New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-25
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Special Corsespondenee IL fhe New orleans Crescent

Spseia Correspondents Of New Orleans
BAGDAD, MEXICO, August 26, 1866 9
On ray latest trip up to Brownsville and Mata
moros the return part Of it was on the Texas-side
steamer Tamanlipas No. 2, Captain Nobre-For.
syth, clerk Tfound them nice and affable gentle.
Y men; ana, as u Representative Of the CRESCENT,
l they displayed to me their very handsome know
ledge ii Tie multifarious uses Of chalk, III
I the eloquent and impressive styieof your New
Orleans river reporters, therefore give the boat
puff z The Tarnaulpas leaves for BrownYile
some day this week, The captain is trump and
} tho clerk . brick. The steward vas pupil 81
the great Soyer, and sets table that might ravish
4 Eafdanapaius. he also keeps the stimulants
Id corner Of the pantry; j is splendid fellow,
and the best steward that ever reheated and SET
thelsane dish Of beans fourt times at one dinner
table, The n is q stauneh and feet boat, with
y capacity for freight and Accommodations for pas
seDgers On her LAST trip M the river she carried
o number of barrels and o quantity of boxes and
some passengers, and yet made the trip in six
hours and several days, and the return trip in
just twice the time. She Will leave punetually at
thepullng in Of the boW.line. Passengers and
shippers will bear this in mfnd.,' But, seriously
The Tamaulipas Is tle best and feetest boat in the
Rio Grande trade. I'll 85t5
Afatafdoros-- shall say1o it 1t isdall
p hot, dusty and nauddy--for one heavy rain makes
boys and fnudshnlea in the streets thai last for
weeks while the dust is rampant iii the more ele
waited parts The stores are open, doing little or
nothing. the whisky shops do better the bnlfghts
and fandango still bettef, and the auction stores
best of all. The red flag and the graaser with his
halgi belland hand bill are to be seen every six
days out of the seven, whilst fiaring posters
headea Z. yenduta. Y faueti0Rt y knock you down
Mt every corner! Brownsville goes ID considerably
on the sVenduta, and poorliftle Ragdad allslle
knows how. There are, Of course, great bargains
at all these sales
Another of The Mexican mysteries which
/ cannot solve, is the apparent content Of
the masses of Matamoros traders to remain
there and keep on making or trying to make
money only to have it taken away from them by
their rulers The forced Loan business Is one
Of the penalte of living in Matamor0s, no matter
whether Imperialst or Liberal rules and the
traders have not time to recuperate ere they are
i ordered to ssconle down with the mopusses again.
The only conclusion can come to, is, that like
the Bllingsgate cells, they are used to it.
humanitarian reproved an old fish woman for her
cruelty Ia skinniag eels alive. ts0h bless you
sir, she said. I've been at it for the last twenty
years, and they're used to- it now r. Only the i
Matamoros eels are the same all the time, and
stand the skinniDg over and ever again.
w tlo would think that sinking nndshole could
be source Of revenue to any MANI But mud
holes are often very profitable in Matamoros
Thus: after every heavy rain, every street or
public outlet is ia some place impossible from
them. The cab driver, after taking you right and
eft Of the route, some six or eight squares
extra To avoid tie mudholes comes at last to the
tonly outlet which ID also blockaded by an
impossible bog, But the Mexican owner Of the
rancho opposite the bog has opened his fence,
and John drives through his property, paying forl
the privilege d bit t12g centsl day All the cabs
end oil the wheeled vehicles engaged in the con-
stant tide of travel and business between Mata-
moros and BroWnagie use this one outlet, each
paying It's bit d day. Thus the owner Of the
rancherealizes FROM fifteen totwenty-fye dollars
day, and frequently, by a reeurrent rains, has
continuous run of custom OF two or three weeks.
BE i lucky Mexican who thus finds his property
confronted BY q municipal mud hole.
The Mexican troops ia Matamoros, OF some OIL
them, have been lattery very uneiyil to Ameri- /
cans, but have offered no violence. The conse,
quence is that most Americans now congregate in
hIeyfcans Is owing to their dirty zeal.
ousy Of tile American people. they
hare not f0rg often the tlraahng they received at
the hands OF Scott and Taylor some twenty years
ago. nor can they ever aiYest themselves of the
Consciousness that they are an inferior race OIL
people This il evident in many little ways.
When tie Liberals were in the high grass, |
aeattereaand hunted down by the ImpeFiaiists, 1
they we're very fond of the United States, the
sweet, the dear United States But now, since |
citizens Of those States have supplied them with
arms, ammunition and money, andthe government
mas given its sympathy, openly shown in various
ways, and enabled them TO get onfheir feet again,
and become the eonqueEors Of Northern Mexico,
they would just as soon turn round and fight the
United States as any Of their own native or Ell.
ropean enemies, il not little sooner. During
the recent battle which put the northern border
into the hands Of the Liberals, one of their leaders
shouted to his men, Give y TO the foreigners,
C0rtiaa fought both federals and Confederates
during the fnte war The behavior of those 4
freacherous copperheads Y reminds me Of the
old saying
" g Fss 9 sss fsy sai Sfs W siahi ID
Bat when ste devil ives wen