THE PRESS. rUBLISHED DAILY (SIMIDAYS EXCEPTED), BY JOHN W. FORNEY. vrrivic 50IITE1 1 OURTII STIIERT THE DATE V PRESS, 'To City Subscribers, Is F.:KITIF DOLLARS PEE AN NUM, in advance; or FIFTEEN CENTs run WREN, payable to the Carrier. Mailed to Subscribers out Of the city, Szvnis DOLLARS run ANNUM; THREE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS FOR SEE MONTHS( ONE DOLLAR AND BEI - SEW-FIVE Csiira FOR TIMM MONTHS, invariably in advance for the time ordered. MI-Advertisements inserted at the usual rates. ' THE TRY-WEEKLY PRESS. Maned to sabscribera, FOUR DOLLARS nnt AR rUm, in advance. E4t•Vrtss. MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1865 JUARErS FLIORT TO TEXAS ,jeartEz has fled to Texas. Our special Mexican correspondent, writing from. EI Paso del Norte, in the province or State of Chihuahua, under date of September Bth, Informs US of the fulfilment of the predic tion (in his letter of August 15th) that BVITITO 111A.REZ would speedily seek safety by a flight into the United States. Driven into Chihuahua by the Franco-Mexican troops, Juarthz, with his friends and fol lowers, gradually retreated to the north, stud finally were at El Paso, a thriving, well-known town on thq'ight bank of the Rio Grande, and as exactly opposite to the Village of Franklin, in El Paso county, Texas, as Philadelphia is to Camden. As the distance from Franklin to Washington is about 1,800 miles, but only 000 miles to San Francisco, it is probable that JUAREZ will journey to California, across the Isthinus,of Panama, and from Aspinwall, •on the. Atlantic side, to New York, where Ids fatally have been located for some time, with (it is said) ample means for their sup port. The statement we publish to-day is explicit enough. It declares that BENITO JRAREZ, with his friends and other exiles, Tod found styity in Texas, on the northern or United States side of the Rio Grande, and that, after their exit, business had be,gun to revive in Chihuahua. To this statement we are disposed to give lull credence. It comes from a known cor respondent, for many years a thriving in babitant of El Paso (the chief thorough fare between our New Mexico and the State of Chihuahua), who signs his name to what he writes, and has fiwored us with nurue lOUS letters from Mexico during the last four years. After we published his last let ter, stating that RAREZ intended to retire From a hopeless contest, and might next be heard of in the United States, some of the New York papers—the Herald, which tells of NArormox's loitering on the banks of the Lake of Como, when he really was nil the time at Biarritz, on the borders of Spain, and the World, so eery accurate in its Italian news—spoke contemptuously of the " so-called correspondent of Tam PRESS.." - What they may say now is of little conse quence. It will be seen that our Corres pondent, who is an earnest Roman Catho lic; has a stronger belief in the perman.an.ee of the Itcy.ican Empire than we have been !We to form. - we publish his letter in full,, became it wi.l show our read.= on what grounds the Empire, established by Prench arms, is supported by business people in Mexico. MEXICO, The Republic Exists no Lintger. JUAREZ THIS SIDE OF TRH RIO °HINDI!. The People of Chihuahua Declare for Masiti'iliau. Wpeelal Correspondence of The Press.? Es PASO, STATE OS CHIHUAHUA, MEMO°, Sept. 3, 1865. Believe me, believe me, on the word of a man of honor, that I feel a deep interest in the future welfare and happiness of the people of the United States, and the glory and perma berme of the American Union. It Is because I IM feel and &Hew; that I would caution you not to stir up the war feeling on the lliaxinah Han and Juarez imbroglio. The Emperor of She French is terribly in earnest, but he pre bre peace to war ; still, if in despite of Ms efforts for pacification by means of an In tamational Congress, or some other fair and lonorable mode of arbitrament, the question If the Freneh occupation Of Mexico is not ;aged amicably, and a determination is winced to "drive the French out of Mexico," ind Maximilian with them, rest assured that i mighty war will ensue; for I speak advised ly when I say, whenever a fixed purpose is manifested to put down the "Empire" be cause it is an " Empire," you must be prepared at once to face the unitedforee of Prance, Aus tria, Italy, Russia, Prussia, Belgium, Turkey, and Switzerland, etc. But the times are not propitious for War. ' , Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than war." The French troops now occupy the capital of this State, and a small detach. 7nent will soon reach ivere to garrisbn thid ;frontier town. The people, en masse, are now for Maximilian and the. Empire. You cannot find one hundred,open and avowed supporters of Benito Juarez in all. Chihuahua, the most ultra and republican State in all Mexico. A Republic ! aye, yes—when has there been a U Republic n in this country? Not since 1821, I vow and declare. True, Antonio Lopez de 3anta Ana says: "Down with the Empire, Long live the Republic !" Why, the old cur 'nwaudgeon ! What sort of a " Republic " was it hen he ruled? A Republic) incleeci! rule was the veriest despotism and dicta. torship that ever cursed a free country. Ile Seas a tyrant and monster of the deep est dye!