There are now about 200 Volunteers from Kentucky, & we have made arrangements for their passage in Vessels Lo leave tomorrow and next day-200 more are expected and we shaU loose no time in sending them forward. The Schooners Liberty and independence are now here-The former has undergone heavy repairs and improvements by order of Col Potter 1 and to such an extent thal we have concluded she must remain untill we are in possession of funds to pay for her repairs & fit her out, which will amount to about $7000-We shall furnish all, that is necessary for the lndependence, have her in complete order and furnished with two months supply and hope to have her ready for sea in four or five days. Her repairs will not amount to much, as she only requires caulking and a streak of copper. Still here disbursements will not fall short of $500.- 'fhe Schooner Urchin will sail in about three days, and if any Volunteers arrive we have maclc arrangements to send them by her.- Mr W H Wharton is expected daily from New York, and we presume will proceed immediately on. We shall do all that is possible to furlher_your views & arc
Yours Respectfully Thos Toby & Bro
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Nachitoches, June 30, 1836. We are likely to have lively Limes upon the frontier. General Gaines, who is still on the Sabine, has, within a few days, received despatches from General Rusk, the Texian leader, dated al Guadaloupe Victoria, apprising him that the Mexicans are coming down upon him in great force. Rusk has issued a proclamation, and calls loudly for aid. General Gaines, for reasons, best known to himself, has calJed upon the slates of Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana, for a regiment of men each, and talks of executing his old instructions, of crossing into the Mexican territory, and laking possession of Nacogdoches. His plea is that some vagabond Caddocs have committed two or three
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