South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-07-30

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boose. We have good friends which
prudence at present forbids us to name
for fear of detection.
Urea is commander in chief of thu
Mexican army, and says he will mol
stop short of the Sabine river.
You must now werk head work q!
well as fight. Blow up Goliad and
Bexar. You must have sufficient
force in the field at once, and we vii
whip them again. Be united-let the
People of the u. States know wha
kind of war they make of it, & they
will certainly come to our assistance
do not consider our lives in danger
if in close quarters. To give you al
much information as possible, my let
ter ia in this small hand.
! bid you adieu, in haste.
Our cause forever, your friend,
HENRY TEAL.
Iconcur with all that has been sta
ted above and foregoing.
Your obedient servant,
III. w. KARNES.
The President OF Texas, DAVID G.
BURNETT, has issued his proclamation,
in which he exhorts the people OF
Texas to be united in their movements
against the enemy. The following are
the orders issued to the people OF Tex
as:
/, DAVID G. PURNEF, President of
the Republic of Texas, by aod with
the advice and consent of the Cabinet
have ordered and decreed, and do
hereby order and decree, that every
able-bodied man in Texas, being over
the age Of sixteen and under that Of
fifty years, do forthwith report him
self to the proper muster-oflicer Of his
respective Municipality, and enrol
himself for military duty and tina. so
soon as company of Sc men shall be
enrolled in any Municipality, they
shall proceed to an election Of their
several officers, and shall forthwith
march to head quarters, first reporting
their organization, and a complete
company, to the muster-oflicer of the
Municipality.
And it is further ordered & decreed
that the muster officer in each NUM-
cipality shall make out full list Of the
names and ages ofevery male citizen
in his Municipality, whether absent or
present, certified copy Of which list
shall be transmitted to the War De-
partment. And he shall also keep q
list of every man within his Munich
pality, who enrols himself for military
duty, a copy of which record shall be
forwarded to the Department of War,
at the end of every month from the
PRONUNCIATION Of this decree. He shall
also send to the same department cop
les of the several companies returned
to him.
1t is further ordered and decreed
that all officers, non.commissioned Off
GERS and privates, belonging to the
Texan army, who may be absent on
furlough or otherwise do Immediately
repair to their respective posts, and re-
report themselves for duty, on pain Of
forfeiling their commissions, if COM
missioned officers, and their pay and
bounty, if non-commissioned or pri-
Yates.
Done at Velasco, the Goth day Of
June, 1886. d. G. BURNETT,
President.
A. soMERv1LLu, Sec'ry Of Var.
O. Il Boston paper informs that
one Of their physicians soas recently
fined $40 for having neglected to
communicable to the Board Of Health,
the existence in that city Of a case of
Variol0id.
The entire population IF the United
States, at this time, is estimated at
i6,6SO,OO0 souls, including 100000
Indians.
Il pair of PreSidents.-Upon its be-
ing mentioned, in the hearing of our
friend Giidibus, that the President has
signed the Deposite bill, this remark
was made-'Yes, great men see grea,
things in the same light. Presiden.
Santa Ana, when prisoner, after the
defeat and slaughter Of his army, says
with much coolness-"I haze concln-
dcd to remain a prisoner soith the enc
my" So president Jackson, observ-
ing that the deposite bill passed both
Houses OF Congress, by majority Of
more than three 10 one, whereby the
veto was tetotally vetoed, concluded
TO give it his sanction. He surrender
ed to the force he could not resist
There il mint in tho rono,,riuo,