us night before last on your march up to this point you will loose no lime and keep a viglenl look out
Respectfully Yours Thos Rusk Brig Gen) Comt.
[3276] [YATES to AUSTIN]
Schenectada June 3, 1836
My Dear General,
I am here still with my family, and much engaged in settling my old private affairs, which I once mentioned to you. I have had a proposition from the persons who have had my property in charge, and they have offered me $15,000 to release them, and I have charged $35,000 and a settlement of $30,000 on my wife. They have till day after tomorrow to accept. My estate is worth $120,000, by their own admissions, and I shall secure some $80,000, if I go into a .Chancery suit, but as that will keep me out of it for some two or three years and perhaps more, I am determined to close at once by a sacrifice, provided I can do so on the terms I have offered. If they accept, it is my intention to charter a vessel from New York and sail next month for Texas. I want much to know the prospects of a continuance of the war, and I can bring out two or three hundred volunteers. I have also written to [Samuel] Colt of Patterson to inquire the prices of his ten charge rifles, carbines and pistols, and I want to bring out what will he most useful to the country, and dispose of it for lands. I have not been able to get up a meeting in Troy at all. I went there and saw the Mayor and Recorder and several of the leading men of the City, and I received a letter from the Mayor a few days since stating that there appeared so much apathy on the subject, that he was fearful that the attempt would fail. I have not been able lo do any thing more in All)any than get a Memorial circulated, which has received a great many signatures, and will go to Washington. I do not think I can do any thing of importance in the West in the way of collecting funds-in fact the scarcity of money is so great here that, I find the people very unwilling to give.
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