The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1847-07-09

CARDS this latter portion as very impor.
tam, but provinces the Secretary's rep
resentation as to the number in the field
utterly false. How this letter was inter
cepted we are not informed.
From the Army Of Gen. Taylor.
Affairs al the Matamoras-A Mcrican
Express Rider Arrcstcd-P Pursuit IF
Amcrican De5cyicrs. - Proposition to
Recapture SodiHo-A IurIcy IF one IF
tie Cavairy aad Bioody Retaliation-
Prospects Of tie March 10 San LUIS.
The Fashion also touched at Brazos
Santiago, on the goth ult., on her voyage
from Vera Cruz, and brought over thence
the following gentlemen: Col. J. play
Tor, Of the subsistence department; Capt.
Chase; Adjutant Caldwell, I'd Kentucky
regiment; and L|ieutenants Wooster,
Montgomery Allen and Miner, of the
army.
From the Flag of the 10Th ult., we
learn that Capt. Eaton relieves Colonel
Taylor in the charge of the subsistence
department and will make his head quar-
tiers at Brazos Island. Mai. Colquohon
acts as subsistence agent at Matamoras
The Flag makes grateful mention fool.
Taylor's services while stationed there.
Maj. Ben McCuiloch has arrived at
the Brazos with $50 horses for the ser.
vice. Fifty of them, says the Flag, will
be reserved for his wi spy company, and
the rest probably used in mounting Col.
Buffers Dragons. The Flag suggests
that Col. b. should range the country DO.
tween Matamoras and Victoria.
The same paper also mentions the
death of John Comegys, a man well
known in N. Orleans as a printer and a
reporter. Ilo was accidentally shot, on
board the steamer Whiteville, Just be-
low Reynosa, on the 10th ult.
We give below a letter from the Plea
yuno correspondent at Monterey:
Speciai Correspondence Of Tie Picayune.
MONTEREY, (MeXico) June 6. lS47.
The Illinois volunteers and Captain
Pike'ssquadron Of Arkansas cavalry have
been here several days. but leave to. NOR
row for Camargo and homo.
Since | left Saltillo news has reached
us of quite n successful scout Of Lieut..
Tobin, with n party of McCulloch's Ran
gers, which ! presume Col. Bclknap will
have no objection to his Mentioning
When a long distance from Buena Vista
(near what place ! have been unable to
learn he discovered "A party often or doz
on armed persons. and gave chase. It
proved to be a Moxicnn express rider
from Gen, Sanchez at Patos to tho Gov.
crnor of Sas Luis, with an escort, mostly
desertors from our army, The bearer Of
dispatches and horse and papers were
captured, but the men escaped.
Tho contents of the dispatches con.
veyed tho information that thele were
very few American troops in the neigh
borhood Of SaltiIlo, at that city, or along
the line; people snarling under injuries
aud wrongs, aud anxious to fight to the
last for their country, but prevented from
want OF means Tor %resentiug their inju-
RES; aud recommending that troops be
despatched with all possible speed to re-
take S%aItillo, an easy task. They would
hardly come with any large force, except
perhaps cavalry, and they are of no nc.
count.
They can scarcely have any artillery
now 70 spare, and am n little afraid that
Con. Sanchez, if ho it was who sent the
despatch, would not realize his expecta.
ton of It's being such ian sassy task
There is a pretty smart chance of artil-
lcry in that neighborhood,
The horse which the Mexican dispatch
bearer rode, singular TO say, was one
stolen from Lieut.. Sturgis some months
Gen, Wool, ! am told, dispatch.
ed some of the rangers and a company Of
drasoons after the residue of the party
as soon as Capt, Tobiu reported. Ifthey
are taken and are d~eserters, they will
have a hard time of it.
have alluded in my previous letters
To the murdcrs committed at Saltillo by
Mexicans upon Americans. 1Hcy k,Hed
one TOO many, On the 3lst May, n mem.
Der OF the Arkansas cavalry while lead.
ing nus horse in a grove neal the Ala.
media used as a race track, was accos
ted 10y two MoXicaus. who extended their
hands to him in a friendly manner but.
instead OF tho gasp of friendship, tho as.
Sassin's knlte was plunged into his heart
aud he was cast into a ditch, while his
horse was made away with.
Some of the companions Of tho deems.
ed, who came to join on the track soon
alter, discovered traces of blood, and on
pursuing them found the wounded man
breathing his last, with Just life enough
to tell the cause of his situation. Not
lar from the place two Mexicans woro
shortly afterwards discovered, whose con.
duet was suspicious. and they were cap
tnred. 1t was afterwards deemed mad
yisablot opermitt hemlo be regularly tried
party of mon demanded them, aud they
were taken out and shot. In the sleeve
OF one was found a bloody knife, cores
ponding with tho size of the wound
This was not enough. ! regret to state
many men we're killed that day
some say seventeen, and some more.-
Comment is unnecessary.
Col. Curtis, formerly of the Ohio resi.
ment, has volunteered for the war, and
been appointed Goyornor oC Salt;lo