Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1836-04-29
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LATER FROM TEXAS,

La I't NoAl lcAhS.
The Mobile Advertiser OF The 18th instant says tho
intelligence brought from TEXAS hy the De kab, n.rv
cd at New Orleans Sunday last, rather uf sloniny
cast. 1t is OILY rumor is true but there must c
;rac,s from two letters received in this city yesterday,
the first by the Steamboat Merchant in the morning,
and the last by the uaboat in the evening, itoln New
Orleans They contain MI that have heard
Dear Sir have Just received letters from -.
The NlrXcans within a few miles Of San Felipe.
which had bern deserted by the cxiHas and burnt down
Houston had retrcat,G 10 nc cast Of lhe
Brazns. Fannin, 1t is reported had been killed and all
his army. A panic prevailed throughout. and every
Iunyinr fast possible for the Sabine. No
doubt Santa Anna will concentrate his forces the
BRACES, and Houston will dccoy him into The heart Of
Texas Come on at once! Now never IS tic time
DO any thing! II is near ii CLOCK, morning
! write in great haste
The following arc extracts from the second letter:
= II appears that Houston has retreatcd In
the East side of The Brazos and the Mexican army ad
vancng in two divsius OIL the sea coast aud Che
other in the interior, and that within few miles
of San Felipe. The citizens Of San Felipe had burnt down
The town, md were mo"ng on towards tie Sabine. II
was the intention Of the people Of Texas to destroy all
their towns rather than let The eSicans Get possession
of them.
All the country west of the Brazos it is said, has been
abandoned Houston will not, it is thought, retire any
iarher-but il looks goony, and tho next accounts will
be very interesting. Reininrccncns were reaching
Houston daily, and if Tie hrxicans should make much
delay, he will have strong force, and we think drive
Santa Anna back
Yours in haste
From MArAeuapA.-Thc Mobile Chronicle OF The
18th inst saYs -" The brig Tcrslw Capt. Ayerill ar.
rived last evening from Alaagurta in eight days. Cap.
tain AvcIill mauy confirms the archaeology intelligence
copied from The Register Of last evening She brings
fifty passengers, mostly women and children, who have
fled from the monster Santa Anna Il IL reported that
hut our men were left at Ma,agorda who were provided
with boats to quit the place. aIlcr having blown il up
The Tcnsuw Mexican cruiser twelve hours after
she left hatngarda'
From Ycras-1llc steamboat Merchant, Capt Swier,
brought this morning from New Orleans, whence she
sailed Yesterday some late and disastrous reports from
Texas. Capt Swier informs that he learned, jus: at
the moment Of leaving New Orleans, that short arri
val from Texas announced the defeat of the forces under
Col. Faunn-the advance Of the Mexican army under
Santa Anna to San Felipe, the capture of that place,
and tho inGiscrminRtc massacre of the Inhabitants
Santa Anna approaching the river Brassos
Persons here, well acquainted with The position Of
Houston, indulge belief that these reports ncor
rrc Our last accounts, received by the Equity nj New
Orleans Saturday from Brazoria stated that Colonel
Faunn had blown up The fortress Of Gulad. and made
good his retreat 10 the mun army the Colorado cut
ting his way through the Mexican army, and that lat.
tie was expected between tic two armies.
The Equity brought upa large number OF women and
children; several vessels had hecn detained bring up
TO New Orleans women and children.
So far as the Mexican army had advanced, they had
made ndiscriminatc slaughter OF women and chill
dcn the orders given to the soldrry being to spare the
lives of individual ten years of age The whole
population Of Texas was in the feld-Rcsistcr.
(from our Correspondent
To The Editor IF tic .ilob;lc Register.
BHIG TESs.w, April II, 1886
l, is with purpose of cllciting your charity your
sympathy that announce to you arrival at your
port. it is moi with b!ushiug shame either that ac
knowledge ourselves Tcxans e1patratcd and seeking
temporary asylum in your own, and our once
mother country. We have other views and other
motives. We conceive ourselves tic bearers of the
latest intelligence that has yet reached The United
States, from Texas, and of its present unhappy con-
dition We conceive too, that from the interest here
tofore manifested by citizens from all parts of your
country, not only by open expressions of feeling, but by
a more substantial proof Of that interest, actual
participation in our peTIls that the intelligence We
about to communicate will be in the highest degree
acceptable to your ellow.c,izcns. You are perhap,
aware that the independence Of Texas declared by
the members of our convention, the lSt Of March
last, and that few days Subsequent or previous San
Antonio and Fort in tho hands Of the TEXANS were re-.
captured by the Mc5icans. There hundred
and forty Texans in the Alamo commanded by Col
Travis OF San Felipe. The number Of Mcxcans cou,-
maed by Gen Santa Anna himself is varipusy report
ed from live TO eight thousand of these thousand
convcts who served the advance and protection
of the bescgng party. No history. either ancient or
modern, neither the pass of Thcrmopyln nor the battle.
fedupon which our r:ogcntors have fallen 'prcscnts
the remembrance OF more unequa! and obstinate
gagemenl.
Of the TexianS not Il man survived TO tell the news
They knew the conditions under which they Tough,
" Victory Death" before them. Unable to OBJ.
tain the former, they earessy fon'ed and submitted 10
the latter. OfMcxcans, FIVE hundred shared the same
fate Pushing his advantage, Santa Anna, after garri-
soning the fort Immediately proceeded by forced march
es to Gonzales where fort commanded by Gen.
Houston Alive to the dictates OF humanity, and yield
ing 10 the cries of and children, Gen. Houston
etreated from the fort receiving Intelligence of the
enemy approach. The last express TO Matugorda
ported him ON the Rio Colorado, about twenty five miles