The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-08-26


TIL" st. Louis H.7'',t:;co's publishes the FOL-
lowing:
ST. LOUIS August 10.
Hang scer various reports as to tho names and
huinEh- or those officers Of tho Confederate army
VINO went to hcEicn, submit tho following, hav-
i:S bcrn orc OF I'll" party, and returned to this
city yesteCday, from Monterey.
Genera! hIagrricr, upon whose staff was when
the WaT closed, determined to take his parole and
join his family il Europe. With this view he went
to Galveston with his staff June 9th, where he
met President Johnaon'a proclamation; AID being
exempted from tho amnesty. from having been :,
graduate of West Point, lie at once determined to
leave tho country by the way of Mexico. We left
Houston on the I1th OH horseback having with us
three pack mules, and reached San Antonio on the
lSSsl, whc-c we met General Shelby with force OF
about throo kuHdrcd mon; also Generals +. X.
Smith, Price, Wilcox of Mississippi, Haws Frank
Gordon, Jackman, Governors Allen and Moore, of
whole party left San Antonio on the Goth and tray
eed without interruption, reaching Eagle Pass on
the 25ti We were treated cvilIy, yet were closely
watched by the Liberal party, whU were in posses
sion OF i'tcdras NcSras. From here We pushed on
rapidly to Monterey. some of the party report
having been stopped by robbers, though saw
We reached Monterey, July 9, and found the
place Occupied t,,p by the French one thousand
upon Monclova with five thousand men. He was
in possession of one of the strongest passes in the
mountains, and mado every Preparation for
| fled rapidly to Monclova. The French treated us
with great kindness, and they seem to look upon
tuclr "TRIP 10 inc mOuntaln6 aB summer excursion
They keep no ,pckcts nor guard in tho city. Every
other night tho great band plays in the Plaza till
midnight, where all Montercy assemblies ard en-
joys itself. The odd nights the theatre is opened
and again all Monterey fs present.
At Monterey we found General Preston, of Ken
tucky; General Hindman, General Hardimau, of
Texas; T. @. Reynolds, of Missouri; Colonel Broad
well, of the Cotton Bureau; besides many coloncls
and officers of lesser note At this place the party
dissolved General Smith went to Havana, General
Dlagrudcr to Germany, where his family is; Gene
raj Prico to Rio, NIL by the way of the city of
Mexico, as the roads to Tampico and the Matamo-
ras were in the possession of robbers. Besides
there il 4 weekly line Of steamers from Vera Cruz
| to Liverpool, by way of HAVANA.
Ex-Governor Trusten Polk left San Antonio on
the 25th OF juno, and heard of his reaching
| in company with an ex-senator from louisiana
also passed through San Antonio few days after
| Governor Polk.
The French admire Shelby very much, and were
| anxious he should join their service. From what
saw, and from what the Duke Of Ecklenghen
! told me, think Shelby will be offered Brigalier-
Generals command, if he will accept it. They
the cavalry and give them fifty dollars per month.
Goods were high in Monterey, owing to the
blockade ot the roads, and at Matamoras "dirt
cheap" Fine boots were five dollars and cloth
| ing for anything YOU would give. reached Mata-
| moras on the 10Th, after four days trip from
Monterey, Ill the stage, after having been robbed
three times and captured by Cortinas within fif-
| teen miles of Matamoras.
I see his force was set down at six hundrcd-hc
had Just eighty men in the fight with Lopez. l
should think there wore about eight hundred Con-
| federatcs, Officers and men, in Monterey, when
left, and have heard of several parties going in
since. PYTHON