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The ludcro's effect produced on a body of armed Mexicans who heheld for the first time the movements of steamboat, is thus described by one of their off, cers

 At the time the Texan campaign, General Goana

 from the interior province of Guanauato while on the banks of the Brassos with hls troops ordered seven of his men, who could swim, to go into the water, and stop steamboat, filled with Texan soldiers which was approaching at the rate of ten twelve miles an hour. But as she came roaring on, sending forth columns of smoke, with her sides barrcaded with cotton baIes not only did the selected retreat, but the whole force --eIght hundred men-stood appalled, at the ..sefpent of fire" they thought her. When opposite the val ant army, the engineer let off terrific blast of spam and the cavalry wheeled and fled. The infantry broke the rnes, dropped their muskets and followed in the retreat and the steamboat miles away before the sodlery could be rallied to fire gun. Indeed it was with the utmost difficulty they could be prevailed upon 10 approach the banks of the alt and when they did so it Wts with fear and trembling.