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r . "The little Man with the great Mind." --Such is the appellation which a recent French periodical bestows upon that great statesman of France-M. Adolphe Thiers -a mai who by dint of perseverance and untiring applicatiun io.. mental cultivation and the alfairs. of:diplomacy, overcame the prejudices blihe. mass to his low birth and vulgar station. Like Claude Melnotte, he ransomed himself at'once from the dif ficulties of his position and from the grasp of "iron fortune,' .with :"auch jtwels as the exploring mind brings'fromn thie; caves of knowledge." He showed .t the'wdrld, in spite of a forbidding 7exterier and no ap proach towards'easa of. deportment, the vastness of bi intellectual capacities and the indomitable-.-nature -of.:his ,ambition. Without friends,~"without pecuniary, per sonal or anyextraneous advantages, he has become one of the most distinguished men of modern -times. A brilliant and masterly sketch of Ml.' Thiers had been contributed to a late number ofthe Dublin Universal Magazine, from which we ex tract the following graphic delineation. Boston Traveller. M. Thiers is the essence of mind ; he is intellect to the tips of his lips and the points of his nails.-His organization is like' that of Voltaire, frail, delicate and mobile. He has the caprices and nanghti ness of a child, with the assumption and gravty of a philosopher. More a man of letters than a statesman, and more an ar tist than a man of letters, he will dote upon an ltruscan.gue and c.sre little for liber ty. As a'CaTinet Miniister, he conceives great designs; like a woman,. he is bold small matters. He has courage, but it s like that of delicate and sickly people it comes is feverish fits. ending by nervous attacks and fainting fits: these.. weakness es are only tolerated onta sofa.m politics, fainting is not suffered. He thinks without elfort, produces with out exhaustion, advances without fatigue. nd arrays his ideas before you with a ra - which is incoticeivah.la. Have you Ttjieeseen in the steamboats which traverse our rivers, the hanks reflected in the sus pended mirrors ? They are reflected while the boat advances-fair villages, churches with tapering spires, verdant meadows, hoary mountains, gay vessels, the flocks of the valleys, the clouds of heaven, animals and, men, seem to fly past in rapid succes sion in the glass. Such is M. Thiers. A sort of Parliamentary mirror, he reflects the passions of others, and cold and hard as the glass is, without passions himself. He weeps, but his eyes are tearless ; he pier ces his breast with a poignard, but draws no drop of. blood ; a mere drama all that is true, but what a drama, and what an actor !-What nature, what suppleness, what powers of insinuation, what infex. ions of voice; what transparency and lu cidity of style; what negligent grace of language! He is more elastic than a spring of the finest steel-be bends and unbends--he rises and falls with his subject--he will roll himself spirally round a question from its base to its summit--he mounts, descends, remounts, hangs in the branches, hides himself in the .thickest foliage, appears, disappears, and passes a'thousand times in and out with :he pretty agility-of a squir rel--he would extract money from a stone -where otheiesl glean,he reaps. He ex; tends his prdimiige and tlhoivs/, by iurns; every bi'e of tp'irple,gold and azore.' He does not speak$ Ie 'os-o-he'd~oes not coo, he lisps-he'd6es not lisp, he. war'bles and he is so dazzling hoth to the eye and -to the ear, that one does not know which to admire most, his plumage or his~ song. He will give you a speech of three hours length on architecture, poetry, law, nav'i gation or wvar, and yet he is neither a po et, a lawyer, a mariner, nar a soldier-all he will require is an evening's pre pararion. I f he describeib a battle lie astonishes the oldest generals. If he speaks of walls, roofs, stones anid mortar, you wvoul.. actu ally believe him to be a mason or atn ar -chitect. 11e wvill dispute with Gay Lussac on questions of chemistry, and teach Ara-. go how to direct his telescope at Venus or J upiter. The fine arts, canals, roads, finances-, commerce, history, the press, politics, anecdotes of the street, theatres, wvar, liter ature, religion, mutnicipalities, morality, amutsement<,, great things, middllitng thitigs, little things-what does it tmatter to him, ho is ready at all. lie is so, because in faict lhe is prepared upon nothitng. lIe does not speak like other orators, because lie speaks like pleople of the world. Other orators prepare themselves, more or less, lbut he improvises ; other orators perorate, but lie chats. if M. Thiers spoke slower, lie would b~e less listened to; hut his volubility is such that the House canniot go before him tor even follow him. Once started, lie pro ceeds at fult gallop, from the morning to the evening. The Science of Dunning.