American Flag. (Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico), Vol. 2, No. 114, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 10, 1847 Page: 1 of 4
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Vol. II.
:uma mi IT WA»« «•»»»■» lurnt or thi ikes 4»D the homi of nii um"
MATAMOROS, JULY 10, 18477™
the american flag
Is published V. gonrsoat!) and ^aturdats, near
(he corner ol Bravo and Abaaolo streets, in the
building known hs the "Casa de Steaiiibote," by
i. n. flekson and j. r. palmer.
terms.
Sobschiptios for One *ear, Eight Dollars-
She ' on'hs, Four Dollars; Three Months, Two
Dollars and Fifty Cents; sin?!* dopiea, One
Dim ■ — poynble invttriabiy in advance.
apvertisemrnts, riot exceeding- ten linen, One
Do'luf for I he nrst, and t iMy Gents for each subse-
quent insertion ; for Three Months, Ten Dollars-
those of greotericnath churged in proportion.
another route to The pa-
cific ocean.
Few persons are awaie( says a writer in
the National Intelligencer, that, by the an-
nexation of Texts, we have secured to u*
the shortest and best route across the conti-
nent for a national and commercial highway
to our possessions on the Pacific, surpassing
those either of Panama, the lsthsmus of Da&
rien, or Tehuantepec, where a distance of
several thousand miles would have to be
steamed or sailed over between the differen-
ces of latitudes of these points on either
ocean. It will be scarcely credited that
theie ait but t hi ? c hundred rii if ex of sepava-
lion between the navigable waters (suitable
for steamboats) emptying into the two oceans,
which, if a good roadway was made, may
be run over with a steam power in twelve
hours " The route of the Kio Grande,"
says Gen. T. J. Green, of Texas, " would be
the shortest and most expedient route from
the United States, as well to her Oregon set-
tnents as to her other numerous interests on
the Pacific. Taking New Orleans as the
most convenient point of embarkation we
lind that sixteen hundred miles of steam nav-
igation, to the mouth of the river Conchoes,
upon the Rio Grande, can be made in about
the same time, and (taking the year rou;;d)
with tht same facility that Cincinnati can
tipos the Ohio; and from the head of steam
navigation upon the Rio Conchoes across
the Sierra de Carcay to steam navigation
upon the Rio Hiagui. a distance of three
hundred miles by railroad, the port of Guay-
rmis, upon the Gulf of California, could be
reached in eight or nine days, saving a dis-
tance of four thousand miles, and twenty ad-
ditional days' steaming via Panama canal,
provided that was completed, and saving a
distance of twenty-four thousand miles, via
< ipe Horn, and the average economy of one
hundred and twenty days' sail, steaming such
a distance being too expensive. It would
also a four months' travel, the present
route across the country, from steam naviga-
te of the Missouri waters to Oregon. This
"hort and expeditious route to the growing,
and soon to be important settlement of Ore-
gon, and at present many other interests in
the Pacific would be the smallest reason for
'^accomplishment of this route. The most
desirable portion of this continent lies be-
tween the twenty-eight and forty-second de-
pee? of North latitude, upon the Pacific.
( presents more than a thousand miles of sea
toast, with the important ports of Gu«ya-
roas. San Diego. San Gabriel, Monterrey,
an trancisco, and nwnv others, with a soil
and climate of unsurpassed capability for'
grazing and agriculture, and a mineral
wealth supposed to be equal if not superior
0 any in the world. This vast counti v, of
^ore'han one rniiiion of square miles, lying
Westof th" settled portions of the Uni-
w | teS' bet w een the frozen regions of the
• f"th and the vertical sun of the South, be-
the gentle influences of the Pacific
r 'Rn ar,d th* great back bone of the conti-
jnt, capable of giving wealth and happiness
one hundred millions of souis, is now in
JPs>lon roaming tribes of unhoused;
, '®ns» a&d a few settlements of less than'
"Hundred thoust.nd M. x ican subjects "
Jete erP ISa ^nct inost imPortant char-i
j. 7° °Ur interests, as giving us > he m<>st!
t/ -v.c?TTlrT1,,ri'eation to our Oregon territo-
^odd ,DSUring 10 tbe commerce of the j
"tah^" ^Un*cr-—The citizens of N.York'
dij. °u' *° Present this officer with a splen-
. an<* epaulettes,of the value of
3thousand dollars |
ROMANCE OF LIFE.
