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thousand; in Tobasco and Chiapas there were two thousand ;'Urrea, 

 Carrabajal and Canales commanded two thousand ; Filisola was at 

 San Luis Potosi with three thousand ; Pena y Barragan had two 

 thousand at Toluca ; one thousand were in Oajaca, while nearly 

 three thousand guerrilleros harassed the road between Puebla and 

 Vera Cruz and rendered it impassable after the victories in the 

 valley. The conflict was now almost given up to these miscreants 

 under Padre Jarauta and Zenobio, for, in the eastern districts, Gen- 

 eral Lane with his ardent partizans held Rincon, Alvarez, and 

 Rea in complete check. 



These guerrilla bands had inflicted such injury upon our people 

 that it became necessary to destroy them at all hazards. This se- 

 vere task was accomplished by Colonel Hughes and Major John R. 

 Kenly who commanded at Jalapa, and by General Patterson, 

 whose division of four thousand new levies was shortly to be rein- 

 forced by General Butler with several thousand more. Patterson 

 garrisoned the National Bridge in the midst of these bandit's 

 haunts, and having executed, at Jalapa, two paroled Mexican offi- 

 cers captured, in one of the marauding corps, and refused the sur- 

 render of Jarauta, he drove that recreant priest from the neighbor- 

 hood into the valley of Mexico, in which Lane pursued and de- 

 stroyed his re-organized band. 



Whilst these scattered military events were occurring, Pena-y- 

 Pena, as President of the Republic, had endeavored, both at Toluca 

 and at Queretaro, to combine once more the elements of a congress 

 and a government. He summoned, moreover, the Governors of 

 States to convene and consult upon the condition of affairs ; he sus- 

 pended Santa Anna ; ordered Paredes into nominal arrest at Tololo- 

 pan ; directed a court martial upon Valencia for his conduct at Con- 

 treras ; attempted to reform the army, and in all his acts seems to 

 have been animated by a sincere spirit of national re-organization 

 and peace. Nevertheless, among the deputies who were assembled, 

 the same quarrels that disgraced former sessions again arose be- 

 tween the Puros, the Moderados, the Monarquistas, and Santan- 

 nistas or friends of Santa Anna, who now formed themselves into a 

 zealous party, notwithstanding the disgraceful downfall of their 

 leader. These contests were continued until early in November, 

 when a quorum of the members reached Queretaro and elected 

 Senor Anaya, the former President substitute, to serve until the 

 month of January, to which period the counting of votes for the 

 Presidency had been postponed, as we have already stated, by the 