-' T say, Jac qtues, this duninitg is easily reduced to a science aind art. A boot maker desires me to collect a bill of t wenty dollars a gainst a clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Trues dlell; you know him, Jacques! A. man of * taletnt-great talent, great talent, great virtue-particular friend of mine! Weti to see him-couldn't pay. Called the next day on his pretty wvife-finte woman, finest eye in New York-got on the tenider aide of her-she promised to make her husband pay ; called the next day ; would not see me. -Well,iwent.to church early like going to church; Truesdell was to., preach ; got a seat very near to the pul.g?/ then didn't I lean forward and rest my eig bows on the front of the pewv, and hbol Jye chin up with both hands,- and didn't - my eyes up.'n him ! Never, stirred t i~ once-looked right straight into the vei middle of his forehead, like the megnetia ers do.. No preaching at all; tried to do it, buti] kept my eye on him, and he did not know what he wvas driving at. Every body said it was-the shortest sermon they'd ever bdird, People went'-away-I went, and titanked him for such a good sermon. Dindd~heIolc pale and- red-? biut he an swerid,'quietaea lamtb; thenl asked him, -in a whisper, 3h~aj time lie wouldI se'e me to tmorrow. 'Nine'o'cloc,' says he,.amnd away I wentr Calledthis morninig, just . -as the clock- was striking inte ; caine t'o the door himself, looked doleful as though lie was going to read the burial service. I put the bill tnto his hand, he put the me ney into mine, .put bis other hand on 'my shoulder, 'God bless you, my. son!' says he. MAmen !' cried I. Great country-this ; faoe preachers-floe preachers!' Defend Yourself.-The editor of the Albany Knickerbocker,' is a sensible man. Theres more truth than poetry in the following, which we copy from this spicy.paper. ..Bud luck as well as tnischances and misfortune are all the daughters of miscon duct, and sometimes the mother of success, prosperity and advancement. To be thrown on one's resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune-Had 'Franklin entered Philadelphia, with a thousand dol lars in his pocket instead of one shilling and nine pence. as he did, in all probability he would have gone on a 'spree,' 'instead of hunting employment, and died at thirty five from driving at tandem teams and drinking braudy smashes, instead of living to the green old age of eighty, and dying a philosopher whoaeanusement was tamtng of thunderbolts and bottling up lightning. Had Napoleon. father been the owner of a princely estate, his son would never have been an Emperor. A good kick out of doors is better for a boy than all the rich uncles iu the world. One-naver tries to swim so hard as when hehs to do it or drown. To be a rich man's son, is, the greatest misfortune that can befaUla young man. mentally speaking. Who 'fi11 our offices I not the children of the rich nor the sons of the oppulent. A knowledge of-starch and debauchery is all-a rich man's sons aspire to. The parlor is the scee of their oratory. and hair oil the care of their'souls-poor creatures ! Cuting of the Telegraphic fires.-It will be remembered that the telegraphic communication between Boston and New York was interrupte: soon after the arrival of :Ile steamer yesterday. It now appears that the wires were deliberately cut, and that the olifending parties were rogues in broadcloth, and perhaps speculators in treadstuifs. Yesterday forenoon, a party of laborers upon thq Worcester railroad, were proceeding iffa hand car from New ton to Needhatm, and had nearly reached a deep cut, a mile or so from the Need. ham depot, when they perceived two or three menwith a stick, forced in'between the two tle*egraphic wires, and which they were attempting to twist, so as to break the wire. The laborers immediately got off their car, and endeavored to approach the wire-breakers without being seen, in order to arrest them. Just as they got within a short ~distance, however, they were observed by the guilty parties, who immediately plunged into the woods, near by. Th'ey were pursued by the laborers, who however, lost track of thet, but found a horse and chaise tied to a tree. Deter. mined they should not escape, a strict watch was kept upon the woods for several hours. At length voices were heard, and a man appeared, genteely dressed, who was immeditely accosted with the inquiry as to whether the ebaise belonged to him. He answered n', and before the labirers could make up their minds to arrest him, dedamnped. bate in the afternoon, the chance of capturing the wire-cutters was given up. The horse and chaise, however, were leftin the woods, and remained there tlhis morning.