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0' rom the Chronicle 4j Sentinel, 28th inst. -LATE AND ImPORTANT FROM IMEXICO. By this morning's mail we have receiv ed an extra from, the office of the Mobile Herald and Tribune, of the 25th instant, brought by express, containing the follow ing iueliigence ann-ouncing the closing of the negotiations and the resumption of tios -tilities, which we give for what it.is worth. -From the Herald J. Tribune 28th inst, The brig Osceola, Capt. Smith. arrived at Pensacola on the evening of the 21st inst., within- five days from Vera Cruz. We are indebted to a passenger from Pen sacola for a,.Vera Cruz " Sun of Ana huac" of the 16th, and also a letter from Pensacola. All the news they contain is published beloW. Verbally we are inform ed that thIere had also been a revolt at Puebla, and that Scott there and in the ci ty had lust at least two thousanl men. The following letter receivrd from our ctrrespondents is so interesting to the pub lie that we hasten to give it to our sub scribers. It contains all the news thai was received yesterday from Mexico. As we had already announced hostilities recommenced on the Sth in the evening, and Gen. Scott's troops on that very even ing had given a -braish to the best of the Mexican troops. This letter came by the tray of Orizaba and was sent there by our "wide awake" correspondent, through a private friend, who himself addressed us a few lines to tell us that an express had arrived at A t lixco on the way to Qjaca-that this express has been sent by ten. Leon of the Mexican army, who commanded the Mexican forces in the action' spoken of in -the .letter wIch follows PuEuLA, Sept. 11. My Dear Sun : I did out thnk that you ever arrived among us, but to my great astonishment I saw you iu the hanIs of our inutual friend V. * . I promised you before I left Vera Cruz, two months ago, that I would, from time ;o time if I was fortunate enough to get news, drop you a fetv words on a-sheet of bad paper, and the occasion has never of fered itself with more encouragement than at present, and I hope these few lines will be victoriously passed through the chapar ref, nusquitoes, Vc., and what is worse though not so bold) the guerilleros o f Cer ro Gordo, Puente Nacional, and all the Montes and hiding places of these despa -rate men. Letters arrivel here from Atlixco, eta -ting that an-express ha'l arived there on his way to Oajaco, sent by Gen. Leon, anad that the said express had brought letters from Mexico, dated the 9th inst. The letters states that the propositions made by Mr. Trist were rejected, or, at least, one portion of thein, and that hos tilities.had re-comnmenced on the 8th in the afterunoi, and that a battle had been fought on that evening by a few huttdred men of Scoit's army against four of the picked regiments of tbe Mexican army-(he 11th regiment of the line, the 3d and 4th regi mensofilight infntry..and one regiment of tye National Guards-all commandfed ly~Gen. Leon%-that the enemy's foices -had been badly used up, that their loss ex ceed tivo thousand five hundred. The letters say that Mr. Trist's proposi. tions were these: That the citizens of the United States would not have aty thing to claim from Mexico f,.r damages occasioned by the - war: That the Unaitetd States wvould have the privilege .of establishinag two factories itt upper Califormta for eight yeatrs;- and that the Mlexican9 governmettt could, after that * ~ time, if it clhuse, renew this article of thte treaty: This was not accepted. * -rhen Mr. Trist, unclothing himself of nli3 oflicial powers, remarked to the Mexi catn commissioners thatt he thought it would be mnucha better for Mexico to cede the whole of Upper California to the.Utni ted States, for which that government would certainaly pay fifteen or twentty rmillions of dollatrs This woul.l probaibly be agreed upon if th6 fullowuitng article had met with the as setnt of the Mexicans. That thte Texan bountdary line would run alotng fro-n the moth of the Rio Grantde, on thte left side, to the rig'ht side of the Ri-a Gifa. TIhae Mexicans wouhi not yield one inch of ground the othter sidle of the river Nueces. 