American Flag. (Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico), Vol. 2, No. 104, Ed. 1 Monday, June 7, 1847 Page: 2 of 4
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AMERICAN FLAG.
BY FLEESON & PALMER.
MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1817.
Being disappointed in receiving a supply of paper,
as we expected, we were u«able to send forth the
Flag on .Saturday, as usual. "Accidents will hap-
pen," £c.
Our poetical correspondent at the Brasos is in-
formed thai he frequently writes good poetry, but
hie last effusion, addressed to the little girl whom we
sometime since represented as watering flowers, and
dropping a pearly, chrystal tear on beholding their
languishing appearance, sinks so immensely be-
low th# theme, that we must decline its publica-
tion. He must tune anew his harp, spur his muse,
and ascend higher into the regions of purity, before
we can give place in the Flag to any thing from him
on that subject. Unless, however, he can invoke
Apollo, and sing n the sirains of Orpheus, we ad-
vise him to make no further attempt. The muses
might frown upon and abandon him forever.
Escaped.—The Massachusetts volunteer, who
some week or two ago, stabbed to death, with a bay-
onet, the partner of Mj. Sinclair, of ourcity, because
he refused to give him, what he had not, a glass of
intoxicating fluid, escaped from the guard house a
few nights since. It is thought the sentinels on duty
at the time, permitted him to escape. To subserve
the purposes of justice, it strikes us that trials (or
offences of this nature should be ordered immediately
after the commission of the crime, or the criminal
guarded by persons whose regard for justice would
insure a faithful performance of their duties.
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Another Manly Act.—On Tuesday evening
last, after nightfall, several Massachusetts volun-
teers entered the dwelling of a Mexican near the
Upper Plaza and demanded "whiskey." A female
who officiated, remarked that she kept nothing but
beer. After some remonstrance, one of the gentle-
men drew a bayonet, which he wore in his belt, and
stabbed the woman to the heart. Wonder how
many more such warriors are left in the old Bay
8tate? We trust in God there are but few. Don't
pretend to advise or dictate, but can't help thinking
that a little extra endeavors on the part of authori-
ties and officers would lead to the discovery of the
woman-slayer, and the proper wreathing and exalta-
tion, which lie so justly merits.
The Poor Kine !—Gentlemen who navigate the
Rio Grande inform us that, from the mouth to Ca-
margo, the banks are strewed with the carcasses of
cattle and the bodies of those more recently mired
down. The excessive droughth that prevails, has
congregated the suffering creatures on the margins
of the river for the purpose of finding water. Intent
only on slaking their thirst, they rush to the water's
edge, and the treacherous sand refuses to sustain
their weight—they sink and are unable to extricate
themselves. Dead tnd dying bodies meet the eye
at every turn in the river. Cruelty to animals is a
trait in the character of a Mexican. They are never
known to assist the unreasoning animals from their
helpless condition. And the butcheis in market
wonld fain have us believe they pay 20 dollars a head
for beeves! The exorbitant price charged in market
for meat, explains the motive for this assertion.—
While on the subject of "came," we should like to
know why it is that Mexicans and Mexican families
are furnished the article for one-third less than Amer-
icans or American families have to pay? If they
have submitted to the imposition thus long, it is not
bccause they have not at their own command the
remedy. Speaking of "carne" reminds us that it re-
quires fuel to prepare it for use, and this, of the ex-
travagant price Mexicans make us pay for it. Now
all these evils bring about their own correctives, and
unless soon abandoned, the glorious, American prin-
ciple of competition will rectify, not only what we
complain ot, but many other practices having their
origin in Mexican avarice and hatred. Matamoros
js now an American town, and, by decree of Heav-
en, is bound to continue such. 1 f, therefore, the na-
tive population would not have themselves placed in
the'predicamcnt of a certain Mr. Othello, they must
observe more ot fairness in their dealing® with "the
intruders." Americans are not only their superiors
in the art of war. but in ail the pursuits of life.
LATER FROM VERA CRUZ.
1 he steamship New Orleans, bound from Vera
Cruz to New Orleans, touched at the Brasos oit
Thursday but we cannot hear that she left any let-
ters for this place, or communicated any intelligence
which we can state with a full reliance on its authen-
ticity:
It is said here that she reports the vomito to have
broken out to a frightful extent in Vera Cruz, and
that sickness prevails to an alarming degree among
our troops even in Jalapa, where 1200 are represen-
ted to be in hospital—afflicted principally with the
dysentery. The vomito report, we have no doubt
has been exagcraled.
