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!DA TC EMMKTT.
.. a hand to lio-O tny own,
n life’s vnli’t glide,
*’ ..nted in arm to lean upon
i ‘ t ver by my side.
.*it a Sri?; and steady step
•>st pnacure and free,
I ‘.o- its straight and onward path
c iilc’e path with me.
.’"d si a fotin erect and high,
< •! a'sive mine own,
• i, that I may walk henetith
’ v o’er me thrown.
nt*.i cv eve within whose l>‘pth
hne own may look ami see,
■ , ■’ ‘ngs of a gniltlews heart
U if’■■wo with love-for me,
erlii > whose kiude.-t snf.lc
l d speak i‘ ■■ tn<- alone,
A • in e v. rose richest melody
‘’ • .'h auctions tone,
iit true religious sov.l,
purpose given,
aUV UoU Uldi ICiillA il/ lICdVCII.
emmett’s reply.
I offer thee tliis lnuid of mine,
it* grasp is firm and free,
T h.s arm of nerve shall too be thine,
if yuu will wed with me.
A form erect but not so high
As what you’d haze it be ; #
} oiTor iht-e, without a sigh,
Jf you w3l wed with me.
-m eye I h.vc ot deepest oiue,
It beams with love for thee,
time that love I tie’eir will rue,
Sf you will wed with me.
‘■ ‘‘i’ s “ill’ kindest smiles shall speak
; ‘t thee and only thee,
‘' v v<i 'ieeshall utter vows as sweet,
Xoa will you wed with me?
And now, .’ear Ida, fare thee well—
• >oti I hope to hear from thee,
\fd in your next, I trust you’ll tel!
* ? ber or not you’ll \vsl with me.
For the Georgia Citizen
i'tiiiosophy of Slander.
CTRL- m m ml
f defaced semblance of a man, whose mouih is filled
with lies and whose tongue is the fang of a viper •’
Every vile attribute of fallen humanity j every element
of corruption ; every principle of inferua! malice; every
* primogenio ]ua’ ■ty of enrtii-cursing grid - defy ing til) • ,
j every crime-steeped motive ; every dark damning pur
j P° y * i e v ery depraved transgressive influence; every
j g- ro l and bud and bn*--; in of gudt and envy and hate;
1 a '“ car ’-T air and heU’sereated arid creativepol*
I lunon rolled into one seething, putrid, sickening ma*s
I ls * b<?d whence is hatched out a creeping slimy
.a. ”] of riptn. s, a nest of asps end scorpions to form
j a heart ’or the slanderer; the slanderer, that abortiou
i o! aman ? thru stigma upon the name of* humanity*;
, that foulest work of creative power; that kctid exlu
j fation from nature’s ce*.j>ot,l. vitalized by itsown innate
corruption, and stalking, amid the sons of men, a walk
ing breathing miasma, the living embodiment of a
moral pestilence, a plague spot upon the face of crea
tion, the last, the worst, the vilest atom of organic life!
a.iivt robs but the purse; the murderer aims
only at his victim’s life; the liar seeks hut his, selfish
miei st to subserve, but thou oh slanderer! thou
creeper abroad in the dark night-time.and stoniest away
the Lou rst name of thy feilow man! thou piungest
the poisoned poignard of thy secret malaeeand thy hid
den hatred deep into the bosom of thy brother’s unspoted
lame! I hou loadest every passing breeze with the serpent
! hissing whispers of thy envenomed tongue! robber of
| character. assassin of reputation !s. u I less, abominable
j Ndsifier ! Every twig and bough and tree trunk in the
i if.udy grove breathes an echo to*thy black aspersions,
; as .he falsehood-laden zephyr sighs sadly through the
waving tree tops, mourning for its once pure spothss
pinion, now soiled, and torn, and Llaekene*!, by its bur- j
: den of shame ands rrow, and death. livery storm |
j that howls and every tempest that shrieks through the I
forest is a trumpet tot gued demon evoked from his
I hell-home by theslandert r s mi siie art to sweep away
| some nest of innocence and rend in twain some rots- of
i spotless honor. Even the temple of the ‘living God’
is desecrated and profaned ; its altar polluted ; its sanc
. hty violated; its holy shrine defiled; the waters fits
! sacred tom poisoned and the very atmosphere around
j its consecrated sane tainted, infected and imbued with
the miasm of slander. ‘Tru'h is mighty and iil pre
vail !’ saith the book ; but the slanderer’s dagger point
is keener far than the scimitar of truth, and when the
clods of the valley have grown gray and covered with
’ moss upon its victim’s grave, then comes the ‘w>ord of
’ .ruth’ to lop the dead branches from his tree of mem
ory when the generation amongst whom he lived has
passed away, and the living ones have forgotten him.
Aye! slander wins its victory, and proudly wears its
j iaurels too; then having thrown them on the ground
j to rot, truth, brave eoura;;- os troth seizes the trophy
; and sternly points to its wither J leaves and cries—‘l
have prevailed ! the victory is mine !’
