Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-11-08
MEXICAN AFFAIRS.
A letter from the city of Mexico Oct
@. in the New York Herald says:

A letter from the city of Mexico oc''
10, in the New York Herald says;
The estimate Of the expenses OF the
empire for the coming fiscal year IS to De
issued to-day The military branch VIII
reqaire eighteen millions of dollars aud
the civil departments thirty-nine millions
without reckoning the interest on the na-
tioual debt. The revenue scheme pre-
scented by the Council of State and TO
which so much time has been devoted
consists IN doubling all the internal I'M
ports aud customs duties upon foreign ar
ticles
Morelia has been vigorously attacked
by the liberals commanded by Arteaga
and Regn!es, who have taken consider
able number of Belgians prisoners. The
State of Vera Cruz is in a state OF com
plete revolution. the colonisls settled there
being obliged to abandon their property.
The liberals have taken Huatusco by a
daring attack. routing the Austrians who
attempted 10 defend the place. The i'm
perialists are very much alarmed in con-
sequence and are hurredly fortityiug the
ci,ies of Orizaba and Jalapa, in order to
impede the rapid progress of the 1uarIsts.
Ugalde and Fragaro, with force OF
five hundred cavalry. have overruu a
large portion of the States of Mexico. Nor
ella and Buaretaro without meeting oppo-
sitiou, owing to the rapidity Of their
movements.
At Halpam, nine miles blatant from
this city, complete panic prevails The
political project of that district had the
recorder of the municipal body shot upon
mere suspicion Lodgers are not allowed
to be received in any house without the
permission of the authorities, and persons
seeking work in fac>ories are required to
prove good politicai character This
system of inquisition and terrorism is be-
ing followed in other places, with results
quite opposite to those anticipated by it's
projectors as tho Juarist forces are daily
Increasing.
In the meantime Naxmillan is vast
ing the nations money. In addition t.
the salary of ten thousand dollars al
lowed him the imperial household costs
two thousand dollors for servants alone.
A concert given at the palace a few days
since cost forty thousand dollars, and
seventy thousand dollors are about to be
upon the construction of the.
atre in the palace for the especial recrea-
ton of their Magcsties.
Gen. Aguirre military commander of
the State of Coahuila for the republic of
Mexico, has arrived in New York city.
He states that ten Escobedo was at
Cnalro Ciencgas, in Coahuila. about GOO
miles west of Matamoras, on the 20th
and 2jth of September last, with his for
ccs scattered all over the state and New
Leon, acting entirely on the defensive, and
only harassing the French by bushwhack
ing.
Gen. Aguirre also states that Canales
Cerda. Leon and others, were more than
100 miles from Matamoras, and were wait
ing the return of Gen. Carvcjal with the
means and elements of war. He asserts
that the reported defeat of the Liberals
at Matamoras if true, must lie of the
bandit Cortina. who has no flag He
says that the whole mass of the Mexican
population will rise and extcrminate the
French as soon as they can get arms and
ammunition, and that President Juarez is
in no danger.
One million and half in gold md sill
yer coin is about to be brought to Mat
amoras, escorted by 1900 French troops
and 500 traitors
The five French officers captured and
subsequently hing by the Liberals, were
sacrificed according to Maximilian's own
method of doing business. lie was prompt,
ly and officially notified that as he had
holsted the black flag, they would deal
with the lmpcrialists just as they should
deal with them,