Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-01-21

IHiTty hined on E0ch Stde.
We have before us the Matamoras
RGacherO of the sixth inst, and we find
the following quoted IN its columns, as
from an extra of the fifth
Yesterday several officers and men
from the Federal side of the Rio Grande
crossed at Clarksville during the day and
took up quarters at Bagdad, apparently
for the night. Shortly after midnight
the guard at the ferry and along the river
were surprised, captured and disarmed
by the party above mentioned. Such
lighters as were at hand were immedi-
ately taken possession Of, and with them
nearly the entire military force at Clarks-
vile were crossed over in two separate
bodies, making in all some four hundred
men, mostly negroes.
The garrison Of Bagdad, containing
about one hundred ndseventy-five men,
were completely surprised and captured.
The commander of the post and the
captain of the port were taken prisoners
while in their beds. 1t is said the latter
was killed and the former made his es-
cape. OF the truth Of this there is some
doubt.
Upon taking possession of the town,
the work of pillage and plumber was i'm
mediately i~naugurated. Every lighter
in the place some fifty in number, was
taken possession of. and as rapidly as
each warehouse could be Quilted, the con-
tents were loaded up and Immediately
crossed to the American side.
The gunboat Antonio was called upon
TO surrender III Unanswered their demand
with a broadside, which scattered the
flibustersi in a hurry. Shortly after, asec-
ond demand ofthe same nature was made,
which wa answered in the same man
ner and with like result. She was on
her way up the river. An Austrian ser
geant on board the Antonio was killed.
At daylight the French men-Of-war ~
the harbor opened fire, compelling b
flibusters to take refuge in the upper
part of the town. At last accounts the
flibusters were in pOssessionof thetoWn.
The deaths were reported to be thirty
on each side. 1t is stated the ~tilibusterS
were under command of one Col. Reed
that one, r. Clay Crawford, being at
Brownsville, upon receiving information
of the capture OF Bagdad, started for the
scene Of action post haste.
Mexico, the invader, is on your SOIL,
with purposes hellish and plots damnaDIe.
Let him be welcomed with bloody hands
% a hospitable grave!
me LQJtffttFDt u the SlAAut lbs iSA-
article headed " Who wants war " and
responds that it is, first, a" the noisy poll
ticians,U lust for the purpose of making
capital: secondly, {" the newspaper
| man." because the talk about it makes
his paper sell thirdly, the Othellos
whose occupation would be gone without
it" fifty thousand army officers H.
" YES. an hundred thousand of them,
together with that army of contractors
who fatten upon the blood Of fallen com
| rades who rob from Government and
peOple, and steal from everybody and
everything.n Our Matamoras contem-
pOrary thus concludes the article
In the fourth place, the informed peo-
ple and government of the United States
don't want war. The thoughtful cabi-
net, legislators and people are in their
hearts opposed to war on anybody or for
n purpose. They may, 1t IS true, try
to bluff Napoleon, Russell and Maximil-
ian, but they have no notion of steering
the greenbGck ship into another storm.
They are all aboard and well know that
the slightest puff Of war wind would
carry them all down TO the deepest
depths Of bankruptcy. What they can
not accomplish by their favorite game of
bluff, they are not going to attempt in
any other way, even though all the DEM
~agogues editors, army officials and con
tractors should howl war to the dismal
end of time.
The RdHchCrO aims at being quite sar-
castle at the expense of Gen. Weitzel.
Referring to his amendment Of General
Orders No. three, in which hehad spoken
of Mexican authorities instead of
"Natamoras authorities, " itcalls on him
further to amend the order, by eXpung-
ing what he said in it about the suppress
sion of the RaRcherO. This it ta~untingly
says looks very much like a desire to
prohibit the liberty Of the press on the
other side Of the Rio Grande.
Our contemporary notices with salts
faction the announcement of Gen. Welt
eel, that he would execute all offenders
caught making unauthorized attacks
upon Mexican territory and people.
The RdHcheyO states that all the immi-
grants who leave Cordova, pronounce it
the garden of the world, possessing all
the advantages of both the torrid and
the temperate zones, without any of their
Objectionable characteristics. Some
forty plantations have already been
c~olonized.
The French consul, in Matamoras, has
called a meeting of the French, Italian
and Swiss inhabitants of the place, ION
matters Of grave Importance which we
may readily suppose to relate TO the de-
Tense Of the city, and perhaps to the
recovery Of Bagdad.