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maad, thioogii an interpreter; handed atm
his gold watch to be sent to Col. Fannm’s
wife, also a pone to the officer to have him
decently buried. He sat on a chair, tied a
handkerchief over hi* eyes and requested
that he might not be shot in the head, and
; that the marksman should stand far enough
of far the powder not to burn him. He was
shot in the head and expired.
Leaving Goliad in the month of May,
with a dozen other Texan prisoners under a
guard of Cavalry attached to the main army
then three thousand strong, we marched to
San Patnudo on the Neuces river, where
Cols. Teale and Carnes of the Texan service,
come under a tag of traco, and obtained
passports from Gen. Filisoa to go to Mata*
moras, where Col. Teale informed me I
should be discharged. I Was kept with the
main army until Gen. F. recived orders from
Mexico to hasten there. He took with him a
bodyguard through the Indian county, about
fifty cavalry who had charge of me ever
since leaving Goliad, and they still held on
to me. Gen. F. left his guard at Saltillo
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Just received:
Maurice Tierney, by Chas. Lever.
The Iron Mask, by Dumas.
Don Quixote.
Guy Fawkes, Illustrated.
Tower of London, “
The Creole, a tale of the late war of 1812
and ’14, by Joseph B. Cobb of Mississippi.
Jane Eyre, by Currer Bell.
He Iiuim if Fanil ui hit lefiffiflrf.
BT AM ETC wrrwxss.
A correspondent of the Southern Dgpa-
erat, sends that paper fie following letter,
which was first published in an Alabama
paper called the << Voice of Sumter” in 1839,
giving the particulars of this dreadful trag
edy. He says:—«* Having formed the ac
quaintance of Mr. Brown aoon after his re
turn from Mexico, I suggested to him the
propriety of publishing s narrative of his
adventures, in the form of a letter to Thom
as Ward, Esq., brother Of the late Colonel
Ward of The Texan army. He consented,
and the letter came forth. Viewing it as a
piece of history to he relied on, I desire you
to give it emulation in your columns. Mr.
Brown was a young gentleman of intelli
gence and veracity. He is now dead. I al
ways attributed the kindness vtith which he
was treated by the Mexican General, to his
rare personal beauty; his dark, piercing
eyes, his bronxe complexion and graceful
figure giving him the appearance of a Span
ish cavalier. Ho was a native of Georgia,
and a nephew of Col. Ward.
. Yours, respectfully, M.
Anther Star has Nika.
We notice with deep regret the death of
Mas. Amelia B. Weut, at Louisville, on
the 2d inst. Mrs. W. was one of the sweet
est writers that has ever graced any land,
and her loss will be irreparable. Who that
has read and enjoyed the following beauti
ful lines to the Rainbow, will foil to shed
a tear at the death of this good woman:
dred and eighty men. Early on the mofning
of the 27th, we were all marched into line
and counted, and divided into four equal
parts .of one hundred and twenty each. That
nearest the door of the fort marched out first,
and were received by a strong guard and
placed in doable file, going we know not
whither nor for What purpose. I-wasin this
division, in the right hand file, and a bout-
half a mile from the fort we were ordered
to halt; the guard on the right then passed
to the left and instantly fired upon the pris
oners, nearly all of whom fell, and the few
survivors tried to escape by flight in the
prairie and concealing in the weed. The
firing continued, and about the same time I
heard other firing towards the fort and cries
ofdistress.
At the time our division of prisoners was
shot, Drury H. Minor, of Houston county,
Ga., immediately on my left, was killed ;
and just before me, next in file, Thomas S.
Freeman, of Macon, was also killed. As I
ran off, several poor fellows who had been
wounded tried to hide in the clomp of weeds
and grass, hnt were panned and I presume
killed. Soon after I made my escape 1 was
joined by John Duval and Holliday, of
the Kentucky volunteers, huthofvfeom were
with me at the massacre, but not until 1 had
swam across the San 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
Guadeloupe we found a nest of young pigs,
and these lasted ns several days. In the
course of a few days, wandering at random
in the open country, often wide off of our
suposed direction, we saw fresh signs of cav
alry and withdrew to the swamp; bnt wo
had been perceived going there and were ta
ken by two Mexicans armed with guns and
swords, that is, Duval and myself were cap
tured ; Holiday lay close and was not dis
covered. One of the men seized me and held
on; Duval was placed between them, to fol
low on. He sprang off, and. one of the men
threwdown his gun and nt after him in vain.