7Mr. Trist thetn asked -45 days, as h said be was not antuorizedt to ;acept such a propotsition,. but the Mexicans replied they. woull give but five days and no On the fifth daty (the 7th) a letter wa written lby Saitt Anrta to Gent. Scott, aasinIlima of breaikintg the armtistice, * ~Gent Scott answered tmakitng simtilur charges. On a he 8th itt the afternoo, a hotly of ;a fe .v haundrod mtaen 'f Geo. Scott's we're setnt to attack Chuaptultepec, Th~ey enceountered a large force of the enetmy's best troops there, andI a terrible light ens'aed, in which the Mexicans got. as usual, a goodl thareshinag. Getn. LeoOL, who comtmandedl the Mcxi c,ns was woutndedi. and Gen. Balderas, of mhe Natin::al Gua~rds wias killed. The stmall numaber of the Americans. who, the Mexicatn letter says, (to use their * owvn exparessionr) 'have fought like devils,' -retired to Tacubaya, leaving five wagonts behitad them. Some ofthese had no wheets, * while others no horses. Thte los.s on the part of the Americans - is said to be very smirall cormparatively. A proclamaltion,~ (or m:mnifesto, as they call it.) was issued by Gen. H errern, Goy ernor of the city of Mexico, recommendling to the citizens5. men, women anti childretn. to COIIcit sttones antd carry them to the roofs of houses, and fromnthiere thtrow them at the Americants if they entered the city. rThe Son, of the 16th, says: T roops have been arriving in great numtters fromt the Brazos f'or the last fSve or six days,an we do not dotbt that within five or six days more, t hore will be from two or t hree thonusand tuea readty totmarcht into the :u tetto, *Cor-reupontdence of thet Herald and T'ribwne. PassAceL.s, Sepjt 22. fTe brig .)sceola, Capt. Stmith, airrived at thte Navy Yard heore lhst evening, after a passage of five and a half days fromn Vera Citz, and brings late and unfavora- It ble news from the army of Gen. Scott. a It seems that hostilities were renewed n on 'h 8th inst., Santa 'Anna dud Gen. n Schit mutually charging each other with e a violation of the armistice, and by the c last accounts our troops had possession d of two streets, aid had driven the principal a part of the Me-xican fotce in or towards a the Plaza. Our troops had suffe'red greatly' c frot the fire of the enemy placed in win- I dows and on the roofs of the houses, and Gen. Worth was badly but not mortally 5 wounded. Our loss since leaving Puebla, was fiiree thousand men. Mr. rrist's proposition i for a cession of California, for a considera- E tion of twenty millions, had been agreed to by the Mexican commissioners-but another proposition fixing the Rio Grande as the boundnry -on this side was prernpo- f rily refused. Paredes was said to be on r the road heiween Vera Cruz and Mexico, E withea large force of guerillas. r These accounts are derived frotn the -t Sttn of Anahuac of the ldth iust., and t brought by the Ocoola, and verbal corn munications fron Mr. Dimond to the cap tain at the moment of leaving. I have no doubt they may be replied upon essentially. This news reached Vera Cruz by the Ora- | zaba route. . I am. very respectfully, your obedient servant. D. Prom the N. 0 Delta, 22d inst. PAILEDES AND SANTA ANNA. We learn that one of the Mexican piiso ners now in our city received, via Tampico by the last arrival, a letter from a friend in the city of Mexico, dated on the afternoon of the 2Sib, in which it is stated that Gen. Paredes had entered the city of Mexico with-a large force, and arrested Santa Anna and imttprisotned Irim in the castel San Jago. \Ve give the report for what it is worth, neither denyitig nor endorsing its truth. It is by no meanus improbaole.as Paredes at the last accounts was at the lown of Toluca, near the capital, ready to tle advantage of any ntisstep of his old enemy, or any confusion in the capital, to regain his former position and influence in Mexico. The temper of the mob is ad mirahly suited to such a movement. At our last accounts they were much increased against the Americans and San ta Anna. and were ripe for a revolutionary j deitionstration. Paredes is just the man to r snatch the golden opportunity and profit c by it. He would no dout rally all par ties around him, and arouse a warmth of zeal and enthusiasm whichit iis vain for f Sanita Anna to entdeavor to excite. He is a tnat of gallant, dashing and comman- r ding address. and will no doubt attract the general confideuce of the muhitude. He r comes, too, under circotmetances which de- 1 monstrate his sincerity and 'patriotisn. i At the darkest hour of his courtly histo- C ry. when her powerful etemy has grasped d her body in his mighty talons, and is pres- t .ing then ho-ne to her very heart-when foreign armies enviuon her States, and fo- t reigt fleets blockade all Mr ports-thtenit 1 i, the gallant' Caballero de Guadalajara e leaves the country circles of Paris and Madrid, and forgetting the recent ingrata tude and Iarshiness -of -his -coutrymeu, . rushe i TTi erfiTtt 1 Hour a m vervimy f atd peril. There is certaitly in this some I of