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jcHlllcehlii €l)romidc&ocntiiicl '* *"* - - WILLIAM E. JONES & Co. AUGUSTA, Ga. SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 20, 1839 . __ ’ * Voi. lII.—No. 82. THE CHIIONICIiG AND SENTINEL. PUBLISHED, DAILY, TRI-WEEKLY, AND WEEKLY, At No. Broad-street. . terms: ' Daily paper, Ten Dollars per annum, in advance. Tri-Weekly paper, at Six Dollars in advance or Seven at the end of the year. Weekly paper, Three Dollars in advance, or Four at the end of year. CUIIONICLK AND SKNTINEL. AUGUSTA. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 19. We said yesterday, in some remarks upon the declaration of the Savannah Georgian that Judge McDonald is opposed to a National Bank, that we could produce the record to prove tha l he was not formerly so; even so recently as 1834. He was that year, the Senator frmn Bibb county.— Early in the session a preamble and resolutions declaring the U. S. Bank to be both unconstitu tional and inexpedient, were introduced into the Senate by Mr. Wofford, for which substitutes were offered by Messrs. Cleveland and Nisbel. Dr. Reese, the Senator from Jasper, a distinguished member ofthe Union party, and universally known as a Bunk man, moved to lay the original and all the substitutes on the table for the balance of the session. On this motion the yeas were 33, and the nays 50. Among the yeas wc find the name of Judge McDonald. Only two other Union Senators voted in the same way, to wit. Dr. Reese of Jasper, and Mr. Wonn of Heard. By thus voting to lay these resolutions on the table the balance of the session, Judge McDonald virtually opposed the principles they contained. But wc are not left with only this amount of proof. The resolutions of Mr. Wofford were amended after the motion to lay them on the table, above referred to, and made to read as follows: — By the Senate and House of Representa f fives of the State of Georgia, in General Assem bly met, That the Bank of the United Stales ought not to be rechartered on any terms, and that our Senators in Congress be, and they are hereby instructed, and our Representatives re quested to vote against the recharter of said Bank in any form or shape in which it may be presented. In this shape the vote was taken on the final passage of the resolution, and Judge McDonald voted against it. No others of the Union party voted with him, except the same two referred to above, Messrs. Reese and Wood. The reso lution as adopted, expresses no opinion as to the constitutionality of a Bank, but merely declares that it ought not to be rechartercd, and instructs our Senators and requests our Representatives in Congress, to oppose its rechaiter in any shape. Thus it will be seen that Judge McDonald, first voted to lay resolutions on the table for the balance of the session, which declared a National Bunk to be unconstitutional and inexpedient; and secondly, after the resolutions were so modified as to express no opinion upon the constitutional question, he voted against merely declaring that it ought not to be rechartered, and against instructing our Senators, and requesting our Representatives in Congress to vote against its recharter ! What is the natural and necessary inference from this I Why clearly that Judge McDonald it unconditionally and unqualifiedly a Bank man—a U. S. Bank man ! In addition to all the above, we are informed upon good authority, that as recently as the win s ter of 1837, Judge McDonald declared himself , / K. be a Bank man, when speaking in reference to a National or U. S. Bank. We do not disapprove of the Judge’s senti ments thus expressed upon this question—on the contrary we perfectly agree with him ; but we wish to expose the duplicity of a party, in supporting a long and consistent advocate of a National Bank, and at the same lime professing to give that support on the ground of his oppo sition to such an institution. We believe that Judge McDonald, if ques tioned at this time upon the subject, would give an opinion in favor both of the constitutionality and expediency of a National Bank under proper modifications and restrictions. From the New-Orlcms Bee. Mexico. We translate from the Diario del Gobiarno, of the city of Mexico, the substance of the corres pondence between Colonel Bee, the Texian En voy, and Mr. Gorisliza, the Mexican minister of foreign affairs. “To the minister for foreign affairs, On board the U. 18. Culler, Woodberry, in the port of Vera Cruz. May 9, 1839. Sin—Being charged with important commu nications to your government, I have demanded of his excellency the commandant at Vera i ruz, \ the necessary facilities for their transmission to \ the honorable Secretary of State. As lam not I rare that General Victoria will grant me the rraission I have asked, I profit by the mail rich leaves for Mexico, to inform you that I am 3 bearer of such propositions from Texas, as, 1 ve no doubt, will be accepted by the mother □ ntry. I should he happy if you would have b kindness to make it known to H. E., the Pre lent of the Republic, the fact of my arrival here, luring him of the high consideration in which jold him, and ofthe pain I have felt at learning e loss of his leg. General Santa Ana will pro rly appreciate these individual sentiments on count of the relations formerly existing between i. I have the honor, &c. B. E. BEE. a Mr. Bernard E. Bee.