New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-01-24

!; WEEKLY, 80 PER YEAH
X. r. s. NUMBER 273.5
~ fsio Grande Correspondence. II
The spanh Troops Tatpeo, MexcoHos the Tnsasiou
Considered among the stsxicans-Danser spsntards
Living insthe VieinY-ssege of Matamoras-Psogres
the FztCsrvaial southerre in Sentiment m
Nstaraoras and Browns yie-Moveneniso Of Cotton. -
Special to the New Orleans crescenss1s pst ssa
f.. lz4,. : = BROWNSVILLE TEXAS, Dec. 26, 1851. +
+ Mr. Edaor-The long expected Intervention
has come at last, for the Spaniards are in Tampco,
having landed at and occupied that city abont the
18th inst, according to the most reliable state
ments which receive The French Consul, Mons.
Bruzon, Of Matamoras, received the news by
courier, and vouches for the accuracy Of the re-
port. The spaniards are said to be under com
maud Of Gen. Tapia which il a singular coinci-
sdence, for the Mexican General sent to defend |
Tampico was Tapfa. This is the only loop ON
which to hang doubt Of the statement, for it may
be that the Mexican General has entered the place
and not the Spaniard. Tampieo as you are aware, I
has been in state Of siege for some six weeks,
owing to the revolt of Gen. Ortiz against the State
authorities and it has been rumored that Pres I
dent Juarez had dispatched q large force to that
point to assume the command OF Tamplco, that
the arms of the Mexieans might be turned against |
their enemies rather than against themselves With
these explanation think no one will accuse me
of spreading false news, forI give the statement
the author and the reasons against it's belief, al
though must confess that do not entirely rely
upon the accuracy Of the report. s..,3 ce.s4)
The Spanish war against Mexico is very unpopui
lar in Mexico, however much it might have been
thonght' that there would have been strong party
I'M tfS faJ-0r of1nr u
power in that country. The error s similar to that
which the Yankees make about the South, that
there Is a Union party with US. all parties join
against the Yankees in. the Confederate States,
and all parties join against the Spanards in Mexi-
co. In fact, hostile is the sentiment that it will
be difficult for Spaniards to live in Mexico with any
security for their lives. The anmosity is that Of
one race against another, and lives In peace as
well as war. You can form your estimate, there
\ fore, how saDguinary and desperate the struggle
Twill be when itcommences in earnest.
We are looking for the presence of q Spanish
force off the mouth Of the Rio Grande, in order TO
the seizure Of Matamoras. And it is a debatable
| question, on the Texas side Of the Rio Grande, II
| the seizure of Matamoras would be good thing
\ for the Southern Confederacy Hwould once
place all the wealth, trade and resources of Hae
| vana merchants in direct communication with
I Matamoras, and through that place with Western
l Texas. The supplies so much needed for the
armies and citizens Of the South could be pnrs
4 chased in Havana at reasonable rates, and the
greatest facility would exist for commercial inter
course with the outside world. And then, when
matters come to, be arranged, we could treat with
n Spain for a proper western boundary, and we
could not cross the Rio Grande, we might at least
secure such treaty as wonld return runaway ne
groes to their masters on the east bank OF the Rio
Grande. Sa1 III va &y' NM ~ nv ss5 RS 4 3t
If the Spaniard should turn up in this vicinity
t some cloudy morning, their presence would dis
tub one of the slowest fights that ever worried the
, patience of a. locker on. The forces under Gen
Carvajal,o ,on behalf of the State of sTamanlipas,
: made their appearance before Matauloras on the
J morning Of the = Of November, and they instantly
seized the best half of the town The party on the
inside fenced, or rather barrieaded, themselves in
i the very center of the town, and Caryajal bafri
! caded himself in the other half Each party ther
set to work shooting at the other the outsiders
!, > gradually drawing their lines a little closer To
other that they throw bottles and brckbats across
from their barrcades, and while resting from suet
y rowdysh manifestations, they curse each other fo
= all manner of rascas and towards. ~
! So far through. almost siXweeks siege, there ha
y not been more than one hundred men killed an,
: wounded, although there has not been less tfa
"a twenty assaults. The principal feature in Carva
= ial's camp is aboutone hundred and twenty Amer
i | cans, SO called whom he relies upon to do tn
4 hard fighting. The outsiders claim to have twen
q q five hundred men, and the insiders say they hay
,s one thousandy Gen. Garcia was in commend Z
Z the latter when the fight began, bnt sickness ha
"a driven him out, and the command now rests 9
" Macedonia Capestran.
y Lieut. Col Buchell, in command of the Confed
II Il crate force at Fort Brown, has made some rathe
20 pointed ausions to the fact that Carvajal has se
. duced our soldiers away; but the latter denies tn
charge, and then goes ON to say that some OF tn
n Southerners are in his camp, they are fighting 70
their friends who will not forget to recprocate th
IL favor should Lincoln send troops to attack Browns
~ vile. Carvajal pretends to be a warm friend {
.. the Southern Contederacy and gives in proof tha
ID he ives educated in Virginia, that ehas lived an
Y, found friends in the South ana that two Of his boy
"a are now in Virginia, armed to defend q Virgin
"a school from the bolltionists. He moreover say
IN that he intends to break up that abolition hole
q. Matamoras, and that all Texans ought to favor b
va efforts r@ra & 4. b, ,-r1 s4ls ..es ~, 49, u
.S Many of the finest honses in Matamoras hay
~, been destroyed large stocks of merchandise bay
en- been burned in the buildings and scores of wealth
o. people have been beggared The town now do
b not look like it did when Carvajal sat down in i
We market place, and swore that he would subdue
ss destroy the place. He says that the torch sha
vs. vs. burn all that his men cannot take.
~ As matter of course, this condition OF aifai
I has seriously incommoded US, for while it suspen
~ ~ ed all business it crowded two thousand addition
~ II, people into the small town of Brownsville. T
% consequence is, that we are now paying thr
prices for all the necessaries OF .life.S During =
nj, week, however, Carvajal has opened cnstol
- house of his own, and commerce is again picki
up. The fight still goes on for last nigha the art
,ia lery kept up continual roar until Ifel to slee
~ 4 and hear il again this morning. When the fig
" viii end, no one claims wisdom enough to know.
:, | As for Brownsville, it is certainly the busit
T. place in the Southern Confederacy. The town
ty- literally alive with strangers, who nave Deen
si- tracted hither in hopes TO do business with Tex
f5n through Matamoras. and who are detained here
aft the untoward condition of affairs the other 81
,nt of the Rio Grande Then, again, the regiment
,re and staff officers of Col ucketts regiment are fa
ch arriving, and we now have very respectat
ye sprinklng of the military with US. Considerat
ble supplies Of cotton have commenced to arrive frt
IN the Nueces river, which find ready sale at abe
d | l2c per pound. Merchandise and groceries .
en taken into the interior to supply the exhaust
ID. markets of the State. s aEsy t-1l 1T
Several new mercantile houses have start
E. here or are about to start and we shall ha
! a town of the first magnitude on the Rio Gram
s. either in Texas or in Mexico. Your merchants
=, better turn their attention from Carondeet
~, Brownsville The town is full Of wagons from
- = interior. ~ - - .tl1
~ Christmas passed off merrily. We are not bo
AZ AIDED and have not heard Of any Lncolnites sil
,r use MI. Zacharie lost the number Of his mess.
100. '- Louisiana Legislature.
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