The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-14 00:00:00

EXTRACT.

Orders, No. 4.
1. The following extract of Orders from General
Taylor is published for general inforir anion and the
government of all concerned, viz.:—
" Mo:=t of the disorders in town have arisen from the
excessive use of liquor, and in addition to the provisions
of Order, No. 94,' on the subject, the General now di-
rects that, after the 15th inst., the sale of spirituous
liquors be absolutely prohibited in the town. The dealers
are allowed until that time to dispose of their stock, and
will not be allowed to continue the traffic after the day
mentioned."

2. The chief magistrate of the city of Matamoras and
all other municipal officers will, under his direction, en-
force the above orders upon the Mexican residents and
iradcrs of Matamoras, and will issue orders accordingly.
The American traders and residents will conform to
these orders, and make their arrangements accordingly.
By order of Lieut.-Colonel Clarke.
JNO. M. BRANNAN,

2d Lieut. Ist Artillery Acting Adjutant.
MAT.imonAs, AUG. 2.—Two or three Mexicans on
the road from this pace to Burita, attempted to catch
two unarmed volunteers with the lasso, but failed through
the nimbleness of the pedestrians. They hare brought
the use of the lasso to great perfection, and sometimes
throw with the precision of a rifle ball; had they been
suecesful in roping the Americans, they would, doubt-
less, have choked them to death.

AUG. s.—General Taylor left this morning about
daylight, on (he steamer Whiteville, accompanied by
about 300 men.

The particulars of the fight with the Indians was
brought down here last night by the steamer Big Hat-
thee, but they are contradictory, and need confirmation.
A report says the Rangers overtook the Indians, killed
twenty, and lost two of their own men, but does not say
who remained masters of the field.

Colonel Clark has said that the order prohibiting the
sale of liquors after the 15th, has nothing to do with
ines, cordials, ale, &c. This will enable most of the
houses to remain open, and give them a chance of
smuggling out the black bottle. Ho also says that any
liquors that may be remaining on hand after the day of
grace, can be sent back to New Orleans, stored in
Matamoras, or sent into the interior by Mexicans, so
that no great loss will fall on any body. The people
trafficking out here have reason to thank the leniency
of Taylor and Clark on this subject.—. New Orleans
Bee, 15th.

MIER. MEXICO, JULY 31, 1846.—Captain Vinton's
command entered this place this morning without the
least show of opposition, the inhabitants thronging to
the plaza as the troops filed into it and stacked their arms
in front of the house of the alcalde. It seemed to me
as though there were men enough in the square to have
beaten us off with nothing else save the loose rocks
lying about; yet not a hand was raised.
Mier is by far the most pleasant, cleanly, and well-
regulated place we have yet seen in this part of Mexico.
It is built on a hill overlooking a clear running stream
of the same name, three miles from the Rio Grande,
and is said to contain 6,000 inhabitants, although I do
not know where they stow them all. You may well re-
member that it was in this place that the Texans under
Colonel Fisher were compelled to surrender, after they
had killed twice their own number of Mexicans. The
houses occupied by the Texans during the hattle were
pointed out, and still bear the marks of the desperate
conflict.

I have stated that the number of the inhabitants is
put down at 6,000 ; admitting that it is 4,000, it was
still entered and taken possession of by 93 men
,only,
85 regulars and 8 of M'Culloch's Rangers, acting as a
mounted guard. You could not serve any town in the
United States in that way, and this is a perfect for-
tification from its position and the strength of the
houses, which are of stone.
CADIARGO, AUGUST 2.—A few hours after we left
Mier yesterday, the Comanches killed and scalped the
alcalde within a few hundred yards of the outskirts of the
place. He was returning from his rancho in the neigh-
bourhood at the time, and was shot from a fence or
some other cc,ver.

There is no mistake that a large force of Camanches
is on this side the Rio Grande, committing depredations
and murdering the inhabitants with impunity. Parties
of them have appeared at Guerrero, a city some thirty
miles above Mier, have stolen a great many horses and
mules, and have killed several of the principal citizens,
among them one of the town council. The authorities
of the place have sent in their submission to the officer
in command of the United States troops here, and would
doubtless be delighted to see an American force in the
plaza.

Camargo is now overrun with troops, the white
tents of the soldiers covering acres and acres. The
Rangers start out to-morrow on a scout in the direction
of Monterey, and, bodies of regulars with, army stores
will soon follow.

