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TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS,
SECOND SESSION.
Washington, March 3. 1847.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Rteni eg Session. —On the re-assembling
W the House at 5 o’clock, tlie bill amenda
tory to the Sub-treasury act. was again taken
up, and in a short lime passed and sent to ti*o
Senate for corcurrenre.
Mr. Boyd, from the committee of con t er
ror* on the part oftl.e House, appointed to
confer with a similar committee on the part ;
of the Senate on the disagreeing votes ol the ;
two Houses on the bill providing for the ap
pointment ot fin additional number ol gt de
ni officers for Lite army in Mexico, made a
rejiorf. ...
The report was road. Tiro principal and
most important recommendation it made was |
that the Senate recede from their disagree- |
ment to the fourth amendment of iiie House, i
authorizing the President to designate and
assign one of the major generals, without
respect to date of commission, &c., to be
commander-in-chief of our army in Mexico.
A lengthy debate followed.
Mr. Boyd moved the previous question, j
which was seconded, and the main question
was ordered to he put, viz: M. ill the House ,
concur with the committee of conference in
their report? and it was decided in the affir
malive —yeas 92, nays 68.
The House then resolved itself into com
mittee of the whole on the state of the Union, !
(Mr. Hamlin in the chair,) and proceeded to
consider the bill from the Senate providing
for the building and equipment of four naval i
b eamships, together with the amendments
proposed bv the committee on naval affairs
of the House relative to twelve mail steamers.
After a debate, the committee rose and re
ported progress, and in a few minutes the
bill was passed and sent to the Senate for con
currence in the amendment of the House.
The amendment ot the Senate .to the bill
for the reduction of costs, and expenses of
proceedings in admiralty against ships
and vessels was concurred in. So the bio
stands passed.
The joint resolution authorizing the em
p*oyment of the U. S. ship Macedonian and
Jamestown to transport provisions to the
suffering poor in Ireland and Scotland was
taken up, and, after some debate, it was pass
ed.
Mr. Vinton, ofOhio, then rose and present
ed a series of resolutions highly complimenta
ry to the Speaker, for the ability, dignity and
i.nj artiality he had displayed in the perform
ance of his duties, which were seconded by
Garret'Davis, and unanimously passed.
Mr. McKay, from the committee on con
ference on the part of the House, appointed
to confer with a similar committee on the part
of the Senate, on the disagreeing votes of j
the two Houses on the civil and diplomatic
appropriation bill, made a report, which was
read and concurred in.
The House then went into committee of
the whole, but to take up the consu.
lar bill.
Mr. Grover moved to take up the Senate
bill to amend an act entitled ‘‘an act to raise
for a limited lime an additional military force j
and for other purposes.” The motion was 1
agreed to and tlie bill passed.
Mr. Brinkerboff moved to take up the joint |
resolution of the Senate to refund to certain
States moneys advanced for the equipment
and transportation of volunteers for the Mexi- j
can war. Agreed to. The resolution was I
read and concurred in.
The committee then refused to take up the j
. bill to purchase the papers of James Madison, i
rose and reported the bill and joint resolution
acted on, which were passed.
On motion of Mr. Boyd, another commit
tee of conference on the part of the House j
was appointed to confer with a similar com- ■
mittee on the part of the Senate on the disa
greeing votes of the two Houses on the a
mendrnents to the bill authorizing the appoint
ment of an additional number of general of
ficers for the army in Mexico, the Senate I
having disagreed to the report of their former !
committee.
The Senate bill to amend an act entitled
“An a<4 raise for a limited time an additional 1
military force, and for other purposes,” was
taken up, and read the third time and passed.
The joint resolution of the Senate, refund
ing to certain States moneys advanced for the j
equipment and transportation of volunteers
for the Mexican war, was taken up, and read
the third time and passed.
The bill for the relief of the heirs of Joint
Paul Jones was taken up and Senaie amend- j
ments disagreed to.
The House then resolved itself into Com- |
mittee of the Whole on the calendar of pri.
vate Senate bills.
A joint resolution for the relief of Orlando
Sallmarsh and William Fuller was taken up
to be reported to the House.
The bill for the relief of Thos, Rhodes was |
then taken up and both reported to the House. I
Mr. Schenck, who submitted some re- :
marks, and afterwards moved to go into corn- |
mittee and lake up Mrs. Madison’s bill, Mrs.
Hamilton’s bill, and Mrs. Mcllea’s bill.
Mr, Henley moved to suspend the rules to 1
enable him to offer the resolution providing j
for the printing of 2,000 copies of the report j
of the commissioner of patents for the t>sc of j
the patent office and 5,000 copies for the |
use of the members of the House.
