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THE CONSTITUTIONALIST. ;
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NEWS FROM THE ARMY.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP JAMES L. DAY.
CAPITULATION OF MONTEREY.
THREE DAYS' HAND FIGHTING.
The steamship James L. Day, Capt.
Wood, arrived Irorn Brazos Santiago
about 1 o’clock this morning. By her j
we have received the glorious news I
that Monterey has capitulated, as- :
TER THREE DAYS OF DESPERATE FIGHT-
I V G< Capt. Eaton, one of the aids of |
Gen. Taylor, arrived on the Day, bear
ing dispatches for Washington, lie j
left Monterey on the 251 h nit. Col. |
Kinney and one other gentleman ac
companied him from Monterey. Col. |
Kinney kindly took charge ot pack- :
ages of letters for us and brought j
them to Camargo, and there deliver
ed them to his companion, by whom
they were faithfully delivered. VV e
shall not forget the service.
We cannot delay the press to at- |
tempt to write out a narration of the
battles. The following ‘memoranda’
are from the pen of an oliicer who was j
in the battles. I
Gen. Worth, who led the attack ;
upon the city on the west side, has |
immortalized himself. The lighting j
was desperate on our side, the Mexi
cans out-numbering us by two to one,
and being protected by strong en- j
trenchments.
All our readers will delight to hear j
that the Louisiana boys did honor to i
the State. We knew they would.
Almost all our different accounts i
Eel down our loss at 500 or over, ot
whom 300 were killed. This best !
tells the character of the light.
Mash/ Memoranda of the operations
of the American Army before Alon
terey, Mexico, from the 10th to the
24th September:
On the 19lh Gen. Taylor arrived before
Monterey, with a force of about 6000 men,
and after reconnoitering the city at about
1500 or 1600 yards from the Cathedral fort,
during which he was fired upon from its bat
teries, his force was encamped at the Walnut
Springs, 3 miles short of the city. This was
the nearest position at which the army could
obtain a supply of water,and be beyond the
reach of the enemy's batteries. The re
mainder of the 19th was occupied by the en
gineers in making reconnoisances of the
city, batteries and commanding heights. On
the 20lh Gen. Worth was ordered with his
division to move by a circuitous route to the
right, to gain the Saltillo road beyond the
west of the town and to storm the heights
above the Bishop’s Palace, which vital point,
the enemy appear to have strangely neglect
ed. Circumstances caused his halt on the
night of the 20th, short of the intended po
sition. On the morning of the 21st he con
tinued his route, and after an encounter with |
a large body of the enemy’s cavaliw and in
fant ry,supported by artillery from tneheights,
he repulsed them with loss, and finally en
camped, covering the passage of the Saltillo
road, it was here discovered, that besides
the fort at the Bishop’s Palace and the occu
pation of the heights above it, two forts, on
commanding eminences, on the opposite side
of the San Juan, had been fortified and occu
pied. These two latter heights were then j
stormed and carried—the guns of the last '
fort carried being immediately turned with a |
plunging fire upon the Bishop’s Palace. On !
this same morning (the 21st) the Ist Divi
sion of regular troops, under Gen. Twiggs, i
and the Volunteer Division under Gen. But- !
ler, were ordered under arms to make a di- j
version to the left of the to* n, in favor of |
the important operations of Gen. Worth, i
The 10 inch mortar and two 24 pounder
howitzers, had been put in battery the night
of (he 20lh, in a ravine 1400 yards distant
from the Cathedral fort or Citadel, and were
supported by the 4th Regiment of Infantry.
At 8 A. M. on the 21st the order was given
for this battery to open upon the citadel and
town,and immediately after the Ist Division, I
with the 3d and 4th Infantry in advance, I
under Col. Garland, were ordered to recon- ■
noitre and skirmish with the enemy on the ;
extreme left of the city, and should a prospect \
of success offer, to carry the most advanced
battery. •
Tins attack was directed by Maj. Mansfield 1
Engineer, Capt. Williams, Topographical
Engineer, and Maj. Kinney, Q. M. to the j
Texas Division. A heavy fire from the first
battery Was immediately opened upon the j
advance, but the troops soon turned it,enter- !