—Private and strictly lj confidential. Mexico, June 17lh, 1839. Sir—l have received your letter of the 9th ay. in which you inform me of the motive hich has induced your coming to Vera Cruz.— 1 reply I must tell you that the President ad in rim, in entire conformity with his council, has ready transmitted to General Guadaloupe Vic- toria, the necessary instructions to receive the propositions you have to make, provided these ! propositions do not relate either directly or indi rectly to the negotiation of the independence of Texas. II it he otherwise, you will be required to return immediately to the United States. I must tell you, at the same lime, that if pre sident Santa Ana holds himself compelled as chiel magistrate of the republic, to pursue this course—the only one compatible with the na tional honor—he has not forgotten the services you have rendered him both in Texas and during his journey to Washington, and he desires no hing more than an opportunity of testifying to you as a private citizen his grateful sense of these obligations, I have the honor, &c. M. E. DE GOROBTIZA. Col. Bee replied under date of the, 27th May, that he knew that the Tcxian question was an exceedingly delicate one for Santa Ana; that at the period of his appointment Bustamente occu pied the presidential chair, and that the change which had taken place in the chief magistracy of the Mexican government did not prevent him from endeavoring to fulfil his mission ; that Santa Ana ought to know that Texas is not worth the tenth part of the blood and treasure it would cost to reconquer it, even supposing the. measure possible, (which, however, he denied,) and that he diil not doubt that a favorable hearing would shortly he given to propositions analogous to those he was charged to make; and that he de clined entering into a conference with General Victoria, as he was prohibited from alluding to the recognition of Tcxian independence. We regret that the length of this letter has placed us under the necessity of abridging it. The Boundary. —The following is an extrai t from a London letter in the Quebec Gazette, dat ed June 12. “I think you may take it as certain, that a spe cial convention has either left this country, or will speedily be sent to America, for arranging the basis of a settlement of the disputes with the government of the United States, relative to the boundary question. Her Majesty’s advocate, Sir John Dodson, has for some time, been engaged in drawing up this convention, which, I am told, is in strict confor mity with the instructions sent to the American minister at our Court. The other mentioned facts I am not at liberty, at present, to communi cate. But I think the knotty point is in a fair train of arrangement. From the New York Express. The following table exhibits the total value of the imports and exports of the States most deeply engaged in foreign trade, for the year end ing Sept. 30, 1838. Imports into Exports into Massachusetts, £13.300,925 £9,101,862 New V'ork, 68,453,206 23,008,471 Pennsylvania, 9,360,731 3,177,151 Maryland, 5,701,869 4,524,576 Virginia, 577,124 3,986,228 South Carolina, 2,318,791 11,042,070 Georgia, 776,068 8,803,839 Alabama, 524,548 9,688,244 9,496,808 31,502,248 The following are the principle articles of im port with their value: Cotton goods, £6,599,330 Woollen goods, 6,967,530 Silk goods 9,812,338 Linen, 3,583,540 Iron and Steel, 7.418,504 Sugar, 7,586,825 Teas, 3,497,156 Wines, - 2,318,202 The principle exports were the following: Cotton, £61,556,811 Tobacco, 7,392,029 Rice, 1,721,819 Flour, 3,603,299 Fish, 819,003 Furs, 636,945 Lumber, 3,116,196 Manufactures, 8,397,078 The export of domestic manufactured cotton goods in 1838, amounted to £3,758,755, against £2,821,473 in 1837—showing an increase of £927,282. The chief exports were to the follow ing countries: China, £532,097 British East Indies, 140,762 Dutch East Indies, 133,350 Manilla, 79,531 Peru, 97,713 Chili, 640,831 Argentine Republic, 104,254, Brazil, 536,416 Mexico, 597,330 Cuba, 157,621 Cape De Verd Islands, 66,555 Turkey, Levant, &c. 111,937 The following table exhibits the relative im portance of our trade during the year 1838, with the following countries: Imports from Exports to Great Britain and dependencies, £49,051,181 £58,843,392 France & depen dencies, 18,087,149 16,252,413 Spain & depen dencies, 15,971,394 7,684,006 Netherlands & de pendencies, 2,436,166 3,772,256 China, 4.764 536 1,698,433 Mexico, 3,500,709 2,164,097 Texas, 165,718 1,247,880 It will be seen by this last table, that the bal an e of trade between the United Stales and Great last year, was nearly ten millions in our favor. From the Hertford Enquirer, Narrative of the Escape of Capt. John Ilollida y. lit THE KEV. HAY.NAHD 11. HALL. The. following narrative was given to the wri ter, at his request, by Capt. John Holliday of the Texian