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, they have decided to make their present abode in Sinaloa. The Mexicans in that State are kind hearted and hospitable. The climate is healthy. The wealth of the country consists in agriculture, grazing; and minerals. It is stated that ten thousand hands could find employment in harvesting the wheat crop of Texas, and that they would be paid two bushels of wheat per day. On the morning of the 23d Colonel Tom Green, who was camped at Mermentau, with his command, was ordered by Gen. Morton to pursue the enemy's trains by forced marches. The trains were then between Grand Cauteau and Opelousas — trains six miles long, accompanied by two thousand cavalry and fifteen hundred negroes. A soldier from Niblett's Bluff reports that Col. Tom Green succeeded in capturing sixty wagons on the 24th, and five hundred negroes. The Brownsville Flag, of the 15th ult., published a report that a French man-of-war had made her appearance off the bar at the mouth of the Rio Grande, and t