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Attoniics anil Soliiitors.
JOHN LYON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
(Os the late firm of Richard F. & J. Lyon, Albany,)
Will practice in the counties of Paulding, Cass,
Cherokee, Forsyth, Lumpkin, Union, Gilmer, Mur
ray, Walker, Dad**, ' hattooga and Floyd.
jV Office m SPRING PLACE, Murray County,
Georgia.
Refers to Guv. Chus. J. McDonald, Marietta; Col.
R. K. Hives, of Macon; Hon. Lott Warren, Messrs.
Hora & McGuire, Hunt & Pynchen, Albany, <ia. ;
Mess rs. A. J. &T. W. Miller, Augusta. «29-ts
HENRY J. LANG,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
LINCOLNTON, GA.,
Willcontinueto Practice in tlie county of Lincoln,
dl
ANDREW 11. 11. DAWSON,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
LAW.
WARREN TON GEO.
RiniENCßs —Hyde d* Oglesby, New Orleans.
Hon. J. Is. if '/life. New York City*.
Dawson «J* Hearer, Augusta. apl l-ly
EDWARD 11. POTTLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Wamntuu, (icorgia.
REFERENCES:
Messrs. J. <J* 7*. ll'. . Miller , Augusta, da
Hun. 7\ 11. King, dlynn County, da. jal’2- w
A. MACKENZIE, JR.,
ATTORNEY AT LAV/,
OFFICE AT W AYNESBORO, BURKE CO.,
Georgia.
X J* Will practice in the Courts of Burke, Sc riven,
Emanuel, Washington and Jefferson counties.
REFERENCES ;
Ht.nry (' 'winning., Esq., )
ll m. /’. Gould, Esp, [ . ‘
Messrs. Kerrs t)« Hope, f ‘ "o Ut a *
John l*. dreiner, Esq. J ®
d. H Ltiinar, Esq.,
\\iliia n Human, Esq., .-Savannah.
«»21 ('. .1. dreiner, Esq.
ROBERT K. WOODING,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Appling, Georgia. t*29-wly
(•. PUTNAM,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
, Wurrcuton, Georgia. apl.i-Iv
Linton Srkhikss. \ J. ti. Binn,
STEPHENS ,v lIIUD,
ATTORN IBS AT LAW,
CRAW FORDYILLE, GA.
W ill practice in all the Counties of the North
ern circuit. jyl(i-ly*
JONES & SHEW MAKE,
ATTORNIES AT LAW,
WAYNESBORO, t i \.
TV JOSEPH B. JONES and JOH N I . SHEW r
MAKE, having ass»K - ted themselves in the pracru-.* j
oi Law, will promptly attend to anv business entriW
ed to them in the counti-s of Btirki*,*Jetiers.n» } Ein in
uel, Ki> huioud, Scriveu and Washington. j\*l
E. C. SH VI'KELL’OHD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
LEMNtiTON, G V.
Reference- Hon. A. 11. Stkimikns, tVawr.Kilfo
Ga. ap’d-w i y
JOSEPH V. WILKINS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
J. j'W’ill practice in all the counties of tin* Ka v 'eru
Circuit.
OFFICE IN KKT.IU’itO, LIBERTY COl NTY,
Georgia. si I it
CKLIN t . MOORE,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
LAW.
Crawfbrih llle, Georgia.
'? y Will practice in alt the Counties of the North
era, ami i Jreeue county of the Ocmulgee, Circuit.
- House. 124-1 v
L. O. Simpson, | Wm. H. Piu hmomi.
SIMPSON JL TiIVRMOND,
ATTORNIES AT LAW,
Atlanta. Georgia,
Will promptly attend to all business entrust ,1 to
their care. fB-ly
(*• R. NOLAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Georgia,
S j* Will attend to all business entruste«i to his care
in the counties of H* ury. Newton, IVkall*,* Fayette,
Pike, Butts and Meriwether.
References. H. W. Conner, Esq., Charleston, S. C.
Kelsey A IV is, '*
Hen A. H. Stephens, Craw fordv die, ti.i.
“ J. J. Floyd, Covington, Ga. apiS wlv
JOHN U. STANFORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
('larkrsvlllr, Georgia.
? j' W'dl prae! ce in the . ountieso! t *! irke, Frank
lin. llat»ersham, Lumpkin, Forsyth, Gilmer, Union,
Mu.rav and Gwinnett, and in the Federal Circuit
Court tbr Georgia. tv l?
s. W. HORTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
El HERTON, 11E0U..1 V.
Practii. s in the C.- iits of F.l:*e;l, Franklin,
Jack sun ami Madison Counties. m!*2o-1 v
I'll APLKI' H. STROTHER.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
OiHrc at I.tmoiatoii, (d'orgia.
ty All bu .•inessentrusted to his care will receive
prompt and unremitting attention. nl
iUcdical profession.
DU. J. U. MILLET,
SURGEON DENTIST,
fLY OFFICE IN CUMMINvi
Forayth t'onnty Genre ia.
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permanent twsine*. an i w • , d much prefer a plare
where he w. .h a iraotage. reitwitn Kvt years
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Augusta, ©co.:
THURSDAY MOHX'C, SEPT. 30, IS4T.
Internal Improvement Meeting at Knox
ville.
We are indebted to ilie Knoxville Register
Extra, of Saturday last, for a report of the
first day's proceedings of this body, from which
we condense the following intelligence :
The officers of the Convention are
President.
Hon. Nathan Greene, of Tennesse.
Vice-Presidents.
Daniel Kavenf.i.. 8.« q., of South Carolina.
Thos. A. H. Nelson, Esq., of Tennessee.
Hon. Wm. M. Cocke, “
Hon. Spencer Jarnagin,
Gen. Jas. H. Reagan; m
Secretaries.
John K. Carew, Esq , of South Carolina.
Jas. C. Walker, of Tennessee.
Jas. C. Moses, “
Col. I). H. Cummings, “
The Hon. 8. Jarnagin offered .a resolution,
which was adopted, that the delegation from
the Stale of South Carolina, who have visited
Knoxville on an invitation to attend the present
meeting, are hereby invited to participate in its
deliberations.
On motion of Jas. Williams, Lsq., of Knox,
it was resolved, that a Committee be appointed
to report business for the consideration of the
meeting.
The Chair appointed Jas. Williams, Thos.
A. R. Nelson, Robert J. McKinney, Major A.
Gregg, Jas. A. Whitesides. Col. Jno. i\ Long,
Jas. M. Anderson. I. T. Lenoir, Dr. C. I*. T.
Jarnagin, T. N. Van Dyke and Win. (j. Swan,
to compose the Committee.
Col. John il. Crozier offered the following
resolution:
Resol red, That the President appoint a Committee,
of which Col. J IS. Gadsden, of South Carolina, shall
be Chairman, to embody in as condensed a form as
practicable, such statistical ami other information as
will tend to demonstrate the advantages and impor
tune** of a Railroad connection between Tennesse*? and
the Southern Atlantic coast.
The resolution was adopted, and Col. Jas.
Gadsden, Dr. Jas. Moultrie, Maj. Alexander
Black, Gen. T D. Arnold, Gen. A. Anderson,
Col. Jno. McGaughey, Hon. Jacob Feck, Hon.
W . ii. Reese, and Dr. Win. Hume, were ap
pointed the Committee.
Daniel Ravenel. I>q., on the part of the Dele
gation from South Carolina, offered a few re
marks to the meeting, in the course of which
lie returned the thanks of the Delegation for
the attention paid them, and spoke of the deep
interest entertained by the Stat<* of which lie is
a citizen, on the important subject which had
called the meeting together. His remarks
were appropriate and interesting, and were lis
tened to with profound attention and evident
gratification.
hi tin? afternoon, the committee appointed
to report subject-matter for the consideration
of the Convention, made a report, which was
unanimously adopted, and the Convention ad
journed for the day.
Steamer Washington. —The Washington
sailed from Now York on Thursday afternoon,
about one o'clock, with forty passengers, and
upwards ofSJHIO lettr rs and 1»,00(I papers. J.
Randall goes out iu iier as hearer of dispatches
to London.
— ■ I
I .ho ai. Kkkikm in New York.— The New ;
York Tribune states that “Mr Nicholas llili,
Jr., has resigned hi- appointment as one of the f
Commissioners to Devise the Legal Practice of
that State, expressly on the ground that his
colleagues, Messrs. David Graham ami Ar
piittxiui Loomis, are jtoo sweeping Reformers,
and contemplate recommending an entirely
new and much simpler svsiem of Legal Prae- |
tice instead of merely tinkering and patching j
the old one From Mr. Hill’s letter and other I
sources we understand that the essential dilfe- j
rences between the majority and minority of
this important Commission areas follows:”
1 M. -is. < »r.iham and D*oiuis hold ihat tin- jirovi- !
*i«m «»f**ur Reformed t'nn.-titii:i.m wlrrh ;i!>oli.-!n-s tin* j
distinction between Pnx'eedings in Law and in Equity
is to be and may be enrri**d into fill effect in tii*- K< - |
formed Practice «»t our State I'ltev routeiiiplute ii
system m w Inch there shall not merely be no such
.diversity <-t I’l'ihunais as hitherto, but n > such diversi
ty *»f PnM'j’edmus either; but Law and F.quitv b**,
so far as human impenectio ; will p**rmit, one and the
S.lllll' tiling.