army, during his recent visit to his rela tives at Bedford. The account, especially of his own perilous adventures ought not, in the opinion of many estimable persons, to be confined w ithin the circle of the Captain’s friends and connex ions; it is therefore, now placed before the pub lic, affording another illustration of a frequent re mark, “ that nothing is often more unlike the truth, than the truth itself.” On the first day of the year 1836, after the sur render of the Mexican General Cos at Alamo, a division of the Tcxian troops under Colonel Grant and Maj. Morris, marched down the San Antonio and encamped at Goliad. Remaining here one week for orders, they set out for the main object of the expedition—the siege of Mata moras on the Rio Grande; but informed that Col. Fannin would land at Copano Bay with valuable reinforcements they halted at the Mis j sion Refug oon the Mission River. Here arose j an unhappy dispute, a leading cause of all the i , disasters that followed. One parly with Col. 1 Johnson and Col. Grant at their head wished to ! proceed to Matamuras without any rcinfoice mcnts, whilst another party wished to await the arrival of Fannin ; so that finding themselves un able to agree, the forces were about equally divid ed, half setting off for the Rio Grande, and the other half remaining at the Mission Refugio.— Capt. Holliday, then a private, belonged to ;hc latter number. At the arrival of Fannin he was elected Colo nel of the combined division, now amounting to about 450 men. Hut his troops were not destin ed to march to the siege of Malamoras ; for when Johnson and Grant arrived at St. Petricio on the Neuccs River, they found the enemy approach ing in so great force, that they deemed it prudent to request Col. Fannin that he should send a de tachment to guard the artillery back to his post. Among the three companies that performed this service was young Holliday. i he siege of Malamoras was now abandoned; and Col. Fannin returned to Goliad, where he strengthened the fort and was by reinforcements able to muster about (U)0 soldiers. Ho received orders, however, on the 15th of March from Gen. Houston to reticat to Victoria; but as his in structions loft him at liberty to obey or not, he believed under all the circumstances that it was better to await the Mexicans at Goliad, About this time, too, he had sent Captain King with 28 men to rescue an unfortunate family ofTe.xians left at the Mission River; and although in conse quence of fresh orders from Houston, he felt in clined to retreat to Victoria, he would not com mence that retreat until the return of the rescuing party. 'Phis delay was fatal. The Mexicans, having killed the whole party under Grant and Johnson, with the exception of Col. Johnson himself and three privates, were now advancing upon Goliad (lushed with repeated victories, and with contin ually augented forces. Copt. King was imme diately attacked at the Mission and driven into the church; when he was beseiged with his small band by a large body of the enemy. Col. I'annin at this information, determined on re treating, would not leave the fort until he had brought oil Capt. King. He accordingly de spatched Lt. Colonel Ward with the Georgia battnlhon to rescue King; giving orders not to risk a battle with the enemy. These orders how ever, were most improperly disobeyed; and in consequence, Ward with 100 men were taken prisoners, all of whom perished in the subsequent massacre at Goliad, whilst King and his party were captured about twelve miles down the river, being tied elbow to elbow were butchered on the spot. The situation of Col. Fannin became then ex ceedingly critical, his numbers being greatly less ened, and the Mexican cavalry having now reach ed his immediate vicinity. With these Capt. Horton of the Teaxian cavalry had a slight skir mish on the 18th of March ; hut he. was compell ed to retire by the superior force of the enemy. On the same day an unsuccessful attempt was made by Col. Fannin to cross the San Juncinto; which however he effected on the morning of the 19th without any molestation, the enemy not then being even in sight. He had marched about eight miles towards the river Colctto, when the small division of the cav alry,constituting the rearguard, gave notice of the approach of the enemy; w ho, at the same time, were seen by the infantry advancing with rapidity; their force amounting to nearly 1000, whilst that of tlie Tcxians amounting to only 8f 0. The Colonel now attempted to reach a small strip of oak timber about two miles to his left; hut soon found from the tardiness of the oxe.n harnessed to the artillery that if he expected to reach the timber, it must bo with the loss of his cannon. It being then resolved to fight in the praiiie, the small and gallant band was formed into a hollow square; the baggage in the centre, and the cannon so disposed as to do the greatest execution. The enemy having surromidecd the Texians and having tired several discharges of musketry at 600 yards distance, at length rushed onward at full speed, with their cavalry on the south, and their infantry and Indians on the