New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-11-18
AFFAIRS At BAGDAD AND UATA.
nOROS.
How Cortiuns Gave I'm to the French
How the French Garry snii in Mnta-
rnorOs- Business Matters.
Iorrcspondeuce Of The y. q. Times.

Correspondence a. The y o. Iim'-
NEw ORLE,Ns NOV. { 1868.
have roticcd ol late in yonr paper. several articles
from krnzos Santiago and the Rio Gfandc. There NAV
De set corrections worthy OF note The French soldier
that landed the mouth OF a.. river about tbe ~ b
October were marines and saiorsGboui four hundred
they fenced Incdad with ci4en, lumber. cotton bales
and some bitches. Any military man u he had con
across tie WoIks while unoccuped might be at los.
h1' ~ call H. They took Whut they pleased 1sua y
gave receipts b.; answered INST applicants Noa,,
The Officers tool up their quarters ~ The Hotel de hchc
len, aud dlanh bountl,u.iy OF their Wines
A',r some weeks Their bns were presented ia a.
c0rdauce with the usIh charges OF the place, when
halt We called, and Charge was made on ihc cen
tsr agreeing 10 only the 0Rskar. Ahout the l<h
10 the gith the noted city 81 BaeGad. air, lie de
Cortinas' Wac biockHded ard no posses given oXceI
% tousgls o. "a t0nicdcrates III captains who mp
Piled 10 visit their conslsnees and cusom-hugsc Con.
s1s etc. told the, could give them passes to 90
up brownsville aud there cross 70 Maiamofos Son
bushels Of United states and other mail matter was all
1uicd pass into the hands OF the ton,ederatCs from
fhc posi.oiiice nj Bagiad 10 Brownsville.
The same va, opened and retained whom suspicious.
before forwarding from Brownsville TO MatamoTos. l..
Pierce, ir I. :. Consul favored IL open lat
ts nom hi, wife. being handed to his friend b' lady
~ Brownsville. Conn and -four we've permitted u pa
from Bagdid IA the Confederate camp below Browns
vale 1t evident that the trencA officers and Con-
deTat. officers the most iutlunte terms soon
after the French Mexican Army mnrchcd down from
Monterey. Cortnas made hs te-mS by his commissions
en- While they were on the road. He kept his own
counsel well that no one Of the ordinary czcGs kpcw
but Matamoi"s would pc "A battle hcd.
The surprise great when early in tie morning
The buylc sounded. aud down gallopcl General Mcia
and his staff with no attendants in arms 10 thc palace
where st"o, Gen tortiDas anu staff The meeting and
greing were giy done. COrtlnass brother, with
some four hundred men aud artillery had left day,
before for the up country Coriiuas is the second IN
command and command, his former troops. lie ha.
gone into the interior report saws. Gen Mejias army
ri MsiamoI and Bngdad are some 600 mostly Mex.
lean Indians Very few SpanHrds bite men are IN
it, The General is smat little halfbgecd by appear.
ance.
Business matters got clogged during the Fronch rule
OF twenty days Ih. leyee was piled up with tnns of
goods. There has been much rain. R,gdad is mud and
water Ia consequence OF the bad hauling the charge
per cargo OF m pounds to Matamcros is - Their. are
more goods in the market than ever known before one
hundred vessels are in port. Some Of them wait six
months Tor cargo. Freight 10 New York 2c currency
or L. specie On cotton; to Liverpool PC
very small Proportion of tho trade is done with the
United states. large amount Of cotton Is coming for.
wa for shipment but little of 10 good IL sells for
u 10 &c IA specie at Matamoros 1t costs,o pat il in
order and On shpboard to pc per TO- Coffee clothes
prints etc. are much cheaper than in the United states
Yours, AMIGO.