2. Messrs. Graham and l.'-omi- - propose to do aw .■ \
entirely the distribunoa of actions at law into several
species or classes, distinguished by the terms cove
nant, assumpsit, tort, tress. <iss. trover, trespass on
the t\;se, <S. \ vY l nder tie* pre.-eut sv-t -m, one
man sues another lor a sum of iitouev justly due him,
but is defeated in his action and subjected to heavy
costs because In* (or bis lawyer) has called his action
by one ol these names, and th«* I ' uri rules that he
ought to have called it by another, lu some cases,
the first <*ourt‘s ruling on this point is over-rule*! by
the next afowe, and that in turn by the next, and soon
to the highe.-t; where, if the original form of action
happen to he sustained, 11n* creditor w ill have been
kept two or three years out of hi* just dues and spent
it all in getting if ; and, if'his law vet's mode of pro
cedure be over-ruled, h«> will have lost his de t and
a goml deal more.
Instead of the tor. going, the majority of the i '
mission contemplate one simple form oJ action, with a j
declaration setting forth concisely and simply the o
niouiit and nature ofthe claim—how the debt was in- I
curved, and the refusal or failure to make payment, j
lo this the defendant is to rejoin as simply and direct- !
ly, stating the giound of defence and to what extent, j
if *o any, tin* claim ofthe plaintiff is admitted. The !
issue remaining to be tried will be simply what is as- {
firmed on the one hand and dented on the other.
Pknsacoi a. — We learn from tit** Pensacola
Democrat that the >ickn« ss in the Gulf squad- j
ron has been extremely severe. Four sur
geons have already died of the yellow fever. I
namely, ffeet surgeon Kearney, passed assist- j
ant Bates, ofthe \ ixen ; assistant do. Delancv.
ofthe \ esuvitis; and assistant Hache. A letter
from the squadron says that non-professional j
men are acting as physicians, all those ofthe
service being down with the fever.
The U. 8 steamer Mississippi is at the Pensa
cola navy yard, nearly ready for sea. Bhe has
been completely overhauled and thoroughly
cleansed since her return from Vera Cruz. Os
the hundred and sixty of her officers and crew
who were sick, between sixty am! eighty have !
been cured and returned aboard. The remain- ,
derlie at the hospital, and manv of them sa\>
the Democrat) will never lui!\ regain their
health. Fever sores, tdeers.drops* and chron
ic diarrhu u, relies of the yellow lex er, many are
afflicted with. and. although they may recover
sufficiently to be returned for duty, still will
their state of health he so precarious that it would ;
be tampering with human life lo send them '
down to Vera Cruz again to inhale the pesti
lential ' apors arising from the putrid reel's along
the direful sickly coast of Mexico.— Herald \
Trilmue.
At * 1 SSIONS TO THE BHIPPINC. OF 8 \X ANN VH
—The following vessels have been added du
ring tins year to the shipping which belongs ;
to merchants and citizens ofthe city of Ba\uti
tinli, to xv it:
8:1 p f'JtriH. owned lx Padeiford %Y Fay.
Brig John Pndtrs. • Padeiford *Y Fax .
8» for. Minas. ** Padeiford A Fay.
Brig Josephus, • Wood A Claghorn.
** Cullen »Y 8
8 r /Vr-; .. R. H i-eersiiam A. Boti
To which should be added the ** Kah Hun
ter"—a ship ot large tonnage, iateiv buiit at
Portsmouth. V H by G \\ Ctnmning.
Lsq.
The second ami Unrd named vessel* have
never xet been in Savannah. One of them will :
probably open a direct trade to Rio Janeiro.—
>ara*nah Kepn '-ii.au
Finn tin c. Parson.— Y\ e have seen it stated
that one ofth-* companies from Mississippi, at
the battle of Buena \ ista. was commanded ’.\x
a Methodwt minister. Just before lae h i:iie
commenced, and xx htlst the troops were form
tig. H s said !. * delivered the foiiovv;ag :*
praver, at the head of fits company :
“Be with us this d.tv in the courier, oh
Lord —We are few and the enemy are many.
Be with us as thou w .i>t x\ .ih Josnua when he
went down from Gr'gal t» Beth-ho-ron aud
\ smite \ s Wed t ask
su to s Is but
grant us plentv of powder plenty of day.ight,
tnd no cowards. Take old Rough and Kc.iJx
under thy spec*al charge \uien ‘ M-a-r-c-h
H;s compattv performed prodigws on the
ficid that dax
r I N says t nx * Hoi
. p u
•h\>e,i two entire township* in Marion conn
ty Tnex **r ig their own mechanics and .ifti
san* w ith them . and have selected the site for a
own About 3.0(H) more are expected to tom
die in by next spring. T %•« are the r ghi kiud
of for lew*
Obsequies of Daniel O’Connell in New
York.
The Now York Tribune of Thursday con
tains the Address of F.x-Governor Win. H.
Seward, delivered at Castle Garden, iu that
city, on the occasion of the funeral obsequies
of Daniel O’Connell. It occupies nearly ten
columns of the Tribune. The following is the
exordium:
There is sad news from Genoa. An aged
and weary pilgrim, who can travel no further,
passes beneath the gate of one of her ancient
palaces, saying with pious resignation, as lie
enters its silent chambers, “ Well, it is God’s
will that I never shall see Rome. I am disap
pointed. But I am ready to die. It is all
right.”
“The superb” though fading, Queen of the
Mediterranean holds anxious watch, through
ten long days, over that majestic stranger’s
wasting frame. And now death is there —the
Liberator of Ireland has sunk to rest iu the Cra
dle of Columbus.
Coincidence beautiful and most sublime! It
was the very day set apart hy the elder daugh
ter of the Church for prayer and sacrifice
throughout the world for the children of the
sacred island, perishing hy famine and pesti
lence in their homes and in their native fields,
and on their crowded paths of exile, on the
sea and the havens, and on the lakes, and along
the rivers of this fir distant land. The chimes
rung out hy pit y for his countrymen were
(FConnell’s fitting knell; his soul went forth on
clouds of incense that rose from altars of Christ
ian charity; and the mournful anthems which
recited the faith, and the virtue, and the endu
rance of Ireland, were his becoming requiem.
It is a holy’ sight to see the obsequies of a sol
dier, not only of civil liberty, but of the liberty
of conscience—of a soldier, not only of free
dom, hut of the cross ot Christ—of a benefac-
I tor, not merely of a race or people, hut of
| mankind. The vault lighted hy suspended
worlds is the tempie within which the great so
! lemnities are celebrated. The nations of the
| earth are mourners, and the spirits of the just
! made perfect, descending from their golden
; thrones on high, break forth into songs like this:
“Tears are not now thy due. From the world’s foil,
Come to assume in Heaven the brighter hirth :
A winged angel, from thy mortal coil
Escaped! Thy glory lingers yet round earth.
Christ’s hallowed warrior, living, thou wen'st forth;
(yhrist’s champion didst thou die. Ami now blc.-t
shade!
Tin* crown and palm of righteousness and worth
Thou wear’s! with joys unspeakable repaid.
The Priesthood of Genoa, grateful for the
honor of dismissing the lofty spirit from its
mortal conflict, cover the departing bier with
sad funeral weeds.
Rome, ever avaricious of relics, though she
has gathered into her I'm the ashes ofthe
great and good of near thirty centuries, rever
entially Haims and embalms and enshrines with
her soul-subduing litanies, the heart of yet
another—
fi Who through the toes has borne her banished gods.”
Behold now a nation which needeth not to
speak its melnneholy precedence. The lament
of Ireland comes forth from palaces deserted,
and from shrines restored ; from Boyne’s dark
water, witness of her desolation, and from 'Para’s
lofty hill, even echoing her renown. But loud
er and deeper yet that wailing comes from the
lonely lints on the mountain and moor where
the people of the greenest Island of ail the seas
are expiring in the midst of insiiliicient though
world-wide charities. Well indeed may they
deplore O’Connell, for they were his children :
And he bore them
li A love so vehement, so strong, so pure,
1 hat neither age could change nor art could cure.
Again and again, as if they feared to disturb
him with excess of sorrow, they plead:
“If yet we keep
t \ ii! ol < ri< I, and eHio groan tor ornun,
I'is 11«» t tor thee; but for ourselves wo ween,
Whose noblest pillar lies in thee o’erthrowu.'’
The pageant pauses. Next to the < .’hief
Mourner, span* i< opened for America, eldest
of the new born Nations. Why shall not
America accept that distinguished privilege.’
O'Connell was a champion of 1 niver-al Con
stitutional Freedom. That is her own cause
all her own. She arms ami instructs an I sends
forth all its chieftains ; and when one of them
fills iu the ever-continuing contlict. be his faith,
his tongue or his lineage what it may ; whether
he die on the snowy plains of Poland, among
the classic l-landsol Greece, under tin* bright
-kies of Italy, among the vine clad hills of
France, or in the green valleys ol Ireland; he
he Kosciusko, or 80/./aris, or Lafayette, or
t F Connell, \meriea hastens to hear wit ness that
he was her Soldier, Citizen, and Representa
tive.
The procession numbered several thousand
persons, and is said to have been very solemn
and imposing. The funeral car is thus describ
ed in the New York Globe:
The Funeral ('arwiw 16 feet long hy Swide:
the* height. from the lower drapery covering the
wheels to the platform holding the sarcopha
gus, was l> feet: from tin* platform to the top of
the square drapery is "* feet, from the top frame*
to the head of the canopy. 7 feet; in all IT
feet. It was drawn hy Id horses, richly capari
soned with ostiieli plumes and cloths of black,
trimmed with silver, hearing a shield with tin*
Irish harp; each horse was led by a groom in a
black velvet tahh-m. (dark cap trimmed with
green and top boots; t be chief mourners
wore black cloaks and hat bands : two mutes
preceded the* car and two followed after: the
codin covered with green velvet and richly
trimmed with gold, was laid on the pall of black,
trimmed with white satin and green sham neks,
supported !»v the sarcophagus, which is A feet
high, covered with velvet and trimmed with sil
ver.
from the .V. O. Picayune. '2oth inst.
