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

to which has been apparent for time by the quckene
vegetation and which but few since of on
amshed beasts could have drunk dry, is sweled into river
rolling with growing impulse, and Of sufficient power
arrest the progress Of army This days march is done
Slowly the saggers from the rear, and preparation
made for a bvouac few tents pitched on the sol
and slippery EARTH The SOIL saturated with water yields
every step, that firm position cannot be left without peri
from the mire. Weaed and worn down with long day
march, parched by the heat of tropical sum- and drenched
only be denched by tropical rain buried ankle dee
in mud except where spots of long grass their
of moisture around youto raise fire the damp ground
kindle into blaze the green and Kissing wood and fine
spot where the water does from beneath your fee
like that from wet sponge under the pressure of
washewoman, attacks of ordinary kind upon ones
philosophy and degrees of misery of which parored eg
aors and socushoned statesmen, who empires and
with knowledge of either have little conception
Heat, heat heatrain rain rainmud mud, mud, inter
mingled with spots of sand and gravel form the principal
lures of the from Labaca to San Antonio Loaded
CONS of slowly these roads, and troops
scourged the by the mumps and the
measles. The particular incidents of the march have
time space to relate. company detached at the
Ceto, nearly seventy miles from here for forced march to
this place, which accomplished in yone hours, and
which think creditabe operation for volunteers Our
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having pitched here the oath of August wish
ed to give you few ideas relating this ancient
OF Mexican ignorance, superstition and mbecily, where of
the principal Of tho inhabitants among the men, there is
just energy enough for existence and among the just
passion enough for prostitution but this letter, fear you
will think already too long, and there other
thy of considerations
The invasion on Chihuahua, though only its COM
mencement has advanced far enough point the moral
which will attend it considered financial operation.
shall not look beyond the record already made uphe pros
pect bad enough without reference the future For
and subsistence for this entire army derived from New
York, Baltimore, and New Orleans The transportation by
water therefore, exceeds thousand miles, while the total of
the land transportation be found among the hundreds.
The bare cost of bringing bushe of Labaca this
proportion combination has been entered into by the ho
nest traders OF this REGION who it is said control the few Mex
leans that produce thing by which every product of the
country held at four five times its ordinary price 1t is
about as cheap therefore, bringing from Iowa buying
1t here The consequence Is that when the of
lexas few and feeble they might be made available
the prosecution of the the punderng propensties Of
many Of her citizens render almost impossible Rents for
sorehouses in San Antonio amount, informed six
eight hundred dollars month, and yet the buildings hired
from their appearance, be worth three times the sum
These but specimens Of the evils arising from the exgen
ces of service in Texas and of which many OF the
public prints censurng the agents and officers of that de-
paument of the army charged with the duties of furnishing
supplies, transportation, &C. Their sufficiently nu
merous without having thrust upon them the odum of those
which have existence.
detachment Of companies of the first Dragons and
arrived here the 9th of August having accomplished
march Of eight hundred miles about weeks which,
Considering the weather. the country passed over and the
roads, Is Of the most remarkable marches record in this
country The Arkansas mounted volunteers, under Colonel
YELL arrived the 2sh of August from Washington Ar
kansas Major Bonnevilles command having gained nearly
the distance from Fort Smith Washington Col. YELL
there having been but days difference departure.
En- passdn the arms likely be wanted in Texas kept
after nearly twelve months warning locked up on the Atlantic
late hour that troops could be called for by Congress-
raised in Arkansas and marched foot six hundred
miles, before could be furnished them The regiment
under Col Yell should have been armed before leaving Ar
kansas he advised the of his march
that his would be here his arrival he comes and
finds nothing Without wishing any Of the agents
Of the Department Of neglect neciency appears to one
Of the unnitiated that the head wants revision.
The battery of field artillery, under Captain Washington
having aversed about two thousand miles in progress
Carlisle Pennsylvania to this place, arrived the Dist
August and completes the army destined for Chihuahua and
known the central DIVISION ordered to rendezvous at this
place.
In addition to the forces previously enumerated in this let
three companies Of the % Dragons under Col Harvey
will be added the troops under Gen. Wool they have been
stationed here and at Austin since last summer
The central DIVISION army of Chihuahua may be de-
tailed follows
Brigadier General JoHS +. Wool commanding
Col >. Churchill, Inspector General and Chief the Staff
Capt o. Cross, Chief Of the Quarermaser Department
Capt w. ID. Fraser, Corps Of Engineers.
Lieut. Irwin Mcdowell, Aiddecamp, and Acting ssstant
| Adjutant General.
Lieut.. g. p. Kingsbury, Ordnance Department
companies United States Dragons, under Col W.
). Harvey ................. ........ 900
company United States field artillery, under Captain
| ). NJ Washington ......................... 100
companies United States 9th infantry, under Major
/ D. L. r. Bonneville. Observation-Disclosures. l6O
| regiment Arkansas cavalry under Col. A. Yell $50
regiments Illinois infantry, under Col j. j. Hardin 600
! company Kentucky do do Capt Williams 90
/ 1900
The army thus constituted will probably leave this place by
the 10th instant TO proceed knows where advanc,
no one knows how to accomplish knows what IL
total strength is not equal in point Of numbers discipline
to the force furnished Gen Taylor dwnde away by dis
at Corpus Christi and with the remnants Of which he
completed the conquest Of Tamaupas amid the chaparral
Resaca DE Ia Palma II expected however that we Toe