Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1846-10-01

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The esteem in which he is held in this community
Will, we know, ensure it an attentive perusal. II
is dated
'CAMARGo, August lS, 1876
"lf you have not been appraised of nv move
ment by my many previous letters, it may not be
too late now to inform you Of them You probablv
already know that my route to the Rio Grande led
through the whole breadth of Texas across ali her
principal rivers and some of the most beautiful and
fertile portions of her territory. About the last of
June our company reached Point Isabel There or
within a lew miles of it, we remained in camp
during month, without teEts-eXposed to sun and
rain, suffering from sickness and ANNOYED to an in
credible degree by flies and mosquitoes. FINALLY
receiving our marching orders. we removed to Ma
taInoras. Remaining there for ten DAYS upon the
lett bank OF the river-we then crossed and encamp-
ed upon the right bank mile below the town.
Alter three days, we again set out, for this place,
and arrived here on Saturday last-our road went
thirty or forty miles into the interior through a
beautiful country, but we met with no opposition.
Canaes, the leading cheftain Of this region, has
thought 1t prudent TO retire towards Monterey
ms however relates only to the march of the
Eastern Regiment
The western Regiment under COL HAYS. has
gone father south towards Victoria As soon as orr
horses are shod, we will march agan-Rorminp the
advance guard of General Taylor's Army. This
movement will be so regulated, that his rear guard.
will leave here about the LIST of September. and we
VIII Mt that time, be near China-seyenty- five
miles distant.
AT Monterey, if the Mexicans do not FIGHT we
VIII pass on if they do fight, we will whip them
and pass on. At Saltillo, so miles further the ar
my will halt There our regiment will separate
from the remainder Of the forces under General
Taylor, and moving towards the northeast, will
strike at the town of Monclova-after its capture
we will move by FL Preside de Rio Grande and
San Antonio de Bexar to our different homes. reach
ing Texas some time in November. At least this
is the plan marked for us, though what untoward
circumstances may interfere. with IFS execution up
on the part of some all OF u.s. cannot be foreseen
Camargo. near which we are now encamped is
situated upon the right bank OF the Rio San Juan
~ mas lately been dcsolated by an overflow of the
river and seems to consist of three or four miserable
halI ruined buts, fenanted by miserable and not
halt civilized people. " YOU wish to see me as 7
WTitc, you must imagine scene very different
from those to which you have been accustomed
hut or shed, whose sides arc constructed of rounh
crooked poles, stuck loosely in the earth and SIM
porting rude roof of unhewn rafters and broom
straw. IL is almost filled with confused mass of
saddles, saddle bags, guns pistols, knives cothino
ana cooking utensils. On the floor are stretched
two wandering sons of Firoinia-one with n Nex
lean blanket nterPoscd between hin! and &c dir.
ana an, the oth' upon coyipic OF empty corn sacks
ne flFst IS John Harman Of Stanton, and now
I member OF Capt. Gillespie's company of rangers
The second-William Wallace, from our own
county, hrSt lieutenant Of the same company. and
as brave and determined spirit and as genuine
good fellow as the whole world can afford
am myself enjoying the unusual luxury of n
stool to sit upon, and am writing upon a board
stretched upon bench before me. NV person
and dress, cannot be cgotiscal as to describe.
Let 1t be sufficient 10 say that the Texas uniform
dscards the use of coat. vest, suspcnders. that
Che boots are outside Of the pantaloons. and
that it would be rank treason to allow the face in
become acquainted with razor"
The Philadelphia Inquirer states that Cruik- /
shank. who arrived in the Cambria is not the cclc