The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-11-18

from Albany indicate the election of all tn e Dem
Gratis supported by the Americans by maiorites |
ranging from $50 to 1520.
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RIO GRANDE FRONTIER STARTLING NEWS. !
The Corpus Christi Rancbero, of the 9TH instant
published at P. NJ, announces from information
received through two citizens Of Corpus Christi,
members of the bar, that the town and surround
ing country are in imminent danger from Cortinas
and his band The Ranchero says:
They bring the astounding news that the en-
tire Mexican population, on both sides of the Rio
Grande, are up in arms, advancing upon to
murder every white inhabitant and to reconquer
the country as far as the Colorado river. They
have this information upon the afidavts of Messrs.
Thomas and White, two respectable citizens of
Cameron county, who, with their families, had just
miraculously escaped from the clutches of one of
the Iieutenants of Cortinas, and taken refuge at
the rancho of Judge Love-
Messrs. Thomas and White say:
On Monday, the 3lst day of October last, at their
| rancho, about five miles this side of Arroyo Colo
RADIO 100 miles distant from Corpus Christi, } they
were suddenly attacked by force of more than 100
| men, belonging to Cortnas' band, apparently
| led by Pancho Irevinio and Henry Cline. They
sacked and destroyed the rancho, drove off the
| stock, and carried away as prisoner Juan Villa
real. The order was to murder the Opponents and
their families, but all succeeded in making their
| escape through the surrounding dense chaparral.
| Under the command of Pedro Nillareal, a compa-
nv of more than 100 men had crossed from Mexico
to join Cortinas, and these, as well as the other
| Mexican forces, were carrying alott the Mexican
| colors. Cortinas had $50 men in camp, and as
I many more scouts throughout the country, to
intercept all communications with the besieged in
! Brownsville, where were only about so reliable
! men under arms, but all of whom were worn out
! with fatigue. On the day of the attack on their
rancho, from 10 A. NJ. to shutdown, they at inter
| walls, distinctly heard the firing of cannon in the
| direction of Brownsville.
| To this statement added the following from
| Messrs j. 0'Conuer, r. d. Love, j. a. Ware John
B. Davis and j. A. E. Randolph, citizens of Nueces
! and San Patricio counties, who were at Judge
| Loves rancho, when M. W. D. Thomas, with his
| wife, daughter and son, and Mr.. Nathaniel White
came from Rio Grande and made the above decla-
ration under affidavit.
We are satisfied that our frontier on the Rio
Grande is in a state Of war, and that Brownsville,
with its American population has either fallen into
! the hands of Cortinas and his men, who sup
| ported and sustained by the Mexican population
| beyond the river, or is in great danger of being
| captured.
When Brownsville falls, we greatly fear the next
attack will be made upon the settlements of the
| Nueces
We deem it necessary that an effort be made by
the people to rescue our countrymen and to defend
our frontier from invasion. We therefore call
upon the people of Victoria, Goad, Refugio and
| Karnes counties to come to the rescue of our de-
! serted and unprotected frontier. The women and
children of our frontier in danger of being
| sacred. Come to reef-come quickly; bring
|
| Nueces, and our frontier needs your protection.
The Ranchero adds:
A letter from Col. H. Clay Davis to us, dated
Sd inst, corrobOrates the statement made in the
foregoing affdavits of Thomas and White, so far
the number of COrtnas' band is concerned. 1t fur
Their states that Capt. Kennedy and Nckles are
dead and j. +. Georges is prisoner, and that the
people of Rio Grande City were in daily expecta-
ton of another attack.-N o. Picayame.
THE BROWNSVILLE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. LETTER.
posT OFFICE RPOwNSyTTTF "
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 1859.
Chief Clerk Post Office Department:
Dear Sir,-lt becomes my duty to inform you
that mail routes 1907 and 1896 are made impassa-
BILE by the forces acting under the bandit Corti-
mas. This force commands the country around in
every direction to within 400 yards of our city mar
! ket.
Accompanying this, please find the affidavit of
| Mr.. Ranures, mail carrier route s, 606, also let
! tiers and envelopes and post bills the same, and in
the same condition as they came to this office on
the 18th utimo, except that the letters have been
delivered, and the envelopes retained they came
broken, and one letter from R. G. City, which was
not broken, and was delivered. The bag was cut
and mended. | send you the bag.
The mails route S,606, due on the 2Sth and
3lst ult. and on route $685., due on the 9th and
30th ult., have not arrived at this office We are
reliably informed that the mails on both these
trips and both these routes for the last trip are in
the possession of Cortinas and that he has the car
| riers prisoners.
