The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-22
lNTEREs TING FROM TEXAS.

Our Brownsville Correspondence.
Beow SsyILLB, on TUE Rio GsAspE,
Texas, Oct. %, 1854.
TIE Recent Failure Of the ucrcan RsaolutiOniSts--
PrspGraiitas FOR Ano'her attack or the Dictaisr-
Causes efthe Late Disaypo,afmenf- Cocordrcs Of
Ge.srai Ampudia-Progrsss Of AiUarss, and hes
Hopes of Aid-Ac..on of General Vol IN Hata-
ss0as--R Revolutions on the Rio Bravc-- Ayripai Of
Colonel Vheat, and his Inter re,cs Nth the L,deros
ing Chiefs Trade a~d Hath Reports, &c.
The fortunes Of the insurgents, or reyolutionsss,
in the adjoining Mexican territory, have undergone
serious change aimee my last to the herald, and
No have now on this side OF the river all the eiders
OF the recent outbreaks, again preparing, under
brighter hopes and better auspices to rene the A.
tack and sgain make q desperate effort to drive the
Dictator's troops on. OF ths country between the
Sierra Msdre and the Gulf Of Mexico.
The whole secret of the failure Of the recent un.
dertakiug seems to have been the want Of sufficient
funds and munitions Of war. Victoria was ouly
abandoned by the besegers when they had in
manner fired their Last ball against their savage as
saants. For three days and nights less than 400 Of
the gallant natives OF the frontier nobly repulsed
ths attacks and assaults Of more than eighteen
huadred Of the tyrants miRions, who had eleven
pieoes Of artillery necessarily playing upon
the dsvosed place. Unmolested, they abandoned
tho mass Of ruins at night and this was done when
erly about one-four.h Of their whole number could
be considered a. fully armed.
In vain the devoted rebels, after uniting with
their friends who routed the government forces
under Cruz, in the neighborhood Of Matamoras.
offered them an OPEN dsld fight, with FAR inferior
numbers and without artillery. In vain they ad
vaaced boldly on Monterey, and remained there
oyer tventy-fonr hour. ,defying Santa Annals Pa;ha
General Ampudia, and daring him to come out Of
bis fors;fcatiors and give them battle; and in vain
the IN disciplined cavalry entered the city in hopes
that the enemy would sally out Of their entrench.
meats 10 attack them. When satisfied that Ampu-
da would rot abandon his FORTH atoms, from which
for over twelve hours he fred on them with ell his
artillery, they determined to retreat ieisurey at
night as when they I'D sanced on the city had only
been in hopes OF deciding its fate BY field fight.
Whea they considered tast Ampudia had all the ad.
vsatsges of numbers, and as he we'll know that the
reYotusionsts h.i no artillery, they reasonably be-
ieyeo that or their approach to Monterey he would
have como cut to attack and disperse them. Far
from THIS having been the case, not even attempt
to hsrra So them was made after they commenced 30
retreat quietly frcm The very suburbs Of tho city it.
scf. detached parties they crossed over to this
side ct tee river, when only about one halt could pro-
pery be considered - fully ARMED, so completely
had their ammunition given out.
am intimate with the leaders who are now here,
and, knowing as l do, their plaus and object,
have reason to believe that they will short
IL organize the other side of the river .
force which, If necessary, viii advance on the city
OF Mexico, and in the nat onal palace shake hands
With Tho Panther of the South" Don Juan Ava
rs. This iron-hearssd veteran Of the Victoria and
Guerrero school advances steadily, but slowly the
cspi.s e the tyrsnss dominlons fully resolved to
MAKE Tim account for the atrocities committed by
himself and lieutenant when, IN June last, he invaded
tbs Iandoft the Pntos, and by bribery and corruption
attempted to cap.Urc A,apulco If the fate Of
Anna should cast the petty Mexican Nero ito the
bands Of Alvarez, he will scarcely be able to wheeds
himself out Of the country with his illgotten booty
and the chief Of the Piatos will make terrible
example Of him.
so soon as His Serene Highness's officer in M,sa
morss, General Don Adrian Vol, was made aware
OF the fact tina. the rebels had TEN orariiy
atau6cI,d tie field, he commenced conds.
eating the property of those who hal
arms sgaif st bis master and himself. s. re
sent to the rancbos or stock farms Of IL ,artss
mails wers brought into the loyal and heroic city
where they were offered at public auction; bu. as
TO one would purchase, the mules and hoysss ~ete
distributed among the officers and soldiery; at the
same time that the geats ths csstle, and the sheep
are being consumed by the military, who receive
then as sations. Whatever animals proved too re-
fractory to be driven out Of the range we're either
killed or run through with their lances, md In that
manner len cut n shs WOODS % perish: Iney nave
which lot only the real owners themselves but ths
country at large wil seriously feel; and It Is the
more Calling when II Is borne In mind that the most
OF ths very property ,nfscated and 80 barbArousy
destroyed, 10 the separate and privae property OF
the wivts and mothers Of those who took part in
the recent revolutionary movement.
As had predicted in Letters written months ago,
the result OF Santa Anpa's madly despotc measures
has been drive out o. the country great many OF
that class OF the population which in fact constitutes
il called the on tier of the north" Tito carry out
his doubtlessy settled polly Of ruining that from
tier, he bad searched the world over with mtoros
cope he could not have found one more appropriate
for the purpose than be has in the person Of General
Don Adrian Vol. This mercenary, Ike his mis-
oreaDs master, has had for years past many good
reRsoas for hating tae people on the margins OF the
Bravo. They both know fun well at least that their
love is warmly recprocated on that frontier.
Prosecutions, coIlGsc ations, banisnments aud inl
pr;soamsnts the order Of the day On .he Mexican
side Of tbe lhe snd the charge or bare suspicion Of
having uttered but one word against the 20 ers
that be-" viii secure yoi accommodations IN
io,snsone prison, you passage free 10 the Castle
OF San Juan d. Ultoa.
Some days ago, thee soldiers deserted from Nat
arioras, and having been arrested aud brought
back 10 that place, Ia less than tEeatytou hours
after their arrival they were tried. convicted, con
fued in solitary cell, confessed bya priest and
sho. In other parts of the country, otIers have
suffered the same psAaly, for the crime OF having
been tse fathers Of ycnpg men VINO were known 10
have been in arms against the presels government
However improbable aud shocking to humanity tkis
may SEEM IL is nevertheless true to the very letter.
Among other late arrivals among us | notice
that cf the chivalrous flibustcr Colonel c. II.
Wheat What wind may have blown him out here
Just at this time OF revolutions in embryo Is not
even Known TO that pryiHg portion OF our good
rational community who knows moro az other
hussu han nov do ohnut tSair nyn T