SANDY HOOK, March 17.
The steamer Roanoke, from Havana 12th, has arrived. She brings dates from Vera Cruz of the 4th.
The Spanish troops were returning from the interior. The English forces were to leave the country. The French reinforcements had not arrived. The French forces were on the way to Zetacan. The Spaniards stared on the 1st inst. for Orizaba. Marquess, with 5,000 troops, holds the road from Vera Cruz to Mexico.
An American citizen, belonging to Lowell, a bearer of dispatches from the government at Washington to Minister Corwin, was murdered on the 21st ult., while going from Vera Cruz to the City of Mexico.
Negotiations between the Mexican government and the allies were to commence at Orizaba, April 1st.
Honduras dates to the 27th of February.
A favorable reaction had occurred, and order was being restored. Medina had been chosen president pro tem.
It is stated that the Spanish bark Theresa had been captured by one of the U. S. squadron, and declared an illegal prize.
It appears that one of the stipulations made at the conference between Gens. Prim and Doblado, was that no more troops be landed. Under this stipulation the Spanish troops returned to Cuba, and the expected French reinforcements under Gen. Sorences were to return without landing. The English forces will return via Bermuda to England. The sold their mules and harness to the French, who started for Tehnactica on the 23d.
Several rebel schooners had been brought into Key West, including the Wm. Mallory.
A number of rebel schooners, with small quantities of cotton, had reached Havana.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, March 18, 1862, p. 1
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