three other sides, as il to crush the diminutive company by a single onset; but in this expectation they were effectually baulked by a simultaneous and mur derous fire from all sides of the square poured forth with a fair aim and at a little more than 100 yards. In the same way every successive attack was checked; till about sunset, the battle having commenced at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, the Mexicans retired ; having lost in killed and wounded about 500 men, whilst the others had lost only 6 killed and 50 wounded. Throwing up some hasty entrenchments the Texians prepared for an attack in the morning, although they would have retreated all night, had it not been from the earnest supplication of their wounded; and yet, it is questionable wheth er at this juncture any regular retreat could have been continued, as the enemy during the night were so greatly reinforced as to make their effec tive number nearly 2000. It appeared, too, that tlie enemy had received some cannon, as the first salutation upon the morning of the 20th, was the roar of artillery and whistling of balls over the Texian entrenchment. And to this no suitable answer could he made by the artillery of the lat ter, as all the water necessary to swab the pieces had been previously exhausted, and, indeed, their ammunition nearly expended. In these circumstances the enemy hung out a (lag of truce; and as the Texians despaired even of any opportunity to cut away with their weap ons, or to sell their lives at a high price because of the caution of the foe, it was, in council of war, agreed to surrender upon honorable conditions. A parly was therefore held; and at length a treaty was written both in Spanish and English, was signed by Col. Fannin, and by Urrea the Mexi can General; according to which, among other matters, the I’exians upon surrendering as pris oners of war, were to retain their side arms, and to be either released or exchanged. This sur render was on .Sunday morning the 20th of March. The prisoners were guarded hark to Goliad, i And here commenced a treatment designed un j doubtedly, to crush the spirits and debilitate the bodies of the victims, that there might he no re sistance in tlie execution of the tragedy already meditated. Contrary to express stipulation, the prisoners ; were required to surrender their side arms and [ threatened with death in case any knife should, j upon searching lie found to have been concealed; they were then all forced, at the point of the bay onet, to engage in severe and incessant labor; and even compelled to cat raw, the only suste- 1 nance, a scanty portion of had beef. This con- ' tinued until the Saturday closing the week of their imprisonment. On this day no food what ever was allowed, and the miserable victims of barbarian cruelty, without any suspicion of treachery, actually employed in cleaning their own muskets and bayonets, to be used the next morning in the butchery. Sunday morning, the 27th of March, came; a day written in letters of indelible blood on the i memory of (he very few who almost mi arulouxlv drums Hie.,. „■ yet survive to look back on the hortot. ofGoliad. ria . Just however !! '''lT"'"' "Z ,cto ' Dunns Hu- previous night, two ennm n were sc ibinkin.. „f t,....,;, ' ‘,l 8 U " lul ,1 "'- v crctly place,l, one on each side .he main entrance the r fee/a IV ,st ol \‘’.""“V “" l of the fort, so as to intimidate the prisoners, if n U,r , viv J , V ""T ’TI"" 8 they should, suspecting foul play, endeavor to lor their labm l! Xwhh n1 n ' Um resist; and then the whole com) any, with the few hours old' ,-anip ' .‘ 0 P'S B on •> 11 exception of the wounded in the hospital, who SJhv 7""T" /’.."T were separately destroyed, the whole‘company wen•^lorhn‘a e t 1 .T°. “T ’ comprising those captured with Cel. Ward and uncooked and even ml. .T " ,V t,, v l ‘ ,ur “ l amounting to about 420 men were all drawn up \oihio r , 1 °"‘' a " ml ‘'"'rails, in double files, extending across the yard of ihe , v , V T'‘ I’"'" 1 "' >"“• fort.from the cannon a,"the main gatet ,1 elp S us 'nX ,ml " """ "■‘‘l’"- three nearly equal divisions, and then on being cross a small nrniri,. i„;„ ', , . ,i • V ordc.Ml to march, tiny were informed that their also by woodland, the parly perceived a/o'sho! service was necessary lo driven large herd of cat- distance several l„„. , ’ 1 , J* '“'■"‘."“'l l"™»" i...1«e0"S ctaTlK la IT-mS dreamed that they themselves were like cattle, „,„i „„t„. > nuy louti in caught i !• . . ’ niid roue, hut upon ct> 111 ill siillicrmlv iirnr wlmi only proceeding lo a spot more convenient ior were ilip tumr iiii rt «.-* ~ V slauchter , , lne P°. or allows surprise and alarm to find mil f . |. . . . . . horses tied to a tree by hnir rones, indieatinu The first division as l passed the gate march- Mexican owners. The parly instantly . rent aw, v cd directly onward; but the middle division as it tbrouub the muss , ■ , , ... i . I * i . . . . uiiuugii me glass amt concraled themselves in passed, was made to wheel to the right, and the the pmirie, Brown ami Duval in the grass I„t rear division to the loft, on hues at right angles Holliday, fortunately, in the hushes In „ few with the lineof the lirst division; whilst the Mox- minutes an old iMcvicm .... ~ • , ican infantry with loaded muskets, us each divis- KOS , a „d discovering a t,ail lolhiwrd'L d meUo'n ton came out from the fort, fell in on di.lbrcn. till he came suddenly, and ,o .