More Recruits. — By reference to the
report (in another column) of Col. James H. Dakin, commanding the
regiment of Louisiana Volunteers, addressed to Lieut. Col. L. E.
Forstall, it will be seen that the former announces, agreeably to
Brigade Order No. 9, dated the 21st ult., that his regiment
has recently recruited, and now consists of ten companies and six
hundred men, ready to be mustered into the service of the United States,
to ser in Texas or elsewhere. This is almost unequalled despatch, and
speak well not only of our gallant citizens, but also of Col. Dakin and
his efficient officers.
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The French brig of war Griffon was to have
sailed from Pensacola yesterday morning. The papers of that city make
no mention as yet of the departure of the Falmouth, but they confirm
what we said of the sailing of the sloop of war John Adams and brig
Porpose on a cruise down the Gulf. The course of Commodore Conner has
not yet transpired. The latest rumor is that he will remove his flag to
the Falmouth, and sail immediately.
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There have been some important movement of
troops since our last, which we annex: Company A of the 2d Regiment of
Flying Artillery, numbering sixty rank and file with a complete battery
of ten guns, sailed from New York on the 22d ult. In the transport
Pacific, chartered by the Government, for St. Joseph’s Island, Bay of
Aransas.
The same day one hundred marines from the
Brooklyn Navy Yard left for Norfolk, en route for Texas.
On the 21st ult. The schooner
Maria M. Clotts, cleared at Newport for Pensacola with U. S. Troops.
The following is from the Charleston
Courier of the 27th ult: – Companies A and I, 3d Artillery,
are ordered to Aransas Bay, Texas, and will sail in a few days, from
this port. Brevet Lieut. Col. Childs, in command, Surgeon Hawkins,
Captains Burke and Taylor, and Lieuts. Churchill, Gilham, Ayers and
Killbum.
Source: The Daily Picayune,
September 2, 1845, p. 2, col. 1.
