Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-19
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NEW ORLEANS AND FfExEC0

Capture Ofsan Imperial Wagon Train
$500, eco in Specie eSeized-Fight Between
the French and Liberals-AIarm ON the
lower rMississippi-Fears that the E.evees
Will Give Way.
New ORLEANS. April 17.-There is much alarm
about the levees from high water It is feared the
whole lower Mississippi will be overfowed. The
heavy rains have injured the cotton seed which was
poor. and much land will have to be replanted.
The wife of Ex-Governor Harris. of Tennessee. is
here bound for Mexico. She has letter from Presi-
dent johnson. saying that no passport is necessary
but the Provost Marshal has required one.
Em1grants to Mexico are numerous. Several new
steamers are advertised for Vera Cruz
An agent is here soliciting subscriptions for Lees
professorship in Washington College, Virginia West
India vessels have been relieved from quarantine
The total deaths for the week have been 160 There
Is no tendency to any particular disease. The city
perfectly healthy and crowded.
Brownsville advces say it was reported there that
the Liberals had captured wagon train between
Parras and Monterey, with S2OO,O9O, and had killed
and captured 200 French soldiers The train con-
tanned about $50 wagons. and left Monterey about the
lst of April with supplies and money for Maamoras
and guarded by 14,OOO Imperalists.
Jenengros, rrevance and Paroles, with about Q 400
Liberals, and Navajos. with Liberal cavalry, left
CamargO the Sd, and intercepted the train Mejia
column. Matamoras is amply prepared for any
attack
The Courier says it is rumOred the train has already
been attacked and captured, twelve miles above
Matamoras. and that Mejia had been defeated and
that Matamoras will be attacked to- day or tonight
and that Bagdad has been taken, but none of these
reports are reliable.
The RGnchero speaks encouragingly of Gen. Syltis'
(Sickles?) administration on the border
The MatamOraS RUOcbero of the 18th SoyS tbn I'm
perial forces had arrived at ChercO.
Escobado on Sunday last, Y leagues from
Matamoras. A short distance beyond that point
CanaleS endeavored to dispute the passage of the
lmperialists. but LopezS regiments repused him.
killing z, and woundng a large number Two hun
dred wagons accompanied Jenengro's expedition
provided with every requisite for thorough and ac
tive campaign. special train leaves Monterey
soon. under Treanis. for Matamoras.
General Mejia is now with Jenengros arranging
plans for opening the campaign. No fears are en-
tertained for Matamoras. The city is impregnable
against any attack. Victoria Saltillo. Monterey and
Chihuahua fortified. Escobado, Canales and Cor
tinas appear to be operating independent of each
other. Canales is up the river; Cortinas is between
Matamoras and Victoria; Escobado withdrew in the
direction of Lucores.
GALv ESToN, April 15-GeneraI Gregory has re-
turned from his tour in the interior of Texas He
reports the plantations work successful and the crops
will be the largest ever raised in the State. Com
mssloners leave Galveston to-day to report the new
Constitution and convention ordinances to the Presi-
dent
The post of Port Hudson will be broken up, and
the works dismantled The Fiftysixth Ohio Veterans
the Eighth Illinois Infantry and Nineteenth Penn
sylvania Cavalry have arrived for muster out.
The Methodist Conference discussing the Daggett
case with closed doors.
The first race to-day, mile heats was won by Sarah
K" time. ESQ. The second race, three miles, was
won by General Rousseau;" time, GAL.
Mayor Monroe and Alderman Nixon have gone to
Washington for a pardon.
Beauregard has been elected President of the New
Orleans and Jackson Railroad
Wreck Of a Hudson Bay Steamer
SAN FRANCISCO. April 16.-The Hudson Bay Com
pany's steamer LaJouchere. Captain Manat, which
sailed for Victoria Saturday. was totally wrecked
OFF Point Reyes. Shestruck reef on Saturday even
ing about 10 o'clock
After backing off into deep water she was run ali
night, under the impression that she was not mate
rally injured. but she sunk Sunday morning, at
eight o'clock. Two men are said to have been
drowned. All the others were landed at Point Reyes
by the light boats and raft which had been con-
structed on the vessel.
The steam tug Rescue goes after the passengers and
crue this morning.
The Ldbouchere took prize at the Great Exhibi-
tiOn in London in 1861. This her second trip to
Victoria.
The passengers who have arrived from the Labour-
chere report that the remainder of the are
comfortably provided for