Southern shield., 1860-01-28
-----=---------+ LATER FROM THE RIO GRANDE.
coRrINA REoRGANIzING AND REcRurTIN

LATER FROM THE RIO GRANDE. CoRTINA REORGANIzING AND RECRUITING. 1 It would seem from the following ar ticle, which we take from the Flag of the l2th, that the recent defeat of Cortina did not prove thorough and complete, as at last accounts he was reorganizing and recruiting for another formidable foray aainst the inhabitants of the Rio Grande.
 OUR AFrAIRs.-The defeat of Cortina at Rio Grande City inspired all with hope, and many with full confidence, that our disastrous local war was at an end and So we stated to the public in our last.- Consequently 1t has been with great re- luctance that credence has been given to the reports that Cortina was reorgan- izing and recruiting for another and still more formidable foray against us. But. +on, and every day since Thursday last. information and evidence have been re- celved that leave no room longer to doubt that our worst fears are to be realized and that the cowardly assassin, Cortina, and his savage abettors, are once again to be let loose upon the country.
 Soon after his defeat at Rio Grande City, at the head of only ten men. on the Mexican side of the river, where he had been driven, he commenced recruit ing. From near Camargo lie had been traced to the Mexican towns and ranches. gradually augmenting his forces as he came down the river, until he made halt, with from two to three hundred men, some twenty-five miles above this wire Vii askz' z'n he ct to d6 sStIl remains encampel uill not das,s o ess .fry -ssg'is-.,-zSsvenfy fy i've dr torelA, Aav1Ng been known {
 cross into Texas From this 1t will an
 pear that there is every prospect of al
 immediate repetition of the scenes tha
 have so thoroughly disgraced and degrad ed the name of American on the frontier ' 1t IS unpleasant to note the fact tha
 this reorganization and recruiting haF,
 gone forward and been effected withon
 the interposition of Mexican authorities that Cortina has been allowed to remair in the country for full two weeks undis turbed, and there perfect his hellisl plans aimed at our destruction. It i, unpleasant to know that many of thes, same outlaws and freebooters. who yer, engaged in the fight at Rio Grande City
 are now at large in Mexico, going to anc from one place to another without let ol
 hindrance from the powers that be-
 With scarcely an exception, these des
 peradoes are known to the people anc
 the authorities on the other side and i
 there, and are really citizens of Texas
 why not have them driven, or sent home
 with the assurance that when once there they would not be allowed to return. II IS likewise unpleasant to record tAe facI that, no sooner had Gen. Carvajel Jeff for the seat of war, than did the assur. rance, and effect to keep Cortina and his men out of Mexico, disappear, and Gen
 CaravaJal, himself, pronounced against m spirit of great bitterness. if these indications be not mistaken they warn us that the beginning of the end. even. has not been realized; and unless great pains be taken to right matters very soon a rupture will follow that no power can heal
 A union of action between American and Mexican forces must be had to put down the guerrilla gang, who have no sooner been driven from American soil. than they have reorganized and recruited on the Mexican side of the river. with the ayowed intention of invading our country again. It is useless to say that over the defeat of Cortina we hare been compelled to rejoice alone: it is not nee essary to make note of the sensation and sympathetic thrill that, with liphtninp speed, permeated themasses of Mexicans. when the first news of his severe chas- tisement was proclaimed: it is not i'm portant to ask whence Curtina derives arms, munitions, subsistence and con.- fort, for all chose to reflect upon the con- dition of affairs, to fully comprehend and endorse tho assumption that unless they speedily change for the better, conse- quencs of the most serious character must inevitably fall upon the country.
 The efforts that havc been made 10 =Eielxz- olll. lQrd e irs for. bearance;; the disposition manifested nv our citizens to under than over-state facts; their determination to withhold from the public, we'll known, but excit- ing truths. and the great pains taken to Iron down, as much as possible. the wrlnkled and grim-yisaged front which thls frontier presents-all to aid in the establishment of peace and quiet-have been mlsconstrued, and our people accused of getting up exaggerated and exciting accounts, their motives most. insutingly impugned, and they and their designs presented to the public as infamous but time will right these mat ters though our rights in person and properly, meantime, may suffer serious ly. The end is not vet, and future low CTS heavier and darker than at any for mer time and. if we mistake not. just the course Is being taken to make large war out of small one.