Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1847-09-08


!, field of battle. The laures is growing tha
shall bind your brows, and the hemp ar
in the field that shall hang Sanity Hannah
Remember Resky da Plamar, Bony Vic
, tory, and Sarah Gordy Three cheer
for old Colomby land now let's go aHe
that her. .ro ost in widder Fishers barn
!, From N. 0. Picayune, 24h ult.
.tLATER FROM THE RIO GkANDE
Since our last there have been severa
arrivals from The Brazos, by which w
have the Matamoros Flag oflhe l1th, l4tf
and 18th inst.
Much the most important Intelligence by
this arrival is contained in The following
from the Flag of the 18th:
Another Mdssucre.- was
received on Saturday last, confirmed since
by letters from Cerralvo to the 9Th inst,
that scouting party of twenty. seven Tex.
ans, commanded by Capt. Baylor, ordered
out by Col. Abbott, commandan. at Ger.
ralvo, to scour the country between thai
post and Monterey, had fallen in with a
T large body Of Mexicans aud all had been
killed hu, hree.
Our letters Informs us that Capt. Baylor
left Cerralvo on the 9Th inst. and follow.
ing oul his instructions, visited several ran.
chos 10 The neighborhood Of where the re-
cent attacks had been made on the trains
Al two ollhese ranches goods and proper.
ty captured from the trains were found se-
creled in the houses, and The guilt ofa par
icipalion in these robberies being clearly
proven against the Mexican residents. the
property was retaken, the dwellings of the
guilty burned and several known desper-
ale characters killed. With, three prison
ers which he had captured, Capt. Baylor
was returning 10 the main road, when he
found himself surrounded by large force
of Mexicans, stated at three hundred, un.
doubtedly the same force which had al
tackled The trains previously. He was COM
pletely hemmed in and the Mexicans char
j ged upon his small band, killing many ol
Them the first discharge OF fire arms. Three
of the party effected their escape by craw-
ling inlo The chaparral, and got into Ger
ralvo dreadfully lacerateG with thorns.-
(, When they last saw Capt. Baylor, he was
wounded aud unhorsed, but still fighting,
4 and only three Of his men were in their
saddles. They think it impossible that
any more could have escaped, and donol
believe lhatthe Menicans made any priso.
4 ners. Two daysShad elapsed since they
4 got. back 10 Cerralvo, and nothing had
rfruTrosr rtrcTp
i IN mo dwelling ofsone of &the Mexicans
made prisoner by Capt. Baylor, tso5ths
men who escaped report,) were found two
I letters from the chiefalcalde Of Cerralvo tt
Canales informing him in whose possession
he had placed certain goods captured from
| the trains, which he (Canales) had empow
1 cred him 10 dispose Of in Cerralvo, and
also giving him to understand that if he
stood 10 need of arms, horses or men, he
had but 10 make his wishes known and
Ishey would be attended to. These letters
were in Capt. BIS. possession when attack
ed, and have been recovered by the Mex
leans. In consequence flhe report made
10 COL Abbott, he has had the acalde and
several other influential Mexicaus arrest
ed.
After confirming the above, an officer in
the Massachusetts regiment writes from
Cerralvo to friend in this city, under date
of the 9Th of August:
+. "The two last trains up were attacked,
,.and thirty or forty pack mules cut off from
each. A train left here yesterday for Mon
terey, and we have positive Information
that some 400 hlexicans are lying on the
road to cut them off. Things at this post
are in rather slate Of excitement, hardly
day passes without some person being
murdered on tho road, and we lie here,
knowing that the enemy is in large force
in our immediate vicinity, without The
means of acting except on the defensive.
We have no mountedsforce at The post,
nor the means of mounting single man
of our own. should an extreme case Of ne.
cessity require il. llis much to be desired
that The Government will soon see clearly
the folly Of placing troops along this line
with their hands lied, TO be made a laugh
ing stock of by all enemy so contemplate
as lhe Mexicans. lido otknow when we
shall move on, but if at all, 1 think some.
where about tie Isl Of September.
The Flag has become satisfied that all
intentions of an advance towards San Luis
by the column Of Gen. Taylor have been
abandoned, The Flag condemnslh course
considering il an essential step on our part
10 occupy San Luis Poos, aud oren COM
municaions from that city to Mexico.
+ Gen. Marshall and Maj Churchill passed
up the Rio Grande on the 17lh inst, Oh
their way ojoin Gen. Taylor.
Here is a paragraph from the Flag of the
14rh lhatsmay interest some -four contem-
poraries-.a respectable Delaware Indian
particularly:
MIR. +. Fischer, from Matamoros, author
4 ICES statement in the New Orleans Ma
,ional that Col. Davenport, commanding
here, had.read an order 10 The troops on
parade that Gen. Scolt had entered the ci.
|iy Of Mexico with The loss Of 3003men.-
We must tell the National that Col. D.
never read, or cause to be read, any such
order, or ever had any confidence in the
various reports Of Gen. Scott being 10 the
city OF Mexico.
Two Mexicans were killed The other day