request Colo. Scott not to come into Town. By this time the Fort had Struck the Flag. I went out & met his Majг. about one mile who informed me that they would not come in & I returned. By this time their Barges 39 were pass the fort & way up to Town, when we thought it best to send a Flag to meet them, which was done, while I was getting the few Armed Men to leave the Town so that it may be saved. When the first Barge came up the com'g Officer said he saw some Armed Men in Town & if a Gun was fired he would fire the Town in 15 Minutes. I answered him that they had all been requested to leave the Town & that there should not be a Gun fired. I was again requested to go out abt 2 miles to where Scott & Massias was & inform them that the Town would be Burnt if they came, when they said they would not & I returned & informed them that the Town was peacibly given up. They Promised that Private Property & Person should be respected, which promise they broke in a short time by Plundering the Stores & Private Houses, breaking up the Church floors & doing all the most shameful acts they could, Making the unarmed Citizens Prisoners of War & working under the orders of their Officer to Pull down a Block-House we had made to defend us from the Indians & other Acts that are shameful to relate. They respected the Ladies. This band of Plunderers left the Chesapeake on the 20 Dec.: They Evacuated this Place on the 24 Jan❜y.

Being in Town & having taken an active part to save the Town & informing the British Officer where I lived & that their Army was then at my House I got leave to come home. On my arrival home found they had just crossed over down the river to Town (the Army of 1200 )& had left 200 at the Fort abt. a mile from my House. Finding my family safe & my negroes had all obeyed my orders, I started that Night to a Place I had charge of abt 10 miles off to see if the Overseer had done as I had directed him & returned home on

Sunday evening. When I got abt 150 yards from the House I sent the boy I had forward to look out & go & tell Mrs M. where I was, as I had been informed there had been a number of Armed Men at my House that day. The boy advanced & was stoped by a Centry, I being abt 40 yards behind halted & heard him say he was glad he had got me & hailed, when I retreated to the woods for I did not like to fall into their hands at this time for they might consider me a Spy after outstaying my time. They took the boy & a Corporals Guard & went after me the Road I had come. I heard them & left the Road. The Palmettos being thick and high they heard Me & followed after: they were at one time within 20 yards of me. There being a large Pond with high Grass in it I made for it & when I got in crept on my hands & knees until I got abt Waist Deep & saved myself. They fired two Guns at Me & then got the Dogs to hunt for me in the Hammock. I crossed the Pond & being a Rainey Night travelled all Night through the Scrub, got lost several times & arrived at a friends House abt 8 o'clock on Monday Morning when I got Dry Clothes & something to eat & some rest: Abt 4 O'Clock that afternoon I got a letter from home by the Cook-Wench that the Admiral was at my House & said I was raising men & breaking my Parole & if I was not in this Place by Daylight the next Morning he would make me Suffer and also my Wife. He was for two hours deliberating whether to burn my House or no but was persuaded by one of his Officers from it. He made particular enquiries abt my age, height &c abt my cotton. After this my Wife & none of the family could go out of the yard without a Centry with them & none allowed to leave the Plantation. The next Morning I appeared at his head Quarters here & mistaking a Captn. Barry for him handed him a Letter which I had brought in open which he read & left me a short time. I saw a Citizen Passing by & shook Hands & was talking with him when the old Brute Barry saw me & hollowed out

to the Centry not to let that Damed Yankey speak to any of the Damed Yankeys, if I did to run the Bayonet through me. Several of my friends came up & spoke to me but I could not speak to them. I remained in this situation for two Hours when the Admiral Cockbourne came to me & after speaking to me for abt an Hour sent me abord the Devastation Bomb Ship where I remained until a Boat could be got ready to take me down to the Fort. I arrived at the Fort & was Passed by the Centries until I got Home, here I was restricted to my yard, a Lieut. & 14 men stationed to Guard me. On the 24th abt 1 o'c a. m. a Guard from the Fort came up for me & guarded me down where they detained me until they had burnt all the Barns & Houses on the Place & then informed me that as they had Evacuated the Place I have permission to return to my family.

They completely Plundered me of Stock Poultry &c. & when they left I had abt 2 days Provisions of Meat & three weeks of Corn. All the Plantations on the Water have shared the same fate as mine. It will take vears to put this part of the Country as well as it was the day they Landed. I have saved all my Negroes, but would have lost them if I had not of staid by them.

They Have taken from this State near 2000 Negroes, young and old: they got abt a million of Dollers in this small Place in Goods, Ships & Provisions. They have left us and I hope never to return.

I am preparing for a Crop, my family are all well. I hope this will find you and yours the same. They all join in Love &c to you all. I remain with Affection

Your Brother THOS. H. MILLER.

DOCUMENTARY PROGRESS OF TEXAS REVOLUTIONARY SENTIMENT AS SEEN IN COLUMBIA.

(Concluded in this number.)

[Now disseminating information to influence all to their side, predicting ruin unless all see as they do.]

INFORMATION.

The Committee of Safety and Correspondence for the Jurisdiction of Columbia have no additional information to offer the public, in regard to the present crisis than the statements of individuals who have lately arrived from the Interior. Those statements would not be made public but the source from which they are derived is unquestionable. We are informed that the idea of flooding Texas with troops has long since been formed, and that Santa Ana has been heard to declare that he would drive every Anglo-American beyond the Sabine. That the plan adopted for the introduction of Troops into Texas as formed was this, they were to be introduced in small numbers, so as not to excite the apprehension of the Colonists, & for the "express purpose" of enforcing the revenue laws. And that in accordance with that plan, in addition to the troops now at Bexar, five hundred more in the month of May last actually embarked at Tampico for Matagorda, and that after the vessels which were to have transported them had weighed anchor, a courier arrived bringing news of the breaking out of the revolution in Zacatecas, and that they were disembarked immediately, and proceeded forthwith to that place to crush the spirit of republicanism in that unfortunate state,—the result of that expedition will never cease to be regretted whilst liberty has

a votary. That that plan is now abandoned, and that the present plan is to introduce an overwhelming force; and at one blow to prostrate Texas. They boast that they will bring 10,000 Soldiers, and that they will be here this fall, or early this Winter. The young officers of the army are particularly chivalrous; and manifest great anxiety to flush their maiden swords in the blood of the citizens of Texas.

This information, coming before the Committee of Safety and Correspondence, for the Jurisdiction of Columbia, from authentic sources; they have thought proper to lay it before their fellow Citizens of Texas; in order that none may be imposed upon by the specious declarations of lurking spies, or Military Commandants:

...A gentleman just from Bexar and Goliad on whose information the most perfect reliance can be placed, assures us that on the 15th of June there were but sixty soldiers at the former place; on the 1st of August about 300; on the 2nd of August he met about 300 more near Bexar designed for that place; on the 5th of August he heard the Pilot at Copano say, that he had received orders to be at his post to bring in some vessels expected hourly with from six hundred to a thousand troops from Matamoras, destined for Bexar.

In every respect the information in the letter is confirmed by the gentleman from the Interor. We do not use the name of the gentleman who wrote the letter because it may be used to his prejudice; but so far as his character for veracity is concerned, no person stands higher. ........I now ask, if the statements contained in the letter be true, do they not afford just cause for alarm to the weak and to the strong, to the old and young, to the brave and the timid.

Dear Sir:

By my man

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August [], 1835.

I received yours and noticed its contents, since that the Political horizon has so changed that it