The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-25
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Bv the steamer Gen. Rusk, the New orleans papers
have Brownsville dates to the 18th INST. Inc Ecu"
takes the following from the Brownsville f'o9 VI
| the 18th: c
| Victoria to the 30th September, from Iamplco "
! the I'd and from Monterey to the Sd instant. ~
Since our last ISSUE it appears that things IN tilaG
| country have undergone remarkable change, anu
that not at all favorable to the cause OF MeAlclr
| liberty. 1t seems that the contending forces Vi
Nidaurri and Miramon have at last had the encoun-
ter that had for so long been anticipated between
! them, the result of which the partial defeat oi
! the Constitutional forces.
1t seems that Gen. Vidaurri was not prepared TO
resist attack and hence his defeat in this patte.
! The fact is that Vidaugri had heretofore thought
himself invincibe and the positions of his army I'M
pervious. This feeling of self reliance on his part
had reached degree of neglect which was taken
advantage of by his enemy at the moment when nc
least expected onset from him. Taking INTO
consideration that this calamitous event to the LID
eral party has been but partially felt among them'
it will only tend to make them more cautious, TO
know their enemies better, and to work with more
avidty in defense Of their rights and constitutional
liberty.
The Flaq gives Gen. Vidaurris report of the
battle of the 25th, 26h 9th, 2Sth and 10Th Sept.
| to the Governor pro tenn, of the State Of Nueya
| Leon. He frankly admits the defeat and states
| that nearly all the war train was lost. The Ftd9
SAYS:
We admire the frank way in which the ''Chef OF
the North acknowledges his defeat though he ap.
pears more respondent than he would have felt II
known the thorough result Of the atfray; for ltap-
pears from later dates received by yesterday up
to the 9Th inst, that the loss sustained was not so
great as reported, only portion of the train OF
war had been captured by Miramon, and the hber-
al troops having made their retreat in an organized
order. Gen. Vdaurai apparently knew not this
when he wrote, for he was then forty miles from
the scene ofbattle, already on his retreat thinking
that everything had been lost and cautious avoid
| ing a complete rout.
The official paper of Monterey states that Gen.
| 10 has +I,n don NJ
Iampico for another park of artillery where there
| is plenty to be had, which will soon be on the
field together with many forces that are concen-
| trating about Vidaurri to renew the attack.
Ell PriSaa, published in Tampco, with dates of
the I'd ihst says that Col. Guadalupe Garcia, who
had entirely recovered his health, would leave
that day for the interior with 800 of infantry
and three pieces of artillery
The battle mentioned in the Flag of the 18th, re-
suited in the defeat of the Liberal party. Rumor
says that 500 men were killed and 1000 taken pris-
oners, with the loss of artillery, provisions etc
lidaurri was fifteen leagues from the scene of ac-
ton. The battle must have been fought under the
command OF some subordinate officer.
Nothing else of interest beyond what is contained
in the papers
An express arrived at Matamoras on the 18th,
from Monterey, bringing dates to the 10TH and no.
tlcing the arrival of Vidaurri there on the Sth.
PoRTUGAL INTERFERING WITH THE FRENCH SLAVE
TRADE.-Under a properly conducted system, the
| French negro colonization scheme might have been
so worked as to have been blessing both to the
| negro and to the country where his services were
| in urgent demand But what was originally
| serted to be voluntary emigration" has turned
out to be the slave-trade in most obnoxious form,
and there is no longer any doubt that the practice of
carrying off Africans by force for the French Plan
taons receives the sanction and support of the In
! perial Government.
We published, not long since the story of the
! French ship Regina Cell. which notoriously
! engaged in the Slave trade, and which cap
| tured and brought into the port of Monrova by
the English packet-ship Ethiope. The captain of
| the Regina CGli complained of the act to the
French Naval commander on the station, and that
! officer, in bOmbastic protest, declared that the
capture had been arbitrary and illegal and ordered
that the captain be placed in immediate possession
! OF his ship. This order was not obeved bv the
President of Liberia, in whose jurisdiction and
der whose authority the seizure was effected and
! we have not heard that either upon him upon
! the British Government was any reclamation made
! The precedent, however, has not been adopted in
the case of the Charles Georges lately seized, not
by English, but by Portuguese authority in one of
the ports of Mozambique port, by the way,
which is closed to general commerce, except
under special circumstances. The captain
OF the Charles Georges alleged that she
was leaky, and that her, rigging needed
| repair but she was Overhauled, and the
excuse was found to be fictitious. She had ne
! groes on board; and in direct violation of Portu-
guese law, she was lying in Portuguese port fitted
out for the slave-trade Under these circumstances
the authorities took possession of the vessel and she
! is at present living in the Tagus. Captain Rouxe,
her commander, writes that the most firm and posi-
| 1--WE demands TOT feparatlon were at once made by
the French Minister at Lisbon; and that they have
not been so promptly responded to- as to pretcrmit
the dispatch of ships-of-war to sanction them must
be ascrlbed to their offensive presentation insult
ing tenor. For the same authority states that his
vessel is perfectly free to go where it peases and
that, in its eagerness to torestall the E~chch COM
Rrint the "6Sffefr; to ffs before his
| francs indemnity ~ liv,UUO
Such, then, is the casns Je2j between Franc,...,
Portugal and it explains the announcement, that
to enforce its demands for indemnity to the owners
of the Charles Georges, the Imperial Government
had sent two war steamers to the Tagus. There is
no material difference between this case and that
OF the Regina CGli, except that the captors of the
latter were British, while the former was seized by
! power which can be bullied with comparative
impunity. As Portugal has Justice on her side of
the quarrel, we hope it will be adjusted to her hon
| or and advantage. And if the pretensions of the
Imperial Government pressed too far, Great
Britain can scarcely refuse to interfere in behalf of
an ancient ally, and of principles which she has la
bored SO assiduously to maintain before tue world
| " Y. Times.