Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1847-07-21

OuIlduu duu 1diuesf duu oil uHlSls AluS'fL
IicadSprisoner,, hadsbeen released and
|swasordered It'd Tampic with very Hlrge
escori;esand 5yhen f@ilhin $50 miles OF
Tampico, .wereemet by Urea, who de-
iainedi ithemsas prisoners and ordered oul
allfthe men he could raise for the ;purfose
ofsattacklng Tainpico. Th hfeeicompa lies
I!oflLe, Lib RegimentSofs Infantry which
had beenswaillng !5at;;;T Tanipicos sbar for
ansportalions7ioisV Vera ssC Cruz, had been
.ordered.up tosT Tampicos fearing attack
aud every man hadlbeen put uader arms,
l,.Syf s<s sSa ,sss l,si e
EXPLOITS OF GAPTsV AEKEls.
Letter. from one Of Captdin5:I alker' tF2Dp
Ills exploits aoith the GiKrit as. 1'he
teroriofhis namc-P ospsstss of pet'ce,
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We have received anolhsf sinteres,ang
letter from D. J. L., OF Baltimore county,
TO his brother, which willbeionRd to con.
tain matters oficonsiderablss interest: 2
PERoTE, (ME1Ico,) W uNiss 9,fl547. :
Dear Brother.-We shayeiHuiteNlatcly
been engaged in several very dangerous
scouls--at least they might pc 80 itthese
cowardly dogs were nolso easi!yfrighlensd
a, the talis,nauic name Fof alker-a few
ouly of which Iihaves stime 10 relate, as I
am writing by candle:lightsasery much
faIigued and sleepy from The iosslof'lhrse
nights rest, and the train is ndW here on
its way to Jalapa, and is the epply chance
i may have for some lime.
We attack towns with S, 5,0009nhabitants.l
On Wednesday; alastwe wenton scout
of this kind ioa town called IRinconada,.
there were bur sixty sof s--Ge Acharged
into it at run, and you neveFiniyour life
sawsuch scampering amonSth the colrards.
This place was twenty miles d5ont Perote.
We left there at IL O'Clock. teebeal- up a
swamp where some mule drivafs had been
murdered. Before we arrived at The
place we met with three or four :Mexicans,
and with them one osthe%mebswho@twas
with the murdered.p party. :EHEssgstad lied
him aud went in pursuit ofitheF Fother two,
and while they wore, absent he5untied him
self with bis teeth and eseaReG They
told US where The murdered 3manllay We;
marched forward in double quick time,
aud when we arrived 1.-THE swamp there
they lay sure euodsh, stripped entirely
naked. aud chopped aud maasled lin the
most, horrid and savage manner. The
man who escaped said there were 40 oil
the murderers. esch mannedIWith pistol
and halchet, and that they went into a
rancho town some distance from there,
We returned to r. and made chem feed;
us and our horses. and at 5lSo,elock in the
morning charged into this ranche eand took
every d. of them. sl[;wassentsround the
town in search Of ofskulkers-fioand several
two of Them were sploughids viii; oxen
and | drove lhemifrom their Plons shss thin
king at the san1es time twenty of them
would not drive me from mine: old Bal.
limore country. We matcIisp gust our
own number (nineteeul inlos.ftIe castle,
prisoners. This was about twenty miles
from La Pueba. 81
Is Wehere crossed a prairie, md il Wessaw
one wolfswe saw Eve hundfs g. You may
Ihdnk hisa szasssss.iss ds sS5
were ten times thar number, for Isnct a
howling,l anarling and clasRing Of teeth 1
never heard. Is =
I had afull view today DE Mount Ora
zabah, The highest point Of slandl ever
expec, to see The top IS always covered
with snow and from its appearance it is
now several feet deep. sss's'sss -
The water here $50 coldsil will make
your teeth ache, and in. all the towns
among these mountains, They have any
number OF Gounlains-some of them orna-
ments in lhe MOS, beautiful and fanciful
manner.
The castle ofSan Juansis not compar.
alively drop in the bucket, 10 this castle
of Perole. Some say it covers 30 acres.
but l think len would benearer the mark ;
and as for strength, Icould go into it with
one hundred men, aud bid defiance to
Merico. The 1lexicans would have made
stand here, butlhey. had taken the largesg
Of their guns TO Cerro Gordo, there 10 be
destroyed. "Oh I! you Ydnkses"'
! ] sometimes see the newspapers from
The State, and it is guile amusing 10 see
your speculalions about. peace, and "ac-
counts from The army What is The use
OF 'cTyPOS peace, WDcu tHeIe,is w peaCot
Il tell you your sheep had justgas well Try
to form lreatyf peace With The wolf.
There is no more dependence to be placed
in these ,reacherous, blood.thirty hounds,
than there is in rabid dog. They will
reach out one hand 10 grasp yours 10
friendship, and with The other plunge The
assassin's s,iletto TO your heart. have
seen so much Of their lreachery, that ]
hate them all collectively. They not only
murder and rob their victims, but they
chop their Bloody corpsesin inio fragments,
and scatter them'to'l the -four winds OF hea-
ven. Would auybura savage foe commit
such acts ofviolence to decency, TO say the
least Of it But our gallant captain is
made of the right m materialYtoa cope with
Them. "Even his cnamepis equal Ito a
host, and we canr3coax geyen.a decent
fight out Of them.z.. d. J. Z.
ST. LOUIS, June 30.
Very late from Cali nia.-A.letler has
been received in this city from Monterey.
Upper c california, datedthe 14thiof April
last. Ii was lransmiitedthrough inte-
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