The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-10-06
Fa0m rmE ARnY.
sickness ana Death among tne
Troops.
GEN. TAYLOR ON THE MAXI ltIyl
GEN PATTERSON ON DUTY
From the n. o. Tropic ofSept. ~:

DR., Lavacca and Galveston, which last
,,Iace she left on the l6th. The Tele-
nr.h brought 10 this city 365 sick and
disabled Volunteers, and "A officers, and
landed at I.avacca 70 Texan Gunmon' ana
q mart Of company, Numbering ~ men,
at Galveston.
In the same gale the schr- Edward
Tiletson, bound to this port from the
Rrazos, with sixty-eight discharged sol
d;ers. was blown ashore near the Sabine
CIV had died previous TO this disaster.
On the evening of the 10th inst, vol
pnteer named James Hoffman, from
Nashville. Tennessee. Jumped over board
and was drowned; and another died
few hours afterwards, named Benjamin
Hartweli.
We learn from a passenger direct from
Camargo, which place he left on the 7th,
that an express arrived there as he was
about to leave, bringing intelligence that
Col. Harvey had been arrested on
charge of dsobeying orders, when four
davs his march from San Antonio
towards Monterey. Generals Taylor
and Wool sent after him, and had him,
and his men brought back to San Antonio
where thev remain under arrest.
Gen. Taylor crossed the San juan on
the 9th. and took up the line OF march on
the 9TH for SerolVa, where the forces un-
der Worth had halted. Hays regiment
would leave China and take up the line OF
march for the same place, so as to reach
there about the same time with Taylor.
In the advance Of Gen. Taylor IN the
interior. be seemed determined TO be pre-
pared for anv emergency, either IN ad-
vance or retreat, for he would not suffer
either officers or men 10 take more bag
GAGE then they could pack upon their
backs. In consequence of this, num-
ber of steamers had reached Matamoras
freighted down with "extra baggage" the
quartet of the sappadores was literally
crammed with it. All the supplies 50 far
have been sent off by pack mules, and the
General expects to have thirty days
provisions for 1900 men at Serolva
when he reaches it, where it is generally
believed he would remain for some length
of time, and many think, until further adj
vices from Washington.
Gen. Taylor believes. Notwithstanding
the news mas received of the advance
ofa Mexican force between San Luis
Potosi and SaItillo--that he can 60 into
Monte-y, and even to Saltillo without
meeting any opposition.
The troops on the road now between
CamarCo and Montery will number near
10000, and none were suffered to GO
who could not stand long march and
were not perfectly willing. In conse-
ounce of this, the volunteer regiments
thatleft were much reduced, very few of
them exceeding five hundred men, and
some less. The regiments are / from
Tennessee, from Mississippi, from
Keniucky, from Ohio, l from Texas,
(Hay's, the Baltimore, a part oft the Tex
an Infantry, re-organized, and McCul-
loch's and Gillespie's Rangers.
There were 600 sick volunteers in the
Hospital at Camargo, and they were dy-
ing very fast. So many were sick, that
itreouired near a whole regiment to at
tend them. Those whom the Tenes-
seeans left behind, seemed to be particu-
larlv unfortunate, for they had to call on
the Alabamians to attend the living and
bury the dead. As fast as these men
get able 10 leave the Hospital, they are
discharged and sent home. In fact Gen.
Taylor has disposition to discharge all
volunteers who are discontented and wish
10 return TO their homes. Though the
number OF patients in the Hospital al
Matamoras is larger than at Camarge, the
mortality is greater in the latter place
near three to one. Those who arenot accus-
toned to q Southern climate, when once
prostrated by the fever, seldom regain
their former strength on the Rio Grande,
without change Of atmosphere. They
die of quickly, else become so enieebled
that they are unable TO help themselves.
A person who has visited the Hospitals at
the different posts has said that if one
half OF the Northern and western volun-
teers who went 10 the Rio Grande are
effective men on the 18th Of October 1t is
more than he looks for.
Gen. Patterson has been left in COM
msnd of all the country from Camargo TO
the mouth of the river, and he has been
Instructed by Gen. Taylor to issue an or
der prohibiting the entrance Of strangers
into the river and Camsrgo. This order
was brought down to Capt. Ogben by the
officers OF the Whiieville. Therefore
every gentleman who has not already an
established business in the country will
find it difficult to land there-at least,such
is the opinion now. A different interpreta-
ton of the order however, may be CIV
en-.
Ampudia has issued another extraordi-
nary ''proclamG," warning the citizens on
pain of death, not 10 barter with the A.
meric2ns, and the Alcalde of Camargo
had also put forth "cando," prohibiting