Tile Epidemic.
Our city, as ail our reader* know by this time,
has been passing through a severe trial—and
fearful ordeal. The ravages of the destructive
epidemic, with which we have beenv isited. were
at one time indeed appalling. Hut. thanks to
that Providence which guides our destinies, of
ten mysterious, but always wise and merciful,
flic malady lias been in a great degree stripped
of its power. \t one time the stoutest hearts
quailed in view of the desolation around us ;
I but now. although tin* poison is far from being
! eradicated, we all breathe freer.*’ and the
I opinion prevails, and with good reason too.
; that the crisis has been passed. .Notvvithstaud-
I ing it is our happiness to make this atinounee
■ ment to-day. yet we feel constrained to repeat
; the advice w inch is given by all our physicians ; .
! that residents, now absent, and strangers should j
j delay \isititig the city until a frost shall have j
j scattered—annihilated the pestilence.
The weather has been pleasant for a number .
j of days p:.st, and the even rigs are beautiful to ;
i a degree beggaring description. It is bard to
1 realize in beholding at night the skies—equal in
1 splendor and loveliness anv which Italian !
writers have ever described, that ;»<»*>«»#! lurks 1
1 in the atmosphere, but so it is.
The aggregate of deaths in the city for one
......
hasbeen t? 01. of which lOti were of yellow lever
i The corresponding figures of the preceding
| week were *J Id and lf*l. The report of inter- '
! merits in our sister city of Lafayette has been
- irregularlv received this week, and ihe deaths
| there are consequently not brought into thi
estimate. The bo il:h of that place has greatly
i nproved. No fears arc expressed of a now
se being given to the epid
city, unless absentees should return, or stran
| gers should conic among us. We repeat the
1 precaution that it is dangerousto do so.
f v N vE \ p ress s
lature of th;T S ite his ukeu ho ; of the
i ness of the canal* with the promptness that
1 the importance of the subject demands.
Mr. Cornwell, from the Canal committee,
reported a bill making additional appropriations
for the enlargement of the Lrie canal, and the
completion of tin* tienesee \ alley and 8... ;
Kiver canals. The appropriations areas i
1 lows :
I < i .. ’.*••• -S3”'.', • ~ -
tienesee \ allev -• • • 50.000 00
B k River' '
The act further requires that the appropria
tions for the enlargement shall be expended
within the year. The committee deem tins
c.ause necessary to render promptly av l iable
whatever improvements are contracted tor.
A Chicago paper relates quite a novel dome*
tie scene in that city rcoeutly. Xo winder that
tae Wes; is tiding up so rapidly. It was no
g less • _ idies. foil
s, as C ■
and - eleven Iren,
; one to three feet one. arouud them, all sur
_■ ■ ;er wagons - taining
a ; - dge of . • . in." It wis i sp« .
it \\ - t si pr
:si on move. First the ladies, then one cirrige
i —ha ! a dozen c.o'.i.cn—.mother carnage, and
g tpi
Not an o : * .. aas get . . the street for
| a vv hole day.
Vi rv'D\ > our>. -Vneimnent French statis
writer t - -• : ■ -
. I . - * ascertain
ing the proportion of gentlemen who arranged
their lingers ring
1 rooui. He found them to average twenty-nine
[ i out of thirty, those who had least or most hair
I usually oscupyim| most tuim
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORJKNG, OCTOBER (5, IBIT.
From the N. O. Picayune, of 25 th inst.
Later From Brazos Santiago*
The U. S. transport ship Robert Morris, ar
rived yesterday from Brazos Santiago. From
the Matamoros Flag we extract the following
items:
Bold Act of the Guerrillas. —A stampede or
commotion was produced at Mier on the night
of the 7th instant, by a party of Mexican cav
alry or robbers, supposed to number ohoiit 30.
Their object was to get possession of a valu
able lot of goods, on their way to Monterey in
live wagons, and which had been halted for the
night on the outskirts of the town. The bold
ness of the attempt deserved success. To a
vert attention from the main object, part ofthe
robbers rode into the plaza and fired upon the
sentries, wounding one mortally, in the mean
time, another party took possession of the goods
and succeeded iu getting safely out of town
with them. The next morning a detachment
of 30 dragoons started in pursuit, and overtook
them about P 2 tnilesfrotu Mier, when the Mex
icans defended themselves with remarkable ob
stinacy, but finally retreated with a loss of six
men killed. All the goods, amounting in value
to $30,000, were recovered. This is the bold
est act yet committed on this frontier.
Maj. Geo. 11. Crossman, quartermaster, has
been ordered to Washington city and is now
cn route, having proceeded to the Brazos, yes
terday. The service has no oliicer more capa
ble or energetic.
A detachment ofthe 13th Infantry under
Lieut. Col. Withers, passed down on the
Rough and Ready, yesterday, for the encamp
ment of Palo Alto.
The battalion of Massachusetts volunteers,
under command of Lieut. Col. Abbott, passed
down yesterday on the McKee. Steamers
have been despatched to Camargo for the re
mainder ofthe brigade by order of Gen. Cush
ing.
We are happy to state, says the Flag of the
11th. that Col. Echols, whose illness we noticed
in our last publication, is now convalescent.
There was a rumor in Matamoros that the
U. 8. Military depot at Point Isabel was to be
abolished.
A part of Col. Hays’s regiment were en
camped about 15 miles from Matamoros on the
13th inst. The encampment was to have been
removed on the 15th to a point within two
miles ofthe city.
A Battalion ofthe 3d Regiment of Dragoons,
about 450 strong, under the command of Col.
Butler, took up the line of march from Mata
moros lor Monterey on the Bth inst. This bat
talion is spoken of as a remarkable fine body of
men. They proceed first to Camargo. where
the. will form an escort for Maj. Randall, pay
master, who awaits them there with a large
amount of funds intended for the troops at
Monterey and Saltillo. Urrea. Canales and a
host of other Mexicans are itching to get hold
of this money, and may have the termeritv to
attempt its capture. If they do, a Buena Vista
defeat awaits them, and no mistake.
An Intercepted Mexican Letter.
Among the private letters captured by our
dragoons, after the battles of Contreras and
Cburubiisco, Kknuai.l of the Picayune fur
nishes the following, which he thus intro* uces:
W itlithis I ikl you one of tin* intercepted letters,
•aptured on the 22d inst. hy our dragoons. It is rich,
and proha!>ly as true as it is rich. " Maria” speaks
her mind freely, and it' the valiant Polkas can find
any thing complimentary in what she says it is more
than I can. I have the promise in company with
another correspond.mt, of being allowed t.» copy all
the best of the letters. ) <»iirs, &«*. o. w. k.
[Copy.] Mexico, August 21, 1647.
.My Much Ijoved Curie:— Gonsidering that von
would he uneasy on our account under present cir
cumstances, I write to relieve y.»ur mind. Every
thing is lost, and ! believe tlcre is no hope for us.
Hay l etore yesterday Valencia had a li_;lit with the
enemy near Contreras, and it ua- supposed he was
victorious: le.it the next morning he lost every thing.
\ e-terday some National Guards that were at San
Antonio had a small ti.dit, and tie- battalions of Bi
ddy. and N'ctoi ia \ Polka 'Proops - dentlemcn
soldiers] ran like cowanfo as also did the cavalry 1
ofthe 11 ill— md tie 3d Light Infimtrv. This is a
strange totality, and it seems our troops are good tbr •
nothing hut to boo.-i. I only heard tliem cry, there !
coin*; the \ uike , K.ercome with terror—and run- |
mug a whole league without stopping, from which i
fact i have no hope that resistance can he made at the
goles, a- is intended; you will see what will happen
it a defence is attempted. They will all run and
the r history will and. Kuperto saved himself’ as lie
had thfe luck to run away in company with the “ Vic
torias,” and he is nor safe frith h : s dear aifvt%rid
quite ttanqud. It appears quite impossible that
12,000 men under the command of Scott should have
put to tligiit and entirely cowed 32.000 of our men.
It confounds reason the fact is opposed to reason and
almost incredible ; ye!, strange to say, it is true. This
mi-fortune has no remedy, and the ail iir must soon
end and we can do nothing. IK* not believe the thou
sand lies our troop.-; may foil you, and of which they
boast. You know that here (in Mexico) a thousand
lies are told from our next d or neighbors—therefore
h ixv much more exaggerated they will he when trav
elling to you. Do not he afflicted, hut hold all von
hear at quarantine. Recommend yourself to God
and trust in him and he will take care of us.
Maria.
P. >. -My Dc.yr l . rlc: —1 refer you to my sis
ter’> letter for tlie news. 1 can add nothing to it but
that we the Mexicans are * * * *
[ fins postscript, al*nou_h not si.ued, was probably
written by the brave and chivalrous Hu perio, who
left tranquility and his .four aunt fwa moment in order
to prove to bis uncle that he was really quite safe j
A New am* Important Invention, which
does away with the present system of rope ma
king, lias jus: been unde b\ Mr. Whipple, of
Providence. R. I. By this process, rope can
he made in tin* piece a mile long, nr to an in
definite length —in a square room —thus lining
away with the necessity for long ropewalks.
Two twists are made at one revolution, without
twi>ting or turning at the end ofthe rope, as is
now the custom. The strand is formed and
rope laid in a more perfect mariner, and at far
greater speed than is now attained. From 150
to feet of two inch rope can be thus made
in a minute: smaller sizes much faster. One
man could tend a number of these machines at
once. If this invention ts carried on. a process
\\ iil soon h.* iu use. not only doing avvav foreign
importations and controlling our own market,
but exporting to other countries. Two-thirds
of all the cordage made in this country is from
dew-rotted \merican hemp, at an average va
lue of 5 els., though the present rate is 7 ets.
