The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-15
AFFAIRS IN NEW ORLEANS.

RumOred Departure Of Ftl1bustertnR
Expedition-The Effect Of the Railroad
LegislAtiOn OF Congress on the South
eEn Railroads The Authenticity OF
Gen. EscObedO's Proclamation Against
Foreign Residents Denied.
NEW ORLEANS, July IS IS-Information has
the effect that small party of hlibusters, in
cluding among them some half-asdozen de.
amounting in all TO nearly hundred persons,
has left New Orleans within q day or two That
the party did not move directly for the Rio
missed that they must have gone by
pedition have been learned at headquarters,
and IL is quite possible that in his zeal the de-
tective may have been mistaken. IL any party
has left at ALL which is still doubted IL has been
under cover of emigration to British Honduras
an emigration which has been started and In
cludes from fifteen to twenty thousand fortune
seekers. Meantime no pains will be spared by
the military authorities here and by the COM
mander of the line OF the Rio Grande to sup
press any warlike raids upon Mexican territory
and offenders OF that sort will be promptly tried
by military commission. The movement has
not, however, in the commanding generals
rant the issuance of an order, or any special
military interference; and as the Mexican
fever is subsding, 1t is not unlikely that the
whole movement will fan through of its own
weight
The Congressional resolutions withdrawing
the grants Of public lands made TO railroad cor
pOraIions in five of the Southern States, have
nave made something of q hutter among in te-
rested parties here The construction put upon
the withdrawal is that it only applies TO uncom-
pleted sections of the roads, and that 1t will
have the effect OF reducing the stock of several
companies, thereby inviting an influx of North
ern and Western capital. 1t may be shrewdy
suspected that Northern capitalists will think
twice before they invest.
l have authentic Information that the letter
or proclamation purporting to have been issued
by General Escobedo, and directed against
foreign residents, is a forgery, as might have
been supposed from the record Of the journal in
which IL first appeared
Flutter Among Rebel Office Holders
General Sheridan About to Clarity tho
city Scrip Muddle-A Severe Rain
Storm.
NEW ORLEANS. July l4.-An parties here,
radical, conservative, and of all compilations
between, seem to be lying quietly on their arms
awaiting the action OF Congress Considerable
effort is now being made on the part of the city
officials TO curry favor with Sheridan Who at
present Indications bids fair to win the race
and become master of the situation. All official
filibustering has ceased, but the fact of having
ceased too late will certainly cost the few eX-
Rebel office holders left their positions con-
The seVeTest shower of the season has oc-
Cured to-day. About o'clock z. M. the sky
was suddenly overcast, and from until in
the afternoon the rain poured down absolutely
nearly knee deep from curbstone TO curbstone
on nearly every street in the city. In many
cases the sidewalk was overfiowed, and every
street was a turbid torrent, roaring as If let
about two hours the flood abated, and the eve-
ming is clear, sultry, and oppressively warm.
General Sheridan will very soon take the
muddle of the city scrip in hand, and endeavOr
to save the credit of the city by some method
of redemption and cancellation both of the
legal and illegal Issues.