No. 1.
Mr. Osborn
to Mr. Evarts.
Buenos Ayres, September 12, 1877. (Received October 30.)
Sir: On the 7th instant President Avellenada received a dispatch that a revolution had broken out in the province of San Juan, and that Señor Doucel, the governor of the province, and his ministers, had been arrested and put in prison, and several persons had been killed and wounded.
From dispatches of a late date it appears that the cause of the trouble in that province was an attempt on the part of D. C. Sarmiento and his friends to depose Doucel and make himself governor of the province.
General Roca was at once ordered with troops to the capital of the province, and the President informed the revolutionary governor, Sarmiento, that he would not be recognized, but that the whole power of the national government would be brought, if necessary, to the support of the legally-elected governor of the province, Governor Doucel; whereupon the President received a dispatch from him, declaring his submission to the national government; hence the troubles in that province may be considered at an end.
The one great source of troubles to the national government in the past has been these provincial outbreaks. The people of the province become dissatisfied with the governor legally elected, and then undertake to depose him without form of law and make some one—for the time, a favorite—their chief. This procedure or attempted procedure has given rise to all the late outbreaks and troubles in the province of Santa Fé, which has caused such disaster to the business and prosperity of the province. The better class and the business men of the country now begin to believe—taken in connection with the late order of the President to the revolutionary governor of San Juan, that recently he sent the chief of his cabinet to Santa Fé to inform the people of the province that however much they might dislike their governor, and however many his faults, he would remain in his position until he was properly relieved under the law and constitution—that the provincial troubles and petty revolutions are about to be brought to an end.
I am, &c.,