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Show MASSAQEglilE iNrjlfi'S, y ' ' CW Vu May 25" -1 800: EBITORSlMbUNTilNEEK: ,.D.titL Stnsj Knptbjcdyotf. tyitl find a slip from, the Qatrdmtnfo Umon, which X rccetvcit .by Tony , Express jato tfiisKivcii-Ing. tfiisKivcii-Ing. on my arrival at Cathii loydf I presented my letter from Gov. Camming for 'requfsitioh for troops to" Cob Smith, t KM rcceiVcilffitbkfuaucss. and courtesy: by lhok CoK, whP realized ip xi moment tbit Necessity of rendermg. us immediate a sfstance, atitl la less than ten nifmttcs Issued tf order to mount twenty it JiW light, battery, 'pomirfanded' by 1st Lfr, S llVpcd,,tocc.opaiy ma $&r$ in tljp. fiiorjaiug, au4 ,nlso forty more, linger ,thp command of 1st Lt Perkins to.fblio'w pii tlib jkxt day. The 'Col regretted much that he had "not moro'rpen tP iassfst in protecting 'the mall, route,, as. the dragoonj r had; .already Jbcen ,ordered. tp prpccqd to the heigbborhood ef Fort IJalf.pr thc. Ipfotectiofl of emigrants Pn the iiprtiierii tbutc and' had lib mdre infantry oiibniicl thiin. VPS Sufficient to. guard the pttblip-; pttblip-; stores; hpneo Jip wps cpinpeHed tp.woubt the llght,battery for this pxpeditfoii., :s; XJiavp lpar;pcd , by tiiP,U.tprcs9 : that the 'Iiidlan$i'1iave'fliadti ittf attackfop; the Dugvray'StaliPtf;( (T miles" from-"tlH point),. I fear Atiiero::j3V,tradblp.;nyad; -bbwever I shqll Koeijfyou-ppsHl'byt favorable opportunity; Cf' j:' V |