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- A .- leRK lutive. pp ion oV erl d ien il our armyI a day or ado rapie v -asa.glorlobsas that wet ealready!hd the pleasing~ task fohraniolingd;in refer Jence to itsilds ide the ba ttle field. I F an theNO .Co '01i u an( yor 3ttill gene from the e of ar. RNIUALOF THE ALBAMA.d Report of Santa Anna'sadvace ot-$ dicted, Returnof General Taplor-tobard . Victoria. Junctwon of forces 'under Gen erals :Wor and Wool, c.- -. Bethen arrival hero yesterday of the U. S. 'ransport Steamer Alabama, Ca pin Windle, hicht left Brazos on the 3d inst., we have received intelligence fam the several divisions of tife imy up to a late date, It appears that the reports which ha been in circulation regarding tLha4OVance of Santa Anna'on Salti have:besi ch. tirely.premature,. anid the statiment that was published of his beIng, at the-date of, our last advices from that place, within three days' march ofit, is entirely wilthout foundation. There 'was, however, some cause for the rumor, of which the following are the particulars: Gen. Worth on the 16th ultimo rece@IV ed information from two scouts thai-the Mexican General-in-chief had left San Luis do Potosi, at the head of a body of 15,000 cavalry, with the intention to fall on the'American division at Sultillo, which he imagined he could easily crush. After this, he proposed attacking General Wool, and if similar success attended him, to re. pair to Monterey and capture or destroy .the magazines and public stores which lay there. Gen. Worth, without attaching more importance to the report than it seemed to merit, forthwith dispatched ex pressesto Generals Taylor, Wool and But ler, acquainting them with what he had heard,.leaving it to them to act in the pre mises. The expres overtook General Taylor a short distance from Monterey on the route to Victoria. He immediate ly returned to his old encamping ground near Monterey, with the whole of his di vision, and then waited further advices. After remaining three days, during which lie received information of the im probability of the report of Santa Anna's advance on Saltillo, he again took up the line of march, and proceeded onward to Victoria. Meanwhile, General Wool, who had been informed of the rumor current at Saltillo, called in all his detached com mands, and at the head of his division, 3000 strong, quitted Parras on the 18th ultimo, and by arrangements, previously made, was to enter Saltillo on the 23d at farthest, pushing for ward with all practicable speed. General Butler had previously reached Saltillo from Monterey. During this time the intelligence of the reported advance of Santa Anna had reached other more dis tant points of the line of occupation; and troops. already under ordcrs' to march to ward Monterey, hastened their progress on wa rd. It appears that Generals Taylor and Worth, on mature reflection, readily dis covered the improbability oif the report of Santa Anna's advance on, and near proxi mity to Saltillo, fromg the following facts: 1st. T[he distance betwveen San Luis de Poetosi andi Saltillo was too great to adimit * of the possibility of the march of so large a body as 15000 men, without timely no . tice being affordedl to the American Gene ral to prepare for his reception. 2dlyv. Theli ground betwteen the twvo cities is ex tremely bare of verdure, or othier means of sustenance for man andI beast-90 miles of wyhich, as is well knowna, being an arid de sert, divest of fountain, running stream, or any other source of water, besides afford ing not the least chance of getting food or fodder, being almost uninhabited, through, out its extent. The report of the Moxicaun scouts, however, is said to have been enr rolborated, by information received at Susl till, in a letter from an English merchant at San Luis d~e Potosi, wvho stated that Santa Anna had positively left that city, at the head of a numerous body of cavalry. Even nowv, in those parts of Mexico, occui pied by our troops, it is admitted that San ta Anna is ouit with a considerable mounted force, but wvithi objects far dlifferent from those attributed to him, by the scout.