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S.YVOEK.

I EDITOR AND PURLISHEB.

AND

MACHINE SHOP

MM Crate/or dsrille.

BLAIR, LYLE & CO.,

HAVE

NOW IN OPERATION a Foi'snnv and MACHINE SHOP, in this PLACE, ami invite all interested iu

MACHINERY OF ANY KIND,

to giro tkew call. They aTe making all kinds of casting:", such us

MILL GEARING, every description

SORGHUM MILLS,

FURNACE FRONTS,

.SUGAR KETTLES,

Molting Patterns for, and Replacing

-v STOVE PLATES

OVENS, DOG IRONS, Ac., &c.

They are prepared to n-pair

Tubular Boilers, Steam Engines,

\.:sThrashing Machines,

Reapers, Drag. Saws, Mowers,

and to make and fit up

Brass Castings, and Blacksmithing

of every description.

KajrAIl work dono by this firm is warranted to jjerform as represented.

CAS11 PAID TOR

OLD IRON,.'COPPER & BRASS

jfgf Shop on Green street, near tho Depot, may 10 '66.] BLAIR, L\ LE C0

T. W. FRY & CO.

AVE just opened a fino assortment of

flEVL «G5r

A I N S

E I A S

O I S

Mtye- Stuffs, Toilet A' Fancy

ARTICLES.

PIGARS TOBACCO

7. OF-

THE FINEST QUALITY.

Try, bar* also constantly on hand a very select ,. Btoclt of the beat quality of

SUGAR/' COFFEE, and TEA.

All of which wo will sell the very lowest MARKET PRICE. Call and see as, on Green street, two doors above

W. Lynn Son. June 21, '6ft. T. W. FRY A CO.

GROCERY & BAKERY.

THE

undersigned, after returning thanks to his friends for saving his stock from the late fire, would inform his old customers and the ptiblie generally, that ho has erected a new brick •4 building on the site, south of the public square, where he now keeps a first class Grocery, with, a ltakery attached, and that .he has, and intends keeping on hand a general stock of

GROCERIES, COFECTIONERIES,

Also, /1 -j BREAD, 7 J," CAKES,

&c.,

I E S

,, PASTRY,

i,nd even-thing to bo found in such an establishciienti lie has seeured the serricerof a first class I akor, and is prepared to fill orders for Cakes for \toddings and parties on short notice.

He solicits a, share of the public cuatom. Deo. 20, 1866.] J.F. GALEY.

.V.. /. Rustic Shades.

CALL

at the "CORNER BOOK STORE" and see our full assortment of Rustic Window ha.de*, made of pine wood, nice, pretty ana at v»vices below anything ever offered in this city. aug23tf.] L. A. FOOIB & -'0.

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FOR ADVERTISING.

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Yearly advertisements subject to semi-annual change, at the same rates. All transient advertising, Public Sales, A'C., $1 per square, for first insertion, and 50 cents for each additional insertion.

R. B. F. PEiRCE, ATTORNEY AT LAW,

CrawfordsvlIIe Indiana.

OFI-'ICK OVER POST OFFICE,

may 16,'67-tf.

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Kennedy & Galloway, ATTORNEYS AT LAW,

CRAWFORDSVILLE, IXW.

OFFICE ADJOINING THE MAYOR'S Or'PICE, OYER FOOTK'S HOOK STORK.

C. I.. THOMAS. A. I). THOMAS, Notary Public.

THOMAS & THOMAS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW,

And Solicitors in BANKRUPTCY,

Crairfoi'flsrillc, Indiana. June 6/66 —yl.

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ADDRESS:

REA & BOVINGDON, URBANA, ILL.

July 4. 18G7.-3m.

MRS. MB. HOOVER,

0FFICB AXD RESIDENCE ON VFUXOX STREET, XKARLY Ol'I'OSITK THE POST OFFICE.

