Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part I

No. 233.
Mr. Baxter to Mr. Fish.

[Extract.]

Legation of the United States,
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, May 30, 1872. (Received July 3.)

No. 52.]

Sir: To-day the official report is received in Tegucigalpa that on the 27th President Medina attacked Comayagua with the hope to repossess the capital, and that after a battle of many hours he was repulsed with severe loss in killed and wounded, and was forced to retire very much disorganized. This news gives the revolutionists great encouragement for the speedy downfall of President Medina’s government, and the permanent establishment of the provisional government. No information whatever has thus far been received here of the allied armies of Salvador and Guatemala supposed to be in the field, or of either of them, except this division.* * * * * *

I have, &c,

HENRY BAXTER.