The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-23
THE Rio GRANDE TROUBLES.
s'Continued Warlikle Preparations.
THE. E.:E BAGDAD AFFAIR.
ceEsFsI Weltzoi DisapPtoVes tNe
'Nafi Action oT our Officers.
TRROIRERB BsTCA Of QUEER STORIES.

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4r Few OBtxANs, january 22.--Gtuerel Crawford,
Colonel Edgar, District Adlutant and Governor
Leon, OF Taumaulpas, have arrived here, en-,
soUte for Washington.
The Brownsville correspondent of the Times
says Cortinas now occupies Bagdad, With about
200 men.
1t is understood that General Woitzel disap-
proves Of the action OF our officers on the recap.
lure Of Eagdad, and already has ayyested some
OF them. fr
All the heavy ordnance has been ordered FROM
Brazos to Brownsville { CO. GI,'
n Colonel Hawks, Agent of Adams Express, had
been robbed of SldOO in silver by some OF General
Carks command '.'a+ ' I.t
~ Preparations of q belliCeTent character con.
a. tiEue both at Brownsville aud Matamoras.
iro The RdacterO says Canalos.has issued pro
clamaiion to his soldiers, advising them to sub.
Inttfo the Imperial authority rather than unite
in eiilibustering expedition with the Yankees.
.I,iA party has sprung up IN MeXioos called the
Ortega faction, who hold commissions from Or
tega, and refuse to recognize Crawford. Corti.
mas Is said TO belong to the party.
Colonel Lawrence Kip, of General Shcrdan's
staff, who has been investigating the Bagdad
affair, returned to this city on Sunday morning.
= I Paymaster Pierce, U. s. A., has arrived at
Brazos, with funds 10 pay all the troops in the
Rio Grande District. --r,. ,-.--t-,r
QuarteImasters disbursement officer had
reacHeuthe to liquidate all claims against that
.fodepartuent d 4 -i'i i''7 ..
emr 9&fafee number of fcolored regiments are being
mustered out including three regiments at
InGiapola. -.,.. ,,,,.. ...,--,---..
An order had been received for the muster out
'Sof neafIyaH ofGeneral Clark's command on the
Rio GratideI - ''-
About four companies of black soldiers were
doing provost duty in Bagdad at the solicitation
Of the American. citizens, and one can leave
the town Without a pass from the headquarters
> of the United States forces at Bagdad Mexico.
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News from MexicO-AcapuIcO and Mata-
mQras in DRn ger-Dtsasters Of the Inl-
~ pSrialtstsL Monterey Stiii Held by
-Them--9iscOVeFy of n Plot at MOrelfa-
.lEAFfdval of1the Mexican Minister In
France at Vera Cruz General Early
GlReLurDed to MexIeO-FurtIIori partition.
larson the Earthquake. -
n 2 HAVANA, January 1.-THE steamer la France,
Of the French West Indian line between st.
'Nazaane and MEXICO, arrived yesterday afternoon
FROM Vera Cruz, bringing news from that port 10
fhe 18Th inst and from the capital, Me &ico City,
to the 9th ditto.
y The sad news of her fathers death was com.
SmunIcated to the Empress Charlotte ON the 9Th,
and her sorrow was the more intense from having
conceived hopes by previous letters that his
Majesty the King OF the Belgians'was recover,
ing. The Emperor aud Empress were at Cuerna-
vaca when the news was brought.
The Imperialsts- are in bad condition at
Acapulco. The last news received at the capital
from that place is dated the 18th ultimo. At
that date all the inhabitants OF Acapulco had
lett after havirg destroyed the wells, and every
night the Republicans, under Alvarez, ap-
preached the city and exchanged shots with the
garrison, the broken nature ofthe ground round
about allowing them to do injury without re-
ceiving any themselves.
A column of 500 Austrlans, with a few cannon,
from the interior of the country, attempted to
march to Acapulco. to relieve their fellow
soldiers but were obliged TO turn back, being
threatened on all sides by Porfrio DiaZ The
pass in the mountains through which they at
tempted to go is almost impenetrable, and last
year the Algerine sharpshooters from Acapulco,
in attempting to force passage through the
same place, were also unsuccessful.
Alvarez, says the Imperial paper from which
the above news is taken, tries every possible
means to make the Imperial troops desert,
Offering large sums of money, and had succeeded
in inducing thirty soldiers and a few officers to
Join him. He lives on his estate at ProVidencia,
sixteen leagues from the coast
Matamoras and the places in its neighborhood
were likewise in bad condition for the Impe-
rialsts. Bagdad and Boca del Rio had been
occupied by Cortinas' forces, reinforced, say the
accounts from lmperialist sources by disbanded
soldiers or deseTters of the United States army
on the opposite side of the river
The French mail steamer Sonora, which sails
between Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Matamoras
was not able on her last voyage to leave the let
ters nor the passengers at the twolastmentoned
places, and was Obliged to return to Vera Cruz.
Matamoras was in great danger; and as far as
could be learned there, Escobedo, with about
1900 men, the greater part, says an account in a
paragraph, Americans, must have left Camargo
to attack it, About 500 troops had left Vera
Cruz on board OF aFreqch vesseloEWar and 1t
was expected by the Imperialists tlat 1t would
not be long before Boca del Rio would be again
On, the other hand the Imperialsts official
accounts state that the States are now depart
Inents OF ZacateCas and Querataro, are completely
TRANQUIL They likewise boast of q tewinsignid'
cant successes oyer bands of guerlllas in different
partsrof the country; but none OF any import
ancaggY Ig}rHu b o tL.
The republican General, Pordfio Dlez, after
leaving Tlaxaco in the South, posted himself AZ
Putla,s eight leagues from tlef aDQye-named
places threatening the central pant OF MlXteca
and making,anot1ef force; likewise commanded
by himsv ooeaPy eJuquila, he himself marching
southetly for San Pedro Misepec, IN the direc
TOD Of Mahuatlan. Diaz left Tlaxiaco on the
aI,uroach of an Austrian force.
4 plot had been discovered TO make an insar
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