The two new Kentucky Regiments, recently
called out by the W ar Department, have been
fully organized, and are to rendezvous at Lou
isville by the ltl» of October. The field officers
of one of these Regiments, the third, were ap
pointed some weeks since. The officers of
th»* fourth are: —John 8. Williams, (.'clone];
W m (\ Preston, of Louisville. Lieut. Colonel,
and Wm. T Ward, Major.
Very Late from the River Plate. — By
the ship Star Republic. Captain F.!weil,4l days
from Monteveideo. the New Y ork papers have
Buenos A\ res papers io August 7th, four \n eeks
later titan our previous advices.
England had withdrawn from her partner- !
slop with France iu the blockade of Buenos !
Ayre>. and ofth it portion ofthe Oriental roust
u possession o; lien. Oribe and liis ad herent-:
and the blockade was to be continued by the
French squadron alone.
The l.ngiish and French Ministers have re
tired from the River Plate.
Toe s ; ege of Montevideo continued, but
affairs seemed drawing to a close.
Among the pa<-«mg rs in the 8. K.. are the
Rev. \\ .IF Non.-, mis-i riary. and family. j
The Medicine wf ’Fake. —Next to food j
should be good medicine : but. according to the I
New York Journal of Medicine, we. in this !
latter respect, are in a very bad way. The i
New \ ork College of Pharmacy have found it
necessary to issue **a caution to druggists.” i
warning them to beware of the stuffs in the j
market; to touch not. taste not. ami handle not. I
Rhubarb, invoiced from ten to eighteen pence \
per pound, is sold for genuine rhubarb, worth !
fix e shidings The Compound Extract of Co- .
iocyuth. which lias been imported into this*
st v« . I l not contain . : ir
;.■:•* ot < olocynth. but i- made up of an inferior j
sort f does, with * >:;ie other worthless incre
ments. A great portion ofthe compound ex
ir. :s are adulterated in like manner. More
thau huh of the narcotics are destitute of any
a*t;vo properties. \ datsle ofo are adulterated j
with sweet and other cheap oils. In fact, it
seems that when an individual is supposing
that ht ts taking some simple substance of pe
es. he is taking
stances ot properties just the opposite charac
ter.
Effect of Rah k ai»s upon the V*i.t e of
Property .— The Harlem Railroad Com mx
h we con traded :’>r the extension ofthe road to
Dover, Dutchess county, 2d miles from the
sent ter nus 8 big
: it tpprecia!
I the advantages ot the work, that they have made j
a free git: ot the right ot way through land ot -
great value for nearly the emir
- u % 61 »of the
expense ofc uistrucimn.
The C-uirt Martial ;n the ease of Lieutenant
Colonel I re men: wiff be convened shortlv. and
i «..:ould not be surprised were i :o learn that
orders u»i the same had already issued fro in the
War Department it w-d be one of the most
.nteresbng - on record, and t.urow. as Lieut.
Co* Fremont says m his Setter to the Union.
: great light on me history of California, with
j whicn he w identified. —Corrtsposdsnet Phtia
-1 Jsly MM A memi iH.
Augusta,
FRIDAY MOUSING. OCT.I?, 184 r.
1 -- -- -----
Georgia Battalion*^
The Columbus Enquirer of the ultimo
i says: The companies composingfpji Infantry
Battalion left our city on Saturday-fast, under
the command of Capt. Wm. N. I*lsosi, rct
’ itig Lieutenant-Colonel. They we
. understand, to Mobile, where they will embark
■ for Mexico. The boys have an ardriPbus service
before them. They will be however
on their way, by the reflection tliatj|eir friends
at home will sympathize in theirsqjßfeirings, and
glory in their gallantry. We havajleard noth
ing from the Mounted Battalion they left
Montgomery.
Major Polk.—The ludicrous comments of
tlie Union, in reference to this appointment has
subjected him to the ridicule of the^holecoun
try. Our friend Flournoy, ofthJpfcolumbue
Enquirer, like the boy who hit lye daddy be
cause he stood so fair,” could not whim pass—
“ We are sorry to learn that Major Mplk, who left
his foreign mission and took after Pareras with such
a sharp stick, has been detained for at Pen
sacola. We are afraid that the Mexiosfpjeneral will
hear of his coming, and make, his esetr&out through
California or some where elie. theJVla
jor to catch him very much. It would be ’rich force'
him lead the rascal, by tlie n pe of the neck, right
bolt up to Gen. Scott! Now, men are always likely
to be mistaken—but it is our deliberate opinion that
ho will catch him. We can’t well see how he can
help it. He is Major of Dragoons, and although he
made a poor Charge at Naples, he may nevertheless
charge the Mexicans with a perfect vim!
Tall Cotton Picking.—The Columbus En
j quirer of the 28th nil. says: On Saturday last
twenty of Col. J. Woodfolk’s hands in a race,
ten on a side, picked out eight thousand three
hundred and sixty-four pounds of cotton, at his
Cusseta plantation, on this river. The largest
amount picked by a single hand was five hun
dred pounds ; the smallest, 327 pounds. A girl
picked 3131, and quite a small boy, sixteen years
old. 404 pounds. The average picking was4lß
pounds for the twenty hands. The winning
side, three days before, just to see what they
could do, picked 3,893 lbs.; being an average
0f287 lbs. The cotton being on up-land, was
well opened.
MV. Kendall's Letters.
Editorial Correspondence of the Picayune.
Tacubaya, August 30, 1547.
Since I wrote you yesterday xve have a thousand
conflicting rumore from the city. Santu Anna cer
tainly has some 15,000 troops under arms, but is as
much in favor <>f peace as ever. He has opponents in
every party .and every quarter, mariv of .hem, too,
warmly iu favor of peace. They perhaps may over
come their scruples to the man for the sake of the
measure, hut of this xve shall know more anon.
The Congress of the State of Mexico, in session at
Toluca, has come out against peace measures, and the
Governor, Olagnibel, has also issued a manifesto on
the same side.
'fli** peace commissioners, after being in session two
or three days, have ad ourned until the Ist September,
\N i dnesday next. Os their proceedings no one knows
any thing, hut it is rumored that both Gen. Scott and
Mr. Tri.'t express hopes that a treaty of peace will he
signed.
\ aleucia is at Toluca, endeavoring to write himself
out of th»* scrape his great lack of fighting propensities
got him into at Contreras. Santa Anna, meanwhile,
Dads all the blame upon Valencia —his insubordina
tion, he says, lost everything. * * *
Yours, g. xv. k.
Tacubaya, September 4, 1817.
Peace stock rises and falls oftenerand more sudden
ly here than any ofth- New York fancy stocks. One
hour it is just as certain that a treaty will be signed
I as that the sun will rise to morrow, and the next there
i> in* more chance ol an amicable adjustment than
when Gen. Taylor first crossed the Uio Grande. The
j opinion still holds good at headquarters, where they
! should certainly know best, that it will be brought a
j bout. Ihe commissioners meet attain to-day, and it
is said that the deliberations have been brought to a
point when something decisive must turn up.
I am one of those who, w ithout censuring General
Scott for not entering the capital at once, believe it
u**uhl certainly have been more satisfactory to the
country,''ifnot in
structions in his poek'-t from has Government, and has
obeyed them ; and if any disadvantage should now
grow out of his not pursuing a panic-stricken enemy
to their utter discomfiture, the fault must not lie at his
door. It has alway * seemed to me that the authori
ties at Washington widi all their generals to fight
their battles wit h their gloves on, after the manner of
pugilists who do not w ish to hurt •■ach other —they i
ore tb-ad'd of thrashing the enemy too soundly, lest the
smarting of defeat might render them deaf to fresh
prop ■ -iti >ns of peace, which tire always stir** to be at
hand. Magnanimity is entirely lost upon this people,
conciliation has heretofore been scoffed at or taken ad
vantage ol to our hurt. The present soothing system,
thanks to Santa Anna’s desire for peace, may effect
something; but if a peace is signed it will not be with
the majority ofthe nation, and the largest States, it is
more than probable, will pronounce against the Presi
dent a s oi.'.*. This, however, will make no differ
ence with us—Mr. B ulkhead’s endorsement that Santa
Aun t is the Government of Mexico will be sufficient
for (.*en. Scott.
F'-r txx* * or three days no provisions have been
brought out ot the city, and this morning three hun
dred pack mules, ordered in for supplies, were sent
back from the jarita unladen. Two nights since a
large .'tore-house, belonging %i r Hargoiis and con
taining provisions, was broken into and robbed in the
I ice of tin* authorities. Ai 3 o’clock in the morning,
just as our pack animals were approaching the build
ing to be loaded, pome eight or ten ofthe robbers
were arrested. Santa Anna has apologised for the
outrage, I am told, and 1 suppose h is promised to re
fund > very thing stolen—and so the matter will he
dropped. Ihe fact that otir wagons are not allowed
to enter tlie city cannot be construed into any thing
but an infringement of the armistice; vet as Santa
Anna says he is fearful of a mob, and Gen. Scott has
bc**n instructed to tux his patience and long-suffering
to the last, 1 suppose it w ill be overlooked.
Last night three' Americans, one of them Mr. Peo
ples of tlo* \’ji• r. m were confined all night in
ill.' eii ird h i-e ot ;h- National Palace. I'hev were
told th- y were only placet! there for protection, that
they were not prisoners; but as a sentinel was put
over them, and they were counted every fifteen
minutes, they certainly did not enjoy the largest liber
ty. At 11 o’clock this morning they were set free,
after again being told that they had not been prison
ers. l'hey say that every thing in the city indicates
a most warlike feeling—that from the general tone of
conversation the inhabitants have no desire for peace.
