The present situation., March 20, 1868

The present situation.

The public again saddens at the thousand rumors of pronunciamentos which incessantly circulate. Confidence in peace is being lost, and fears are unreservedly spread of a fresh war, arising from local questions which have sprung up in almost all of the States. This causes not only grief, but profound affliction in every breast, and on that account do the immense majority of the country cry out that the government, with extraordinary faculties, or without them, with the law of the 25th of January, or with those in force, should display the utmost energy in extirpating the causes of new calamities.

We are told that yesterday congress held no session. It is said that the day before, the minister for foreign affairs set forth in strong terms, during a secret session, the gravity of the situation, and that to-day some resolution will be come to respecting the initiative of the government for repressing the disturbers of the public peace, kidnappers, and assassins.