that spirit, for examples of which we are not wont to look to the Mexicans. May , not this spirit prove coutagious, and infuse a little more vigor atnd firmness ito the i, Mexican reststantce to our armas. ti It is very certain that if the movement a referred to by us has tnot been tmade, that e Paredies will not delay itn raising htis redtl hamner, amd rallying an .nsurrecttonary s force arotund tt. If hte does so, we considler u the-.sarious tditliulties of this wvar, comn- i, mtteices thent. If. we were to succeed in h mnaking peace with Santta Atnna, l'aredes c woul itmmediately overthrowv that chief- g ait, and organize a party which wvould c war against us as long as a singl Aittericatn j eitizen coutld hte found uwest offthe Sabine o It would be the " war ol Texus," as a mhis war was styled at its comnmettcement. tI hlow long it wvould last,-atnd how touch t antoance,loss atnd injury such a prolonged and indecisive botrder war would produce i, o tur country, mnay be0 imnigined by those a whlo are ttmiliar with the :.bstnacy of tbe It Mexicans and the pacific character of our si policy and institutions. s *Wo see hut one mode of avoiding these serious evils and endintg this war. Itis by p ecupying thte country, and orgatuizing a y ~overnment, which, from its central posi- a in and tor ot her great advantages, catn re- h luce the Mexicatns to one or thte other of ti ttese alternatives-a satisfactory and cotn- c :lIsive peace, or the continuetd occupation o, and possession of the country. tI -r4 LATE AND IMPORTANT INTEL- 4 LIGE&NCE. From tha N. Orleans Picayune. 26th Sept. g The steamtshtip Jarmes L. Day, Captain D'Grady, arrived yesterday from Vera Cruz, wvhicht placee she left on thte eventng f the 21st inst. bringing itnelligence oftthe ;reatest importance. immediately on the eeipt of our papers and dispatehres we -tI ssued an extra containing the news--brief t htt stuficient to saisfy public curiosity, e itd( allay the anxiety for the fate of the army, caused by the length of time which ad transpiredl without news, atnd the pro.n proabilty that hostihtties bad beetn- re- tt sa med. - As -ve anticipated, in otrr paper of 'yes' e terday, the negeociatiotns resulted en not- i ing. The last letter fromt Mr. Kendall, is ated t he 5th inst., and our file of the Dta-. io del Gobierna' does not come downt latera han the 5th, btut the Arco Iris of Veraa Cruz htas a letter from the city of Mexico , ated the 10th inist., together- with extracts rom- the Diatrio del Gobierno and the " Boletin of Atlixco, to the 12th, which, to ;eter with the letter wve publish. The m anner in which t he artmistice was termnitt tedl will be learn' d from the extracts we cpy. A pesusal of Mr. Kettdall's letter ' htwever, will a: once show that a feeling I f hostility was growing with the people ofd he captitatl as early even ns thte 30th of t last tmonth. arid the Congress of the Stateit f Mexico in session aC Toinena had tde laret1 against peatce. Nonvi:hstandling epeatedl belig.rentt detrmnstrattionts hy the nmy, and a positive v:,,latiott of the ar- ai nistice in our wagons not beitng p)ermlitted el b the tmob to ettter the city for provisions, in egotiations were still penoding to- ae late a s~ d... as the 6th The Arco Iris received at itters from Mexico under dat h ating that on the 7th the iissioners declared that th* 61" 110 iade by Mr. Trist -were irid -in ansequence of which Gen Sa nRa invoked a council or generali eci ed that notice should he give edi tely to Gen. Scoti that the ar was n at end, and appointed b h re smmencement or hostilitie leadqtariers Army of the-U Sept. 6 -, o is Exeelenci the Presilebit Gen eral-in Chief of ine Repbt The 7th and 12 h articles rns lc or nilitary convern:ior. whi lihe onor of -ratifying and excha g with our Excellency on the 24ih ul 'palae iat the army under my corn n'd shall ave the privilege of obtawitn aupplies rom the city of Mexico. 