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Show Clin nee lor a 11 rush Willi ill ex fro. Miilamoras, 21. Considerable excitement ex-citement prevails on this frontier, on account of the apparently well-founded well-founded rumor that General Ord, military commander of Texas, has directed the concentration of a force of United States troops at Laredo, Texas. Rio Grande is immediately opposite Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. This movement, at the time when the frontier is remarkably quiet, and taken in connection . with the fact that Colonel Shatter recently crossed a force of United States troops into Mexico, near Peed rag Mrgross, with General Ord's knowledge and the preseuco of General Eieeberto, who is the chief military partisan ot ex-President ex-President Lerdo at San Antonio, Texas, which is the headquarters of General Orl. is regarded as a men- ai:c on tho part of the United States military -iitnorities on the Rio Grande, us nirainst the government t Prciidunt Diaz, which, if persisted in, is likely to lead to serious complications, com-plications, if not open hostilities between be-tween the Uniltd States and Mexico. Several arrets have been made within the pat few days of Mexican army officials on the frontier, who are known to sympathize with tho movement move-ment in favor o: the restoration of President Lerdo, and important documents docu-ments implicating others were found in their possession. |