...lications for clearances to Matamoras, Mexico, made at the custom-house for three years past have been within a week; and, also, that the convenient town of Brownsville, Texas, a little distance from Matamoras , on the other side of the Rio Grande, is quite as good a port as Matamoras, with the known advantage of being near the Gulf, and the probable one of being the port for which the shipments are intende...