The rules were suspended and the resolu
tion was read and agreed to.
The House took up the message of the Se
nate communicating the report of the com
mute of conference on tli£ bill to authorize
the appoiniment of an addition number of
general officers, die.
tea. The report was read. Its principal and
most important recommendation is, that the
House recede from its amendment authoriz
ing the President to designate and assign
one of the major-generals, without regard to ;
date ofc ommasion &c.,provided for in the bill
to be commander-in-chief of the army in
Mexico.
Mr. Boyd moved the previous question; |
and under its operation, the report was con- i
currcd in. 1
On motion of Mr. Bayly, the bill authoriz
ing the purchase of the Madison papers was
. taken up,
Mr. BrinkerofT moved to amend the bill,
by striking out the sum “325,000,” and in- I
serting in lieu thereof “5,C00,”
Mr. B. opposed the bill at some length,and
was replied toby Mr. Bayly,
The question was taken on the amend
ment of Mr. B. and it was rejected.
The Committee then rose and reported the
bill.
Mr. Smith moved to .lay the bill on the
table; which was rejected.
On motion of Mr. Hopkins, a commbtee
on the part of the House, to join a similar
j committee on the part ot the Senate, was
appointed to wait on the President to ascer
tain if lie had any communication to make
to Congress.
And it was also ordered that a message be
pen t to the Senate to inform that body that
; ihe liouse,liiving campleted the business be
fore if. was ready to adjourn sine die.
Mr. Bavly moved the previous question on
tl’.e bill to purchase the manuscript papers of
the late James Madison.
Mr. George \V. Jones moved that the
House adjourn sine die-, but wilhdrewn it
at the request of Mr. made some
| remarks in relation to the bill providing for
the purchase of the Madison papers,ami con
cluded by withdrawing the demand for the
previous question.
Mr. Jones then renewed his motion that the
: House adjourn sine dir; which motion was
| decided in the nagative—yeas 33, nays 83.
Mr. Wentworth ruse to a question of pri
vilege, and asked to offer a resolution. It was
I ejected to.
Mr. W. moved a stipe ns inn of the rule, and
! asked that the resolution might be read.
The reading was objected to, but is as fol
| lows:
Resolved, That the committee of ways and
means are hereby directed to report forili-
I with to this House the Senate bill referred
| to them for the relief of Ireland.
There were many points of order as to the
right to have the resolution read for informa
tion, &c., and the debate on these questions
! was still going on, when—
Mr. Andrew Johnson, from the committee
appointed to wait on the President to ascer
| tain if he had any further communication to
make to Congress, made a report.
Mr. Cobb then moved that the House ad
journ sine die. The question was put and
decided in the affimative.
Speaker's Valedictory —The speaker then
rose and addressed the House as follows:
Gentlemen:—By the vote just taken you
have determined that the 29th Congress shall j
now close its labors, and the members corn- i
posing it are to be separated, many of them
forever,—This separation is painful to many
; of us: I trust it is so to all, for we met as
j friends. It can not, it must not be, that we
part as enemies. If, unhappily, any unkind j
feelings shall have been engendered within
this hall, during the excitement of debate or ,
of social intercourse, 1 conjure you as a friend !
. and brother that within these walls they now
i be forever buried and forgotten.
‘ This Congress has been one of unusual and
: momentous interest —passing upon questions
| of war and of peace—questions upon which
; difference of opinion must of necessity exist,
and upon which it is advantageous to the Re
public that difference of opinion should exist.
It prevents the abuses to which majorities so
often tend, and excites a vigilance, a prn
| dence, and a care always promotive of the
I best interests of the commonwealth. It is
; trite but true in politics, at least, that it is
I manly to differ, but childish to quarrel be
; cause we differ.
1 have endeavored to the best of mv ability
to redeem the pledge 1 made you at the open
; ing of this Congress, viz: that, in rny official ,
! duties as Speaker, I should strive tn know
no part v but the people, and no locality but ,
| the country. In how far I have failed to be i
; thus governed must be left to you and your ,
i constituents to determine.
I return to you, gentlemen, my sincere and
i heartfelt thanks for the resolution which you ;
1 have adopted approbatory of my conduct as
i your presiding officer; and permit me to as- ;
sure you that, I view it not as a commnn
j place compliment, offered at your hands
I and sanctioned by your voices, without your
• feeling what the resolution itself expresses.
| —The kindness and courtesy, the forbear
! ance and liberality, with which you have al
| ways treated me, teaches me that, you feel
| what yon have so kindly expressed; and in
return, I can say that to each and every
j member of this body I entertain not only the
! kindest feelings, but there is implanted in
I rny breast feelings of interest and affach
! ment that shall only go out with my life.
