American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-07-03

wonder. Towards night we saw numbers oil
them bathing-young misses and young men,
daddies and mammies, tumbling about in the
water like so many porpoises. They are expert
swimmers. | saw one very pretty looking girl
of about seventeen, standing quietly with the
water to her arm-pits: suddenly she made a
dive and remained out of sight a long time,
when her heard bobbed out of the water some
twenty yards from where she disappeared.
After snndown the families were mostly COL
ected on the river bank, quietly eating their
simple supper-most of the children were eating
green corn-and men and women smoking CT
garettos. The American bank of the Rio
Grande is generally higher than the other, but
is not nearly as thokly populated We saw
some large fields of corn mixed with cotton, but
did not see a single person at work, or one who
looked as if he had been working. The soil a
long the river is exhaustIess and would produce
almost anything. Their corn and cotton, though
planted thick and never hoed, produces-the
corn particularly-very well.
A correspondent of the Commercial Times
says:
AS to our future operations in Mexico, all is
here conjecture We have now concentrated
upon and near the banks of the Rio GEande,
nearly ten thousand troops, force sufficient,
if well appointed, to oVer-run the northern pro-
vince of Mexico. But what shall we gain by
occupying few towns on the frontier? The
Mexicans will not readily yield until our armies
begin to make rapid strides towards her far
famed capitol. We can never reach it from
this quarter. Take first Tampico, then Vera
Cruz, both by land and sea, simultaneously
These taken, we have the key to all that the
Mexcans hold dear and inviolate.
From letter in the Delta we extract the
following
regret TO say that the measles have broken
out in our Camp, and DR.. Axsom, our Sur
geon, declares in his report that it has assumed
an epidemic form. AT present we have had no
deaths, but some very critical cases. The dYs-
EMERY is likewise very bad with many BY
the same boat which will probably bring this,
several Of our Regiment go forward-some
probably to find an early grave at home: the
others, as nurses
P. S. have Just learned that DR.. Norris,
of Captain Fountains company, Andrew Jack
son Regiment, died yesterday. He was form
erly editor of the "Woodville (Miss.) Republi-
cam" and more recently of the "Bayou Sara
(La.) Ledger" DR.. N. was man of fine
abilities, and was at one time a prominent
member Of the Mississippi Legislature. could
not learn Of what disease he died.
The Bee contains several letters from Mata-
motas, from which we extract the following:
A private of the It'll Regiment (regulars)
was drummed out of camp last night. He
passed our quarters between a file of men, at
charge bayonets, and the whole band playing
the Rogues March. His offence was deser-
ton, and peremptory refusal to fight against
Mexico.
1t is still impossible to give you an accurate
statement of our movements, but Madame Ru-
NOR gives out the following, to which / give
much credit: when Wilson has fortified Reno
sa, the Washington Regiment takes possession
and he moves on to Camargo, $50 miles) to
throw up entertainments there. Then the A. J.
Regiment relieves the Washington-they move
on to Carnage land Wilson proceeds to Guere-
70 and fulfs the same duties he has done be-
! low. In the meantime, the Regiments below
us will be moved up here, and the elephant ex
hbted to them in Matamoras.
Near 200 deserters from the enemy have ar
rived here amongst their friends, who state
that many others are on the road.
The most perfect apathy prevails among the
volunteer troops here now, and every day the
inroads of discomfort are more apparent. The
sun is unusually warm, and from 10 to A o'clock,
it is so intense that but for the prairie breeze, it
would be impossible to stir about. Our tents
are generally made of common Lowell cotton
and afford little protection either from rain or
sun. All such things combined with no ocCu-
patton for the mind leaves nothing for excite
ment, and all that can be said is that we are
here. If they would only march US few miles,
up the river, or get up few false alarms, it
might, in a measure, tend to dispel the apathy
| 4 h. Lo,., &c
passed another day in Matamoras yester-
day, and it would be impossible to convey to
YOU an idea of the change that has taken place
over there. At least two-thirds of the vacant
houses, last week, are now occupied; but it
would be hard to say whether majority of the
new occupants were Mexicans or Americans,
so fast do they pour in from each quarter. Go
in what part of the town you WILL a grog-shop
will stare you in the face adjacent to, or un-
der the same roof of which is almost invariably
gambling table of some sort, mostly carried
on by these persons from New Orleans termed
"Sporttng Men" They are of more service
here to the cause of charity than in your city,
for it is said the civil law of Tamaulipas COM
pels them to pay $36 per month to the church,
the priest of which gives them the receipt in
the name of Charity! Clothing and provision
stores are becoming quite numerous also, and
taking Matamoras on the whole it is quite a
place. l should not be surprised if it should
become resort for some of your north moving
people this summer. Mechanical business OF
every sort seems to have revived, or, i'll fact to
have received an impetus, unprecedented here.
Carpenters and brcklayers are found at work
repairing old delapdated buildings, and Tin
smiths and Talors are to be seen busily at work
all over the place. In addition to this we have
two printing Offices here, one issuing paper,
The Republic Of Rio Grande, and the other just
arrived from Corpus Christi owned by old Bangs,
who proposes issuing sheet in the coure of this
week.