The Capture or Barita.
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We have now the pleasure says the Washington Union
OF the 30th u, of laying before readers the first
letter. which has presented to us Mexico
self We indebted for il to the respected head of the
bureau TO whom It is addressed BY captain in the camp
into our hands and we the descriptions in the
following letter of this first will inter
have planted our foot in the enemys country Our
hand to the plough and We must never look back until
we have yindcaed our rights and obtained
peace. Our ovement now is onward-even II 1t leads
US to the halls OF the Montezumas"


LA BARrTA, MErIco, May IL, 1876.


Mr. Scarett told me he had given you an account Of
the deeds Of gallant little army the sh and 9TH
days which will ever be memorable in our military an
nails West Point told on that occasion. Every one is
prasing Captain Mansfield for his interchangeable zeal and
industry during the siege of Fort Brown


The general has determined to bring his forces over
70 tns SIDE Of the river. here to select site for
the depot Of our base of operations and ntrench
This village h about ten miles from the mouth Of the
Port Polk Point Isabel The prominent features which
might induce me to decide upon this as the proper point
for the depot that it h the first high land you reach
in ascending tho river that il above hurricane tides
that the ground Is naturally formed for military position
commanding every thing around it, and commanded by
from ali other depots The worst road s to Fort Polk


while the direct line is only ten miles, tho only road
miles from Mstsmoras General TAYLOR dssrsd 70
the river yesterday but his artillery short Of anmu-
milton, and he had boats (Where 10 the ponton train
We do not know where he Is tonight nor do know
whether the enemy Ia in force this sde and
Colonel Wilson Is in command He has four companies
oil MS reRlmen-lN lnIantry ana iour oi voluneers
have field piece and six artillery under my
ders Lieutenant Hamilton, la Infantry is my assistant.
This movement up the river was intended to have been
combined one with Commodore Conner II has been de-
ayed days by unfavorabe weather, rendering the
bar rough. The commodores limited stay here com
PEELED him TO notify the general not to count upon his CO.
operation in expedition up the river This morning.
at daylight started the Nera "a river boa out from the
Brazos she entered the Rio Bravo without difficulty BY
8 a. m. rode down the beach, Col Wilson's command
had been bivouackng for two days our SIDE OF the
mouth. We crossed them all over by ~ before p M
the column route up tbc river The banks OF the
river but slightly higher than the surface OF the water
for some miles up The whole country low and filed
with lagoons There Is hgh ridge Of sand hills
twenty high extending up and down the coast rest
ing Immediately the beech The country beck Of this