Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1846-06-06
r FROM TEXAS
MURDER OF FOURTEEN AMERICANS BY THE
MEXICAHs.


MExICAHs.
The steamship New York arrived ycster-
day about I O'Clock, in 80 hours from Calves
ton. The only news from the army she brings
we find in The Galveston papers, communicate
ed by the sloop Tom Jack, Parker, which ar
rived on Thursday from Corpus Christi. She
left Aransas Pas on the 25lh uIt.; at which
place the steamship Sea had just arrived from
Point Isabel. On board the Sea were Mr..
McCleister, Supposed TO have been killed in
Capt. Walkers scouting party, Lieut.. Hum
phreys and Mr.. Rogers. McCleister was Sc
verely wounded and supposed by the Me&i-
cans to be dead. lie was subsequently found
in the c%happoral and taken to Matamoros,
where he was well treated and recovered from
his wounds.
The wounded men had been removed from
Point Isabel to ST. Joseph's Island and were
all doing well.
A party Of our dragons, as previously sta
ted, had pursued the retreating Mexicans from
Matamoros, opertaking a party Of them, taken
thirty prisoners, besides killing a number in
the skirmish. 1t is said that Gen. Taylor's ar
my are encamped a mile from the city, and
that the soldiers are not permitted to enter the
town.
The most distressing news is the murder Of
a party Of nfteen Americans, including two
women aud a child, between Point Isabel and
Corpus Christi, By a party Of Mexieans, ex-
ceeding in cold blogded cruelty any Of the pre-.
vious atrocities Of these savages. 1t appears
that a party Of fifteen, Of whom Mr. Rogers
spoken of above was one, left Corpus Christi
for Point Isabel on the I'd or 3D. inst. They
arrived at the Little Colorado just previous to
the battle on the 9Th ult., where they were
surprised by a company of Rancheros, and be-
ing overpowred by numbers, we're induced by
MertcaH promises TO surrender as prisoners
of war. No sooner had those blood thirsty
dogs obtained possession of their arms than
they stripped and robbed their victims, bound
them beyond the power of resistance, and hav.
ing ravished the women before their faces,
cut all their Threats, one fiend performing the
horrible butchery. Rogers saw bis father
and brother butChered before him in this ter.
rlble manner before his own turn came, and
his W escape was owing 10 the fact that
while the wound upon his throat was not fa-
tai, he had the presence Of mind to feign him.
self dead, and was accordingly, with all the
balance, thrown into the Colorado, where be
managed TO escape unseen, and swan to the
other side of the river. Thence he subse-
made his way to the Rio Grande, was
taken prisoner, sent to the hospital in Mata.
moros, and, after the battle, exchanged 1t is
stated that a letter was written from Corpus
Christi two days before the departure of this
company, giving information to the Mexicans
Of their march, and of the amount oftheir mo
ley. 1t was not, we learn, without much re-
.u~ctance, and someethreats from an American
that The Mexican officer consented to
exchange Mr.. Rogers.
The Galveston Civilian Gazette says that
treaty was concluded at Torrey's trading
louise on the 18Th ult. with such Indian chiefs
s were in attendance, iueludings some half
Iozen Of the Camanches, though all that tribe
vas not represented, and the Wacoes,a Kea-
HES, and I0wCanies had no representatives
resent.