New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-11-03
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From the Brownsville Flag Of the 9th we extract
the following
BY the last mail from Monterey We have The
Botetu1 Official Of the 18th which brings some in
teresting news. General Vidaurri had Fegigned big
position as GeneralinsChief Of the army Of the
North and conferred She charge upon Col. Zsragosa
Of Monterey, who had already began an active Re.
organization Of the liberal troops. He had already
an armed and equipped force Of more than 2O50
men.
A forced loan had been imposed upon the com.
merce Of Monterey, and voluntary contribution
had been opened, by which combined means ii was
thought that soon ample funds would be raised,
enough at least to enable the frontiersmen to galy
ont again upon their enemies.
It's stated that treason in camp" has been the
of Gen. Fidaurris defeat as the following facts
stated by Boletn of recent date viii show II
seems that several Of Vidaurrs guns had been spiked
by some one in camp, previous to the attack by the
enemy, who made simultaneous charge exactly
upon the point where the battery thus disabled had
been placed feeling confident that the FIRE Of
muskets would be the only resistance to DE met With
and before that point could be reinforced the enemy
4 had gained too much ground. Confusion ensned
and the liberal Chiefs thinking that all was lost lead
nasty and i is said an ngIorious retreat. Lent
Nunez, Of the liberal army a Spanish merchant
named FOrencIo Avo and several Others are charged
with the treason which is said to have 0ecasoned the
defeat Of the liberal army al the North.
Inc reactionists, who have now a comparatively
Tree scope OF country on which TO rove are commit
ting all sorts of depradations upon everybody and
everything that belongs to or has belonged to the
liberal party. They tell recently upon the hacienda
OF Ell CanelO, belonging to Cen Arauberr 4 liberal
and after pllagng its contenta nd hbituni. and dis
persing the inhabitants they set fire to IT, LEAVING
nothing but the ashes vestiges Of what Il said II
have been a beautiful place.
Gems. P1eblita Hnerta, Coronado and Blanco,
were, by last accounts threatening the city Of sa
| Luis, which is nov the stronghold Of the rear.
tiOnists. They had very respectable force, their
soldiers we're well armed and equipped and they were
anxious to encounter their enemy. Doubtless bat.
tie may take place between the combined forces
Of those chiefs aud those of Gen. Miramon.
The Northern chiefs, Cara and Vidaurri, have re.
ceyed the official report of the total defeat Of Gas
anova at Guadalaiara, by Gen. Degolado, and the
capture ofthat important place by the latter In this
| achievement the Liberals have recovered ALL IL not
more, than Yidaurr lost before San Luis this being
so, they can be said to remain in their former
Notwithstanding the partial defeat Of the Northern
| forces.
| In the engagement between the reactionist forces
and those Of YidaurFi 400 Of the Iatters men were
captured by the former Who after seeing them dis
armed and taking from them their most valuable
equipments. ordered his second in command to take
them from his sight, and do with them as he thought
| ft
| This inhuman wretch who well knew what would
ensue from such course, placed them in the hands Of
his sodiery, who just then in beastIy state Of
intoxication. They fell upon the captives who were
entirely defenseless, aud ahorrble massacre followed
AT the end OF the terrible scene the lifeess bodies of
| four hundred human beings were found stretched
| upon the ground, mangled and weltering in their
blood patent sacrifice to the holy cause of liberty
/ rnmor has been rife in town that zdloaga had
deserted the capital and gone sonh in Quest of some
port where to embark for some foreign country. OF
course this is but rumor yet it is to be hoped that
there is some foundation for it.