Except in th. matter of cannon. Santa Anna is still
sting md g gst nger, sav the Mexicans, while
we are constantly becoming weaker; and some of
them op*-nly say. moreover, that they are only hum
bugging us with false hopes of peace, with the inten
tion of thinning-.ff our force by sickness or starvation
and then destroying us entirely.
The headquarters of Gen. Scott are here in Tacu
• ' > va, where Gen. VV .rth’s division is also quartered.
Gen. Pi., ov i> at M vcoac, two miles south, General
*•-■ • ' ’ md Gen.
Q litinan vat > A: .-tine. Some sickness prevails in
the army, but the health of the troops may be put
down as generally stood.
The wounded officers are all doing well. A day ur
twosince '.'..th Lie-.its. Hamilton and Hollawav were
refK.ried as in a dangerous condition, but 1 believe that
ail danger is now considered as over.
1 have written out a full diary of the occurrences of
the past week, as also several anecdotes of the great
battles of the 20th August; but 1 dare nut send the
letters off, fearful they may be taken. You shall have
copy enough by the first safe conveyance that goes
down. \ ours, Ate., (j. w j.;.
P. > —1 have learned, just of I was about closing
this hasty sc raw t hat tb<
meet until Monday next, the <3th. By that time 1
trust we may know something definite as regards the
chances of peace, for we are now most profoundly in
; fie dark O. tfrng is t: >an f a Anna at"this j
v. rv hour is making every exertion to strengthen bis
army in every wav, and he attempts to persuade his j
own country men that be is doing it to defend the hon- |
or of the nan m.
rh< . rkings ofUm mob, r .being of j
the store. *.V .. has evidently been winked at. and h- i
tells the Americans quietly that he has been obliged
it t res e 5 with his own co mirv
men. 1: h- is no: playing a strong game never did
man undertake one, ami he will be found prepared
eider f’r peace r war. U- -it has it that there was
eting '. ■ • • proprietors .
sieved men of the capita* this morning to talk over the
~~ ■
they have to say for his own governance.
ri. - !_'• m - j*
I have tunc only to write a few lines before th?ex
press rider starts. The [biirio of last evening con
-■ - est re f Mr.
Hire • is. and says that s me 400 men, armend with
liu-ves. t -;k a hand in t.ne transaction. The eilitor
does not try t > palliate the outrage in any wav, but
g tr> on t comment upon it a> f-dlows: ‘-This net. and
the excitement manifested when the wagons .the
enemv were seen coming into our city m be laden with
uaki - eve that
- j • ; » mass f>r th
fence of;he capital, and wit.; the same patriotic ardor
e given proofs in times past. Aud
wh can vanqurih 40.000 or 50.000 valiant men.
vaHer.ies} trtned with knives« r diggers, or even with
ks a ; •- • ig t rights
• t I •
their fa;:;, lies and their heme? However pair
_■ y s
fspecia t is k
' ‘ he t . ji tries, and
that the e : ' r gr in is hts ante*? upon a palpable
gross i iation t a the t his urn coun
try men.
I: is said that at the junta dt notables yesterday,
wh:*h wns attended tv sorac of the richest men mYne
It be QU!
{ have rooesy. They plead exceeding poverty, widen
i was probabty what the President expected. In case
* w« • ccec-J* in tuak:ng peac* ne be sere ’ use
an excuse that money to continue the war was denied
him.
There is a strange story afloat, to the effect ihat the
Mex •can commissioners have offered to give tip Texas
to the United States —Texas as far as the Nueces oply
—and also to allow us the privilege of constructing a
cotton factory in California! They 7 cannot think of
making any further concessions. I know not how
y the report got about, but it is certainly quite current.
, r fn the coarse of the present week xve shall know
whether the war is to be continued or a peace is to be
t* made—now all is doubt and uncertainty.
e If one could place credit in one-tenth part of what is
,• • told him in relation to Santa Anna’s movements it
would s< em almost impossible that peace could be
e made? A man c’omes iu front the city and asserts
r most positively that he has seen breastworks in pro
cess of construction ; that large numbers of sand bags
8 are being contracted for and made ; that bodies of
j troops are daily drilled, reviewed and inspected, and
that even Santa Anna employed himself all day yes
terday in inspecting the fortifications and other means
t of defence ofthe city. All this, the actions of the in
habitants, the tone of the press, &c., certainly look
most belligerent; but then one is told that Santa Anna
f is compelled to act ns he does, in order to, work out
his ends. If peace is made with the Mexicans it
9 will be a strange one, will standalone, will have neith
eifojrecedent nor parallel, and all the credit the Gov
g enpuent at Washington will get for its agency in the
matter I am fearful will not elevate us much among
filiations of the earth. Yours, &c., g. \v. k.
Release of tlie Encaraacion Prisoners.
■ t At length xve have the pleasure of anuotin
i cing the release of our brave countrymen who
were taken prisoners at Eucarnacion and other
j places by the Mexicans. It will be recollected
, that Col. Deßussy, with his command, was
. despatched from Tampico some months since,
* to effect uT the American jmsotiers,
t Yesterday the U. S. steamship McKtm^hrrfved
in the river from Vera Cruz, having on board
1 a number of these men. The MKitn will pro
-1 bably reach the city to-day. About thirty-five
; of the released prisoners (teamsters) remained
at Tampico, in tlie employ of the U. 8. Quar
termaster at that place.— Pic. 28/A ult.
From the St. Louis Republican, 22d ult.
Later from Santa Pe.
’ We learn from Fort Leavenworth, that Gen.
Price, Dr. De Camp, F. 8. A., and others, in
i advance of the volunteers whose term of ser
l vice in New Mexico had expired, arrived at
that post on the 17th. from Banta Fe. They
left Santa Fe on the JI tii August, proceeding
l by easy marches to Moro. When they took
< their departure all was quiet in New Mexico,
, which xvas then held by three companies IT.
S. dragoonsand three companies of volunteers,
r who had re-enlisted tinder Maj. Walker.
Sept. 11th.—Col. Price received a comtnis
, sion as Brigadier General in the army. It was
brought by a wagon train, and sent after him.
5 Gen Price, Mr. Rich and Dr. De Camp, and
a small escort, left this day, with provisions
and blankets only, for Fort Leavenworth,
where they arrived on the 17th, having march
ed more than forty miles a day for more than
I seven days, and that with tired animals, and at
the enu of an eight hundred miles journey.
From the N. (J. Picayune \Sth inst.
Later from Chili*
By the arrival of the royal mail steamer from
Jamaica the editor of the Diario de la Marina
of Havana is in possession of dates from Val
paraiso to the 2(ith of July. A letter of that
, date says that the most important event to be
communicated is the opening of the Chilian
• Congress on the Ist of June.
A law has passed the Senate of the Repub
-1 lie, after a violent opposition, authorizing the
construction of a railroad between Valparaiso
and Santiago, the capital. It was thought the
lower house would sanction the project. The
charter for the road, as it passed the Senate on
the 27th of July, was for thirty years. The
Government guarantees an interest of five per
cent, upon the capital of six millions of dollars
for ten years; it concedes the mines upon the
line of the road, an exemption from duties of
materials to be used iu the construction of the
road, and other privileges of minor conse
quence.
A law lias been proposed to regulate the coin
age of the country upon the decimal system,
without excluding the present circulating me
dium.
A great variety of measures have been intro
duced into Congress lor important local re
forms and internal improvements. There xvas
a prospect, too, that the special privileges of tho
Deputies and Senators would he abolished,
some absolute laws repealed, new tribunals
created, and judicial proceedings improved.
Attoh»v« a very of
the tranquility and progress of the South Amer
ican Republic.
The papers of Chili give news from Olahiti
to tlie J2th ol June. According to them, the
new Governor appointed hy tho French Go
vernment had entered upon the discharge of his
duties in tlie midst ofthe utmost tranquility.
Queen Pornare had been received xvitn
honors, and a grant of .>*(.>,ooo made to her.
Rail Roads.
The following article is illustrative of the
opposition which scientific enterprise has met
with from men xvho are tenned**distingui'hed.”
But xve need not go across the water for ex
amples of early opposition to Railroads. The
most remarkable opposition of this sort occur
red in the B.ate of New York. De Witt Clin
ton. Mr. Livingston, and one other equally
‘‘distinguished’* gentleman, whose name xve do
not now remember, were appointed by the
Legi'lature. prior to the commencement ofthe
Lrie Canal, to report on tlie best plan of con
necting the Hudson with the Lakes. Mr. Bte
phens ol New Jersey, submitted a plan to
them in which lo* proposed to build a road,
connecting the two points, which could he tra
velled at all seasons of the year: his plan was
to run two parallel pieces of timber the whole
length of the line, which were to he made uni
formly level, hx traversing valleys, Ac. on piles
firmly secured. On this road he proposed to
place a carriage, containing a steam engine,
which would propel itself and other carriages
at a more r tpid speed tiian could h« all.*::i*>, 1 on
a canal. Here xve have, several years prior to
the commencement of the i.rie Uanal. u full
and complete idea of a rail road, and locomo
tive engine. 'The gentlemen above named
considered this plan, and objected to if—be
cause ?lie parallel pieces of timber could not
in their opinion be made permanent, and lie
cause of the impossibility of propelling a car
riage by a power inside of it acting on its
wheels! They maintained that the wheels
could only have a rotary motion, and that it
was necessary that some such power as that ex
erted by a horse ill drawing a vehicle was ne
cessary to insure a propelling power! The
Erie Canal was built at a cost of many millions,
and now there is a road running parallel with
it from Albany to Buffalo!
