North American. [volume] (Swanton, Vt.) 1839-1841, 1840-04-22
STRANGE PARTICULARS CON
CORNING Coz. CROCkETS.

CoaARco, TamauIipas, Feb. 6, 1910.
To The Editor Of The .9usfin City Gazette.
Sia,-i was, formerly, q citizen ot the
Uniled-Siates and have been living in
Mexico for seventeen years. My business
in this country is such, and has been, rs
10 require me to travel much from place 10
place. was, not long since, at q mining
district in Mexico, in the neighbouFhood
of the GuadeIalara and while there. a
Mexican came tn me, and said that there
was a man from Texas, working in the
Salinas mine, who had requested him To
ask the FIRST American he saw, 10 come and
see him, as he wished To send some word
10 a family he left in the state OF Tennes-
sec. To enter a mine in Mexico, you
have TO obtain permission OF the worker or
owner, and he sends you with the over
seer, who is ordered 10 keep strict watch
that you take out of the mines no ore or
vaIuables.
went 10 the owner, and obtaining per-
mission, went with the oyefseer, ard was
taken 10 that passage Of the mine where
the c~onvicts are placed to work. There
were SOM 90 or 25 at work, and amongst
them | recognised the manly form Of one
of my counirymen, who, the owner had
told me, was one Of the prisoners brought
on b. a part Of FiIisola's division. when he
reiterated from Texas.
The American upon seeing me-, stepped
forward and graspiug me by the hand,
said, Well stranger, you arc the first
American | have seen in this damned couu-
try /; and | don't think | would have seen
you if | had not made a friend of one OF
these devils that oversee the mine"
My unfortunate friend" | replied, al
have been made aware Of the circumstances
that placed you here, and they are such
as TO debar me from rendering any assis-
tance more than bearing for you any mes
sage you may wish"
/" know that, i" he returned, $50 let
" 90 about il: my name 10 David Crockett
- am from Tennessee, and have a family
there-they think that | am dead, and So
does every one else but they are mistak-
en-. | should have written TO them, as the
overseer told me | might write, il | could
get any one to take a letter for me that
was the reason | persuaded the overseer TO
look out for an American for me and
thanks be 10 God, | have rot one at last"
Tie Tctateh ~ He the Particulars oi MS
having been taken al Fort Alamo, in Bexar,
and sent, together with W. other men, 10
Loredo from which place they had been
removed, with g part of the army that
moved to Monterey ; and when the troops
marched from Monterey 10 Mexico, they
were sen, to Guadaicia, and placed in the
mine by the Alcade, at which place they
had been ever since.
lie wrote, by me, a letter, 10 be sent,
to his wife aud children in Tennessee,
which | sent from Matamoras, with d.
r~ections 10 mail it in New-0rleans, retain
ing in my possession a copy thereof, for
fear, by some mischance, ii should mis-
carry. To lieuienant-colnneI o. l.. Wood,
with whom | met in Loredo, / gave an
other p which he promised to publish,
bu, | have since heard he die not get in safe,
which IS the reason | write you this By a
Mexican going to Bastrop and Austin.
have directed him to give il 10 any Amer
lean he saw in either place who would
know where 10 send il.
am in great HASTE yours. &c.