The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-01
! the MEXICAN TROUBLES.
Defeat of Three Thou
sand .JuaristS.s
THE CHOLERA AT DOMINICA
COAVICTS ESCAPE FROM TOaTUGaS.

NEW YORK, March 1.-THE steamer Eagle, from
Havana, with dates to the 20th ulimo, has ar
rived
The French steamer Louisiana had brought
Vera Cruz dates TO the 18th, and City of Mexico
advices 10 the 10th ultimo.
Three thousand Juarists are reported defeated
in Michoacan. Many were killed, six hundred
and sixty captured, and the rest dispersed.
Two hundI ed and sixty guerilas we're dispersed
at Pesquira Grande with the loss of forty killed
and wounded.
Pedro Martinez was defeated in an attack on
two squadrons of the Empress Regiment on its
way to Saltillo.
Six hundred insurgents were defeated in Sal
tillo, with the loss OF 120 killed and wounded,
and 100 muskets captured.
Canto, with 400 men, suffered severely in Ia
combaro, Michoacan, with the loss Of several
killed and 81 prisoners. These successes are all
reported on Imperial authority.
Guadalupe statistics to January l show HOO
deaths from cholera. Advices to the 18th ultimo
say that the pest is decreasing, but that it had
made its appearance at Dominica.
Two American war steamers were at st.
Thomas, Two others were expected,
News from Hayti says that Geffrard was
making an excursion along the coast stopping
at all the ports, in new war steamer.
The appearance of the cholera was feared at
Havana. A sort of cattle disease had appeared
at Sierra Moresia Large numbers of oxen had
died within 20 hours. The small pox was in
creasing at Regla.
Three escaped convicts from Tortugas were
| picked up in small boat at sea; one was a
negro named jeff Berry, and two whites named
| Adair and Levinton. The names are, however,
supposed to be false. They we're returned to
| Key West. 1t was at first reported that one of
| the whites was Spangler. They intended to sell
| their colored comrade.
| A New Liberal Force Organized fn the
| State of Ohihuahua-It is Dispersed by
| the ImperiaIists PrestdtO del NOrte
Oceupsed by the French, CuttIng Off
! Jaare rs Retreat by the Rio Esrande-
| DestitutIOn of the Liberals at Ell Paso,
| Etc. Etc.
| Ell PAso February "A force of five hundred
| Liberals was lately organized in Conception, in
| the State OF Chihuahua, under the command of
| Don Jesus |. Casayantes, tor the purpose of
| driving the invading forces from the capital OF
| the State; but the inhabitants of Santo Tomas
| Temosachi Ariasich and other surrounding
| towns declared for the Empire, raised a small
force, and sent to chihuahua for assistance.
Commandant Bilat immediately sent force
| OF two hundred Frenchmen and one hundred
and and ten Mexicans to Conception, when the
Liberal forces were obliged to disperse, being
without weapons, Don Luis Terrazas, the Gov
ernOr of the State of Chihuahua, having failed
to send any, although CasaVantes had sent to
HI Paso to urge him to forward a supply with
out delay.
Preside del Norte is now occupied by a French
force, thereby cutting off the retreat of Juarel
| to the Lower Rio Grande.
The JuareZ Government is being severely tried
The people of the country are tired of living in
q state OF anarchy, and feel the want of Gov
1 eTnment strong enough to maintain law an(
order. There are about three hundred soldier
and two hundred officers of all grades here
Many of the officers are badly off, but they con
tinue sanguine of the ultimate triumph of thei
cause. El Paso is the only place left in this par
OF the country from which Juarez can draw
means to support his troops; but the place i
too small ana poor TO be able to bear the burdel
long.
The Governor of the State, Don Luis Terrazas
after playing awhile into the hands OF tn
French, is now strong Liberal. His conduct /
incomprehensible. After assisting TO elect TIA
municipal PIefect Of the State under the empire
leaving ell of his property, some sixty THOUSAND
head OF sheep and great many cattle, he the
, Joins the sinking cause OF the Liberals, thereb
showing 10 every intelligent person that he i
playing with both sides.
wagon train leaves Franklin, Texas to-day
for San Antonio, it being the FIRST since tn
evacuation OF New Mexico by the Rebels unde
Sibley.
THE WASHINGTON DESPATCH.