-Boston' Traveller. Thre Ounce 'Letter?-.The Piailadelphia Daily San publishes, for the betnefit of its subscribers, thefollowing arti'Cle in relation to the ounce letter: "We have been at great pains to ascer tain how much can be transmaitted for five cents. An avoirdupois half ounce is 2l84 graitns. WVaters 1 grain. Sealing wax usual quantity, 6 grains. A sheet of fool acap) weighs 172 grains; letter papsr 133. Swaall envelopes, 42 grains-large 52. You can send a let ter 300 miles fur 5 cents, corntaining, viz. the sheet of letter paper; wvith three bank ntotes, sealed wvith wax; or the letter with three bank notes,in an envelope. H alf a sheet of letter paper, with a half eagle enclosed under wax. A sheet with a dime and a hralf enclosed, se curcd by wafers. A single siteet of letter paper, with a quarter eagle enclosed, se cured by wax or wafer. One and half sheets of letter paper, secured by wa~x or wafer. These calculatins are btmsedl upr the ordinary letter papeor now in use. By usimng very thin French paper. a greater nuamer of sheets go to the half ounce, of course." A Chrange -Tlhe magrnificent villa ofr Joseph Bonaparte at Bordentuwtn, where, ini his fallen fortunes, lie had assembled t h ooks, the pictures and tie bijouteriu which, in his days of royalty andI po wer, he hadscollected from parts of Europe, has been 'sold and is torbe conavetted into a1 manuiifactory of glagr-'-TIo what viler uses may we come at' last. Alexfan'der'st body made to stop the bung .bre'tf a- ber barrel is scarcely worse rlpthts.WWiisit nowv is that.e~divinity whi ~~6lii"libdge a king- ?" Furnaces are tdibe Eeetd in the h~Us,and bottles for Staidia's Pauacea blown itt the chambers N~beretIe:'elder brother of the great Napoleon 'vas wont to ruminate upon the aang'e revolutions of that wvheel of fortutn wvhich raised a tfinily fromt obscurity to- place its members upon the thrones of tl-e world, and then, in less than one short life, hurled t hese very; actorsjfrom the thrones on which they had, ben acod to die in the obscurity fromd '~ihby haad temporarily enterged. - Aef'ufoolunters.-The Montgomery |< Jungirpetrates the following : e e of volunteers, one going to,r an tbe other. returntug from Mexico,t ih#.iii, is city a few days since. They b'6th hailed from the same village in Geor- i gia. The following dialogue occurred b~ when they met-r Tom. Well, Jim, you're back, I see;a what luck ? Jim. Oh, yes; first rate. How's. may wife been getting; along since I left ? e Tom, T.lip-top !. She has just present ed h~ yow with a fiie boy-not a week. old. a Jim. "Boyt!"h bll!um!:Justaslcex- ii peted mhough !l'tl enlist again. I Jima hind been gone just a year ! p Can this be so? -There is now living. p n one of the cief townts of New H-amp. d uhire, a wioman who has had teat'husbands, i all of whom are now~ living, upon the best i' terms with her and est ter :he voman is highly respeb1b'o an er _ eighbors; who see nor tg oe ut I much to approve. iSta e; t p sear, an action foie big mustained against herb " : rwo MONTHS LATE R WOR. EGON AND CAb i. The Philadelphia Ledge isrece4ved rom its attentive Cinbinu u poien , via Telegraph, at Zanesvlh t owing interesting news: *' ": Messrs. Shaw and Bolde 'ilied,atr-St. Louis on Thursday of liist eel', rect from Oregon, having left's frontier set ttements on the 5th of'May andmade the trip to St. Joseph's in eigbty thteedays. The party met with litte diliculty on the route. The various parties ofeinigrants to Oregon and California wite Nating ra pid progress. Davidson and his-comtpany were met at the Big Sandy, and two other eompanies at Green River. The Mormons with their immense train af wagons, were met near i Forks of Platte River on their route toWalifornia, sod their rulers, the "Twelve Apostles," is they are called, were met at Fort Bridges. It was understood that:ihe Mor mons would not proceed this eaison 'fur ther than Salt Lake. At Fort Hall, Messrs. Shawand Thomp on met Samuel Branson, H'nd from hime they obtained news from California- down to the 25th of May. . Lieut. Col. Fremont had been arrested Fr disobedience of orders -by. Gen. Kear say, and had be.en ordered hoaa 'Stbe I. States totake'liis trial heforoe Co t.Mar tial. This difficulty grew .o he ill reeling and contradictory ' .'enis of [eneral Kearney and Com. Stockion, and the question of authority which-existed be tween them. It was announced some days ago. by Col. Russel. who came with des. patches, that Gen. Kearney was about to arrest Col. Fre:non, and have him hung is a rebel. 