American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-08-11

LATER FROM MExlco-.No ,car yet-.Mope-
msn. Of Juerjca Troops, Sc The schooner
Eqnity, at New Orleans, from Matamoros,
brings Intelligence from that place to the 2lst
ult. T. A. Maltby, one of the Micr prisoners,
came passenger. A letter received by a conf
tariff lower than the old one, will shortly go
into operation. We condense from the Plea
yune, the following intelligence.
BY this arrival we received no papers, but
verbally we learn that there are bat or 600
badly fed troops in the neghborhood of Mata-
moros-discontented fellows, who would run
away at once ifthcy knew where to go.
One gentleman, who has recently travelled
bv land from the city of Mexico to Matamoros,
informs us that the inhabitants in many parts,
as well as the public journals, talk openly, and
with the usual bombast and ianiaronade, of in
vading Texas and the United States at once
The undertaking is looked upon as one Of the
easiest and simplest Things imaginable-to ad-
vance and vanquish, clean as they Co. even as
far as Washington city, is deemed mere holiday
work.
Our informant states that Gen. Paroles wa:
at San Luis Potosi when he came through, anC
had in the neighborhood OF 5000 troops witt
him.
Gen. Arista, who is in bad health, is still al
Monterey, and had about 5000 half.starved
soldiers with him. They are mostly cavalry,
but their horses are represented mere skele-
tons, not having had any other food than grass
for some time, and that being Indifferent in the
neghborhood. Arsta can hardly obtain mo-
ney enough from the government to purchase
provisions even for himself and officers, to such
straits is he driven, while the poor soldiers are
obliged to pick up scanty subsistence as they
best can. Two anecdotes have been told US,
which show the wretchcd condition Of the
Mexican treasury and lie extreme poverty Of
the officers of the army. One of the latter
lately sold his only blanket to an American for
half its value, the purchaser not wanting it, but
giving him the money as he stated he was abso-
lutely in want of the necessaries of life. An
other officer asked gentleman for the loan of
ten dollars, and on being questioned as to what
security he could give offered his wife, young
and pretty woman Of some sixteen years. He
had nothing else to offer, and positively told
the gentlemen she might rema with him
until the debt was paid! Difficult as it would
appear to be, we fully believe these stories,
and these are the people who talk of over
running the United States. Sixty thousand
such troops, with sixty thousand Banks of Eng
land to back them, could never reach the Mis-
ssspp, and yet with half the number they talk
of taking possession Of Washington.
The above are all the items of the least i'm
portance we have been enabled to CLEAN from
our informants. If we can believe the Mexi
can stories, $4,000 men are to advance upon
the Rio Grande; but these stories must be ia
ken not with grains but with pounds of allow
ance. We know full well that many of the
more influential men in Mexico would not hes
itate moment about punging the country in
a war, with or without foreign assistance, for
the sake of the opportunity it would afford to
slip some of the money raised for its support
into their own pockets; but whether these po-
litcal gamblers are to prevail is a question A
few weeks or months will tell the story