WILL

give exclusive attention to the practice of Medicine and Obstetrics also to the treatment of diseases of Women and Children. A share of t^ie public patronage is respectfully solicited. [mar28-in6.

SPRING SUMMER

186V.

BHtMMftYSSOBS. Miss F. M. Baldwin,

rjlAKES this method of apprising her euMom1 ers and the public, that, she has permanently located in tho room on VERNON STREET,

One Door West of the Corner Book Store, anrl that she has received hor new stock of spring and summer styles, which for richness and beauty are unsurpassed in tho city. Confident that her goods, work and prices cannot fail to please, sho u.'ka all to call, see, and be convinced.

May 1, 1807.

Gun-Smithing, Saw Filing, and clock repairing.

oTw.

Nov. 8, 1866.

COREY

Would inform tho public that he still continues in the above

business at his shop on Vernon street, five doors cast of tho Post Office, and is prepared to do all kinds of REPAIRING on short notive.

T. H. WINTON,

HOUSE, SIGN AND ORNAMENTAL

Glazier, Gilder, Paper Hanger* Engraver on Wood, &°c,, &'c.

WOULD

return his thanks to tho public for past favors. Hoping by strict attention to business and reasonable prices to share a continuance of public favor. ffigr Shop over R.J. Vance's Dry Goods Store, Green Street. T. H. WINTON. marchl4'67-tf.

TR. J. G. SINMRDT Homeopatliic

PHYSICIAN,

CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA.

Office witli Township Trustee.

Feb. 21, 1867. v!9n24tf.

WM. P. RAMEY,

HAVING

Si6&SEi'S9flfl®85RSSS5S^9&jSSSfiS.!5Sfl!9!fi81$i5®f"

bought the Grocery establishment of R. E. BRYAXT, NO. 4, Commercial Block, takes pleasure in informing the public that it is his intention to keep constantly on hand a choice stock of

which he intends to sell as cheap as the cheapest, for cash or country produce. Remember the place, No. 4, Commercial Block.

AJR25 '67—tf.

T. W. FRY & CO.r

ARE

iust receiving the finest assortment color* in oil in the city. [mrU-lf.

VOL. XIX.--NO.. 47.! CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND., AUG. 1, 1867.

MEXICO.

Maximillian, Santa Anna and Jua rex.

Letter from Major General Lew Wallace. To the Editor of tho Chicago Tribune 1. Maximillian was shot. 2. Santa Anna was seized on an Am'crican sir p. 3. Escobedco cries death to foreigners.

As a consequence, Monday's Washington reports inform us that our Government will demand satisfaction for tho second affair. And j'estorday, from .Now

Orleans, comos tho cry, "On to

Mexico!" [NOTE.—This letter was written prior to tho publication of Mr. Seward's despatch concerning the.arrest of Santa Anna.—ED.]

Is it possiblo wo are being rushed into a war with that unhappyiHepublic? And for such causes?

To say the least, the matter wears a serious aspcct, deserving serious consideration. Beforo tho declaration, consider after it, fight—that I take to bo a genuino Americanism.

A lato journey of four thousand miles over tho highways, through many of the commercial centres, and in constant communication with the people of Mexico, added to a closo connection with officials of tho General Government of that country, gavo mo, as you may imagine, an opportunity lo glean some information upon the subject in question. AVill you be good enough now to givo me opportunity to speak?