-It wvas stantted in the letter above alluded to, that the Mexicans' intentions wvere to hiur ry forward, andt occupy the only practica ble pass in the mountains, lying between the divisions of Generals Worth and Wool, tus intercepting their communications. A fter realizing his anticipated success against .them, by cutting them up in detail, lie wvas then to advance on Monitery, &c., &c. These announcements are nowv prov ed to be premature, and things are proceed ing in their former train, accelerated a lit tle by the alarm wvhichi has just subsidled For much of the above information we are indebted'to Major Butler, (a passenger by the Alaban~ia,) Paymaster U. 8. Army, attached to the dlivisiont of Geni. WVool, who visits this city on buisiness, which will- de tain him here about a wveek, wvhen he re surns. to head quarters. Major B. left Par ras on the 17th ultimo, where General W ~ ool's division then lay. lie states that tho troops were in excellent health andI spirits, no casuality of momient-having oc curredh fps, some time. 'Tho inhabitants of th. .country wvhich the troops had traversed from San Antonio, had manifested the grea test good feeling toward the Americans: uat a symptom of that hostility which., thu Ilbk "n l io. ifr a me. nre c~rfithn I a ail. tha4t A pect e ei'o. ra ibroietor oexits ur~ tl~ty 6sti'dythe I arar 2 the evofiny.gre eveity,, (th; ibatield uire,.fr.eatie) goi. at e e) ?Kegicansseelingempoyment talles pla6e. A'!Ieachnewsticeess of themericat arms, the ipplications for service erdauble. With the denunciations or the iMexican Govern ment staring thim in the face, they are afraid-to work for the-invaders; butas time rolls on, aiiN ourrconquets seem to be con solidated, their conftlenco-returns, and they are anxious to join us hearti-nd hand. MAoNTEREY.-Major Butler was hi Mon. terey on thd 23d ulit. at the time General Taylor .was, encamped the-d.. Col. 'H arn ey iys in that city, on his way to Saltillo. Every thing. eemed satisfactory, regarding the conduct othe Itiliabitatei, as to pedce and. tranquillity. Oie regiment, it is pre sumed,.will be sufficient to form its garri son. - MARdi or TaoPs, &c.-On his say from Monterey to Camargo, Major But ler met the Kentucky Mounted Riflemen, with General Marshall at their head, and one of tle Ohio Reginieuts-both corps on their way to the former place. GENERAL SCOTT.-On the lst instant, on his way down the Rio Grande, a day's ils tance from Camaigo, General Scott was met proceeding upward on the steam boat Corvette. Correipondence of the N. 0. Picayunas Oil vnI RMo. GRANnE (BZSwI bi ATA1oas,) December 26, 1846. Gentlemen.-After a. tolerably pleasant trip of four days across the Gulph on the Edith, we landed yesterday morning at the Brazos, where we were greeted With ru mors enough to have filled a page of your paper. The "news" being of a serious character. I went to several officers whom I found there (Colonel Taylor among the number) and made inquiries.-They in formed me that the rumors ran thus: Gen. Worth sent an express to Gen. Taylor, ai few days since, informing him that Santa Anna was- moving on Saltillo, and was then within three days march of thatplace, with 26,000 men; that Gen. Worth would fight him, but desired reinforcements to be pushed forward to him as soon as possible. Gen. Worth has only about 1800 men with him. Gen. Taylor hind started for Victoria. Gen. Wuol had been ordered from Parras to Saltillo. Should it be true that Santa Anna has made some demonstration in the direction of Saltillo, Gen.Taylorhas ere this gone to that place. So well were the officers at the Brazos convinced that the General was at. Saltillo, that Cait. Montgomery, bearer of despatches from Gen. Scott, is now on his way to that place, and I am going along with him as a sort of body guard. We found Gen. Jesup at the Brazos. We left that place yesterday immediately after dinner and rode to the mouth of the river, Col Taylor, Capt. Montgomery, Capt. Reeve and myself, and embacked at 9 o'clock last evening on board the steam er McKee, fur Camargo, from which place wea shall probably travel pretty fast until we reach headquatrters. My opinion is that wve shall art ive there in time to see some Sc. vere lighting. Our Louisiana boys must b~e in a hurry if they do not wish to arrive too late to render important assistance in that part of Mexico.