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Show Renegadcs Killed Captain Craw. ford. v. San Fbancisco, January 28. Major-General Pops stated to-day that he felt certain that that the Mexicans who attacked Captain Cap-tain Crawford were not regular troops, but renegades, who took the Americans for hos-tiles hos-tiles and attacked them, in the hopes of obtaining ob-taining the scalp money, offered by the State of Sonora for the hostiles. He said the troops were acting only according to a mutual mu-tual agreement with Mexico, by which the troop3 from either country were permitted to pursue a common enemy into the country of the other, and added that the most friendly relations exist between the troops of both countries. |