As to tho first point: Without the slightest hesitation, and speaking from what I know, as having been seen with my own e}*es and heard with my own «ars, it is my judgement that, next to eft". Davis, Maximillian was tho greatest criminal whom this Continent has yet seen. And tho judgement has been formed with direct referenco to charity, mercy and humanity, all of which appoar to havo been so shocked bv the Austrian's death. It is further my judgment, that no peoplo in any age or country, not excepting our own in the recent rebellion, over suffered as much at the hands of their ruler, lawful or unlawful, as the Mexican peoplo suffered from Maximillian. If, to kill peoplo, women and children included, and to kill them without provocation, unarmed, defenceless, and sometimes with savago tortures, and to kill them by tho thousand, bo criminal if to enter a country uninvited, except by its traitox-s, ar.din the attempt to set up and maintain a government notoriously in opposition to tho public will, to decreQ its depopulation, make ruins of its farms, towns and cities, appropriate its wealth, broak up iU commerce, and strangle its society, be criminal if, not in poetic vagueness, but literally, and in terrible and blocdy fact, to blast a country by fire, battle, raid, sack aad murder, be criminal, then is Maximillian all I have pronounced him. And if to havo suffered and endured such horrors, thro' a term of dreary years, during which the Governments of tho world, our own not excepted, were solidly against them if so to havo suffered and endured for their liberty alone entitles a peoplo, at the end of this awful visitation, to sit in judgement upon tho author of their calamities, and send him to death —then are the Mexican peoplo justified in the execution of Maximillian.

As to the second point: I am willing to admit tho facts urged to make the abduction of

Santa Anna from an Amer

ican ship, flying an American flag, outside Mexican waters, an outrage upon our nationality but I interpose others which ought at least to ease the pain of the sting. And that tho latter may bo the bettor appreciated by yor.r Northern readors, it is best to put them in this form—Jeff. Davis is now at liberty. Suppose ho goes to England, and five or ten years hence engages in another conspiracy against tho United States. Ilis purposes involve much preparation, of which together with bis movements and progress, our authorities and people receive constant information. At last they hear that the traitor has chartered a British ship and sails in open day, without hindrance, from Liverpool for Charleston. ther6 to reinaugurate the civil war.— On this simple statement, I desire to know what our peoplo would think of our Government if it failed to take every action possiblo to thwart tho said scheme? In tho next placo, if tho recusant should arrive off* our coast, what would bo thought of our officials, if they failed to seize his body when opportunity offered? If they should hesitate because he was outside our waters, on a British ship—nay, if, when they approach the ship's side, the traitor with his own hands, should spread the "red cross'' over tho bulwarks—if for that, or any earthly cause, they should hesitate to take him dead or alive, does the storehouse of public opinion hold vials of contempt and wrath hot enough for their offering? Such is Santa Anna's caso exactly. Hois the Mexican Jeff. Davis. After betraying the people, after warring upon them, after all manner of crimes against their nationality, with the purchase money of the Messila Valley in his pocket, the entire contents of their plundered treasury, he fled to St. Thomas. He offered to take service with Maximillian, but was refused. Ho then offered to servo Juarez, but was refused, Finally, he came to

The XJnion, in any event.

and proceeded publicly to use his stolen treasure in the purchaso of military stores, the enlistment of men and officers, and tho chartering of vessels for transportation purposes. What for War against Juarez, whom wo have pretonded to rccognizo aa tho lawful head of the only legitimate Mexican Government. All this tho liberals knew. No need of spios: the dockets of the New York City Courts published the story. That Juarez was warned of Santa Anna's departure, I know. That he seized him promptly, should be a matter of rejoicing to every one who thinks enough of law and order and liberty to pray that they may become common blessings-of'ull tho peoples of the earth. A.ud unless it was in fact a party to the proposed revolution, our Government, if it bo wise and just, will thank Juarez for that seizure —not that it affords opportunity to send Santa Anna after Maximillian— tho sorrow that there should bo a necessity for shedding man's blood will always keep good men from rejoicing over blood-shedding as a fact—but bocause it gives opportunity to teach the groat lesson, never so needed as now, that when our flag is used by men, home-bred or foreign, for unlawful purposes, it carries no sanctity, gives no protection, and cannot be insulted.