To those gentlemen who have so kindly
relieved me in the performance of the ardu
ous duties of the chair, 1 am under parlicu-
I lar personal obligations.
1 And now, gentlemen, with a fervent hope
j that each of you may long live to enjoy the
I approval of your country, your consciences,
and your constituents, I proceed to consum
mate your last official act by pronouncing
lliis House adjourned without clay.
f From the N. O. Courier, Ist insl. j
Later from the Army.
The srhr. Oella, Captain Ham, from Tam
pico, and the U. b>. propeller Washington,
; from Brazos St. Jago, have brought very im
! portant intelligence from the army.
: The Tampico Sentinel states that letters ;
i were brought to that place by the rnail-car- ;
rier from Vera Cruz, to foreign merchants in
Tampico, containing intelligence that the i
commander of the Mexican troops in Vera .
Cruz had received peremptory orders from '
i Santa Anna l« withdraw all his forces from
| that place and march them into the interior. !
It was supposed, therefore, that our troops !
would enter Vera Cruz without opposition.
! The Sentinel also states that great prepa- |
i rations are making at Tampico for some ope- i
| ration, the nature of which is not known.
General Scott landed at Tampico, under a |
j salute, on the 19th February. Orders were
j immediately given for a movement of troops, j
I and Gen. Twiggs w’as to depart on the 20th
for the mouth ofthe river, and the remainder i
of the regulars, (leaving a sufficient number
! of artillery to take charge of the defences at ;
! Tampico.) would depart as soon as vessels ■
could be procured to transport them.
General Scott has made the following ap
pointments:
First Lieutenant 11. L. Scots, sth Infantry,
aid-de-camp, and acting Assistant Adjutant
General.
First Lieutenant T. Williams, 4th Artille
ry, aid-de-camp.
' First Lieutenant E. P. Scammnn, Topo
! graphical Engineers, acting aid-de-camp,and
Second Lieutenant G. VV. Lay, 6th Infan
try, Military Secretary.
GENERAL STAFF OFFICERS.
j Lieutenant Colonel E. Ilithcock, 3d In
! fantrv, acting Ins;ector General.
Captain James Wunroe, 6th Infantry, act
ing Assistant Inspector General.
Colonel J. G. Totten, chief of Corps ofEn
gineers.
Major W. Turnbull, acting chief of Topo-
I graphical Engineers.
Captain B. Huger, acting chief of Ord
; nar.l*e.
Major S. Mcßee, acting chief of the Quar
termaster’s department.
Captain J. B. Cray son, acting chief of the
j Subsistence department.
: Major E. Kirby, acting chief of the Pay
I department, and
Surgeon General T. Lawson, chief of the
: Medical department.
The sensor field officer of Artillery, Colonel
J. Bankhead, 2d Artillery, will enter upon
the duties of chief ot Artillery as soon as
; there shall be occasion for the use of plant
i ing heavy batteries.
The General has issued anprder, declaring
that certain offences committed bv inhabi
tants of the invaded country, upon indivi
duals belonging to the U. S. forces, by the
! soldiers upon the inhabitants, and upon one
anntli t, not punishable under the rules and
articles of war, shall be tried by special com
missions appointed by superior authority, and
the punishment for the same shall be as near
ly like as may be to the punishments pro
vided for similar offences by the laws of the
several States of the Union. These offences
are enumerated as follows :
Assassination; murder; malicious stabbing
** | .
; or manning; rape; malicious assault and bat
tery; robbery; theft; the wanton desecration
ofch n relies, cemeteries, or other religious edi
i fices and fixtures, and the destruction, ex
: cept by order of a superior officer, of public
or private pr perty. are such offences.
These offences, says the order, will be tried
] and punished under martial law, that unwrit
ten code, which all armies in hostile coun
tries are forced to adopt. The good of the
service, (the order continue?,) the honor of
the United States, and tiie inteojsls of hu
manity, imperiously demand that every crime
; enumerated above, should be severely pun
i ished.
Wehavehoenpolilely furnished with the Ma
famoros Flag of the latest date, brought by
the sclir. Samuel Lewis, Captain Ford.
No late news was heard of Santa Ann's
advance upon Saltillo,
j Colonel Drake, of the Indiana volunteers,
has put the town of Mafamor.os in a com
i plete state of defence, it was thought
he would be able to defend it against any
force (lie Mexicans could bring against it.
| Capl Henry, of Texas, who was guide and
interpreter to the detachment of Major Gaines
i which was surprised and captured by a large
I body of Mexicans, made his escape the day
i after the capture on Major Gaines’ hor.-e.
and arrived safe, at Saltillo, He dashed off
in face of the whole Mexican guard, killed
two men, who pursued him, and pushed his
| horse, a noble animal, until he fell dead be-
him, and made the remainder of the
; distance on foot.
