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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Galveston (Texas, United States) or search for Galveston (Texas, United States) in all documents.
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Later from Texas--Montgomery Abandons Fort Ouchita.
New Orleans;May 20th.--A passenger, arrived from Texas, states that Gen. Young, in pursuing Capt. Montgomery and the Federal troops, overtook the baggage, supply and ammunition trains, and were seized, with some beeves and horses.
Capt. Montgomery had evacuated Fort Ouchita, and was on his way to Fort Arbuckle. Gen. Young had determined to take possession of Forts Cobb and Arbuckle.
Galveston, Texas, May 16.--Strong batteries cover all the approaches to the channels, and are capable of resisting an attack.
Capt. Reynolds. U. S. S. M., at San Antonio, had resigned.
The officers taken by Col. Van Dorn are on parole.
Information has been received that Cortina is rapidly preparing for another raid on the Texas settlers on the Rio Grande.
There is another statement that Cortina, with a large force, is moving up the left bank of the Rio Grande.
Recruits are pouring in from all directions to join Cortina, and it is
The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Discontinuance of mails. (search)
Discontinuance of mails.
--It is stated that the Post-Office Department have discontinued the steamboat mails on the Mississippi river all the way from St. Louis to New Orleans; the steamboat mail from Mobile via Lake Pontchartrain; the steamship mail from New Orleans via Pensacola, Apalachicola, Cedar Keys and Tampa Bay to Key West; also, all the steamship mails from New Orleans to the seaports in Texas, as Sabine City, Galveston, Indianola and Brazos Santiago.
This makes a reduction of some $400,000 per annum of mail pay. These were all discontinued in consequence of the act of the United States Congress, at its last session, directing the Postmaster General to discontinue mails when the service was interrupted in any of the States.