, 1865-11-13
MEXICO.

Additional Details OF tho Attack on
mntamoraA The Assaule Led by
Amer1cans-Repulsco Of the Republic
cans, with Loss OF Firc Hundred
Killed and Wounded, &c., &C., DC.
The following particulars OF the attack up
on Mntamoras on the s5th ult., extracted
from the New Orlcans Times Of October SS0,
fully confirm the tclegraphic report Of the
affair:
The United States despatch boat Eliza
Hancox, Schultz, from Brazos via Galveston,
arrived here this morning. Among her pass
cngcrs were General Steele and stat. To
Lieutenant Kent, OF the staff, We would ex-
press our thanks for valuable courtesies.
Before leaving Galveston General Steslc re-
ceiyed the following telceraphic despatch
from General Weitzel, at Brownsyille:
0cronEn s5, 1863
Mejia's ltnee this morning. Gen. fnoza 1nltuudr.-
esood tho orders and attacked the fort below the
town, his column being led BY about seventy Amer
cause, as the 1mpeiasts say, the garrison ran out
Of ammunition. Mejia IN Person, with his favorile
iruolm, charged and re.ook The woEks, punlthIng
officers, ind quite number Of men {Ltbetala} are
here wounded. The asht lasted about ihree hours,
and is non oser
IN stiacE II ioice TOMORROW. Wfl ksep you post
ed as ! get Information. G. WE17xE1,
A1ajor Genera1.
THE 1MrEn1AL ACCOUNT.
TF1pm the MntAmoyos naucheto extra lmperial
organ,) oc. p, i. MI
At five o'clock this morning the outlaws
made, as was expected, m assault On the for.
titcations surrounding the city. They ap-
peared at different points in small force,
leaving it matter Of donbt whether attack
or feint was Intended. At length changing
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rllery pickets at the southwest part of the
city. The charging party made mp in despe-
ration what they lacked in numbers for a
| time. The artillery Was forced back, leaving
their guns behind. At this juncture the gun
boat Pnria1o, commanded by Colonel Anselmo
Grube, steamed down the river to theassaulted
point, and by well directed fire put the out
took their guns and opened on the lying out
laws. At the same time the fort, command
ed by our contemporary, Scnor Don Miguel
Pcna, opened a shocking fire upon the out
laws end, though at long taw, aided the gun
boat in clearing t the ehapparal Of the & last
] assault was making on one Of the forts, put
himself at the head of i've hundred cavalry
and gnlloped down to the assaulted point,
and arrived inst in time 10 see the fleeing out
laws disappear In the chapparal- While
| the charge was being made ai the lower end
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IRE was being kept up on the upper
forts, but without affecting anything. Fully
ono thousand men were ledagninst these forts.
| The forts maintained hcayy fire upon the
| outlaws and kept them at respectful dis
tancc. An imperial cavalry force went up to
see how things were going where go much
ton Of affairs, with Gen. Mcjfa at their head
dashed in and put tho rascals TO flight, taking
| from them one gun. Altogether the firing
| continued for tive bours, when 1t died out.
The imperial troops maintained their enviable
reputation admirably
The citizens responded nohly, and were on
hand for fight, il which they were dtsap-
pointed. II possible, the confidence In Gen
cral Meiia was augmented Although fifty
eight persons were taken, and large numbers
Of outlaws killed and wounded, the Imperial
loss was several wounded and less than a
dozen killed. A considerable quantity OF am-
muniiion, abandoned by the fleeing outlaws,
las been captured. The Captain Of the gun
boat Antonia, Just arrived from below, re-
ports The outlaws swimming the river In great
numbers, and in the utmost confusion.
Gen. Espinoza, second Ia command In the
outlaw army, is killed, and his body Is In the
hands of the 1mpcrinlists. Gen. Mejia has
lust returned from the front, where he was
from the beginning Of the fight uni II the CON-
mon enemy Of mankind disappeared. The
very latest from the front Leaves the 1mpcri.
alls1 troops in pursuit of the fleeing outlaws.
It Is reported upon very good authority that
Gen. Hinejosa was wounded md taken to
Brownsville. Reports from Brownsville justi.
~ us in saying that the outlaw loss exceeds
dye hundred men In killed and wouncd.