Captain Heady, of the Kentucky horse,
| who had been sent out with 17 men to pro
! cure forage, was captured with his small de
: tachment by a party of rancheros at a rancho
! about 25 or 30 miles from Saltillo. The
! parly was dancing at a fandango, and were
i so much intoxicated that they could make no
j resistance. While they were drinking and
i dancing, their arms were secured, and when
! the rancheros came upon them they had no
I weapons In defend themselves with. They
were sent offlo San Luis Potusi.
' The news from Brazos, by the propeller
Washington, states that, still on the 23 i there
; was no news of Santa Anna’s movement to-
I wards Saltillo. There is a statement in the
! Bulletin that Santa Anna’s force amounts to
I 30,000 men, of whom about 7000 are caval
; rv.and that he may reach Vera Cruz as soon
as General Scott. If he arrives before Gene
! ral Scott, he will be able to prevent the dis
i embarkation of the troops, or attack them, if
| he finds only a portion of them landed. The
! whole of Scott’s force,continues the Bulletin,
is about 13.000 men, and an impression exists
; that Santa Anna will risk a light at any rate,
j even if he has to encounter the whole body,
j General Taylor has GUOO men at Saltillo and
: 2000 at Monterey, and has provisions suffi
: cient to last eight or ten months. The posts
on The Rio Grande are weakly defended, and
i could be carried without difficulty it the ene
i rny had the enterprize to undertake it. Thus
i far the statements and reflections of the Bul
| letin, which we think, are all based on mis
information and an erroneous estimate of
Santa Anna’s generalship.
We cannot believe that .Santa Anna has
moved or will move with his main body,
either towards Saltillo, or towards Vera Cruz.
; If he move upon the former, he falls upon a
snag, where his army will be wrecked; Sal
i tillo is well fortified, furnished with abun
j dmee of provisions and ammunition,and gar
! risoned by 6000 good troops. What ever su
i perinrity of number Santa Anna may have
! under his command, it is not possible for him
j to make any impression upon such a place.
1 Equally improbable is it that he would advance
far on the road to Vera Cruz, leaving such
a General as Taylor at the head of 8000 men
j in his rear; the strong ground of Son Luis
Potosi abondoned, and the highroad to the
i city of Mexico open and defenceless. Should
| he reach Jalapa, or the vicinity of Vera Cruz,
I f,is rear would be exposed to General Taylor,
: and his communication with tlie interior cut
• off—while in front he would encounter the
I army of Scott,which if it amount to only 13,-
i 000 men, is able to give a good a'ccount of
| Santa Anna’s 30,000. The moment Santa
■ Anna should advance on the Vera Cruz road,
Taylor would be in liis rear, ami thus the
illustrious Mexican would find his supplies
in the hands ofthe enemy,and himself and his
forces placed between two armies, cither of
which would be glad to have an opportunity
| to fight him, and would prove his match, in
i spite of his numbers. Taylor has mules and
: wagons sufficient for all necessary transpor
i tation, and a super-abundance of stores and
} provisions. Santa Anna, we are persuaded,
, entertains no scheme of an attack upon Sal
j tillo, because it must inevitably end in bis
defeat; and a march upon Vera Cruz would
' be still more foolish and still more disastrous.
[From the Xew Orleans Delta, 2d inst.]
lleport a BnliJr!
I The rumored buttle between Taylor and Santa
Camp Watson, Feb. ITih, 1 o’clock, p. rn.
Eds. Della. —After closing mine of this
1 morning. I proceeded to the encampment and
had not dismounted from horse before I was
asked by a thousand persons whether I had
i the particulars of the fight between Gen.
i Taylor and Santa Anna, at Monterey. I did
not know what to make of it for a while, but
at last succeeded in obtaining enough items
: to show that Gen. Taylor had again met the
enemy. As soon as I heard this I repaired to
the quarters of Gen. Twiggs and he stated to
me, that three Mexicans had arrived this
morning from Victoria, who had said that the
forces of the Americans, after retreating from
Saltillo, had made a stand at Monterey and
given fight to the Mexicans under Santa An
' na. The conflict is said to have been lung
and severe, and the loss great on both sides, 1
but, say the Mexicans, Santa Anna ultimate- !
ly gave way, having sustained a heavy loss i
in killed and wounded—among the latter was
Gen. Arista. At this moment I have little
time for comment. Ever since I have been j
. advised of the departure of the enemy from
San Luis de Potosi, I have been expecting to
- hear the news of a battle. To # encounter ;
Gen. Taylor, Santa Anna would wish five
. times his number of men, and knowing that,
I feared for the issue of a battle, and I must
| confess to you, that I believe more fully that
i a battle has been fought than Ido of the re- 1
: ported result.
if ‘he rumor is true as reported, (and why
should the Mexicans sav so against them
r selve.s,) you will have the particulars long
. before we will here.
