The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1842-03-26

Those who had neither money nor supplies
rendered property of every description.
Houses, lots, horses, cows and calves,
Durham bulls, negroes, rifles, wood, pic
lures. coal, headlights, and almost eve
ry thing else in the catalogue OF this
worlds goods, which were put up at auc-
ton by the chairman OF the meeting,
and sold to the highest bidder men,
ton this to give you some idea of the
feeling which prevails here. The cause
is a lust one, and | believe, with the aid
of God of Armies, will triumph.
The burden of this war, | repeat, must
be borne emphalically by the people
and their means. | fear, will not prove
adequate to the undertaking. Santa Ana
has not sent these fellows here on any
fools errand; he has been here once, and
no one knows better than he the folly of
unde rtaking to subjugate this country
with small force; his army is headed
by shrewd and able general, and IN
less am greatly mistaken in my calcu-
Iations. they will be found strong enough
to bother us some what-but they have
coroe, and are welcome to accept of our
hospitality, administered in our peculiar
way. They will be conquered Sure-but
are we to do it alonei Or, may we not
hope to have the assistanceof our'friends
in the United States in this cause? Can
they forget that the enemy by which we
are now besieged is the same that perpe-
trated the bloody atrocities of the last
campaign?-and that they have come to
give US a second edition of their horrid
butcheries? Oh no! they cannot forget
those things.
Yours, truly, w.
A letter from another correspondent,
dated Galveston, Saturday morning,say
"The people are awake. Thousands oil
dollars are pouring in for arms and mu-
nitions of war. The man that has two
rifles gives one and carries the other
Overwhelming meetings are held night
Iy at the Exchange, and it generally re-
quires two persons to record the names
and donations from the multitude.
any article is given not Immediately
available of itself, it is sold at auction
and the proceeds applied. The steamer
Lafitte, mounting five guns and fully
equipped for a months cruise, will leavt
this evening or in the morning, with thu
E Coast Guards under Captain Wade
s. about sixty men, with two tenders, thu
!! schooners Santa Anna and sloop Wash
ington. Capt. Wade has a commission
/ for himself, the officers and vessels, an
:, will proceed to Copano, and thence az
y cording to discretion. We shall also hav
. a company of volunteers from this cit
- to 90 down with US, consisting of abou
- eighty men, and will be landed there,
necessary.
The President is opposed to all tn
movements of the people, with the e.
81 ception of this one expedition, and {
K this he heartily approves. He says Ga
~ weston will be the place of attack, ar
10 not man should leave the island WI
lc- cannot Immediately return to it in ca
IN, of emergency. Some one hundred ar
al fifty have left for the seat of war yeste
on day, and about one hundred more are
ie- leave by first boat Our forti6catio
IN are rapidly progressing, and videttes ST
ne toned on the beach. AS we are abo
40: making an appeal to your city, though
OF occurs alta severe commercial crisis,
me hope your citizens will enable us to
on out this vessel, and we send an age
oO from our Committee of Vigilance,
rec this packet, to tell you the story of Q
ISe wants.
rho General Johnston "a. Sidney
on gone to the scene of action; about
ne hundred men from the island have
the companied him. A large force of alb
ant &c hundred men have marched fir
the Houston. General Burleson has conc
llty trated by this time probably three tn
sand men on the Colorado.
you You may say to your fellow cltlz
and and all our friends in the nited Sta
mu- that il is the determination of our
nee ole that the invading army OF MeA
ave shall lead us back to the City of Mex
day and plant our standard on the palace
Tor the Government there. We are abb
iced compel them, and we will do all we
OPP able to do.
Ig- We have no news of Commod
I'd to Moore, but trust he is on the coast
It. that he will save US mucn, oy picking
defl- relnforcements and provisions destl
1T for the invading army.
sOPte have not time to write more' as
ne preparing to go out in the Lahtte.
heir Yours, &
Hood
ause. The following extracts are from
rday Galveston Civilian of Saturday m
mea-