The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-03-27

burning his Woody &c. &c. l should have
stated that we ascertained from an American
Zone cast away DR.. Bullock, who resided o.
Cadarreto, and now on a professional visit to
IChina0 that the robbers, numbering about $50
men left China about 10 O'Clock in the morn
ling. To have pursued them in the then condi-
ton OF our horses with the start they had,
would have been madness; night would have
overtaken us before we could have overtaken
them. We could not travel in the night, be-
cause we could not track them after dark
they could travel night and day Gd hbttun.-
We gave the Alcalde six or seven dollars to
have asupper and breakfast for us. We had
little or nothing at either meal, wretched cof-
fee and more wretched tortillas, and not
enough Of either. The inhabitants were no
where to be found-every house was shut up
as II it were a city Of the dead if we acciden-
tally stumbled on a townsman or townswoman
and asked them for eggs, chickens, &C., it was
s'quien sabe,'' '%'no-i,'' "no enteinde," all the
time. Never did / see Mexicans look so hos
tile and contemptuous. But Lord how the
tune was changed next day.
Monday, February lst 1874. - Morgan
had the Alcalde brought before him this morn
ing and caused him to be told that unless he
furnished 80 good pack mules to supply the
place Of those stolen by their friends who had
been harbored by them the day before, he
would lay the town in ashes. He gave him
It'll s O'Clock to get the mules. He also order
ed him to have the officers taken care Of and
furnished with abundance Of the best fare the
town and season would admit. This threat
acted like a charm. The agents of the All
calde were hurrying in every direction, the
streets swarmed with anxious faces, the ten
ants Of the poor hackals in the suburbs, were
moving off, (war always falls heaviest on the
poor and ignorant, like every other calamity
whenever we met the citizens off went the
hat and the most gracious situations were
Z made. The old Priest came III and sat with
us, and became %jocular, and even merry. HI
!. commenced with me a conversation in Latin
binding | had one Of his booksin my hands,,
but we die. not get on very well His CONVEX
%sation was a confusion Of tongues, half Span
. ish, half Latin. | used the term homo billico
sus-he corrected me by saying, non bien-
active - bellicoso - passive - bellicosus-h
! again asked me, upon coming into the room
dpprend lectio? thought then it was time +
stop, which | was glad to do, having5giveu gu
company sufficient fun alreadya. After tn
threat we Jared most sumptuously. The Off
GERS were divided into i've parties, five in on
seven in the other, including, of course us o
the advanced guard and were assigned to tw
aristocratic families, where we had Cushione
=, chairs to sit on, china to drink out of, silvt
- spoons, coffee, chocolate. kid mutton, freole
:. whear bread, &c, and all in great p%rofusiOI
We got fiddle and one of our party played a
day Monday, the rest singing, dancing, sleeI
ing, &c. Monday night, the Alcalde can
: with a thousand excuses; he had failed to g
more than As mules, he begged another day
Thompson begged that it would be granite
- Col. Morgan very reluctantly consented. TIL
morning Thompson found a fellow who
said belonged to the robber gang, he was brC
before Col. Morgan, and having a most doggl
look, and replying to every thing auin sab
q and the Alcalde testifying against him. O.
Z Morgan ordered him to be hanged-a rope W
fixed to a limb Of. the tree in the Priests yar
a moose made and put round his neck, he loo
cd perfectly resigned, and never WINGED; j.
II as the soldiers were drawing the rope tigI
and about to swing him of, the Pries' said
= could get him to state all he knew-the Prize
Thompson, and the fellow went into a roo
" and the fellow stated to the Priest where I
robbers and mules were. They were, he sa
a"u at a Rancho or village called Passa siccata,
: miles below, on the road to Camargo.
TAesdgy, february z, - W. passed the d
,ora. pretty much as w did the day before--wi
MO. the exception that in the morning the Pri
ing sent word that the fiddle was wanting to I
oul- in the church. We were glad Of this, wish
for to attend mass, by way Of variety, but at
tum the bells rung twice, the church doors still
BY manned closed. Upon enquiring the reason
med were told the Priest had too bad a headache
ding say mass that morning. The whole mat
) on was a ruse to get away the fiddle. This
YER thought a cute joke in the old PRIEST The
tool Priest is . sprys large, respectable looking
ut . fellow Of SO. never saw a more sens
opi- countenance in my life. He was the imper
10 in nation Of epicurism.
9th. Wednesday, February S.-The Priest,
Maid Bullock and the Alcalde, particularly the |
own mer were constantly trying to find out W
It Us road we were going to take the whole time
the We gave out that we were al going in a Be
lOme to Monterey. Alter we had mounted our b
nph- ses this morning about sunrise, (the Alca
/; she had furnished more than the number Of mul'
Col. Morgan held a sort Of counsel at the b
id IN Of the command whether We should divide