Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1846-06-06
from the ". o. Picayune, May 90.
MATAMORAS TAKEN

And MA lAMORAS TAKEN.
$ an Inc Telegraph has at last arrived =
ure om[Inss news that Gen. Taken has TAX
the na'amoras, as we all anticipated. MOI
and gun was fired in defence ofthe town ~
S Of ltollowns is from the Galveston News
and the 22d inst: ''0"S
e. The steamship Telegraph has lust .
~; vs. rly ' from Point Isabel. Through n
ace ' polIteness Of her obIging clerk we b,v
~ been furnished with the following inGo,
ale nation: "'"s 'ntor
be one reports that on the afternoon or n,
of iIn IN INST detachment of 800 repnvs rs
o, 'lI 0oo volunteers proceeded 10 Buri,o
10 look possession of it, and estabIisbad >
n III military depot. On The night octbe 19tb
an express arrived from Gen. TAYLOR stu
!! my 'nat ne had crossed the Rio Grando
] anu 'aken the city of Matamoros wi,bout
opposition the Mexicans having fled ,ba
ne Mexlcans from last accounts waro
ueSsertlng their ranks in ba.taIions WIG
Two American regiments, with the ex
Ic c OF about $50, having marched
-" lays previous, were stationed at Rro
rs aoS roln'' awaiting the orders of Gen. r. II
, uuu oa IL was thought they would leave On IL
=, ,"o sun !or Matamoros, via the old Bnr;- a
ia road Col. Mcintosh, Captain pana
ana all The others that we're woundodS;' cy
t Ins aG'on OF the 9th and 9th are at poin, at
'SaOei' and are recovering. O al
Inc Telegraph is inst twantv civ h vi
,o ro,nt Isabel, and has on board seven dc
'7'k and two cabin passengers" tie
The Telegraph left the Brazos IN ,ho &C. &c;
.:ernoon OF the 10Th, and reached Gal ov ~.
es'on on the Goth. She was detained o Is
nere oy heavy easterly gale, which No
o'ninehcec on the evening of the 2qd in. ror
'ant' and continued until the Esd. cansinr oe ~.
a overflow of water up as high as he T
femcnt House. On the 93d tha p '"0
zen bark Carlos Williams, with I8o on' r no'
rants ran ashore and soon bilged ST. PIE
as boarded the next day by a pilot boat o Oam
"a one woman and two children taken do DO"
- pus sne boat capszed and they were
The rest of the crew and PASSENGERS
ere got off safe. The vessel was go
S. The schooner Margaret, which Isn TO
preceding day, drifted ashore on *, ,b :, 81
20. = sue Oh galveston and all hands were y
A ship of 700 tons was thrown On ho. ry
Hona u'' 81 ne | steamers James Cage "a
nome lett Galveston six hours nre 10
US US to the gale. N'' pre- RI
ne Legislature of Texas adiopr,oa State
=, i9'n instant, having previously decIar A.
me Hon. David F. Kaufma n dulv al al 18Th
gress op tTI ,In the FIRST District in Miss
'no' Inc majority of P. over WI Ohio
% % IS stated at 43. Kaufman wos al earle
9 oy majority Of $40. u show
ne schooner Sptfre arrived At "a,
% :, on the evening of the 21st win
:: . W. Taylor and all his sub.mar Memo,
living apparatus. - maj teer ca
he sloop Olive Branch, Cant Irndo. CAV
from, I,a a.. .'1o al Galveston on the A comp
ron, ,on indian Point, reported that ~ will
l ~ men, principally German voIun. tena,
t ,p , 'ne FONT, sailed for Point lisa. 4 cor
me 10Th, Tor the sloop Wabash A black
reached Victoria on the 18th, that lisheG
ermans who were escorlinp a ,r raa A Reoir
wagons from New BraunfeIs n thn will ~
0ent on the San sabo, some 70 miles les i colo
oancbo Indip oy large number adjuta
r. ,,Lo' several thousand inl the Ii
~ ~ "nereupon the emigrants aban' COMM,
cir property and retreated for saca onar,o
apt u also reported that a rnmor music,
=. HaVara, overland on the 18Th panic,
snect that large body of Canaan see ali,
ere hoVe.rlng about the vicinity If me
DIN the yictorous ,a ~ was s,uppos, A Compan
defeated TIE ""u pun consist
,s an article raI,.; VISION news seconc
'exas. stating Nc " volunteer porals;
Iunteers have 'o0oon why no as estab
I thew arc So ~ the seat OF dent.
rs with arms and equipments of " c cp,.d. on
Inc United States agent, Lieut. I O",.S
y, refusing to furnish them mn f t.e ,.1I
ound that he has no AUTHORITY a. va va. ',e.'er
'' VI the state staff: | S,