Duval made his escape, andl have not seen
him since. I was taken to their camp close
by, when they saddled their horses in a hur
ry and rode off without me. From their ac
tions I judge they were of opinion a party of
Texans was near, and so made off. I was ta
ken, and found Holliday in his old f (Ration.
Next day we came to a deserted house on
the La Bacha river, apparently that of an
American settler, where we found plenty of
provisions, such as meat, corn, lard, chick-
ensand eggs, upon which we feasted there
I sometimes have thoughts, in my loneliest
hoars;
That lie on my heart tike dew on the flowers,
Of a ramble I took one bright afternoon,
When my heart was as light as a blossom in
June.
The green earth was moist with the late-fal
len showers,
The breeze fluttered down and blew open the
flowers,
While a single white cloud, to its haven of
rest,
On the white wing of peace, floated off in the
west.
Pictorial Life of Jack Sheppard.
Sketches in Ireland.
The Scalp Hunters. Margaret Cecil.
Bavenscliffe.. Florence Sackville.
Wife's Sister. Head of the Family.
The Maid of the Canal. Arabian Nights.
Percival Keene, by Maryatt.
The Parricide, by Reynolds.
Vallntinc Vox, the ventriloquist.
Gulliver’s Travels.
Also, in substantial bindings, and at low
rates, - ;
The complete works of Washington Irving.
History of the Mexican War, by Frost.
Trumbull’s Indian Wars.
Cooper’s Naval History. General view of
the world.
Redburn. by Hein an Melville.
McCauley and Hume’s History of Eng
land. [April 22d, 1852.
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T HE undersigned Would call the atten
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tensive stock of School and Classical Books,
which he will sell on good terms for cash.
Among other works, he has on hand:
prisoner in August 1880. I was thon con
fined in the Quartede or Barracks until the
first of February, 1887, and about that
time Gen. F. expected to leave the city to
take command of the army at Mata moras.
His interpreter, an Italian named Qnarri,
often visited the Barracks and treated me
with great hnnlanity. He said he would get
my release, and took me to General Filisola'a
house to accompany him to Mstamoros.—
From some delay hedid not start until the
28th of March, during which time I was a
member of hia family and treated with per
fect kindness, under orders however, for my
own safety, it was said, not to leave the
guard, alone.
1 may he allowed to say a few words about
the city of Mexico and the manner of my
1 was put in the Barracks among
As I threw hack my tresses to catch the cool
breeze
That scattered the rain-drops and dimpled
the seas,
Far up the blue sky a fair Rainbow unroll-
Anthon’s Series of Classical Books.
Cooper’s Virgil.
Ainsworth’s Dictionary.
Donnegan’s Greek Lexicon.
Grove’s “ “
Jacob’s Latin Reader.
“ Greek Reader.
Graeca Majora.
“ Minora.
Homer’s Illiad. Xenophen.
Cicero de Watore. Livy.
Greek Testament.
“ Grammars.
Mitchell’s, Smith’s, Olncy’s and Wool-
ridge’s Schdol Geographies.
Smith's, Brown’s, Kirkhams’s Murray’s,
and Greeiileaf s Grammars.
Smith’s, Emerson’s Pike’s, Smiley's and
DaboU’s Arithmetics.
Walker's and Webster's Dictionaries.
Porter's Grigg A Elliott’s New York and
English Readers.
Olmstead’s School Astronomy.
Parker's, Olmstead’s, Comstock’s, Jones,
and Miss Swift’s Philosophies.
Comstock.'* and Jones’ ChemiTCry.
TBS LATEST FOREIGN NEWS!
JUST received at the “Cherokee Book
Store,’’ the following, among many other
valuable Books:
The wofks of Jno. C. Calhoun, VoL 1.
