From Mexico

SANDY HOOK, March 17.

The steamer Roanoke, from Havana 12^th, has arrived.  She brings dates from Vera Cruz of the 4^th.

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 1^st 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 21^st 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 1^st.

Honduras dates to the 27^th 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

From the Gulf

WASINGTON, April 29. – By the steamer Connecticut, the Navy Department received despatches from Com. Faragat [sic] and Capt. Porter to April [22].

The steamers Pembina and Mississippi were over the bar, and the flotilla were moving to take their position.

Two Confederate schooners loaded with cotton, bound for Havanna [sic], were captured in attempting to run the blockade.

Prisoners report that there were several gunboats building at New Orleans, and five were already on lake Ponchartrain. Several lately went up the river with the steam ram and ten thousand men.

The schooner Columbia, of Galvaston, landed with cotton and bound for Jamaica was captured by a party from the steamer Montgomery. – Not being able to bring her out, the schooner was destroyed.

On April 4th, an expedition en rout for Pass Christian, consisting of the steamers New London, Jackson and Lewis, with troops, were attacked by the Rebel schooners Oregon, Pamlico and Carondelet. After a fight of 30 minutes the Lewis was withdrawn, owning to the crowded state of her decks. The others continued the fight one hour and forty minutes, when the enemy withdrew, apparently much injured. The expedition then landed at Pass Christian.

The Rebel merchant schooner, Wallace, laden with turpentine, rosin and lime, was chased and captured.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday May 3, 1862, p. 4