The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-10-17
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The New Orleans Delta has r~eceiyct
a lctter from Acapulco of September II
in which General Comonfort is higll,
eulogized. The writer says
AT the battle of Zapaltan. Lear
positively assert that General Comoufor
was in the heat of the battle, had hi
horse shot from under him, and, fight
ing on foot, had a ball shot through hi
hat.
/" Regarding the moyements'of Gener
al Alverez when last heard from he had
taken ~Chilpancingo, and was marching
on to tho capital, expecting to enter il
about the latter part of this month, at
the head of the revolutionary army, to
organize a new government, the move.
ments of which l shall keep you ad.
vised.
4Senor Don Benito Juares, the gen
~tlemanly aud affable Governor of the
State of Orjaca, who, some two years
ago, was banished from the bosom of his
family and friends by Santa Anna for
refusing to assist him to put on the I'm.
perial mantle, arrived in the last steam
er.
" Senior Juares, during his Danish
ment, having resided principally in New
Orleans, aside from ~devoting his time
to the study of the English language, of
which he is master, has been constantly
employed in assisting in the cause of the
revolution. It may therefore be pleas
ing to his numerous friends In tho
United States to hear that he is in fine
health and spirits, and will enter the
capital of Mexico in company with Gen
eral Alvcrez. ACAPULCO"
FROM THE RIO GRAND
The New Orleans Delta of the Sd
inst, has letters from the camp of-the
liberating army, four miles from Mata-
meras, of the I4th of September. A
description of Gen. VOLTS flight from
Matanioras at night is given. BY a
late decree of cultivation of tobacco in
in the three States, Tamaulipas, Nuevo
Leon and Coahulla is made free from
government restrictions. Pensions arc
allowed to the widows of the killed and
the wounded of the conflict of August
80. All persons sbanished by the late
government are invited to return, and
the civil authorities are directed to
them funds for that purpose.
Another letter of the 24th of Septem-
Der, two miles from Mstamoras says:
AN express from Governor Vidauri
in camp the night before, with
orders not to enter into any agreement
whatever with the military stationed in
Iatamoras, but to notify them thatthey
be treated as public enemies IN
ess they Immediately lay down their
rms. They have accordingly been no.
that, in case they come out of that
lace, they will Immediately be attacked
y our forces, who feel conindcnt of
u%ccess, though We have not a single
iece of artillery
Several hundred of the Government
Santa Annals men and officers had
eserted Matamoras and gone to Browns
lille, among them General Castro, who
Eft the command of the city in the
aud of Col. Savaniego. and he again
nd surrendered the command to Col.
'rThe revolution has completely tri-
and even Tampico is p~ronounc- I
X III idfoT OIL tue NuefO AcOH pldtlOTLH-
he Northern frontier, as it is called
ere, presents by far the most formida- 7
lie front of amy of the successful parties, c
I'D its indomitablc leader, Vidauri, 1
no is, literally speaking, a man of the f
eople, occupies at this moment the O
lost enviable position of any man in 9
r
"The inhabitants of M~atamoras, fear h
g the city would be sacked, were flock ]
G the Texas side of the RIO Grandc. r
/" The Matamoras Flag has q report o
the effect that San Luis Pstosi had d
ZEN captured by the revolutionary a
rces, Gen. Quitnan killed, the army 1
sperscd, and the city made to change t,
plan from that of Ayutla to that of s.
onetery. p
:. Tampico is also said to have pro-
unced for Vidanri and his plan. Gen.,
lsanova. the commander of Tampico,
d been driven from that city, and c
I'll Government substituted for militia d
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