An officer of the army writing from the Brasos to
an officer of the army here, states that he is inform-
ed by a "entieman who came passenger in the .Veto
Orleans, and was direct from the army, that General
Scott had established his head-quarters at Puebla on
the 18th ult , from w hich no further advance would
be made until reinforcements arrived. Mr. Trisf,
the commissioner from our government was at head
quarters, fully empowered and prepared to open ne-
gotiations with Mexico as soon as she was disposed
to listen to terms of peace.
The intelligence from the City of Mexico, receiv-
ed at Puebla, was, that tlerrera, countenanced and
supported by the Clergy, was at the head of the Go-
vernment, having been called to power in advance
of his anticipated election to the Presidency, in or-
der to stay an insurrection which was about break-
ing out to depose the substitute President.
Santa Anna's authority was at an end^-the com-
mand of the army was taken away from him and he
had retired into obscurity to vjew the action of the
new government, and take advantage of the first po-
pular tide which set against it, to bring himselfagain
forward upon the stage.
No positive demonstration had been made, but it
was the general belief in Puebla that the new Gov-
ernment would make or entertain a proposition for
peace, and only waited to get firmly established to
declare a willingness to open negotiation. That
President Herrera, the Clergy and all who up-
hold him, are disposed to peace, there seems to be
no doubt. The peace party at the Capita! are in the
ascendant and no longer fear or hesitate to declare
their views. The most influential of the papers in
the city, after venting all sorts of abuse upon San-
ta Anna, and speaking in the most disparaging
terms of the manner in which he has opposed the
advance of Gen. Scott, come out with the declara-
tion tfiat it would be folly to attempt a defence of
the Capital, and cry down the erection of fortifica-
tions as a useless expenditure of money. Ifthe war
is to be carried on, the capital must be givm up with-
out opposition.
The terms upon which it is understood Mr. Trist
is empowered to propose as the basis of a treaty, are
the Rio Grande, as a boundary, from the mouth to
El Paso del Norte, situated in about 32 degrees lati
tude, thence to the head waters of the river Gila,
down that river to its entrance into the gulf of Cali-
fornia—down the middle of the gulf to the Pacific,
taking in the whole of Upper and Lower California,
New Mexico and Santa Fe, the former with a popu-
lation of about 40,000, and the latter with 150,000
inhabitants.
This, then, is the guerdon for all the blood and
treasure expended in this war! Territory—a desert
waste—when territory was not wanted. In the pu-
rer and better days of the republic, such a war could
not have occurred. We take it as a mark of the
degeneracy of the age. The downward tendency of
our beautiful structure of government is, indeed,
fearful.
Brutal—Horrible.—We lack words fraught
with enough ot detestation to express our abhorrence
of an act perpetrated in this town, on Wednesday
last, by a fiend in human shape. Respect for the
species would induce us to draw a veil over the deed,
but justice cries aloud and stifles every other feel-
ing but that ot desire to visit punishment, propor-
tioned to the crime, upon the demon scoundrel who
has so enormously outraged the principles of human
ity. Some time since a gentleman (perhaps an offi-
cer) of the 1st Indiana regiment, left a walking cane
with a Mr. Stip, silversmith, an aged Frenchman,
for the purpose of having it capped with gold. On
the passage down the river of this regiment, on the
day before mentioned, one of its privates, belonging
to a company raised in Indianopolis, cilled upon
Mr. Stip and represented himself as having been
sent for the cane. Mr. S. told him it might all be
very true, but that he did not feel himself justified
in making the delivery without an order from the
owner. I he demand for the cane was repeated, and
Mr. Stip again refused compliance, when the brutal
savage seized a stick, knocked the old man down,
and with a brick dislocated his jaw, and otherwise
horribly mangled his face. Tetanus ensued, and the
unfortunate man has Iain in a state of insensibility
ever since. Physicians pronounce his recovery
hopeless. Would that we could stop here, and say
the injury had extended no further. Not so, how-
ever. The shock communicated to the filial tender-
ness of the old man's daughter bereft her of reason,
and she is now a raving maniac, flow inscrutable
ARMY NEWS—-Inteligencef>om the South.
The New Orleans Commercial Timet of the 26th
furnishes the following items of intelligence frorn
Gen. Scott's army:
" A report was current that Santa Anna had re
tired from Orizaba, and had gone in the direction of
the capital. There was some chance of General
Worth's falling in with him: he left Perote on the
10th inst. w ith his own and Gen. Quitman's divi.
sions. They were exp. cted to enter Puebla on the
16th inst. and to be welcomed by the authorities
Gen. Shields is slowly recovering; Gen. Persifor p
Smith has returned to his duty convalescent. Gen
Scott remains at Puebla until the arrival ot an e»
pected tjain. Mr. Trist is with him and goes on
with the army.