The Albany Evening Journal gives an in-
cident which is sufficiently romantic to vie
with that of fiction. Some of the parties
concerned reside in the neighboring town of
Ontario, and the story will be read with inte-
rest by all. .
Some months ago it will be recollected that
a long account wtts published in many of the
papers, and in the Evening Journal "among
the rest, of n young man who was living in
Worcester, Mass , who was either lostoi°sto-
len from his parents nearly thirty years ago,
when he was only three of foui years of age,'
whose only recollection of the matter was
that he was taken from a thickly settled place
Albany as he has always supposed,and car-
ried he knew not whither; that after strolling
through the country some years, with a com-
pany of vagrant Indians and negroes, with
whom he suffered almost incredible hard-
ships— having on one occasion narrowly es-
caped being murdered 6y one of their num-
as they slept—;:nd sure enough, the poor fel-
lows were as dead as slaughtered sheep.
Weil, 1 immediately had all The monks drawn
up, and satd to them: You infernal vaga-
bonds, I can t afioid to lose my graoadiers in
this way, and to convince you of this fact I
intend hanging every one of you ! Such a
a t » j * „
No 114.
p . . I
Luc.vmgham, the celebrated oriental traveler,
computes the number of skeletons now actu-
ally inhumed io the Egyptian Catacombs as
greatly surpassing in number the present
population of the globe.
wail of despair I never heard~>ol!o7e7hv °f Observation shows
emngthem well, 1 consented so f.r tu pardon I in growth A L r °f H° P,0Sie3s
them as only to han°- the same number of i w«, »♦«! i curiousProofofthls statement
them as they had killed of our men —it was L.'lc.J ,i ■ y 3 £e.ntleman>.wh? bad a«
tu-entir r.d,l ...n^ j" ' , . | illumination kept up in his graperies
ttiroughout the night; and where this was
done the grapes ripened sooner by several
. U.tt I- y .
twenty odd, and they were to draw loU
I ha doomed lot were soon set one side, the
ropes knotted around their necks, and my
men were just about stringing them up. when
two of the victims declared themselves to be
the Abbot and his assistant. 'Sorry I can't
oblige you, gentlemen, but really'—fill your
glasses—' I must hang you !'
' Mercy ! oh, save us !'
' Can't do it, gentlemen, you really must
swing with the rest '
Listen, said the Abbot, ' we have hid
ber—he finally escaped from them at Provi- away Mtuillo's Paralytic, take it as a ran-
dence, Rhode 'island, and after living in one jso™ a"d ,et us £°- .
• }L hough! lhl? a>,r enough bargain, let
village, in Grafton, Mass., where he' w^as
thus giving the two monks for the Murillo
And
my
Times
Heaven: We, Molo Mnhomet, God of the
earth, renowned and powerful empire of Bab-
ylon andJudea, from the rising to the setting
'"* *1 V If J v; in uue 4 I .L
place a^d another, located in a New England ' a .u . - j . . , ^ o-~. •-
village, in Grafton, Mass., where he* was ° )'°1d/^n,tar,es> ar|d «P went the rest,
married about ten years ago, and has since
resided.
The account was prepared by a worthy
Baptist minister, and originally appeared in
the Boston Christian Watchman, from which
it was extensively copied in the papers thro'
the country. There has been much spmpa-
thy felt for the individual, as he neither knew
where he was born nor whether any of his
kindred were in the land of the living, and
was, moreover, entirely ignorant of his own
name or age. He has, however, for many
years, called himself and been known by the
name of Abraham Vest. It seems that the
above account fell into the hands of an aged
couple in the town of Ontario, Wayne county,
N. Y.. who, having lost two children about
the period mentioned, felt a peculiar interest
in this case, and the postmasters of Ontario
and the New England village opened a cor-
respondence upon the subject. The result
of it is, that the friends of Mr. Vest, who is
poor, contributed the means, and he has just
been out to see his supposed parents.