—and not a vestige of " Itepubli !ticanism" was suffered to exist during his san: .guinary and bloodthirsty reign. Read Mira. oeau H. Lamar's picture of his red villainy in Pexas, when he proposed to subject the pH_ 3oner of San Jacinto to the code of Draco. Read Juan Batiste Morales , (editor of El Re' )01ticano) Slashing Philippics against the Caurper, Despot, and Tyrant! Morales was a 'militant writer, the ablest political essayist :hat Mexico ever produced, and author of "El .81(rgorica," a stinging satire upon Santa Arm, and a - hien effectually crushed 11 His ge rene Highness." It is nonsense to talk of the "Republic of" Mexico. &lithe rulers of Mexico, sincethe days of Pedraana, have ascended to pol3tioal Power by means of bayonets, and not ballots. • Revolution has followed revolution after •,:evolutioo, until the whole country has be come cursed with convulsions, divisions and sub-divisions, and constant collisions. More /lan a handredise-called "Presidents!! have been put up and as speedily hustled down. The names of these puissant friends of "God and Liberty !, are legion, and their rag-tag and boirtail follOwers are like the sands of the ~ ea shore. Their raids have been ten dines worse than that of the plundering Apaches! But spare me the task of detailing their acts of horror, devastation end ruin! The El republic , ' is at an end. Benito Juarez, the last, fleeing fugitive President, is now an chored on the oxnEre Aide (that is the United. `fates side) of the Rio Grande. He is domi. ciliated at the picturesque and suburban vil :age called Franklin, opposite this place. ills friends and exiles. are with him. From Don Sebastian Lerdo lie Tejada (the :Nest man of the whole outfit) down, they are a beautiful set of " agitators " and law ivers ! Permit um to say the people of Chi :tuatara are d ou bly reioiced at getting rid of the whole batch of " contribution" extor tionists! The people breathe freer! Busi h...,ss begins to revive I the hope and prospect of some sort of eiaide government now ani :wales all classes of the population; and al theligli it PiaY take years to restore order, and >I-:generate the people of this doent-traddall Country, yet you may rest assured that the 'work has been commenced in earnest; and Maximilian is carrying out the "Monroe doctrine" in a way which will be perfectly 'Ootisfaetory to the Government of the United fitate4 and the perpetuity of the American There seems to me to be a fitness in the very .lea of Benito Juarez sojourning in the town Franklin, Texas. There he should peruse life of the great sage and philosopher, 'those name distinguishes the place. Ile will Islam from the pages of the great American iplomatist at the Court of Versailles that v• - lance Was the friend, and the only real friend, that the United States had in the days that tried manis souls." Among all the nations of l':itrope, from 1776 to 1783 2 which gave a more 1 1:arm and generous support to American na. ' 4,0 1.61ity and independence than gallant and puerous France, through her King Louis and ; ,, R: r gallant and heroic son, the patriot La ,nettel I know of none. By the side of - . - Washington fought La Fayette. Let rite tell you, sir, that the man or individual wlio Seeks to getup a, war betWeall. the United States and ranee and her allies, friendly Said powerful nations, shOtild weigh the matter calmly ana dispassionately. The 'United States 2 2"ed9 repose, let her reflect on her condition. Tour new President, and his illustrious Mere• iary of. 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Let them restore the great American Union to its former vigor, and strength and power; and whatever dif ferences may exist between forms of govern ment, and the United States and France and Maximilian, let them be settled by diplomacy and not by war. In the hands of William 11. Seward, it strikes me the United States have a Christian patriot and statesman of the " higher-law" order, following ont the fore sliadowings of Isaiah the prophet : "Let all the nations be gathered together, and (et the people be ors.,-mbleeDl J. P. 0713. WASHINGTON. THE KENTUCKY DIFFICULTY REFERRED TO GENERAL THOMAS. THE CHOLERA AT BARCELONA, SPAIN, INCREASING. OFFICIAL REPORTS TO THAT EFFECT. A NATIONAL CONVENTION OF COTTON GROWERS PROPOSED [Special Despatches to The - Press.] WILMINGTON, October 8,1865. The National Convention of Cotton• Growers. A. PENFIELD, Esq„ of this city, has addressed to General Ilowaan, Commissioner Of Freed men,s Affairs,a long communication inwriting in respect to the propriety of holding at New York or Washington a national convention of cotton groweri. Ile represents that the hold ing of a National Cotton-growing Convention would be of eminent service as a financial measure. In the present condition of the Country we have, reason to apprehend hard times in getting from inflated war prices to specie payments. Such has been our past ex perience as to suspension and resumption. the circulation of habit fleeth.e itt 1.960, & pros• perous year: was 207,102,477, paper circulation, now a little over 950,000,000. Ent a reduction of one-third (%) of present circulation cannot be safely effected with moderate rapidity without much distress. A larger volume of paper currency may be sustained now than in 1000 with good co, on crops. It is idle to talk of specie payments being resumed, and at the same time have an easy money market till we can largely increase exports, reversing the outflow current of gold, by which the state of foreign exchanges would change front. If the country can next year grow a crop of cot_ ton of 500,000 bales, the same quantity as that of the year before the war,we can reach specie payments by the spring of the following year. Then why not a convention to devise means to gain such a consummation—a Concert of ac tion that cannot fail of the happiest results to the nation, as.well as of profit to cotton-grow ers, and good wages to laborers. Such a re sult can only be attained through cotton ex ports. We subjoin Gen. liowAnvs reply: WAR DEPARTMENT, BrREAU OF RRFUGESS i FREEDMEN, &0.,' WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, 1865. DuAn SIR! Your able letter is at hand. I v