'Nobody, of course,, believed the latter part of the statement; but the arrest of Fremont proves that the quarrel between Gen. Kearney and-Con.-tock ton was more serious than was at first ap prehended. ' Coin. Stockton had left aud was on his way home. The American fleet was off Lower Cal ifornia engaged against Mazatlan, Acapul :o and other towns in that quarter. The roots had, all been ordered to cncentrate a the same direction. There is no detail liven of the contemplated movements, but It is doubtless to enforce the blockade pro claimed by Com. Biddle. Gen. Kearney was about to leave Cali ornia and expected to reach the. States in be month of September. The allairs of California 'generally ap pear to be in a very unsettled condition. Messrs. Show and Thompson learned rrQm Brannon additional details of the. su. erings experienced by the patties of emi ,rants which failed to reach California be bre the last winter came upon them. They :dd to the.horrors of previoutis accounts; seventy.five perished from cold a'l 'expo tre to the snow and from starvtion ! The murvivors were reduced to the .dreadful al ernative of subsisting upon.te dead bo. ies of tiiir compaonons, The whole Redd family', 'cdhibectiodi ih'that of Dunnapao a e etlemontin safety -:after en un g incro sible sufferigs.' - Comn. Drake, of the British ship Mo Jeste, is on his way to the lJiited States. verland, with a em all party. lie wvill irobably be attacked by the Pawnees. In connection with the horrid sufferings if the California eimigrants, ilhe Republi :an bus the following :. Among the number of this unfortunate ..rty was a miscreant, by the name of Keysborg,-who left the States in Col. Rus ell's company. He hadl a wife with him,1 nd contrived, at the extremity of their uterings, to send her to the California set. lements, when relieved by persons wvho vent out to aid them. This villain re naned behind to rob the dead and living. >f t heir pro perty. A family by the-~ name of Danner, of springfield, Ill., was robbed by him of bout'$4,000, which he eached alotig iih thter sprtihs, lle was suspected, threat ei d, and linally prepan;itions were mzadgt to ang him up, and then he disclosed the laces where the money was foiuid. To rdd to the enormnity oh his offetnces lie is aid to have boasted of havingi lived, fur a itne, upon thie deadi body of Mrs. Donner, ven whien ptrovisionsi were within, his each. Other enormities arc told of this levil incarnate, butlihe survived them all, ind was emnployedh in the army at the last ecoumns-. From the N. 0. Picayune,-11th inst. tRRIVAL OF Tl~s TlEllGRAPHI. The steamship Telegra ph arrived last vening from Vera Cruz, having touetied t the Brazos otn her voyage. We understand that she left Vera Cruz n the 4th inst, hut brings no news what ver. We received no .news or letters rm that' city. Wo are inderbted io the conimander of he Telegraph for a copy of the Metamno as Flag of the 4th inst. Qutite the inns: important article in the 'lag is the following : Advance upon Sac Lui.-From Major I triur,formierly quartermiaser at Geralvos, re learn that Geti. Wool has received or ers- to proceed with the advance of Gent. 1 'ayior's column, on the 20lthist., in the irecton of Enicarnacion, some tweiay I 'agues fronm Buena Vista, where he willi stablish a depot. into wvhieh. three month's aians will be thrown. The army will en advance upon San Luis and common- t ication be opened with Tlamnpico or Tus-. 'sit. Iromn whence supplies'will thereafter I a received, All the mules and other aeans of transportation have been ordere~di bove and activity prevails throughout the I thole department. '. The Flag give. sad' abiounts of out rag- j s operated in the vicinity of Matamoras, y Mexicans upon their owncountrymnen nd. countrywaomen. The same papier I etions that the resident Mexicans nearr aras, lately appltid to-Gen. Taylor 'toa roect thema from armed bands of theirs wn countryrnen, sent thlither 'for the- e:t- h ess purpose of ravaging the country anid estying the crops.