The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1846-07-04

Fort, boxes OF destroyed ammunition presented
thehseiVes ana u was ruInored, and has since
been confirmed that two pieces of cannon were
thrown into the river. The army left during The
day and nigh, Of 18th, most preciplta,eIy, taking
with them as II appears, / pieces Of artillery,
: and anything but large supply of ammunition.
3 Our victory is more complete than we have
: claimed credit for. The citizens say that Arts.
Ia mad not over 5000 men with him. VIVA,
mas become OF the remainder Of the 7OOOl The
bloody battles OF the Sth and Oh, and the
""hlrIpools OF the Bravo" can tell the tale.
Our Brigade oncamped within half mile OF
we Guy. We had INDUCED the hope OF being
iuar.eieo 10 ~ out our worthy General saw fit
, 70 oirect otherwise. Women. they saw, are all
eurios''!' ou' they ever.fet more than we had to
see 'tat CITY, | say God help them. We had
encamped but short time, before party of US
oue oP' 10 gra'hy the consuming passion. -
ts'ei nave been more ppointed-never
o'a Instance more thoroughly "lend enchant.
meht 70 the view" The Mstamoros as seen
rom fort Brown is not the Matamoros that we
nola' AS II may be interesting to you, | will
Try TO give you Some idea of the city.
/ hrst rode to the Plaza which is quite large
square surrounded by china trees. The houses
surrounding The square are of brick or stone, the
'oWer paris used as stores, or offices, and the
second story as dwellings,. They have the ap
pearance CT defensive works Streets dlveree
from the piaza, and are again crossed by others.
me Cathedfa occupies large space of one
SIDE OF the square, and is an unfinished mass of
masonry. Directly opposite to the Cathedral is
lae rfson. Properly situated "the prison and
Tue ah'eoole. There are great many stores
ana quite large market house, which am told
is we'll supplied.
went 10 visit the different hospitals. They
are h1ed with the wounded and dying. The
s'ench that arose from Them from the want of
poIee' was disgusting. You could tell at glance
the wounded Of rao Alto or De Resaca de 10
rama. The latter were mostly bullet wounds,
whereas the ampu ated limbs told of the lannon's
leaf'ul execution IN the former. B ssde one
poor fellow beautiful girl of II, was seated
keeping off the a es1elS6e was his wife. InI
another corner, affinity group, the mother and
and her children, wereiseated by their wounded
father Oae bright eyed little girl quite took
my fancy, aud my heart bled to think that thus
early should be introduced to so much wretch.
edness. Va one bed was corpse on another
was one Dying, holding in his hand the grape
shot that mad passdd through his breast. H.
showed 1t to US with a sad enuntenance. left
hospital sarise iI tlse, .vass-
ne army nave lett their wounded comrades
WIN very little attention to their wants.
then rode all round the city. AS YOU leave
Inc Plaza the houses became more detached, /
with yards around them some with flowers and
ether pretty shrubs to ornament them As
whole, 1t is certainly the meauest looking and
hlthlest city have ever seen. The greater
part OF the genteel population have left, and in
about one house In three, among the more hum
Bile class, one OF the family diligently seaching
The heads OF the others, They do say that they
are some for lice, and the very sight set my head 4
iching TO such degree that | was not satisfied
until reached camp.
COL TwIggs has had The especial charge of
the city, as far as the discovery and the coec Il
ton OF the public property is concerned. Thett
General has declined interfering with the mum.
cipaI authorities. The worthy Colonel has
way OF his own, in throwing his mantle of pro
lection and "Reminiscences over ALL and Mr.. Il
Prefecl has often felt the effect of it. He has
discovered several pieces Of small ordnance. all
kinds of munitions of war, in the greatest abun.
dance, an immense number of muskes, the
greatest quantity Of corn and lumber. A great
deal of the powder and different kinds OF am.
munition ad been thrown into The WELLS. The
Project testified no great willingness to make
discoveries or disclosures, but the Colonel was
too much for him. The quantity of munitions
of war, collected here is immense ; our seizure
cannot amount in value to less than $4,000
| put that down as the least, The greatest
quantity of cigars, tobacco and Cigarettes we're
seized. The Government enjoys the monopoly
of the sale of tobacco; an immense revenue is
derived from it. You may imagine how great
il is, when they sell the plain leaf at sir cents
per ounce.
c,f har
here since Santa Ana's invasion of Texas. -
Large quantities of anchors were discovered, in
tended to be used in anchoring boats and bridges,
upon which to cross their armies, upon their ad.
vance into Texas They have brought them to
rather bad market. This Northern Army
must be completely broken up; do not think
they can supply themselves short of Vera Cruz
Or Mexico. Taers t0iA be no more fighting at
present, you may rest assured. We left such
marks upon them that they cannot forget us.
cannot but again repeat, that we all feel
proud that this has been the work of the Army
proper. We were all well aware of the unde-
served remarks that had been made in refer.
ence 10 US by some portions of the press, and
'oe only asked for all opportunity small as
we were, to prove to our country that she had a
safe anchor, IN our small but gallant force. BY
far the great majority of the officers were grad.
yates Of the Military Academy all did their du.
", and many distinguished themselves by their
skill and thorough knowledge Of their profession
all arises from their instruction received at
that best of military institutions, the West
Point Academy. In the hour of our country's
danger, she will always prove her usefulness.
and her graduates will show to the country and
The world, that the money expended in the edu
cation Of SO talented corps of officers has not
been thrown away. Richly will she be repaid
for every cent expended. Our Alma Mater may
be proud Of her sons conspicuousy have they
shown themselves SOLDIERS upon the field Of bal.