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News has just come in from Monterey. Santa Anna is advanc- ing- and all the light troops, here and at Matamoros are ordered to leave immediately- They will find it a difficult matter to drive him from those stone walls. Yours in haste HP Bee write to me and tell me how you are fixed. No. 2256 1846 Dec. 5, MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR, LAREDO, TEXAS, TO THO[MA]S M. LIKENS, [LAREDO, TEXAS] Ordering him to stay in Laredo until otherwise directed. A. Df. 1 p. No. 2257 1846 Dec. 6, HUGH REED, LAREDO, [TEXAS] Statement regarding his authorized construction of a desk and feed- trough for Lieutenant Likens of public material and Likens's attempt to hold them as private property. D. S. 2 p. No. 2258 [1846 Dec. 6f], W[ILLIAM] H. WILLIAMS, [LAREDO, TEXAS] Statement regarding Lieutenant Likens's habitual gambling. D. S. 1 p. No. 2259 1846 Dec. 6, ANONYMOUS. LAREDO, TEXAS, TO JOHN A. VEATCH, [LAREDO, TEXAS] Statement regarding his arrest in Camargo, his escape, and Lieuten- ant Likens's offer of arms to resist a second arrest. A. Df. of Lamar. 1 p. Incomplete. No. 2260 1846 Dec. 6, EDWIN R. CLAY, LAREDO GARRISON, [TEXAS] Statement regarding Lieutenant Likens's habitual ·gambling, his dis- respectful remarks regarding First Lieutenant Veatch, and his repre- sentation of his motive in accepting the office of quartermaster. A. D.S. 2 p. No. 2261 1846 Dec. 6, ANONYMOUS. LAREDO, [TEXAS] Statement regarding Lieutenant Likens's call upon the deponent to sign a paper of whose contents he was ignorant. A. Df. of Lamar, 2 p. No. 2262 1846 Dec. 6, E. H. WINFIELD, CAMARGO, M:1!:XICO, TO MIRA- BEAU B[UONAPARTE] LAMAR, [LAREDO] TEXAS Sending some old Picayunes; army movements and official transfers; a rumor of Santa Anna's intention to retake Monterey; the result of
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