Golden Christmas, by W. G. Simms.
A Tour in Europe, by w Southern man.
Maekey's Masonic Lexicon, new edition.
The Masonic Trestle board.
The new Masonic Vocalist.
Sterne’s works.
Orders received for any work published
in the Union.
Castville, April 26, 1852.
Its'soft-tinted pinions of purple and gold.
’Twas born in a moment, yet, quick as its
birth, . ,
It was stretch’d to the Uttermost ends of the
earth,
And, fair as an angel, it floated as free,
With a wing on the earth and a wing on the
tures in a form you might preserve, would (
not he unacceptable or improper. AH I \
have in view is to give the facts which came ,
within my own observation and knowledge; j
and if they can be deemed of interest as oe- ,
earring to one of my years, (twenty at the j
present time,) I shall-feel perfectly satis- \
fled in having related them. |
About the 20th of November, 1835, I left |
Macon in the stage for Columbus, where I t
joined Capt. Ward's company, who had ren- (
dezvoused at that place, from whence we i
marched to Montgomery, Alabama, and took ]
passage for Mobile on the steamer Ben j
Franklin. Remaining in Mobile five or six (
days,near which a public dinner was given j
us, we embarked on the steamer Conroy for t
New Orleans, where we halted about a week 1
and received some addition to our number, t
making the company about one hundred and ]
fifty strong. Here Capt. Ward laid in sup- (
plies for his men and chartered the schooner ]
Pennsylvania to take them to Velasco, where ^
we arrived on the 20th December, 1835, and ,
found Captain Wadsworth’s .company, fifty <
strong, and the two companies were organ- ]
feed into a battalion, of which Capt. Ward |
was elected Major, called the Georgia" Bat- i
talion. Capt Ward's original company was j
divided into two equal parts, as near as (
practicable, the command of one of 'which (
was given to Capt. Uriah J. Bullock, of Ma- i
con, and that of the other to Capfo James C. ]
Wynne, of Gwinnett county. Major Ward i
lost no time in reporting in person his bat
talion to Gov. Smith at San Philip de Aus- ,
tin. Our troops encamped about two miles <
from Velasco, on the Brazos river, where \
they subsisted on the two months; provisions i
laid in at New Orleans. After a week's ab-‘ t
sence to the seat of government, Major Ward t
returned with commissions for the several i
officers. We remained in the camp near Ve- \
laseo, until the 1st of February, 1836, when i
-the battalion was ordered by the then act- ,
iag Governor Robinson, to repair to Goliad
on the San Antonio river, and it was forth
with transported by the schooner Columbus, 1
U. S. vessel, to Copano, on Aransas-Bay, af
ter five days passage. There we were furn
ished with supplies by the government and
four pieces of artillery, two six and two
four-pounders. From Copano to Goliad the -
distance is-forty-five miles, and about half
way die battalion halted at the Mission,
where we were joined by Capt. Ticknor s
company of Montgomery, Alabama, making
our ranks about two hundred and fifty
strong. From thence we marched to Goliad,
took possession and repaired the Fort, and
were joined by the LaFayette Battalion,
made up from North Alabama, Tennessee
and Kentucky. Previous to this, the la
mented Col. Fannin had not taken any part
in the service, hot 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 elected Colonel and Ward,
i Lieut. Colonel; Dr. Mitchell, of Columbus,
commanded the Georgia Battalion, in the
i place ofMaj, Ward, promoted.
For some purpose, Capt. King of the La-
i Fayette Battalion, had been despatched by
i Col. Fannin to occupy the Mission, about
! twenty-two milesoff, who found himself an-
i noyed in Ms new position by a party ofMex-
i icaa cavalry, and seat an express to Goliad
. ftr a reinforcemeat. Lieut. Col. Ward, with
one hundred and twenty-five smb, of which
- I was among the number, was directed by
■ Col. Fannin to support Capt. King at the
i Mission. This was on the 12th of March,
, and the next day Lieut. Colonel Ward’s
i covnand reached the Mission, at which a
r large Catholic Church built of atone, made
How calm was the ocean! how gentle its
swell!