'l aware speaied violations of theie a s soon fler the armistice was signed, il have ow good reasons for believin' twithin he last twenty-foir hours, ir before, lie 3d article of the same con too was Iso violaiPd by iae same parti "These irect breaches of good. faith ,to this rmy a full right to commence' ostilities gainst Mexico with giving a notice. fowever, I will give the necesry time or an explanation sati-sfaction, qrrepar tion. If thebe are not give ereby rmally notify you that if I doro receive he most comp"plete salisfacvion $ill these oints before [2 o'clock iomor I shall onisider the armistice as termifiated from har har. I have the h'nor to be yourc lency s hedienat servant. V1tINELU KCott. To this Santa Anna made ih, iflowing ebly: - 'dquarters Army of Mexican Rktiblic, M Exico, Sept -.1847 Pu His Excellency Gen.. WiDW Scoft onnander-in- Chief of the At of the Jnited States: Sir:-By the note of your cellency nder ibis date, I *arn with iie. that O consider that the civil ah 'niilarv uthorities ofMexico have violaiiteritles, 12. and 3:Pf the armisti'e 'ihicF I con luded with your Excellency 6e 2lth lay of last month. The civil and imiltarv authorirl isfiex e have not obstrucied the paq sage or rovisions for the American ajy ; and 7 at times their transmis-sion'has been Ftarded. it has been owing to hnipru ence of the American age ts. who, rithout having a previous undlatnding rith the proper authorities. galbc casion )r popular outbreak, which it has0bst the lexican Government much fble to spress.-Lasi night and the ngift before ie escoris for the provisioniitin .were -ady to start. and were onul Itoined ecause Mr. IlIargous. the age frkdesired The orders given to suspen .uter nurse between the two armes tower ad ressed to private individuals. afii4or to 'e agents of the army of the F and ?ere intended purposely tov ei tehe ansmission of provisions Ato rmy. nd to coinfine the intercourse to ee xclusively. in return for -thc duct our Excellency has prevented ners r mangers of the graiti in the icinity idit cb Noe g our to itie goo ait a your ce ee ad pledzed me. It is false that any new work ir ortica on has been undertaken, becittie onie or vo repairs have only served to blace hemili I the same condit ion they were on the av the armnistice was entered inio, accident r'the contvehlence of the moment having ased the destruction of thte'then exiq ng works. You han batd early notice oif te establishment of the battery coveceu ithi the ad *alls ofthe house of Garcy. thiis city, and did not -remonstrate. ecause the peace of two great Rlepubllics 'ald not be made to depen upon. things rave in themnselveq, but of, little value amparedl to the result in which all the iends of humranity and ohf the prasperity f the American continent takes:so great n interest. [Th'ere is some obscurity io tis sentence, wvhich, is probable, isowving > t y pogra ph ical e rrors.-Ediors Pic.' It is no-t without great grief aid eveni idignation that Ihave teceived commauni itions for the clities andl villages occupied y the army of your Excellency, in rela an to the violation of the temples con cerated tn the worship of God :to the under of the sacred vases, and to thme rofa nation oft he images venerated by the rexicain people. Profoundiy have I been Tected by the complaints of fathers anid isbands, of the violence offered to meir daughters and wives; and those same ties and villaigep have been sacked not >ly in violation of the armislice, but oaf me. sacred pri'neiples proclaimed? atnd spcted by civilized notions. I have served silence to the present moment, order norto obstruret the progress of ne >tiations which held out the hope of rminating a scandalous war, nrid one hinch your Excellency has characterized Sjustly as unnattira-l. 1But [ shall desist offering apologies lie muse I cannot be blind to the truth that e cause of the threats of' renewing hos lities, contained in the note of your Ex mllency, is that [ have not been willing to gtr a troaty whtich would lessen conside rbly the territory of the Replaaic, anid ti only the territory of the ,*Iepublic, hut e dignity and integrity which all nations tfend to the last extremity.' And if these mnaiderations hate not the- same wveight the mind of your Excellenicy, the res rnmibility before tbe world, who cert easily stinguish otr wvhoe-side is moderation 3d justice, will fall upon you. I flatter myself that your Excellor.cy Isconvinced, on calm reetion, of the eight of my reasons, But~if by misfor ine, y'ou rshould seek only a pretext to Iprive the flrst city of the.Amnerican con ment of an opportunity to free the anarm I popiuiation of the horrorstof war, there ill be left-me ntoother means of salvation, it an repel force by I'oree." With the ~cision and e'nergy wielrty high obli itinons impose up-on nme. f have the mo tei, be, yourr Exceteney's humble rvaint. -AnTosto Loritd DE SANT'A ANNA. Orr the 7th. Gen. Herrer~a, ascomarrand it at the- cityo iel xeie' addressed the ergy, exhiorting thsemloexeri aft .their luence to-incite the paojile to arm therm Ives and prepare to resist the Ameicatr Fbilbwiag up events-as closely as 'he somehat disconnected accounts will per mit-in order in which they ncurred, we find that on the Sth. Gen. Scott attacked the Mill del