- Pihe Flag thinksp tat aid should be furnished them. The Flarg as more ..umnra frenm Con. a Ocott's.army. but this time we are happy :olknow that they are all false, being. en tirely Mexican. We do not repeat them. Col..Dayenport inspected the Ohio reg iment on the 91st ult. The result was very creditable to the appearance.and dis eipline'of the troops. They generally en oy good health, there only being a few .ases.of diarrhea among them. From the N. O. Picayune. MEXICO. Committee Room of Sovereign. Constilu mt Mexican Congress.-Sir: The major ty ofihe Committee on Foreign Relations teems it not improper to present their report with the promptitude which the chamber has thought fit to allow, as well because the legal question involved ap pears to be perfectly clear, as because the tame subject has b'een the object of their meditations, and also of the debates of the notical representation. In the Judgment of, the c~mmittee our fundamental cede is perTectFy clear in this part of it. The I10th article of the consti tution places among the powers of the executive authority of the Union that of directing diplomatic negotiations and con eluding treaties of peace,friendship,alliance, truce, federation, armed neutrality, con merce, and every other kind whatsoever; but it says that to grant or to refuse the ratification of any one of these the appro bation of the Central Congress must first be obtained. The executive power is also exclusive, according to the 15th number of the same article, to receive' ministers and other agents of foreign powers. These articles prove in a manner incon trovertable,that. by our constitutional laws, as among osder civilized nations, the di rection of fo eign relations is entrusted exclusively to the executive; but without confering on it the power to conclude any ihing, without the consent of the legislative body.' The same federal constitution places among the powers of Congress. that of "approving treaties of peace, of alliance, of friendship, of federation, of armed neutral ity, and every other kind whatsoever which the president of the United [Mex ican] State may conclude with foreign powers." From all this we come to the conclusion that Congress does not possess the power to entertain, and cannot rightfully entertain the communication which the Government ofth'e United States has transmitted with a view to entering into negotiaions for peace, and offering to name a minister for this purpose. And if this opinion appeared to us sound according to the federal con stitution when promulgated as a provisional code, and eien since Congress has acquir ed an augmentation of powers granted to it by the. "Plan of the Citadel" and the "Convocatoria ;"-iow that the nation is defruitely cnstituted ; [or possesses a definile constitution-esto definitevamente constituida] now that one of the articles of the act of amendments declares express ly that "powers ofthe Union are all derived from the constitution and are limited to the simple exercise of the faculties expressly designated in it ;" now that all the public powers must be measured by it in the to:t rigorous manner, we' can find no possible objections to our opinion, for any other opinion whatever would involve a violationof tbe .pacto which wre have ,.o6erfhc e e n ottlm nI to. fact that instead of being a political theory, has been a sentiment of the purest. noblest patriotism in its origrin, which has itnterpos - ed so many ditficulties in order that upon a subject of so vast importance that course should be strictly followed which the com mands of the constitution so distinctly ma~rk out. Congress. as the faithful re presentative of t he wished of the people, who have been outraged liy the most un ust of all aggressions and are determined rit to consent that an ignominious trenty uhould secuire to our neighibors the posses ion oif territory usurped by ihemn, and with it the domittion of thisa coninuget erminacing at the same time our political existence in a manner which would tnot ven entitle us to the coimp1assion of other eoplec-[Congress] has uniformly opposed ~very' thing which should seem to open the vany for a peace. which would at this day >e every way igntomintious, and it ha~s ex ~rised the most jealous caire and precaiu ipn to prevent even the remotest dangeruof inch disaister. Thbe committee participate in these eelin:gs, ande would not observe that this ~onstitutional power confeirred nuon the xecutive cantnot be assailed by us, tnor lies it ailordl occasion for we'll fuetnded . larmn, nor ini finn is it possible that Con ress should itself discharge this deity. 