New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-02-26
THE lMpEalAlsTs FIRMLY ESTABLISHING THEMSELVES,
GENERAL PEDRO MENDEz KILLED.
French Naval Commander auapeuded for
Not Firing at Bagdad Pillagers.
Etc,
Etc.


MATAMoRos, Mexico, Feb IL, 1866.
The robbelies and murderous outrages whjc
were so frequent in and around Brownsville pre
vious to and at the time of my arrival have Der
ceptibly abated, the military having come to tn
aid of the civil authorities, and the town being nov
patroled nightly.
The assassination of young Barmester of Capt
Cook, of Gen. Wright's courier, and the woundins
and maltreatment of others, it now appears
plainly enough, Though none of the guilty parties
have been arrested,) was all done by parties i'm
phcated in the Bagdad murders and robbery who
endeavored thus to prevent or weaken Testimony
which was to be given before the military court al
Brazos.
| Since his accession to the command of this Dor
der district, Il am speaking, of course, of the
United States side of the river) Gen. Wright has
shown laudable disposition to straghten up and
regulate affairs; so much so, indeed, that he is
complimentary spoken of by the ultra Imperial
lists OF the Mexican side, whose common pastime
Tor some time past and especially since the Bag
dad affair, has been to abuse the United States
government and its officers and troops on this
frontier The General had his headquarters for
awhile at Brownsville; now he has transferred
them to Brazos.
Nothing has as yet been made public of the mill
tary inquiry into the Bagdad affair.
On this, the Mexican side of the river, news
comes in by driblets, showing the desperate deter
minaton and bravery of the Liberals, and their
almost continual defeat by the superior and we'll
sustained forces of the Imperial government.
10 give such particulars of the diffe rent fights
ana skrmlshes as they reach US here at Matamoros
Is useless, think Few people in the United
States are familiar enough with the names of the
leaders on the opposing sides, or with the geogra-
phy OF interior Mexico, to read understandngly
The accounts as they are received here. The sum
total OF all the war news from the interior
49, that the Imperialists are slowly, but
steadily, driving back the Liberals wherever they
meet them, and still more firmly establishing the
Macmillan empire
General Pedro Mendez, an Imperalist leader.
who lately cleared the country back of Tam
pico, and restored free travel and communi
cation to the population of a large district of
country, has since been killed in an engagement
with the Liberals, further in the interior the
news of which reached here yesterday.
1 may mention as an interesting item. stated
here to be authentic, that Marshal Bazaine, the
French Admiral, has suspended the commander of
the n-of-war Stesiphon, or Tysiphone, or some
such name, for not opening fire upon the troops or
persons in U. S. uniform who crossed the Rio
Grande to the pillage of Bagdad his orders hay
ing been to fire instantly upon any u s. troops
that might undertake the passage of the river.
You will notice that I date this letter from Mat
amoros l have taken up my domicil here
because find it to be more comfortable and
cheaper and safer place to live in than Browns
VILE The Austrian and other troops stationed in
this city are remarkably well-behaved, and give
the citizens no cause of complaint.
Gen. Meja has abolished the bothersome pass.
port system here, and communication between
and Brownsville is now entirely unre |
Itricted. q