American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-05-28

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From the Washington Union.l
INTERESTING AND LATE EXTRACTS
FROM MEXICO.
We are indebted to our friends in this city
Tor various interesting extracts from their cor
respondence. Among these are the following
letters Just received from Mexico. They are
entitled to attention from their authenticity as
well as importance. Mexico is determined to
wage the war against us with all her vigor.
And for this purpose, she has laid her hands
upon the duties arising from imported goods;
and this confiscation must be highly displeas-
ing to the British capitalists, to whom the
amount had been made over, for the purpose
of discharging what was due to them by the
government. This source of revenue must,
however, be considerably abridged, if not en-
tirely arrested, in short time by our squadron
blockading her ports.
Ertract Of a letter from Vera Cruz, May g 1876.
81 think hostilites are inevitable, and only
regret that we have not more troops there, ION
the Rio Grande;) they feel so certain in Mexi-
co that it will be an easy victory, that they
talk about marching the prisoners into the CT
ty, and how they intend to treat them.
"Ihere has been no revolutionary move
ment since | last wrote. Bravo is active in
Terrifying this place and the castle; ten heavy
carriages for 6S-pounders went over this morn
ing; the commodore has returned from water
ing, and is anxiously waiting the result of
the army at the north. He has now come to
the conclusion that if the Mexcans do not at
tack now, there ought never to be any conf
dence placed in what they declare. | am pref
ty well convinced that we shall never settle
with them until they are beaten into it.
| Extract OF letter from Vera Cruz, May 6, 1876.
"Gen. Alvares, at the south, has been put
down with loss of 400 men. The govern
ment troops only lost 100. This defeat seems
to stir up the anti-government people.
! "The collector of this port to-day received
the decree or order from the government to
suspend all foreign and domestic payment. So
whereas the government only received out OF
| the revenue IL per cent.-the other being por-
toned out to England to her bondhoders and
other payments-she now grasps the whole,
and will touch here, in few days, about $780,
000-and vessels expected will swell the a.
mount, unless Commodore Conner puts stop
per to their coming in. When he passed the
castle day before yesterday, all the guns were
manned, and matches lighted ready to fire in
case he came near, SO fearful are they. In fact
they have orders, if they make move like an
attack, to fire on them"
Extract from letter from the interior dated ID May,
1876.
/ Political matters in this country have under
gone no particular change since YOU left u.s.
Paroles has lately added another restriction to
/ the press, by making Printers, as we'll as wr-
tiers, responsible for all articles censuring the
/ operations of the administration. The 'Refor-
ma, and one or two more leading papers, have
in consequence suspended their labors; but
there have been no demonstrations of resistance
to this !yrannical act that have discovered,
which has tended to give more strength to the
I present government. The extraordinary exer-
tons used to carry on the war for the recon-
quest of Texas have quoted party spirit for the
moment.
The "RANcHERos" OF MEXICO. The New
York True Sun has the subjolned remarks in
relation to the "Rancheros" of Mexico:
"This is an appellation derived from their
occupation and mode of life, and is common
to similar class of men who subsist on the
pampas of South America Half Indian and
half Spanish in their extraction, gaunt, shrivl-
led, though muscular in their frames, and dark
and swarthy visaged as they are, these nen
are the Arabs of the American continent
Living half the time in the saddle, for they are
unrivalled horsemen, with lasso in hand they
traverse those vast plains in search of the butfa-
10 and wild horse, who roam there in countless
herds. The killing of these animals and the
preparation and sale of their hides is their sole
means of livelihood, other than occasionally
lending helping hand to some of the partizans
in the civil wars that are continually being
waged around them. Their costume generally
. &c G do ,,,ith
sandals of the same material, bound together
with leather thongs, over which is blanket,
with hole in the centre large enough to allow
the head to be thrust out, and which falls not
ungracefully over their shoulders, leaving ample
room for the play of their arms. Add to this
broad straw sombrero, and the lasso hanging
ready for use in his girdle, and you have the
Ranchero as he appears in the time of peace OF
in the pursuit of his occupation. Join to this a
long lance with sharp spear head, ornament
ed with strip of red bunting, on horse as
} savage and as unmanageable as himself anC
his belt plentfully supplied with pistols anc
J knives, and you have the RanChero as mem
Der OF troop Of banditti; or as soldier in Q
body of cavalry. Cowardly as they generally
are in the open field, yet in a conflict among
, the chapparels of Mexico, or in an ambuscade
they are indeed formidable enemy. The
power of enduring fatigue is almost inexhausti
BILE, and scanty meal per diem of jerked bee
' and plantain suffices them during months.
Such are the Rancheros, and under dsciplin
: ed control they would be rendered the best ligh
= troops in the world. These are the men VIII
r comprise the great body Of the Mexican caval
i ry, and they are to the armies of that nation
3 what the Cossacks are to the Russians-eve
: on the alert, never to be surprised, and untir
: ing in the pursuit of the foe when plumber, III
e matter how triaing, is 10 be obtained.