CHAPARRAL.
v
. More News of the reported Fight between
j Gen. Taylor and Santa Anna—The De
tails as given by the .Mexicans.
] Tampico, Wednesday night, Feb. 17, 1817. j
Eds. Delia —The rumor 1 sent you this '
evening, relative to a fight between Santa
, Anna and Gen. Taylor, although Mexican
. news, i? credited by almost every officer here, j
The advance of Santa Anna from San Luis I
r to Saltillo had prepared every one fir the re- I
[ ceipt of the news of a battle, either at that !
) [dace or at, Monterey, and from that they
more readily credited the report. The force ;
of the Mexican commander must have been j
. large, judging from the notices of their de- |
part.are from San Luis, and he had enough, !
j in his own mind lo overcome the -4 or 3000— i
_ i if that many—of Gen. 'Baylor. Independent 1
I of this, the fact of the Mexicans reporting j
, 1 this news, which is against themselves, in- i
, duces me to attach some credit to it—for, as I
1 have said before, there is generally some i
, fire from where this sort of smoke issues.— I
The account, as I gathered it last evening,
is a little more in detail than is setfoilh in I
my first letter.
On the approach o r Santa Anna to Saltillo,
Gen. Taylor fell back on the road lo Monte
rey, followed by the Mexican chief. In his j
eagerness to out flank our general, and cutoff
his retreat, he extended his line too far, and |
’ so weakened his centre that the ready eve of |
y old 'Baylor immediately discovered the ad'van- j
' tage, and, wheeling his column to the right I
by a quick move, cut through their centre,
I and made such work on tiie advanced half,
that, before the rear could render them any
| essential service, they were cut up and dis
persed. The number of killed on the part
of the enemy, is represented by the Mexi
cans to have been greater than at any other j
j i battle. Amongst the dangerously wounded, :
j I hear the name of Gen. Arista mentioned, I
; but do not learn whether he is a prisoner. I
1 could mention to you the names of several
| distinguished officers who place implicit con
| fid nee in this news, but it. is unnecessary.
’ ! If you have not received the news of this
; fight, look at your last dates from Monterey,
i It would ‘ake this news seven or eight days
i to reach here, and it may be as many more ■
: before it reaches yotfr cilv.
'CHAPARRAL.
•I _ |
Tampico, Thursday morning, Feb. 18, 1317.
Eds. Delta —Again, last night we were ■
1 visited by a Norther, and it is a doubt- |
ful matter to-day whether any vessel can
pass the bar. The slop Elssler was off the
bar last night, with despatches for General
Scott. She is from Lcbos Island.
There is still a great deal of talk this morn
ing about the fight up country; and if it did
• not occur as related, I feel certain that ask r
’ i rnisli of some sort has taken place. It may
1 j look strange, in rny brief letter of yesterday,
; to be detailing from rumor bow an attack
; : was made, &0., but 1 simply set it down lo
1 show that if it is without truth, how rumor
j can gather up probabilities enough to work
1 up a good story. As I said before, you can
compare (fates, and exercise your own judg
-1 | ment as to the possibility of its truth.
Off the bar last night, barque Columbia,
' with Quarter Master’s stores. Ship Tah
maroo, and several others, at anchor, waiting
1 orders. The German brig is still at anchor.
CHAPARRAL.
Tampico, Sunday night Feb. 14.
.j*%* * * * *
This evening a mail was brought hero from
New Orleans by a steamer from the Brazos,
and amongst other items, was the gratifying
intelligence that Brig. Gen. Twiggs had been
breveted a Major-General.
There was nothing official received on this
head, but the mere rnmrsof itdiffused unbound
ed joy throughout the camp. If it be true, and
I trust it is, the big folks at Washington have
■ at hist found out that there was something
■ worthy of notice that occurred at (he east end
during the siege of Monterey. From the tone
of the newspapers throughout the United
States, a person unacquainted with the im
‘ portant events of that division of the army,
would look upon it as being ot minor consid
i eration. This is the greatest error that ever
> was committed, and owes its origin altogeth
er to accident. One of the editors of the N.
