North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-12-24

SOUTH WESTERN FRONTIER. We were premature
in our conclusion like our contemporaries generally
when inferred end of the revolution in North
Mexico from the ridiculous proceedings of Car
vaa during his advance upon, his attack Of, and in
glorious retreat from Maiamoras. That place so
Insignificant should be able to stand an Investment
in it's present posture of defence from even nvad-
ing force small that under the direction and con-
troll of Carvaal is somewhat surprising. and argues
little either for the skill valor of the assaants
who retreated aftera nRe days siege Of the place
having Ito borrow the modest euogies ofther friends
performed prodigies of valor, without the loss of
man.
The Americans who formed an important const:u-
ent of the insurgent revolutionary force felt great
ly Indignant at the notifying failure of their expe
dlton of Avalos who commanded the Mexican regu-
lar soldiers in Matamoras, il will be matter of
prseif they should at early day, again muster in
greater force, and, under determined leader,
test the powers of resistance OF the place recently
witness of their discontinue.
= Our advices from the theatre Of disturbance and
from parties having access to the best of in
formation, lead US TO believe that unless the Mexican
government greatly augment its military strength
In its northern departments, it will be able to
maintain itself there until the spring. if indeed
long. The activity of the partisans of the revolution
on both sides of the Rio Grande the facility with
which recruits obtained to fill the ranks of the
revoutoniss and the dislike entertained by all the
frontier settlers to the Mexican authorities and rule
give evidence conclusive that the embers of dissas-
Idcon Will be long kept alive, however smoulderng
or ifeless they may appear at the present moment.
ANY new attempt to exPel the federal troops from
Northern Mexico-and that most determined one
Will be made soon, have no doubt-wiIl be &C
companled by circumstances entirely different from
anything laid down in the plans and pronunciamentos
OF Carvaal for the drec and their instruments
IN future movements will conduct the war with the
declared object of dismemberng Mexico, and prose-
cute 1t IN the manner they may deem most effecual
to that end Heretofore the nsurectionary proceed
lngs appeared more like smuggling forays, or Gus
tomhouse outbreaks, than organized hostility to the
government of Mexico; but very great change is,
we are advised, at hand, and new manifestoes will
soon appear, to be sustained in their promises by
large force, raised within the territory of the United
States, and composed of material not unfamiliar with
war or its requirements.
Ii our Information be not exaggerated, or commu-
ncated by over sanguine authority the force now ac
fualy ready to take the field u.s. in our opinion COM
Petent to the expulsion capture of ali the regulsr
army Of Mexico in her Northern provinces.
we do not pretend to speculate upon the effects of
contemplated movements upon the domestic af-
lairs OF those States the consequences to us ma
.lonaily OF the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of our feeble NEIGH
Out that the day is not remote when these ones
IONS Will come with embarrassing importance before
congress, we think, cannot be denied, and the nao-
PIE may as we'll at once familiarize themselves with
the matter. Ns,, DBL. IT, ~ VII"