New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-18
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WEDNESDAY MORNING, pr y, 1895.


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We have received 4 COW the Daily Ranchero
~ the 18Th. publisher atAatamoros, from which
" .gather some inte.ssting intelligence. In Al
editorial headed III situation 4 we find the fol
lowing:
With tho ligha before us we have to say tina
the expedition under Gen. Jeanngros is at thi
nloment within twenty miles Of this city. TIL
force consist4of about 1900 men, well armed, pro
sisioned and munitoned for thorough campaign
Jsaningros, Lopez and Quiroga, ali well known
Are c0mmanding.
Gen. Mejia Is now with Jeaningros, doubles
arranging and completing plans for the opening
enemy To government on this border shall be sub
duad # necessary, Gen. Mejia Willie able to ad,
70 the force OF Gen. Jeaningros eight or ten hun
dred veteran troops. Instead of there being any
apprehension felt about an attack upon this city
ol which there appears to be some talk il Browns.
VILE the very opposite Of this we know to be the
case n addition to the two thousand soldiers now
0n duty n this city, force Of twenty five hundred
veterans il within cannon report of rs. That
whole force could be here, il necessary, within
three hours after the first gun should be fired
Bnt more than this there is not between the Sierra
y Madre and the Bio Grande, force enough Of the
common enemy 70 make az impression upon the
w have no hesitancy III saying that the forces
nnder Jeaningros will, IN all probability come no
nearer here than at present Ais likely as not
Gen. Mejia will return before this is pnblished
but may not for twenty four hours after.
The towns or cities Of Victoria, Saltilo Monterey
and Chihuahua ATE fortified, beEides which there
viii be An active force Of several thousand men to
operate ia ffe disordered districts and toward the
NC GraHde. Such IL The view presented I'd us.
With reference to the forces Of the enemy We
know comparatively very little, but very likely
snow quite ~ much Of the different commands ali
they know 0f each other. Escobedo Canales and
Goftlna appear to be operating each Independent
of the others. All We can say of Canales, is that
ne y up the river endeavoring to keep out of
harm' way. He stood no fight the other dry with
&c Empress' regiment At Chareo Escondido, led
BY Lopez; but fed at the first fire. OF this affair
our account was entirely authentic. Cortina, III
the face OF as thousand contradictory rumors ID
between this and Victoria, with a force about
equal 70 that of8 Canales. But, as the more they
while TO estimate their strength. Eseobedo il re-
ported having fed In the direction Of Linares the
moment Jeaningr ess entered the disordered dis
rict. II y more than likely that he is az far the
With what force Escobedo has, taken the mountain
districts, If he has gone there ia more than We
Know; but the smaller his force The less danger
he y II and the more harm he is capable Of doing
70 have ordinary for ton, We have
70 recommend the meagre dose to our cotempor-
aries. with the bare remark that they need look
III nosnag HsFy rem ths direction
Empire cannot be brought 10 bay D Mn
With regard VI tho late express robbery at
Brownsville, the Kanehero saya j:
Gen. Hhefidsn,s speciai offioer. who arrested
Messrs. Hoyt and Bald nin, late sof tie Southern
Express Eompanrs once, ID Brownsville. was
about 70 leaye Yesterday afternoon, when orders
Fsesixea TIL sgpPs iaTsasr and
The reason PIT this, hQugh not publicly made |
known, isb 10 be ths unearthing 81 further
developmsnts about the robbery, 4 implcatin I'M !
paI sh oHssae e Espgsas who belong
The same paper reproduces fr0m the Sociedad
81 the city of Mexico some observations On the pro.
lest Of the merchants Of the former place, against
atrocities and injuries which they alleged mad been
perpetfated on them under the American dag.
Aatamoros Il declared u be the key to the South.
~ portion 6f The empire md, therefore, desery
ng Of al prote ton which it Will doubtless re-
,eiye from TIE sovereign, who cannot but appfe-
late its Adelity md courage under the trials to
Ehich II Ias been snhjected. n ,s8s ss
The protest. alluded to Ii that issued against the
sagdad foray Commerce, the lsociedad, says cares
Nothing whatever about politics, about federalism
y central zation, about republicanism or mon
lrchy, about publiciats Of politicasters butts in.
lerestad only ia the question of peace or war, se
cury er Insecurity Of life and property, prosper
~ or and it is under such consider.
AH'ons That the protest was made, it Is urged that
!. cannot but Aaye great weight, and insure from
Ane emperor that protection against the Jnaristas
aaa against ny United States which favor and aid
. ~ washing soap ever brought
,s.s ~ psop.e Y pyles q. e. soap, pure and
sallat g French soaps, and does not
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