! llow many a pure raid lovely bud hn blossomed for
‘ a season in life’s beautiful garden, and just expanding
into maturity, is nipped and destroyed by the blighting
frost of slander. Long ye.t s ago l ktiew a gentle tit- i
tie girl, whose joyous ringing laugh and bright sunshiny
smile told of nought hut innocence and happiness; and
a feeling of sadness often came over me, as 1 thought
that perhaps but a few short fleeting summers would
speed swiftly away when that smooth, pure, childish
brow would bo stamped with the signet of sorrow, and
; that no rry girlish Inusrb be changed, perhaps, into a i
: igh of bitterness, A As! I dreamed not of the sau
j unhappy fate which awaited her, and the mournful dos-
I tiny which overtook that gentle being, Are the spring of
j life with her had blushed into the summer of woman
| hood. In the first flush of expanding blooming girl
; hood. in the pride ot Iter loveliness and purity, when
t nought but golden visions of happiness and love in the
bright future danced before her, and the memory of no
sorrow to cast a shade over the picture of existence,
the destroyer came. The slanderer breathed h:s upas I
’ breath upon her fair fame, and the gentle, innocent
maiden, forsaken, deserted, and left to pine in loveli
ness and sorrow, sunk into her grave, and no hand
planted a flower on her mound, and no tear of affletion
consecrated the turf that rested on her coffin. And
will no bolt of retributive vengeance overtake and j
strike down the workers of these vile impunities ! Yea
verily ! /
“Tru'h is mighty and will prevail ’’(!)
Works of Itanifl Webster—Fclicltoas
Dedications,
The Boston Post lias a notice of the six beau
tiftii volumes, edited by Hon. Edward Everett,
forthcoming from the press of Messrs. Little,
Brow!’ £ vo. The first volume, says the Post,
is dedicated to his nieces, Mrs. Alice Bridge
’ VVhippJr. and Mrs. Mary Ann Sanborn, the
I daughters of Ezekiel Webster, the brother of
Baim l : and thß not onlr for the love Mr. Web
presses it, mat ms oroiiier s name rnignt oe as- j
! sedated with his own, so long as any thing !
written or spoken of him should be regarded
or read ; the second is dedicated to Isaac P. Da
vis, Esq., as ‘an affectionate and grateful ac
knowledgement’of warm private friendship;
the third to Caroline Le Roy Webster, his wife,
as a tribute of liis affection and some acknow
ledgement of lmr deep interest in the produc
tions they contain; the fourth to Fletcher Web
ster, his son, ‘liis only surviving child and the
object < f his bus and the hopes,’ t'ne tin,*. ,
to J. W. Page, Es<p, as a grateful token of long
friendship. The last, continues the Post, we
copy entire, to show the felicitous manner of
these dedications:
DEDICATION.
Os the sixth volume.
With the warmest paternal affection, mingled
with deeply afflicted feelings, I dedicate this,
the last volume of my Works, to the memory
of my deceased children,
Julia Webster Appleton,
beloved in ail the relations of Daughter, Wife,
Mother, lister, and Friend ; and
Major Edward Webster,
who died in Mexico, in ihc military service of
die L nited States, with unblemished honor and
reputation, and who entered the service solely
from a desire to be useful to his country, and do
honor to the State in which he was born.
Go gentle Spirits, to your destined rest;
While I, reversed our Nature’* kindlier doom,
Pour forth a Father's sorrow on your toinb.
DANIEL WEBSTER.
The Post, a Democratic paper, adds that those
who cannot Coincide with the political views of
the editor, will find him candid and moderate,
and always chaste and elegant, It considers
these works a valuable contribution to the po
! litical history of the country and expresses the
wish that every voting man would read the ac
count here presented of the boyhood, youth,
and laborious studies of Daniel Webster; that,
whatever might be his natural gifts, he might
be encouraged by such example, to prepare
himself for usefulness by long and severe pre
: paratiou. — Rich. Republican.
Snake Bite Coked.—A little son of Mr.
! John Taylor of this county was bitten by a
I large moccasin several days since, and was
| cured by the free use ot gin and tobacco; the
; one taken internally, the other applied to the
! wound.
MACON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 24, 1852.
Three Millionaires.
A New Orleans paper of standing has som
curious commentaries on the lives of several
rich men, recently deceased in that city. Os
John McDonough it thus speaks:
’He had but two passions—notoriety and ac
cumulation. These lie pursued through a long,
nod niggardly and sinful life, and these he ex
hibited in his will. He clutched at his bonds,
and titles, and moneybags, in bis dying mo
ments; and by a will both silly and intricate,
and truitful ot fraud and controversy, a mirror
of his character, he sought to control and ad
minister them after death. He cut his neglect
ed relations off with a shilling, and bequeathed
the enormous aggregate of seventy years of
avarice and cunning, to communities that will
never plant a dower on his grave, or moisten it
with a tear.’
