bodies:-Forl Jessup, commanded by Col. Many of the 3d Infantry, with two companies of that regiment. Camp Sabine, with the 6th regiment, and 4 companies of the 3d Infantry, under command of Major Thompson, with a train of Field Artillery. The camp at Nacogdoches is occupied by 6 companies of the 7th Infantry, and 3 companies of the 1 Dragoons, and is commanded by Lt. Col. Whistler. The whole of the troops was commanded by Maj. Gen. Gaines, who makes his head quarters at Camp Sabine. 3,000 mounted volunteers or militia, are shortly expected, under the apprehension that difficulties with the Indians may occur on the forks of the Trinity river, in Texas. This climate is healthy, though warm; that is when you leave the water courses or rivers, and retire lo the high grounds or pine ridges, as al the south on the Atlantic in the warm season. You find the Passion-flower and the Trumpet-creeper growing wild, in all the beauty of the forest, yet you meet with poisons also-the tarantula, the centipedes, the scorpion, and the ground rattlesnake, as well as the large one. There is said to be sickness in the Mexican army, yet the truth cannot be known, as they arc on the Rio-del-norle, and access to them is difficult and dangerous. [Anonymous U.S. Army Officer] (4026) [AUSTIN to BORDEN]
Mr. G. Borden, Jr.
Dear Sir.-1 have just received your letter of the 13th instant, informing me that great efforts are making to circulate reports and slanders, for the purpose of injuring me, at the election which is to be held on the first Monday of next month. . Such things are lo be expected. In all communities there are men, who attempt to rise and effect their individual views, by trying to mislead the public. The check upon them is the good sense and sound judgment of the people. Relying upon this check, I have not considered it necessary to notice any of the slang that has been circulated about me. I feel but little anxiety, of l.l personal character, whether I am elected or not. I am not a volunteer candidate, for I agreed lo become one from a sense of duty, because I was solicited lo do so,
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