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The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
hat the Committee on Ways and Means will propose a reduction of the taxes this session. There are certain taxes which they will doubtless ask the House to repeal or modify, but they are not likely to reduce the aggregate of revenue from taxation and duties at present. The Committee on Appropriations, however, are in an economical mood, and are cutting down the estimates very much. From Mexico. Senor Romero, the Mexican Minister at Washington, has advices that the Republicans took Monterey, but were forced to give it up by two strong columns of French troops — also, that a French division had been repulsed with heavy loss. Senor Romero has also received official intelligence from El Paso up to the 12th of November. President Juarez, his Cabinet and other officers of the National Government intended to leave El Paso on the 13th of that month for the city of Chihuahua. The French had retreated as far as Durango, and it was understood they would also abandon that State in
The Daily Dispatch: December 19, 1865., [Electronic resource], General Assembly of Virginia. (search)
dated the 12th instant, state that an old and estimable citizen of New Orleans, just returned from Matamoras, and who was intimate there with French officers, says they fully anticipate war between France and the United States, and believe it will commence on the Rio Grande. They already have a plan of the campaign mapped out, which anticipates the sudden crossing of United States troops over the Rio Grande on pontoons. They will then abandon Matamoras and the Rio Grande, and fall back on Monterey, which will be held as a strategic point. These officers claim to be thoroughly informed as to all the means the United States have at their disposal here and in Texas for an advance into Mexico. [Very wise men! very likely story!--already discredited by telegraph yesterday.--Dispatch.] A Vera Cruz letter says troops from France continue to arrive, six hundred more disembarking on the 2d instant, who were immediately sent into the field. There is great anxiety to ascertain what