Radical l. i (: —TI
lowing paragraph, which we find in the Loudon Min
ing Journal, of' August Tib, is so truthiike, that we
give it a place, with the simple observation, that the
same remark* nre equally applicable at the present
day.
••When Jacquard, the inventor of the wonderful
loom that bears he* name, was arrested anti carried
to Paris, with his machine, Carnot, to the presence of
Napoleon, r lgbly said to him, ‘are you lh< man
that pretends to do that imjios.-iaility, to tie a knot in a
stretch’-d string 1 His compatriots of Lyons, the itn
posibilitv being surmounted, broke his machines in
ISO 6, and raised a statue to his memory in 1340. All
those who are in advance of public opinion must bear
ridicule or persecution. In IS'23, the Quarterly Re
view thus ridiculed the notion of certain engineers,
Telford among the rest, that a railway engineer-aid
go 13 or 20 miles an hour. • The gross exaggerations
eng r to speak En
glish, the steain carriage, may delude for a time, but
must end in the mortification of those concerned. *
* We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich
; to suffer themselves to be fired ‘-ff nt-on one of Con
! greve's ricochet rockets, as trust themselves •■> the
mer _ . it such t rate.’ In
i that year, thee >mmon belief was, that railways were
s : a pusi ti -. i . !. •
and Man hestei r ly *ns >pp -1 in Pa
. every fi rm if ... •' dive. One member, in 1825,
declared his opinion “that a railway could not eater
into successful nj tit nal. I -
the best io- > native engine, the average rate w mid be
but 3j nines per hour, which was slower than the cn-
Han 2ii series, vol. iv. p.
853 • Mr. Huskinscn was
ged to meet get illy, '
• that there were two or three canals, which vv»-re sutfi- j
cient for every purpose of commerce in the
through which the railway was to pass. Let us be i
bust to what w* have i.»eeu accustomed to decrv its the
i irk iges. Let us tolera toth li
ed Gai neo. and rewarded Columbus with chains. It
there be a reality in any discovery—a true thing, \
tot a sham—if tl n ■ sir igth, itslity, r
. nan v work of m —it v
whatever critics, .-r orators, or inq maters, or *-v._-n
kings may rush it And s
i > ’ the
line —the Liverpool and Manchester nubvny—was
pen . n iveyance the passenger
originally to h ive been an infer: ,r c -.nriderasi >n to the
aveya - *; and th tors modest I j
ticifMted that one-haif of the passengers trav-bl :..g by
• en t • towns ght venture on the
ra -. ■■ i he first year after the j*ening. there
. 145 | s - • e year
1i 1845, th- ger
. On the 24 Vprii. 1847, t!a re
en a total 1 he ra f the Uni
ted King £*2
we k the aggr- . atr r-'ce*p: c '.pen t:. .-e rab ways was
a. ' eing a total ex ig £8.000,000 per
.. . - ' : • - •"
The Largest Ve t.— Tiie steamer M -.gnoiia.
(.'apt. Thooia«on. arrived at a late hour ia»t
night from Vick-burg, with a cargo of
bales of cotton. We have recently reported
> the arrival oflarge cargoes, but th * throw? all
t other* into th* sfiade — Pti. U?tfi uli
TAugusta, ®co.:
s SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. !4, 1847.
J The Worms— The Crops.- The Concordia,
, La. Intelligencer of the 18th Sept, says: We
are gratified to be able to state that our autici
. pations regarding the Cotton Crop seem like
ly to he realized. This is the day on which we
t believe Mr. Affleck, speaking in prospectu,
i as all philosophers like him do, said “ the Crop
was gone.” But it is not gone, and there is no
5 probability that it will be so. There are some
f cotton men about here, who assert positively,
1 that there has been a cross understanding be
-5 tween the siuiou pure and the grass worms,
• which will be the means of saving the crops.
1 The Cincinnati Gazette says that Prof,
t .
t House’s “ Lightning Letter Printer” has been
adopted by the proprietors of the Magnetic
‘ Telegraph Line between Cincinnati and Louis
r ville. The Gazette remarks: —■** Should this
machine equal the expectations of the inventor,
it has one decided advantage over that of Pro
fessor Morse, in this, that it will save much of
► the delay and cost of transcribing despatches
| received.”
i Georgia Mounted Battalion.
• The Mobile Advertiser of the 27th ultimo
i sa> 8:
i Six companies oflitounfed men/comprising
_ the Georgia battalion of Cavalry under com*
, maud of Lieut. Col. James 8. Calhoun of Co
j lumbus, arrived here in the course of Saturday
and yesterday, and have encamped two or three
miles out of the city. They came by land to
Stockton, thence to this city per steamer Selma.
The troops jire in fine health.
We understand that four companies of In
fantry, also from Georgia, are expected here in
a few days—all on their way to join our Army
in Mexico.
Troup Factory. —We visited this splendid
establishment on last Monday, and Mr. Holly,
the Superintendent, very politely conducted
us though all the operation rooms. The build
ing is full four stories high, and measures 45
by 7(> feet. The establishment runs 1000 spin
dles, and spins about six hundred pounds of
cotton per day. The enterprising proprietors
design to have 20 looms in full operation be
fore Christmas, whereby they will he enabled to
turn out one thousand yards of cloth daily. (Ton
sidering the superior finish of the machinery
now at work, and the addition of 20 looms to
complete the enterprise, tlie Troup Factory
will he the largest establishment of the kind in
the State. We shall speak of this again.—La
grange Reporter.
Death of Major Popham. —At last the old
mail is gone, and the Cincinnati Society will
greet his presence no more. Through the lat
ter years of a life prolonged almost to the ex
treme verge of human existence, xve have seen
him among us, still erect, healthful and vigo
rous, bearing his burden of many years as
though it rested lightly on his unbowed frame
and unworn spirit. Some friendly and rever
ent hand, we trust, will give us a fitting record
of nis long career.—JV. Y. Commercial Times.
From the St. Ijouis Union.
Important from Santa Fe.
Santa Fe, August 4. 1847.
At the destruction of the town of Los Pias.
on the 6th of July last, by the troops under the
command of Major Kdtnonson, xve found upon
tlie prisoners then taken, letters written by one
Gonsalles and others, leaders of the late pro
. jected insurrection, giving a plan of their in
tended operations, and asking the citizens to
he in readiness at a moment’s warning; stating,
also, that the Americans were already weaken
ed by the departure to the States of a number
of troops; that others were to start in a few
days, and among them the company of artiller
ists. Capt. Fischer’s, and that spies would be
kept constantly on the road to give informa
tion of their, the artillerists’, departure, at w hich
time they entertained no doubt of being able
to strike a filial and decisive blow.
The prisoners also stated that many of their
men. with their arms, had gone to the town of
Loqucsta, to join their leader, Gen. Gonsal
les.
is a town of consid .-ruble size, and
admirably located for defence, being situated
on the San Magil river, surrounded by tnoun
tiatrs of an almost inaccessible character. The
prisoners stated that Cortes and his party were
at, or near, Anton Checo, a frontier town on
San Magil river, some fifteen or twenty miles
below Loquesta.
Having disposed ofthe prisoners taken at
the storming of Los Pias, hy sending them to
Santa Fe for trial. Maj. Edmonson, with the
companies of Capt. Iloirne and Holloway and
two pieces of artillery, started on the 15th of
July to the town of Anton Checo, a distance ol’
about forty-five miles.
Upon our arrival at the latter place, at day
light the following morning, xve found the town
deserted, except by a few old men, women and
children, from whom we extracted the follow
ing information that their men, with their
arms, had likewise gone to the town of Loques
ta. Pursuing our march, and when within
about five miles of the latter town a Mexican,
supposed to be a spy. was captured by our
scouting party, w ho informed us that from four
to six hundred armed Mexicans, under their
leaders, Gonsalles and Cortes, were then in the
town of Loquesta.
Upon our arrival on the heights command
ing a view ofthe town, we discovered the ene
my dispersing in every direction to the moun
tain'. We, however, succeeded in capturing
about filly prisoners, the mule, saddle, bridle
and sabre of Gen. Cortes, and a great number
of American horses, and Caruunche and A pacha
Indian horss. obtained from those Indians in
• xchange for horses stolen by the Mexicans
from the American troops.
The enemy had evidently made great pre-
I paration for defence, ns their houses were gen
! **rall v barricaded and f ortified, and their goods
and valuables either hid iu the mountains or
buried. Our prisoners informed us that the
great panic among tlie Mexican troops was
produced hy our sudden and unexpected ap
proach. together w ith the fact that w e had xvtth
us artillery, w hich I think they never intend to
face again if they can avoid it.
It is hut justice to the troops, being part in
fantry. .and having with them artillery drawn
by oxen, to state that the march from Los Ve
gos. by Anton Checo to Loquesta, a distance of
between fifty-five and sixty miles, was perform
'd iu less than twenty-four hours, over a rough
and mountainous country, and a great portion
of the distance without even a road to guide
j them—to which extraordinary march may he
| attributed their success on the occasion.
W e are endeavoring, here in Santa Fe, to
: raise a new regiment. Three companies have
already been mustered in. and two others re
ported ready for being mustered. They are
composed principally of discharged volunteers
and wagoners. Vours. respectfully.
J. A. BORMAN.
2d Lieut. Co. F. 2d Reg. Mo. Mtd. Volunteers.
From the S. Y. Com. A dr., oJ 26 th ult.
Shipwreck Eighteen lives Lost.
