The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-07-20
From Matamoros.

BY the steamer ga. Ogden, we have received
late numbers of the Matamoros Flag from which
we make few extracts.
The following singular paragraph is from the
Flag Of the 8th:
Since our last publication, The 10th Infantry,
with Col. Tibbats and The male and female staff of
the Regiment, have passed down the river on their
way 10 the Brazos, where they will embark for
NewOreans."
The same paper has the following:
Expedition to California and Santa f. NeOAier-
ico.-We have seen a copy of the order of General
Wool relative to the organization OF tins expeditions
of which Lieut. Col. Washington is to have COM
mand 1t will be composed of five companies of
Dragons each 20 strong, and one company OF
Light Artillery, 100 strong. Two of the companies
of Dragons are now at CamargO, and three at
Monterey, with the company of Artillery. Brevet
Major Graham Will command the Dragons. Capt.
E. X. Kane, Asst Quartermaster, and Asst. Sur
geon Booth, now here serving with the 10th In
fanrY, are under orders to proceed with the eXpe
dion. We are informed that the troops will march
from Monterey, by the way of Monclova and CHI
huahua, to some point near the PasO del Norte,
from whence one company of Dragons and the
Artillery company will proceed to Santa Re, and
four companies of Dragons march to Monterey,
California. Capt. Kane is now In Camargo, ac-
lively engaged in preparing train of wagons and
the necessary supplies. He has orders TO select as
| many of the best wagons and teams, belonging to
4 the United States as may be necessary, and VIII
! have every thing supplied in the best manner The
! train will probably exceed 300 wagons it will
leave Camargo about the end of the present month,
and the whole expedition take its departure from
Monterey about the 10th of August We under
stand number of citizens, intending to establish
themselves in NewMexico and California, will go
unue! protection of the expedition. To men of en-
epse and fond of adventure this expedition offers
inducements but seldom aff0rded-and both New
neHco ana California will receive an accession to
their population.
Gen Tom Thumb NoDhere-The FLAG gives an
account OF Mexican female dwarf, as small as
Tom Thumb, and describes her as being Is wears
of age, IS inches high, symmetrcallv proportioned
and weighs only Is lbs. She has ALWAYS en;ovsd
good health, is lively intelligent and in all resnects
a well-developed woman, except in size. She is
the nineteenth child of the parents and there are
three younger than hersef-all the family, with the
one exception, being ordinarily sized
On the 9th, three Mexicans were drowned in tbe
Rio Grande, by the capsizng Of yawl.
On the 9TH, the steamboat Lama sprung aleay
and sunk in about Is feet water, while lying a
anchor off the mouth of the Rio Grande.
writer in the Flag, of the LIST inst, brings som
charges of very serious nature against Major East
land, Quartermaster at the Brazos. The charge
are peculation, abuse of office, etc., and the write
T holds himself in readiness TO prove them, shout
Court of Inquiry be demanded by Major Eastland
OF course we know nothing of the truth or falsit
of these things, but merely state the fact as piec
of news.