The New York herald., 1865-02-17

What Ex-senator Gwin Has Been
About In the Empire.
Maximilian Gives Him the
Cold shoulder.
Failure Of the Sonora Immigra.
ton Project.
Collapse Of Secession Schemes I'm
Mexico.
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Gwin's Sudden Departure for
Paris.
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ORDER IN REFERENCE 70 FOREIGN CONSULs.
The War In the Mexican States
Of the South,
Co., &C., &c.


on the llth nst arrived at this port yesterday after
noon. Mr. r. W. Albert the purser Of the ship, has,
with his usual courtesy, furnished rs with nles Of
papers 70 the day Of sailing He also informs us that
the United States gunboats Proteus Commander shufed
and Iuka, Commander Rodgers, were lying In port
awaiting repairs
The blockade runner steamer Denbigh arrived from
Galveston on the 9th. The steamships Liberty, Will
son. from New York. and Jose San Roman arrived the
morning Of the 10TH The former would leave for New
York on the 15th and the latter for haamoros the
18th Tho blockade runner Colonel Lamb arrived on the
10th in distress
The weather was quite cool In Havana
The Eagle made the run out TO Havana in four and
half days.
Our Havana Correspondence.
HAVANA, Feb. IL, 1855.
A Republican, vsaory-A Company Of Nros Desyoyed-
Pato~i IN Csliaean, Cap1ol Of Sinaioa-A~ Imperial
Victny-Dssat Of Vades- Vicayio Begs Furdon 0f Mar
S~saian-Desrsxtou Of Linaro-HorrioIe Scena-TAe
Vera C.s and Msrieo City Railroad- Lines
Esmigrdtioa, DC.
The arrival Of the usual British mail steamer from
Vera Cruz few days after the Barcelona puts us in
possession Of little additional part OF this
news, believe, has already found it's way 70 the New
York papers, for nnd II stated In those Just received by
the Liberty ehat the Juarists republicans had gained
brilliant victory the mpcriasts in Southern Mexi
CO. and had captured important city-name not men,
toned, singularly enough This brilliant victory be
other than the annhilaon Culiacan in Sinaoa,
Of force Of French and Mexcsns, numbering about
three hundred under the commander OF the steamer
Jupiter. These troops, sixty-nve Of whom were
Algerian rinemen, commonly called Turcos, forty
marines, and two hundred Mazatlan militia
had been from this latter place to occupy Cuacan
hofo Can pafo Oef bei uoyyn or
supposed thai such was his intention Arrived at Aata
where they had orders dsembark the troops were a.
once sen< forward reinforce xGovernor Vega and
with him fall back Culiacan; but Vega had In the
meantime been defeated, captured and Immediately exc
cutcd by Datoni Ignorantof that event, tho imperial
lists pushed far a. the village Of San Pedro about
twenty miles from Cuacan, where they Unexpectedly
found themselves In front Of part Of Patons army,
under Rosales. fight immediately commenced, during
which the Mazatan battalion went over TO the enemy,
and the affair ended by the complete destruction OF the
small body Of French Of whom Eve officers and thirty
killed, eight officers and twenty wounded,
and the remainder, including tho commander Of the
JUPITER captured and akou culIacsn where, accord
ing somc they all shot, Whine others say they
wcrs we'll treated by Rosaes think the latter moro
probable notwithstanding the hte boodthirsy manifesto
or copy of instructions, drawn up In Michoacan.
Patoni therefore, holds Cuhacan the capital Of the
State with population Of twelve 10 6tecn thousand,
which must be the important town alluded 70. But
he will have serious work 10 do; for part Of Cas-
tagnys DIVISION under Colonel Gsner, has crossed the
Sierra, and marching 70 wrsst his prize from
him.
General Fermin vaid6s ono Of those who has lately
abandoned the imperial CAUSE defeated on the nth
ult st Texcatsn which he had attempted 70 carry by
Storm and ncd TO Husame attended by only nve six
horsemenall that remained 70 him Of tho SIX hundred
men with whom he had left Toiuca His troops be-
haved n the most cowardly manner, nafubop going
over 70 she enemy, while most Of them threw away
Their arms and scattered IN every dircotion.. F@
trust Is etilI ucre unfortnnaa His oners OF service
have been rejected by old Ayarcs and Others, and and
ing himself in such Desperate ssraz, has wrttea 10
Maximlian begging forgiveness
The town Of Iinarcs, in Nuevo Leon, he'd a terrible
time Of u during the sth and 9th of last month. A
guerilla leader named hendek well known in that sec
ton together with the equally, not better, known
NJ Csrbajal, attacked the place, With tbcr united
forco numbering somewhst less than Eve hundred men,
The only garrison in Che place was about two hundred
men Of the native militia, who shut themselves up IN
corner which thoy hastily fortified leaving the ross
Of the town exposed " the enemy. The unproteccs
part set hre and destroy tho defencccss peo-
pie fornd there butchered without vocard W age or Sex
and after collecting all the plumber Gioy could the
rcpub cans left carrying OIL hondes, who W 3 badly
wcunded N tho veg. About 9Th OF slr town es'eivd
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