Col. Clnlds with 2000 men is at Jalapa as milita-
ry governor.
Extracts from a letter dated Vera Cruz May 17..
'• By «his time Gen. Scott is in Puebla,'and he tell,
the Mexicans that he is bound lor the city of Me.xi.
c->. At what time he expecis to reach that place he
does not say, but 1 fancy the intervening period will
be measured by months.
"I have heard nothing of Santa Anna since | |asl
wrote. A report is in circulation here that ,Y]r
Bensley's Circus Company which have been recently
performing here, and left here a day or two ago |or
Jalapa, has been taken on the road by the Guerrillas
A Mexican brought in the report ' which he had
picked up on the road, and there is no improhabiliiy
in it. I am told the managers had a good deal of
money with iliem.
"The business done on the Mole and in the Cus
torn-house, has materially fallen off within the na?t
few days, ."-even vessel* are reported bv the British
mail steamer Medway, to be on their way to this
port from Havana, principally with European Car
the ways of Providence in permitting such ba. buna,is fha7'ci?yfor tmThnom hs pS.'Tliopj'Xt?
to encumber the earth ! The soul sickens and re- tains will bring the money required in payment If
volts at the idea that the human form is debased bv
such mean and dastardly spirits, and that they are
enrolled into the armies that tight the battles and
uphold the flag of the United States. Why, when
drawn into battle, does the death-dealing bullet es-
cape their unworthy carcasses and stretch upon the
battle field the brave and generous ? But no such
honorable fate awaits them. They return home to
die upon the scaffold and fill a felon's grave.
Return of Volunteers — i he '2d and 3d lndi-
anians left Buena Vista on the 24th ult.; the 1st and
2d lllinoians on the 30th, and the Arkansas cavalry
on the 5th inst. 'ihe 2d Ohioans passed down the
river on Saturday
By gentlemen who marched by land from Camar-
go to Reynosa, linform us that the Mexicans are
throwing up tw forts, one 12 miles from Camargo,
the other at Old Reynosa, as defences against the
Camanches and their confederates, the Lipans, who
frequently make irruptions into the neighborhood,
kill their men and carry off tbeir women, children
and hsrses. The better plan of protection would
be to induce about a dozen Texans to settle in their
"diggins."
A Fight.— We have it from four different sources
—all accounts nearly corroborating—that a fight oc-
curred between the advance guard of Col. Doni-
phan's army and a party of Camanches. It is said
to have taken place about 20 miles from Parras, the
Indians numbering 100, the Missourians 60. Seven-
teen Indians were killed and several wounded. But
one Missounan was injured, and he only wounded.
The Indians had captured 6 Mexican boys and two
women, very handsome, who were retaken and set
at liberty. Two Castilians, who were with the ad-
vance party, expressed astonishment at the ease
with which the Americans whipped the Camanches,
and said they considered thein (the Camanches) the
best warriors in the world.
Brig. Gen. Enos D. Hopping, of Syracuse, N. Y.,
arrived in our town a few days since, and has his
head quarters at the room occupied by General
Cushing,
The indrans.—By Lieut. Tidball, 3d Ohio re-
giment, we learn that a short time since, a party of
about 100 Camanches, in all the panoply of war,
came suddenly across a small part of volunteers who
were chopping wood in the neighborhood of Parras
Instead of a fight, as was naturally expected, the
Indians gave tokens of peace, and stated that the
game they were after were Mexicans They par
tially escorted into town the volunteers, to whom
they seemed much attached. Lieut. T. is on his
way home. We regret that his respectable qualifi-
cations have been overlooked in officering the ne\u
regiments, for ^addition, he is a perfect gentleman.
On Saturday night last, a private belonging to
Col. Doniphan's command, when 40 miles above this
place, fell from the deck of the steamboat and was
drowned.
Col. Doniphan and a poiiioii ol -his boys," passed
down the river Saturday. '1 he unshorn beards and
goat and deer skin clothes of many of them, remin-
ded us of descriptions we have read of the inhabitants
of some of the countries of the Russian empire.—
They stopped in town a couple of hours. Col. Don-
iphan is a stout, rough featured, good nafured look-
ing sort of a man. He brought along with hiin
Clark's battery, and ten pieces of cannon captured
at Sacramento. The sick, &c., 40 or 50 wagons
with several hundred mules, were turned over to the
quarter master.
The Texas Rangers, Capt. Garland, for somo time
quartered in town, have been dismissed. The cause,
we understand to be, some difficulty about being
mustered into service.