His journey teas successful! The mo-
weeks; but subsequent accounts inform us
that the vines thus stimulated were much
weakened.
Some plants, like some animals, have been
ordained for night; and these accordingly
are active only during those hours. The
night-b.ooming cereus is an example of this
sort. Others, that increase and flourish du-
ring the day, close their flowers, and fre-
quently their leaves, remaining inactive
throughout the night.
1 he botanist Guabert, in a recent sitting
o the French Academy of Sciences, attribu-
ted the remarkable mortality of the trees in
, _ . . _ - —V urco ill
s^KRsasssssas
LT 2 ry' ~N- Y SPmtl,f «« l'«ng creatures, neod reposeai night.
! repose at night.
THE BOWIE KNIFE.
Turkish declaration of war, in 1663. j •••«*
By the grace of God, the great God in L far-famed and terrible weapon, per*
Hfntrr-n • \\Tu \1 ^ \I„L i nunc t^o mnot AJI — . . • * .
« J I • " VW^WIIj llvl
naps the' most deadly instrument imaginable,
m the conflict of "man to man and steel to
steel,' was invented by Stephen and not James
i C /i 1 i, l A A A _ - i .1 1 H M
ment the mother saw her long lost son. sh<
fainted, but the more cau'ious son, anxious to
ascertain to a certainty whether these were
indeed his parents, required unmistakable
pi oofs. The mother, with a mother's mem
ory, described a mark upon his back, and the
scar of a scald upon his foot. He could no
longer doubt, and the scene that followed may-
be better imagined than describe d. The pa-
rents, who supposed themselves childless, re-
joiced over the '• son that was found," and the
fatted calf was indeed killed. The son, who
supposed himself tui orphan, rejoiced to find
his parents even in their old :'ge. He also
ascertained that his nal name was John M.
r?—noiiiv; iu uie setting \ uy tjtrjjricnana not James
ot the son, King of a.l earthly Kings, mighty ''owie< as is frequently stated. He consider*
ruler of Arabia and Mauritana, born trmm- cd' aPParently with justice, too, that in close
nhant sovereign of Jerusalem, possessor of fi8htln&) a much shorter weapon than tha
the tomb of Christ, the crucified, declare to sword' charily now in use, but still heavy
the Emperor of Germany, to the Kintr 0f
Poland, and to all the chiefs of the lahd^and
enough to give a sufficient force, and, at the
same time, contrive to cut and th;ust would
to the Pope of Rome, his Cardinals'and 1 be far Preferable, and more advantage ous to
Bishops, that we are resolved to attack thee ' l^ie uearer- accordingly devised the
with thirteen lungs, and two million three sword or knife, which has since gone
hundred thousand ftople on horseback, with UrK,er h,s nnm"- II is made of various sizes,
1'uikish courage unknown to thee and thine.
