The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1846-09-11
Correspondence Of tn, he, r.aa.r.
Lciicc From he l. Hfor
No. NJ.

w "tf-Hs hi'N't AZ camp lNlu hH h'uu'N hu"
TUESDAY 'ast---calt uick,y : and cart, 80 organ
uriviog first. They hsl consequently been S
lays coming rom NV OIL are; bat day ard a
hall If hi, Ii ne vas s?ru, j. whiting llra Light
y in i.ah-cI bay, and annlhrr day in coming
'rnm l.alac1 here. Their triP across the Cult
,as c'mplrS'ivo'y quick, an fee from accident;
but they cannot 20 50 Tar a t. say that it vas =
pleasant one. The brig was cu,ircly too small 10
accommodate The number If men crowded on
board; and, although the officers w,r, very uhlj-
ging, and I'D all in ,hci, power To make the men
water fu ard unpalatlhe. Yet they vc,rh,rct
i, out without auy considerable increase Of their
sick list, and af,r b,ipg day Or two on shore,
were again in as good health is when they Ia
Alton.
Ga "Wednesday 4 few companies Of The , reg
linen, arrived one Of them having been cut =
days, hu. none complliucd f any peculiar bard
ships, These on the ground. all the comp,n c>
making NJ the and = regiments had arrived
and by Thursday were eucampcd at tie springs
IN Pnccdirc- creek, near lahsra. the place they
still occupy. The too regiments are cncamrc!
side by side, on tie open prairie, on gentle slufc,
II regular order Of BATH, nad certainly present
,cry imposing appearance.
There has nothing occurred in camp, since
las, wrote, Of sull,en, consequence 10 justify
writing abju', believe, except that it has raned
every dav since we have been here. and some
lays right copiuusly. The consequences have
been sufficiently unpleasant. Fir-ly, 1t has e /
ed our tents with mud and di',, aud made then,
uncomfortable secondly it has given us many
ducking while on parade; thirdly, il hasdrovu-
ed ou' tie springs, tia, Ne are Obliged to drink
the dIainiugs Of the pralrics for wr,,r; ard lastly
:! Oh net lcas'ly i, has so raised the streams
hat it will be almost impossible fr or little ar.
my al present 70 perform its march To San Anto.
mo- Nevertheless, the ord are tha, We start
IN Monday, and the order viii be obcycd, il II
rains armed Mexicans. Gen. Wool went on
ahead yesterday, accompanied by bis suite and q
guard, and this morning writes back that the
road Is still passab'e 10 Vcioria, accounted the
most difficult of the trip, and directs our com
man Ter to follow as speedily as possible.
The health Of the two regiments continues
about the same as at AIon. There have been a
few cases Of bilious f'vor, and few Of ogue, bl;
hey have not been numerous The only dis
ease Of contagious nature that has yetappcarcd
among us has been the meGsks, Of which there
have been a good many cases, but they have in
none resulted fItally, and in general have been
got over easily.
Col. Harden has been invested by Gen. Wool
Tor the present with the command Of both rcsi-
nent4 here, and consequently exercises :he au-
thorly nf a Brigadier General; and as another
consequence the command If the regiment has
been assigned TO LieG,. Col Weailef ri. This
arrangement, presume, has bren made to hav,
he two regiments under common head on the
march 20 san Antonio, where, after all the troops
assigned to this route have arrived, Gen. Wool
will assume the command over them 10 person.
The captain whom. noticed in nv last as
having been placed under arrest. has been par.
donod his C.lfnce and restored to his command
But his release was barely made out, before the
other captain from the same city was put under
arrest, in which plight he still remains.
The three men from Capt Dickeys company.
and two from Capt. Richardson's, tina, had been
lefi at a woodward on the Mississippi, on their
way to New Orleans, very Unexpectedly made
their appearance at camp on "Wednesday last
They had had quite Time in getting to OfIcans
having for three days after being l,n, footed it.
through hogs and canc.brakes on the Arkansas
shore, with oil sorts Of fare. They finally 20,
boat TO take them aboard, and got tn the battle.
ground at Orleans just as the last company was
leaving for this place, with whom they came
across the Gulf