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Wool, with orders 10 change their route 10 Port
Layacca, and there encamp and await farther or
ders. The Texas Advocate, Of the 10Th, SAYS
the Kentucky Regiment was ordered to Lavacca,
50 that by quauerng near the bay the transpora.
tiOn of supplies may be saved. This is the Re.
giment in which Cassus NJ. Clay and Thomas F.
Marshall command companies.
The same number of the Advocate says il is
believed there, and upon the reputed testimony of
Gen. Wool, that he had received orders TO remain
at San Antonio until the result of certain negotia.
uons should be known. We cannot credit this,
though it is evidently believed at Victoria.
A correspondent Of the Picayune, writing from
Camp Crockett, near San Antonio, August 81.
says: "The LIST and cd Regiments of Illinois vol.
unteers, one regiment of mounted men from Ar.
kansas, under Col. Yell, two companies of regu.
lar infantry, under Mai. Bodneville, two comDa.
nes United States dragons under Col. Harney,
and one company of infantry from Kentucky, un-
der Capt. Williams, now constitute our encamp-
ment. Our troops are all well proyisoned and
in good health and spirits"
The Delta says General Taylor, in his march.
is prepared for any emergency, either an advance
or a retreat. lie permitted no soldier or officer
to take more baggage with him than he can con.
veniently carry on his back. A number of stea.
mers had reached Matamoras with the extra bag.
gage, and the Quartet of the Zepadores was con-
verted into depot for it. All the supplies for
the advancing Army, so far, have been sent on by
pack mules, and the General expects to have 80
days provisions for 12 900 men at Seralvo when
he reaches it. Notwithstanding the reports of
the advance of Mexican force, between San
Luis POtosi and Saltillo, the General believes he
can enter Monterey, and even Salulo, without
encountering any opposition. No troops were
suffered to 60 but such as were able and willing TO
stand the fatigues of a long march. This had
the effect of reducing considerably the Volunteer
/ Regiments: few of them exceeded 500 strong
many of them numbered even less. These Re.
! giments are: one from Tennessee, one from Mis-.
sissppi, one from Kentucky, one from Ohio one
| from Texas, (Hays's.) the Baltimore Battalion, Il
part of the Texan Infantry, re-organized, and
McCulloch's and Gillespie's Rangers.
A Point Isabel correspondent of the Delta SAYS:
"At last accounts, Taylor's Head Quarters were
at Seralvo, halfway between Camargo and Mon.
terey. Letters received from above anticipate
desperate resistance at the latter place. The
campaign has commenced in earnest.
SICKNESS AMONG THE VoLUNTEERs.-The New
Orleans Delta learns by the late arrivals from the
Rio Grande that there were near GOO sick volun-
teers in the hospitals at Camargo, and they we're
dying very FAST So many were sick that it re-
quired near a whole regiment TO attend TO them.
; Those whom the Teunesseoans left behindseem-
cd to be particularly unfortunate, for they had to
, call on the Alabamans TO attend the living and
, bury the dead. As fast as these men get able to
leave the hospital they are discharged and sent
; home. In fact, Gen. L. shows disposition to
discharge all volunteers who are rediscontented and
} wish TO return to totheirhomes. Though the num-
Der of patients in the hospital at Matamoras is
larger than at Camargo, the mortality is greater at
the latter place-near three to one. Those who
, are unaccustomed to a southern climate when
once Frustrated by the fever seldom regain their
t former strength on the Rio Grande: without
change of atmosphere they die off quickly, else
become so enfeebed that they are unable to helm
0 themselves. A person who has visited the hospi-
tails at the different posts has said that if one-haf
i Of the northern and western volunteers who went
: to the Rio Grande are effective men on the 5th
y. OF October, it is more than he looks for.
TERRIBLE RIoT.-A very melancholy affair lit
tie creditabe to the discipline, order and charac-
ter lol civilization, which, in spite of all that has
o occurred during the present campaign, we are
' proud to say are the attributes of the volunteers,
occurred near Burita, Rio Grande, onthe 3Oth ult.
On that day steamboat took on board at Burita
hNO VI OllC vi SGOTSld
:, A good deal of animosity had previously been ex-
. hlblted by two of these companies, one against
another one of the rivals was an Irish company.
From some circumstances or other, not explain
ed, a row broke out in the evening between them
CLOSE proximity, we presume producing hostile
| cosion-and fire arms and bayonets and swords
! were freely used. The Colonel of the Georgia
:, Regiment did all he could to put an end to this
> disgracefu affray; but so fierce was the conflict
. between the conending parties that all was una
= valling, although it is stated he shot one man and
: wounded two more with his own hand. While
i the battle was raging between these insensates on
:. the deck of the steamboat Col. Baker, 4th Hi
= = nois Regiment, ordered out companies A and G,
h commanded by Capts. Roberts and Jones, to as
: slSt IN putting an end to it. He then went for.
!. ward, at the head of twenty men, and urged the
n rioters to desst; but, his attempting 10 ascend
- the ladder of the steamboat, be was fiercey at
tackled by those on board, and after q desperate
n hight he was shot through the neck, the ball enter
- ing behind and passing through his cheek, pros
, , trating him at once. His small party was oblig-
, ed to retreat, having no ammunition with them,
- carrying off Col. Baker senseless. Commissary
Post, Sergeant Oglesby, and six men of the Hi
10 nos Regiment were wounded-two morally
g. Capt. Roberts, company A, then attempted TO
&c board the boat, but after desperate conflict. he
n and his men were beaten off. Capt. R. received
n a severe bayonet wound through the shoulder in,
IL TO the back, three inchess in length. The affair
e; now having assumed very serious aspect, Ma
~ lor Harris brought out the whole remaining force
OK of the 4th Illinois Regiment, we'll provided with
H. ball and cartridge At sight of this the rioters
ut ceased their disturbance, when the Georgans
~ were disarmed and put under strong guard
Col. Baker, who received his wound while fight
us ing hand to hand with the Captain of the Irisl
IS. company, Of the Georgia battalion, (also severe