We will visit thee in Vienna, thy capital, and
Vl 'U IvMi; Ol^V/W|
but the best, 1 may sav, is about the length
of a carving knife—case perfectly straight in
' UJJ 1/ajJJfai, HI1U u . "O purtuy aiiuigui 1U
pursue thee and the Kingof Poland, and all ith(;nrst Hlstancp. but greatly rounded at the
t K IT <1 I i I in L. - J 1 a • fr- M (1 A fl fkn ml . i I 1
end on the edge side; the upper edge at the
end. is ground into the small s^giment of a
circle, and rendered sharp; thus leaving an
hy aliies, swoid in hanUj burning plunder-
ing, muider and destroy thy subjects. As
fot thee, thou shall suffer the most horrible
leath
ment
tians, — ......... .mm nice, wiin ure arm | ., . ~ —*• *■ «"-• umn. nacu y»un-
sword, thy empire, and likewise overthrow ! ,ml,y increases in weight of metal ns it ap-
"'id anihilate the seed oi Rome and the triple I PJoac'les ^e hilt, on which a small guard is
... own. This, Emperor of Germany, and ! P'acedi ^ Bowie knife, therefore, has a
King of Poland, is our declaration fo thee and !('u keen Poin!i is double edged for the
all thy dependants; and we moreover inform jsPace ^ a couple of inch esofits engili, and
thee that these words will smwliu i>« i u'»en ,r» 'i?e falls with the weight of a biii-
ee that these words will speedily be follow- i ^ n 11
by deeds, for thou hast to hold thyself in | ,'l>
,i()lllPsS (lil'i n in nnp nninuWi.l C. I ■ I hft
readiness. Given in our powerful city Stam-1 original Bowie knife was fashioned
boul—containing one thousand six hundred j °.rn a blacksmith's rasp, ground down to a
(and fifty streets, ninety hospitals, one tbous- j Pr'll,t-■ and on reside sharpened to an edge;
jand public baths, nine hundred and ninety* i'nn orn on one end of it formed its han-
Wilson, and his age about t hi itv-four "year's reven 'oantains. one hundred and twenty!^ ^nyon® who is ^i!iar with a smith's
? 1, - ' I markets, one hundred and fifty-one stables for j ? p' readily comprehend the formidable
How Marshal SovJt -purchased his pictures.; ules and jackasses, four hu died and eiyhty | ^n.rac!o'' a. weapon thus formed. It was
k Froplp reproach ^ i 1 inns fni* fnr> ifrnarc nno iiianfi,»w/i ! — u. i .. j ! uPSl'i'D^Cl
pictures in Spt:in, but
bought them !'
' Indeed !' said the
credulou* elevation of tht
Yes, I bought th''m. . . ,
one of the seconds, although in its progress
incipals. Stephen had brought
is brother James, telling him
you ever laid eyes on.' jlore tneir eyes, 'i'hus will we treat thee and "!,u u%'u"r .^ave with him as a weapon,
'But two monks for a picture!' exclaim; d: a". Christians, to prove our hatred and dis- 7""fortunate it was for James that he took it,
the astonished listener. jdain. j'01' wiien down, and almost at the last gasp,
1 Y"es, I crave two monk« for that picture,'! "Given in rhe twenty-fifth year of our aj?e i !5e S!^'dhislifu by killing his opponent with
'! it. rill- was its first employment in iakin.^
" Signed, MOLO M A MO.MET." i hur',an th,'s savage rencontre gave ft
1" first instance simply for
said Soult, 4 and it was in this way that the aad {^e seventh of oitr potent reign.
-take some more of the. j
cn,
bargain was made U1 llJr 0 ..... , . 3
Biircundy—One even in;?, after having been -— j at once a terrihi? celebrity.
purhed rather h«rd by Wellington and his! The Catacombs of Rome are scarcely less I t0 Texas during the
red coat'd rascals. I and a great number of remarkable than those of ancient E^vnt lt ;t;oub es whlch Receded the independence of
1 that country, and was lying sick in bed at the
my men took up our barracks in a convent.' is asserted in history that they extended for-if , f- . . . ^ -» - —
We made the lazy monks give us a good sup- merly from the wails of Rome to Ostia, a dis- «r!rP.,S-°-i • A amo' when on 'be 6th of
per and plenty of good wine, and then we tanceof sixteen miles. They Here once oc-! T, 1 " WJ.t? slorme(i by Santa Anna,
went oft* to b. d- Next morning, when the' cupi. d by the piimitive Christians, who fled h" Ml ° murdered there upon
men were mustered, it was reported to me, from Rome to escap-d^ath by the hands oHr • 1 :r 1 h" band that wieldtd nrst the
that some twenty or thirty of tnv grenadiers 'heir savage and relentless enemies More • T"" , C°?ld 00 ,on^er ,ift it-
had been found with their throats cut—the'than 170.000 are supposed to have been In- n,:,ve.t!ie ao°ve statement from a gentle-
good monks had just severed their wind nipee i Tied in this subterranean " City of the Dead," '^r'n 1 zau^ 01 lts 1 tnr.innati Com-
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Fleeson, Isaac Neville & Palmer, J. R. American Flag. (Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico), Vol. 2, No. 114, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 10, 1847, newspaper, July 10, 1847; Matamoros, Mexico. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth478818/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.