New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-06-02
,higs in Small Capitals.
Mexican Names and Localities.


A gentleman who hs. resided many years In Mex
leo and is familiar with It's language sends as the To-!
lowing information
Through all the political changes which Mexico
has undergone FL Rio de las Nueces the river o.
puts-Nut river has ever formed the Western
boundary of Texas. The territory lying between
that river and the Rio Grande the one hand, anc
extending from the Gulf 10 little way above
the town Of Laredo on the other, has always be
longed 10 Tamsulipas under the Spanish sway
called the Province of New San,ander The BIC
Grande has not three names az the True Sun ig
nocan,ly asserts it properly has bat one, Ell Ric
Bravo, the ferrous river bat is often called FL hlc
Graade the Great river-De Norte Of the North
probably to distinguish it from Ell Rio Grande de
Sud Of the South. in Brazil.
The several Departments of the present Central
Republic of Mexico, and which under the Fedora
Constitution States, are subdivided into Juris
dc,ions ss Of our States are divided into Coun
ties, others into Districts and others again into Par
ishes Now all that portion OF country situated or
the East side OF FL Rio Bravo, and extending from
the Gulf to poin, opposite 10 place called La
Mesa, absut thirty miles above Gen. Taylors camp,
Is pithin the jurisdiction Of MdtamOro,. In this arc
included Point Isabel II Brazo &c Santa Iago, and
the PADRES Island which reaches even to the bay
OF Corpus Christi / know several individuals who
own lands on the East side Of the Rio Grande, which
lands they purchased from the Government OF Ia
nsulipas when ii was Stale under The Federal
Constitution of 1924 On the East bank OF the Rio
Bravo. and about twenty-five leagues above Mata-
moro,. and pr,thiu The jurisdiction Of Reynosa, a
town situated, like Matamoros, on the West hank Of
said river and in the Department OF Tamaupas' are
found certain salt ponds which as late as 1875, were
held by Vital Fernsndez, former Governor Of the
State and two associates under lease from the Cor
ernment Of Of Tamaupas
San Pairicio which the True Sun places on the
West bank of the Nueces. was, when knew it
some twelve years ago, quietly reposiugo the East
side.
The Proclamation OF General Woll, which the
Editor of the Union in his doiage, adduccs to
prove that Texas reaches the Rio Grande, proves no
such thing 1t means simply this: The residents of
the towns of Reynosa, Camargo and Nier were in
the habit of smuggling goods from Texas they
also sold the Texans mules, horses, &c.
which the latter sold to the people Of the Southern
S;ates-therefore in order 10 stop this Illicit trade
and protect the revenue OF Mexico, il was that he
issued the proclamation in question Beside, the
population on the East bank Of the river scarcely
reaches 10 more than league or two beyond its
bank, except on the road from Malamo os TO the
Nueccs where two or three ranches e-e found
about half way between the two rvers. If people
are found, therefore, ut any considerable distance
from the Rio Grande, it would have been presump-
tive evidence that they intended TO hold intercourse
with the enemy.
The Burrila, diminu,ive of Burra, ass-therefore
little ass and not Ba,etta as the leter-wriers call
it's a rancho farm consisting of less than dozen
huts. made of reeds pastered with mud, and belongs
10 Antonio Salinas the chalanero. or ferry man.
Matamoros contains perhaps 5000 inhabitants.
TErecfourths of the houses made OF reeds plas-
tered with mud, and of adobes, unburned brick J
The remaining fourth OF soft brick ! do not believe
there is house in the town capable of resisting a
four.pound shot There is not stone in the town,
nor can one be found within fifty miles Off
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