remove them ·from the town, until I got a gefc from the custom house; this I was determined not lo <lo, if I could avoid iL The cvcnin~ previous lo my intended departure there were several guards placed around Mr. Briscoe's slore, lo see lhat nothing was removed. About eight o'clock a young man came lo the store and asked Briscoe for a box to put haJlasl in; this Mr. Briscoe gave him, and he placed it on a wheelbarrow filled with brick and started t'or the heach; afler he left the slore I observed lo Mr. Briscoe that we could not ascertain whether my goods would he slopped or not. Shortly after,, we heard the young man calling for Mr. Smith soon came up and informed the guard of the contents of lhc box; this appeared to satisfy him, and the box was taken to the beach, Mr. Briscoe and I going with the young man. After the box was put in the boat and we were about to return, ten or twelve i\lcxican soldiers came on us and ordered us lo stand. Mr. Briscoe and I were taken prisoners. As we were ascending the bank a young man named Wm. Smith came clown the hill, and when within ten feel of us was shot down, the ball passing through the righ Lbreast; (he was recovering). i\lr. Briscoe and I were then put in the calaboose, where I remained until next clay at 11 o'clock, when I was liberated, Briscoe stiU being detained. I immediately came to Harrisburg and made statements of the facts, which were sent Lo San Felipe, and on the 24th of June an order came from San Felipe for the Mexican to be disarmed, which was done on the 27th.
Clinton. [D. W. C. Harris]
(520) [COS to TORNEL]
Exmo. Sr.
Con motivo al nombranto. inlegal de Gobor. qe. hicieron los individuos reunidos en Monclova bajo cl nombrc de Diputacion permancnte. del Estado, y al verificado pr. esa surd en la persona del Licdo. O.Rafael Eca y Muzquiz, sc ha susitaclo nucva cucstion cntre algunos pueblos de Coahuila,y esta Comanda.gral. no litubca- ra en haccr rcco11occr al scgdo en todos los dcpartamtos. dd Estado, sino se hayara pcrsuadida como lo esla de qc. el cxmo. Sr. Prcsidcntc cuando vcrifico tat 11ombrarnie11lo lo hizo sin lo~ datos quc tuvc cl honor de ministrar a V. E. con Ilia. 6. dd adual sobrc cuya notn le rucgo fijc sy alta atencion, pu. qc de una vcz acahrn de calmnrsc las a~itaciones de Coahuila, y ptlt'da prcsentar ~t' a las
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