The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-08-18
IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO.


| BY way of Havana we have received advice,
from Vera Cruz to the 9th of July. The New
YORK papers translate from Havana papers the fol
lowing interesting intelligence concerning the civil
war now raging in Mexico:
On the 10th of July, the new Ministry was de.
cared as follows: Senior Castillo Lanzas Minister OF
| Foreign Relations; SenOr Fernandez de Jaurepul
Minister OF Government; Padre Miranda, Minister o
Justice enor Jorrin, Minister of the Interior; Sc.
nor Aaldivah, Minister of Public Safety and Senior
| Don j Sc Garcia, Minister of War
| The new ministry, on the 18th, passed law
! against consplrators mentioning those who should
pe considered as such and defining the punishment,
which shall be from five to ten years mprisonment
ana Punishment, according to the culpabity of the
convicted party. decree was also passed in
whleh II Is declared that the large number of arms
IN the hands OF all classes of persons is great
detrlment to the public welfare. Another law en-
JOINS the establishment and organization of defen-
siVe operations in town and country and recon-
mends proprletors and others to give their aid for
thelf own and the common good.
According to a letter, dated from the -capital on
tne llth OF July, and inserted in the Progreso of
vera Cruz, 1t appears that the troops of Echeaga-
ray, 0ailndo and Parva assembled there in
the lear that an advance would be made on the
capital ~
On the 3Oth of June the forces of Colonel Zuazua
took possession of the important town of San Luis
Potosl. General Miramon, Mejia, Marquey and
farva nave been directed to march against it.
On the 18th, General Alatrste took Tuxpan, cap
turing numerous arms, including two cannon, and
making the garrison prisoners
IL Is sa1d that on the I'd, in the Pass of Atten-
qulque, battle was fought between the troops of
Miramon and those of Don Santas Degollados The
former say that after six hours fighting the enemy
left on the field of battle 122 dead and many more
wounded, with quantity of baggage and am
munltion. ~ The Pro9reso on the other hand, says
that this pretended victory was most disastrous
rout, that MiramOn left more than two hundred
dead on the field-that 1000 of his men were
wounded; and that the remainder of his army, dis
organized and dispersed, fled towards Guadalaiara
Inc same journal says in its issue of the 22d that
the Governor of Vera Cruz had received official in
formation thathe forces of Echeagarav, which were
to sail from Jalapa, in the neigh6orhood of Perote,
Ior r the coast OF Barovento, were detained at the
Pass called ''Maria de la Torre," and lost there
forty men-that their infantry and artillery were
compelled to fall back upon "Paso de Novillos, 4"
and their cavalry upon Papacoyan, where thew
were surrounded by large body of Constitutional
ists composed of the National Guard ofthe Cantons
OF Misantla and Papantia, and about 200 veterans
belonging to the garrison of the fortress of Perote
FROM the brownsville Flag, of the 2Sth ult., we
extract the following intelligence:
by the arrival of the mail from Monterey to Ma
tamoras on Saturday last, we have dates from the
latter place to the 18th inst. The Official Bulletin
OF that date announces other victories DURANGO
had fallen into the hands of the forces under the
governor OF Chihuahua, who had declared for the
constitution OF 81. GuanaiuatO, Guadalaiara and
Zacatecas had also fallen into the hands of the libe
rails, while the news of the abandonment of the
city of Mexico by the pretender Zuloaga had been
confirmed.
News has also reached Matamoras that General
Moreno had abandoned the important point of Tam
plco ana he'd to the mountains, leaving the town in
charge; ofonly fifty men. Gen. Carvajal, with a
large detachment of the forces of Tamaulpas was
to have marched on Tamrico, while others pursued
the retreating General Moreno. Governor Cara
mad lett Matamoras to superintend in person the
movements of the Tamaulipas forces.
The battery and ammunition which left here for
Monterey was expected to arrive in time for Gen.
Vidaurr to take the field in person on the 9th of
this month"; which he announces as his intention to
do, at the head of the main body of the army of
the north, so soon as these needed supplies shall
have arrived at Monterey. Every step Of the brave
frontier men has been marked with signal triumph
thus far, and but little doubt is now entertained of
their ultimate and speedy success
Immediately after the taking of San Luis Potosi
Col Zuazua issued decree banishing the bishop Of
that diocese and their priests. The complaint
against these clergymen to be that they, dur
ing the action of San Luis, very active, under
the lead of their bishop, Baraas in encouraging the
reactionst forces in the city to resist the entrance
OF Zuazua's troops, taking the field in person and
distributing "sanctitied" medals to the soldiery.