.MTA0Ng.Njk3Njk

271 some of our passengers on board, soon stopd them- not however' till several were badly wounded tho Knives Pistols etc were freely used at the time.- While Coaling here, we were also taking on board Provisions- in the shape of Live Stock- took on board 200 live foul- 25 hogs- and 15 or 20 head of beef Cattle- the Cattle were swum off alongside the steamer, and hoisted on board by the horns, from the yardarm a most Barbarous, way of getting them on board /we thought,/- however we made out after a while to get a supply of Coal- water- & Provisions- altho not but about one half, the usual quantity of provisions a Steamer generally takes on board her- sufficient cannot be had here at present on account of the troubles here- bad getting same in from the country- and what does come- the most part, is taken for the Troops etc it is expected here, that Santa Anna, will make an attack upon the Town tonight, and Alvarez men are prepareing for the same.- Some two or three days since "as we were told here"- two steamers from San Francisco for Panama attempted to entre this port, and came along