1'he mianaigeent of diplomatic negotia ions demands such reserve, so- much dis :ussion, an activity so well tinted, a sys ema of designts so well proseu ted, that it vorubt he timptossitble to carry them otn wit h ~ertainty, ifiuir :nanaeent were en-. rusted to a ntume-rous body. The policy if all ntiotns-ennfirmts the truth. antd there a no tdoubit that Congress itself rettonneed he power of ntegotiationu when-in amnending ur original- consuitutioenal pact, it deter ninedi that there shoeuld ne no alteration in he provisionts we have cited, and left them o stand as they were. Ont the other harnd, in perfect ceonsisten :y with these provisions, the execeutive cant :onclude nothingt defietimely, it possesses tno tuthtiority to conesumatte any arraengemet hich shall be binintg upont the Republie; md Coingress very wvell knows that the :xecutive, even in the exclusive faculties, iner the representative systemu fintds tselfeonstraineed tgo persue such a coeurse is may be designatedl by the publicopiniou td the legishittive body. I-n the peosition ruly strong and- respectable whlich our onstittion gives to Ceongress, it possessesi bundant peaceful atnd legal resources, vithout exceeding its duties, to inisure the terests of the nation in wvhatever manner hey may be compromised, For thtese reasons, thereforre, the ma nrity of the committee cannot propose any' ther course than return to the government he despatchi; and if this report appears sub-i ribted by only tiwo members of the com nittee, it should be borne in mitnd that our ssociate St. Ceballos, who worthily pre-1 ides over the committee. but whlo from is wvell known illness is unable to co perate with us, hasanthovized us to ex-i ress his agreemetnt with us, atnd lie even fiered to subscribe thie report -which we I tould prepare expressive ojf oar viewsi which we conclude with the following proposition: With a copy of this report let the des patch be returned to the Government, be. cause in the present situation. of the afair, it comes within its cognizance,.iiith the restriction which are established by ihe fundamental code of the Republic. OTERO, . LAFftAGUA. Mexico, 12th July, 1847. The report being submitted to C'ongress underwent a discussion and the vote being taken upon it was approved the same day. Upon the motion of Senor Canas. it was ordered that report shoid be published as well as the vote upon it. We add the yeas and nays upon its adoption for the benefit of those familiar with Mexican pol iticians: Yeas.-Sres. Aguirre, Alvarez. Anay, Banda, Isariandaran, lerrief, Bringas, Buenrostro, (D. M.) Cana. Carrasquedo, Carbajal, Castro, Comi nfort. Echaiz, Echeverria, Espino, G'illindo, Garmenda. Gonzales Fueuaes, Gutierrez Cerrea, ler rera, (D. J.) Herrera Campos, Iturriflarria Jauregui, Juarez, Lacusa, Lariagua, La fragua, Lantiza, Munoz Campuzano, Navarrs, (D. Marinano) Nuiega, Ortiz, (D. G.) Oriz de Zarate, Otero, Parra, Parez. Rivera Lopez, Rosa, Solonia. fantie:, Suarzxorriarte, Talavera:4erre ros; Torres, Va,le. Vargas, Villada, Yanex, Zapata, (I). J ) Zapata (D. M.) y Zin cunguei-52. Nays-Sres.Alcade, Buenrostro, (D. A) Castilejo, Gamboa, Lazo, Midina Lechon, Morales, Moreno, Munoz, (l). Manuel) Navarro, (D. Joaquin) Ortega, Othoti, Paez, Parada, Ramirez, Espanfi, Rio, Romero, Sanchez 'Espinosa, Urquide, Zetina Abad, y Zubieta-22. From the N. 0. Picayune, Aug-. 13. LATER FROM VERA CRUZ AND TAMPICO. , The steamship New Orleans, Captain Auld, arrived yesterday afternoon, having sailed from Vera Cruz the evening of the 7th inst., and from Tampico the evening of the 10th. Capt. Auld reports the steam ship Mary Kingsland having left Tampico via the Brazos, for this port on the 6th inst. - The steamships G.alveston left Tampico 9th inst., from Vera Cruz. Dr. Hawkins, of Baltimore, died of yel low fever at Tampico on the 7th inst. The. New Orleans firings mails from Vera Cruz and Tainpico. We regret to learn that the Tami-ico mail was stolen at an early hour yesterday morning and rifled of a portion of its contents. Some of the letters were subsequently recovered,though the rogue supposed he had disposed of them by casting them into a water closet. Ia the mail was a letter addressed to W. Swift, Esqr., from the contents of which it would appear that three U. S. treasury notes, numbering 321.. 