O. Picayune and its special correspondent
, (II.) witnessed the siege; but, unfortunately
for tiie credit of the whole army, were both
with the same division, and, of course, chroni
-1 ; cled every important event that occured during
■ i the fight. To do this, where men fought as
f well and as bravely as those did under Gen.
Worth, was labor enough, and they fulfilled
, their task well, as the voluminous and in
‘ foresting reports in that paper will show.
: Before closing these letters after the cap
i inflation, they had only time lo say, before
f the sending off of the express, that the east
' end had lost so many men, among whom
i were a number of officers, named. The
1 , Picayune’s accounts ofthe battle was copied
• j and enlarged on until Generals Taylor,
I : Twiggs, Butler, Quitman, etc., were forgot
> ten, and paragraphs crept in the original ac
count derogatory lo the character and standing
’ of those gentlemen as officers and soldiers.
1 Papers that were road by tiie multitude con
• tained paragraphs that “Worth was the hero
of this affair!” he did all the war k /” etc., until
the American people in the absence of all
t official accounts, huzzaed for Worth’s divi
sion, nor cast a thought upon those at the
east end, who worked incessantly, day and
? night to subdue the strong redoubt that op
-1 posed them. * * Had they but wit
nessed what has since been pointed out to
1 me, by men who fought and bled in the dread
ful onslaught at the east end, their account
1 of the siege wold at least have been neutral
t ized, and many a gallant officer and soldier
> who has inwardly sighed acquiescence to the
) saying, that “Republics are ungrateful,”
) would have been spared the bitter reflection,
) that all their exertions for the nation’s honor
; had been overlooked. I have had forts and
i bastions pointed out to me that had been
i reinforced for the third and fourth time by the
i enemy, before they yielded. There is one in
- particular, where an officer, who stands con
\ spicuotta in the siege, told me that the last
I reinforcement brought in amounted to about |
1 800 men, where the original defenders did '
i not exceed 300. For these papers to claim
I that Worth did ail the work is ridiculous, and
I am proud lo learn, by the appointment or
j promotion of (Jen. Twiggs, that the pres i
dent did not swallow it. That Gen. Worth
| did well—did ail that any man could have
I been expected to do—there is no one more
readv to admit than 1 am, but there are others
who labored as hard, accomplished as much,
and are ready again lo do so, as he did. Gen.
Worth went over a great (lea! of ground, but j
' had he encountered the difficulties that were |
opposed to Twiggs and others, he never could j
| have made tiie headway into tiie city that he I
did. Ido not recollect one position of the j
enemy that Gen. ortli dislodged, where a
j reinforcement was brought in. Independence
I Hill was taken by a master stroke, but there
was no attempt lo regain it. The same thing j
occurred at the hill that commands the |
Bishop’s Palace, but the effort was slight to j
j regain it; and so the battle continued until j
! they approached the main Plaza. On tiie j
other hand, I do not know a fort or redoubt, j
that was not maintained fora while, at tiie
east end, with the utmost obstinacy; the re-
I t!notion of each, causing tiie sacrifice of many
| lives. The difference in the defence, made
by the enemy in the different quarters of the ;
I town, made the difference in the luimber of
j lives lost, and I do not believe that tiie
I superior generalship of any one saved a single
i life. The enemy evidently looked for little |
! or no work at tiie west end, and hence tiie
| slight defence made in that quarter.
; I never should have alluded to this subject |
had not the promotion of Gen. Twiggs called
i for it, for i had hoped that some more able i
1 pen than 1 can wield would have referred
: to it. But the advancement of the brave old j
general ii Is me with joy, and in that mood I )
| have probably ventured on a ground which
| I have not the ability lo do justice.
CHAPARRAL.
\ From tJw ,V (). Delta, 3 / insf.}
Fit 041 HEXItO-TMK Alt4lV.
The following letter from our attentive
correspondent at Monterey, which should !
i have been received on Monday, only came to
hand yesterday. It is the latest from that i
quarter, and throws great doubt upon the
! rumors noticed by our Tampico correspon- .
dei.tufa battle between Gen. Taylor and
Santa Anna. That a strong demonstration i
has been made by tiie Mexican force in the j
direction of Saltillo, there appears to be little '
doubt, and a skirmish having taken place is
quite probable,though vastly exaggerated by
I ihe thousand contradictory rumors afloat:
■ Gen. 'Taylor at Saltillo ivith an effective force 1
of 3300 men—Startling rumors of Santa j
A ana's advance —Deported advance of Gen. ,
Taylor on San Luis de Potosi —A o fur
ther intelligencefrum the captured companies
of Kentucky and Arkansas volunteers —
A new paper to be started ot Monterey, to
be called the “ Mountain Warrior ,” cf*c.. j
Monterey, Feb. 13. 1817.