The mail on route S,GO5 is brought and carried
on the right bank of tho river to its mouth and it
has, until now, succeeded in passing through I'M
molested. No letters are now mailed to 90 bv
route 5000 or S595.
All the carriers prisoners. Any attempt to
send mail by either route would certainly fail:
and on the 3lst ut. and LIST inst no mails were dis
patched by either route. They are regarded by
me as closed for the present. and accordingly en-
| gagged no substitute carriers.
Cortinas is in camp, about half league from
| here, with an uncertain number of men but he is
| known have several hundred lpoS tuVira ~,
every twenty-four hours, and frequently oftener,
| his scouts fire random shots into town Scouts of
| over fifty have been counted from one house-top,
and his men in sight most Of the dav-hoverng
| about us. They have taken all the stock for miles
around to the other side of the river; have robbed
nearly every rancho, and certainly every Ameri-
can, within range of thirty miles; and they now
command the country without dispute up to within
400 yards of our market
The parts of the town best built are barricaded,
and into that the families are all brought Every
man is compelled to stand guard or patrol each
night. The apprehension and vigilance of the au-
thorities may be judged from the fact that after be
ing in the ranks ten nights ont of twelve, ! last
night remained in my Office to distribute the
| New Orleans mail, which brought over from
MatamOras about sunset, and before nine o'clock
was arrested and sent to the guard-house for alb
sence from duty, and remained there under guard
until midnight, when the enemy's shots gave us
| apprehension OF a general attack, and was re-
| leased and placed i'll the ranks. Every night men
are detailed to bring out delinquents, and they
open the doors of citizens by force when neces-
sary, and bring them into the ranks; and, sir the
necessity of this so obvious that there is
scarce murmur at the hardship. Every citizen
OF standing sustains this proceeding though it has
been applied to our first citizens
This is emphatically of races and war of
determination. death to Americans is the cry,
and no quarter is expected by prisoners. 1t is the
cry in the streets of Matamoras and it goes unre-
buked. The band have been largely reinforced
lately from both sides OF the river. In one band,
ninety convicts escaped from the prisons of Victoria
Mexico, and Joined COrtinas
The sympathy of the Mexican people and the ac-
tive participation of the low classes against us is
not doubted by any one; and these facts cause us
apprehension lest they may come, as they can, a
hundred to our one to plumber the town. in which
case all the population, the Mexican, would be
exterminated.
We have held out thirty-six DAYS without assist
} ance. 1t is a matter of anxious inquiry how much
longer we can endure the seige and in what time
the robbers will be so armed as to venture upon our
defences.
make these statements in full, that every mate
rial fact may be placed at your disposal
The acting postmaster at Rudyville has Just ar
rived; he escaped with his life only The neigb-
borhood at Rudy willie is robbed He tells me that
nearly every mail from here up for the last three
weeks has been cut open and many letters taken
The mails have been greatly delayed and in one
case the whole mail. every package, was taken out
the bag sent on, and the packages broken open,
every letter unsealed, and after being soaked in
water, were sent by the next mail up
TrlFate expresses to Rlo Grande City, on the
right bank of the river carry letters for merchants
at $50 per letter postage. This has been doing for
a month.
remain, very respectfully, your obedient ser
want, +. +. FEM, Postmaster, Brownsville
+. 81 send paper giving an account to the
18th ult, since which time the Victoria convicts
have been ascertained certainly to have Joined Cor
tinas. They numbered about ninety; other parties
are coming in to join him constantly. F. FF.
PERSONAL.
The Portland Advertiser records the death of the
Oldest person in the State of Maine, Mrs Wilson,
; who died at Wilson's Mills, in Oxford county, on
the LIST INST, at the age of l03 years months Her
father, Saml. March, a Lieutenant in the
french war, and Lieutenant Colonel in the Reyo-
lutIonary war Her husband, Nathaniel Wilson.
was also an officer in the Revolutionary army.
"A letter from Rome to a Partisan Journal giyes
an account OF the assassination, at Valletri, of NJ.
opentonl, who belonged to of the first families
OF the place. lie was about to be married. and had
just gone through with the ceremony of betrotbal.
When, as he was returning home, he was assaulted
by two persons wearing masks, one of whom min
Toned his arms, and the other stabbed him with a
dagger. 1t was thought that he was the victim Of
the Italian societies.
Hon. Thos. Rufin has resigned the position Of
Associate Justice on the Supreme Court bench of
North Carolina The reason is, his rapidly falling
health.
John Mitchell writes a second letter of his series
| from Paris to the Lrishmdn, cOunselling the "na-