New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-04-27
Later from mexico.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP TENNESSEE.
Mlramon's Passage to tho Capitals
DEFEAT OF THE LIBERALS.

4 DEFEAT OF THE LIBERALS
The steamship Tennessee Capt. Forbes. arrived on
Monday night from Vera Cruz, I'D inst. She reports
the following vessels at SACRIFICES U. 5 ships
Savannah and Brooklyn; British ships Cesar, Dia-
i dem Devastation ana Araline; French ships Cleo
n.tra. Mercure, Lucifer ana Olivia Spanish ships
isabella Cstolica, Esperanza and Valdez.
The British steam frigate Tartar and gun boat
J.sper LEFT Vera Cruz on the 2oth destination not
i stated. s gs. ~ -4 ss r.
ne Tennessee, on her passage up, experienced
/ heavy northers on the ga and Esd.
The news BY this arrival is highly important and
| interesting. Contrary to all expectation Mirsmon
had succeeded in forcing bis way through the lines
81 the Liberal army to the capital, and had entered
the city with his forces. Although in strong force
before the capital, and with every advantage Of a
regular siege, the Liberals appear to have been
greatly dspred by the failure Of their attack of the
I'd inst. upon the city. The attempt to storm the
gate Of San Cosme cost them great many men, and
this seems to have been the beginning of their re-
verses On the night Of the 10th inst Gen. Marquee
at the head Of division of the Reactonist army,
arrived by forced marches from Guadalajara to the
relief Of the beseged and in the battle which ensned
the Constitutional forces were overthrown with great
loss We have no particulars Of the battle, but Ell
Progreso states that the Liberals had retired In the
direction Of Toluca without being pursued by the
enemy. II is said that number of foreigners,
Americans and Englishmen, were murdered by the
Reactionists in the flush Of victory. Several physi-
cians who were attending the wounded in the hospi
tails, were dragged out by the soldiers of Marquee
and shot, soely because Of being suspected Of sym.
/ patty with the Liberal cause. A number Of others
were thrown into prison.
After leaving Orizaba, Miramon pushed boldly for.
ward towards the capital, and on the It'll inst en-
i countered the Liberal forces under Ampuda, Ala
triste and La Lave, strongly posted among the nights
i Of Aculcngo. Three several times he was repulsed
the passes but finally carried the position defended
by La Lave and met with no further opposition on
his way to the city. According to the accounts
before be did not arrive in time to participate in
the victory over Degolado, but sufficiently to
become responsible for the atrocities which followed
that event, among which is mentioned the slaughter
of the wounded upon the field after the battle the
instgation Of . number Of Infatuated priests.
on learning that Minister McLane had formally
recognized the Juarez Government the Church party
promulgated protest against it and sent Consul
Mr.. Black, his passports. That gentleman, it ap.
pears did what he could 10 prevent the outrages that
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that be was powerless to protect his own coun.
trymen. Messrs. Otway and Gabriac, the English
and French Minister'S have, it is well known, been
for long time mere tools in the hands Of the Church
party, and they gave themselves no concern about
the outrages and murders perpetrated before their
very eyes. Knowing that Mr.. Otway had some infu.
ence with the authorities Mr. Black addressed to him
| the following letter: e.
4 CONSULATE or rHE United srArrs OF AxEp1cA
4 ~ MEXICO, April 49, 1859.
Sir have just been informed that an Englishman
by the name Of George Selby. in the employment of
Mr.. Geo. L. Hammeken AN American citizen proprie.
tor of the Tacubaya Railroad has been sentenced 10
be executed by military authority, having been appre.
hended at Tacubaya under the pretext Of bis having
Joined the Constitutional party; but assured his
only crime is poverty; that after the stop
ped running, BY order Of the Government, he was un
der the necessity of finding other business and
dertook that Of selling food to those who offered that
be has been allowed Defense but is to be executed
only to satisfy the caprice or unbrdled vengeance of
military despotism
As consular representative of civilized and
friendly nation take he liberty Of addressing you,
in the name Of humanity and justice as the diplo.
matte representative Of great and enlightenment
law and justice observing nation; and request that
your Exceency may be pleased to address the Next
can authorities, and nterpose your official remon-
STRANGE in order that the lives Of innocent persons
may not be sacrificed and that these violent afro
cious and inhuman executions not only Of foreigners
DQC OF MeXcaDS, WbnOub Trial and Lle TlgnG OF de-
fense may be prevented, as leaving an indeibe stain
not only on those who commit them, but on those
who can look on with unconcern and not to do all
they can to restrain snch wanton exercise Of power
and thus subserve the of humanity and justices
question in which the civilized world is deeply in
terested and to which it cannot be Indifferent If
have erred in thus addressing your Exceency, be 1t
assured it is error of the head and not one of the
heart as am fully persuaded it is my b0unden duty
to cast my mite into the scale of humanity and JUS
tice.
Ihaye the honor to be with great respect
eslsnsd, - 20 '.s.' JoHN. BLACK.
isser npoentiary Of her Bri,snic Majesty Mexico
Mr.. Otway, it is said replied that he could not in
terfere in behalf of any but his own countrymen and
be did nothing further than to procure the release of
selby.
It is impossible to form, from the accounts re-
ceived here, satisfactory idea of the condition Of
affairs Of the events may take in the future.
The Liberal party in Vera Cruz do not seem to be
greatly discouraged by the untoward events in the
Interior and at last accounts the leaders in pri
vate consultation with our Minister, Mr. McLane, and
seemed confident of final success. No one, however,
judging from the previous Vera Cruz accounts, would
have supposed it possible for Miramon to force pas
sage to the capital the strongly defended nights
Of Acncingo, and it is hardly safe to conjecture what
he may not accomplish next.
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DEsTITUTIoN IN MIcHIGAN.-It is found as the re-
suit Of careful inquiry by the local authorities that
one hundred and eightynine out Of eight hundred
and seyentyone families in Montcalm county Mich,
in state Of restitution. The report Of the Board
Of Supervisors says that they in such sraened
and necessitous circumstances as to require aid be-
yond their to enable them to procure suit
able food, and seed for spring crops" The Board
proposes to borrow, and pledge the faith Of the
county for repayment, $4,000 for immediate in
ieving the wants of the distressed Thisis the second
year in which this tale has been told of that county,
Would it not be well for the starving, after the first
full meal, to leave that barren locality?
SEA WoRMs.-Admiral Dupetit- Thouars has sent in
to the French Academy OF Sciences some extraord;.
nary specimens of the destructive power of certain
sea worms, consisting of fragments of vessels, which
4 have been sent him from Touon. He also sent in a
glass globe collection of those animalcula almost
invisible at their birth, which have the power of
penetrating into the hardest timber, in which they
take up their residence, and in the end totally de-
stroy IT. These specimens are to be deposited at the
Jardin des Plantes. They perforated with almost
mathematical precision and the question which natu.
rally arises is how vessels be defended against
the ncesSant attacks of these almost ;nv;sibla ona