‘ens, and ifa commission de lunatico inquirendo could be ordered to investigate their sanity they it be forced to take the piaces in our asytums bow ‘occupied by respectable private citizens de- farious purposes; or, better yet tained there for tlre to exchange places with Cowne be made to eae Be ee ihe cell under the Capitol. This would be poetic justice. a —