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Matamoras after the street

--The Texas paper have pretty fall accounts of the final assault upon Matamoras and the defeat and disposition of the Orinollace party, the main points of which we have already published. The Fort, Brown Flag, of Feb. 27, furnished some additional particular, a portion of which we append:

The Orinollace were wild with excitement when they left their trenches on Tuesday morning and round that the enemy had vanished. They had almost disputed, and suddenly finding themselves masters of the situation, was such a change as to initiate some excesses Men and Women, officers and soldier, also became excited, and in the hour some brutalities were committed by the brutal some robberies were committed by the rascally, and some insolence displayed by the Gow born and vulgar; but as a general rule, the victors acted with great moderation to the vanquishes who fell into their hands.

The number of killed in the assault is variously estimated at from 100 to 300 men. The assailants fought with remarkable bravery, and the number of their dead attest their heroism. They fell in piles where they fought, and they fought at the very muzzle of the enemy's guns. Col. Aldrette was killed early in the action, and that dispirited his men. He was a stone hearted Mexican, and his soldiers trusted his judgment, and had proved his valor. His fall was a serious blow to the foes.

Matamoras is a desperate looking place to-day and it was a horrible place on Tuesday. The dead were corrupting every corner with stench, and the ruined houses, broken and barricaded streets, and the general disorder, gave the town a wrecked and cast away appearance. The places which were once so fell of life were now the crumbling habitations of the dead, and active and excited revealers war groped through the ruins were like tourists searching amid the columns and under the tottering walls of Palmyria and the dead cities of the plain.

The New Orleans Delta says that among the killed in the final assault at Matamoras was Col. Henry L. Kinney, of Texas, who is well known as a daring soldier and extensive speculator. Col. K. was a native of Pennsylvania, and removed to Texas in 1815. He was for many years a member of the Texas Legislature, and was, at the time of his death, one of the few surviving members of the Senate of the Republic of Texas. He made a fortune out of army contracts during the Mexican war, and was for a while connected with one of Walker's expeditions to Central America. He was killed by a ball which passed through a loop-hole in the fortifications, and took affect in his head.

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