Here is a sketch of another:
‘Jos ph Fowler was a cold selfish, cynical, i
vulgar man, without a scintilla of soul, who lived •
for himself alone, thinking neither of his suf- j
tering kindred in this world, nor of God and
eternity. lie was the slave of the almighty dol
lar all his life, and died, at last, without having
the courage to make a will, or the grace to make,
by public charities,some reparation for the sel
fishness of his life. His relations, who vainly,
in his lifetime, implored the crumbs that ‘fell
trom the rich mans table,’ will now, it is hoped,
receive and enjoy the magnificent estate which
lie accumulated by extortion, and coined out. of
: tears and destitution.’
liie third is reserved to as follows :
‘Cornelius Paulding was a better man than
either of these. lie was frigid, penurious and 1
exacting, but he sometimes gave, and gave fn-e
----ly. For many years he had been a member of
the Baptist Church; and, at various periods,
after he removed to New Orleans, he provided
a place of worship for his brethren, and tendered
his house as a residence for the minister. Seve
ra clergymen came to reside with him, but,
notwithstanding their habits of self-denial he
starved them all out. Nor did the Church
thrive any better under his auspices. The
Church government of the Baptists is a pure
democracy. All the power resides in the mem
bers, and even the old prejudices that exclude
women from participation in government, is not j
recognized. All are equals; and the minister
in that church, out of his pulpit has no more
power than one of his flock. This form of gov
ernment was not adapted to the disposition of
Mr. Paulding. .He was arbitrary and dictato- j
rial, and the result was, that the Baptists in this
city, tbongh few in number, and poor, preferred
to worship in obscure places, rather than to oc
cupy liie splendid Church which he sometimes
proposed to erect for them. Mr. Paulding lived
long enough to learn a useful lesson from the
death of John MdDonough. He read the com
mentaries of the press upon his unnatural, sel
fish and litigious will lie has wisely bequeathed
the bulk of his estate to his impoverished rela
tions; has made generous donations to the Or
phan Asylum and Public Schools; and we r<-
1 joic’ to learn, appropriated B<Sh,OOQ for the |
Baptists of this city.
V few Words to Voting Bachelors.
On Mondav last we received a friendly invi
tation from the ‘Young Bachelors’ Society’ to j
meet them at supper on the following Friday, ;
and should have been happy to attend and ex
hort them to matrimony, which is the ‘chief end i
i of man’ had nototherand more imperative du
ties denied n$ that pleasure. As we could not
be with tl*ese misguided young persons in the
body, it is our desire to address them through
these columns on the subject of the>r desolate
and forlorn condition.
It was the mark of one Signor Benedick, a
brain child of the immortal Shakspeare, that
‘the world must be peopled.’ This is a maxim,
voting gentlemen, which you cannot dispute,
seeing that you yourselves are the legitimate
consequences of its practical application. Grati- j
tude for the favor of an introduction to the tern
pie of life through the connubial postern should
lead you by the same means to compass the
same end. Consider that the bachelor is him
self a branch of the matrimonial tree, and like
the limb of the banyan, which, on reaching the
earth, takes root and becomes in due time a j
reproductive agent, he ought to repeat in his
own person the interesting experiment of which
lie is the result.
We have never met with on individual who
i ;lH !<•/• ‘.d el'h.gA on •-.* >: •> A AH: ! Tie
i Shakers, when asked how the world's host is to
be kept up without new recruits, stupidly tell
you that ‘the Lord will take care of liis own.’
Now we have great confidence in the Lord, we
firmly believe that he is able at this time, as of
old, to make a man out of clay, and then take
a woman from under that man’s intercostal
muscles; but as there is no emergency calling
for such a display of divine ingenuity, we do
not think he will do it.
Marriage is the appointed medium for the
i increase ot tuecensus; u*'d the American who
refuses to contribute to the ’*' s > ,l g greatness ol
his country is a singular kind o‘, patriot.
So much for the logic and philosophy, p the
thing. The poetry we have reserved, as a ,on ~
ne louche , to the last. Think young gentle’ i
men, of the supreme satisfaction ot knowing
that
“An eye will mark your coming
And look brighter when you come.’’
That kind of brightness may depend upon the
hour of your ‘coming,’ and ifyou ‘won t go home
til! morning,’ it is very likely that the ‘mark will
be a black one. We are addressing you as mem
bers of the guild to which we have the honor
to belong, and not as pariahs and outcasts from
connubial happiness. Not to go home till mor
ning is, for a married man, decidedly contra
bonos mores , and ought to be as it usually is
punished by Caudleizatiou. Should any of you
commit matrimony, avoid such perils, ioc
much night air is sometimes fatal to married
bliss, and wedlock is a tcind of lock very apt to
be spoiled by the too frequent use of the lateh
key. .
We might dilate upon the pleasure of hating
a brisk, tidv wife, to look to your bosoms, cica
trise the gaping wounds in your hese, atteno
to that branch of husbandry known as‘sewing
buttons,’ and comb your heads, when occasion j
should require, with a three legged stool; but I
we pass on to the babies, the dear little ultimates
of matrimony.
‘Sweet is the lisp of children and their earliest ,
words.’ Excuse the badness of the grammar .
for the excellence of the sentiment. Ihe ear
liest words of children are generally ‘ah-goo’ and
‘ah-iruggle goo.’ Wc are not sufficiently ac
quainted with infantile philology to translate
them, but they appear to express the most pro- •
found self-satisfaction. We have no space to
describe to vou all the joys and fear of a parent’s
heart as be’ watches his children, one after the
other, (say to the number of a dozen) pass
through tbo several stages from infancy to bob
] bledyhoyism or hoydenism.as the sex may be.