Roy. or King's Mill, in the im mediate vicinity of Chapulepee, and ac cording to the Diarina del Gobierno and the Boletin, published at Ailixro. or arny was repulled after a severe conflict. in which we lost about 400 in killed and rrom 600 to 700 in wounded. and fell hack upon rTacubaya. We give beliw a trunslatior ofthe Boletia's description of the engage ment; promising, that the reader will bear in mind it is Mexican and is, in all probability, a great exageration, if not an entire misrepresentation. It is from an extra of the Boletin, issued on the 9th inst. " At half past five this niorn'wg (the 8thI the fire commenced on the two flanks' o1 Chapultepec. The left was resting on the mill of El Rey, close too the forest of Cha pultepec. This point was commanded by Gen. Leon. and under his orders were the batlion if .lina, whose colonel was the pairilitic and valiant Bilierns, and the Iattlionts Union and La Pittri., or Oaxa cal in one ol which was included the com panies of Puebli, also a body fro-' Quer etaro and soime others-all composing the National Gtard. Tie. right flank restet on thqhouse of Mata, at the distance of qiarter of a learge from Chapultep-c, ant occupied by 1500 of the regular urmy commanded by Gen Perez. The enen' in two columns, with his usual daring. at tacked these points-first with artillery, a a quarter to 6 with a rapid fire of tuske try. Gen. Perez sustained the fire ver well for about half an hour, when, fo causes at present unknown, he retired witi his forces. abthougi he had'tnot lost te: ien. The retreat must h ive been Iaina for lexico, if lotrtunately. Gen. Leon an his briade had not shown prodigies of va lor. Tvice he repulsed the column tha atiacked him, and in the seco' d lie sallie< from his position to recover the artilltri Gen. Perez had lost ; but then ie receive< a, -mortal wound, and in a few moment afterwapds the valiant Balderas was al so wounded and died on the field. Thi enemy with additional forces again-charg ed ;and took possession of the mill. T'wici he was dislodged, but on his retaking i the third time it was fuund impussible t bring our troops to the charge. "In spite or ,itese two advantrages whici they had gained in their endeavors to at tack Chapultepec, they could not ellect ; farther advance, which may be owing i their being intimidated by the resistanci of our forces andi the considerable loss the' had suffered. The result was, that ati o'clock in the morning the fire of snal arms had already ceaseid. and they wer seen employed in collecting their kille< and wuntded. At Ii o'clock the enem had commenced a retrograde movement anti by 2 in the afternoon he withdrew al his farces to Tacuhnya. abandining iti two points he had occupied aid bluwit; up the house of Mata, although some sal it was set on fire by a bomb fired fron Chapulepec. It' is nelieved that Gens Twig, anti Pierce directed the attack. am that they put in moti-n about 8000 ien it is certain tlhat the fire was mire inten% ond brisk than at Churubusco. It is im 3~~ii~ii?i~t~ce~ratttoto s ooit4=bsjA'.i Oursdoesoutamounrr-zuuiilieu aunt 250 wounded. There are a few missin -nently all not killed or wounded retirim to Chapultepec. The eneiy, according ti) the cotnfession of an I rishman~n whoii camti over to us itn the eventintg, c-trried otil 40t dead and 600 iir'70J0 wounded, Wejave to lament the loss of Getneral Leiti; sioce dead; that of Col. Baldecras, of the val iantt Cols. iluerta andi Galeti. atnd of the determinted Capt. Mlateos, of Puebla, wh, conducel htimtself like a hero, tellinig hi: soldiers, onf the pint of death. t hamt they must never forget they were Puebbitnos andl to fight valiantly to the death. We will ake care that he shall be butied in tt' Patnthteotn, end that his utnfortutnato widon sall receive a petnsioni. "If the cavalry htad taken the positiot assignedi to them at 4 o'clock in the morn ig, by Gen . Stanta An na, anid if above alI they had mades thme charge which was or tIered at the~ mitmtent that the enemny at tacke-l the mill of El Rey, instead of fly iig precipitately, the act tn wotuld have terminated early and the triumph would hve beeni comnplete. Blut they did nto take the pmtsitiion to which they were or'der ed, much less tmake the charge as coin mandedl, Gen. Alvarez heinig obliged te state ollicially or' ihrough his adijutant that he did not tmake the charge, becauise his subonrdiate oilicers refuised ott account o1 te grounid being tot tuneven andI broker hr cavalry, as if it were tnt the same for the cavalry of the entemry. -1i is believed that the enemy will .re new the