MEXICO.

Southland Times, Issue 961, 1 June 1868, Page 3

MEXICO.

The clergy refuse to confess patients who inhabit" confiscated convents. There are disturbances in Tamaulipas. Documents implicating foreign parties have been discovered in the possession of the pirate Juan T. Duarez, recently captured for a raid on Carinin Island. Ex- Governor Placido Vega has escaped. General Escobedo has secured a subvention of three thousand dollars for the i construction of a telegraph from San Louis Potosi to Mafcamoras. The traitor Lopez has been imprisoned. General Negrete has been conveyed to the capital. The Press now denounces, as unconstitutional, the law passed on January 25th, 1862, and under which Maximilian was tried and executed. The Legislature of the state of Oaxaca support Senor Sinaloa's motion in Congress, favoring the free export of gold and silver. The Yucatan expedition has returned to Vera Cruz with General Alatorre and Ex-Governor Cespeda. General Placida Vega, on liberty parole, escaped, reached the coast, where he got on a small vessel, and arrived at San Bias, where he placed himself under the protection of General Losada. Corona has despatched troops from Guadalajara to the assistance of General Alvarez in putting down Junenez, and has sent troops to Mazatlan to aid Governor Euby in bringing General Martinez to terms.