-What a pity it is that we have now 30,000 men out here. I perceive no great changes in this part of the country since I left here. There is not so much hurry anid confusion at the lirazois and mnouthnas formerly. Capt. Hill. Quarte.rmusier at the'former place, has had every thing regulated and arranged so sys temnatically that there will not be much trouble or confusion in landing troops there hereafter. Capt. Ogden, .at the mIouthi, manages cvery thing us'smooth as .1city merchant does his business. Just before wve reached the mouth last evening, the Col.and I hsving rode on a mile or twvo in advanco of the others, we saw foutr men in a boat outside of the surf, twvo of themn naked, throwing up their arms and evidently miuch agitated. On hookiing more attentively we dliscovered that their buat had been swamped and that they weore holding on to it. Every wyave that came carried them entirely unider wvater,so that they wvere out of sight fully half the ti'ne. As wve could renider thema no assistance wve gave rein to our horses, and spread the alarm at the Qtuartermaster's. I returned to the beach, as near as possible to the poor fellows, and wvaved my cap to encourage them. One of them appeared to be nearly exhausted. Presently a boat shot out trough the breakees over the bar. about a mile from the scene of distress, the men in her, bending their wvhole strength toi the oars. A nsumber of persons had collected upon. the beach. Two other boats Ifollow-. ed the first.i The exhausted seamen in the swvampeid lont frequently turned their eyes, as they emerged from the wvater, to see if succor wvas coming; thce weakest of them disappeared at last to rise nto more, though his comrrades exerted themselves to keep hinm upl. TIhe leading boat nowv eame alongsiide and took the poor fellows in. Our eyes then, tturned-towards the other twvo boats, and to our idismay we idiscovered thaut they were boith swamped just outside tho brcakers. amid that the nuoble follows -j 04, ' 4V . ww'~hareaqkr af a W lin nin/fr th4ppcf~ brave fedow ede st Eap theronpaipris, bIm aheril again out o " u e saw ther ac %0t fully~toward~ the'ri:V pected evornto see' i ft ble intothe surf togetlier4 Thy 'a' ed howqer; inrescuinhar on and the prudently' mide' herrway I # schooiuer that Was anchored on e bar." The.man whomrnatagei tihe.se a .1i (l boat. with sio rnuchqkill is nate steamer Whiteville, and his naie is4 Cooney... . From the Newk Orlens e u LATER FROM TIXE JGULF 8UD4 . CqatieONf. The. Campeachy s'chooner A malkiiq prtkiiaken by. the U..stearir Miilsiaiy p,16ff Alvarado,.on the 27th ultis domhlig up incharge of Paissd Midshinma.B~r boor; 'of the Mlssisisj4ip1alnd a prize ieisv The-Amallo brings 'several days iaite'rin telligence from the squadron, and :we are indebted to Passed Midshipman Barbour, and' the Chief Engineer Wood. 'vh'also came on the Amaho, 'forth. fol lowing i. toreating particulars: Com. Perry, ar-ved at Laguna.-oni the 201h uIt, with the. steamers Mississilipi. Vixen, Petrel and Bonita, and; lsided-tho same day and took. nine hundred.pounds of powder, destroyed fifteen annon, and dis; armed about fifty soldiers, although 'they affected to be favorably -disposed to the cause of the Cam peuchiang. The Campean chians had declared themselves entirely in dependent of Mexico, and had sent three Commissiondrs on the schooner Sisalnio to Commodore Conner,.at Anton Lizardo, to kequest him to desist frnm any hostile measures against Yucatan, until Commis-' sioners could be sent to the Goverinient of theUnited States, to obtain the recognition of