Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-02-13

very long line on winch W heeP VI xooPf'S
lover a land route in a country like this Tor
large force, and certain 10 be attended WIN an
expense which will be fright(ul to contemplate,
when closely looked into. e. ~
From Satillo to San Luis Potosi, the next
place OF importance on the road to the city OF
Mexico is three hundred milestone hundred and
forty badly watered, where no supplies OF any
kind could be procured for men or horses.
have informed the War Department that 20,OOO
efficient men would be necessary to insure sue
cess If we move on TO that place-a city contain
ing population OF 10000, where the enemy
could bring together and sustain, besides citizens,
an army Of $4,000. force which, | apprehend,
will hardly be collected by US with the train
necessary 10 feed it, as well as to transport other
supplies, particularly ordnance and munitions OF
war.
In regard 10 the armstice, which would have
EXPIRED by limitation, in few days, we lost
nothing by il, as we could not move even now,
had the enemy continued TO occupys Saltillo; for,
strange 10 say, the first wagon that has reached
me since the declaration OF war, was on the Cd
inst. the same day on which | received from
Washington an acknowledgment OF my DIES
patch announcing the taking OF Monterey; and
then received only one hundred and twenty five,
so that have been, since May last, completely
crippled, and am still so for want Of transporta
ton. After raking and scraping the country for
miles around Camargo, collecting every pack
mule and other means Of transportation, | could
bring here only $4,000 rations, Fifteen day s
supply,) with moderate supply Of ordnance,
ammunition, &C., to do which all the corps had
to leave behind portion Of their camp equippage
necessary for their comfort, and in some instances
among the volunteers, their personal baggage. |
moved in such way, and with such limited
means, that had | not succeeded, | should nj
doubt have been severely reprmanded, if moth
ing worse. did so 10 sustain the Adminisra
ton. .,...
or the two regiments OF mounted men from
Tennessee and Kentucky, who left their respec
tive States to Join me, in June, the latter has jus
reached Camargo; the former had not got 10 Mata
moras at the latest dates from there. Admitting
that they vii be as long in returning as in getting
here, Ito say nothing OF the time necessary to re
crut their horses,) and were to be discharged il
Mexico but a very short time. The foregoing
remarks ore not made with the view of finding
fault with any one, but TO point out the Difficult
ties with which have had to contend.
Monterey, the capitol OF New Leon, is situa
ted on the San Juan river, where it comes out o
the mountains; the city, (Which contains popu
lation of about twelve thousand) being in par
surrounded by them. at the head Of large an
beautiful valley. The houses are Of stone, in tn
Moorish style, with fiat roofs which, with thei
strongly enclosed yards and gardens, in hig
stone walls, all looped for musketry, make tber
each fortress within ITSELF II is the most in
, portant place in northern Mexico,-ot on tn
east side OF the Sierra Madre commanding tn
only pass or road for carriages from this side, b.
] tween it and the Gulf of Mexico, to the tabl
lands Of the Sierra, by or through which the cit
0 OF Mexico can be reached.
{, Iremain, truly and sincerely, your friend.
i. z. TAYLOR.