1846                Address Unknown, Matamoras, Mexico.

1846 December 26.  The Freeman’s Journal.  (Cooperstown, New York.)  December 26, 1846, Vol. XXXIX, No. XVIII, P. 2.

Matamoras.—A Washington letter writer says:  I am informed by a gentleman recently from Matamoras, that that town has become completely Americanised.  You can scarcely turn a corner, or walk twenty yards in the streets, without stumbling on a Yankee name emblazoned on some sin.  The riot and confusion of Spanish rule is succeeded by a quiet quite Massachusetts like.  Colonel Clarke is evidently popular, and a most judicious officer.  The advertisements in the Matamoras Flag are amusing, and show the Americanism now getting quite peculiar. For instance, there are five taverns, as follows:—“Resaca House,” by Angelo Oliva—“Exchange,” Tucker & Richardson; “Washington House,” A. Wheeler— “Tremont House,” Gillock & Miller— “Matamoras Lunch,” Then Mr. C. J. Betts advertises Daguerreotypes—…