1 Looking back upon the household past, it seems
i t<-’ us to be a conglomerate of wet-nurses, wean
ings, cooings, baby talk, croup, hive syrup, dolls,
pegtops, frocks and sashes, gilt buttoned jackets,
duty hands and long school bills. Yet it is all
very delightful, take our word—no, don't take
our word for it, but satisfy yourstlf by the ex
peritnentum cruets. In conclusion, we recom
mend the following passage from Psalms, chap
ter 127, verses, 5,0, toyour favorable considera
tion:
Like as the arrows in the hand of a giant are
the young children. Happy is the man that
hath his quiver full of them.’—TV. ] r . Sunday
Times.
The Desire lo be Rieh.
The desire to be ricli is a natural one in the
j present state of society, fur money now-a days,
j unfortunately, is the accredited sesame to all
i doer and nearly all hearts, while poverty is
j regarded too often as the index of dishonor.—
St;H, though the desire is natural, it is unwise.
Providence manages these things for us better
than we should for ourselves.
We have had the opportunity to sit on the
fence, and watch the two extremes; and really,
for pure happiness, it is about a penny toss-up
which is preferable. ‘Give me neither riches
nor poverty,’ said the wise man, and his prayer
showed that lie was a very sensible and observ
ing old gentleman. The middle grade is after
all the most comfortable. There is generally j
found ihe most contentment, the truest religious
faith, the most permanent domestic love, and
| the highest physical health. Is it not so 2
It i-. well said in the proverb that ‘fine feath
ers do not make tine birds’—as vide the owl.—
The poet sings:
A peacock came, with his plumage gay,
Strutting in regal pride, one day.
W here a small bir.i hung in a gilded cage,
YV hose song might a seraph's ear engage ;
The bird sung on, while the peacock stood,
\ Hunting his plumes to the neighborhood ;
A nd the radiant sun seemed not more bright
Titan the bird that basked in his golden light;
But the small bird sung in bis own sweet words,
“ ’Tis not fine feathers that make fine birds!”
The peacock strutted ; a bird so fair
Never before had ventured there,
AY bile the small bird hung at the cottage door.—
And what could a p* ncotk wish for more?
Ala* ! the bird of the rainbow wing,
lie wasn’t contended, he tried for to sing !
And they who gazed on hi> beauty bright,
Scared by 1 is screaming, soon took to flight;
AVfiilo the small bird song, in liis own sweet words,
“ Tis not fine feathers that malic fine birds !”
Then prithee take warning, maidens fair,
And still of the. peacock’s fate beware;
Beamy and wealth won’t win your way,
Though they’re attired in plumage gay ,
Something to charm you all rmi>t know,
Ajmt l from fine f others and outward show :
A talent, a grace, n gilt of mind,
Or else poor beauty is left behind !
! While the small biros sing, in their ow n true words,
‘* ’Ti* not fine feathers that make fin - tie is!’’
Quaint old Jeremy Tav’or had the right of it, :
when lie was stripped of all his earthly posses- j
sious. Thus did he philosophize over liis shorn j
j condition:
‘I am fallen into the hands of publicans and ;
sequestrators, and they have taken all from me. j
! What now? Let me look about me. They j
have left me sun and moon, fire and water, a 1
loving w ife, and many friends to pity me, and !
some to relieve me; amil can still discourse ;
and, until I list, they have not taken a hay my 1
merry countenance and my cheerful spirits, and ;
a good conscience; they, have still left me the j
providence of God. and all the promises of the
gospel, and my religion, and my hope of heaven,
and my charity to them too. And still I sleep,
and digest, arid eat, and drink ; 1 read and medi
tate; I can walk in my neighbors’ pleasant
fields, and see the varieties of natural beauty
and delight, in all that in which God delights,
that is, in virtue and wisdom, in the whole
creation, and in God himself.’
Those are always rich enough, who think so.
A person one* said to u wealthy citizen of Port
land, ‘1 wish 1 had as much as you.’
‘You have,’ was ti.e unexpected response.
‘How so?’
‘You have a comfortable house V
‘Yes.’
‘F°o"'rh car i’
ia’
‘Warmly clothed !’
‘Y^.’
‘Plenty of air and sunshine V
‘Of course.’
‘Then you have as much as I, without the
trouble and anxiety of looking after the surplus,
which I can never use.’
Nature has been profuse in her endowments.
If the glorious scenery of earth and sky— if the c
sweet air—if the heavenly sunshine —if the gen
tle showers, were all saleable articles, what would
you take for your interest, reader? Would all
the wealth of Portland buy you out? Or if
you could traffic ors your home joys, your heart
loves, your everlasting hope—what price would
you put upon them ? Why, your riches are in
exhaustible, and may accumulate forever!—-
Portland Eclectic.
From the Oglethorpe Democrat.
Particulars of Fanniu’s Massacre.
Mr. Edit or: —The Muster Roll which you
published last week, contained the names of
four hundred and forty-six officer.-, and soldiers
who were prisoners at Goliad when the massa
cre took place, March 27, ]S3G. I have prepar
ed stable, showing what disposition was made
of them. The number in the firt column
was detain* and by the Mexicans on account of
•their being Surgeons or Mechanics. ‘Fhc sev
eral companies are designated by the names of
their Captains:
Company. detained. Escaped. Killed.
