The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-05-08

The late news from Mexico is at least some
what exaggerated. Undoubtedly the liberals
are rapidly gaining ground and the empire is
trembling on its last effort at resistance.
Our most reliable information is from San
Luis Potosi, dated April Is. AT that time the
liberals, thirty thousand strong, had closed
around Queretaro and finally cut off all the
avenues by which the imperialists had pre-
viously communicated with the city Of Mexico.
When Marquee escaped from Querc!aro he
took with him all the imperial cavalry, thereby
relieving the besieged from force of no value,
but rather one that consumed much Of their
subsistence. Poririo Diaz, the ablest of all the
liberal generals, has cut of the last Of the inn
perial Hines Of communication with the ocean,
and the heroic Puebla is again in the hands oil
those who 90 bravely defended it against the
French. The subsequent attack of Diaz upon
the army which MARQUEE had improvised ia
tAe-sity Of Mexico did net dispense the troops
Of the latter, but only resulted in the capture
Of some artillery and wagon trains. Marquee,
however, Effected as good a retreat as might
have been expected Of the best soldier In the
service Of the empire. @e s&as
+; is now reported that Diaz is in possession
Of the convent of Santo Domingo, in the
4;uburbs Of the city Of Mexico. II 50, It Is GER
tain that he has attacked the city in its most
vulnerable part, and is doing the work which
his inferior competitor. Escobedo, was SO
anxious to have assigned to himself
In the army OF Macmillan, .. Queresaro, are
two thousand of the bravest veteran troops
which France threw into Mexico, and these,
hacked by the best Of all the Mexican naive
forces, and animated by the massacre of their
comrades in the late battles, have enough vigor
left in them to make bold front It will b.
found that If Macmillan is beaten out by the
liberals he can throw himself into the Quere-
taro sierra, near the city. This mountain
range has already been made famous by Gene
raj Thomas Mejia, one Of the most noted of
the Church party leaders, who knows every
pathway Of this his native mountain, and who,
now with Macmillan, can assist him in making
a brilliant defence. The force which can be
saved from the imperial army would hold
these mountains against the whole army of e.
cobedo, and the position would be something
like that which the Indian Lozada, with two
thousand men, maintains in Western Jalisco
against the liberal authority. Moreover, the
two thousand foreign imperial troops could
alone cut their way, with Macmillan, through
to the city of Mexico, and they would un-
doubleday do so rather than fall into the liberal
power, especially as they feel that their only
chance is massacre IL they be taken prisoners.
Once in Mexico, Macmillan could from that
centre Of Church power organize for its de-
fence, from the city population alone, a force
that would swell his army from fifteen to
twenty thousand men. The royal Austrian,
fall Of proud blood, may yet die game in this
last defence Of Mexican empire. His cause is
lost-his last struggle is to gain conditions;
but the liberals have announced their policy
1t is, mo terms; bat war, until one party or
the other shall be ground TO powder"