The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-01-26
Interesting from Texas.

and spirits.
Interesting from Texas.
We see by the San Antonio papers
that the Sd Michigan Cavalry had
mutinied, and that their camp had
been surrounded by other troops at
daylight.
100 of the insurgents have been
captured
The alarm was very great. The
accounts are very confused
FLAKES GdloeSt0n Bulletin, I1M.
Yesterday several officers and men
from the Federal side of the Rio
Grande crossed at Clarksville during
the day, and took up quarters In
Bagdad, apparently for the night.
Shortly after midnight, the guard Mt
the ferry and along the river were
surprised, captured and disarnied by
the party above mentioned. Such
lighters as were at hand were immc-
diately taken possession of, and with
them nearly the entire military force
were crossed over ia two separate
bodies, making in all some 400 men,
mostly negroes.
The garrison of Bagdad, contain
ing about IT'S men, were completely
surprised and captured.
The commander of the post and
the captain of the port were taken
prisoners while in their beds. It is
said that the latter was killed and the
former made his escape OF the
truth of this there is doubt. Upon
taking possession of the town, the
work Of p;ll2ge and p!under was i'm
mediately lnaugurated. Every light
er In the place, some thirty in number.
was taken possession of, and as IA
pidly as each warehouse could be
gutted its contents were loaded up
and Immediately crossed to the Ame-
rican side. The gun-boat Antonio
was called upon to surrender She
answered their demand with n broad
side which scattered the fillibusterers
in hurry. Shortly after a second
demand of the same nature was
made, which was answered in the
same manner with like result. She
is now on her way up the river. One
Austrian sergeant on the Antonio
was killed at daylight. The French
men-of-war in the harbor opened fire,
compelling the fillibusters to take
refuge in the upper part of the town.
The deaths are reported to be about
thirty on each side.
1t is stated that the fillibusters
were under the command of Colonel
Reed, and that one II. Clay Crawford,
being at Brownsville, npon receiving
information of the capture of Bagdad,
ff,, <,e
posi- haste.
Mexicans, the invader is on your
soil with hellish designs and plots
damnable; let him be welcomed ''with
bloody hands to a hospitable grave"
AS the steamer Alabama was leaving
on the 7th, it was reported that Gen.
Mejia, with 1000 troops, was march
ing on Bagdad, and that the fillibus-
ters had evacuated the town.
Since the above was in type, we
have learned that dispatches have
been received by General Wright to
the effect that, after the capture, the
Mexican General Escobado, and the
fillibuster Crawford, went to Bagdad,
and quarreled as to whom had COM
mand, each officer taking his own ad-
nefentS.
In the meantime, pillaging and
plunder were continually going on to
such an extent that the officer in COM
mand at Clarksville was requested to
send over guard to keep the peace.
He accordingly sent over 200 men,
who held the town, protecting private
property. --Rmchero, 5H.
The Bill fixing the legal rate of in
terest at ten per cent. has been passed
hy the Georgia Legislature.
MFR. Alexander Stephens declines to
make any public address upon the
state of the country under present
circumstances. He also adheres to
his determination not to allow his
name to be used in connection with
the vacany in the United States