the Independence of the State. These Commissioners left Anton Lizardo on the 20th, to return, but the result of their con ference with Commodore Conner is not known. Passed Midshipman Fitzgerald, former ly of the U. S. schooner Flirt, but now at tached to the, John Adams, performed a most- daring exploit about three weeks since. His vessel was blockading Vera Cruz, and of a dark night, he took a. boat and eight men, with muffled oars, rowed around the castle of San Juan do Ulua, landed, entered the water battery and' ex amined it; then rowed round again, went under the drawbridge, and made a thorough reconhoisance of that point. This exploit has proved that men may be landed from bouts at night; and Midshipman Fitzgerald ascertained by his reconnoisance that the water may be easily taken. rhe Amalio was taken off Alvarado, to gether with the Spanish brig Isabella, both sailing from that port for Havana.- Com modore Perry. on his return to Anton Li. zardo from Laguna with the Mississippi, looked into Tabasco and Alvarado, and fonnd that the fortifications of both places have been repaired and much strengthened since thmey were attacked by the squadron. A t Ta busco there wvere about 3000 troops, und at Alvarado about 4000. Notwvith. staniding these formidable preparations, the general infpression is, that Commodore Conner will soon attack the place. On the arrival uf Gen. La Vega at Vera Cruz, on the 15th, all the prisoners from the'squmadron in the hands -of the enemy wvere released. It is nowv ascertained' that bul, eleven of the crewv of the brig Somers dlrifted to the main land wvhen she was wrecked, and not sixteen, as~ was at first stated. Midshipman Rodgers was at Vera Cruz. IHe had been tried by the civil and military tribunals as a spy, and had been acquitted by time former, but found guilty bjtho latter. It Is believed, howevor;that the more favorable verdict wvould: prevail, and that he wiould be liberated.' OUTRAoEs IX VunozNrA.-A series of daring outrages have lately been perpetra ted in Acecomac counity, Virginia. A mong them we notice an -attack upon a Metho dist clergyman, a Mr. Ilargis, during pub id'worship while he wvas preachinig to a lirfge congregation, The rioters first 'sur rotinded the church, commenced discheirg ing fire-arms and throwin stones, #hich created such alarm and confusion that many left the house of wvorship, fearing to rermain longer. Mr. Hargis continued to preach. JQut the rioters tore offithe wilndow shutters and forced themselves up to the pulpit, when the confuision became so great that the congregation had to be dismissed, and Mr.' H wvitir his wife, retreated from the house amidst threats of violence from the 'mob. T1he offence alleged against Mr. ILI s, tha~t his church hmad refused to wvithdrawv from limo Phmiladelphia conlerence, and attach itself to the Church, South, and that conses quently it favors abolitionism. PnoSE.CUTION OF A JUDGE FOR LBBL TIheo Pittsburg Journal says that suit has been entered against the lion. Walter H. Low rie, Judge of the District Court,, for a libel oni a young lawvyer at the bar of that city,. by the namo- of 3ar ton.. LAnoE OnDEn.-Mr. Charles I. Dupont, if Wilming ton, Del., lhau received an order fromn Government for sixty thousand yards of blue cloth for theo Army. _F Yc 6 6 1, ifro tlrij Ofut ib " 9. U-1;'ubt*Tjogeto rcof iia4 ~ va iejp ii -d itAit vro;t'5tu ?xirakin of a seamc.T~j~ R onanted. o- -e !4.0i IA ! D UTLXRO lid dto ldn! ths in4ta~d~ t e~~peripnced'r Yr.*Ido out~ mnery(Aabarnai) Jourvalof Tlmesdaiys cay lsnt evening, ;'.A1uute- wan 'Utd- by Rkegiment, ~ ~ ikkts~h~ 6th insti Ocn.Tbu~~ti jlon t'?