1- Duval’s, 1 *5 38
2. King’s, 2 0 20
3. Pettus’, 2 5 32.
4. Bullock’s, 5) 2 26‘
j*. Winu’s, 1 0 og'j
6. Wadsworth’s, 4 I 20
7. Tick nor’s, 3 0 30 !
8. Wyatte’s 1 1 26 |
8. Westoover’s, 2 0 42 .
10. Burke’s, 33 28 j
11. Shackelford’s, 0 3 52
12. Horton's, 2 6 21
Field Officers, 3 0 7
Total, 35 25 385 |
As fitly succeeding the Muster Roll T send !
you a letter which was first published in the i
‘ Voice of Sumter ’ Alabama newspaper) j
of November 28, 1839. Having formed the !
acquaintance of Mr. Brow n soon after his re- i
turn from Mexico, I suggested to him the pro
priety of publishing a narrative of his adven
tures, i t the form of a letter lo Thomas Ward,
Esq. brother of the late Cos!. Ward of the Te\-
an Army. Viewing it as a piece of history to j
be relied >n, I desire you to give it circulation
in your columns. Mr. Brown u t- a young gen-s
tleinan of intelligence and veracity. He is now*
dead. I always attributed the kindness with
which he was treated by the Mexican General,
to his rare personal beauty,—his dark, piercing •
eyes, his bronze complexion and graceful figure !
giving him the appearance of a Spanish cava- !
lier. He was a native of Georgia, and ane
phew of Col Ward.
Yours respectfully, M.
Mr. Brown’s letter is as follows :
Livingston, Ala. Nov. 1, 1337.
Dear Sir: —Having been among the first
who volunleered from Georgia in the service
of Texas, under the command of your brother,
the late Col. William Ward, who <j name js de
sired to occupy a place in history, 1 have thought
that a communication of my adventures in a
form you might preserve, would not be unac
ceptable or improper. All I have in view is to
give the facts which came within my own ob
servation and knowledge; and if they can be
deemed of interest as occurring to one of mv
years, (twenty at the present time) I shall feel ;
perfectly satisfied in having related them.
About the 20th November, 1835, 1 left Mst j
con in the stage for Columbus, where l joined
Capt. Ward's compauy, who had reudevoused
at that place, from whence we marched to Mont
gomery Alabama, and took passage for Mobile
ion the steamer Ben Franklin. Remaining in
i Mobile five or six days, near winch a public din
j net was given us, we embarked on the steamer
i Convoy for New Orleans, where we halted about
| a week and received some addition to our num
j her, making the company about one liundre 1
j and litiy strong. Here Capt. Ward laid in sup
! plies for his men and chartered the schooner !
I Rennsylvania to take them to Velasco, where
j we arrived on the 20lh December, 1835, and
j found Captain Wadsworth’* company, fifty 1
j strong, and the two companies were organized
I into a battalion, of which Capt. Ward was elect
ed Major, called the Georgia Battalion. ( apt.
Ward’s original company was divided into two
equal parts, as near as practicable, the command
of one of which was given to Capt Uriah J.
Bullock, of Macon, and that of the other lo
Capt. James C. Wynne, of Gwim-tte county.
Maj. Ward lost no time in reporting in person S
his battalion to Gov. Smith at San Philip dc
Austin. Our troops encamped about two miles
from Velasco, on the Brazos river, where they
subsisted on the two months provision laid in at
New Orleans. After a week's absence to the |
scat of government, Maj. Ward returned with j
commissions for the several officers. We re- |
rnained in the camp near Velasco, until Ist f
February, 1836, when the battalion was order- ;
~a 1.,. *t r . n acting Governor H tbinsoa, tc
4 . -c UoiiivJ on the Sau Aut_mc ri,ur, .
and it was forthwith transported by the schooner
Columbus, U. S. vessel, to Copano,onAransaso 1
Bay, after five days passage. There we were ‘
furnished with supplies by the government and
four pieces of artillery, two six and two four j
pour Jers. From Copano to Goliad the dis- ;
tance is forty-five miles, and about half-way the
battalion halted at the Mission, where we were j
joined by Capt. Ticknor’s company of Mont-i
goinery, Alabama, making our ranks about two j
hundred and fifty strong. From there we
marched to Goliad, took js>ssessioii and repair- i
ed the Fort, and were joined by the La Fa vet te !
Battalion, made up from North Alabama, Ten- i
neasec and Kentucky. Previous to this, the la
mented Col. Fannin had not taken any part in
service, but was actively engaged in collecting
and diffusing information highly useful to the
cause of Texas. At Goliad the two battalions
were formed into a regiment, between five and
six hundred strong; of which Fannin was elect
ed Colonel and Ward Lieut. Colonel; Dr Mitch
ell, of Columbus, commanded the Battalion, in
the place of Maj. Ward, promoted.
For some purpose, Capt. King, of LaFayette
Battalion had been despated by Col Fannin to
.occupy the Mission, about twenty-two miles off,
who found himself annoyed in his new posi
tion by a party of Mexcan cavalry, and sent
an express to Goliad lor a reinforcement. Lieut.
