Richmond Enquirer

[From the Army and Navy Chronicle.]

INTELLIGENCE FROM THE DRAGOONS.

Letters have been received in Washington, giving intelligence of Major Mason's command, as late as the 3d July. He was then at Camp Holmes, the station he had selected, as mentioned in the Chronicle of the 23d ult. The following is an extract from a letter from Major Mason, dated 2d July:

"There is now at this place a large number of Comanches; their camp is about 8 or 10 miles off. There is an Osage, who has been among them since some time early in the Spring, who last night informed the Osages with me, that runners for several days past have been coming to them from the Chief, who is still near Coffee's trading house, telling them the object of the white people, in inviting them here to meet in council, was only to betray them into the hands of the Creeks, Cherokees, &c. &c., and advised them to fall back with their women and children to his camp, and from there, to come in a large body and attack this camp before the arrival of the Indians from our own frontier; and he further states, that the Comanchees and their chief, now here, are in favor of the attack, and are only withheld by one of their principal men, who is opposed to it. There is another Comanchee camp between the one near here and the one near Coffee's. The Kiowas and Pawnees are in considerable numbers in the neighborhood.

"My command is in good health, but the horses are falling off. The report of the Osage is sustained by the Comanchee himself, who is opposed to the attack, and who is now in this camp."

Extract of a letter from Brevet Brigadier-Gen. Arbuckle, to the Adjutant-General U.S. Army, dated

Fort Gibson, July 7, 1835.

"The Osages who brought the Major's (Mason) letters, will leave this for his camp to-morrow, with a communication from me notifying him that he will be reinforced with 100 men of the 7th Infantry and a light field piece, with the least delay possible. This measure I have regarded absolutely necessary to enable the Major to maintain his position and at the same time to apprise the Comanches and Kiowas, that if the troops cannot succeed in inducing them to meet the Commissioner of the United States to enter into a treaty of peace with our Government and the different tribes of Red people on this frontier, that they will occupy their present position as long as there is a hope of succeeding in inducing them to treat; and, in the event of a failure, as long as they may desire to remain.'