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io Grands. Admiral Teasham had visited Brownsville and sympathizes with our cause. He says his mission is to keep the mouth of the Rio Grands open to the trade of the world, at all hazards. England is reported to have withdrawn from the alliance against Mexico. A fleet of 800 guns is at Vera Crtz expecting to sail immediately for New Orleans and the Southern coast. How the women make powder. We copy a portion of a letter addressed to Lieut. McClung at Knoxville, by a lady in Sullivan county, East Tennessee: "I saw some weeks ago in the Register an article on the Making of saltpetre and that the under houses contained more or less I also learned that the Government was in great need of in order to make powder for our brave boys now in the field. Well, sir, I felt, though I am a woman that it was my duty to do what I could for my country; so having an old house with dry dirt under it, I determined to make a trial. I threw out the ashes in my ash hopper, and had t