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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