CADIARGO, AUG. 3, 1846.—1 have just seen a letter,
dated yesterday, at Reynosa, the writer of which calls
for a detachment of mounted men to guard a large drove
of pack mules to this place. Ile has reliable informa-
tion, so he says, that a gang of brigands has been
organised in the neighbourhood of Reynosa to cut up
any and every small party they may meet upon the
road, and further states that some of the principal men
of that place are engaged in this scheme of pillage and
murder.

Troops still continue to pour in ; several companies
have arrived since I wrote yesterday on the steamers
Roberts and Big Ilatchee. General Worth has moved
the camp to high and dry ground on the San Juan, a
mile below Camargo, where the soldiers are far more
comfortable. How Napoleon used to dispose of his
tremendous armies is a mystery to me. Huddled as
close or closer than comfort will allow, even eight or ten
thousand men here take up a wilderness of space.
Capt. Gillespie's Rangers remain in camp here, while
M'Culloch's are off this morning, in the direction, it is
supposed, of Monterey, scouring the country as far at
least as China, and possibly farther. Reports that large
parties of armed men have been seen in that direction,
among other companies than that of Segum, have reached
this place. The Rangers will find them if they are to
be found.

We have no further accounts of the ravages of the
Camanches in the neighbourhood of Mier or Guerrero.
P.S. An express has just come in from Mier. The
rider contradicts the report that the alcalde had been
killed, but says there were a good many Indians lurking
about.—New Orleans Picayune, 15th.
CAMARGO, MEXICO, JULY 21.—1 t was for a long time
a favourite scheme of Arista's to bring about a union
between Texas and the states of the lower Rio Grande.
The people of Nueva Leon, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas,
ground clown by the taxes imposed upon them by the
Central Government, and not receiving either benefit or
protection therefrom, have always been ripe for revolt ;
and perhaps the only reason why they have not before
this raised the grito of revolution has been because they
had not the means within themselves to cope successfully
with the Centralist forces, coupled with the fact that they
have never had a leader on whom they coulddepend. Ca-
Dales, when in 1839 he pronounced in favour of the consti-
tution of 1824, and crossed the Rio Grande with Jor-
dan's men, might have succeeded in everything he under-
took had he been honest, or had a brother-in-law of his,
Colonel Mulana, been faithful to the cause ; but it is a
well-known fact that immediately after Jordan had won
a great victory near Saltillo, and the Federalists were
everywhere in the ascendant, that the money of the
Central Government effected what its arms could not.
The brave Jordan was sold, although he succeeded in
getting safely out of the country, while the exertions of
Fisher, Wells, Ross, and other American officers, in
favour of federalism, all went for nothing. A good
round sum was the price of the treachery of the Mexican
leaders, and Canales, either directly or indirectly, doubt-
less came in for a full share. I cannot learn that Car-
vsjal (usually, but erroneously spelt Carrabajal), who
was educated in the United States, and speaks and writes
English well, had any hand in the bargain or sale.
With all this corruption Arista had nothing to do.
Ile was a Central leader at the time, and it was not
until the annexation of Texas to the United States came
to be seriously agitated that he began to entertain hopes
of overturning the Central Power in the departments
this side the Sierra Madre, and by a union with Texas
forming a strong middle Republic. Without the co-
operation of the then Lone Star Republic he could do
nothing, and to effect this he opened a correspondence
with several influential men at Corpus Christi and other
points. Even if he effected his object of bringing about
the union, he had the sagacity to foresee and foretcl
that in a very few years the Anglo-Saxons would have
a preponderence in the new Republic that would take
from him his influence and authority ; yet this he was
willing to overlook, as lie said, for the good of his couu-
trymen. There are no men in the word who have the
welfare of the people so much at heart as the Mexican
leaders, although they all have a most singular way of
showing it.
The final annexation of Texas to the United States
completely frustrated Arista's plans, upset his hopes,
and in a great measure embittered him against the
Americans, from whom he had expected so much as-
sistance ; yet not so with Carvajal, Canales, and some
of the other Mexican revolutionary leaders. These
latter still hoped that the appearance of the American
army at Corpus Christi might be turned to their advan-
tage in some, and with these hopes a correspondence
was opened with some of the officers stationed there,
and the camp was also visited by one of the master
spirits, Carvajal. The full nature of the communica-
tions he made I am not acquainted with, but that he in
some ymy expected aid in the scheme of separating the