Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-04-29

CRUELTY AND COwARDICE,-Letters received from
Gen. Taylors camp give shocking particulars of the
massacre Of band of Mexican poems, or laborcrs by
portion Of the Arkansas troops in revenge for the
murder Of one OF their number by some unknown Mex
leans. The name Of the murdered man was Colquitt
nephew of the Senator. The Arkansas men vowed
vengeance, and a number Of them, some thirty per-
haps, went out to the foot of the mountain two miles
off, to an arrejo" to which the pisanos" of Aqua
NueVa had fed, and soon commenced an indscrmln-
ate and bloody massacre of the poor creatures who
had thus fled to the mountains and Businesses for Sc
curity. The writer who communicates these particu
lars, says:
rode through the chapperol, and found a number
Of their dead bodes not yet cold, The features, in
every instance, were composed and tranquil-lying
upon their backs, eyes closed, and feet crossed You
would have supposed them sleeping, but for the CORY
stream that believed the turf around them. In some
instances after the vital spark had fed in the overflow
Of demoniac vengeance, the carbne ball dashed out
the brains of its cayey victim Death, in all its hor
rors have seen and been familiar with from boyhood,
and could not feel the dread reality before me until
Col. b. and myself rode down the arreo," to where,
from the curling smoke, we supposed the women and
children ofthese poor creatures were secured. We
rode up. Fear and anxiety were depicted on every
conference.-the women crowded around us for pro-
tection--ant Notwithstanding they were not more
than half mile from the Of this murderous
butchery, they were wholly ignorant Of what had been
going on,
" An old female, who looked as though she might
be the grandmother of the whole advanced to us, and
in the most imploring manner asked me to send back
her husband and sons from the camp, where she sup
posed they had all been taken. then told them that
| feared their men had been killed. They soon COM
pretended my fears and the old woman asked us to
lead them to the dead bodies, and, accompanied by
two little boys of about two years Of age each we set
out for the scene of murder, The first body we APP
preached the old woman exclaimed was caretero'
-" donde e5tan los oros, madre de Dios, adonde
iremos %-( where are the others, mother of God
where shall we go p We then led them TO another
body, that of man about thirty years Of age, who lay
as tranquil as though he was in the slightest sleep
The little boys, lmpelled by that instinct which
seems to lead us into trouble and difficulty ere is
ready for us, oustrpped his companions, and was the
first to reach the body. He advanced steadily to its
side gazed upon the countenance, which was hall
concealed beneath the broad brmmed SOmbreuo, folded
his hands upon his breast, and looked with dreaming
earne5ness upon the bloody victim OF ill-timed ven.
goance. The heaving of his manly little chest and
the silent tears stealing from his dark eyes and rolling
their searching way down his cheeks, told too elo
quently that he had lost friend. | said to him, il
the most soothing tone could command " Do you
know that man j" Is my padre eabellcro," walkeC
round the body, examined the buet-hoe in the side
turned away from U.S. drew his sleeve across his eyes
and, without audible sob or murmur, returned to thu
glen where his mother, brothers and sisters were t.
! hear the tale of their desoation