18 JUNE 1836, Page 2

According to intelligence received from Philadelphia. SANTA ANNA, the Mexican

General, was utterly defeated, and taketr pri- soner, with his principal officers, on the 21st of April, by the Texian troops under General HOUSTON. The Mexicans lost about 600 men killed and taken prisoners: the Texians, or Americans, according to their own story, only 26 killed and wounded. It is added that a council of war was held after the battle, at which SANTA ANNA and his principal officers were sentenced to death. The Philadelphia journals seem to suspect that the national foible of exaggerating their military exploits has been at work in these accounts; and with reason.