The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-05-08
Affairs on tie Texan Frontier.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas, April IS, 1901.
We exist here, sustained only by hopes
Of entering Texas-ior you are aware,
and so I suppose are your readers, that
this extreme isolated point is hardly
Texas-situateda rs II is, separated by
sandy desert of 100 miles IN width from
the Neuces River, it has always been
more a Mexican post than American,
ninety-nine hundredths of the business
here being Mexican and for Mexico
Corpus Christi, the strong point Of this
country, as by reference 10 map you
can see. has been utterly ignored by
our Ne,g Orleans Gc8eral, till now quite
Confederate force has moved there,
and to take IL VIII require several thou
sand men On the arrival of General
Banks at this place the Confeds took a
scare as far in the State as 300 miles
and left, only returning when they
found that the Yanks were not whit
more anxious TO see them than they
the Yanhs, and the result Of our delay
TO advance has been that they now re
occupy the country that far, and are
engaged in the agreeable pastime OF
seizing the property Of all those persons
who have come over 70 us, and the
number Of them is so considerable that
IL amounts to more than half the votes
before the war OF Cincinnatians, who
have arrived within our lines, and are
safe from their prosecutions, / only
know two, Dr. Lawrence, a physi-
clan, aid G. Remhan, a cistern
builder There still remains in
Corpus - too old to be conscripted-
S.Fullerton and Air. Z. G. Cooper, a ne
phew or relative Of Joe Cooper, both Of
them true Union men Mr.. Cooper, ]
am sorry to say, has been much abused;
and lately his house was entirely de
stroyed BY fire, supposed to have been
done by incendiaries In fact, Messrs.
Editors, we have no reason TO be
ashamed Of our Buckeyes in Texas, as
almost to q man they have been loyal.
The most fragrant instance Of traitor
10 State and country is p y. Lucnett,
Of Chillicothe, now q secesh Colonel,
and a model tyrant, whose name makes
all the poor women and children whose
fathers are refugees, tremble. One of
his last orders was that no supplies
should be sold to tho families of refu-
gees; yet still he refused them passports
70 leave and join their husbands Our
Trans-Rio Grande cousins are, as usual
in state Of ferment, the last excite
ment having been that Vidauri, Cover
nor of Neuvo Leon, declared for the
French. He did 50 because the French
were advancing on his capital, Monte
rev, bat the French have taken the
back track, and there are none this
side of Guadalajara; so Mr. Vidauri put
his foot in it and made tracks
for Texas, TO Join his Confederate
friends, before President Juarez.
with his forces, could occupy, and
catch him at Monterey. This
came Governor Vidauri, at the COM
meneement of the war, was in synpa-
thy with the Federal Government, but
the profits on cotton and trade with the
rebels seduced aim from our cause till
now he Is looked upon, in Mexico and
here as au arch rebel Governor
Cortinas, the present Governor of Tam
aulipas, the State opposite to this place,
holds his position by consent Of the
Mexican President; ne having played
the part of arbitrator in the interesting
quarrel between the rival Governors
Sima and Ruis, at last seized the Gov
ernship himself and is recognized, 50 it
Is all right of course. be is well dis
posed 70 our cause, and hates the Sc
cesh most piously Still he mourns
the trade lost to Matamoras by our oc-
cupancy Of this place
Inc Mexicans talk as usual Of what
they are about to accomplish against
the French, but still they have a week
ly panic that the French are at the
mouth Of the Rio Grsnde. and prepare
70 evacuste the town of Matamoras.
The only reason l can see why the
French do not Occrpy the place is that
they wish 20 avoid complication in the
matter of Confederate trade, a large
amount of which yet lands at Matsmo-
ras, goes up the Rio Grande as far as
Laredo, and then crosses into Texas
above our lines, BY a land route of at
least 500 miles from Matamoras to San
Antonio.