We have been favored with the following
letter from the wreck master at Long Beach, to
; John 8. Tappan. F.-q.. Secretary of the board
!of underwriters. The vessel is believed to he
: the ship Auburn, Capt. Hoyt, which cleared at
1 New Orleans on the 241 h of August, fur New
j York, and has not yet arrived here. We have
j looked over the clearances for the last month
| at New Orleans, and find no vessel named the
Orb * mentioned among them.
Long Beach, Sept. 25, 3 -47.
The ship Orbit, of.New York. Capt. \\ h.te,
from Xexv Orleans, came ashore on the Long
Beach. Burnegnt Inlet, on 8 iturday night last.
She ha- gone to pieces, and me captain, first
male and sixteen others are lost.
Vours respectfully. Loxvarij Dennings.
Wreckmasier.
Washing tc . Sept. 2 • 1 ~4*. —At last it has
been agreed, in Cabinet Council, that in case
! of failure there shall he no other offer of peace,
and that our peace Commissioner shall at once
be withdrawn, f.xen Mr. Buchanan absented
to it. though lie i- 'aid to be for peace, and for
l treating with Mexico on generous terms. Mr.
; Walker. I believe, is the only member of the
Cabinet xvim irankly avows that he goes for .
the whole of Mexico, taking at once military .
possession down to the Isthmus of Tehuante
pec, and making Mexico pay the expenses oi
the war —Correspondence of the .Y. }'. Express.
Letter from Father Mathew. —The fol- j
low ing. «ax - the Albany Lv ening Journal, is an '
‘ extract from a letter received by a gentleman ,
in this city, trorn Father Mathew , by last steam- !
er:
•• \\ e are. thank God, in common with your
j country, cheered by the prospect of an abun- j
i dant harvest, and though poverty still broods .
i over our afflicted country, thanks to your mng
! rnficent gifts of food and money, comparative
: plenty gladdens the toiling laborer’s cottage.
Next Spring, God permitting. I -hall proceed
to yonr glorious Republic to give expression
in person to the gratitude that swell* my bo-
I tom.”
VOL. LXI -NEW SERIES, VOL. XI., NO. 40.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM
MEXICO !
Another Battle and Another
VICTORY!!
Tlie Armistice Concluded. —Battie of Mill
Del Rey.—Reported Repulse of our Army, with
a Heavy Loss. — Rumors ofthe Deaths of dens.
Worth, Smith and Pillow.—Hattie of Chapul
tepec. —Great Amertcan Victo y. — Gen. Scott
in the City of Mexico. — Gens. Bravo and Leon
Killed, and Santa Anna Wounded. —Betters of
Santa Anna and Gen. Scott Terminating the
Armistice.—Propositions of Air. Trist.—Pro
positions of the .Mexicans, 4'*c. tpc* ff* c *
From the N. O. Picayune, of 26th instant.
The steamship James L. Day, Capt. O'Gra
dy, arrived yesterday from Vera Cruz, which
place she left on the evening of the 21st inst.,
bringing intelligence ofthe greatest importance.
Immediately on the receipt of our papers and
despatches we issued an extra containing the
news—brief, but sufficient to satisfy public cu
riosity, and allay the anxiety for tlie fate of the
army, caused by the length of time which had
transpired without news, and the probability
that hostilities had been resumed.
As we anticipated in our paper of yesterday,
the negotiations resulted in nothing. Tlie last
letter from Mr. Kendall is dated the sth instant,
and our file ofthe Diario del Gobiemo does not
come down later than tlie 4th, but the Area Iris
of Vera Cruz has a letter from the city of .Mexi
co dated the 10th inst., together with extracts
from the Diario del Gobiemo and the Boletin of
Atlixco, to the 12th, which, together with the
letter we publish. The manner in which the ar
mistice was terminated will he learned from the
extracts we copy. A perusal of Mr. Kendall’s
letters, however, will at once sisow that a feel
ing of hostility was growing with the people of
the capital as early even as the 30th of last
month, and the Congress of the State of Mexi
co iu session at Toluca had declared against
peace. Notwithstanding repeated belligerent
demonstrations by the enemy, and a positive
violation ofthe armistice in our wagons not be
ing permitted by the mob to enter the city for
provisions, negotiations were still pending to
as late a date as the 6th. The Arco Iris receiv
ed letters from Mexico under date ofthe 9th,
stating that on the 7th the Mexican commission
ers declared that the propositions made hy Mr.
Trist were inadmissible, in consequence of
which Gen. Santa Anna convoked a council of
generals, who decided that notice should be
given immediately to Gen. Scott that the ar
mistice was at an end, and appointed the 9th
for the recommencement of hostilities.
On the 6th, Gen. Scott addressed from Ta
cubaya the following note to Santa Anna:
Headquarters Army of the U. States, }
September 6, 1847. $
To his Ei cellency the President and General-in-
Chief ofthe Republic of Mexico :
The 7th and 12th articles ofthe armistice or
military convention which I had the honor of
ratifying and exchanging with your Excellency
on the 24th ult., stipulate that the army under
mv command shall have the privilege of obtain
ing supplies from the city of Mexico. There
were repeated violations of these articles soon
after the armistice was signed, and I have now
good reasons for believing that within the last
twenty-four hours, if not before, the 3d article of
the same convention was also violated hy the
same parties. These direct breaches of good
faith give to this army a full right to commence
hostilities against Mexico without giving any no
tice. However, I will give the necessary time
for an explanation, satisfaction, or reparation.
If these are not given I hereby formally notify
you that if I do not receive the most complete
satisfaction on all these points before 12 o'clock
to-morrow, I shall consider the armistice as ter
minated from that hour.
1 have the honor to he your Excellency’s obe
dient servant, Winfield Scott.
To this Santa Anna made the following re-
Headquarters' Army of Mexican Republic, )
Mexico, Sept. 6, 1817. )
To His Excellency den. Winfield Scott, Common
der-in-Chiefof the Army ofthe United States:
Sir: —By the note ofyour Excellency under
this date, 1 learn with surprise, that you consid
er that the civil and military authorities of Mexi
co have violated articles 7, 12, and 3 of the ar
mistice which I concluded with your Excellency
on the 24th day oflast month.
The civil and military authorities of Mexico
have not obstructed the passage of provisions
for the American army ; and if at times their
trailsmission has been retarded, it lias been ow
ing to the imprudence ofthe American agents,
who, without having a previous understanding
with the proper authorities, gave occasion for
popular outbreaks, which it has cost the Mexi
can Government much trouble to repress.—
Last night and tlie night before the escorts for
the provision train were ready to start, and were
only detained because Mr. Hargoiis, the agent,
desired it. The orders given to suspend the
intercourse between the two armies were ad
dressed to private individuals, and not to the
agents of the army of the United States, and
were intended purposely to expedite the trans
mission of provisions to the army, and to con
tine the intercourse to that object exclusive
lv. Iu return for this conduct your Excellency
has prevented the owners or managers of the
grain mills in the vicinity ofthe city from fur
nishing any flour to the city, which is a true
breach of the good faitii your Excellency had
pledged me.
It is false that any new work or fortification
has been undertaken, because one or two re
pairs have only served to place them in the
same condition they were in on the day the ar
mistice was entered into, accident or the con
venience ofthe moment having caused the de
struction ofthe then existing works. You have
had early notice of the establishment of the bat
tery covered with the mud walls of the house
of Garoy, in this city, and did not remonstrate,
because the peace of two great Republics could
not be made to depend upon things grave in
themselves, hut of little value compared to the
result in which all the friends of humanity and
ofthe prosperity of the American continent
take so great an interest. [There is some ob
scurity in this sentence, which, it is probable,
is owing to typographical errors.— Editors Pic
ayune. ]
It is not without great grief and even indig
nation that I liax*e received communications
from the cities and villages occupied by the ar
my of your Fxcellency,in relation to the vio
lation of the tem des consecrated to the wor
ship of God ; to the plunder ofthe sacred vases,
and to the profanation of the images venerated
by the Mexican people. Profoundly have I
been affected by the complaints of fathers and
husbands, of the violence offered to their
daughters and wives; and these same cities and
villages have been sacked not only in violation
of the armistice, but of the sacred principles
proclaimed and respected hy civilized nations.
1 have observed silence to the present moment,
in order not to obstruct the progress of negotia
tions which held out the hope of terminating a
scandalous w ar, and one which your Excellen
cy has characterized so justly as unnatural.
But I shall desist offering apologies because I
cannot be blind to the trutii that the cause of
the threats of renewing hostilities, contained
in the note ofyoiir Fxcellency, is that 1 have not
been willing to sign a treaty which would les
sen considerably the territory of the Republic,
and not only the territory ofthe Republic, bu*
that dignity and integrity which all nations de
fend to the last extremity. And if these con
siderations have not the same weight in tlie
mind of your Fxcellency, the responsibility be
fore the world, who can easily distinguish on
w hose side is moderation and justice, will fall
upon you.
1 flatter myself that your Excellency will he
convinced, on calm reflection, of the weight ol
my reasons. Bat. if by misfortune, you should
seek only a pretext to deprive the first city of
the American continent of an opportunity to
free the unarmed population of tlie horrors of
war, there will be left me no other means of
salvation, but to repel force by force, w ith the
decision and energy which my high obligations
impose upon me. I have the honor to be,
your Excellency’s humble servant.
An ro.vio Lopez i>e 8 »nta Anna.
On the 7th. Gen. Herrera, as commandant
of the city of Mexico, addressed the clergy,
exhorting them to exert all their influence to
incite the people to arm themselves and pre
pare to resist tlie American army.
