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a determination 10 have his troops sac rifced; they accordingly surrendered and returned prisoners to Nacogdo- ches. The loss of the Americans, three killed and one wounded, that of Mex jeans, thirty tt!A.i;ssttyy killed and one hundred wounded. IL is also said that some Americans who were to have been in the action, did not behave with that courage, so great an ingredient in the composition of every son of Columbia. Again we state that this news is not so authentic as we should like to have it, as the gentleman who wrote the letter says he heard if. 1t carries however the face of probability and we are in- clined to believe the statement-Colo- nel Piedras has certainly behaved with determination, bat this might have been

 expected; he is a good soldier, and q man with whom those who have had

 the pleasure of his acquaintance, have

 bt en pleased. lie Was opposed to the

 St. Anna faction, so far as we can learn,

 and determined to obey his superior of

 iicers in the government, be the orders

 right or wrong. The cause of St. An

 na, may be good one, but we are very

 much inclined to believe that it is a

 matter of very little consideration

 among the residents of Texas. for they

 will live quite as happily under one go- yernment as another, and from the ma

 terial of which its population is compos-

 ed, little fighting in form of revolu-

 ton every three months, would be a

 very agreeable posafiempo.-F. Repor.