No. 7.
Mr. Osborn to Mr. Evarts .

No. 181.]

Sir: It was finally determined in cabinet meeting to intervene in the disturbances in the province of Corrientes, on the formal request of Dirqui, the governor in possession; and the President issued a decree notifying all parties in arms to disperse, and placed the national forces at the command of Minister Raza, the government commissioner.

The telegraph-lines are cut and communication between Buenos Ayres and the province is difficult and tardy, but it is known here that another battle has been fought between the State troops and the rebels near Goya, and the State troops were defeated, and all of the infantry were taken prisoners. The numbers engaged on each side are estimated at two thousand.

A few days ago the President sent Colonel Arias, to whom General Mitre surrendered (which closed the Mitre rebellion some four years ago), to the seat of war to take command of the national forces which will follow him.

Under the Argentine constitution the President is elected for six years, and is ineligible to a re-election until at least one term has passed. President Avellenada was elected four years ago, and has but two years yet to serve, and it may be said that the next Presidential campaign has already opened in the province of Corrientes, and the perfect reconciliation of the old political parties was not fully accomplished, except between the leaders in the capital, as Dr. Dirqui and his party are of the administration party and the rebels are said to be the old “Mitrista” of the province; hence, when the question of national intervention was presented to the cabinet, the two “Mitrista” cabinet ministers opposed the intervention, but the President and the other ministers determined to intervene and support Dirqui, and that policy has awakened to a certain extent the old party feelings, and, unless a compromise is effected, will result sooner or later in a rupture or in a change of the present cabinet. This result, however, may be avoided by a compromise, by way of a new election in the province for governor, as it is reported that commissioners from the rebels are on the way to Buenos Ayres to lay before the President a proposition to lay down their arms if the President will guarantee a new election, as the return of Dirqui, it is claimed, was accomplished by fraud.

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If it should prove to be true that commissioners are on the way with such a proposition, I do not think the President will receive them officially but in a friendly way, to assure them that peace must be restored to the province before any guarantee can be given.,

Dr. Iriondo, the late chief of the President’s cabinet, has been proclaimed governor of the province of Santa Fé. It is claimed that he was unanimously elected, as the opposition refused to vote, in consequence of armed troops being stationed around the polls, and rumors of threatened troubles in that province are current.

The province of Santa Fé and other provinces, as well as the southern part of this province, have of late suffered from rains and floods. From what we learn from Santa Fé the destruction must be terrible, as immediately on the receipt of dispatches from that province the President held a special session of the cabinet in order to decide on the best means of giving relief to the unfortunate.

Two cases of yellow fever have been reported in this harbor, which caused much alarm in the city, and the authorities to impose rigid quarantine regulations.

Both cases were brought from Rio de Janeiro and both patients died on shipboard. The report of several cases of yellow fever in Montevideo caused the authorities here to decree a quarantine of eight days against that city.

The weather is extremely hot, but the city still remains healthy, and it is hoped that Buenos Ayres may escape that terrible scourge which caused the death of nearly twenty-five thousand of her inhabitants but a few years ago.

I have, &c.,

THOS. O. OSBORN.