New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-05-15
Later from Mexico.
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A mail from Mexico arrived yesssrday morning,
but from some cause We did not received our flies.
The evening Courier publihes Tie following iutel-
Egence:
The Trait d' Union Of the Isl syn that the Essm-
dsyte had published IN its ie e s Previous day
ing or invading force they can hlibasers in Sonora.
From these # appears that on the 1sl Of April 8
detachment Of the National Guards, commanded by
Caborca he fiibusters, Who had entesed sonora by
way Of Sonoyta OF which yiIlsge they had taken
possession. They were vigorously attacked, Captain
Rodriguez being mortaly wounded st the ouset and
same time. Crabb had his thigh broken and dsht of
his men were killed Il was then ncertained that
another detachment Of about thirty Albusters were
advancing by way Of Tubutsma-
On the I'd the first named were besieged in
two houses in front Of the church, surrounded BY
from $50 to 800 men but the Sonorisns were still
without leaders Later, Lieutenant Colonel Jose Maria
Jiron and Captain Hlario Gabii0ndo arrived with
more forces and artillery. y
On the Sd MT. Samuel Elias Pro. who had marched
against the ilibusters, coming bywsy Of Tubntama,
also returned to Caborca-
The sonorians were thus strongly reinforced and,
operations against the libuste1s At nghtfal the
9Th one Of the two houses above referred to wasfred,
and at the same time Mr.. Ellis entered into the corral
court OF yard of the house. The fire spread 90 rap
barrels of powder belonging to the bustefs exploded;
q considerable number Of them were wounded, and at
II o'clock at night the rest surrendered at discretion
Fiftynine were taken prisoners, among them Crabb
and twentyfOur rifles and some munitions were taken.
The poz de Sonora announces from Ures, on the
9th, that all the prisoners had already been shot
I Those who were advancing BY Tubutama were but
- ~sy n and had M made made
theirescape; but sixty Of the Guards were npursut
of them. fsss IL .i " sssst.iS tss.5
The reports estimate the total number Of the libus
ters at $50: Deducting the So prisoners and the IA
than 80 ofthem had been killed! ~ -sey a-~'ss
On the 9Th the Sonorian forces operating in the dis
trict of Altar amounted to 700 men. There was fur
ther on the march portion Of the vanguard, under
the command Of Commandant Rafael A. E Corella.
The whole force the frontiers Of the State Is thus
raised to about thousand men, without reckoning
the reserve commanded by Col Jose Elias Gonzales.
No other bands of flibusters bad been discovered,
although suspected vessel had been near Lobos,
and was being watched.
There was some talk about issung decree to sup
press the monastic orders Of Merced, San Augustin,
Carmen and Sant0 Domingo. ~ 4 !. ~. !. "a
Messrs. Arrio respectively Ministers to Berlin and
Brussels, were soon to depart for their legations
An explosion occurred in the palace on the 30th
ult., as some ammunition vas being removed. Fire
wasstarted but, fortunately soon suppressed. No
one appears to have been killed. One man was Sc
verey wounded ST. Osollos, one OF the Pnebla revo-
lutioniss who incarcerated in the very quafter
where the accident took place, might have easily es
capped in the confusion, but magnanimously enough
energeticaly devoted himself to give all the assist
ance In his power towards checking the progress Of
the fire. Yet he is charged with having been con.
Miranda, and exMinister Aguilar, with conspiracy,
one feature Of which was the assassination of Pres-
dent Comonfort. .s
captain named Noguera, whom Sr. Comonfort
had particularly favored, is said to have been the
party engaged to plunge the dagger into his benefac
tors breast. Some Of the men in the brigade in