The New Hampshire Gazette

The South Western Frontier.—Under date of Camp Sabine, August 28th, Gen. Gaines writes to Governor Carroll of Tennessee, acknowledging the receipt of the President's counter-order, prohibiting the volunteers raised in Tennessee and other States, from proceeding to join Gen. Gaines, and directing them to be disbanded. The old chief is a little nettled by being thus thwarted in his plans, and expresses a belief that the force demanded will still be found necessary. He says,—

That from four thousand to 10,000 Indian warriors will be employed against the inhabitants of the disputed territory, as soon as the theatre of the war between Mexico and Texas is extended to the left bank of the Brazos, I have no doubt: unless, indeed, the prospect of our having in this frontier sufficient mounted force to repel the invasion of the disputed territory, and afford to the defenceless inhabitants that protection which we have promised to afford them.

I am more than willing to risk myself with 1,600 men for the protection of a thinly settled frontier of 400 miles in extent; but with full authority from the Department of War to call for whatever force I may deem necessary and proper for the purpose, I am not willing to have less force than I have called; for, without a force of 7,000 men held ready for action upon this frontier, the Indians can in one month destroy nine-tenths of the inhabitants within the disputed territory, with a great part of the adjacent settlements, including those upon the Red river from Alexandria to Fort Towson, embracing a large portion of the original inhabitants when ceded to the United States, with the finest cotton growing section of the United States, whose annual crop has already amounted to millions of dollars.

And again:

Since I sat down to write this letter an express has arrived, with a positive declaration that he had seen and conversed with a Mexican officer at an Indian village, forty miles to the northwest of Nacogdoches, who was understood by the Indians to be engaged in setting on foot an expedition against Nacogdoches. This I believe to be true, because it is in accordance with the previous statement of several persons who are entitled to credit.