[Translation.], March 27, 1866

[Translation.]

GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY COMMANDANCY OF THE STATE OF CHIHUAHUA.

The political and military chief of the canton of Rosales sent the following report to me yesterday:

“Long live the supreme government! Long last the independence of Mexico!

“As, soon as I heard of the direction the fugitives had taken—the routed traitors had taken to the hills—I called together a few neighbors and started in pursuit of them. We succeeded in catching the so-called prefect, Julio Carranco, Ensign Teofilo Cabezuela, a man named Miguel Vargas, who says he is a private individual, and fourteen soldiers. They are now confined here at the disposal of the government.”

This is reported for the information of the President, and to ask him what is to be done with the prisoners mentioned.