Southern pioneer, and Carroll, Choctaw and Tallahatchie Counties advertiser. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-01-08

OAhhOl1L1O yin, MtoolOOlfII, OAIUhDA'
schooner to go to Vera Cruz. That arrange.
ment is hardly completed before we are
placed in possession of intelligence direct from
Mexico, of the most painful and exciting
character. The letter from chihuahua, which
we publish below, was received yesterday
morning by a mercantile firm in this city, and
is addressed as will be seen, to the Texan Sc
cretary of War. No name is attached to il.
tor reasons apparent upon the face of the let.
Ter; but we are sorry to say that no reasonable
doubt OF its accuracy and authenticity can be
entertained. If its statements be true, Ken
dali may have already met his fate. God
grant that the hope originated in the last pa
ragraph of the letter may be realized.
The friends of G.. w. Kendall may rest
assured that his associates in business will not
wait quietly for others to attempt to secure
his safety. 1t is altogether probable that they
feel as deep an interest in his welfare as any
body else. One of his partners will immedi-
ately leave this city for Mexico-and if Ken
dali is in the land of the living, he will soon
be at home again.
CHIHUAHUA, North Mexico,
Nov. 18th, 1871.
To John G. Chalmers, ~ d., Austin, Teas:
SIR: He who now addresses you, does so
with some personal risk, and therefore must
use the precautions which prudence suggests
His agents in New Orleans will be able, from
the autograph TO inform you of the writer's
name. He has never been in Texas, and is
not aware that he has single acquaintance
in that country. But there are sympathies
which extend beyond the circle of personal
friends. By particular request of Col. Will
liam Cook and DIR. Richard G.. Brenham, sit
down to give you a narrative of the disasters,
as detailed to me in some brief interviews with
them, during their short soourn in this city
as prisoners of war. Exactness Of dates |
cannot pretend to observe. The confusion
and strangeness of the events preclude their
possibility; but the general chain will be faith
fully narrated.
The advance party, of about one hundred
men, had reached the neighborhood of Santa
Fe, leaving the rear guard, with the wagons
and artillery, some two hundred miles behind.
-Four or five men were then sent forward TO
announce the purposes of their mission to the
authorities, and to say that they had come
more as friends than foes; that they wished to
cultivate the acquaintance of their neighbors,
and open commercial relations with them, and
not to provoke hostilities. Of the avant cou-
riers, one was Capt Lewis and another was
Mr.. Kendall, editor of the New Orleans Pica.
yune. They were seized, and two or three,
some say four of them, were, by order of Gov
Armijo, Immediately shot. The Governor,
then, with IL large body of New Mexicans in
arms, went out to salute their visitors The
latter had, however, taken up strong posi-
ton, and prepared TO act on the defensive,
should it be necesSary-hitherto ignorant OF
the fate OF their emlSSarieS, as of the reception
they were likely TO meet
| In ravine formed by the freshets, having a
stream of some magnitude in the rear, stood
Col. Cook and his men, confident that from
this position they could not be dislodged.-
Here they waited the approach of their adj
versaries, doubtful yet whether to regard them
as friends or foes-impatient for the order to
fire, yet restrained by their pacific instructions
from the Texan government, they watched
for some act of aggression to justify them in
testing the temper of their guns. At this
critical moment comes forward Capt Lewis
accompanied by nephew of the Governor
(who speaks and understands the English Ian
guage welD and begs Col. Cook not TO fire, MOI
be concerned. He assures him there is nc
need of an engagement, as the Governor i:
disposed to receive them kindly, and that arti
cles of agreement had been already entered
INTO lot an aTHlIStlce, WHICH IIllSnt ledu 10
friendly alliance. On the other hand he re-
presented the Mexican force as numerous and
strong; that in an hour they would be sur
rounded by FIVE thousand men, all armed ant
obedient to their chief; that it was vain to re-
sist, and the Governor was anxious to avoid &
conflict, and would deal better by them thar
they had any right TO expect.
) These representations and assurances, com
ing from their own interpreter, and supported
! BY the Governors nephew, exercised fata
influence, They inclined to listen to term:
of capituation. which were agreed upon a
: follows:
: Theywere to lay down their arms, and re
turn forthwith TO Texas; their persons wer,
to be safe and inviolate; the Governor was t.
5 protect them against the populace-to escor
them TO the borders of Texas, and there hav
ing restored to them their guns, despatched
4 them for THAR hn,,,oc