Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-05-04
BROWNSVILLE, April Is. 1860

BKowNsvnLE, April Is, 1860.
We have in garrison now quite large
force, amounting ia all to some $50 regulars
and about 80 Rangers, not including the
Knights.
Capt. John s. Ford and Capt. Littleton.
both in the command of companies of Texas
Rangers, have been in town for the last week
making preparations to leave this frontier
with their forces, at the command of Gov.
Houston. They are to go to Goliad next
week when it will be determined whether
they shall be mustered out of service or sent
on 10 the Indian frontier.
The K. G.. C'.s are encamped on the bank
of the Rio Grande above this city. and are
.aid to have large force. and are living high
on good fresh meat bought from the ranch
eros.
BROWNSVILLE, April I9.-The report has
reached town this AFTERNOON thai Cortina had
returned from Monterey and SaltilIo with a
large force. and that he has already crossed
the Rio Grande into Texas, or is about TO do
it, with his new force. which numbers some
six hundred, consisting of 800 Indians. 100
negroes, and 200 Mexicans. He avoids the
lower Rio Grande and will make his attack
Oh Star county this time, that is a section
which has heretofore escaped bis ravages
and is pretty tbickly stocked with valuable
cattle. ~
hardly think, myself. that he has crossed
the Rio Grande as yet; for think he has too
salutary fear of the Rangers to make any
such demonstration while they ale in the
neighborhood, and when it is well known that
they are about to be Withdrawn. But that
he will IN Ike the crossing is almost as c r
tain as that be has done 80 before; for there
is nothing TO restrain him from doing now
what he did do three months ago, and there
is great opportunity of driving off immense
herds of stock III this his last and most DOW
erful attack.
OF the K. G. C.'s the writer says:
The road is dusty with their constant
movement and from this place TO Goliad it is
said there is a continuous caravan of them,
coming in small parties aud large parties, on
horseback and in wagons, armed and unarm-
ed, with money and without. 1t is reported
that 800 of them are in this vicinity aud
the way from GoIiad, and their camps are
the liveliest places about Brownsville.
company of thirty came in to-day from
Baltimore, under Lieutenant Phillips, and
another party arrived on Saturday from Har-
rison county under Lieutenant Gammage.
Thy are all men of true grit, too, and of un-
iexccptionable behavior, for there has been
no drinking or rowing hereabouts since their
arrival. SIS
The Mexicans and the Knights move along
very quietly, but the report of an advancing
force of 20U0 men from the Inferior toward
this frontier. lends color to the supposition
that our neighbors over the river are looking
out and preparing for squalls.
Ii Cortina does make another attack on the
frontier, it is confidently believed that Gen.
Houston will lead invading column which
will conquer and annex Tamaulipas to Tex
as. The knowledge of this desire on the part
of Texas, has induced the negroes, large Gum-
bcrs of whom are settled on the lilo Grande,
TO arm themselves Ter fight, as they know
that if the Texans do cross the creek, they
will he captured and restored TO their prop
er owners, for most of those negroes are run
Always from Texas.
The luminosity against US on the other side
OF the Rio Grande Is tending 10 strengthen
Miramou. and should not be surprised ii
the Centralisls did not yet consolidale their
power on the principle of opposition to the
Americans. The treaty made by Ocampo
with Nc Lane is bitterl, opposed i'll all North
eru Mexico, aud Gen. Garcia has actually de-
clared that its enforcement would be resisted
by Tamaulipas and the STATE. 1t Is he says,
but plan 10 sell the country 10 the Gringos
(Americans) and the schCme must be defeat
ed by force if necessary You Can form no
idea of the opposition which the MeXicans
feel towards Us Us people, tor all ideas OF a
peaceful solution OF the Mexican difficulty
would be cast aside as improbable. Between
the TWO hostile elements now on the frontier
a war must result i'll less than twelve months.
In Wow CT this certainty the MexlcaEs are
terrifying all the places Oil the Rio Grande,
and troops are pouring into Matamoros.