1 ukatkf. —The indisposition of Miss Courtnet
prevented a performance on Saturday night, as ad.
vertised. On Tuesday night they promise to min-
ister to the minds lethargic in Matamoros. Ladies
and boys: «ince your last, we have been readme
Shakspeare and the British Drama—and have even
ventured so far as to glance at the "high falutins')
of Racine, Corneille, etc.—so, if you want to be no-
itced handsomely in the Flag, stiive to deserve it.
Robbert.— VIr. Branton, a worthy citizen ofour
town, was robbed of his trunk, clothing, etc, on
Saturday night last. He offers a reward of 25 dol-
lars for information concerning the thief—and, we
believe, the stolen property thrown in, if recovered-
" Go it ye cripple," as Col. Harney said to Santa
Anna, after a vain attempt to overhaul him at Cerro
Gordo.
. (]inrea in payment (,f
their duties, otherwise the greater portio.i of (he
cargoes will probably return. But litile money ran
be expected here before Gen. Scott reaches the City
of Mexico, and opens a channel lor it to the sea",
coast.
"Commodore Perry is still at the southward, but
we have not received any news from him since he
left. We shall probably hear from him in a day
or two. '
"The city may be pronounce! healthy—only n feW
cases of yellow fever have occurred, hut the'y have
been generally fatal. Greai attention is pa id" to the
cleanliness ot the streets, and strong hopes are en-
tertained of keeping the dreadful disease pretly well
in check during the summer. We have recently had
some terrible hot days."
In allusion to the report of an extra session, the
Union says:
We are utterly at a loss to know how sueh a ru-
mor got into circulauon. There is not the slightest
fonnda'ion for it. ISO such decision had been made
by the President and Cabinet; and we venture to
assert that no such idea has ever entered into their
minds. Why should Congress be1 called? The nH-
ministration have money, men and munitions, suffi-
cient to carry on the war with o|,,rv and success, and
unless Mexico be infatuated, to negotiate an honora-
ble peace."
Ifthe Administration is so well provided as the
Globe proclaims, why is that Gen. Taylor is lef with
only a handfullof men, when the glory and success f
our arms demand that he should lone ago have had
a force sufficient to co operate with General Scott?
Will father Ritchie tell us the reason why?
The European correspondent of the New York
Herald says:
"A great change for the worse is impending over
the finance and currency of Europe, heightened and
accelerated by the state of society, the forms of
government, the increase of population, the charac-
ter of the crops, and other causes of less intensity.
Pressure, panic, paper money, disturbance and revo-
lution, in due time will end the drama, and lead to
the commencement of a new aye in Western
Europ". In the meantime, let ihe people of the
United States profit by the experience of other na-
tions; for they alone, of any poeple on earth, have
the prospect ol' centuries and tens of centuries, be-
fore them of comfort, peac, wealth and true glory,
if they only manage their iiffiirs with discretion and
good sense. Let them finish the Mexican war as
soon as possible—let every man who can,go a plough-
ing, a sowing, and a reaping—let the carpenters e«>
a ship building; for there will be great demand from
Europe for cotton, corn and provisions; and there
is here plenty of gold and silver to pay for it during
years to come. In Europe, the people alone sympa-
thise with the American people; the government
and aristocracy believe, and tremble at the rapid
growth and magnitude of the* model republic which
no one doubts now will be the greatest thai the sun
ever shone upon.
Volunteers from Switzerland— The Berlin enrrf-
pondenl of the German Schntllpust mentions tltl!
.*>00 young and hardy men, among whom ares'""8
ot llie most distinguished officers in trie Swissspf'
vice, have offered their services to the United N"lrt
Government, through the American Con;a'
Basle. I hey will engage to serve during th?"ar
and afterwards form themselves into a miliiar.1 c0'°*
ny in California.
the
Georgia Volunteers.—The Savannah Republican o'
It is stated that there will be 120,000Germane1®1"
grants to the United States this year.
Cuba. — We understand that a movement iscon"
teuiplated in the Island of Cuba, for the disn,cm"
berinent of the same from Spain, and that eimsar'e®
• ' -ainaiu
was a
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are about being sent to this country to obtain
from our citizens. We knew that there wa'
strong republican feeling growing up aiii°n§91110
planters of Cuba, and quoted some dajs
briefly, the views of one now sojourning in °ur c f}
2l>th says: Several companies ot Volunteers j but we did not think a decided indication of it .
have already been raised under the late requisition, j bo made for some years yet, to say the least.—fI "!!*
and others are in process of formation. ! Eve. Bulletin.
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Fleeson, Isaac Neville & Palmer, J. R. American Flag. (Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico), Vol. 2, No. 104, Ed. 1 Monday, June 7, 1847, newspaper, June 7, 1847; Matamoros, Mexico. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth478004/m1/2/?q=%22Stony%20point%22: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.