ing and engaging with the enemy in the '
streets of the city, having passed through an
incessant cross fire from the Citadel and the i
first and second batteries, and from the in
fantrv who lined the parapets, streets and
house-tops ot the city. The rear of the Ist
battery was soon turned, and the reverse fire
of the troops through the gorge of the works
killed or dislodged the artillerists and infantry
Irom it, and the building occupied by in- :
fantry immediately in its rear. The Ist
Division Was followed and supported by the
Mississippi and Tennessee and Ist Oiiio
Regiments, the two former regiments being
the first to scale and occupy the fort. The
success of the day here slopped. The Mis- j
sissippi, Tennessee and Ohio Regiments I
though warmly engaged in the streets of the
city lor some time after the capture of tire
Ist batter}’and its adjoining defences, were
unable, from exhaustion and the loss they
had suffered, to gain more advantage. A
heavy shower of rain also came up to cause
a suspension of hostilities before the close of i
the dav. The 3d, 4th and Ist Infantry and
the Baltimore. Battalion, remained as the
garrison of the captured position, under Col. |
Garland, assisted by Capt. Ridgely’s battery, j
Two 12 pounders, one 4 pounder, and 1 how- I
jtzer. were captured in this fort, and three of
ficers and some 20 or 30 men taken prisoners.
One ol the 12 pounders w as.served against the
2d fort and defences, with captured ammuni
tion,during the remainderofthe day, by Capt.
Ridgely. The storming parties of Gen.
Worth’s Division also captured two nine
pounders, which were also immediately
turned against their former owners.
On the morning of the 22d Gen. Worth ;
continued his operations, and portions of his
division stormed and carried successively the
heights above the Bishop’s Palace. Both
were carried by a command under Capt.
Vinton, 3d Artillery. In these operations
the company of Louisiana troops under Capt.
Blanchard performed efficient and gallant |
service as part of Capt. Vinton’s command, i
Four pieces of artillery, with a good supply
of ammunition, were captured in the Bishop’s
Palace this day, some of which were imme
diately turned upon the enemy’s defences in
the city. On the evening of the 22d, Col.
Garland and bis command were relieved as
the garrison of the captured forts, by Gen.
Quitman with the Mississippi and Tennes
see Regiments, and five companies of the
Kentucky Regiment.
Early on the morning of the 23d, Gen, Quit
man from his position, discovered that the se
cond and third forts and defences east of the j
city had been entirely abandoned by the enc- |
my, who, apprehending another assault on the j
night of the 22d, had retired from his defences
to the main plaza and its immediate vicinity.
A command of two companies of Mississippi j
j and two of Tennessee troops were then !
j thrown into the streets to reconnoitre, and j
soon became hotly engaged with the enemy, j
-Tiiese were soon supported by Capt. Wood's
regiment of Texas Rangers, dismounted, by
Bragg’s Light Battery and the 3d Infantry;
the enemy’s fire was constant and un
interrupted from the streets, house tops, bar
ricades, &c. &,c. in the vicinity of plaza. The
pieces of Bragg’s battery were also used
with much effect far into the heart of the city
| —this engagment lasted the best part of the
day, our troops having driven the scattered
i parties of the enemy, and penetrated quite to
j the defences of the main plaza.
'Fiie advantage thus gained, it was not
considered necessary to hold, as the enemy
had permanently abandoned the city and its
defences, except the main plaza, its immedi- ,
ate vicinity and the Cathedral fort or Citadel.
Early hi the afternoon (same day) Gen.
Worth assaulted from the Bishop’s Palace
j the west side of the city, and succeeded in
! driving the enemy and maintaining his posi
tion within a short distance of the main plaza
! on that side of the city; towards evening the
I mortar had also been planted in the Cemetery
enclosure,and during the night did groat exe-
I cution in the circumscribed camp of the ene
: my in the plaza—ihus ended the operations
of the 23d.
j Early on the morning of the 24th, a com
j munication was sent to Gen. Taylor, from
! Gen. Ampudia, under a flag,making an offer
of capitulation, to which the former refused
to accede, as it asked more than the Ameri
can commander would under any circum
stances grant; at the same time a demand to
surrender was in reply made upon Gen.
j Ampudia—l2 M. was the hour at which the
acceptance or non-acceptance w 7 as to be
1 communicated to the American General.
i At 11 A. M., the Mexican General sent, re
! questing a personal conference with Gen,
Taylor, which was granted; the principal of
: ficers of rank on either side accompanying
their Generals. After several offers in rela
j tioa to the capitulation of the city made on
| either side and refused, at half-past 4 P. M.,
Gen. Taylor arose and saying he would give
Gen. Ampudia one hour to consider and ac
; cept or refuse, left the conference with his
officers—at the expiration of the hour, the
discharge of the mortar was to be the signal
| for the recommencement of hostilities. Be
{ fore the expiration of the hour, however, an
j officer was sent on the part of Gen. Ampu
-1 dia, to inform the American General that
| to avoid the further effusion of blood, and the
! national honor being satisfied by the exer
■ tions of the Mexican troops, he had, after
| consultation with his General Officers, deci
ded to capitulate, accepting the otter of the
American General.
