The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-12-12
GEN. BANKS, ARMY.~7
BRowssy1L1E. Texas Nov

The flag of the Union fioats over the soil
of Texas. On the I'd instant Gen. Banks,
expedition landed on the island of Brazos
de Santiago, and at Meridian; the beauti-
1ul ensign was unfurled to the breeze by
the 18th Maine vOlunteers-extremes GER
tainly meeting in this case. The day fol-
lowing, the rebels about ten hundred
strong evacuated the place, after burning
the splendid barracks erected here a few
years since, and known as "Ringgold bar
racks.". gI =
This piece of vandalism was perpetrated
by order of Brigadier General Bee, and not
| only destroyed the public property, but was
the means of setting fire to numb Der of
private dUollings and vvaroho~eas Manv
| families, fearing scenes Of outrage and in
cendiarism, hastily removed their 'house-
hold gods to Matamoras, a Mexican town
on the opposite side of the Rio Grande. AT
about 8 O'Clock, Thursday evening the 5th
instant, the 9th regiment Illinois volun-
teers, TO the tune Of "John Browns soul,''
marched into Brownsville, and took pos.
session of the place. Early on Friday
morning General Banks, accompanied by
| Colonel Dudley, Colonel James Grant
| Wilson, and other members of his staff
escsrted by a squadron of the Let Texas
/ cavalry under Colonel Davis, rode into the
town amid the cheers of the populace and
waving of handkerchiefs, and establish
| ed his heada uarters at the principal hotel.
The same day, the 9th, revolution took
place in the Mexican State Of Tamaulipas,
and pronunciamento was issued by Gen.
Jose Maria Cobos, who arrested Governor
Ruez and his supporters, and placed them
in prison. At precisely seven in the NOR
ming on Saturday, the 7th instant, one Gen.
Juan Nepumuseno Cortina,, raised another
rebellion, took Cobos, who was of the
Church or French party, out on the Plaza,
and before eight O clock a fusildlo IA dis
charge Of musketry) did his business. By
nine the defunct Cobos was 'quietly inn
mured,'' as Hamlet hath it. Cortina liber-
ated Ruez, and he Immediately sought the
protection of the United States flag in
Brownsville, and was kindly received by
Gen. Banks. Who will succeed the pres
ent Governor-Terez-(the have had four
in as many days)--the Lord only knows
/ visited MatamoraS on Wednesday last,
but could not observe that the people We're
any more excited by their several revolu-
tions, than the good people Of your city
could be by the arrival of Dan. Rice's cir
Gus, or a Copperhead Governor or General,
in Chicago.
Troops are constantly arriving from Bra
zos Santiago, together with army supplies,
works are being erected here with view
to permanent occupation of the country.
The inhabitants are also returning, and
the streets again present busy scene. AS
the readers of the Journal are probably
aware, this has been the great channel
| through which the contraband trade was
carried on by the rebels with Europe, thou
sands of bales of cotton passed through
every month, in exchange for munitions OF
war, &c. There are not less than ten thou
sand bales of cotton lying at this moment
on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande,
!. which, without any question, is the prop
erty of the Confederacy. Yesterday our
cavalry captured a train of thirty wagons,
loaded with cotton belonging to the c. S.
A., which was en- route from the interior OF
Texas 10 this point, the parties in charge
not knowing, until too late, that 1.-The I'd
/ Yankees had arrived"
Ihet is Over-rGn with refugees-men
,-driven from their homes and families by
4 the ruthless tyranny exercised by the rebel
authorities Of Texas. Many of them re-
late sad histories Of the trials and suffer
ings and losses they have sustained in their
of the rebels. German enlisted to-day
in an Illinois regiment, who was past six
| ty. His son wasrecently hanged near hous-
ton for no other otfense than giving ex pres
sion to Union sentiments. Another Of the
the victims with whom / had long con-
versation, was among the earliest settlers
OF Chicago, and says he erected the first
frame house that was built there. 1t was
near what was called WolfPoint, facing on
Lake street was furnished and occupied in
January 1888, and cost him about three
hundred dollars, exclusive of the cost OF
thelot. His nameis Charles Taylor, and he
has several brothers now living in Chicago
which place he left in 1855 for Victoria
Texas, where he has since resided. A
great many of these refugees, as well as
Mexicans, are joining cavalry regiments,
Which are already being organized here
and at other points along the Rio Grande.
The Fort Brown Flag, a weekly journal
published in Brownsville, at four dollars
per annum, and about one e-fourth the size
of the Journal, was issued for the last time
on Friday, October SOth. After the Con.
tederates evacuated the place, the editor, a
vile secessionist by the name of John Ia
Dor, removed his press and other materials
to the ferry for removal to Matamoras.-
Before the scamp could get them transfer.
red, some OF the Union people of the place
aided by secessionists whom he had
abused, with or without cause. in his col
umns, completely demolished his press and
Knocked his type into pi, and then pitched
the whole thing into the Rio Grande. Ia.
Dor IS now wandering about the streets OF
Matamoras, Ibis occupation gone." to-
gether with numerous other disconsolate-
looking secessionists from Texas.
By the latest newspaper arrivals from
the North, Il see great deal said of the re-
cogni'ion Of the Confederacy by Louis Ma
poleon, and one influential journal saws:
I'VE must be prepared to see French ar
my in Texas and Louisiana, and to give up
all the South" ETC., etc. If the French can
get past the old hero, Farragut. and his gal
liant fleet of the Gulf, which much doubt,
they may possibly get foot-hold on the
soil Of the States mentioned; but if they
propose to come from Mexico and to cross
the Rio Grande, never, so long as the "Old
Thirteenth Army Corps" the heroes OF
Donelson, OF Shiloh and Corinth, remain
here, with the hero of Port Hudson to lead
them. AT least so thinks MUSTANG,
Gen. Gilmore's Operations.
HILTON HEAD, S. c., Nov. 2s.-The re-
bel design Of building covered way and
erecting a stockade upon the sea-face of
Fort Sumter has been frustrated by Gen.
Gilmore. The Calcium Light of Prot.
Grant is kept upon the ruins all night, and
the Rebel working parties are fred on
when they appear. Two calcium lights
planted in Fort Putnam formerly Gregg
make local illumination four times as
brilliant as the full moon on the clearest