JALAPA, Mexico, April g, 1917.
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The diGgencia came in this morning from Pc
rote, but from no point on the other side, as the
Governor of Puebla has ordered ii to cease run
ming this way. Passengers came through, how
ever, bringing papers and verbal news, and
in as concise form as possible will give you
the amount of the intelligence.


Col. Garland's brigade left the castle of Pc
rote yesterday morning at daylight for Tepe
Agualco and will reach that pace tonight
Maj. Smiths light battalion, a troop OF ra-
goons and Col. Duncan's battery accompany
Col G. We learn hear that Gen. Worth has
been very successful in collecting supplies.


An intelligent man with whom have con-
veTsed, says that the Mexicans neither will nor
can make any opposition at Puebla. The pop
ulation is one of the worst in Mexico, and the
most inimical to strangers; yet the dreadful de-
feat at Cerro Gordo has completely paralyzed
them. At the city of Mexico, a few light
breastworks have been thrown up, not only as
you enter the place by the Vera Cruz road, but
on the road, leading to the Convent of our Lady
OF Guadalupe; but nothing like regular system
of defence has been as yet undertaken. Not only
the Government but the citizens appear, with
all their vauntings, to have become supplied
at the succession of defeats which have befal-
len their country, and know not which way to
turn what to do. Santa Anna has written
to the Government from Orizaba, stating that
he has loOO men, and wants reinforcements and
money; but his demands have been unheeded.
At the city of Mexico, as well as in other pla-
ces, the people appear to have lost much of
their confidence in the 'Hero of Tampico," and
many have openly accused him ofcowardice at
Cerro Gordo, as well as having sold the bat
tie to the Americans. am living at the Casa
dc DitigenciGs, or General Stage House, and at
breakfast this morning some of the foreigners
were speaking of body of men, under Gen.
Leon, who Were on the March from Oalaca to
join Santa Anna, and they also said that Leon
had shot two muleteers on the plea that they
had aided the Americans.


The Mexican ladrOnes on the roads appear to
be more at war with their own countrymenI
than with ours, probably because they can pur-
chase easier victories. Two Mexican officers