&1h eto.U jtiment'. rile um. ~~f e. hakigjbecolme wbe i Pqer 41a rvies ofwr 1e vd :and. for*%artded~.46N61-lg ~I i~Ek,{. already oieegosU 11,1m. ordersc from -_Waington :City.c the purposie of jonn i ~uea~ 4c DSM 10 DA I ;yoi atsegti STEAMEt D a iip.4 e' Abem61i'f~h '414 The C o anaricle o W' tea i a l1a' e a m et o a d - a Aore. by 1 br of at. by ad g a d sherpenter4a wh6 e Un ain lb ciita Tf andpreoeedlng heall fo9~i o th "~ualtr Zt . . .. To airdensi Char tfhti steh.h in- article it. M Th boureer rnihic it a~pauhtte'tzehaciudre.ea wothy - ; "h'oiW~~sa lm~go i thp trpnaer who cxi oisi gi'a W and ircedd In-.heif Oa'lestou ptojffdeo r aodto Iw x s ayl,1nzU PncWorth7 btthe Port Warden6 -t' harletn'd t aterof the, line ship H.','ALLEN;,'Thebourler remarks "the., the:, tribunaI of puiblic opinion vvl j Jji 'e anewer In regard to the; sea-woihiness. tf he boat, and that that opinjon will bexspressed laiavoiding the boat as an dnsafeane, untilheis uti ig aid-complete pair.h A card of some of the.passengers. hasmappeared in the sam' paper corioborating the opinion 'of the Charleston Port Wardens on the ,unseawoathlneo of the boat.:, Though great credit is due io the Wilminton Rail Road Company for 'the enterprix4 and energy they have nanifested in the -prornpt, regular and secure conveyance of the mall and passenger. to Charleston, it is evident that their sea line Is exposed to the unavoidable dangers.dnayiation, eved if their boat areifally seaworthye The recent failure of the mail, the'danger of the passengers, and the expression of -their opinion to that cffect, consequent on the alleged unseaworti' ness of the Vanderbilt, form al new Incident in fa vor of the proposed connexion by Rail Road of the Camden branch road: with Wilmington. y suhT connexion, the detentie'naof- the-mnalipd riskof hu mai life will be almost'entirelyavoided' The puli lie, then, cannot fail to look uponjbi. ,easure as one of great importance and interest bath in a pecu niary and humane point of view. CONGRESS. The northern democrats have made i nove through a New York democratic representative, Mr. Pas ToN2 Kmnu, ia support of their opinion, that sltavery is be excluded .irom any territory which may bc~ac quired . ro'm Mexico, by the -publication of Mr. King'. speech in anticipation of the aquestion. The House, after laying on the table the Presi 'dent's proposition of the appointasen of a general officer to command all our military rorce in the dd, have reconsidered their vote, and thus the subject is aali open and can ba takcen up it ant' time. It la believed that thre Hous. and Senate will both sup port the measure. As the duties on tei and coffee have bee'n refused, it is evident'that taxes,~lu'some fou, must be giant, edi for the prosecution of the war. It lI.believed that the resort will be 'to direkt taxation;' a measure which will bo far more. impolitic than the substitu. tion of the tea and coffee duties. Th'e northern member. seem determitred 16force into cery speech, on the wayerothe increaut of the army, the subject of slavery.'. Mr. TrUASas, of .KeItuckyi.adt ose that the Sojath would abide by oh~sejsmpro inle insf 36d 39 , . The Executive seomi aedtio ofan diltional tbre of enthousand regula r tiroops has occasioned much debate.. The House has passed tbh hill with an amendment proviag for the .disbanding of the troops at the close of the .war. Anabolition paper ha. ieen startd in Washing. ton, with 'a large tuinber of subscribers. Judge PaNNvuOana Senator 11hmVErgiu d on the 12th lnsti Mr.-Aune announcu h bleth to the Senato;~ and this bodj pissipd the eusomar 'It i. said that CoLn TXo'sist chie nginerha departed for the seat of war. APPOINTMhi5 8. The following appolnitreets have beer made by the President by and with thead vice and consent of the Senate.: -Samuel McGowan af South Garoliha, to be Assistant Quartermaste''with the PanlE of Captain. James D. Blending, of South' Carolina, to be Assistant Commissarf~with 'the'rank of Captain. SJames Davis, of South Caro na, to be Assistant Surgeon-, CHIAlRLESTON, S. C;, Jan.-Y, 1847. Mr. Edit or7--4 arrived at is placeo n TJhursday evening, via rail road from Gadue tJon, wheore as well' as in Sumterville-1 was obliged to 'pass aanight;Mldtb haalsed me to pen this article, that I 'may speak a few words of the excellent 'Hotelk ept at your place by Mr. China, I founud the lanila iord gentlemnanly and' au~nneomm atin.G..