Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1846-09-30
has gone, about 60oO in all. Col. Eaket
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= Yours inyhaste,+ - Julian

has gone, about 5000 in all. Col. Baker
will get well; Nothing new 5gg.. !. .5' a
+ Yours in.haste.E JULIAN
Paisr.I IsAnEl, Sept. ll,l54e. .
Editors ofshe Delta:
Gehlenen-I have just time % send you
The latest news. Taylor left Camargo for
Monterey With 6O00 men on the 5lh. Am
pudia had arrived at Monterey with
Large force, sreporissay from 4OOO, 10 w.
| 600 men, and len pieces of artillery. HE
has completely fortified the place. His
proclamation has been received, in which
be threatens TO shoot any Mexican who
shall hold communication with the, Amer
leans. Iremain yours d..
P, S. At The last accounts, Taylor's
Head Quarters were at Seralvo, halfway
between Carnage and Monterey. Letters
received from above anticipate desperate
resistance al the latter place. The cam
paign has commenced i'll earnest. ihis
intelligence arrived by the Carmargo mail
las, night. / have barely time to write
This muchs as the Telegraph leaves In ten
minutes. 81 .f7ucp go: -. D.".2
Col. Hurney.-There is not word Of
truth in ,heslory which appeared in some
of the morning papers of yesterday, to the
effect that this officer had been put under
arrest by order Of Gen. Taylor, had been
ordered back 10 San Antonia by him. and
that his baggage train, or part OF IT. III
i,s re,urn, had been cut off by the Mexi-
cans. - -n1,ng -.
| We have now before us,a letter On busi-
ness from another correspondent, dated al
! San Antonio on the 10Th. inst: There is
not word IN il oil Col. Harney's arrest,
nor of the cutting of Of The baggage train.
The writer says that ''such is.the aclivi-
ly of preparations, for getting of the troops,
in the Quarterrnaster's Department. the
| clerks are al business ill two or three o..
clock every morning. -, =;
"There is no douRt bu, we will have a
tight piece Of work of it at Chihuahua:
! The First Division of the Army leaves
here in three or four days-!he balance
will follow in, the course Of ten, or at the
/, farlhest, fifteen days.
i.llews has just been recei7ed mere thai
! there is The greatest kind of preparations
making for onr reception at Chihuahua
there will be a big fight, YOU may depend
upon it!-De!ta.
! The steamship McKim arrived al New
Or'eaus on the 22d inst. from Brazos San
j tiago, with dales from Seralvo, or more
properly Cerrdluo, to the 7th inst. She
brought, moreover, an extra of The Amer.
| ican Flag, published a, Matamorae, con
tanning letter dated the 9Th inst, from
Camargo, 10 which the following passage
occurs, which caused lively sensation ir
The city: :, :. !,
! hasten to inform you OF. the arrival
posthas,e from Cerralvo, Of Capt. Murray
with information that McCulIough's Ran
gers bad come into general Worlh's camp
u a, Cerralyo, and reported that on the All
Il inst, about 40 miles beyond Cerralyo
they discovered body Of Mexicans, form:
ing the advance guard Of large force
| They retrealed as The Rangers came upor
them, aud were persued until they Iel
], back On larger force. which was disco
yered 10 be from 500 to 1000 strong Il
! was The general impression 5thstir wasin;
, tended to attack Gen. Worth before rein:
forcements could arrive, and capt.. Muir.
ray thinks that a battle is being fought, a
J. Cerralvo to-day, 1he Sth. Capt. Murray
met Gen. Taylor. with a parl Of his force
| some distance in advance Of The main bo
3 dy, and within IS miles of Cerralvo, on {
J forced march 10 his relief. u;
"From what can gather, plan IS or
foot to surprise Canales and Carrasco II
: their strong hold near Passa Gallos. i
. will be difficult matter, So wide awake
: and cautious are these fellows, but no harm
3 can be done if it fails.
D "There is rumor heie-nothing bu
{ a rumor. mind yon-that Sauia Anna j
3 advancing upon Monterey with 4O,0O'
men. might give you column OF olhe
8 reports IN circulation. bu. they are all 0
8 little moment and come from most unreli
: able solnces-Mexican mouths.
0 From Santa Fe.-Mr. Soubretlee lei
s Benl's For. on the 10Th ulr., and arrived q
ST. Louis on The lSlh, jringing The lates
d intelligence. ).
Before MIR. S. left Bent's Fort, be learne
!. that letters had been sent TO Armijo, lh
r Governor Of New Mexico, by Chaves an
o other Of The principal citizens of Santa FL
i calling upon him TO defend the city an
e their property agains, the advancing force
y of the Americans. He sen, them bac
!. word that, il they would come in perso
!, and aid him in such an undertaken. b
e would fight as long as he could stand
h, they desired, hui unless they did so, t
would not strike blow. The miserab
!, show of force mustered in Santa Fe, |
:. declared unable 10 defend The place. eve
r. against the predatory. bands Of savag