“;!Le X,h sides ol it in single files, and at the same time parties, t.pon Drown and Duval. The Mexican dismounted horsemen with swords drawn, fell in in Spanish JomnruW u .lm tl. .x ... , • . . mrull.,l uriti, i: i- i . ii ii i m • piimsnm mantled who lliev were, und instanl paiaiiel with each line ot mnsketeors. Holliday, lv iiitiirpil ilu»m *!*.«;«« #*. . i i- i wlirtumoi.. I* • i • . * utilised UK in oi a design lo steal his horses, wno was m the right division, and somewhat sur- andwhilsi Dnvni ...i,,. i . i «i , ♦.l • , . . '"KMvmi.si i/uvai, who couhl speak the same lan pnsed at the previous arrangements, began toleel ,rn a ,r r wns trvimr # n .riw.r t , 4 irroitlv oinrmn.l ~ , i . ii i T i i i was trying lo given suhstartory account ol ft " M J ’ *T 'e SUddC u y ‘l'" “'O.nsHvcs, the obi man seized Drown who was I fnii x,c,,, ? s co,l * ,llinct ;d «*'"« bayonets; hut nearest to him, and raised a most horrible yell before he had time to exchange a word or scarce a Upon this Duval ran hack towa.ds the La IWa ■ ■oflLm I I T rCS 7 mr v‘’ S ’ r I>C |* ° ." rR “T Wl,ilst in nnswcr die cry. a young and a.hh-tir followed by loud and mm he shrieks from the Mexican armed with a gun and sword came to prisoners in the middle division, revealed too the assistance of the old one: and then ho,l, going P a "‘ly,. lhe dee P P crfil y thc ir captois and the offwith the unfortunate Drown, left Holliday half bloody death to he endured. dead will, terror undiscovered in thebuushes. As H waiting for the signal, the Me,can soldiers In t |, is ,’ r ...j u , aiUmtiori rpl „ a i„ed about an on one side passing hy a step or two through the hour, scarcely daring to breathe, when the mdse intervals ol the lex.ans to the other, brought Q f cautious footsteps stealing towards his hiding her guns to touch the points almost grazing the plil , lmuU . him believe that his comrades being hod.es ot the prisoners; and almost as soon Hol t- murdered, the enemy was sea.cl.ing for him. He clay, man mdescr.hahle and almost ineoncc.vable i lly lls ifdestilute of life. Nearer and nearer, hut agony would dose us eyes upon the torn ying yet as if afraid of discovering lumself, someone scenedhe groans and shrieks ol the devoted vie- approached the hiding place and then a timid tm* were answering to the fire ol the muskets and voire whispered a low call. It uttered his name, the thrusts of the bayonets. He ventured lo stir—his name wns again called He opened his eyes; the dead and the dying _j, wag ,| 1( . To i,. e 0 f | !rovvn . H o ||iJay answer nut his view. Sick and faint, yet did he not fall; e d, and two of (ho comrades were once, more uni he was even unharmed. A single moment lie l( , (li w l, cn each had supposed they should meet no hesitated whether he had better sink to the ground nioro# and counterfeit death, the next, he was flying |i,account of his escape or rather release with instinctive love of hie and energy of despair j, briefly this. He was carried by bis captors to towards the bank of San Antonio. \V ill, the last a p i ace where they had kindled a fire to cook a hope of escape, about ..() or 60 atlnghted wretch- pnrt 0 f ,heir provisions plundered from some de cs, some with, and others without wounds, were scrto ,i hollHe( and thcrc waH tied tl) „ tro(!) e . rushing towardsdilferent points ol the same river par ations being apparently made to kill him. Dut pursued hy the infuriated soldiery, hy whom after some conversation between themselves, they many were ovectaken and murdered, whilst the rciinquiuhed their purpose, and then eating a vain criesland pleas lor quarters were drowned in h ,. arty aappprf w itl«.ut, however, offering anv tuyelo thelrarbanans thing to the famished prisoner, they released him Holliday with 18 or 20 more dropping: as they from tre e, and dragged him after them for a ran their knapsacks (previously ordered to be f rw hundred yards, when suddenly freeing the earned, doubtless to delay any flight,) and such prlHom . r they made signs for him to begone. He clothes as could he hen got off, in spttc ol their hurried away accordingly as fast as his feebleness eager pursuers reached the San Antonio in sale- W()uld admit , and „„ rc-passing the place where ty, and instantly plunged into its stream All the fire was still burning, found to his great joy d.d not, however arrive at the opposite bank sev- ,; )llr thllt ha j been overlooked hy the Mcxi eral being killed with balls as they swan,, so that cans . T wo of these he instantly eat, nobly reser ou _of the whole number that entered the water vi ng the other two to refresh i.is starving com with Holliday, himself and six others only lived riu]cs in ( . ase | lO sh onM succeed in rejoining them, to conceal themselves ... the narrow strip of hush- H o || iday H ecor<lingly feasted on one egg