Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

The editors have information on which they can rely, that the consequences of the rash invasion of the Spanish territory, by a handful of men from the American lines, are proving to be such as might naturally have been expected. After the dispersion of these men, those settlers in Texas who had associated with them were left in the most pitiable condition. All the American settlers have been obliged to cross over to this side of the line, and leave behind them the fruits of their industry and the hopes of their families. The Spaniards from St. Antonio, 1700 strong, with six pieces of cannon, were, about the 1st of this month, near Labadie. Their intention was to establish a post at Nacogdoches, and settle the Province. General Long had gone to Lafitte's, at Galveztown; and it was considered unsafe for him to return by the route by which he went out. With such materials as composed the expedition, it was impossible any other result could have attended it. The soldiers were generally of the most worthless order--men unfit for any service, and even such as were discharged, on account of their worthlessness, from the service of daily laborers at Baton Rouge and other posts.

Ibid.