Col. Ward, with one hundred and twenty-men.
of which I was among the number, was direct
ed by Col. Fauniu to support Capt. King at the
Mission. This was on the 12th March, and
the next day Lieut. Col. Ward's command
reached the Mission, at which a large Catho
lic Church built of stone, made a very good fort,
in which we took protection. The Mexican
cavalry that reconnoitercd the Mission and tried
to attack it, was estimated at two hun
dred, and on the night of the 13th, a par
ty of fourteen men under Capt. Tick nor, !
surprised their camp, a mile from the Mission, i
killing eight of them and putting the rest to j
flight. Among the *laiu was recognized a !
Mexican Lieutenant who had been with Col.
Fannin at Goliad, pretending to have joined
the Texians with eighteen men. On the morn
ing of the 16th, Lieut. Co}. Ward and Capt.
King differed as to who should command at
the Mission, the latter claiming it by being
there first. A large majority of the troops de
clared they would serve under Lieut. Colonel
Ward only, which induced Capt. King with
his original company of twenty-eight men to
I withdraw, and was followed by eighteen of
1 Lieut Col. Ward’s command, who and been
detailed from Capt. company at
I Goliad, leaving Col. Ward one Hundred and
i seven men. About ten o’clock in the morning.
J a party ol fifteen with rr*, self, was sent to a
| river about two hundred yards off, with oxen
j and cart, to bring two bun els of water into the
J fort. M e aad just filled the vessels and were
j leaving the river when we were fired, upon from
an o]K*n prairie on the other side, by Gen. U>
rea’s jinny of ehw n hundred men, about a half
a mile di-tant. We made all possible speed
for the fort, holding on to the water, except a
boat half a barrel^which was let out by one of
the ’uiiets piercing the head. The enemy kept
firing as they crossed the riv*-r, snd marched
within fifty paces of the Church, when Colo
nel Ward ordered his men to fire, which drove
j the Mexicans hack, and left the ground pretty *
I well spotted with their dead and wounded.— !
i They made four regular charges, both cavalry- ‘
J and infantry, about half of each, and were as i
j often repulsed with great slaughter.
At four o'clock in the afternoon they retreat
ed, leaving be tween four and five huodr* and of
their dead upon the field. Col. Ward had udv
three of his men wounded, one of them an
Irishman who resided at the Mission. When
; the attack was made in the morning, Col W. \
\ sent an express (James Humphrey, of Colurn- j
| bus, Ga.) to Col. F. at Golaid, and orders were I
j received ten o’clock at night to abandon the
! church, take a North East course for Victoria, ;
jon the Guadalope, twenty five miles beyond’
Goliad, where Col. Fannin would join him. —
About 12 o'clock at night we left ttie fort si- j
lemly, formed five deep, inarched without
j a guide in the open prairie, and were only eight i
| miles from the Mission at da.- light. For two ;
days we had nothing to eat, and on the third e i
killed some cattle near the San Antonio, which j
revived ns a good deal. On the 21st March ;
we reached \ ictoria, and had advanced within I
one hundred yards of the town, expectim* to 1
j fiffd Col. Fannin and his men there, when to !
i our utter dismay it was in possession of the ene- •
! rny. who fired upon and caused us to retreat to i
! the svvaliip. Col. Fannin had set out to meet |
| us in due time, but his whole command was tak- j
en prisoners Ay large force within six miles of !
Goliad, an 1 carried back to the fort. W had 1
expended all our afupunition at the battle of the
Mission, amrl very few ot our men had a single ,
cartridge Sin this diler&raMwe marched a night
| for Dimmit's Point on th<F Laßacca river, near
i Matagorda bay, where-upphes were landed sot i
the Texan troops.
Next day, 22d March, we halted to ‘ rest and
conceal ourscles within two miles of our* desti- !
nation, sent two men to the Point to see who (
was in possession and await their return. The !
remnant of the Mexican array that attacked the
I Mission, was hovering over this quarter under j
I Gen. Urr , took the two men prisoners and
j surrounded u*. Jhe two men came within j
i speaking distance of us, stated our situation ;
I and the power of the enemy, and desired Col. j
| VV ard to see Geu. Urrea upon the term* of sur- J
j render; upon which Col Ward. Maj. Mitchell ‘
’ and Capt. Tieknor, had an interview with Gen. •
I b rreaand returned, making known to ns the i
I offer of the enemy, if we surrendered prisoners |
of war, that we should be marched to Copana J
without delay, and from thence to New-Orleaus, ’
o r detained as prisoners of war and beexchang- !
ed. Cc i. Ward addressed his men and said he
was opposed to surrendering, that it was the i
same enemy we had beaten at the Mission, on- j
ly much reduced in numbers, and that he j
thought our chance of escape equally practica- ‘
beas it was then. He proposed that the a* j
tack on us might be evaded until nigh:, when 1
we might poss>hly pass the enemv's lines and
get out of dani/tir. At all events he thought
it best Lo resist every inch, a? manv of us as eouid
save ourselves, and if we surrendered, he had
doubts of the faith and. humanity of the Mexi
cans ; that he feared we should all be butefared. j
J he vote of the company was taken, and ajarge I
majority wore in favor of surrendering upon I
the terms proposed ; Col. Ward informed them I
that their wishes should govern, but if they were j
destroyed, no blame could rest on him.
