The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1847-03-19


capture of Majors BorIand, and Gaines, and
CSssius M. Clay, with their men. The sue
cess appears to have been Unattended with
any loss bf life. The detachment were sur.
prIsed while at Watering place, early in The
rnofning.
The names Of the officsra and mon wore
published. The list coz ,ainsd the names Of
two Majors, three Captains, one Lieutenant,
throe Ssargeanis, and siKty-one pr.vRteG.
The Mexican force making the capture,
was commanded by Gen. Minon.
There vas u rumor that Santa Anna was
marching upon Monterey.
STILL LATER-COL. MORGAN.
CAMARGo, MExICo, Feb. S, ls47.
My Dear Sirs:-When wrote you last, toe
mule train was in check bya ranchero force
near Aldamas. Col. Morgan, of the Ohio
volunteers, who is in command at this place,
upon the receipt Of the intelligence, lmmedi-
ately mounted q party OF bis men and precee-
ded to the scene ofatlon. Whom he arrived
there he found tho train had halted, and wal
ted reinforcement. He orderd it forward
and preceded tive days, and when within
three miles of CspidarO he encamped for the
night placing bis mules (absut 30O) in an
enclosure, with a guard over them. That
night the ladrones or robbers fred upon the
guard, sanpCded ths mules and broke for the
chapparel. A party pursued them and recap
tured ak but eighty-two Col. Morgan, With
aparty Of thirty men, started on the trail,
which winding aleng the bases Of the Rsun-
tains and through the chapparel, led iu tho d.
reetion of China.
la his route he passed sevsral rancheros
occupied and owned by these ladrones, and
used by theW as rendezyousss and dspots.
In several Of them be found pistols, knivos,
swords, saddles, &C., &c, all ofwhich he d.
rooted TO be burnt. Thus he continued on
until he reached Chsa, and in it's suburbs he
found large rancho which was we'll knevn
IRON lis elevated position 10 bs one used by
these people as lockout, and for ether pur-
poses. This. nlso the COL burnt. He was
about TO commence his operations on the
town, az no had trailed the party inte it, and
was only induced TO desist by the sntreaties
Of the Alcalde aad his offers to return the
Same number efmules. The COL remained
two days received eighty-two mules, better
than those he lost, sent them TO the train,
which hU directed TO pass Sn to Monterey, re-
quiredfresh horsesler his men paid theAlea,da
for what provisios they wanted, and left with
many ProtestatioRs Of friendship from the AL
cnlde and the pres,-slways ,hs two head
devils in every town Of Mexico.
TO show yos what favorable impression
the Col. made upon them, when he spoke
Ofthe probability Of viRting them again facts
nature were repeated in his negbsr-
hood, they told him he need not put himself
to the trouble of coming himself. bu, jus, to
send them word and they would do every
''%g onsss nssssSaI 'ne came near grabbing tho ia.
nous Cara jabal, enc Of the moving spirits of
all these depredations. He was sitting in the
house with the priest--they had Just returned
rom rnass--when Morgan and his party
came is sight, and the sentinel Oh the watch
tower no doub. communicated the fact 10
him, and he 'oGmosed.'
Expeditions of this kind are the best csa.
ciliatory pelIcy which can be adopted with
such people. In the naighborhood of ChHa,
MetemoreIlos, Aldamas, Reynosa and Mier
are regularly organized ladrones, to whom
the Alcaldes and priests give their counter.
ance and support. The party Col. Morgan
was ia pursuit of WAS not loss thaa two hun-
dred strong and the Alcalde ofths place has
q son in the band. FROM their former
habits of smuggling, murder;ag and rsbbing,
they have acquired aperiect knowledge oftho
passes, roads, paths and lrai!es in the whole
Country, therefore yeu can imagine how
easy il is for these robbers te escape pursuit;
we must therefore fall on sone other plan to
prevent their depredations. Con. Taylor,
| am told, has pow in Monterey, hostages
from the little town where 1t. Rithis, with
dispatches, was taken; and further, that the
general has given the authorities three weeks
to produce the actors Of this tragedy, or he
will level their town to the ground. Let
this system be KEEP, up, aad in short time
nothing Of this kind will occur; any other
is fooliag away time.
Capt. Ben McCulloch is again in the field.
He, with about twenty picked Texas b'hoys,
joined General Tayer few days since at