As to the third point: I know Escobedo well: and while satisfied that he is unfriendly to foreigners, Americans included, tho death-cry attributed to him is"false ho is not that much of an idiot. But if it be true that he did raise such a cry, he docs not in any sonscj especially in that, represent cither his Government or his countrymen.. Returning again to what 1 know, it is not possible for men to feel gratitude more keenly than did Juarez and his ministers when at last our Government asked Napoleon to quit Mexico. There was not an hour of the long struggle, apparently so hopeless, in which they failed to recognize the moral influence of tho sympathy of the people of tho United States. At the grand ball given by Juarez in farewell to tho citizens of Chihuahua, as part of tho beautiful decorations put up on the northern wall of tha patia, the American flag occupiod the place of honor. In all tho speeches he made his people on reception occasions while en route to tho capital, ho never failod, when they woro at all appropriate, to make the most friendly allusions to our people and Government. That we did not lend him money, or send him arms or armies, or give him tho use of a navy that wo withheld all material aid, and, as against him, even gave the enemy the privilege of our market— all seemed to be, and were, overlooked in view of the one great fact, that, of all tho Powers, ours alone steadfastly refused to recognize the so-call-ed Empire. And, as to tho Mexican, commonalty, all of them, even the most poor and wretched, knew enough of tho principles involved in our rebellion to be invariably the frionds of tho North. In a word, Benito Juarez a Mexico, not Mariano, Escobedo and his utterances will be those of peace, until peace becomes shamo.

Juarez is a bravo man ho has in a groat measure tho physical courage of his Indian fathers and tho moral courago of tho educated Christian goiilloman. The French hunted him year in and year out, like a wild beast he fleld, but kept his constancy proof against misfortune. And now, in the lace of tho world calm amidst the storm of protestation: partly in duty to his people, so long and so much suffering partly in duty to the weak Republics south of him, which Europe proposes to reduce oivco moro to the condition of colonies, be has deliberately sprinkled tho bud of impartialism with the blood of the latest Emperor. Iturbido and Maximillian— who will como next? and when will ho co mo?

In view of tho many lessons conveyed to us by this bold act--conveyed to us as a peoplo troubled with tho difficulties and responsibilities of taking care of ourselves nationally, when will wo como to have a foreign policy of our own?— a policy having for its objects our intorests distinctive from those of European Governments—a policy based upon justice and acoounability to God, rather than upon the international codo, which—I havo the authority of ono of the wisest philosophers and jurists of England for the saying—was overthrown by the spoilers of Poland?

That we can destroy Mexico, there is no doubt, but let us not do it because we can. A study of our own embarrassments, together with the slightest knowledge of the customs, habits and peculiarities of the Mexican people, should satisfy every thinking citizen that we will be better paid by spending fifty millious to hold her up than a thousand millions to hold her down.

JKTDO

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York,

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LEW WALLACE.

The Commissioners of Wells County havo ordered §100,000 in county bonds be paid to tho railroad company that first builds a railroad through their county, and havo mado a tax levy to raise the amount. Tho offer is liberal and wise.

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Professor Agassiz and. the Negro.

From tho New York Commercial Advertiser, 13th.

In the House of Representatives on Monday last, Mr. Mungen, of Ohio, & in tho State Convention on Thursday last, Mr. Townsend, of Troy, referred to a doctrino ascribed to Professor Agassiz, in relation to the negro. Professor Agassiz, in a letter written on Monday, before either of the speeches above roferrcd to, had reached him, repudiates indignantly the "vile sentiments" and "vulgar language" of a current newspaper paragraph, which pretends to set forth tho words used by him, and then says "The onlj* ground I may havo given to question the soundness of ray viows concerning tho different

races

of men

is tho opinion I have always maintained, and which I still hold now, that the different typo of the human family have an independent origin one from tho other, and are not decended from common ancestors but this idea I do not apply to tho negroes only, but to the Indians, the Chinese, the Hindoos, the Australians etc., as well. In fact, I beliove that men were created in nations not in individuals but not in natious in the present sense of tho word on the contrary, in such crowds as exhibited slight, if any, ^diversity among themselves, except those of sex.

