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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. JAMES GARDNER, JR. T E 11 M S . Paily, per annum, S 3 00 Tri-Weekly, per annum, 6 If paitl in advance, 5 00 Weekly, per annum, 3 00 If paid in advance, 2 5u To Clubs of five, remitting $lO in advance . 2 00 i jrAll new subscriptions must be paid in advance. Postage must be paid on all Coinmunicatii ns aid Lel'ersofbusiness. * [Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun. J 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.