The terms of capitulation were in effect
as follows:
( That the officers should be allowed to
march out with their side arms.
That the Cavalry and Infantry should be
| allowed to march out with their arms and
j accoutrements.
That the Artillery should be allowed to
j march out with one battery of six pieces and
| twenty-one rounds of ammunition.
That all other munitions of war and sup
j plies should be turned over to a board of
American officers appointed to receive them, j
1 That the Mexican Army,should be allow- ;
j ed seven days to evacuate the city and that j
j the American* troops should not occupy it
: until evacuated.
That the Cathedral, Fort or Citadel, should
be evacuated at 10 A. M., next day, (25th)
the Mexicans then marching out and the
American garrison marching in. The Mex
icans allowed to salute their flag when haul
; ed down.
That there should be an armistice of eight
; weeks, during which time neither army
j should pass a line running from the Rincon
! ada through Linares and fc>an Fernando.
This lenient offer of the American Gene- 1
i ral was dictated with the concurrence of his
! Generals and by motives of good policy and
consideration for the good defence of their
i city by the Mexican Army.
Killed —Capt. Williams, Topographical Engi
neers; Lieut. Terrett, Ist Infantry; Capt. L. N.
| Morris, 3d do.; Capt. Field,3d do.;' Maj. Barbour,
3d do.; Lieut. Irwin, 3d do.; Lieut, llazlht, 3d do.;
Lieut. Hoskins, 4th do.; Lieut. Woods, 4th do.;
Capt. McKavett, Bth do.; Col. Watson, Baltimore
Battalion; Capt. Battlem, IstTennesseeßegiment;
Lieut. Putnam, Ist do. do.; a Lieutenant in a Ger
man Company.
Wounded —Major Lear, 3d Infantry, severely;
Capt. Bainbridge. 3d do., very slightly; Lieut. R.
11. Graham, 4lh do., severely; Capt. Lamotte, Ist
do., slightly; Lieut. Dilvvorth, Ist do., severely;
Maj. Aberrrombia, Ist do., slightly; Lieut. Wain
wright, Bth do., slightly; Lieut. Russell, sth do.,
slightly; Lieut. Potter, 7th do., slightly; Major
Mansfield, Engineers, slightly; Gen. Butler, Vo
lunteer Division, slightly; Col. Mitchell, Ohio Vo
lunteers, slightly, Col. McClung, Mississippi Re
giment, severely; Maj. Alexander, Tennessee Vo
lunteers; Lieut. Allen, do. do.; Lieut. *Scudder,
do. do.; Lieut. Nixon,do. do ; Capt. Dowler, Mis
sissippi Regiment; Lieut. Thomas, Texas Regi
ment; Lieut. AnnstrongjOhio Regiment, severely;
Captain Gillespie,Texas Rangers,mortally wound
ed, since died.
[ Sj?ecial Correspondence.']
Bishop’s Palace, )
Monterey, Mexico, Sept. 24.
Gentlemen : This is the fourth day since
the battle of Monterey commenced. On the
20th,at noon, Gen. Worth inarched from the
camp east of the town in the direction of the
heights west of the towi\. McCulloch’s
and Gillespie’s companies of rangers form
ing the reconnoitering party. At night the
division bivouacked almost within range of
the guns stationed upon the highest point of
the hill, on which the Bishop’s Palace is
situated. At daylight an the' 21st, the co
lumn was again in motion, and in a few mo
ments was turning the point of a ridge which
protruded out towards the enemy’s guns, !
bringing us as near to them as their gunners
could desire, 'They immediately opened
upon the column with a howitzer and 12
pounder, firing shell and round shot as fast
as they could discharge their pieces. The !
road now wound in towards a gorge, but not
far enough to be out of range of their guns,
which still played upon us. Another ridge
lay about three-fourths of a mile beyond the
first, around the termination of which the
road wound, bringing it under the lofty sum
mit of a height which rises between Palace ;
Hill and the mountains, which arise over us !
