Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-10-03

morning OF the division of volunteers commanded by Gen.
Butler some have gone, many are here Or in the vicin
y Of the place. and the day yet known when all will
be the march. Tho Of sufficient transportation
alleged TO be the OF delay. If this be true load of
should be heaped upon those the United States
whose duty it is to provide it sufficient crush them. If
there be suhcency Of transportation then those here,
this frontier whose business is properly should
be held to strict responsibility That the of the
forces this frontier have been dltoy and expensive
denabe and Gen. Taylor and his friends to the
try and his fame to have the fully explained
1t is sad and suspect truly that money is much wanted
IN all the dsbursng departments here Two days ago
clerk of Of the chefs going around to the suffers
quesng them to let him have all the money they could spare
and take checks the depose banks of your city Other
operations OF the kind also reported 1t believed
supply of funds arrived last night So they will be very
acceptable the volunteers about marching have been
paid and many of them much in need of shoes and clothes
am sorry to inform you that there is much sickness in
vera of the volunteer corps and is feared that diseases will
increase In the First Tennessee Regiment commanded by
Col Campbell, than three hundred on the sick
list and there have been for some days past several deaths
each day. Oter regiments suffering severely, but
much The diseases measles, dysenery and bilious fever
Since the preceding matter was put in type, we
have been favored with the following extract Of
letter from officer at Matamoros his friend in
Washington:
" MATAMoRos, SEPTEMBER ID, 1916.
"MY DEAR SIR ! am informed by letter from Camargo
written by my clerk, that that place filled with from
the INTERIOR to the effect that the suter the 9Th infantry left
seravo the 9TH instant and reports that the spy companies of
Mccullough and Gillespie together with 400 regulars had
been sent sixteen miles beyond Scravo Che thinks
to examine the condition of the road that they found the
enemy in great force, both regulars and anchero and
turned to camp. Capt Ferguson's beef agent however, Left
some hours after the suer.
"They both agree in the following particulars That it
known Seravo that Gen. Ampudia had declared
ia law in Monterey and prisonng all strangers and
suspected persons that the Mexican population leaving
Seravo in great haste under the apprehension that the place
was to be attacked day two that the impression
among the officers Of the Army that the road would be dis
puted all the way from Seravo to Monterey They also say
they met General Taylor about leagues beyond Mer push
ing to Seralvo at three o'clock the morning He select
ed that hour in all probability to avoid the heat although
much stress to be laid upon by persons 1t
said the Mexcans have driven off all their cattle to prevent
the army from getting beef, &c.
"Last night six Texan mounted men reached here from
Camargo. They left that place with eigh in number but
they say they attacked the road by thirty Mex
leans and that they lost of their men, and that they kill
ed six of the Mexcans"