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The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1860., [Electronic resource], Intelligence from Mexico. (search)
Intelligence from Mexico. --Letters from Vera Cruz state that a Convention, held at the Capital, composed of officers of the Church and of the military, had appropriated $300,000 per month of the Churches funds to sustain Miramon in the defence of the capital. On the 5th the Juarez Government proclaimed that after April, 1861, all duties are to be paid in cash, half of which may be in sight bills on the city of Mexico, for the purpose of paying indemnities. All goods remaining in the Custom-House over one month shall be sold to pay duties. The various foreign Ministers, except the Minister of Spain, were at Jaiapa. Gen. Mata was the prominent candidate for Governor of Vera Cruz. Juarez has raised a loan of $600,000 for the purchase of supplies for the army now before the capital.
The Daily Dispatch: May 1, 1861., [Electronic resource], Our treatment of force. (search)
Mexico. --There has been another ministerial crisis at the Mexican Capital. Senor Mata has been appointed Minister of Finance, and Gen. Zaragoza Minister of War. Miramon's ex-Premier, Diaz, had made an unsuccessful attempt to escape. Gold mines of fabulous extent are said to have been discovered on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.
The Daily Dispatch: November 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Later from Northern Mexico (search)
Begun.--From the Voto Popular, of Matamoras, to learn that the Rejos, under Don Andres Trevino, attacked Reynosa, on October 7th, captured the town, and made prisoners of the garrison, commanded by Don Trinidad Flores, of the party known as the Crinolinos. To this the Brownsville Flag adds the following: By private letters we learn that all the Crinolinos who signed the pronunciamento and who have been taken prisoners, have been sentenced to be shot, and all who could not be found had their property seized. Among the number, Francisco Baili, of this city, lost considerable. The receipt of the above news at Matamo Va. on Wednesday morning, led to serious measures. The city was immediately deferred under martial law, and the Rejos were an ordered under arrest. The wives of the prisoners were ordered into custody at the same time. This measure led immediately flight of the devoted Rojos from Mata and the city of Brownsville is now ptdly filling up with the fugitives.