The new South. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1862-1867, 1864-10-15

iawk was an English steamer. with a
general cargo for Wilmington. from Ber-
muda. She sailed from Liverpool, Aug
ust 81, and was owned in tn It place
Her rate of speed was IA knots, and she
vas three hundred tons burden, cost
tLi,ty thousand pounds, and had capaci-
ty for carrying eight hundred bales OF
cotton. Finding the steamer could not
be got of the shoals, she was set fire to
and thus destroyed. 1t appears that an
other vessel succeeded earlier in the
night in escaping from New Inlet, al
though fred at by the Niphon, and ap-
parently struck several times. The Day
light drove off blockade runner which
was attempting to enter New Inlet on
the same morning.
News FROM MEXICO. The Brazos San
tiago correspondent of the Era, writing
on the 22d, says:
We have news by way of Matamoros
that General Miramon had "pro-
nounced against Maximilian while the
latter was on visit to some other part
of his new empire, and that Miramon was
endorsed by the Archbishop of Mexico
and all the clergy. At the latest date he
had got possession of the largest share Of
the City of Mexico. Miramon had naised
the flag Of the republic, and had called on
the Mexican people to sustain him and
drive out the foreign invaders.
Monterey, the capital Of New Leon, IS
also reported recaptured by the Mexican
General Cairoga. The French, after the
capture of Monterey, left small force to
hold the city, and with the balance OF
their troops they started for Matamoros.
After they had left General Cairoga ''pro-
nounced against the French, and took
the French garrison prisoners.
The French at Bagdad are badly
frightened since their defeat before Mata-
moros. They have been engaged at Bag
dad ever since in landing siege guns and
building large fort. The French Adm
raj Bosse refused to let any one pass out
of Bagdad. He won't allow messenger
to pass through to the American Consul.
The orders given to the French guards
and pickets at Bagdad are to fire On every
person that approaches their lines after
dark.
We have heard nothing of any impor-
tance from General Cortina for some days.
The last We heard from him was that he
was able to hold the city of Matamoras
without any doubt, unless the French
were largely reinforced.
We are informed that, during the re-
treat of the French from Matamoros, the
rebels, under Colonel Ford, lined the OPP
posite shore, (the Texan and fred on
the Mexican soldiers, thus, covering the
retreat of the French.
Allis quiet on Brazos Island We have
here about sixty Mexican officers who
were taken prisoners at the capture of
Puebla, and confined in French Bastile
in France, where they were kept prison
ers, enduring all kinds of hardships, be-
cause they refused to be traitors to Mexi-
CO, their native land. The French refuse
them admission into Mexico unless they
will take an, oath to sustain his Royal
Highness the Emperor Macmillan, but
have allowed them to 60 elsewhere. They
nobly refused to take an oath to the en-
pire, preferring banishment to slavery
and ignominy under foreign tyrant.-
They are loud in their praises of Col. II.
NJ. Day, Ninety-frst Illinois, who COM
mands our forces in Texas, for his kind