Professor Agassiz says that the statements of tho newspaper paragraph aforementioned in regard to the bones and blood of negroes are absolutely false, and that no anatomist or chemist over uttered such absurdities. The Professor is too sound and humane a man to back up tho shinbone theories of the political physiologists.

Assassination of Union Soldiers in Kentucky. Major James Bridgowater, formerljr an officer in the Uniou army, and moro recently connected with tho Frcedmen Bureau, was assassinated at Stanford, Ivy., on Friday last. The rebels of that neighborhood entertained tho most intense hatred of Major Bridgewater, and previous unsuccessful attempts had been rnado to murdor him.

A correspondent of,the Louisville Courier writes to that paper that the Major was sitting in a public room, engaged in playing checkers, when his slayers, eight in number, walked in and shot him, before ho could rise from his chair. Ho was killed by tho first discharge, though tho eight chivalrous Kentuckians did not cease firing until fifteen balls had been shot into his body. Tho murderei'3 proceeded to Crab Orchard, and delivered themselves up to a sympathizing Justice of the Peace, by whom they were discharged on bail. The Courier correspondent states that they are 'young mon of the highest respectability," which means in Kentucky parlance, that they are young bloods, who drink whisky, play carda, rido fast horses, and would consider it a disgrace to bo found engaged in any useful employment.

A fow da}*s previous to this tragedy^ Finis II. Little, who had also been a Major in tho volunteer service of the United States, was murdered at Calhoun, Kentucky, by George Wright, ex-Captain in the rebel service.

It is assorted by tho organs of the Confederate Democracy of Kentucky that the lives of ex-Union soldiers aro as safe there as in any other State, and wo suppose that is true of those of them who support the rebel party, but soldiers of Republican politics havo about tho same protection from the laws in some portions of Kentucky as Union men had in Texas while the war was in progress.—Indiana Journal.

SHERMAN'S DUPLICATED PLANS.—The

following anecdote of tho war wo do not remember to have [seen beforo Sherman, on his mareh toward Atlanta, constantly astonished tho rebels with tho facility with which he restored the railroad bridges they destroyed at his approach. They would annihilate a bridgo just beforo ho arrived, & the next morning there it was again, just as it had boon before they touched it. At last alight dawned upon them. The original plans of the bridges had all been furnished from Cleveland, Ohio, and beforo Sherman started he took those plans, had each bridge duplicated in all its timbers and iron work, took the pieces in a "shook" state on his trains, and so when ho found a bridge gone, ho had nothing to do but got its mato out of the freight cars, bolt it together and put it.up.— This thing worried tho rebels a good deal when they found it out. Ono day they proposed to destroy Dalton tun nel, to hinder Shorman's march, but an exasperated Confederate said "What in the nation's the use? That old Sherman probably fetched an other ono along with him from Cleveland!"

nnsePeppslts of Tin Found. ST. LOUIS, July 2-1.—Immense doposites of tin oro has been discovered in Madison county, in this State, not far from Pilot Knob and Irou Mountain. Ono lode, botweon five and six hundred feet wide and several smaller ones havo already been found. The surface yiolds from three to fourteen percent. These are tho largost deposits known in tho world.

£Lea?y rains hero on Thursday eve.

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JEFFERSON DAVIS.

THE ANDERSONVIIjLE MURDERS. The main facts on record in General Holt's offiee touching tho connection of Jofferson Davis with tho Andersonville murders are so easily statod that I shall give a paragraph to them, lest thoy may not happon to fall under our observation.

