Latest Northern news.
--The news from the
United States which we publish to-day has two points of interest.
One is the news of the occupation of
Matamoras in force by the
French, and the other is the rise in the value of gold, which was so considerable and so sudden as to indicate the existence of some new source of anxiety to money dealers.--What this is we can only conjecture.
It may be unfavorable accounts from
Charleston; or it may be this occupation of
Matamoras.
It may be neither of these, and something else may have produced the disturbance in Wall street. --The occupation of
Matamoras by an efficient French force is, nevertheless, an important event, and must occasion uneasiness in
Washington.
We suppose it is true.
We hope it is. It is certainly as agreeable to us as it is disagreeable to the
Yankees that such a force should occupy just that place on the southern bank of the
Rio Grande, across the border from
Texas.
We take it that such a movement must be for the protection of French commerce, and that French ships will soon convey away cotton that has crossed the river from
Brownsville.
The
Yankees would like to prevent this traffic between our people and the
French.
We have no objection to their trying to do so. As strengthening the probability of the statement, we publish the following extract from the
Paris correspondence of the London
Times, of August 20th.
"According to private letters received by the last mail,
Tampico and Tuxpan were about to be occupied by the
French, and it was expected
that Matamoras would also have to be held on account of the important cotton trade which might there be carried on. "
