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month, as representative of a road to connect 

 the Gulf of Mexico with the Pacific, starting 

 from Tuspan and terminating at the nearest 

 'and most convenient point on the west coast. 

 The general had also in contemplation a scheme 

 for the general construction of railroads 

 throughout the republic. 



Mr. Robert B. Gorsuch had already applied 

 for the concession for a railway from the Eio 

 Grande to the Mexican capital, with a branch 

 to the Pacific. 



The period for the completion of the sub- 

 marine telegraphic cable from Cuba to Yuca- 

 tan was extended in April ; and the Govern- 

 ment granted also an extension of the time 

 fixed for the establishment of a line of steam- 

 ers to ply between Sisal and New Orleans, 

 along the Mexican coast of the Gulf. 



Although the country was still under the 

 depressing influence of the revolution, the 

 Government manifested a disposition to do all 

 in its power to favor the investment of foreign 

 capital in national improvements, and especial- 

 ly in railways, which it regarded as the most 

 efficient peace-makers and most powerful 

 agents of civilization in countries like the 

 Mexican Republic. 



Such was the state of exhaustion of the 

 national Treasury, that Minister Romero was, 

 in order to raise funds for the prosecution of 

 the civil war, constrained to rent anew some 

 of the principal mints of the country for a 

 period of years. 



Among a number of prisoners captured by 

 I the Government forces in April, and sentenced 

 to be shot, was a Mr. Mayer, who had served 

 as an officer in the United States Army during 

 the late war. The Mexican press were unan- 

 imous in petitions for his pardon. 



After an unsuccessful attempt on the part of 

 the rebel Generals Diaz and Galvar to raise an 

 army in Jalisco, the former repaired, for the 

 second time, to the United States for safety ; 

 and the revolutionists were driven from all 

 their strongholds south of San Luis Potosi, 

 dispersed and disarmed. In the States of Vera 

 Cruz, Guerrero, Puebla, Michoacan, Quer6taro, 

 and the Federal District, there no longer ex- 

 isted any movement worthy of the name of 

 revolution ; while disturbances in Tabasco and 

 Yucatan were of a purely local character, 

 being directed against the persons of the gov- 

 ernors, and were soon quelled. 



The order issued by President Grant, con- 

 cerning cattle-thieving on the Rio Grande, 

 gave rise to warm discussion, and various 

 speculations, among the journals of the capi- 

 tal; it being surmised, in Mexico, that the 

 United States troops would not, in their pur- 

 suit of thieves, stop at the banks of that river. 



The construction of a line of telegraph, to 

 connect the States of Campeachy, Tabasco, 

 and Yucatan, was commenced in May. 



A band of revolutionists captured and plun- 

 dered the custom - house, and other public 

 buildings, at Alvarado, Yucatan, carrying off 



the employe's as prisoners, several of whom 

 they were said to have killed. Juarez declared 

 martial law in the State of Coahuila, and ap- 

 pointed General Zapata Military Governor. 



General Palmer and Governor Hunt, with 

 their engineers, left the capital, divided into 

 two parties, one to survey the country in the 

 direction of Morelia, and the other by way of 

 Zacatecas. 



The Government of the republic announced 

 that no Mexican consuls were appointed to 

 France, and that consequently the acts of per- 

 sons assuming to discharge the functions of 

 such office were null. Sefior Romero went to 

 the United States to obtain colonists for his 

 estates in Chiapas. A direct line of steamers 

 from Progreso to England is projected. 



General Corella arrived at Saltillo on the 

 26th of May, and was prepared to march on 

 Monterey. On the 30th he routed the revolu- 

 tionists, under Trevifio, at San Barnab6 (near 

 Monterey). At the first fire of the Juarists, 

 the revolutionists fled in great disorder, with- 

 out offering any thing like an organized resist- 

 ance, and left the Government troops in pos- 

 session of the field. The latter were so highly 

 elated with their advantage that they neglected 

 the necessary precautions against surprise. 

 General Corella, imagining that he had given 

 a crushing blow to Treviflo, and that he was 

 therefore secure from further attack, sent dis- 

 patches to the Juarez Government, announ- 

 cing his victory, and the total annihilation of 

 the revolutionists. 



But, on the following clay, Trevifio rallied 

 all his forces, which had been purposely scat- 

 tered, in order to avoid the concentrated fire 

 of the Government troops, and attacked Core- 

 lla in the suburbs of Monterey. The Juarists 

 were completely taken by surprise, and made 

 hasty preparations for resistance ; but, before 

 they could recover from the shock of the sud- 

 den attack, the revolutionists dashed in upon 

 them, and made a fearful slaughter. In this 

 action, Corella lost every thing : guns, ammu- 

 nition, siege-trains, and even personal baggage, 

 and the army-chest, containing $10,000. 



On June 10th, General Corella, staff, and 

 twenty men, all that escaped of 4,000, arrived 

 at Brownsville, Texas. General Ceballos met 

 the advance of Quiroga's army, at Cevallo, on 

 the Tth, and, after a slight engagement, re- 

 treated to Mier, and thence upon Camargo, 

 closely pursued by the revolutionists, which 

 place he abandoned on the 9th, and was com- 

 pelled to retreat on Matamoras, with less than 

 2,000 men, while Quiroga's revolutionists were 

 said to exceed 4,000. 



Business was entirely suspended again in 

 Matamoras, and the greatest anxiety prevailed 

 as to the result of the defeat of the Govern- 

 ment forces. Thus ended the campaign against 

 the revolutionists on the northern frontier, 

 after two months spent in preparations. Gen- 

 eral TrevmVs retreat on May 30th was evi- 

 dently a ruse to lull the Juarists into a con- 



