Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-05-18
lHsTEREY, Mice, April 4. -1aI


Edo. Deltq:T7Three days ago.the AL.
calde ard, Priest Of a .smaii town some
twenty miles -distant, On the,road TO China
came in and reported ,gto Gen. Taylor
tho murder oftwenty- four Mexicans, at
iaulops, a small ranch about six miles
from Ram,ls! The murder, was commit
ted: they say, by aParty OF, Anne ricsnS
humble ring about twenty, and was done
IN the night The murdredg men were
first made prisoners, tied, and afterwards
all shot through their heads. The muir
der is said to have been committed on-the
25thnit0 Ontha might train of loaded
wagons. escorted by two hundred infantry
and Rhnht the same number of horse, I'm.
der the command of Col. Mitchell, of the
LIST Ohio regiment, encamped at Marin,
which isaabeSt Ave miles from the scene
ofthe murder. The mounted men were
composed Of U. s. Dragons and Texas
Rangers under the command of Capt.
Graham, Of the I'd dragoons.' Suspicion
rests upon some part of this corps,
thoughino clue has asJet been found to
discover the guilty. The officers in com.
neutrality-suspicious., aud rigid discipline
rians-are ueing,evef5 means :n'tl cir pow.
or to Investigate the matter. Gen! Tay-
Tor has got his stean1up onithe subject,
and determined to have hung every one
who it.can be proved has taken part in
the murder. The town where these
men were killed is but few miles from
tho place where. the large train was cap.
tured and so many wagoners massacred
on the 22d' Of February. Some fifteen
or twenty bfthe wagoners who escaped
from that massacre came up in the last
train, yet there. is no evidence that they
were engaged in the Guaiopa murder.
sslpassed over the place of the massacre
of the r22d of February a few days, ago,
and the scene is truly the most hor.id and
eeToltfngAha | have ever witnessed. The
Teinainsaofthe murdered men, yet unbur.
led, stripped ofevery particle of clothing,
lay Dponithe plains, their flesh deyoured
by Mexican wolves and buzzards, and
their bones bleaching in. the sun. The
train was avery large and valuable one,
. and stretched out from three o-fodr.rniles
in-lsngth. The attack was made upon
belosdort, who. were ia the advance. by
Rlarge body Of Lancers.. The escorts,
40;men, nRder Lieut. Barbour Of the
Kentucky Legion, were a, taken prison.
era; and are now in the possession aoi
Urea. eaJ'he Lancerss charged down the
tFain,i and danced without Inercy.the wag-
6Hers as they ran for their lnesto the
chappa raige! Mors than three ,fourlhs Of
them, tits thought, xere lliiled--and
their bodies shockingty. mutilated and
dishgired. Thoss @ho passed the scene
. few days after, say thai some hadtheir
hearts cut .oGt and suspended upon the
bushes, or thrust into ihsir mouths; the
eyes Of others were dug from their sock.
cts, and Inserted in wounds made in other
parts of Their bodies; and other uau,ilatious
were performed that would make even a
North American savage blush To look at
Kesthese acts, were committed by Gen,
Urrsa's nasn--the regular soldiers Of the
Mexican army! rav, i. ....'.''
-eUrrea, by lsstaccoants, wss at Linare.
expecting reiaforcements. tits rumored
thatsheahas four pieces of artillery with
him.. Marip, eCerralyo, Mier, and China,
viii oil soon be garisoned by our troops,
which will render our communication
with ,Camareo eatiFeIy safe. The troops
here arc in excellent health and condi.
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