Eds. Delta. —I reached here on the even- !
j ing of the 9lh hist. from Camargo, and found
I all matters in astute of comparative quiet
ness.
There arc no army movements at present, '
; and every little news that could at all inter
! cst you readers if I except the thousand and
one startling rumors that are being daily put
I in circulation, by whom no one can tell. At
one moment we hear of the advance of Santa
Ann at the head of his iegions,and at another,
ir, is positively asserted that Gen. Taylor is
about to advance on San Luis de Potosi.
Gen Taylor is now at Saltillo, and shire |
Lis arrival there, notwithstanding the ru
| mors and counter rumors, there has been as [
i yet, no “stampede.” Should he advance on ■
(t e road to San Luis,as is currently reported,
he will at lea.-l have 5000 effective men, of
I all arms, for action. Among the force now 1
under his command are Captain Washing- ;
I ton’s, Bragg’s, Sherman’s and Webster's bat
j terresjCo!. May's squadron of 2d Dragoons;
I Kentucky and Arkansas mounted Volunteers;
1-t Regt. Mississppi Volunteer regiments— j
j With this force, 1 have no doubt but old |
: “Rough and Ready,” when he again mea
sures lances with (lie foe, will be enabled to
head his beiietin with the emphatic sentence
—-We have met tiie enemy and they are
ours.”
Nothing further since my last has been
1 heard from the captured companies of the
i Kentucky and Arkansas Volunteers.
You will, no doubt, be glad to learn that
the great leveler of civilization,the “Presv’is
advancing pari pussu with our arms A
new paper, I understand, is about to be start
ed in ibis city, lo be named tire “Mountain
Warrior.” T.
Preparations for Departure — Pillow's
Division first to Move—More of Paulino,
the Bandit Chief- —A Large Haul of Beeves
—Death of Capl. A. Morris, 4th Illinois
Volunteers.
Tampico. Feb. 16—2 P. M.
Eds. Della ;*****
Every thing is in active preparation for de
parture to some place. Slings are being made
for the horses, and stalls tilting in the vessels,
that are to transport them. The wagons are
all numbered, so that they can be taken to
pieces, shipped, and put together again, with
i out botheration and loss of time.
Gen. Pillow, with two regiments of Ten- I
nessce Infantry, will probably be the first to
i move. The cavalry from the same State, at
: tached to his brigade, will remain behind,
| unless they dismount themselves, for it will
: be impossible to obtain vessels for their trans
portation. Numbers of them, although loth
i to part with their horses, would be willing to
; goon foot, rather than remain behind when
I warm work is expected ahead.
I do not know who will follow Pillow in
I the move, or when he will move; hut I sup
j pose, from present indications, it will be in a
j very few' days.
, Paulino, the bandit chief I spoke of yester
: day, has been bold enough to come, with a
part of his command, as near ns as Altamira.
The contractor of beef for the Ist division, C.
B. Gallagher, had sent out an agent to that
1 place to buy cattle, and he was just on the
| point of starling wish them when Paulino en
tered the town. Ho rook the cattle, and the
purchaser he sent lo Gen. Urrea, at Victoria.
On the same day, our own Hoops made a
haul of 600 beeves, that were being crossed
over the Panuco, no doubt intended for the
enemy’s forces at Tuspan.
Yesterday morning, at 10 o’clock, Capt. A
; Morris, commander of Company D. 4th Illi
| riois, died in this place. The captain had
i been suffering from the fatigues of the march
| down, ami he had wasted away to a mere
skeleton. He was an officer in the Black
Hawk War, and served with Gen. Taylor.
The following vessels have been chartered
up to this time—Schrs. Howard, Orator,
Mount Vernon, Cornelia, Ells, Regina Hill,
i and 11. Burling. CHAPARRAL.
I Exaggeration in relation to the conduct of
Volunteers —Heat of the Weather.
Tampico, Feb. 17—II A. M.
i Eds. Delta: * * * *. *
A letter has been recently published in
your city, detailing many enormities commit
ted by the volunteers in this country. My
attention was called to it by an officer high ir.
command, and although himself a ‘Tegular, ’
he savs it is the most erroneous and uncalled
fur effusion that has yet been sent to the Uni
ted Stales, 'i’lie “raw-head and bloody bones”
j statement of this writer, will be noticed by
I me at some length in a subsequent letter.