immedi cs and timber there skirting the river. Dut even ato | y , and when the two comrades failed in their Hus 8r " a11 numbcr was 111 “ few to he- Kl , art .b o f J)uva |, thcy then fmisll( . d tll( , olht . r . come ens. . (freatly emaciated and more than ever dispiri- Some companies of the Mexican cavalry had , ed by the loss of Duval, the two reached the been posted across the river above tins party at a Colorado. This river much swollen hy recent ford, to intercept any who might escape the rains, and running here with a rapid current, ren slaughter, at the fort, as , was most likely they d .. re ,, t l„. attempt to swi.n ot. the part of Drown, when H l n t TTh v '“""Al wl '° Wil(i “ ck wi ‘ h « I'lTcsy, hazardous in any when Ho bday and h,s men heard the cries° the W ay, hut extremely perilous encumbere.l with men murdered ~ that quarter, they h,d as wcll us cv «vfew remaining clothes. It was, therefore. hey could tn the etlge of the larg': pra.rtc beyond af!rced tilat J£ ( .lli d ay, who much stronger at,,l a I onTof 11 . i . 1 t ° r ; Ver > CX P° rt should cross lirst with his i our o| tbc little parly, too far advanced .. i * c ■> » , , ...i I. 1 * 7 ’ ty , own clothes, and return for Browns; when it beyond the bushes were espied hy the troopers; t i mil . w . ’ , i •i* ~i * . _ .* ’ was inoualil, iieinLT freed from nil incumbrance who riding up, put them to death before the eyes ~n . i n . .« l i U ; #l r l „ii.. oi »i i •. . . , .. of the three others, better concealed indeed in the T ra -TA * " In . ,ffht ‘| ~d ~ , bushes, but supposing that all had been discover- 1 • , Wi ‘, H 1110 rlV '' r ’ ll ‘“ l 1,0 1,d , ,, y ed and for a while awaiting the same de uction A A t" ne,rl V ? u " ~,|r of 11 ""'f *?■ They were not however seln, being, two of them " B .“' ncd U,C , u ' U,Km at least, destined hy Providence to behold once “"'mw “nd ilKated Ilrown wr «ll not ul mnre ih„ir ... , .• . lo w him to-return, fearing I.is strength shou dhe more their lar distant and native homes. „..i t( ,„i , 7 , rn« , i | . exhausted and Ins lnend should perish in the Ihe Mexicans having passed on to intercept r„ Aii.nr .1 • pm r . . Htrearn. in. this a lemma, separation or the other fugitives crossing the river still farther he- pi,,,.,,, n r i .. i i 1 .i low, the three survivors, John Holliday, ofllolli- “e. i . , r g ° "f „ UP 1 dayshurg, Pennsylvania, John C. Duval, of lorado ull > Per'^pn-'hey should (u.d still wau<a II ilnhinurn K’aninniu i u ,• w or several hours the two thuh separated, contiri iiairdstown Kentucky, and a Mr. Brown of Ma- i. .... . .. /, , .ii!.,, . ued insight ol one another, till at length a forest con (* corgi a, divested of all clothes except.shirt <■; r ” i 4 i • i >1 | * of impervious cane forced Holliday away from the and pantaloons, without either hats or shoes, ran bank i ,■ , * i* A . , , ... oaiiK, anu when alter the lapse of two or three for many miles into the prairie, and then sinkinir i i ... * . . i ,* • ’, , “''l" hours ha again arrived at the river, ns unfortu exhausted and affrighted into the grass they re- lln , K f r i,. lld »„. , _ i , . . , J iitiic iriLiiu was no where to he seen and respon mamed without moving or conversing the remain- j tl « « rt n wi i j der of the dav b ded to no call. Whether drowned in an attempt fin . • \\ i . , , to swim the river, or dead from disease and fa el Ivin 'V S .V b m r ’ ‘ hey l adv l fint " r< ‘ d lo , ,rav ' mine, or whether slain hy the Mexicans, or pin 1, lying by the next day: and so tor several sue- inR yct in captivity, Iron, that hour to the present tcssive r ights and days, stabsist.ng on roots and be Inis never been seen or heard from, buds; but as the nights were rainy and dark from clouds, at the end of the third or fourth night in- Alone now ’ and 1,1 {l b‘ llf fr«n*led state, Holli stead of being far on the way towards Victoria wenttowards the river St. Dcrnard. He now or the Gaudeiupe, they having wandered in mere bound w onions in great plenty ; but his feet circles, were yct in sound of the revclic at Goliad, were so swollen and lacerated, that in a whole Greatly alarmed and dispirited at thisdiscove- night s travelling lie often advanced no farther ry, after travelling for two other nights and still o»an half u mile. One morning about dawn as not striking the Gaudeloupc, they determined to b ** w,kti looking for concealment, four largr bears travel by day, hut an incident soon taught them passing in the iirmedi ue vicinity, so terrified him, the danger and perhaps impossibility of that bo rm,( i e * or an open space in the timber, course. Justus they left their concealment four where he found a house which like all others pre- Mexican troopers were discovered riding along the v tously entered, he supposed was destitute of in road about 500 yards to their left. The party habitants. Into this he cautiously, alter lung de fell instantly down into the grass; whilst the troo- hherution, ventured, when the first thing that met pers galloping hy were met by another, conieclu- his eyes, was a considerable store ot bacon, left rod to be an express from Victoria to