extra supply of each al the several posts. In the last batlle, the official return shows a gain of 600 muskets, 300 sabres, and 200 pistols. The embarrassment of ordnance department is, that the arms for the same class of troops are not always of the same kind, and thal soldiers who retire after the stipulated tour of duty frequently take them home to be ready on any emergency. From this cause, no certain calculation can be made as to the number, description, or depot of the arms; and hence there must be an irregularity, as well in the general armament as in the discipline of lhe troops. The pay and subsistence of the army and navy are the same as in the corresponding service in the United Stales, and the rules and regulations of each have been adopted here. The soldier appear, for the most part, to be satisfied upon U1e settlement of their accounts in receiving Auditor's certificates for the amounts due, as they expect to derive from the bounty in land a speculative profit beyond the present depreciation of their scrip. The latter is made payable out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; but as all the present funds are applied to the subsistence and equipment of the army and navy, the payment of those certificates will be postponed until the State shall be able to perform the obligations of an independent nation. It is said that upon any future invasion the citizens will not again remove their families beyond the Sabine, as experience has proved that, with the present foe, a brave defence by any numbers . is better than a hasty retreat. This determination will keep the whole of the settlers together, and inspire general confidence. The Comanche Indians are looked to by theTexans as ready auxiliaries, as they have immemorially been opposed to the Guachupins (Guachinangos) or Spaniards, and are not less so to their successors the Mexicans. If those warriers are enlisted in the cause, the pretensions of Texas may assume a stronger form. The fortifications consist of the Alamo, near San Antonio de Bexar, and the fort at La Bahia, now nearly destroyed; iliey were both built by the Spaniards in the early part of the eighteenth century, and were fortresses of great strength. Colonel Travis defended himself in the former with 184 men against 1,600, and Colonel Fannin supposed that with 400 at La Bahia he could have withstood 1,500 men. Besides these, there are several small stations between La Baca and the Rio Grande, called
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