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The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
of Havana, we have Matamoras dates of the 6th instant. The news is not of great importance. A letter from Havana says: We have the contradiction of the report that Cortinas had deserted the Imperial, and pronounced for the Republican cause. The report, it would appear, originated from some persons belonging to Mendez's guerrillas — the same who destroyed Linares, in New Leon,--endeavoring to get recruits by publishing stories calculated to effect their object.--They even stated that Mejia, now Imperial commander-in-chief of the Mexican forces, had abandoned that cause. Two of the parties thus engaged have been captured and shot. Cortinas is still doing good service to the Empire. His brigade is in active pursuit of Carvajal, whose capture is hourly expected. This latter chief was, at last accounts, at the head of only three hundred men, with superior forces marching upon him from all points. I find, by some of the last advices from Europe, that the Pope has writ