Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1846-06-10
--latest from the s1[raaly.
Foom the N. 0. 1ropic, Extra, May %
arrival of the Telegraph.
MATAM MORAS EN-!

NJ A T A NJ RAS TAKEN!
The steamship Telegraph, Capt. Audi
has Jus, arrived from Brazos Santiago,
which place she left on The Goth. The
most important items will be found below.
The steamer Sea rcschod The BraZos Oh
tho 18th, with Volunteers from this city.
The schooners Cornelia aud Atlantic
also arrived that day.
We have numerous letters, but have
ouly time TO state items Of The nows.
The wounded at Point Isabel were all
doing very well.
The company containing the Printers
from this city had left for Gen. Tay'or's
Camp. They told the General to thrust
them upon the Mustangs as quick ar pos
sible, for they were wanted back here as
soon as possible.
All the vessels which left here for the
government had arrived safe.
There was a fleet Of American meh-of-
war lying of Ba:o Chica. watering the
ships in the river anu assisting the army.
The mouth Of the Rio Grande is now in
our possession. ii is TO be fortified.
The vessels at Brazos are the Drigs Ap-
alachicola apd Millaudin; and the schoon-
ers Harriet Smith, Waterman. Gertrude,
Ann louisa, Enterprise and Decatur. L.
Fucn,;the Gaiuesion Nsios Of lie 22d. :
The Steamship Telegraph has just ar.
rived from Point Isabel. Through the
polilencss Of her obliginS clerk. we have
been fnrnishcd with The following iufor-
nation. a.
+ Reports--That on the afternoon ,of the
I7lh inst, detachment of 300 regulars
aud $50 volunteers proceeded to Barila,
and took possession of it, and established
a military depot. In the night of the 18th
an express arrived from General Taylor,
stating that he had crossed the Rio Grande
aud taken the city of Nlatanoras without
opposition, the Mexicans having fled the
city.
The Mexicans, from las, accounts, were
deserving their ranks in baltaIions.
The two American Regiments, with
the exception Of about $50, having march
ed few days previous, were stationed al
The Brazos Point, awaiting the orders Of
Gen. T., and it was thought that they
would leave on the Goth for Matamoras,
via the old Barila road-Col. Mcintosh,
Capt. Page, and all the Others thai were
wounded in the action Of the !Slh and 9th,
were at Poin, Isabel, and were recovering.
The Telegraph is just 26 hours from
Point Isabel, aud has on board deck aud
2 cabin passengers.
The sloop Orange Branch, Capt. Un
derhil, arrived yesterday "a hours from
Indian Poiat-near Port Lavaca.
Capt. U. Informs is that about 100 men,
principally German volunteers from In
dian Point. went on the sloop Washington
for Point Isabel, Oh Friday last.
Capt. U. says that report reached
Victoria last Friday, that one hundred
Germans, escorting one hundred wagons
from New Brunsels 10 The new settlements
on the Santa Saba, seventy miles above,
were suddenly attacked by large body
of Cumanches, supposed to number seve
raj thousand, whereupon the emigrants
abandoned their wagons, 10 seek security,
leaving their property in the hands of the
savages. There appears 10 be some un.
certainty as to numbers, etc., but The main
facts are substantially correct.
Capt. U. informs us also that report
came overland to Port Lavacco last Sun
day, to the effect that large body Of In
dians, consisting of The warriors of several
tribes, comprising the Cumanche nation,
lowering about in tho vicinity Of The Am
erican intrenchments opposite Matamoras.
with view doubtless to join The victori-
ous party and share The plunder of The de.
feated.
Capt. Auld, Of the Telegraph, who has
had opportunities for correct information,
has given us some interesting particulars
in relation to our army occupations. which
we have now scarcely time to alude to.
The escape of Capt. Thoro,on, at the
lime his company was so badly cut up,
is almost incredible. After carrying him
safely over the high hedge enclosure into
which he had been decoyed, bis horse
bore him swiftly over several other fences
and deep ravines, swimming the Rio
Grande above Matamoras, then passing
down below the town on the opposite
side, iu attempting 10 leap broad ditch
he missed his footing, when both horse
and rider were thrown. By the fall Capt.
T. was 50 stunned that he was soon after