322 and 323,. for $500 each, have been al'sttracted. They were dated Oct 31, 1846. It is supposed that other valuable letters have been sto len. - Lieut. Waters, with a detachment of Capt. Besancon's company, returned home from a scout on the 6th inst. Aljnt 15 miles froni the city while ri lin: al o'gthe banks of the M frllin river, they were fired into by sonse Mexicans,. concealed in the hushes on the ooposite side of. tIle 'river, but,no hiarm xas'done The Sun -says tht 'onejoritie party, Mr .Wilkiisou, ,b ing in ad,/ance, enered a house wliiNFhia from all appiearanice been abandoned withi precipitation. antd fountd in it some papers, amotng which wast the following passr 2d Comnpany of the .East. Tfhe chiefef guerrillas will please let the bearer, Crespin Marin, pass untmolested. with tent mules, as he goes to Vera Cruz to get provisions for the guerrillas. God andl Liberiy! Ebe~ro, Atugust 5, 147. JUAN ABULRTO. To the Commandlers of guerrillas. A train loft the evening of~ the 6th inst. or the army above, uder the command r Col. Wilson, of the 12th infanitry. The train was escorted by -abottt 1000 men. 'The following' oliicers are enumerated by the Sun.as commanding them: Captins Clarke, Norris. Alvord, Hloke, Hortnsby anid WVinians, of the Infanery; anti Lients. kins, Doyle. Sears and Creanor, of the Artillery. Some of the accout-ts set dowtt this nttmher tof troops in this train at from 1500 i0o2000 ; tmur own correspondent says 1000. Verbql reports say that Col. Wilson was taken stiddetnly, ill atnd could tnt pro eed, and that the commtatnd devolved up 'Ji anothe:- oliicer, whose namne is not re -ollected. Our letters say niothing of this 'rThe Sun relates that on the 3d instant, a man named ThosClark, belonging to lie 1st infantry, a prisoner in the gualid house at the palace, t-ried to pass the sol ler then on guardl, and to accomplish his purpose5, seiz-id otie end of the boldier's musket atid made some efiorts to- take it ut of his hands. Tphe latter fired at Clark, Sball passing through his side andu com ng tint at his back. The ball afterwardls woundcd another man named George E anis, one oif the comnpatnyof m -unted men under Capt. lensancon, anid finally graz 3d the hip tof the sentry at the other end of he portillas, also belonging to the i st Ia ra-rry. TFhe nian e- of the man who fired is lames Robitison. Our correspondent write's that his cond'uct was fully justified. The wounded tmen were imtmediately ent to the hospital, anid it is said Clark nd E-vans are dlangerously woiunded-. Ott the 4th inst. t wo cuit throats-. by some opposed to be guerrillas, attacked a ser ;eant of the :4th I nfaintry, while on his way from thtecity tothe camp, at Vergara. 30th Mexicans wvere well armed, while he sergeant hatd only his sword. lHe used o good pur pose,driving oflf the Mexiecins, ut receivinig several alight wounds him elf. A detachment of the Georgia caval -y vas sent out undler Capt. Lovell, to en Jeavor to overhaul the two Mexicans;- but le pursuit wvas vain. A small lot of pack mules arrived at Vera Crnz otn the 6th inst., from the inte 'ior. Thle owners would not disclose how hey passed the guerrillas, but it is shrewd y suspocted that they raid foutr dollars a ead for leave to come itt. The,following ay one hund red antd fifty pack tmules ar 'ived from Cordova, laden with sugar atnd Wexican 'randy. No tdoubt is en ertained hat Jarauta or some of the gtuerrilla chiefs ive adopted the platn of graitinig perants nnrlr to raise the ii dlonnas na en. tertaincd that in thi ay wayisit ;ifd be carried on between' :V'a Cra i'!in le tnterior.,. Nothing later has been:rece've e arrival from the army of Puebl: rumors had .reached Vera Crzip o ing to be from Mexico. 'OnAfh'' to the effect that acommssioners - ally been appointel.' b SauraAA meet Mr. :Trist. ; Our corresg to Vera.Cruz, wtitted on th.h7iI atbk t.acheiimportance.to this rumgr. oi recur to it. On the 3d inst.: :amail arrived.ri era Cruz from Jalapa. The "Blet Noticias was received b it'as3J1 30th July. ,This is a litt:an'a bo ly iexican, published in Jalapa it we learn more particulars ofGet Pr' march through that town than'hidbto been received. The Bole tin -statesi the train which the General escortedi pass ed without halting, but he, with 30('' goons, entered the city and addresiie follow ing note to the corporatio'n give the Sun's translation) JALAvA. July 26, 1 To the Corporation of Jalapa A bra gade of the -American army, nowoneani ed near Jalapa, are in want of provio I therefore askithis corporaiion of flap furnish, at a reasonable price, all thisbr' gale is in need