The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-03-20

OF to-dav's march we supposed seyerv moment
that we would be attacked, and asthe spy did
not join US we thought it plain case TINT he
had proved traitor or had been cut off We
saw to. day very rye Armad Ito. which we
overlook in the road. The old soldier had a
great numoer of Beautiful DAUGHTERS, to whom
our young men played the amabe He was
better fixed than any Rancho that | have ever
seem His houses were all comfortable, plen-
y of every thing, corn, horses, cattle. fat h,gs
in pens, chickens, turkeys, &c. He had, also,
small gardens where grew, in great abundance,
onions and red pepper Close to is Rancho
bowls the San Juan in cataract. attribute
his comfortable situation to superior informa-
ton, derived from travel and observation,
among apeople more civilized and refined than
those around hun Such are the triumphs of
min over matter, knowledge over norance
Had these people sense hey would desire to
have the laws Of the American Union EXTENDED
over them to shield them from robbers, their
own government and the Camanches, to whose
inroads. in tuin, they are perpetually exposed,
and Of some ofswhich they live in such con-
slant dread, that all the pie sure Of existence
must be poisoned. But Of this truth am now
convinced, that their hatred o the Americ ms
is deep-seated. Those who have joined US will
become onteasts--with the great mass hatred
will become an inheritance from fatherto son
! belieyeti thiswsg.i. continued beyond May;
rivers Of blood will dow before IT ceases, while
thousands and tens of thousands Of our brave
men will pc ish from two old enemy--the
sword and this elm te. OF one thing I am
satisfied, that the longer the war lasts the more
national it will become, and the more will dis
appear the prospect Of the two races ever Nv
ing together 10 harmony--one or the other
must conquer-there may be hollow trnces,
but warto the knife can only give a permanent
peace, and that kind of war has not yet COM
menced, unless the commencement may be
dated from tbisspresentp period
The officers slept in the old Mexican's fort
About OF so'clock, in the morning, the officer
Of the guard burst into the house and said
guns were firing out among the muleteers, who
were with tho mules in an enclosure about
three quarters Of mile off. We all sprang to
our feet and ssized oursarms; in two minutes
all were armed and out. AS we sailed out we
found az aid soldier up and meeting US load
ing biz gun, he said that the Carnanches would
bedown uponus. The packs had been arrang-
ed in sluare Intervening before, and soon Off
GERS and men were all ready for the fight
Three or four muleteers came running in and
reported that some five or six Mexicans had
stolen into the caralleor enclosure and before
they had found them out, had got through the
gap about hundred of themnles. That dis
covering them, they had got close on them and
fred, that the thieves returned the fire and got
off with what they could, the firing only pre-
venting them getting the whole If them--the
firing turned those inside from the gap. Mr.
Thompson, the contractors agent, and the Cap
tain Of the muleteers, said it was no use to at
tempt to pursue the thieves until morning, that
then his Mexicans could see and follow the
trail.4 Every body came to the conclusion that
this was bur -use OF Canales, or whoever was
the head chief of the Mexicans, to draw as
large force as possible from the rancho, so
that he might fall on the main train, at the
rancho; that the mules could be no object to
such force and at such a time. Col. Morgan
taking this view Of the subject, ordered Lieu
tenants Brown and Wall to take twenty-lhree
men and go with Thompson, at day light, and
endeavor, by forced march, TO come up with
the Mexicans, and TO attack, or not attack, ac-
cording to their numbers, ana according to
their discretion: that if they found a force
which they might deem itinpolitick to attack,
that they should halt on the ground aad des-
patch a message To him. e
Saturday, January 30.-By day,ligh, in the
morning, the party set ont, accompanied by
Thompson and some dozen arreroes, (mule-
teers,) who were to follow the rail in advance,
and while the fighting was going on, to secure
the stolen mules. A bout II O'Clock Mexi-
can came as messenger from the party with q
note that they had eau ht up with the Mexi-
cans, who were 100 strong, that they had de-
cllned giving battle. and that they wished for
aid The Colonel Immediately ordered, the
men he had left of those from Can arpo, to-
gether with Latham and part Of his msn, to
get their horses out and be prepared . start
Immediately, and soon we were on the road
Our road lay through thick wilderness, so
thick that the thieves had cut the bushes from
the path but the evening beiore-the trees and
limbs looking as fresh as if they ad been cut
only an hour. Down in a glorious low-land,
shaded by blackberry and muskete trees, thro'
which wound rushing streams of clear water,
and where under the heavy coating of dead
grass was to be seen green grass, which resem-
bled wheat, we found herdsman with an i'm
mense herd Of goats. As soon as he discover
ed US be made of with his flock with all the
haste he could. Col. Morgan said he wished
him brought back; Rogers and myself started
after him, crying out :shalto - this word will
always bring Mexican to, and as soon as they
hear it, they hasten TO you as fast rs possible.
He came up saying that, he.wss poor shep-
herd, (Pastodad) Rogers told him he must 60
to the Colonel. The Mexican said something