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Day
24
Month
July
Year
1847
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Public Domain
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Matamoros, June 1G. - A gentleman recently from Camargo informs us that on the passngc duwn, he counted no less than six dead bodies floating in (he river - three Mcxicans und three Americans. Several pilotsof out aequaintance infoi'm us that deud bodies are secn on every trip generally stripped of their clothing, leaviijg no ibubt that they have met (heir denth at the hands ofossassins. A Bahimore correspondent of the National Era publislies o letter he received from Vera Cruz, from which we make the following extract, with his remarks. " The yellow fever, small pox, and black longue, are taking the people off very fast. On yeslerday tliere were one hundred and fifty-jive luried! It is now two o'clock in the day, and one of the physicians told me that one hundred and eight have died since last night al six o'clock, witli tliediseases just -mentioned!" On receivingthe above letters,I offered the morlality-cojicerning items to the news editor of one of our daily papers, but he declined publishing it, with the remnrk, that news of a correspondent date already published did not conflrm the statements of my correspondent ! Thus bas the truth as to the perils of tliis war been suppressed by those to whomi the public have a right to look for it. H id our people been kept faithfully posted as to the progress of results - had the ml extent of our losses by disease,as well as by war, been staled from time to time - far greater would have been the difficultiea of the movement. A folunteer, in a letter to oiie of the daily papers ofthiscity, gives the following good advice: - 'Let me say--Piltsburgers, Philadeljihians, nee er volanteer. You knmc nol your fatc.' Once here, your life is the life af a dog. Government or its agents, know not how to treat you ; but I wam you, despite of all the shallow, empiy lidMlingi of glury, never leave your iiome, your friends, yuur families " A volunteer, in writing from Jalapa, llius describes lhe appenrance of the ranchero, or rarming population : "Tliere secms h he hardly a ranchero ■wíio has not more money than our comfortable 'vinera. They generally live in oirty ranches, madd ofeane sticks sianding crecí to a heiglit of ten or twelve feet. faslened together bv viues and thatched in with palm and bañan leaves. Still their dressos a' e geiierally clean niid their linen fine an:i exceediiTgly white. In truth, I liave nnvpr seen a people who pride tliemíelves upKi woaring clean white clothing so much ;is the belter part of the Mexicins. A ranchero whose whule ranch and householrl goods would not solí for fifty dollars.wears a hat which, with its silver ornanipnts, will rale from six to fifty dollar, c'egant buckskin overhauls of remarkably handsome eul, buttoned down to '.he knee with heavy silver buitons and underneatli fine 'linen dravveis; a sliirt of fine linón, aid blanketor maulla worth from eight to fifty or an hundred c'ollart 1 have een one of blue cloth trimmad liborilly with pm'jile velvet and ornamenteJ wiih silver clasps, bugles, stars and crosses worth at least an hundred dollars. This evening 1 saw one of these fellows rather ordinarily dressed, pilch a doubloon ('S 10) upon a Monte table with as liltle apparent concern ns most men would ajreul, (12 l-2cíJ and nftei winning four times pick up his gains, light a furo and walk away whist ling some tune, ns carelest.lv as he liad eniered." Tampico ditos to the 27th of June have been received at New Orlenns, bringing the intelligence that Majors Gains, Borland, Captain Clay andother Mexican prisoners had been release and ordcred to Tampico under nn escort of nine hundred men. Verbal reports st.ite, that when the piisoners had arrived withiti 150 miles of Tampico, they were met by a party of Mexicans, who delained them again as prisonera. Rpports from the saine source, also state tbat Gen. Urrea was raising forces to aitack Tampico. Preparations were making to defend the place; and for this purposp, three companies awaiting transportation to Vera Cruz, had been detained at Tampico. The latest dates from Mexico are as far back as Jane lOlh. Santa Anna, it is said, bas demanded a ferced loan of nine millions of dollars, and is raising the money at the pAat of the bayonet. The letter furtber States that the work of fortifying the approaches to the Capital proceeded with great energy. There is no further news from Gen. Sreit, except that he liad abandoned Jalapa, which is no.v in possession of the guerülas. Com. Fe "ned from his expedition against ToIj. the mouth of the river inaect , ... I having landeJ his troops he marched them to the town, where he found the enemy ready to receive him, their troons being drawn up in force; they fi red upon the Americans, the Com. returning it with spirit. The cnemy flcd in contusión, scattering in every direction. Four of tbc commander'e men were wounded, Lt. May, brother of Lt. Col. May, among the nutnbei, liaving lost an arm. The forcé undef the commaud of Gen. Pillow, which lelt Vera Cruz or, iho 18th, escorfed a Irain of about one luindred and twenty-five wagons; the force amounted to nearly 1,800 men, and we regrel tliat our accounts induce the bt.-lief tli.it t suffered excessively n the fit-st and second day's march from the heat of ihe wcather. The march on the second day is represented as havingbeen par!icularly severe, the time chosen fur t being during the heat of the day, througli heavy sand, and when eleven miles were to be made without water ! One hundred and fil'ty men are said to have been comp'elely knocked up on this march : six or seven riied upon the road, and the rest were sent bark and wereaniving at Vera Cruz in small parties at our last accounts. Both our private advices and the papers of Vera Cruz imputo this trifliug wiíli life entirely to the chnnge ntroduced by tíen. Pillow of' marching during the heat of the day, instend of selecting ea ly morning or the after part of the day for sucli service. The officers of Col. Doniphan's regiment, who have reiurned to this country, state that throughout New Mexico unrestrained concubinage is a recognized feature of the social system, and that the obligaiions of wedlock are utterly unknown. Unfortunately tor tlie discipline and good moráis of v'ol. Price's command, the soldiers distributed through the towns to keep order and watch the movements of the cilize%iH, have become containinated by the horrible examples set them, and tiie disorders now of the camp, but reflect the licentiousness of the country.

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