Like a woman's soft bosom it rose and it
fell;
While its light sparkling waves, stealing
laughingly o'er,
When they saw the fair Rainbow, knelt
down on the shore.
No sweet hymn ascended, no murmur of
prayer,
Yet I felt like the spirit of worship was
there,
And I bent my young head, in devotion and
love,
'Neath the form of the angel that floated a-
bove.
How wide was the sweep of its beautiful
wings!
How boundless its circle! how radiant its
rings!
If I looked on-the sky, ’twas suspended in
'detention.
a number of Mexican prisoners who were
confined for various offences, and from the
time I entered in August, 1836, until 1 went
to Gen. Filisola’a house in February, I had
no other food than boiled beef. The water
in the Barracks was fresh and pore, brought
there by an aqueduct which supplies the
whole city twelve miles from the mountains.
My health was very good ihe whole time.
The city itselfis-quite pleasant, clean, aid
the buildings durable if not elegant. What
I viewed as a great blemish for Bouses,
(which was nearly all stone and rock,) where
the images of saints and idols carved in end
less variety.
On the 28th March last, I left the city of
Mexico in company with Gen. Filiaola, his
staff and a small guard, and arrived at Mat-
amor as the 1st of June, a distance of nine
hundrd miles from one place to the other.
Gen. F. it was said declined the invasion of
Texas with his army, on hearing the death
of Gen. Montezuma at San Louis, and ent a
large portion of it to quell the insurgents.
On the 17th June, Gen. Filiaola gate me a
passport, and on the first of July I embarked
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CaeeviUe, April 26, 1852.
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Frost’s American “
Headers, Spelling-Books, Slates, Copy
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Caetville, April 22, 1852.
The cry is still they Come!
tJOW receiving at the Cherokee Book
Store, CaeeviUe, the following Books:
Bascom’s Sermons;
Cobb's Digest, in 1 and in 2 vols.
Georgia Reports—2 complete setts.
“ “ vol. 10, several copies.
Ewell’s Medical Companion.
Sterne’s works.
Five editions-of Shakspeare and Byron.
Curran and his Co temporaries.
Irish Rebellion, Ac.
Call and examine our stock.
JNO. W. BURKE, Agent.
May 6,1852.
VALUABLE BOOKS,
J UST received at the “Cherokee Book
Store,” the following, and many others:
Pickett's History of Alabama, Georgia
and Mississippi, 2 vols.
Garland's Life of Randolph, 2 vols.
Hume's England, 6 vols.
Wirt’s Patrick Henry.
Thrilling Incidents of the Wars of the
United States. ■ '
Pictorial History of the United States.
Greece, Turkey, Russia, Ac.
If I looked on the ocean, the Rainbow Was
there;
Thus forming a girdle, as brilliant and
whole "
As the thoughts of the Rainbow, that circled
my soul.
Like the wings of the Deity, calmly unforled,
It bent from the cloud and encircled thfe
world.
There are moments, I think, when the spirit
receives
Whole volumes'of thought on its unwritten
leaves; ,
When the folds of the heart in a moment Un
close,
Like the innermost leaves from the heart of
the rose.
And thus when the Rainbow had passed
from the sky, ’
The thoughts it awoke were too deep to pass
Kendall’s Santa Fe Expedition.
Georgia Scenes, by Longstreel.
McKenzie's 5000 Receipts.
Free Mason’s Monitor.
History of Religious Denominations.
Abbott’s Histories of Hannibal, Xerxes,Ac
Gunn's Domestic Medicine.
American Lawyer and Form Book.
Watson's Institutes, 2 vols.
Wesley’s Sermon's 2 vols.
Village Sermons, by Rev. Geo. Burder.
Buck's Theological Dictionary.
April 15. Fdr sale low for cash.
two days, camping at night a little way off.
Taking with us good stock of provisions, we
traveled quite refreshed, and in four days
From almost con-
reached the Colorado,
stant rain and exposure, I had lost the
ef my right arm and shoulder, and could
not swim the river. Holliday swam across
with the provisions and promised to return
and help me; but he-was so weak and ex
hausted from the cold and" rapid current,
that he was not able to do so. Thus we par
ted and l never saw him afterwards.