Goliad. b y the Texian family in the hurry of flight. Ol The whole then halted, and during their conver- ’. lds bacon he devoured raw, a quantity sufficient sation looked so often in the direction of the poor bor s ‘ v cral persons, and then unable to resist the wretches in the grass, that more than once they Lnnptation lo repose offered by the miserable gave themselves up as lost, especially, as with the r e'"m><ff»of a bed-in an adjoining room, he for new horsemen, there was u small dog, by whom ( ’ ot b ' s dangers and sunk into a deep sleep. His they feared being scented aud fenetted out. Hut deep was at fongth most alarmingly broken by the Mexicans after awhile, separated without any persons at the bed side, for upon opening his eyes, seeming suspicions, the four taking towards Go- bwo ne S roes an “hi a "d young one were staring Had; yet the three Texians were too thoroughly j l * his sac cacll ' arWl d "I 1 1, 1 a formidable club— alarmed to move from their posture for many hese were American or lexian runaways, who hours. J addressed him in good English, and told him he Aboutthis time they succeeded in taking a waM one lhat liad esca P cd lrom Gol ‘ad ; that a few small fishes in a kind of puddle and devoured Mexican army of 5,000 were encamped within them with great eagerness, having until now eaten two miles; that themselves and others had re nothing but buds and roots ; and indeed, so fam- cei y ed or(1 ‘-' Cff ’ ° !1 pair* of death, either to kill or ished had they become that they fain would have deliver to the Mexican army any of Fannin’s devoured even a rattlesnake, which they shortly com P an y w *th whom they should meet, and that after made a vain attempt to catch. Their hopes now, in consequence of these orders, and lo re too of better sustenance were greatly raised on ve »e* 'he cruelties of their former masters, they one occasion before they reached the Gaudeiupe, '"tended cither to kill him or curry him to the by a cow that one day passed their place of eon- ca "T' coalmen!, followed by a very young calf. This A violent and bloody death seemed now inevi calf they pursued for some time: but it easily dis- table; but still as a lust hope, poor Holliday beg tanced its followers, and they, for fear of bring ged most earnestly for mercy. For a long lime, discovered by the Mexicans, were obliged to aban- however, he begged in vain, till at length, in an don the pursuit. agony ho threw his arms around the old negro’s At last on the morning of the ftth day they neck, and so e‘feetually by Ins tears and earnest reached the Gaudeiupe just ah me Victoria, hav- cries operated on his kinder feelings, that he con ing been so long a time in travelling only *25 sented to let the prisoner escape, provided he I miles, their bodies being feeble, their feet swollen, would pay each five dollars. This be could not and their minds bewildered. Here they remain- do, but he offered willingly the tattered remnants 1 ?d all day in great terror, hearing at intervals the of his thirl and trowterj, which, however were refused. At length he was released on offering voluntarily to give enrli >1(0 in ease he should ever meet with them in more prosperous cirtum stances; un agreement to which Copt. Holliday will yet gladly stand. At length he ventured one evening to eross a part ol the prairie in which these soldiers had heen encamped ; hut it was at an imminent peril ol losing his life. Just as he was entering a small Wood on the margin ol what seemed to he a lake, a Mexican trooper apj caved about 600 yards to the left, galloping towards him. Both paused a moment; when Holliday summoning all his en ergies, ran towards the water, happily i nly a lew yards oil. whilst the Mexican took a diagonal di rection to intercept hint ; hut the pursuer was inn late, although when he readied tin lake he find his carbine without riled, however, ns it was nearly dark, and his intended victim was alums wholly immersed in the water. The pursuer now kindled a tire within a few rods ol the wretch ed Holliday; who obliged to stand with merely his face out of the water for nearly an hour, was reduced to so great despair, that once or twice ho was on the point of allowing himself to he suffo cated ; hnt at last he contrived In find a sort of relief and belter concealment by clinging to the roots of a ry press near him on a small Island.