attack to-mnorrow by some other route-either by that of La Piedled, or by that of San Antonio. May God proteec ~ur caur-e on this occaeioni.. "One of ite entemty's guerrillas, whor eame witli Scott, was tirade a prisotner and shot on the spilt." {(From thle Dhirio del Gobierno.) - A4t half toast 4 o'cl)ck this mtornting the Americans atnac ked the p~rtili n of h mill of Elray, cloise t' , te fortress of Chap. utepec. hlis'niu iterous and brnve col. umnswere however reputlsedl 3- times by our valient soldiers, who this day gave bril ant proofs of threir patriotism atd bravery. More than a thotusatid of the enemy re inained on the field of buattle. arid our side the loss has been less than one half that number, having to lamnt the death of the gallant Col, Don Lucas Balderos, Gen. .)ot Atoitn de Leon being -woundedt to geher with several other distinguished chief and officers. The "traitor," Santa Anina. commanded inersotn the column, which forced the Americants to retreat, taking with them, wit hout doub t, the contiviction t hat it is etly thtrotugh rivers o.f bloodi thma ihey can penetrate the city of Me xico~and that at all events they will ther'e fitmi their sepulchre. W.Y' tratnslate the sith'oined let ter' frotn Jalapa to the Arch9 Iris, withourt vonchiing for its correritness. "Wheni Geti. Perez abandoned the mill dl Rey a bombh discharged fronm Chapul zepel fell amnonug the ammtunitiorn wagoin of the enemy in the yard of the mill. cnusing four of them to explode, by which 300 Americanis are saidl ho have beer blown up, (valaronm.) including General nor... ..., .~.c..d:n. to ,the accont, h',d not beei seen or heard of the hexi day at t Tacubave." The next accounts we have from the I capital, came in a letter to the -Arco Iris, i dated the 10th inst. We subjoin a trans i lation of it : MtExico, Sept. 10. Aly Esteem-ed Frined.-The whole day I has beet passved without an attack. At 2 in the afternoon an alarm was created by the alpe.irance of two columns and two 4 guerilla parties. which were seen on the i causeway of Piedad. A few shots were i exchai'ed and the enemy withdrew. Ac- i cording to all appearances we shall be I attacked to morrow at three points, as the enemy, diuRii;.the night, has been recon. noitering the co-untry by means of camp. lanterns (faool de campana.) The Gov ernrnent has taken $300,000 which were being sent by a commercial house to the camp of the enemy. Gen. Smith has expired, and by the enclosed slip you will see that the Anieri cals muilated anti cruelly assassinated the L unfottunate Irish who were en e battle of Churubusco. September 1.-It is 7 o'clock, in the morning and thus far nothing ne- has tranlspirred. I In addition, we find the subjoined ex. tract from the Boleiin de Atlisco, contain I ing intelligence fror the capital under date of the 11th and 12th inst., which give a continued narrative of the operations of the two armies: MExico, Sept. 12. This brings us to the leth, but at what ioir of the day the letter was eloised we are not informed. Of the eventful denoue ment we have only a hrief account, but sufficient to assare us that our arms have I achieved a brilliant triumph and that our army is ''revelling at the halls of the Mon. lezimins." The pnly reliable account we have of the last struggle hefore the capital is in a letter addressed to Mr. Dimond, our Collector at Vera Cruz, frov* Orizaba, I which will he found below. Onrcorrespon. s dent at Vera Cruz vouches for its accuracy and we have reason to believe it is from the same sottrce as was the letter giving the first and a correct account of the battles of Contreras and Churuhusco. OHIZADA, Se pt. 19. - Dear Sir-I have the honor to inform fou that ant express arrived here this even ing from Mexico, which brings the intelli gence that Gen, Scott was in the city of Mlexico; that on the 13th the American troops took Chapultepec and the citadel, and went into ihe city that night. Gen. Bravo was killed, and Gen. Santa Anna was wounded in the arm and retired with I the ramtminder of his troops, which had suffered mtch, to Guadalupe, I Your friend, &c., To F. M. DirIoND. Esq. Collector, Vera Cruz. I I A letter from a credible source confirms all that is saiid in the above, and that wnly disagrees with it in stating that the city was carried 'Jy assault on the 3ilt the heights anti works of Chapultepec were carridd; that 6 i 14th antd 15tt Iwas hombh armny ente lie balanoc to As we have lin-to e'' .. e ireports tnxcepti t olG ndiTfrirttertw Dimond. - As to our loss befdire the arfiy. entered the city, we lthe nothing authepti..g fear