completely to silence them, and oblige them to cross the river to the Alamo. There they soon displayed a flag of truce, upon which the combat ceased. In the very heat of the conflict, one Belding, from N. York, of the Orleans Greys, rushed out of the house and spiked one of their cannon, in defiance of their shot from every corner, and returned unhurt, until the moment of closing the door after him, when a shot through the door, cut away part of his nose and one of his eyes. To show how the ladies fared, while things W(.'rc going on as above stated, one or two circumstanc(.'s shall be told. The soldiers on forcibly entering a house, in their ardor for getting at the enemy, found a number of females, who had been shut up for three days without sustenance, who manifested the greatest affright, and could not be quieted until each had received a kiss from the gallant soldiers into whose hands they had fallen. Another woman, driven by necessity, ventured to the river for water for herself and children, and received a shot from a ,vhole platoon within the Alamo, which inflicted five separate wounds, one.ball
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