Mobile register and journal., 1846-12-30

MASSACRE OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY AMERICANS We announced by a telegrapic des- patch from Washington, on Friday last, that Mex can paper had been received in Washington, con taning letter from Mazatlan, on the Pacific, re- porting that one hundred and fifty AmerIcan sa ors, from the boats of the squadron, had been massacred The lntegencer gives the following authentic do- cuments on the subject and but little doubt is now entertained of there being truth in the report The following is an official Mexican document, rem the Secretary of State 10 the Secretary of War, in the following terms, startling enough. if authentic
 ' Under date of the 2Sh of October, the Com mlssar General of the State of Sinaloa writes to me as follows:
 "'Exc-llent Sir:-Intehgence has reached me that the North American enemies, who had invaded Upper California, have been almost entirely destroy ed by Captain Flores win the small body of troops under his command, aided by the patriotic inhabI taBts of that peninsula. They captured several of the American launches, killed a number of their men, and made some prisoners The total exter minaion of the rest is confidently expected, not only from their great inerorty of numbers, but from the zeal with which our people defend their soIl and their cause.
 '.'As to this place, have nothing new to report to your Excellsncy. The American sloop of war blockading the port is alone, and attempts nothing beyond the blockade.
 s"Ou the 24th, the French sloop of war La Bril-
 
 set. to anchor in Ihis bay, from yalparalso, and Upper Caifornia bringing the information above conveyed Please to communicate it to his excel lency Ihe Supreme Execulive.'
 "l do myself accordingly that pleasure. God and Lherty. HARD TAmARIZ."
 The sams paper, lhe Mexican Monitor, of the 18th, gives the following version more detailed of the news from Sinaoa, given just above;
 'Massaerc of He North lAmGicans at Cisdad de Los AngeIos - Mdzatlgn, Oct 2S.-By the arrival of lhe French corvette of war La Brillanie, from San Francisco and Monterey of Upper California. we faye inc following important
 "The necessity of covering lhat wide territory at many points, nearly all threatened by the Indians, has compelled ihe Americans to leave in each of them most insignificant number of mem so that al Monerev-which, as the capital, is ihe most i'm portaDt station to delend-there were only thirty soldiers; at San Francisco, where a blcck house has been erected, only ten or twelve men.
 "At Los Angeles, formerly the seat of the politi- cal authorities of the territory. the Indians uniting with the other inhabitanls, fell upon and pu death one hundred and fifty soldiers of the American squadron and this news, which is to certain point confirmed by what we have previously published of the rising in that town. and seems a haturai conse quence of that movement is authenticated from varI ous trustworthy sources of information.
 "One hundred and sty Mermons have arrived in California from the Sandwich lslands.
 Al Monterey is published journal eniiiling ,t- self the Cafornan,' and all it's articles, (which are in favor of tho nyaders) written in Spanish
 "The commander of the French vessel above mentioned, Count de BusseI. assures us that ihe North Americans are in ihe greatest dread lest the Mexican government should send against them any force whatever: for they now see that the, have made very hazardous step in occupying California with such small means He adds that, in bls con- oeption they can dispose of no force with winch 10 attempt Mazallan."