The banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1844-1847, 1846-08-19
s.atcst from the Army
E'lt/"fi"l Correspondence ofMc PicaHunc.
CAMARC;O. July II.

CAMARGO, July ~.
10 break the dull montonv of camp
llic we had another Indian alarm vcster-
day morning. The alcaldc came in
great haste and tr,pidation to the COM
mandn% officer of the troops here, that
the Camanchcs were laying waste tho
ranches on the other side of the river
above the mouth Of the San Juan, mur-
drrlng the inhabitants and carrying Off
captive the children. AIcCuIlocl$
hangers were ut once detailed to cross
the RIO Grnndr, and were all in the
saddle in almost no time.
10 my thinking, these Indian distur-
Dances will be fruitful of much trouble.
Ii am not much mistaken. at the great
treaty recently held by Gov. Butler
and Nlaj. Lewis, high up on the Brozos
it was understood that the Indians were
no: to be molcstcd in any war they
might be engaged in with Mexico. 1t
might not have been $50 stipulated in
the bond" yet the commissioners in the
then existing state Of affairs between the
United States and Mexico were not in u
situation to say to the different tribes
that they must war no more with a
country that was then common enc
my. That they mi ght and did say to
them, that they were at liberty to wage
hostlit'cs conformably with the usaecs
OF civilized nations, there can be little
doubt, but that they told them not to ap-
proach the Mexican frontier, would have
been piece of absurdity. not to say stu
pidlty, they were not the men to be
guilty Of
Following the final ratification of the
treaty: the provisions of which have not
yet been published, came Gen. Tayior's
success at Palo Alto and Resaca dc Ia
Palma and the taking Of Matamoras
after which an entirely new face ap-
pears to have been put upon the nature
OF the operations this side of the Rio
Grande. The concilia,ory system had
not then been adopted, nor were the
people promised protection, nor had
proclamatlons appeared Indirectly cal
ling upon the inhabitants this side the
Sierra Madrc to throw off the oppressive
yoke Of the Central Government.
In the mean time, some of the wild
tribes have organized their bands, and
arc now carrying on destruction and
death upon the frontier 1t is the boun-
den duty Of the United States, as l look
upon the matter, to afford protection to
the inhabitants upon the cast bank Of
the Rio Grandc but to what extent the
Indians can be lcgitimatcly inter(crcd
with on this side ofthe river is another
matter. The result of all this is now
looked for here with much interest, and
the adventures Of McCulloch's men
with the Indians shall be detailed to YOU
at tho earliest opportunity. G. w. X.
CAMARGO, Mexico, JULY rs.
Affairs begin to look little more
lively in this particular section The
steamer Big Hatchec came up last eve
ming with Ma jor Stamford and the rest
of the 5th United States Infanty on
board, so that we have two regiments of
regulars: the 5th and 7th, already quar-
tered here. TO this force must be ad-
ded the section of Bragg's Artillery and
the two companies of Dean Rangers
under McCulloch and Gillespie, form
quite an army when all are paraded.
A portion of the Sth United States In
fantry, is en- route, and some of the LOU
isiuna Volunteers are said to be on the
way to Reynosa. TO feed all this force,
every steamer comes loaded down with
saltmeats, hard bread, coffee, sugar, and
other articles, and Lieut.. Britton, who
has been acting here as both Commissa-
ry and Quartermaster, has had his hands
full to find places to store everything
since la crciente carried away so many
horses. The Mcxitans who have never
seen such an immense amount of sub
sistence before. and probably did not
think there was as much in the world,
look on with perfect astonishment as
they behold barrels rolling in all drec-
tons, and one old woman innocently
asked If all the Americans alive were