Washington telegraph., 1865-08-30
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From The St. Louis Republican.

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From the st. Louis Republican
Elk yFEDERATRS IN MEXIco.-St
Louis, August 10, 1865 Mr. Editor:-
Having seen various reports as to the
number of those officers If the Confal-
crate army who went to Mexico. sub
NIT the following. having been one Of
the party, and returned to this city yes
terday from Monterey: - "N
General Mag ruder, upon whose staff |
was when the war closed, determined to
take his parole and join, his family ia
Europe. With this in view h. went to
Galveston with his staff, June 9, where
he met with President Jyhnsol's proc
laination; aud being exempted from tho
amnesty, from having been graduate
of West Point, he at once determined 70
leave the country by way Of Mexico
We left. Houston on the lltli on hors :
back, having with us three pack mules,
and reached San Antonio on the 18th,
where We met Gen Shelby with force
Of about three hundred men, also Gen'ls
f. X Smith. Price. Wilcox, Of Miss:s-
sippi, Haws, Frank Gordon, Jackman,
Cows Allen and Moore, Of Lou;si .na.
and Governor Murrah. Of Texas 'Fhe
whole party left San Antonio Oh the
Goth. and travelled without Interruption,
reaching Eagle Pass on The 25th We
were treated civilly, yet wers close y
watched by the Liberal party, who were
in possession of Pie lras Meg ras From
here We pushed on rapidly % Monterey.
Some of the party report having been
st 'ppcd by robbers. though saw none.
We reached Monterey July 81, and
found the place occupied by the French,
1000 strong the L. beral General haY-
ing fallen back upon Moncloya with
5000 men He was IN possession of one
of the strongest passes in the IN puntains,
and made every preparation for fight,
but. upon the approach of the French,
he fled rapidly to Monclova. The
French treated US with great kindness.
aud they seem to look upon their trip up
to the mountains a a summer excursion
They keep no pickets nor guard in the
city. Every other n ght the great band
plays in the Plaza till midnight, where
all Monterey assemblies anl enjoys itself
The odd nights tile theatre is opened
and again all Monterey is present
At Monterey We found tien. Preston,
of Kentucky; Gen. tinlnan, Hardiman.
of Texas; T. G. Rtynolds, of No; Col.
Broadwell, of the Cotton Bureau; BE-
sides many Colonels and oiiccrs OF les
ser note At this pace the party dis
solved Gen'l Sni Ii went to Havana.
Genl Magruder to Germany, where his
funily is Gen. Pric, to Rio, all by the
way of the city of Mexico. a the roads
to Tampico and Matimoras were in pos
session of robbers. Bc5id = there Is a
weekly limo of steamers from Vera Cruz
to Liverpool. via Havana P
Ex Governor Trusten Polk left San
Antonio on the 25th of June and heard
of his reaching Eagle pass in safety
GenT John b. Clark, Sen, in company
with an ex-senator from Louisiana, also
passed through San Antonio few days
after Gov Polk.
The French admire Shelby very much
and were anxious he should Join their
service. From waat / saw, and from
what the Duke of Ecklenghea told me,
think Shelby will be offered Biga
dier Generals command, if he will ac-
cept it. They allow enlistments for one
year and upwards in the cavalry, and
give them fifty dollars per month
Goods were high i'll Monterey, owing
to the blockade of tho roads, and at
Matamoras "dirt cheap" Fine boots
were FIVE dollars, and clothing for any
thing you would give reached Mata-
moras on the 18th, after four days trip
from Monterey in the stage, after having
been robbed three times and captured by
Cortinas within fifteen miles Of Matamo-
raS. - n. I....t. t...-. ...
see his force was set down at six
hundred-he had just eighty men i'll the
fight with Lopez. should think there
were about eight hundred Confederates,
officers and men. in Monterey when |
left, and | have heard OF several parties
going in since. 4
In my next l will treat of the finance
of the Confederates, the opinion Of the
Mexicans upon the Frcuch, and the char
acter.of the country .t .a IfInoS..
- The Washington correspondent Of
the Chicago Times. writes to that paper
as follows: The policy which the admin
istration has determined to pursue to-
wards the South is now being developed.
1t was with well. defined purpose that
Presiden. Johnson made the $4,000 ex-
emption clause. Whpn Judge Under
wood, Of Virginia, was here afcw days
ago. he did not succeed in getting an
order for the arrest Of Gen Lee, and that
distinguished officer is to be left unmo-
lested, at least until he has finished wit
ing the history of his campaigns. But
he did succeed in obtaining orders for the
enforcement of the confiscaton act III
Virginia. and the work of enforcing the
provisions of that act win be carried on
all over the State of Virginia il the same
manner that it has been Commenced in
Richmond. Nor is this all. Virginia is
not to be treated any worse in this re-
spect than any other Southern State.
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