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UNIVERSITY OF GLORG1A LIBRARY a t funtil') j^raisfnpr-JtBBtrii t» j^itimutl writ itafr ^nlitirs, litantare, Statararate, Jfiarkrts, .foreign onli fomwtir Unos, kt. TWO DOLLARS, per annum, in advance. BE JUST AND FEAR NOT. BT JOHN W. BURKE, Editor and Proprietor. 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 ADVERTISEMENTS. STANDARD * i 18 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY, AT CASSVILLE. OA. 'Office.—S. W. Corner of the Public Square. Terms.—Two dollars s-year, in advance, ar Three dollars at the end of the year. No paper discontinued, except at the op tion of the editor, until all arrearages are paid. Miscellaneous advertisements inserted at |1 per square, for the first insertion, and'50 cents for each weekly continuance. Legal advertisements published at the nsual rates. Advertisements not marked, will be pub lished until forbid, and charged accordingly. Letters on business must be addressed, post paid, to the editor. Have jroa called at tfce'Beelc Store Tetl fifths Jp you "have not, just step in, MsgJB Burke has fixed up a very neat UffiUffiWW little Store, and has on hand many very good, interesting, amusing, sci entific, instructive and entertaining Books 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. ADVERTISEMENTS. To Teachers and Parents. T HE undersigned Would call the atten tion of Teachers ahd Parents to hia ex 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 Look Here! Y OU can get Stationery of every kind very cheap for cash at the “ Cherokee Book StorePaper of all kinds, pens, ink, envelopes, wafers, penholders, in ilia rubber, slates, pencils, drawing materials, &c. Ac , always on hand. CaeeviUe, April 26, 1852. Lovell’i U. S. and Young Speaker. Frost’s American “ Headers, Spelling-Books, Slates, Copy Books, and everything usually kept in a Bookstore. Orders from a distance prompt ly attended to. JNO. W. BURKE, Agent. 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. Ladies’ Dress Goods. A FINE ASSOBTMENTof Ladies’ Dress Goods, comprising all the latest styles of Muslins, Lawns, Ginghams, Borages, Tissues, Ac. Very handsome printed Lawns at 124 cents, at PATTON & TRIMBLE’S. 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; CHAS.O. M ARTI5DALE. eu>.vx.iriun. C. 0. MARTINDALE & CO., WHOLESALE DKALXRS IK Groceries, ‘Wines & Liquors, HO. 88, BAST-BAY STREET, const YEtnuE range, FAMILY MEDICINES, YOB SALE . AT TUB CHEROKEE BOOK STOUR. r WNSEND’S Sarsaparilla.. Paregoric. Comstock’s Vermiftige. Juno CordiaL Opodeldoc. Judsons’s Cherry and Lung wort. Pepsin. Pain-Killer, Acoustic Oil, Thompson’s Eye Water, Hive Syrup, Bal aam Coparia, Tooth Ache Drops, Nerve and Bone Liniment, Lmgley’s Indian Panacea, Carlton’s Founder Ointment, British Oil,' Condition Powders, Oil of Spike, Godfrey’s Cordial, Bateman’s Drops, Wistais’ Wild Cherry, laudanum. No. 6, Ac., Ac. Catnille, April 22,1852. Wilkinson, John Kinnemote,—— Barnwell and Callahan. 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 WAYEBLt novels. ANE SETT ONLY of the splendid Ah. bottsfora edition of Waverly, or Walter Scott’s Novels—for tale at the Cherokee Book Store.' April 22.1852. WM. T. PRICE k CO. 80. MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. ASBURY NULL, President, C.F- MeCA Y. 4<tumjr. . ALTON CHAME, Secretary. mHB undersigned, JBrcnt of the Southern L. Ifuriml Jazaraai* Cn. for Cam eo. will tSsnpksoa Houses, Fwnmtms,SbuhssfGsads, NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. Oma, W.4A.B.B.I Atlanta, Ga. Feb. 28,1852. f 1 LL prolate wr mnrhaaHisi matt be ta- |. ken from the Deaut in this ffity, within .< peace et arind” as health. If yen wfch to look atmrianoholy and indigestion, lasfe * an old maid. Hyoa weriM taka * pa* * sunshine, lo* in the free of a » you^g mother.’*