[702] [KERR to AUSTIN]
Lavacca 30th Septr. 1835
Stephen F Austin Esq Dear Sir
I wrote you on the 27th lnsl by Mr. Parker, desiring you lo open a Letter which I had some days previous addressed lo F W. Johnson - I had heard that gentleman had gone to the Ayish Bayou. On the night of the 28th I recd. an answer to an Express which I sent to Linn of Guadaloupe, who says that on the morning of the 25th he recd. a letter from Edward Linn dated at Saltillo - he said that he intended to stay out the Far, sales dim - and that there is from 3 to 600 Troops about to march from thal place lo Tejas - that there is some Trouble about to be in the State of Tamaulipas, in consequence of the intended shutting of the port of Matamoras. Genl. Cos is looked for hourly from Matamoras at Bexar with some 300 Troops. We have got a nur Comadante Militar in Goliad, Don Francisco Sandoval Lt. Col. of the Morales Bat. and Western said a first rate clever fellow of his Kind, so we go. On the 28th Linn writes that Jenkins recd. a Pilot Boat from N. Orleans of 6 Tons which handed Two ps of Cannon, 32 Boxes of Muskets, ]0 in each box, making 320 in all; & 2 Carl loads of amunilion - Linn says this information Padilla gave him, who is now on a visit from Bejar - all there left Goliad for Bexar this morning. I-le obvious should this expedition meet at your house tell them to cut for Mr. Taylor's crossing on the Guadaloupe, and from there head the Carls on the Bejar road - they have only an Escort of 25 or 30 men. A gentleman of high standing informed Mr Linn that Genl. Cos said he would start from Matamoras for Bejar so soon as he recd. 60,000 Dollars with his staff - This Cash he wants lo pay the debts of lhc Troops. Many Officers have resigned their Commissions rather than come to Tejas. Santa Ana has consented that the Port of Matamoras shall remain open, & it is said that Cos is coming to arrange matters with us without fighting. Mr Linn insists that in case of a rupture I must use my influence that the Officers shall he retained as Hostages; until our people who are in the interior return. lfo observes that should Cos fall into our hands with his 60,000$ he would he worth all the rest. 1 rather think that the period has elapsed al which we could have intercepted those munitions of war. J. W. Fan11in Jr. has communicated the order for lhc movement of our Troops against Copano. Mr Fannin says thal he has ·110 doubl
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