of. I will 5ake.ibes -. sary steps to protect those who..wil; nish those iprovisions. If. at 2 o'clock lii evening, precisely, the provisionsdenia ed are not forwarded, all the. mwbe'e the corporation will be sent to Peri~t prisoners. '. F. PIER t W. K. VAN BoNLtN, Brigade Q. The reply of the corporationis.,gi, o 'Spanish side of the Sun. The.;mee are very indignant at what theveopuite the harsh langu'age of the detferial . -. make no difficulty about the provisions; these could have been had atteasonable rates without any threat. heyk deplo e their unfortunate pdsition, bein delaew. less. This, they say. should have j tected them from insult. .Gen.Pe the first American officer, they say,; has thus 'had occasion to* find fault I them. 'The reply is pretiy "sharp" st n the General, but it is hardly wott6.lranu laptop~. We give'Trm the Sun of Anabua following summary of news maderfroh the Boletinr "., -.,p The same paper says that a Mejen ("traitor," it says,). was encountere a -' party of gierrillas. and being snepic l e was required to undergone an examtna htt having offered resistance; l, killed. Three large packages, conISIn A letters from the oflicers of the army, their friends in the United s,. w - found inhis Possession. The Boletin adds i Mn said.conres deuce it is statedt that great discrd e " beteveen the-voluntees and uairot e' American army, and. that. tl. _nay ties.to fight among themselves'.'." That -paper is delighted at this ' takes that opportunity to call the Amp - cans "-highway robbers," "Yankee.' It also says that it appears from intercepts letters, that, Gen..Pillow and other Aiuni . ican chiefs are of opinion that the attackr upon the capital willinot : be successful' that the: comutanding officers conrsider capital to be intvory strotlg ate oed, tene as :ch fortificati as us4 diielli t'f pecorreon i% h between Puehla andr Vera Cruz The lett'ers after having been 'read *e~' sent to the government a: Mexico. -'' Four American Jeserters arrved at Julapa,- on the 30th uit..' three of'Whod woie from Puebla and one fom d~en. Pierce's t'rain. Trhe B'oletin says-thati hose from Pdebfa report t hat the deeetton wvas very great from the ra'aid'ofe American army .and that seventy.4te deserters were advertised, in one':da~' Putebla. The one from den,' P' train, is said to i'eport that wagons. -fulle6 sick follow hit. We don't believedb word of this. The Boletin further .as that t ducements held out to A mericans to w are no't enough; that if the gover 6 would promise them meoney or rewards, Scot t's army would be 'dstroyq It counisels the Governor's of Siates' to takg measures to foment and encurg desertion. The same paper says assdssinatidus'r6 fregnenit in Jalapa, as well of Amaiet -o as MexiCans. A sm'all.garrason is ie~'uir there for this protectioni of the inhiabifst The Boletii of the 30th ult. saysi pa per' of the 27th was so far from gain ,, off'ence' to the Americans that itirwasbouigh by many officers and soldier. The BoP' tin expresses i'ts st'rprise 'that the Ameri cans had not rebuked its freedom'wb them, as Santa Anna would have d8i with the press of the capital. Another courier from Jalaps arnvi Vera Cruz on the 7th ins. adhy thir have received the Boletin of thE~ Tst~'~ 3d of August. The letters receiveisd this mail give no later news from'Menae or Puebla, but some fturther details. We antnounced, a weesk ago,:.thed dbat of a messenger from Ma.- Kendall, naim Francisco Espina. We now'leari oI surprise, that he nas5 not killed entrig~ when taken. lie was tried and eotideisti0 to be shot. The sentence'was ereent the mo-rning of the 3d August.' We hind in the Boletin little newsiwoerth copying, hut some long articl'es which '95 have not room for to-day, even if the worth translating. WVe turn to r. Mexican papers, in whic~h we pece a series of deemees from Santa Aatit: mnlgated through Gen Lombardlina 'T refer to the organization of troops, O loans, &c., and are noi generally it. - itig. A decree of the 12th July ofrde - strict compliance with a previbUikf directing Americans to leave th'e - -~ comnmands them to leave withinffor~ hours for San Juan del Rio, a 1p~ State of -Queretaro, forty-tre from Mexico. Those this' re the capital include notonyKg l"~~ birth, but naturalized c!iiens9 * ted States and all' who, under an have previously obtaitled'IeVe to m: They are commanded to" ctd li(e . selves to San Juan strictlitadist niot to move a aiep towards th~d~ia A stringent decree w~as'issu'& 13th of July, the preadmhfA oF$~ signs te "novementEof 3e