The rebel idea of killing off our prisoners so as not to bo obliged to meet them in battle, developed before the Andersonville pen was made. Robert Ould, the Commissioner of exchange, said in a letter to Gen. Winder: "The arrangement I have made works largely in our favor. We get rid of a set of miserable wretches, and receive in return some of tho best material I ever saw." The

"miserable wi-otGhos"

ing so useful, a plan was devised to increase tho number, and it was stated by a rebel surgeon (not in evidence, however,) that when Winder got his orders to make the Ar.dorsonville pen, Davis told him to locate it as near hell as he could, and Winder always insisted that ho had succeeded exactly. It was filled with prisoners early in 1864, and put in the hands of Wirz. Its horrors began at onco, but Winder did not go near it till Juno. Meantime Wirz reported to tho authorities at Richmond and got his instructions there.— In May there were twelve thousand prisoners in eighteen acres onclosed, and the deaths wero so frequent, and resulted so manifestly from ill-treat-ment of the prisoners, that an officer of tho rebel government reported the facts, and earnestly protested against any more prisoners being sent there. It is in ^evidence that this report was endorsed "noted" by the Secretary of War, showing that it haf^bcen carefully read. Col. Parsons testified that, moved by a desire to mitigate the hardships of the place, he ordered several trains of lumber to build shelter for the prisqpers, whorcupon ho was removed, and the lumber used to build new quarters outside, but not a board suffered to go within. The removal took placo immediately on the arrival of General Widner from Richmond, on his first visit in June. The prisoners then had been increased to 19,000, more than a thousand to an aero.— Many witnesses testified to hearing Wirz and Winder say that they wore doing more for the Confederacy than General Lee and that they were doing the work expected of them at Richmond. In August the number of prisoners was increased to over 32,000, and Colonel Chandler, an officer of the Inspector General's Department, after reporting tho horrible condition of tho prisoners, recommended the removal of General Winder and the appointment of some one "who does not advocate deliberately and in cold blood, the propriety of leaving them (the prisoners) in their present condition until their number has been sufficiently reduced by death to make the present arrangement suffice." This report reached Richmond on tho 17th of August, and Adjutant General Cooper indorsed it: "The prison is a reproach to us as a nation. Colonel Chandler's recommendation is concurred in.' The Assistant Secretary of War also endorsed on the paper. "These reports show a condition of things at Andersonville which will call very loudly for the interposition of the Department, in order that a change may bo made." But after Mr. Davis and his War Minister had consulted about the matter, General Winder, instead of being moved, was put, by order No. 81. dated October 21, in command of all the prisoners east of tho Mississippi, and the work of starvation and mur der went on without any further attempt to stop it to the closo of the re bellion.— Washington Correspondent of Toledo Blade.

IS fast becoming a sort of

Botany Bay for the United States. It was during the War the common rendezvous for all our bounty jumpers, draft sneaks, copperheads, assassins, and would-be great men of this country. Since the war matters have not improvod for tho better, and all plavod out mountebanks as well as persons who have no legal standing or character here, still find themselves great men among the "Kanucks," just as the equally aspiring individuals who quit Great Britain, "for their country's good" become eminent among the inhabitants of tho penal colonies. It is fit that Jeff. Davis should make his future home among such people, and that they should present him a homo to induce him to do so, Barkis is willin'.—Ind. Jour.

President, his Washington or

gan, and his Democratic friends, are continually asserting that the course of tho Radical Congress will inevitably load to repudiation. As the democracy arc tho only party in this country who has ever advocated or practiced the repudiation of public obligations, the purpose of such chargcs is evident. They are simply engaged in familiarizing tho public mind with the thought, BO that if any ovent should happen to put them in power, they may adopt Jeff. Davis' Mississippi policy as a proclaimed necessity approved by their success.—hid. State Journal.

Six more Finians havo been convicted in Dublin aud sentenced for.various terms of imprisonment.

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Political excitement in Tennessee is up to fever heat. A terrible affray oc-1 curred yesterday at Rodgersville betweon the Radicals and Conservatives.! Etheridge and Maynard both had appointments for a meeting two proces-« sions were formed, and whilo march-" ing through the town, ono party fired? upon the other, killing ono man and^ wounding two others. The assailed party then fired, killing and wounding two or three of the. assailants. Ethridge and Maynard had a personal en-

counter at Greenville. Maynard ad•' dressed Ethridge, who replied, 'I don't, speak to damned scoundrols.' Maynard returned, 'I do.' Etheridge then struck. Maynard pickod up an inkstand and followed Ethoridge into tho room, when they were separated.

