South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-07-30
in the field las been swept away, Mil
dams, and one saw Mill we hear of, have
all been destroyed and carried off.

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From the Nat. Intelligencer, of July 2s.
War in Disguise |
We End the following snnunciation |
in the Government paper of yesterday:
"Official dispatches from General
GAINES, dated Camp Sabine, June 20,
1886, communicate the intelligence
that the Mexican Army at Metamoras,
under General Urea, had been REIN
fotced to the number Of 1000 men,
and ives, on the 18th Of June, on ito
march, and rapidly advancing towards
Guadalupe Victoria, and the head
quarters of the Texan army. The
motto to which the Mexican army
were sworn, was determination to The
Sabine or death.'
"Before receiving this intelligence,
Major Sterling C. Robertson had re-
ported to Gen. GAINES that two men
had been recently killed, and another
wounded, on the waters Of the Navas-
o.a, in Robertson's colony about TWEEN
" miles west Of Nacogdoches, by the
Indians Of several different tribes,
(Csddoes, Kitchies, and others,) who
had taken and carried away several
women and children Of the families OF
the men killed.
nGeneral GAINES, considering that
these recent acts Of hostility on the
part of the Indians were prompted by
their having been advised Of the large
force approaching Metamoras, and by
| the expectation that the Texans would
be driven off, and the country given up
to them, has called upon the Cover
oors of kentucky, Tennessee, Missis-
sippi, and Louisiana, each, for regi-
ment Of mounted gun men, to co>ope-
rate with the regular force under his
command, including the a companies
of dragons from Fort Leavenw orth.
"It was his intention, if he did not
in the interim receive satisfactory as
suraDces that the Indians upon our
I borde had no hand in the late muir
ders on the Navasota. to march TO Ma
icogdoches az soon as he obtained the
immediate cooperation Of the three
companies Of dragons and six compa-
MES Of the 7th infantry al Fort Tow
sem"
| This official annunciation is explicit
enough 10 show that the United States
are about to be drawn into position,
10 regard to Mexico, which the weak
meas or forbearance Of tina. Power may
indeed prevent being one OF actual
conflict, but which il viii be difficult
for the United States TO defend, either
upon the score Of morality or ofpublic
law. The United States have solemn
Treaty of Peace, Friendship, and
Boundary, with Mexico, in all the c.
tent of possessions and territories Of
ebotA countries, and between all the
persons of both countries. The boun-
dairy between the two countries, reoog
niz.d by that treaty, is the Sabine RI
iusr. A Mexican army is marching
over the territory on the Mexican side
| of that boundary, the sworn purpose
Of which, General GAINES has been
informed, - 10 scour the country ",o
the Sabine" Whereupon Genera
| GAINES, having heard some story OF
| indians having killed two white men,
| eighty or hundred miles of, (as it
was an unheard Of thing, nowadays,
| that Whites aud Indians should shed
each others blood, has called for
some thousand men, 10 addition to
those he now has, and, even before
| they can assemble, he has announced
his intention (appfoved Of in advance
| by the Presidency to march across The
Sabine to Nacogdoches, fifty miles
soitAia the line established by the trea.
lty, being as direct an advance against
the Mexican forces, as il, instead Of a
treaty ofperpelual peace & friendship
with Mexico, there existed war OF
determination between the two coun-
tries.
| Such is the aspect of the official &C.
Count of this movement.
! But, as luck would have il, we have
just received a private letter from Nat
chiloches, which throws some further
light on this subject. The following
is an extrae, Of letter, bearing the
date preixed to it
NATcRIrocHEs. June 80.
owe are likely 10 have lively times
upon the frontier. General GAINES,
who is still on the Sabine, has, within
few days, received dispatches from
General RUsK, the Texsn leader, da-