Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1844-07-24

+. 1.-The supreme government oil Inc fhe6l
can Republic trusts in the justice ofsits
+. cause, and hopes for complete triumph
against proceeding the most unbeard o.
q and daring possible TO occur, especially in
$ an age, in which The. spirit of usurpation
and conquest is so solemnly condemned
The undersigned 10 addressing this note
to your Excellences, with all the docu'
men,s cited, has the honor TO renew the
assurance of his highest consideration.
- (Sigoed) J. M. de BOCA NEGRA
From the Ne,o Orleans Picayune, July IL.
LATE AND INTERESTING FROM
TEXAS. s
Promising state of the Crops-Improrcment o1
The CoHntry-Apathy in Relationto Annera
80 ation-Thc Prince do Solms-Com Moore
Es Desperate Fight toith Indians-Col. Hays ana
his PARTY Victorious-A Another Eght-Lctte,
from Correspondent.
BY the arrival yesterday Of the steam
5 ship New York, Capt. Wright. and sloop
Sarah Boyle, Capt. Small, we have Gal
Ye,uo dates up to the 8lhins. and Houston
to the 9TH. The news will be found inter-
estiug to our readers. =
Accounts from almost every section
represent the crops as highly promising.
The corn crop is regarded as perfectly safe.
saws The editor Of the Civilian, and the
indications for cotton could not be better,
although Of this cropitwill never do to be
TOO sanguine. Should The weather, how.
ever, prove at all favorable, The amount
raised will greatly exceed that of any other
year.
= The rate of Texas Government exche-
uuer bills was so cents at the Galveston
Custom House.
a The Texas papers appears to say but
little about annexation. since the treaty
was rejected by our Senate, The editors
are now more busily engaged upon home
or local affairs.
The Telegraph and some of the other
papers, severely blame Gen. Houston for
his peace policy towards the Indians, and
for his Indifference in attending 10 the
wants OF TIM suffering of the Mier prison
ers, now at Perole, in Mexico.
, Since the Two fights with the Indians 10
the neighborhood of Corpus Christi, it is
said that Col. Kiuneyis in daily expecta-
tion of another attack. 1t is also thought
,hatlhe government, Of Mexico is. in treaty
with all The Western Indians, including
the Lipans and Carancahuas, aud is giving
them blankets, ammunition, &c., to iu-
duce them to commit rayages on the from
tiers.
The Court Martial in the case Of Com.
Moore had made but little farther advance
with his trial. We learn that several
members Of the Cour, were sick.
Captains Bell and May, Of the U. S.
Drasoo arrived al Washington, Texas,
on tue 26th of June from Forl Jesup. 1t
was understood that they had communi-
cations from the Texian Government from
Gen. Taylor.
The brig Jeanette Maria had arrived al
Galveston with forty Ave emigrants. The
most interesting intelligence by the arrival
is the account of a desperate action re-
Gently fought near the Pinto Trace. in
which the daring Col. Hays, with only IA
men, defeated a body of Camanches, Wa.
Goes, aud Mexicans, numbering over rs.
Wegive the following account OF this un-
equal but bloody fight, which we copy
from leltcrin the Houston Star.
"1ays, with his small but daring band,
had been high up ou the. Pierdenalis to
ascertain whether there was any encamp-
meut Of Indians in that section, and was
returning after an unsuccessful search,
when being encamped about four miles
cast Of the Pinto Trace, at point nearly
eeui.distant from Bexar, Gupzales and
Austria, the guard stationed in his rear to
watch out on his trail, discovered about
ten Indians following it, and Immediately
reported the facts 10 Hays. They were
seen about tue same time by the Indians,
who fell back into some brush, with scat
tering timber ntermixed. The Texans
saddled up and advanced towards this
place Of concealment. when three or four
Innians made their appearance, and as if
for the first time perceiying The while men,
Aed with great precipitation and apparent
alarm. Hays, however, was too old an
''Ipdian6ghter" to be caught by such traps
and made no efforts al pursuit. As soon as
the Indians saw thatthis straiagem was of
no avail, they came out of tie timber, and
displayed their whole force in line some
rs in number. Greatly superior as was
their force, Hays at once determined to
attack them. His men were highly dis
ciplined, of tried courage. their horses well
broke. and the average number Of shots
to each man. about eight; The face ofthe
country in that section is brnken and rocky,
with a growth of scrubby live oaks and
black jacks, with an underground of bush.
A short distance in The rear oftbe Indians
was sleep hill, fIom The summit Of which
stretched a prairie plain, its sides rocky
and covered with brushwood. Tie Tex.
ans advanced slowly, the Indians falling
back until they crowned the hill, where
they dismounted, formed in line, and lse-
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