At this hour it is excessively warm, nor
! do I believe you ever see a more oppressive
j day in your latitude. CHAPARRAL.
I augustaT geo..
TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1847.
Gen. Twigg*.
We would call the attention of our readers
' to the correspondence of the New Orleans
Delta, published in this day’s paper. It
comes late, but we are glad to see that jus
tice is about being done to this gallant officer
and the officers and men under hia command,
j who participated in the glorious conflict at
I Monterey. Ail will recollect the great havoc
made in this division of Gen. r J ay lot’s army,
and from the account furnished by the Delta’s
i correspondent, it appears that I lie hardest
fighting (without reporters) was done by
Gen. Twiggs’ command.
Dir The Washington Union of the sih inst.
j says—“We are happy to learn, that Briga
dier General Worth has, in consequence of
his gallant services, been nominated and con
firmed by the Senate, us major general, by
bre cel .”
(D"Commodore Perry, who is appointed to
1 the command of the U. S. naval forces in
the Gulf of Mexico, arrived at Norfolk on
Tuesday, in the steamer Georgia, from Bal
timore. Com. P. will hoist his broad pen
nant on board the steam frigate Mississippi,
which is now rapidly filling out at the Goa
port Navy Yard, and is expected to sail lor
the Gulf this week.
The Tariff of 18 IS.
! Our whig friends are a great set for croak
tr o
j ing. If they could, they would make the
i people of this country believe that the Tariff
of 1846, diminishing the duties, would not
1 only ruin the country, but positively not pro
duce revenue sufficient for the support of the
I-government. Assertion is one thing with
I them, and easily and in many cases unhesi
tatingly made, —but when you want proof,
! you must look to some other source than
whig prints,particularly where the operations
of the late tariff are concerned* Figures
they say never lie, and here follows a state
ment from tiie highest source of information,
which will be read with pleasure by every
well wisher of his country, and put to flight
all the twaddle recently set forth by the whigs
of ruin. foe. The revenue received since the
passage of the late tariif law, it will be seen
shows an INCREASE over the receipts uu
-1 der the oh! ( u hfg) tariff during the same pe
riod, of right hundred and sixty-three thou
sand eight hundred and ninety-one dollars,
sixteen c&nfs.
Treasury Department, March 3, 1547.
Gentlemen: in compliance with the request
1 contained in your communication of yester
day. I send you a statement of the gross re
ceipts at ti e six principal ports of the United
States from the Ist December, 1846, up to
j the latest period to which returns have been
i received, and a similar statement for the cur
i responding period of the previous year.
1 remain, very respectfully,
11. J. WALKER,
Secretary of the Treasury,
i The lions. R. M. T. Hunter, Linn Boyd,
and Wm. M. Tredway, House of Represen
tatives.
GROSS RECEIPTS.
At the ports of Baltimore, Boston, Char’cs
lon, New Orleans, New York, and Philadel
phia:
1845. 1846.
! December $1,996,860 92 2,250,911 16
1846. 1847.
January $2,082,276 20 $2,433,430 68
February 1.954,681 86 2,213,362 30
$6,033,818 93 $6,897,710 14
6,033,818 98
Increase $863,891 16
The above statement is made* out from the
returns as far as received. The returns from
New Orleans for two weeks in January, 1846,
are missing. The receipts for the corres
ponding two weeks in January, 1847, have,
I of course, been omitted.
The Etumarnd iintllc.
We publish in Lliis day's paper all the in
telligence that has come to hand in relation
j to the rumored battle between Gen. Taylor
and Santa Anna at Monterey, but for our
own part put but little faith in the rumors.
The New Oilcans Picayune of the 3d inst.
speaking of these rumors, says—“ Some feel
ing has been excited in the city by the re
ports which have reached here from Tampi
co, that an action had been fought near Sal
tillo, between the forces of Gen. Taylor and
Santa Anna, The rumor obtained curren
j cy, and even credence, at Tampico, but is no
doubt unfounded. We published yesterday
I a letter dated the Bth ult. from Saltillo, which
I was written about the lime the action is sup
| posed to have taken place, or a little after
That made no mention of a battle. We have
since seen a letter of the 16th ult., from Ca
margo, written by a very intelligent officer
of the army. It makes no mention of such
an action, nor of the march of Santa Anna
upon Saltillo.
“From all the lights before us we are de
cidedly of opinion not only that Santa Anna
has not attacked Gen. Taylor, but "that Gen.
Taylor will be the first of the two to com
mence active hostilities. We do not despair
of hearing of a general action in that direc
tion. It would be too soon to anticipate one
for several weeks, we fear, but the sooner
the better; we have no doubts as to the issue.