10,000$ in Bank idle belonging lo Texas & so soon as the orders come from your body the 80,000 first paymt of the loan can be made use of for Texas bul if you wait until we experience many reverses of fortune I fear we will not get it as 110 man that is not a Texican will hazard his money when prospects are bad. I learn that Col. Owings is on his march from Kentucky with 1400 men for Texas. Col. Bustin has the most of 500 men that will leave Naches soon, & volunteers in place are numerous. I have the honor Gent to be Your Obts. Sevt.
Saml. Williams
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Extract of a letter from a Mexican General to his wife, dated Goliad, March 27, 1836. There are now in this place 250 prisoners awaiting their deaths as pirates and incendiaries, there being only two who did not participate in the latter crime. The images and saints in the church served them for fuel. There are in Guadaloupe LOO other prisoners who were taken at La Vaca. There is as yet no intelligence from the Divisions which marched for the towns of Austin and Nacogdoches: but I will send you the first news that may come from that quarter. This day, Palm Sunday, March 27, has been lo.me a season of heartfelt sorrow. At six in the morning the execution of 412 American prisoners was commenced and continued until eight, when the last of the number was shot. At eleven began the operation of burning the bodies. Who can tell when they will be consumed!! I assure you that the number of foreigners who have fallen in Texas during this campaign must exceed 1,000. We have still 80 of them left.
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