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The Capture of Guadalajara. The steamship
Tennessee has arrived at New Orleans, with
Vera Cruz dates to the 21st.--She brings intelligence that, after a five weeks siege, the city of
Guadalajara has at length fallen, and is now garrisoned by Liberal forces.
The capitulation was concluded between
General Castillo, as the friend of the Church party, and
Gen. Zaragoza,
Commander-in-Chief of the Liberal forces, the conditions of which, however, were broken by the former, who fled towards
Tepic, followed by
Generals Woll and
Espejo, whose troops at once joined the Liberal army.
The entrance of the Liberal troops in
Guadalajara was effected with the utmost order, and pains were taken at once to attend to the wounded and sick, and to clean the city.--Shops and commission houses are open again; the troops are fed en masse in the open plaza, and presented with new uniforms by the inhabitants.
It appears that the battle, decisive of the fate of
Guadalajara, took place actually about two leagues from that city.
There the relieving army under
Gen. Marquez and a detachment under
Gen. Castillo, numbering in all some 10,000 men, were met, attacked and utterly routed by the Liberals under
Gen. Zaragoza, so that very few ever found their way back again to the city.
The
Generals only escaped with their lives, leaving fifty pieces of artillery, all their stores and ammunition, and 2,000 prisoners in the hands of the enemy.--The prisoners, however, were soon after set at liberty, on the capitulation of the city, which was the necessary consequence of the battle.
Gen. Doblado was expected on the 19th of November in
Guanajuato, where great preparations were on foot for welcoming him.
Seven thousand more cavalry were expected in Morelin, to march with the Liberal forces upon
Mexico.
Rajas and "Brownsville" Carvajal are their leaders.
The British Legation at the city of
Mexico had been sacked by order of
Miramon and Robles, and from the million of dollars there on deposit, belonging to the
English bondholders, nearly one-half of a million has been taken by force, neither respecting seal or flag of the
British nation.
In the absence of
Mr. Mathew, the
British Charge, the
Spanish Minister has protested against the outrage.
Every effort is made to defend the city, the only spot now in the possession of the Church party.
The Spanish Minister, it is said, was to leave for
Puebla, finding the region about the capital too volcanic.
