Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1848-09-09

is UNANIMOUSLY misrepresented, for all who
know him can testify that the words ascri.
bed 10 him are not in keeping with his char
acler.
That General Taylor was not pleased,
and could not have been pleased with the
conduct of portion of Colonel Curtis reg
iment, is readily admitted. On Friday last
we had full conversation with an accom-
pllshed officer who accompanied Col. C.'5
regiment, between the 9Th and 10, of March
1913. and from him we gather some extra
ordinary and revolving facts. Our infor-
mant has no thought of casting impulatiohs
upon the whole regiment, but from bis
statement there is no doubt that the acts of
a part of il were most at,rocious, such as
would have disgraced even savages.
The march of the regiment, from the law.
less character of some Of those composing
it, was everywhere marked by deeds of
wanton violence and cruelty. Along the
whole extent of the march ranches were
burned, cattle were shot, hogs and poultry
were killed, and even pet pigs were slaugh-
children that owned them. The shooting
of cattle was oftentimes done in utter wan
tonness, the marauders either suffering them
to lie Just as they fell, or merely cutting out
their tongues and leaving their carcasses TO
rot thus showing that it was not the want
of food that melted them 10 outrage.
Upon their arrival at Caraceta, from
which The Mexicans fled at their approach
our informant, after an exploration in COM
pany with two or three other officers, re-
ported that large number of trunks and
band boxes, containing female apparel;
were concealed in the chapparel, about q
mile and half off. The instant the annun.
citation was made, gang Of fellows from
Curtis regiment darted off for the chapparal
as if running for life. Shortly afterwards
they were seen returning, some of them
with caps and bonnets on their heads, and
others wearing gowns and other articles of
women's dress, and when our informant
next passed the chapparal he found that
general bonfire had been made of the silks,
muslns, ribbons, slippers, and all the little
articles of the female toilet, that the chiv-
aric male conquerors had not worn off upon
their own persons. These ou,rages were
all reported TO General Taylor before his
arrival at Marin, and can be substaniated
by Colonel Faun,leroy of the I'd dragons
Col Randolph Of the Virginia volunteers.
Col. Bel nap inspector general of the U.
s. Army, Patterson of the Mississippi regi-
ment, and many others, if necessary.
At Marin itself, where the severe Ian
guage of General Taylor, is said 10 have
been used. the conduct of the advanced
guard of Col. CortIs' regiment was marked
by similar atrocities. The night before the
arrival of the Ohio regiment there, General
Taylor had slept in the town, had seen the
alcalde, had been the guest Of some of the
principal citizens, had broken bread with
them. and had promised them protec,ion.--
But the advanced guard Of Curtis regiment
entered town, and instantly the work of
pillage, robbery and-ievasla,ion was begun.
A least four houses were set on fire by them.
Gen. Taylor arrived upon the spot, and re-
Numbering what had been reported to him
as TO the outrages perpetrated during the
whole march, exasperatedby what was then
passing before his very eyes, and deeply
panied and mortified al not having been able
to keep the pledge given to the men and
women who had Hospitality entertained him,
he undoubtedly rebuked the gallant miscrc-
ants in strong language. 1t is very possible
that in the heat Of his burning indignation
al such deeds of atrocty and shame, he did
not measure his words with the utmost
nicely; but he is just man, and never,
even in his anger, did he utter wholesale
condemnation Of the guilty and the inno-
cent
tits not surprising that the thieves and
house burners who were thus rebuked by
Gen. Taylor, and arrested by him in The
midst of their career Of atrocity, feel deep
resentment against that stern and virtuous
old chieftain; but it is strange indeed that,
with consciousness Of their crimes, they
have the impotence. the audacity to revive
the recollection of their deeds, by publish.
| ing lying certificates of the language which
Gen. Taylor is alleged to have addressed to
them. Almost any language on his part
would have been pardonable under the
circumstances; but we again say that he
never US d the words imputed to him. All
the moral portion of the people of Ohio
will with their whole hearts, thank General
TAYLOR for rebukng, and, as far as possible,
arresting the depredaions of a set of vii
lians who were a disgrace TO the fair fame
of their noble state. And as for you, gat.
CANT Ken,uckians, will you not, rally as one
man around the glorious old hero, whose
election few Infamous scoundrels are at
tempting TO defeat, because, he would moi
countenance the commission Of crimes cal
culaed to degrade the name of American:
; 10 level with that of Vandals'
In this connexion it is worth while 10 ado
that the Ohio Statesman has lately publish
ed statement of one Joseph Bennett o
the I'd Ohio volunteers" aiming to convic