this newYictory has not'e6egchev Iwithuitt great lots' of life. The; 3iexte n atcctuntts show thtat active htostiitie~s'comt tmettced ont thte 8th, antd were contitnued with mor'e or less activity until our army tok paessessionl of the city. A paussenger by ithe James E1. Day ittlormns us that it was reportedl amiong the Mexicaits at Velai Crna thtat we lost 1700 men in killed aitd wouttded, but lie could trace it to na au thtentic source. Antther passenger estiI miates Getn. Scott's toss at fro.m one-fourth tel one third of his armny,itn killed anidI wountded, hut upon what data he bases this opitnion we cannot learti, anti arei inclined to think it is purely conjec tore. . . We come now to what our readetrs have looked for with great anxiety-the basis I upont whicht Mr. T'rist andi the .\lexicants I proposedI to niegulciat~e. It will be seet i that from thte commentcetmentt ther, was I neo real itntiin ont the part of the Mexi cans to conscltrde a peace. lIn fact is not1 sa'yintg 0( tooamcht te assert that thteir pro i positions were farcical in the ext remne. and origintatedl in frauel attd exceptiont, thte otly m totive which evidlenity actuated them beitig a desire telobtain tiume to strentgtheu themselves for a rene wed cojnfict. A SOLDIER'S LETTKR. The follotwittg letter from General Pieree isotne of the most interesting that we have yet seen fron the army ini Mexico. inas mach as it gives inore ofE individual expe rince-etnables the reader tn fta his eye upon1 a single figure emid1 thic strnggling tmass, amid so obtain at clearer idea of what at hattle is. The letter was ntot itttettded for pmhfieautiott, as- will he readeily perceivedI but it fell somecwhat initi the htands of our friend of the Bioston Post, and he, very prperly, ais wve thintk, has tmadte it public:i Hleadqttarters 1st Brig. 3.1 Div. 1'. 5. A. M Exsoque, Mexico, Aug. 27. Sitce I leftVera Cruz to this hour 1 1 have had no m~eansof commnunicating wvith the States. Although but a few months in the service, I knoro what are fatigue, I anxiety atnd exposure. Cotttrary to my '4 exectationts, and contrary4 to my orders from the deparimetnt at W~ashtington- I was cornpelled, for the want of the reqpzimite . provisioins for transportation. to remain I for more thatn three weekst at V. Crus, andtI for more thait four itt Terra Caliceite, (the< vomito regiou,) as it it called. I left the dreadedet city on the 10th of July with 25t0 min of all artms, and a train of wagons, wich, when closed,' ex~teded- more thanit two miles. . I On the 6th of Aniguut I reached Puebla. without the hoss of a single waneln, withI my coimand in: f,-ne condiition. My commanid 1 was atttac~k-ed six, times on the marcht, but I te enetmy's- force in each instanc'e was I easily dispersed, with triflisg loss tin oure sie. T1hte. National Bridge affordled the enemy great natural advatages, to which they had'~ added breastworks on a high bluf which commanded thte bridge perfect ly; across the main bridge they had also I throwni a barricade. U soont discovered that there was nn- way in which his pnsi-.i ion.could be tu rnd,, anainal ma r ras ineffictive from the most conimndlj moint where it-could- be placed.' T nined, of course, to cross under the pjuti; It( fire of the eneny's escopetes,'. AT$'r rler to advance was admirabli execuiece ' the ndient Lient. Cohm 86eBoj altalion rushel forward woh a sh.ut, the neimy poured-down a heavy fire, by i everal of my men wereseverely woun J- a wolonel's Bonham's horse was shot ucar4 ne. ard a ball pa.sed through therin -,Or ny hat in very. disagreeable prozimiqy t ny race. Our men leaped the hariica illowed by Capt. Duperu's compatyd. avalry, and in less than ten min9es t memy were in flight in every dtreeani,,. tnd the American flag waved. upon I iigh bluff which they had occupied. The Mexican force, as they said s iari, consisted or 500 men. Had the 1issessed courage and skill in the' useo irms, our .loss must have been yerygeae 'owcan hardly conceive the strengt of. he natural defences of the road .over Nhich we passed. Rumors.came t, ''' ilmost every night that we would I .. acked by large forces the next day, i :hey made nowhere any thing like i b and stern resistance. The oTiTia r a )f the great battle of Mexico will probu each you as soon as this letter, and Ihal2 herefore not attempt to give the. rtnu lotails. It Was fierce and bloody 'bon ty ihing that has occurred in thisiwar 'he baile differed in many respects friir :hat of \Buena Vista. There Generart raylor reeived the enemy in -a i posiion sel eted by himself. Our frce m the 20tl, consisted