I went up the river and next day found
a canoe in which I crossed, and then wan
dered until I got in sight of the Brazos on
the 20th of April, where 1 was token by a
party of twenty'Mexican cavalry who car-
CuIHfrjr jnAut.
Rena, by Mrs, Caroline Lee Hentx.
Lady Felicia.
Seven Brothers of Wyoming.
Darien. Poor Jack.
Montezuma, the Serf,
life of Jno. A. Murrell.
" “ Joseph T. Hare.
“ « Col. Monroe Edwards.
Young Chevalier, and many others too
numerous to mention, just received and for
sale low for cash at the Cherokee Book
Store, [April 15.
STANDARD POETS
T HE poetical works of Cowper, Pope,
Hemans, Moore, Thompson, Pollock,
(Man, Howitt Cook, London, Milton,
Young, Bryan, Shakspeare and Tapper,
bound in beautiful style, just received and
for sale at the Cherokee Book Store. •
This strange question wan asked a short
time since at a London Police Court. A
young man applied to Mr. Corrie, the set
ting magistrate, and coolly said:
Please yonr worship,I wish to know wheth
er it is lawful for a man to marry his own
aunt. A laugh.
Mr. Corrie—It is a most extraordinary
question. Have yen married your aunt l
Applicant—Yes, my mother’s sister.
Corrie—How old are yon?
Applicant—Nineteen.
Corrie—And what age is yoxr wife ?
Applicant—Twenty.
Corrie said that aaeh a marriage was cer
tainly illegal, according to the Script ares,
and he referred to Leviticus and the Com
mon Prayer Book.
The wife, a good looking young woman,
here said: He is a fool. I am willing to
do —aryihing to make him comfortable.
Applicant—I can’t live with her, she has
got each a bad temper.
Wife—If the marriage is illegal, and he
leaves me, is he not bound to support me ?
Corrie—Oh, no.
Wife—Then can he marry again?
Corrie—Yet.
Wife—And ean I do so ?
Corrie—Ok. then, that is all right.
Laughter.
Applicant—I'll toko good care. Til not
get married again. I have had enough of It
for the last six months. '
The applicant then left the court, follow
ed by his aunt-wife, who continued abusing
her nephew until they got eat of right.
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Adairsville, April 14, 1852.
I know that each moment of rapture or pain
But shortens the links of life’s mystical
chain ;
I know that my form, like that bow from
the wave
Must pass from the earth and lie cold in the
grave.
Yet O! when death’s shadows my besom en-
Clond,
When I shrink at the thought of the coffin
and shroud.
May Hope, like the Rainbow, my spirit en
fold,
In her beautiful pinions of purple and gold.
at tiie Mission, only much red need in num
bers, and that he thought our chances of es
cape equally practicable as it was then.—
Re proponed that the attack on us might be
evaded until night, when wemight possibly
peas the enemy's lines and get out of dan
ger. At all events he thougkt it best to re
sist every inch, as many ef ns could save
ourselves, and if we surrendered, he had
doubts of the faith and hamanity of the
Mexicans: that he feared .we should be
butchered. The vote of the company was
taken, and a large majority were in favor of
surrendering upon the terms proposed; Col.
Ward informed them that their wishes should
govern, but iFthey were destroyed, no blame
could rest on him.
The ~i— officers as before, to wit: CoL
Ward, Major Mitchell and Captain Ticknor,
again saw Gen. Urrea, and I understood a
paper was signed by the Mexican General,
to dispooe of os as above stated, on condition
that we would never serve Texas any more;
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I was then taken to Goliad, where I re
mained five days and saw the place where
the fear divisions of prisoners had been
butchered; some of the carcases remined,
■may burnt and others mangled; all so dis
figured that I could recognise no particular
person. A company of eighty-two men from
Tenaesme, under Capt. Miller of Texas, who
had tMt taken prisoners the moment thsy
landed at Copano, and whom we left in the
fort at Goliad at the massacre, still remained
there on my return. One of its members,
(Mr. Coy) told me the particulars of Ward
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