Following up events —as closely as the some
what disconnected account* will permit—in the
order in w hich they occurred, we find that on
the Bth, Gen. Scott attacked tlie Mil del Rev,
or King's Mill, in the immediate vicinity of
Chapultepee. and according to the Diario del
; Goiter no and tlie Boletin, published at Atlixco
our army was repulsed after a severe conflict,
in which we lost about 400 in killed and from
600 to 700 in won tided, and fell back upon
• Tacubaya. We give below a translation of
* the Bottlin's description of the engagement:
I premising, that the reader will bear in mind it
is Mexican and 0. in all probability, a great e.x
--| aggeration, if not an entire misrepresentation,
j It is from an extra of the Budrtin . issued on the
9th inst.:
! •• At half past five this meaning [the “0 ] d*e
J fire commenced on the two Hanks <»f Uiiapuite
pee. The left was resting mi th e ,n ° r *..
Rev, close to tile forest Chapultepee. 1 ins
point was commanded by Gen. Leon, and
under his orders were the battalion of Mina,
whose colonel as the. patriotic and valiant
Balderas, and the battailous Union and Fa
Patna, of Oaxaca, in ot%« of which was includ-
eii tlie companies of Puebla, also a body front
U,ueretaro and some others—all composing the
, . .National Guard. The right flank rested on the
house of Mata, at the distance of a quarter of
a league from Chapultepec, and occupied by
1000 of the regular army, commanded by Gen.
Perez. The enemy in two columns, with his
usual daring, attacked these points—first with
artillen, and at a quarter to 6 with a rapid fire
of musketry. Gen. Perez sustained the fire
very well for about half an hour, when, for
causes at present unknown, he retired with his
forces, although he had not iostten men. The
retreat must have been fatal for Mexico if, for
tunately, Gen. Leon and his brigade had not
shown prodigies of valor. Twice he repulsed
the column that attacked him, and in the second
he sallied from his position to recover the ar
tillery Gen. Perez had lost; but then he receiv
ed a mortal wound, and a few moments after
wards the valiant Balderas was also wounded
and died on the field. The enemy with addi
tional forces again charged and took possession
of the mill. Twice he was dislodged, but on
his retaking it the third time it was found im
possible to bring our troops to the charge.
“ In spite of these two advantages whicii they
had gained in their endeavors to attack Ciiapul
tepec, they could not effect a farther ad\ r ance,
which may be owing to their being intimidated
by the resistance of our forces and the consid
erable loss they had suffered. The result was,
that at 9 o’clock in the morning the fire of
small arms had nearly ceased, aud they were
seen employed in collecting their killed and
wounded. At 11 o’clock the enemy commenc
ed a retrograde movement, and by 2 in the
afternoon he withdrew all his forces to Tacu
baya, abandoning the two points he had occu
pied and blowing up the house of Mata, al
though some say it was set on lire by a bomb
fired from Chapultepec. it is believed that
Gens. Twiggs and Pierce directed the attack,
and that they put in motion about 8000 men.
It is certain that the fire was more intense and
brisk than at Churubusco. It is impossible to
ascertain the loss on either side. Ours does
not amount to 100 killed and 25p wounded.
There are few missing—nearly all not killed or
wounded retiring to Chapultepec. The ene
my, according to the confession of an Irish
man who came over to us in the evening, car
ried off 400 dead and 600 or TOO wounded.
We have to lamentthe loss of Gen. Leon, since
dead; that of Col. Balderas, of the valiant
Cols. Huerta and Gelati, and of the determined
Capt Mateos, of Puebla, who conducted him
self like a hero, telling his soldiers, on the point
of death, that they must m ver forget they
were Pueblauos, and to fight valiantly to the.
death. We will take care that he shall be
buried in the Pantheon, and that his unfortunate
widow shall receive a pension.
“If the cavalry had taken the position assigned
to them at 4 o’clock in the morning, by order
of Gen. Santa Anna, and if above all they had
made the charge which was ordered at the mo
ment that the enemy attacked the mill of El
Key, instead of flying precipitately, the action
would have terminated early and the triumph
would Irave been complete. But ’.hey did not
take the position to which they were ordered,
much less make the charge as commanded,
Gen. Alvarez being obliged to state officially or
through his adjutant that he did not make’the
charge, because his subordinate officers refused
on account of the ground being too uneven
and broken for cavalry, as if it were not the
same for the cavalry of the enemy.
“It is believed that the enemy will renew the
attack to-morrow by another route—cither by
that of La Piedad, or by that of San Antonio.
May God protect our cause on this occasion.
“One of the enemy’s guerillas, who came with
Scott, was made a prisoner and shot on the
spot.”
From the Diario del Gobierno.
At half past 4 o’clock this morning the Ame
ricans attacked the position of the mill of El
Key, close to the fortress of Chapultepec. His
numerous and brave columns were however
repulsed three times by our valiant soldiers,
who this day gave brilliant proofs of their pat
riotism and bravery. More than a thousand of
the enemy remained on the field of battle, and
on our side the loss has been less than one-half
that number, having to lament the death of the
gallant Col. Don Lucas Balderas, and Gen.
Don. Antonio de Leon being wounded, togeth
er with several other distinguished chiefs and
officers.
The “ traitor,” Santa Anna, commanded in
person the column, which forced the Americans
to retreat, taking with them, without doubt,
the conviction that it is only through rivers of
blood that they can penetrate the city of Mexi
co, and that at all events they will there find
their sepulchre.
We translate the subjoined extract of a let
ter from Jalapa to the Arco Iris , without vouch
ing for its correctness:
“ When Gen. Perez abandoned the mill del
Key a bomb discharged from Chapultepec fell
among the ammunition wagons of the enemy
in the yard of the mill, causing four of them to
explode, by which 300 Americans are said to
have been blown up, (vnlaron,) including (ion.
Worth, who, according to the account, had not
been seen or heard of the next day at Tacu
baya.*’
The next accounts we have from the capital
come in a letter to the Arco Iris, dated the 10th
inst. We subjoin a translation of it:
Mexico, Sept. 10, 1847.
My Esteemed Friend. —The whole day has
been passed without an attack. At 2in the af
ternoon an alarm was created by the appearance
oftvvo columns and two guerilla parties, which
were seen on the causeway of Piedad. A few
shots were exchanged and the enemy withdrew.
According to all appearances we shall he at
tacked to-morrow at three points, as the ene
my, during the night, has been reconnoitering
the country by mennsnfeamp lanterns {Jarol de
catnpftna.) The Go vernuienthastaken $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 Americans mutilated
and cruelly assassinated the unfortunate Irish
who were taken at the battle of Churubusco,
September Jl.—lt is 7 o’clock in the morn
ing and thus far nothing new has transpired.
lu addition, we find the subjoined extract
from the Bolctin de, Atlixco, containing intelli
gence from the capital under date of the JI tli
and 12th inst., which give a continued narrative
of the operations of the two armies:
Mexico, Sept. 11, 1847.
My Esteemed Friend —Under cover of what
1 sent you last night I stated nothing new, at
which we were surprised, as it did not rain, and
we expected to he attacked. Thus we passed
the morning until 3 o’clock in the evening,
when the alarm-bell was rung and it was ascer
tained that there was firing of artillery at C'lia
pultcpec and San Antonio Abad. In the first
point it was caused by the approach of a force
of the enemy's cavalry, which took position oil
the hills of Tacubaya; moving from that vi 1 -
lage towards Morales, and there a skirmish
with a party of our cavalry took place, in
which a Captain and several of our soldiers
were killed and some twenty of the enemy
wounded with the lance.
In .Sail Antonio A had the fire upon the bat
tery of the eneinv, which is in a little hermitage
half in ruins and situated at the end of the
Causeway del Nino Perdido or La Piedad,
which leads to San Angel, the enemy fired from
six to eight bombs, of which bat one fell with
out exploding. The others we saw burst in the
air. We then gave them several shots, well di
rected, one of which fell within the very her
mi*age, raising a great dust; in consequence
of which the enemy did not fire more than three
or four shots up to 6 o’clock. A strong norther,
which was blowing, prevented us from hearing
them, and we only saw the smoke.
It is said that to morrow they will open with
forty pices on the batteries of “garitas,” [Attlie
moment we cannot hit upon an English word
which will convey the meaning of this. Gari*
tus are the places in the immediate vicinity of
cities, at which the revenue is collected.— Eds.]
or perhaps bombard the city from these points
situated in the neighborhood of the small vil
lage of Piedad, which 1 have no doubt they will
do after taking anyone of the garitas, particu
larly the one of San Antonio Abad, which is
the most advanced, being in a straight line with
Palacio, which is nearly on a parallel with the
batteries of the enemy and tikes them in flank.
It appears that the enemy is convinced of the
impossibility of reducing the capital by any
other means, because there is no doubt that he
has lost 900 to 1000 men. who were placed hors
de combat by the action of the Bth. and among
them 37 officers aud 3 colonels killed and J col.
wounded. It appears that the death ol Gen-
Pillovv is uncertain.
In compensation for this loss, or whatever
vou like, they hung yesterday at Angel all
the phf*oners of the Legion of St. Patrick they
took at Churubusco, when all the world
thought they would have been spared capital
punishment. They have expelled from their
houses all the inhabitants of the village of Mix
coac, in order to establish there their hospitals
and headquarters
Last night a parcel of men started to work at
the fortification at the call of the justices of the
peace, animated by the most lively feelings.
Besides the Penou and Chapultepec, where
from the natural advantages were strong
defences, and where there are first, and second
and third lines of defence, all the “ garitas”
are strongly fortified, having besides between
l>a Piedad and Sun Antonio Abad three batte
ries and one trench which traverses diagonal
ly the grazing grounds and unites the two
“ garitas. ’’
Sept. 12.—At 5 o’clock in the morning the