The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-22
MEXICO,


is received from the City of Mexico;
dated to the 1st inst. The report of the
defeat of the force of the republican
general Figueroa, near Tehuacan, by a
handful of imperial cavalry, Is declared
false from republican sources. Confir-
nation of our previous reports regarding
the capture and subsequent execution,
conformabl.y ~ Maxiruilian's decree of
the Sd of October, of the republican
General Arteaga and several of his chief
officers, has been received via San Fran
cisco. In retaliation, General Alvarez
has proclaimed that every imperial gem
eral officer falling into his hands shall
be summarily shot, and General Riva
Palacios has likewise ordered that all the
prisoners held by him be put to death
without delay. The moderate policy
pursued by President johnson towards
the South has induced many of the rebel
refugees in Mexico to return to the UNI
ted States. In Northern Mexico the re-
publicans hold considerable territory,
with large and well armed forces. The
colony established by the Missouri rebel,
General Sterling Price, has collapsed.
A late Matamoros despatch reports
that the Mexican republicans raised the
siege of that place on the night OF the
Sth instant, some of them passing up
the river and others going towards the
interior. There were suspicious, how
ever, that the movement was only
ruse A MatamOros paper states that
previous to leaving they were severely
defeated i'm one engagement, having two
of their generals killed, and three others,
including Cortina, wounded. A Gal
weston paper of a late date says that
dispatches, the purport of which is not
known, were recently transmitted by
General Weitzel, commanding United
States troops in Texas, to- the COM
mander of French war vessel at the
mouth of the Rio Grande. The report
of the arrival there of French squad
ron. heretofore given, is repeated.
A narrative of affairs in Maximilian's
dominion is given in the New York
Herald Mexico correspondence of the
I'd inst. Lieutenant Maury, the new
Commissioner of Colonization, has been
authorized to establish agencies to in-
duce emigration to Mexico in New York,
Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore, az
we'll as in our southern cities. A COM
pany is also to be orgaized in Paris to
get up France and Spanish colonies.
The completion of the work of compil-
ing the organic laws of the empire IN
officially announced and they are shortly
| to be published in several volumes. 1t
| is claimed by the imperalists that the
degree Of tie Sd of October, prescribing
the penalty of death for those found in
arms aYainat the empire, has had the
good eitec'. of causing large num-
bers of republicans to cease hos
tilities and voluntarily surrender
themselves. Three or four addl-
tional trifiing imperial successes in
different parts of the country are er-
ported. Macmillan, in the midst OF
his martial operations and his railroad
and other internal improvement enter
, prises, is not disposed to neglect the
fostering of the arts, and has determined
on the erection in the capital OF grand
national theatre.
In connection with the recently
, started report that the french troops
, are soon to be withdrawn from Mexico,
a condensed statement of the heretofore
, declared intentions of the French gov
eminent i'm reference to continuing Its
|: hold on Mexican territory is given in
! Washington despatch. Mr.. Drouyn dc
IL,Huys, the Emperor Napoleon's Min
|. lister of State, intimated to our Minister
| i'm Paris, some two years ago, that the
! French troops would be withdrawn
, whenever the United States was willing
: to recognize Macmillan, but that unit
, such recognition was conceded Franc
would feel herself in honor bound not +
desert him, after having been the mean
of his assuming SO delicate position.