— In this posture ho remained quiet all that night, and for several hours the next day ; when ventu ring at last to land, the Mexican had disappeared, supposing him to he drowned, or to procure aid in searching tor him. After this narrow escape his skin peeled from his body, which was. indeed, little heller than a mass of sores and lonises; whilst his mind be came so disordered, that he was bewildered a whole day in a swamp near the river St. Bernard, crossing in the afternoon the very track he had mode in the morning. In this swamp he spent ton, a whole night in the trunk of a fallen tree, almost hid with grape vines, and here for the first lime he prayed, not indeed as could have been wished, for the pardon of Ida sins, hut in the hor ror and distraction ofliis thoughts for immediate quiet death. At last, after great sufferings he crossed the St. Bernard, and in a desi rled house, the first in ti which ne had ventured since his escape from the negroes, he found not indeed fond, ol which he was in search, hpl an old almanac, that even in his deplorable eireniiktnnres he kept for soma time, as he said, to amuse his mind. When lie reached, finally, the river Brazos, not tar Irotn Columbia, his sufferings would soon have been ended, had he known the country was possessed by his friends, hut the account of the two negroes, induced him to believe all was in the power of the enemy. Hence when he hoard' the martial music of the Texiuns, he stilt conceal ed himself, determined to make every exeition o get into the United States. Having therefore, one evening swam the Brazos a little below Mari on, he saw persons at a distance, friends in reality, hut taken for enemies; upon which he turned in terror down a path on the river, almost stumb ling in his haste, over a most loathsome object, the putrilying corpse of a Mexican soldier. The next day he came to a road leading to wards Marion. Here ho abandoned all hopes of ever reaching the United .Slates, worn ton skele ton, and in short, weary ofhis most miserable ex istence, he thought that ho would lie in the hush es and surrender to the first Mexican that passed trusting for quarter and almost ready to meet even a violent death. He wailed not long before he heard with a healing heart the approach of horses. And then came—could it be possible—the sound of a well known song of his fathers land, and then changing (he sung to a merry whistling.— This Tcxian was followed at a little distince by another rider similarly armed and dressed. It would scarcely he possible that these were friends so unexpected and joyous was the deliverance; and hence poor Holliday, half afraid that after nil* these riders were only Mexican spies in disguise, allowed the first man to pass unhailed; hut as the second one approached, mustering his resolu tion to meet any fate rather than lunger endure present life, he called to the rider, mid then step ping from his hiding place looking so like a ghastly spectre from the grave, ns to give a mo mentary fright to the soldier. When mounted at length behind the horseman, and assured repeatedly and kindly that they were going to carry him in safety to his countrymen at Marion, Ins feelings no longertohe controlled, hurst into tears and cries of tumultous joy ; and he was scarce aide to answer one of the thousand questions of his friend. He soon reached the town, and thus terminated all his perils, alter he had heard of hourly death from the enemy and savage animals, and other causes from the 2.7. th. o A’a h the morning of the massacre, until sh» Mih ol May, having been out more than 'll) days and nights. Among the first to congratulate Holliday upon his wonderful escape was Duval; who a ter his separation from his comrades at the La Baca, and alter many hardships and dangers arrived sale at Columbia, many days befoie, and was now nearly recovered.from his tarnished and sickly condition. Holliday after being discharged for Ids MT months service, at the restoration, of his -health entered the army again to serve during the war, when he was promoted at once to a Ca| laincy an office to which he was rightly entitled and the duties of which, all having the pleasure of his acquaintance, well know he is hilly comper tent to discharge. Our narrative cannot he better concluded than with a brief account of Col. Fannin’s last mo ments. The informant was an interpreter, a prisoner at that time in the fort, lint who succeeded in making his escape to the Tex ana. Immediately after the massacre ol the men, the interpreter was ordered into thcliospital to bring out the Colonel to a place within the l int where an officer with a parly of soldiers was w ailing to shoot him.— Ashe entered, the Colonel asked what was meant by the firing; he was told, and also he himself was now to be led to death. With some sur prise hut without any great perturbation .he ac companied the interpret! r u and when arrived at the fatal spot, be first asked to see the to whom be bad surrendered. This was defined. Hellion delivered his watch and a purse ol gold to the commanding officer, requesting to have them sent to his wife, and that his body should be decently interred. The interpreter was then commanded to lie a bandage arround the eyes of the prisoner. He attempted so to do ; but ho trembled so violently as to be incapable of the melancholy task ; upon which the Mexican officer impatiently snatvheiii the handkerchief and bound it himself around the* head of his victim. The firing parly was mo tioned forward; and just as the gallant ami un happy Colonel hud uttered a last request that he might not he shot through the head, but through the heart, he fell to the earth a lifeless and man gled corpse. His body dragged like a felon’s, was thrown on the heap of bis murdered followers, where instead of a decent and soldier like burial it was with their’s burned to ashes »ud scattered to the winds