Horrors Of The War

A correspondent, who writes to us from Brazos, after spealting of the unj certainty anjgloom which had hung over ; nll Ihe posts upon the Rio Grande, from tlie time that the first rumors of ihe disaster to Gen. Taylor had beon circulateo, until correct intelligence camo to hanrf, states some ofthe atrocities of the band of Canales, thus: "The scencent Matamoros {Juring tho intnnse exci'.ement were of ihe moat painftll dosci-iption, and of such chsracter aa to strike a horror tot he very saul. Distress, fcar and misery were depicted upon the counienanccs of the Mexican c; ize s. Éntire families lei from tlio citv, cirryingwfthllieiii what few anieles of gooJs they possessed, haitily knowing, m-iny of itiem, whither to fly. They took refaga in the woods and chapparal ncar the city, where they were fallen up on hy a band of Canales's jiarly, and robbed of every thing, to the last garment even, and ihe most brutal ntrocities commitied upon the perens of young fjmales, many of whom wereleft in a s! i o of nature, suíTering the most dread Tul deprivations as well na the constant violations from the friends at whose merey they were placed, lt would require a mnre eloquent mind than I posses and more giftelpen, to describe, witft any degree of correotness, the horrors of the past few days on the Rio Grande."