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anded in Texas, near the mouth of the Rio Grande. This river is the boundary line between Texas and Mexico, and has been the channel of a large contraband trade between the rebels and their abettors in Mexican territory. General Magruder, it appears, had expected that General Banks expedition would attempt the capture of Sabine Pass or Galveston. Accordingly he concentrated his forces along the extreme northeastern borders of Texas for the defence of these points. The advance of General Franklin up the Bayou Techs, in western Louisiana, doubtless tended to confirm Magruder's suspicions that General Banks would land on that part of the Texan coast, which would place him within co-operative distance of Franklin's supposed invasion of the State. While Magruder thus prepared himself to meet the threatened invasion, General Banks made a successful passage across the Gulf to Brazes Santiago, an Island about two miles above the mouth of the Rio Grande. Upon this Island, on the 2