of less'that Un hOnsand men;\the Mexican force wiiM supporiing distahc~e and engaged und'ob6tP idly exceeded thirty thousand. We? Et tacked him in a posi' t upon groupc 1 is own selection, admir bly forrifil. Yoi will distinguish, so far as nulniiq iscdita"r' :erned. betwee. the battle of the q..ng nd that of the afternoon, althoughep i )f in official reports as one engagement, under the designation of "the battle b Mexic-." We took, during ti aa hirty-five pieces of artillery-an imme e inantity of ammunition-eight bheog mles anul horses. and-more th o thousand prisoners-among them-e p.nerals and any number of coldnl The Mexican loss in killed adw6" mist have been immnense tOir -t buried 500 Mexicans-uidon the -fiel battle cornenced in the morning afQ treras, and the loss in the afternoozr was much greater. Our loss ha. beenhiavv. With this small army we could not afford to'purchase many victories at-sach a price, ne nIf'he regiments of tsy brigade (,th 13th) lost in killed and w'dunded onethird of its entire force. In killed and wounded we number not less than 1000, and'amoo hem I lament to say an unusual pr tion of valuaible offices. -The NevE land regiment suffered severely, and be haved throughout in the diost gallanin a.-. nei. My horse, at full tpted'on hn1 eveding of the 19'th. When d brigade ihrough a )erfett dhower ofround t shot arid shells, fell uhder me uponaleM4g uf rdeki, by which- I-Sustained a -sever., njury by the shock and briisesbufasp :ially by a seedrersprAt 4inmyA a hich came under-lunt '.* , ,e 'i.us itnfuty. tidt soon -ekorsiid)ce 0". 'aint, wihen-Dr.- R'c'hie,-surgo Ae 12th. (a porliiidal~ry hommiand,)w a was followidig the advanciog coluntns :losely, administeryl to mse as sell,&h -nld uder the cirenrustances, Ia afes nomuents I was able. to walk witi ii~l y, and pressed rorwardl to Capt. Mei lr's battry, were I found the knrseof snr gallsat Lieut. Johnson, who haddo~sr eceived a ut-oral wdund, of which 1edie& hat evening. I was permitted. to~ take 'ii (my owvn having been totally dia. ted,) was helpedl Into the siscdle,::apfj 'ontinued in it untill .11 o'clock that night. It iads exceedingly dark, the rain poores n torrenats, and seperated from my ser, !antd and baegae, I was without .teet dr overing; anid to this, and during the' afis lron1 of the 19th we had gained no advan ages over- the enetmy, who rematoed rn y erntrenched with 7000 men -oppbtsed 4t ibout 4000 on our side, without the podi~ ility of brincing our artilery to Neara4 rou will'really conceive that'our s1htraflt - as not the mos agreeable. .T he 1-anoag ng of the 20th was, honseter,:as .briljagt is the night of the 19th was dark and loorty. Soon after dnylight the ene vorks were carried with the bayofii~teiaId if the'ir 7000 men, regular troops,, undci. stmnnd of Valencia, probably4000ieans! ot hefoundl to-day, As we passed'ilkeiS eld as pursuit of the fugitis es, the a hSke vas awsful, the road and adjacent fields: Svery wrhere stre ws ad mangled biodies of. tbea lead and d.yiug. We contitwed the pursnir; intll I o'clo',k. whetsnor front cafine',a? ith the enemj's strong wvorks ar Ch-rnd :tiro and San Antonio, where -the pret :onflict of the aftemasoon cotnmenced. At San Angel, the dispositions' ila'ki een mate to at tack in rees~i0: - orks on the Sa-n Atugussine "rdaUi.f si cott ordIered me to: march- try 1ili~'do n) cojpcert with that of the innepid hields, acros-s uhe ppen country betweens Bant a Cuatarisa nid the abovenanledioadV nt order to cut off the enemy's' r'et~eat. He gainted the position soughtr,<~pnd Ithough the enemy's line was perfecily 'imed,. ansd eistendled. as far as titefeye onrid reach in either direction~s theygere itacked. vigorously and'succesfudly..,M~ ivinag at a ditch which it was t-posasjl mr my hoi-se to leap, [ dismounted a:ap urried forwar without thikig~or y njury, at the head of myheg'efirI r 300 yards, when turoing suddet~lf itpo'n ny ktnee, the cartilage of which haien erinuly injured. I- fainted- andl-fell'rpon he hanki in the direct range andvmithfin erfect renuch of the enemy's fire; .T. al~ escaped seems to me now prouptn i~al. 1he rout and overthrow. toths whle. dexican force sootn become comp~~~at ve could easily have taken .tha~~,,i. sen. Scott wvas met with- a proposlsott u an armustice, (after demsamnghen urrentdr of the ei'y.) with a'vtefito pa - legoiations for peace. - In msy judgment thitirmtmall ol bori in confidlence, s'-huenaneiy an8 ~islyi esrainetd. Major Gen. Quitmant e~j vrsifer F. Smith' and msyself~riup sointed' commissioners to meet hN ez can cotmmissioners- to settle thfefi'*ms