The same officers as belore. tc wit: Col. Ward,
Maj. Mitchell and Captain Tieknor, again saw
Gen. L rrea, and I understood a pa, r was signed
by the Mexican General, to dispose of us as a
bove stated, on condition that we would never !
serve Texas any more; one copy in Spanish ‘
and another in English. Then came the hour j
iititfdieJ out iti ortici mm gioutided a!s , i'-, <*nr- *
touch boxes and weapons of every kind Our
guns were fired off the flints taken out. and re- ‘
turned to us to carry. When we left the Mis
sion on the night of the 14th of March, we had
about a hundred m*-n ; at the time of the sur j
render we had only eighty five, the others hav
ing left us on the route from the Mission to
Victoria, a most fortunate thing for them.— ,
We were put under a strong guard, and ihe n- v
morning 23d March, proceeded to Victoria, j
w here we were engaged the next day in bring- j
iug the baggage of the Mexican armv across
the Guadaloupe, about four hundred yards
from the town, and hauling it up. On the •
morning of the *2sth, wc were marched towards ‘
Goliad, where we arrived next dav late in the i
evening. There we found Coi. Fannin and his
regiment prisoners in the fort. Ali the Texian j
troops then in the fort as prisoners, belonging !
to Fannin’s command after we were brought in,
amounted to four hundred and eighty tr.* n.—
Early on the morning of the 27th, we were all j
marched into line and counted, and divided,
into four equal parts of one hundred and twen- ;
ty each. That nearest the door of the fort march- ‘
ed out first, A were received by a strong guard j
and placed in double file, going we knew not i
whither nor for what purpose. I was in ihisdivi- >
sion, in the right hand tile, and about half a mile |
from the fort vve were ordered to halt; the guard I
on the right then passed to the left and instant- ‘
ly fired upon the prisoners, nearlv all of whom i
fell, and the few survivors tried to escape .by j
flight in the prairie and concealing in the weeds. ‘
The firing continued, and about the same time ?
I heard other firing towards the fort and cries
of distress.
At ‘.he time our division of prisoners was shot, !
Drury H. Minor, of Houston county, Ga. im
mediately on my }eft, was killed ; and just be- j
fore me, next in file, Thomas S. Freeman, om
Macon, was also killed As I ran off, several
poor fellows who had been wounded, tried to j
hide in the clump of weeds and grass, but were j
pursued and I presume killed. Soon after I !
made my escape I was joined by John Duval
and Holliday, of the Kentucky vdun- j
teers, both of whom were with me at the mas
sacre, but not until I had awam across the San j
Antonio, about half a mile from the butchery.
For five days we had nothing to eat except wild
onions, which abound in the country, when
reaching the Guadaloupe found a nest of young
pigs, and these, lasted us several days. In the
course of a lew days, wandering at random in ‘
the open country, often wide off of our suj)j>os- /
j e<l direction, we saw fresh signs of cavalry and
, | withdrew to tiie swamp, but had been perceived
j g<3 tfjere ilQ d wore takcu by two Mexicans
j armed with guns anti swords; that B, Duval
1 an d myself were capntared ; Holliday h, ~]u e
| and Wid not discover* I On© of the n.en seized
jme and held on; Dural was placed between
j them to follow on. He sprang uff, and one of
. she men throw down his gun and ran after him
I *® rain. Duval made his escape, end I have net
! seen him since. I was taken u> their camp close
i by, when they saddled their horses in a hurry
land rode off without me. F;o:u their action
| 1 jagged they were cf opinion a party of Tex -
:as was neat, and so made off. 1 thee w®. f, to
! the swamp where i was taken, and found XlcrUi
din in his old position. Next day we came to
a deseited house on the Jar Dacha river, .■ I'par
entlv that of an American settler, where’ we
found plenty of provisions, such as meat, coni,
lard, chickens and eggs, upon which we feasted
there two days, camping at night a Title .v
off. J akirg with us good st<k of provisions,
we traveled quite refreshed, and in four da vs
reached the Colorado. From almost constant
rain and exposure I had lost the use of my right
arm and shoulder and could not swim the nver.
Holliday swam across with the provisions and
! promised to return and help me; but, he was
j so “ ejlk ~-‘d exhausted from the cold and rapid
| current, that lie was not able to do so. Thus
we parted ands never saw him afterwords
I 1 went up the river and next day found a ca
| noe in which I crossed, and then wandered t.iil
l got in sight ot the Bra<.o?on the 20th A; rii,
wliere I was taken by a party of twenty M xi
can cavalry, who canied me to the main army
at Fort Bend, under (Jen. Siesnta, and put m®
under guard with oilier prisoners they font
|P’ ked up. I recollect the names of but throe
. of them, and they ha i resided several years in
| Texas: Johnson from Net* York, Leach, a??
