In Canvp, Walnut Springs [near Monterey), April 25, 1847.—" You have pubhshed accounts of the disgraceful outrage perpetrated before the battle of Buefta Vista, and will be no less shocked to learn that an equally sickening scene of outrageous barbarity has been perpetrated in this region by persons calling themselves Americans. It appears that near a little town called Guadaloupe, an American was shot two or thi-ee weeks ago ; and his com- panions and friends determined to revenge his death. Ac- cordingly a party of a dozen or tAventy men visited the place and deliberately murdered twenty-four Mexicans.'* The correspondent of the Louisville Republican writing from Aqua Nueva, after mentioning that the body of a murdered Arkansas volunteer had been found, says^ "The Arkansas men vowed vengeance deep and sure.
Yesterday morning a number of them, some thirty persons, went to the foot of the mountain two miles off, to an arrego which is washed in the sides of the mountain, to which the * pisanos' of Aqua Nueva had fled upon our approach, and soon commenced an indiscriminate and bloody massacre of the poor creatures who had thus fled to the mountains and fastnesses for secunty. A number of our regiment being REA'IEW or THE MEXICAN VvAR. 231 out ot camp, I proposed to Colonel Bissell to mount our horses and ride to the scene of carnage, where I knew from the dark intimations pf the night before, that blood was running freely. W,e had turned out as rapidly as possible, but owing to the thick chapperels, the work of death was over before we reached the horrible scene, and the perpetrators were returning to the camp glutted with reveno-e. God knows how many of the unarmed peasantry have been sacrificed to atone for the blood of poor Col- quit. The Arkansas regiment say not less than thirty have been killed."
This anonymous account of the massacre is sustained by the following order of General Taylor :—" The Commanding General regrets most deeply that circumstances again impose upon him the duty of issuing orders upon the subject of marauding and maltreating the Mexicans.