Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1842-03-31
fro- tas Mes Orieaas Balissia, MsreA is.
IMPORTANT FROM TExAS-INvAsIoN
BY THE MEXICAN FORCES.

From tas Mes Orieass BHlissia, MsYeA IS.
IMPORTANT FROM TExAS-INvASIoN
BY THE MEXICAN FORCES
oy the packet ship New York, we re.
selseu Yesterday Galveston papers to the
i2ln instant. We learn from them and
from several Texian gentlemen amon,
the passengers, with whom we have con-
versed, that the Mexican army. und.r ~.
command Of Arista, and stated bv n,;v.,s
advices TO be twelve TO fifteen thousand
strong, was on the move for the sub;u,,
ton Of the country. As will be sesn
from the extracts given, the invaders Al.
ready occupitd San Antonio and Gol;ad
and were in the vicinity of Vic,ori, M.,l
agorda, Austin, &c. deserted. The Who'll.
male population were SEEING arms and
organizing for resistance. Our informant
believes Texas has now an efficient force
Of four thousand in the field.
From the Galpesfon Paper.
By the steamer Psyton. just arrived from loa..
ton we learn that expresses arrived yesterday from
Austin, dated on Monday last, stating that in,elH
gencr had reached that place that San Antonio
was taken by Mexicans on Saturday last. Captain
states that the number of Mexeans was large,
numbering several thousand.
The express which reached here from Victoria
last night states that body of 500 Mexicsns, Who
captured Csp,sin II. Ferguson, and from whom he
escaped stated that their fotce this side Of The
Nueces numbered 800, who were destined for Vic
toria, that 3. O00 had gone 10 San Antonio. and
that there we're in all Ia 900 this side Of the Rio
Grande.
Men are turning out rapidly at Houston.
number of men left this city yesterday. for the
seat OF ar, and company is expected to leave to-
day.
There is little variety in paper to-day, and
little opportunity or necessity tor u. Our printers
boys aud all, are infected with the prevailing tc
yer, and we have had great difficulty in proven
them from deserving US in body to join our troops
| in the West.
Cant. l. Wheeler srrived here yesterday morn.
ing from Victoria. which place he left on the Bib.
He gives the outlines Of the events 10 that vicni.
| ty a. substantially these:
| On the Goth February an express reached Vicio-
| ria, stating that attack was expected on San
Antonio by 800 men, supposed TO be marsudsrs
and asking for aid in defending the place. One
hundred Immediately left Victoria in comPli-
/ ance with the quest.
| On the 5th March news reached Victoria, OF the
taking of the hamlet of Goliad by forty-two Acx.
cans wearing the uniform Of the regular army,
who took beeve., giving the owner cert'ficstes
that they were for the use and TO be Paid Tor BY
the Mexican Government, and bought some other
| a, ticles for which they paid
| On the 7th one hundred men lief. Victoria, went
beyond Goliad, saw Mexicans. and returned 10
consequence Of receiving an express giving ihfot.
| nation tina, on p,tack on Victoria by 800 Mexi.
cans expected.
Can't FuIeeson reached Victoria the same day.
giving information that he had brrn captured by
800 Mexican cavalry, on the the 9th, end made
his escape from them at the Mission Of Goliad--
Cspt +. had left Aubrey e. Kinney's rancho
the 5th, and when a short distance out heard maj
tial music and the discharge Of arms, which he
supposed to be from attack on the rancho,
When Ca ain Wheeler left Victoria. there were
one hundred and fifty men under arms there under
command Of Col. Clark l.. Owen--the families
were leaving tow n, and ii was determined TO de-
fend the place ong practicable.
Sixty men had left Malagorda and expected to
reach Victoria the 9th.
The news of the abandonment Of San Antonio
by the whites and its occupation by the Mrxicsns
is confirmed. Six hundred Texans wero at Sagune
at the lust accounts. reinforcemcnts were going
in, and they expected To make Q stand there with
one thousand men.
Austin 10 believed to have been aba ndoned. the
families moving to Ba.trop. and the men going
to Saguine, General Burleson was his way
from Bastrop for the seat Of ~ith 800 men.
The effect Of all this is. that people are
neither dismsyed disturbed, but glad of OPP
portunity 10 avenge Isl injuries and show to tho
world their ability maintain their independence.
Some time may elapse before decisive battle is
had, but when it does the world will read a
repetition Of the scenes o. Sac Jacinto on an eL-
lsrged scale.