Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1846-06-11
LATER FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.
MATAMOROs TAKEN
WITHOUT OPPOSITION.
MEXICAN SOLDIERS DESERVING in
GREAT NUMBERS.

-, The steamship Telegraph has just arr.
&, we'd from Point Isabel. Through the polite.
ness Of her obliging clerk, we have been
" furnished wi tn the followiog information.
He reports t hat on the 18th instant, de-
4achment of 500 regulars and $50 Volun-
teers proceeded to Barita, and took posses
sion of it, and established military depot.
On the night of the 18th, an express az
rived fir m Gen. Taylor, stating that he
had crossed the Rio GranGe and taken the
CITY of Matamoros without opposition, the
Mexicans having fed the city.
The Mexicans from the last accounts
were deserving their ranks, in B2ttallons'
Two regiments, excepting about 53O nav
ing marched few days previous, were sta-
toned at Brazos Point, awaiting the orders
's,f Gen. TAYLOR, as it was thought lhey
4 ,e.ve on The Goth for MatamOros, via
the nfu Barita road.
Col. Mcintosh, Capt. Page, and all the
others who were wounded in me action u
the 9th and 9Th, are at Point Isabel ana were
xecovering.-N o. Bee.
From. the Gulues:on Netrs Of Thursday.
The Telegraph is Just in, Is hours from
Point Isabel.
~CdpLs Aulu, VI ACACSAdPh3 "hO AoS
had opportunities for obtaining correct in
formation, has given us some interesting
particulars in relation to our army opera.
" tons hut we have scarcely time to allude to
them.
The escape of Capt. Thornton at the
time his company was SO badly cut up is
almost incredible. After carrying him
safely over high hedge, into the enclosure
brought him safely over fences and deep
i ravines, He then swan the Rio Grande
above Matamorns, passing down below the
.own on ihe opposite side, but IN attempting
to leap broad ditch he missed his footing,
when both horse and rider were thrown by
the fall.
Camain Thornton was so stunned that he
was taken up by the Mexicans perfectly I'M
conscious of what had happened. After the
battle of the 9Th he was exchanged and re-
stored to our army.
Cant. Aud thinks the whole number OF
our killed and wounded must amount to
more than three 'hGndred.
BESIDES the wounded takento ST. Josephs
y here are now forty at Point Isabel too bad
ly wounded to be removed. All but thlee1 IL
is thought, will recover.
ing but one leg between them all.
Alter being shot in the arm, Col Mcintosh
received a bayonet wound in the mouth,
which passed through one side of his head
but there are yet hopes that he will recover.
The condition of the brave and esteemed
Captain Page is melancholy indeed; the
whole of his lower jaw with part OF his
tongue and palate was Shot away by grape
shot. He however, survives, though entire
ly incapable of speech, only communicating
his thoughts by writing on slate. He re-
ceives the necessary nutriment for the sup
. port of life with much difficulty.
- lie does not desire to live but converses
with cheerfulness and exultation upon the
success of oru army.
All our accounts represent the Mexicans
as having fought on the 9Th and 9Th with
the courage and desperation which would
have reflected creei on the troops of any ma
ton.
They were nearly in state of starvation
and had been promised the ample supplies d
the American camp, in case they would Sc
cure the victory.
They met the charge Of our troops manfully
and stood the destructive fire pouring in up
on them without gixing way, until the
works were encountered with the dead and
wouOSoI