The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-07-15


for silver in which they have sufficient confidence to bury
md many OF The other inhabitants of the country will o
Tn. r,.,,u - From %. the ~ q Delta July
The following cbaacter;s,;c Letter from one of our gal
az ,s VINO 'ook conspicuous par! III .ne a'c ,an Iii
i1,r az lapasc1 Is Wen deserving OF reauing lt1' a.,
and humor. The letter intended for publication,
and is, therefore, written in the free and easy style oil
viii not eDce be adm G svmahw no, ana aaen p,er
est Of ali onr readers The pathetic and hearlendnr
complaint which concludes the letter. respecting the stub
born noncomoativeness OF inc :, oloody Bruno who
led by Jolly ars is decidedly the richest thing we
have read If Mr.. Polk does not promote our friend in
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ' - -
Ems Drr, you asked me Aa keen minses of our
Tabasco expedition. can't go the minutes but if the
s like M Of f yos @ ear tell Of and
well worth the expenditure of a sheet of fooscapso
Sae With Bruno down 70 s the stealing Of chicken
lust think of army of salts suddenly transferred from
ones attention and excite the rsbie organs One thou
transmogrfed into soldiers Shoaldering muskets
Eyes right and face corpora~the word order only
oaulion,' Ne They through the beautiful
and bitches where horses would have oundered Oh,
beautiful sight, and this is the pietw design pre-
interesting of the Tabasco, you must know is fine
city, situated high bluff the right bank of the river,
80 miles its mouth The river narrow, the banks
high and steep, and covered with trees chapparai, and
aags, interviewer with hanging vines and the densest foliage
have Fifty determined could have
every of from the decks passed up, without
right bank Of the river, Which looked Immediately down
on our decks, packed with men The vessels frequently
This way about midnight several men were swept out OF
the boats and from the decks of the vessels Then with
any accdent) and rowing about OF the boats in this
seuchra glare light pick up the lost rendered the
whole strikingy picturesque and Intensely exciting
from the beginning to the ending of the expedition.
On the 2 the squadron anchored off the river Tsbasco
The Scorpion, bearing the commodoros broad pen
dant, having in tow the Washington W and vesavius
towing the Enla, Srombo, Bonita, and Captain Tay-
Der camels, for lifting our vessels over the shoals and
distractions thrown across the river-the boats of the
presented beautiful sight About shutdown we left From
tea and with occasional interruption from the over
on Very gently until o'clock day when we captured
canoe with two Indians, from whom learned that
POSITIONS points fifteen and twenty miles further up.
The tops were filed with shap-shooters and Off
tion we were beginning to feel secure when heavy vol
returned from the heavy guns of the Scorpion Washing
ton and veuvps and from the small arms on deck AND and
pieces mounted in launches towing aern of the Vesuvus
and the way those t,e danced about those launches
decks as these gallant fellows fired voley after voley is
biz escopei balls whzzed through the rigging of the old
Vcsnvins in mournfl strains II was melancholy feeling
too (musc always makes one sad TO be standing still and
be- shot at ike dog and not see an enemy and have no
oiace behind which to dodge Your devoted BODY thought
of getting behind the mainmast; but wo, wo was me
there found big buck negro oecupyng the place You
know that cared nothing aout INV own life. but it would
have distressed my Sally sorely to have been hit
head Strange to say but one of our men was wounded
the balls nearly all passing over us
The awning of the Scorpion Twas told was cut up pref
y badly The Vesvuss sides were pretty well peppered
But foresight sharp
had heard being armed with the revolving rifle and
had most awful horror exposing themselves
fecs They afraid of raising their heads take aim,
shot This little brush was monopozed by
vessels named all the rest being some miles asern. We
learned Tabasco that Bruno commanded here person.
We kept up the river, and anchored shutdown
pace Saea ue levi penu Abou Two mo,s e a,
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