The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-01-20

ARkTYAL OF THE STEAMER Noe -DA0UY.
FROM AdTAAZAS.
PROCLAMATION OF PRxsIDENTJUARYz.
20. &c. 60.

The steamer Noe Daqui, from Matanzas on
the sth inst has arrived at New York. She
brings full files from Havana, and her news is
quite interesting. e >
From the New York Hsrolds Havana cor.
respondence We extract the following:
Mexican matters grow very interesting, and
we get news from Vera Cruz every few uays.
some OF which is published and some not
intend to give you both one anu the other
Inc MexicanS are undoubtedly preparing for
resistance, aud are coilec Ted at Perote to the
nu mber OF SO, 900 men and one hundred and
n1ty pieces OF cannon, according to some,
whlie others make the figures larger. This
evenings paper puts them at Is ,000. F
The city government OF Vera Cruz who
had 'lmploied'' the Spaniards to cone iii
and help themselves, after the manner OF the
little roast pigs that ran about requesting to
be eaten, have suddenly disappear ed, leaving
us therefore in grave doubt of the statement
that they had "implored." Under these cir.
cumstances, General Hassett has issued q
proclamation 10 the effect that the Custom
house, Postal Department., &C., &c., being
thus deser ted, Shall be administered by Off. .
GERS selected from the army under his orders
ana that tne Mexican tariff shall remain nm
changed. Inc details OF Custem House busi-
ness, believe, will be Conducted after the
m amer IN use here. The Post. Once is TO
trausact no b business with the in terror Of HEX
leo, and the Mexican regulations there also
remain unchanged.
In the meantime events thickan Gn tho
II INST. General Prjm left for Vera Cruz on
board the steamer Francisco de Asls. In the
midst OF the french fleet, which sailed tor
the Mexican coast the same hour but rot for
Vera Cruz, as you may depend. The French
Admiral is III high dudgeon with his Spanish
friends for having been in such hurry TO
get into Vera Cruz before their allies were
ready, and will therefore take his vessels to
Tampico. Additional offence has been given
by the Spaniards' neglecung to hoist the
French anu English Il igs on the ramparts of
selves with their own exclusively The fol-
lowing vessels composed the French fleet
ShIp-of- the-sine Massena, Captain Rose,
having on board Admiral de la Graviere.
triyt 70 LA Gnerriefe. Ca plain de Selva.
Frtsate L. L'Astree........ Captain Uuval.
Frigate Il Ardente. captain Guizoime.
All propellers. The land force on board the
fleet numbers 2,S2S lnen o. all arms. The
French war steamer Moctezuma, which az
rived on the 3lst ult., sailed from here yes
terday, and Wa have still in port the steamer
L'Auoe, which arrived ON the lst inst, with
six hundred troops On board.
The steamers which accompanied General
Prim were the UIloa and San Quintin
On the same day (the 2d) the British steam
frigate Arladne and the Spiteful arrived
here-the former from Vera Cruz and the
latter from Cape san Antonio, where she met
the English fleet for Vera Cruz, composed OF
the following vessels:
Guns.
Snip of the-line St. George .... s6
snip -of- the line Sans Pareil.............. 20
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