; £nghshmao, and himp.son. Port lien*.l was a
J boat thirty miles from Man Jacinto, where the
j battle w,is fought the next day, (21st *.j rH)
j The night after the battle a Mexican officer who
j escaped tioni San Jacinto, brought the r w ,
| into camp, and the army instantly retreat d.—
! When I was brought to the camp i pu'i.-.J • f
j my boots to dry and to relieve foe
i my boots were stolen and I had to march bare
foot through the mud ami wat r, m arly knew
deep all over the prairies, the ram falling ia tor
rents pretty much all tne time. The army re
turned to Victoria, w! ere I saw four of tLv'Ma.
con c ompany who had been detained th > s ft or
the surrender, on account of th ir
chanics ; William Wilkinson. John Kinoemore,
Barnwell and Callahan,
j J was then taken to Goliad, where I remain
-1 ed five Jays and saw the places where the four
j JtvLiouio,‘prisoners had been butchered;seme
of tLe remained, many burnt anJoth
; ers mangledf all so disfigured that I could re*
j cognize no pi.-t'cwlar -person. A company of
: eighty-two men from T&?Le<we.unde: Captain
I M tiler, of Texas, who naff bron taken prkoo
| ers the moment they lauded at, C.-i ~n ?. •.
£ho in we left m vbe fori at Gor*nd at the mrra
• ear-re. stilt remained there on my retain. On®
i ot it* members, (Mr. Coy) to*] me the parTn;--
| far* of Ward and Fannin’s deal* as he -bi f,
I was an eye witness. A r %er the pn - Ate- bad
| been shot, the time of the officers came. Col.
! V\ aid was ordered to kneel, which he refused
to do; he was tcld if he would kreel hi- lib*
j might be apared. He replied thev had killed
; bis men in cold blood and that beh . no fb siro
| to live; death would be welcome. LI. was then
shot dead, Col Fannin made, an address to the
Mexican officer in command, through an irt?-
preter; handed uwn hts gold watch to be sent
to Col. tannin s wife, also a purse to the offi
cer to have bun decently buried. Ur sat on a
chair, tied a handkerchief over his eves andre
i quested that lie might cot be shot in the head,
j and that the marksmen should stand far enough
j off for the powder not to bum him. lie was
I shot in the head and expired.
| Leaving GoHwl • the month of Mav, with a
1 dozen other Texan prisoners, under a guard of
I Cavalry attached to the main army th* n three
thousand strong, we marched to San Patrusio
on the Neuees river, where Cols. Teale A Carnes
of the Texan service, come under a flag of truce,
and obtained pasporU front Got). Fills on to go
to Mr unoras, wnere Col. Teale informed .•vn- I
should be discharged. I was kept with tho
main army until Gen. F. received orders from
Mexico to hasten there. He took with him a
titty cavalry who had charge of me ever since
leaving Goliad, and they std! held on tvs tce.-’-
Gen. F. left his guard at KwUdlu and i k tiuv
stage to the eity of Mexico, where the cavalry
arrived with me their only prisoner in August
1836. I was (hen confined in the Quurtcde or
Barracks until the first of Feb 1837. and a
bont that time Gen F. expected to leave the
city to take oormnand of the army at Matamo
ras. His interpreter, an Italian named Quarri,.
often visited the Barracks and treated me wffjli
great humanity. He said he would get uiv re
lease, and took me to Gen. Fiiisoia's bou.se to.
accompany him to Matamoras From some de
lay he did not start until the 28th of March,
during which time I was a member of his farm*
ly and treated w ith perfect kindness, under *.
ders however, for my own safety, it was
not to leave the guard alone.
I may be allowed to say a few words about
the city of Mexico and the mauner of my de
tention. 1 was put in the Karra. U a
number of Mexican prisoners who were con
fined for vaiious ofietices, and from the time f
entered m zkugust 1836 until I went to Get,
F. house it: Feb. f had no other food tnar\
boiled bets. The waierin i,be bar*~&U wa fresh
and pure, brought there by an aqueduct which
supplies the whole city twelr.a miles from tho
mountains. Hie city itself Is qute pleasant,
clean, and the buildings durable if pot elegant.
What I viewed as a great blemish to ;hc hom
es*, (which was nearly all of stone and rofk,>
*er he images of saint* nr-; JJ ro jia
endless variety.
< >n the ibth March last I left the city of Mex
ico in company with Gen. F. his stallarid asmall
guaid, and arrived at Matamoras the first of
Jane, a distance ofnine hundred miles from one
place to the other. Gen. F. it was sard declined
the invasion of Texas with his urir.y, ot* m?r
iugof the death of Gea. Moutczv-raa at San
Lui, and scut a large jxirtion of it to quell the
insurgent*. On the 17th Jane Gen. F. gave m*3
a pass-port, and on tire Brt of JuF, I embarked
for N-w Orleans on the Schr. o,mautuee. Cart,
Briddie, where I arrived in duo titm
This uupreteadiog ti-',rrativo is at your
ice, and yoit have my pertuissioo to make what
use of it you think p roper.
I am, very respectfully, your ob’t s’rr(
„ ‘ h- T. BROWN
Ihomas Ward, Esq. wuinter ccunty, Ala
It is calculated, says Tha t r at
over 3,000 persona I,*** Boston and vicini
-7 * fir |W last t*o years lor California.
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