Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-06-26
Important from the klO Gfaia"e'
Border strifes-More Depredatlors'
From the Picayune

From the Picayunel
From the papers received by the steamship
Yacht. we learn that more murders ana roo-
berries have recently been committed on the
American side of the Rio Grande by a mixed
band of MeXicans and Indians. The Flag OF the
9Th inst, states that intelligence was received III
Brownsville the day previous, that an American
named Remington had been murdered ana
thrown into the river by this band. After the
murder the ~ruffians rode boldly up to the sranck
One of the party wearing the clothes OF their
victim--and boosted to an American there, Mr..
r.. Rhodes, that they had just killed one OF his
brothers, and warned him that he would share
| the same fate if he did not guard well the ma
ture of his intercourse with the Americans. IL
was also said that seven other men had been
killed by the same party, and their ood'es
thrown into a lake near by.
This news caused most intense excitement
in Brownsville, and a public meeting OF the cltI-
zens was held, at which resolutions were pass
ed requesting the Governor of the State to
give protection to the frontier. 1t was also
resolved to send out a party Of men to recover
and bury the bodies of the dead and gather
such information as to the perpetrators as they
could.
A party of ten persons accordingly started
out under the command of Capt. A. G. Porter,
and proceeded to the Rancho Rosario, near
which Mr.. Remington had been killed, where
he was informed of the truth of his murder,
and was urged to return, receiving the assuran-
ces both at this place and at 0 hers at which he
had stopped, that he would surely be attacked
and his small force would be cut to pieces by
superior numbers if he persisted in proceeding
to Aqua Negra, the place at which the other
murders was said to have been committed.
From these representations, and other suspl-
cious circumstances. Mr.. p. and party thought
il prudent to return, and did so, taking with
them from the rancho an American by the name
of Mr.. Il. Rhodes, and a Mexican woman. On
their return they were three several lines fired
upon by a party supposed to number near a
hundred persons, from the Mexican bank Of the
river, and one of the command severely wound
ed.
Shortly afterwards 4 letter was received in
Brownsville from Mr.. Neale, whose farm is a
short distance above that place, stating that a
camp Of seventy Mexjcans had set themselves
Down in front Of his house. Mr.. Neale was
under the greatest alarm for himself and pro-
perty.
An extra of the Flag, of the l4th inst, says
that great excitement existed in Brownsville in
Of shooting two Americans, by
The authorities Of Matamoros, the day previous.
They had been taken prisoners during the at
on that city by Carvajal. Every effort
made by the foreign ~consuls in Matamoros
% save these unfortunate men, and the citizens
nd ladies of Brownsville and Matamoros
oined in a petition to the authorities, but in
ain. The prisoners were four in number-two
~1eXicans and two Americans. The names of
he former were not ascertainod, but the Ameri-
ans were called Robert Mcdonald and George
Williams.
The Flag says that these executions have +
reated Z deep feeling among all classes in
brownsville, who look upon their summary,
cath as wholly unnecessary: the more so as {
ne disturbances in which they were engaged {
ave been entirely suppressed, and no necessi. I
Y could have existed for such an example. A ,
eep feeling of revenge now reigns where a
curse of mercy would have planted those of |
Gen. Avaloswas shot and burnt in effigy, on
ne American bank of the river, in full view of
he garita of Matamoros. i
An article appeared in the Genio, of Matamo- /
Is, recently, reprobating the conduct of Gov. !
esus Cardenas, of Tamaulipas, in refusing to r
ield the reins of government to the newly :
lected incumbent. The editor, who was re- l
emily elected to the Legislature of the State, v
'as arrested, and with him some forty more. b
he Flag says the judge could not stand this, v
nd dismissed the case just in time to save the i,
hole Of Matamoros from being imprisoned.