The city authorities of NashviIlo havo mado arrangements for opening schools for colorod children, to go into effect next September.

Some radical Cubans in Havana tho other day, celebrated MaximillianV exccution by a dinner and drinking toasts to the Monroe Doctri ne.

A cable telegram to the New York Herald says France, Austria and Prussia will make war-on Mexico in tho event of the refusal by tho Liberal government to deliver up tho body of Maximillian.

The crop of wheat this year is estimated at the comfortable figure of 225,000,000 bushels—a grain of comfort for poor folks.

It is belioved that Lopez, who betrayed Maximillian, was assassinated and robbed of tho §48,000 blood money.

A Russian naval' officer has arrived in New York to hand over tho newly acquired territory of Russian-America to tho United States.

Gen. Grant's attention has boon called to an incendiary article which recently appeared in Albert Pike's paper at -Memphis, urging citizens to arm on election.dty. It is a violation of his parole, according to Grant's letter to Gen. Pillow.

The registration in Alabama shows that the colored peoplo ivill have nbout 25,000 majority in that Stato of the registered voters.

Mexican advices state that Marques, O'Horan and other prominent chief* woro at large. Gens. Andrasa, Ocunza, Larez and others were found secreted in the English Minister's house, and arrested on the ground that foreign powers did not. recognizo the Liberal Government.

Diaz recently obtained from eight commercial houses §200,000, without interest, to pay his army, Otero, Castillo and ten more Generals, according to private accounts, wero recently shot at Quertaro. Tho publication of tho fact was prohibited by the authorities. Canales had proclaimed himself Govornor of Timaulipas, and levied contributions on Victoria, San Fernanda and other places. Tho people are much excited, and call upon tho Government for protection. Assistance has boon promised, and three thousand troops have left Querotaro to relieve the garrison at Matamoras.Journal.

The president is receiving a sovoro castigation by tho members of Congress for the sentiments expressed in his message. He is geting over on tho rebel side still farther every day.

GENERAL GRANT.—Tho

MAKING

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editor of tho

Evansvillo Journal writes to his paper from Indianapolis as follows: "It is conceded pretty generally that General Grant will bo tendered tho Republican nomination for tho Presidency, :f he desires it, and it is confidently believed he will not refuso the offer. Although he has preserved his natural reticence on political questions, as was becoming in the General of the National armies, he is understood in the Radical circles of Washington City to be thoroughly in sympathy with the party on all the living issuos which will enter into the coming canvas, or which will be applicable to future legislation. The speech of his chief of staff, Gen. Rawlins, at Galena, which covers tho. whole ground, and is thoroughly radical, is understood to be semi-official, and to reflect tho views of Grant- himself Senator Morton, Governor Baker, Speaker Colfax and other prominent Indianians have every confidence in his soundness.,! All the present indications point to his nomination, and if the friends of other aspirants do not make more headway than for somo months past ho will most probably be nominated by acclamation.

THE DESERT

BLOSSOM.—

The artesian wells in Algoria, long at-, tempted without success, now numbor probably about ono hundred, delivering five or six million litors of water por hour, and converting deserts into gardens wheirover they havo been bored: The work is going on, defrayed by tax upon tho benefitted population & is destined to declaim incalculablo wastes. In a single distrjet (Ouled. Rir) stretching far South into-the dosert, and how containingi^^i^-fivo wells, 2,000 new gardens- boon formed and 150,000 date trees planted. Four military boring brigades,provided with implements, and with growing skill and experience, are steadily pushing on the conquest of the desert, and with almost unerring success ir^ eyory attempt,