New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-01-10

We obtain from the newspapers some additions
TO the history Of Sonora expeditions and of Cap
tain Walker. The Nashville Wing supplies us
the following particulars
The Fhusterfng expedition since Fremonts) directed
against Mexican California; projected from Cali
forna in 1851 Its heet consisted of the bark Jose
phine Its commander was Morehead, who had bs-
longed TO Col Stesenssns New York Regiment of Cali
fornia Volunteers 1t debarked at San jose situated
mile and half from Cape San Lucas the southern ex
tremity of the peninsula and containing about LOCO in
habtants, mainly unofanding Hexieans and Indjans
Among them were some twenty spaniards Of whom per
haps ten were effective Including Acalds a Priest.
aDda Military Commandment but military and no arms
Yet the Fibnsters were rspulsed through the bravery
ndenergy Of American then at now in New
York who furnished to the Aoaide three mule leads
arms with which the electives armed and Morshead
beaten of He sailed in his bark for Mazatan his
expedition dissolved
The attempt made in the winter of 1923 by
the same Walker who now styles himself President the
Republic Of Lower California Walker spent of the
winter at Beneia where the California Legislature was
HttinE and where he labofad hard to raise force ade-
quae the invasion and suhjugaton not Of Lower Cali
fornia but Of SoneFa--a much serious business
Men enough were ready to enlist, but there was sad
lack Of funds which defeated the enterprise In June
following Walker landed, with single associate as
peaeeabls traveller adyenurer Gnsymss the ehie
port Of Sonora opposite Lower California He was soon
recognized as potter Of revolution and sent out of ths
country At least such the official report made by
the Minister Of Foreign Affairs ut Mexico
The Dsdrio de la Ha6aaa's CORRESPONDENT
from this city asserts, in one of his letters.
that the story of Walkers exploit against the
Spanish editor here is all fam: that it was
the editor of the Patria not the Peiavo, with
whom he had the conflict that he really did
go, attended by friend, to cudgel the Castil
ian; but that, unfortunately, when he was
about to do it, the Castilian presented we'll
pointed pistol at him. whereupon-tha moi
being at all in Walkers programme of the fight
he withdrew, with much celebrity, falling
over sundry boxes, etc, in his retreat.
Thus the conflict Of historians over this future
fagorite of fame has already begun Some
will have it that he threshed the editor of the
.Peiayo; some that it was he of the Patria
Next, others insist that he not only belaborei
the former but the latter; while others who
delight in the most martial and marvellous YER
sions of fact will be ready to swear that he
engaged, single-handed, two of the largest
seized Spanish editors at once, and put them
to flight after breaking nearly every bone ia
their skins. These will be the several American
accounts Of the affair: the Spanish annalists.
on the contrary, will be sure to maintain that
one Of their countrymen fought several Ameri.
cans at once. and with no weapon but a light
cane. put them all to flight, beaten black and
blue, in spite of the long bowie-knives and the
with which they were heavily
armed
With such opposite or conflicting versions.
among even his contemporaries, will this earliest
victory lif it Was not rout) this vast exploit