Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-01-19
TELEGRAMS, &c.

private le tier from the inspector OF fcustoms
at Clarksville, Texas, says the 18th colored IN.
iantry, under Col. Davis, took all the skiffs in
ms charge and crossed over and captured Bag.
DAD They then began plundAing the place
and killing the people. The scene was indes-
cribable. The negroes shot men down for re-
IRSsing using to give mp their money. A letter from
BraZos, OF the 1th instant, to the Times, saws
Bagdad was captured on the morning of the
3th. The attacking party consisted of sixty
men. They captured nearly three hundred
prisoners, half Of whom turned Liberals aud
formed garrison of the town, the attacking
party disappearing. The Liberal loss was four
Killed and eight wounded. The Imperial loss
was eleven killed and twenty seven wounded.
Generals Crawford and Escobedo, on recent of
the intelligence, started for Bagdad. General
WeitZel ordered Colonel Hall, assistant revenue
omcer, not to allow any one to cross until the
arrival of Escobedo. General Crawford ar
rived in advance of Escobedo, and assumed
command; but when the latter arrived Craw-
ford was compelled to relinquish all authority.
upon assuming command. Escobedo req uested
OF General Weitzel twenty men to preserve
order, which was agreed to, and the men were
ordered down. French corvette shelled the
town all day on the 9th inst, without infiict-
ing any damage. Colonel Meiia, Escobedo's
post commander, has only about a dozen re-
liable men in Bagdad the rest have joined
Crawford, who has them on board a steamer
tied mp TO the bank at Bagdad.
Some boys, while skating on the Licking
River near Cincinnati, on Monday last dis
covered an alligator. Luckily. the water in
that latitude had proven too cold for him. and
ne was frozen stiff. On being dug out he was
found TO be six and a half feet long, with a Jaw
eleven inches long. He is supposed to be one
OF two which some soldiers brought up from
New Orleans eight months ago, and which
escaped from them.
party OF grave-digging students was sur
prised by squad of the Chicago police on
Monday night,iln the act of "resurrecting, a
subject. They opened fire with their re yolyers
on the squad, and then took to their heels
One of their number, however, was captured.
but subsequently let off by the justice with a
fine OF ten dollars.
The Governor of Virginia yesterday sent a
communication to the House of Delegates. en-
closing memorial of the New York and Vir-
glnla steamship Company for compensation
1or TWO steamers, valued at three hundred
thousand dollars, which were seized at the
wharf at the beginning Of the war
AT meeting of the stockholders of the
NATIONAL Express Company, in Richmond on
tuesday, proposition to reduce the salary of
General Joe johnson from $1,000 TO 5000 was
laid on the table.
President johnson has relieved William
MARVIN from his office as Provisional Cover.
nor OF Florida, and the affairs of the State
ernor
-, The Homestead of Henry Clay was sold on
university for the sum of $4,000 1t consists
Of 325 acres, and will be transformed into the
Agricultural College of that State.
Inc Kansas State Senate, on Wednesday,
passed resolutions favoring the trial con vie
non. and hanging OF Jefferson Davis, and other
leaders in the rebellion equally guilty.
The Freedmen's Bureau at DanyiIle have
issued an order that all freedmen without GER
yagrants.
bill recently introduced into the Virginia
Legislature requires five years residence as a
qualihcauon for the right of suffrage.