Arkansas intelligencer. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1842-1859, 1847-03-13
ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA.
'hadQ"Lricrs, San Luis PotOsi, Jan. 81, 1877.
LATEST FROM TAMPlCO.

La i-'i AVN ~ hflCO.
Il're items gf lie CaIfure Of Najor BOr1ands
com"a"i.-A list of The captured.
by tho arrival Of the schr. Sovereign, Capt.
Andrews. We have aIvIces from Tampico to the
18TH INST. winch give more full details of the
capture Of severity Americans by Gen. Minon.-
These will Re found embraced in the letter sub.
Ioncd from Mr.. Lumsdcn. The S. lief, on the
I'm inst.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE FIC,YuNE,I
TANPIco, February 10, lS47.
lon will perceive by the Sentinel" that Col.
DE Russys party has arrived here with the en-
crplon OF SIX persons, who werej. left behind as
suck. There is much SAID pro and can about the
course pursued by Col. DeRussy; but am not
disposed my self 10 say anything either way in
relation to the matter. You know there arc two
sides to all such things. and dlsn,ers,ei party
generally docs well 10 let them alone. MeddIers
never gam much credit
Yesterday morning news reached misplace Of
tic capture by Gen. Minon, of seventy Ameri.
cans somewhere hear Galcana, in the State of
NueNa Leon This intelligence comes in a paper
printed at the city of Mexico, and is no doubt
authentic. The Tampico Sentinel furnishes tho
following summary of the news; II is hardly to be
supposed that the Mcxcans have given all the
II 'lII's VI Li't prisoners win accuracy:
From Ms 7ampicO Sentinel of tie 1871 insi.1
We were yesterday placed IN possession of
newspaper, printed at Mexico. and dated February
~. by which we arc informed of the capture Of
seventy Americans, with their horses, wagons,
arms DC. Tho latter referred to is despatch
from Santa Anna 10 the Minister of War, an.
nounclng that he had jus; learned this fact BY let.
ter from Con. Minon who it seems is stationed
at 4 small town named Gaeana. 1t appears from
the letter Of Mlnon that he had received informa.
lron from the Governor of Nueva Leon that the
AmerIchns had been ron in t!lit neiyhborLold
aI'd That he supposed them 10 be in great force,
modI!ating an attack upon Galeana. Mlnon wri.
It's that he sailed forth TO meet tho Americans
with brigade of crvolry-that they immediate.
~ surrendered at dscreIIon-that all the horses,
wagons. &C., with which thoy were found in
possession, with The exception Of their arms. were
distributed among the soldiers as their booty.
Santa Anna, in addressing the Minister Of War
and Marine caPliuIates the most mporiau. facts
mentioned in the letter of Minon, and recon.
mcnds him TO the consideration of the Govern.
ment, al the same time declaring his intention to
continue bis operations whencv IF n favorable op-
potunliy offers. The letter of Mnon is dated
the 23l of January, and that Of Santa. the Goth
of January, at San Luis Potosi. la neither des.
ra!ch IS tho f1rto of Inc Mexicans mentioned.
who obtained this bIoodIess triumph over seventy
torag'ng soldiers. Bat letter. dated San Luis
Poiosl, Jan. 9Th. published in the same paper,
announces tho arn'al at that place Of the prison.
ers and very justly rcbukcS the rejocinrs ,yhibi.
ted on the occasion. stating the force of tho Next.
cars to have been upwards of 300. This letter
declares that our troops were surprised al a wa.
terlnI place, TaHqae de Ia aca at 0 clock in tho
that the IN rt Of
lrIshmon. and that the commanler-in.chief(S anta
Anna) had permitted them 10 20 unmoesed into
the interior, Oh their expressing a willingness 10
JON the lng OF their own country-we presume
England.
he number Of officers named in these des.
patches leads to the supposIton that this force
was more than Northumberland is to 81 that
II was composed of officers and men belonging
to several companies. and thu, they were, as
stated IN the letter from San Luis dated tho 2Sth
january. engaged in fornging and entirely unpre-
pared for any hostile demonstration on the part
of the enemy when he surprised them. This
may be the more readily inferred from the fact
Of their having surrendered nj discretion.
There are many rumors, and, it is supposed,
with some little truth, that Santa Anna has made
a mo, emcnt towards, Monterey. and it is possible
Gen. Minon Is m command of the advance guard.
| Ths General is SAID TO BE- n Spaniard and an ex.
ceLlent cavalry officer. lie accompanied Santa
Anna on his retLrn from exile, and may rouse
the dropping energies of the Mexican selliery in.
to proper state for fighting, after all. If he
succeeds. he will receive all the encommiups he
would merit from our volunteers and rcgu 'ars-
The following is a list of the names Of those
captured at GaIeana. 1t will be perceived tina,
Ca,>lus NJ. Clay is among them.
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