on the west. When the head of the column 1
approached this ridge a body of Mexican ca- !
vairy came dashing around the point to
charge upon our advance. Capt. Gillispie \
immediately ordered his men to dismount and ;
place themselves in ambush. The enemy
evidently did not perceive this manoeuvre, i
but the moment they came up, the Texans 1
opened on them a most effective fire, unsad
dling a number of them. McCulloch’s com
pany now dashed into them— Capt. C. F. j
; Smith’s camp, and Capt. Scott’s camp of Ar- !
tillery, (acting as Infantry) and Lieut. Long- 1
street’s company of the Blli Infantry with '
another company of the same regiment like- !
wise charged upon the enemy. The Texan
horsemen were soon engaged with them, in
i a sort of hand to hand skirmish, in which a
number of the enemy fell, and one Texan
was killed and two wounded. Col. Duncan
now opened upon them with his batteiy of
Light Artillery, pouring a few discharges of
grape among them, and scattering thetn like
chaff. Several men and horses fell under
this destructive fire. I saw one horse and
rider bound some feet into the air and both
fall dead and tumbled down the steep. The
foot companies above named then rushed up
the sleep and fired over the ridge at the re
treating enemy, a considerable body of whom
were concealed from our view, around the |
point of the hill. About thirty of Hie enemy I
were killed in this skirmish, and among them
, a Captain, who, with two or three others,
fell in :he road. The Captain was wounded
in three places, the last shot hitting him in
the forehead, lie fought gallantly to the
last, and I am sorry that 1 cannot learn his
name. The light batteries, one of which is
commanded by Lieut. Mackall, were now
drawn up, on the slope of the ridge, and the !
howitzers opened upon the height of Palace
Hill. A few shells only were thrown, before
[ the enemy commenced firing with a nine
pounder from the height immediately over
the right of the column,aiming at Duncan’s (
batteries. The several regiments look posi- !
lions, and a few more shells were thrown to
wards Palace Hill, but did no execution.—
The nine pounder continued to throw its
; shot, with great precision, at our batteries,
i one hall falling directly in the midst of the
pieces, but fortunately hitting neither men
| organs. Finding his batteries thus exposed, ;
j and unable to elfect anything, Col. Duncan
; removed his command to a ranche about half
I a mile further up the Saltillo road, where I
Gen. Worth took up his position, afier order
ing the foot regiments to form along the
j fence, near the point of the ridge. The Ar
tillery Battalion, slh, 7th and Bth Infantry, ■
and the Louisiana Volunteers remained in
this position about two hours, directly under
the lire of the enemy’s guns (now two.) The I
balls fell directly in their midst all this time
without wounding a man ! To begin with, i
the Mexicans manage their artillery in batte
ry as well as the Americans do—this I be
| lieve is now conceded by every officer. At
j half-past 10 the column moved towards {he
1 General’s position. At this time, Capt.
McKavett, of the Bth Infantry, was shut
through the heart by a nine pound bali, and
a private of the slh infantry was so severe
ly wounded in the thigh, that he died the
next morning. About fifty Mexicans now
appeared upon the hill side, over the moving i
column, and fired at our troops some hundred
musket shot, without doing any harm. The
Division deployed into the positions pointed
out, and remained an hour or two when
Capt. C. F, Smith, of the Artillery Battalion, |
with two companies (his own and Capt.
Scott’s) and tour companies Texan Rangers
on foot, were ordered to storm the second 1
height! This the gallant officer cheerfully |
uudertook,and was followed with enthusiasm
by the officers and men of his command.—
It was considered on all sides to be a most !
dangerous undertaking, and this party was
considered most emphatically a forlorn hope.
That the height would be taken, no one
doubted, but that many b.ave fellows would
fall it) the attempt, seemed inevitable. The
distance to he climbed after reaching the
foot of the hill, was about a quarter of a
mile; a part of the way was almost perpen- !
dicular and through thorn bushes and over |
sharp-pointed rocks and loose sliding stones.
The 7th Infantry, commanded by Capt,
Miles, was ordered to support Capt. {Smith's
party, and, by marching directly to the foot
of the height, arrived before Capt. Smith,
who had been ordered to take a circuitous |
route. Capt Miles sent up Lieul. Gantt with
a detachment of men, upon the hill side, to 1
divert the attention of the enemy from Capt. ■
Smith's command, which could not yet be
seen. The 7th had already sustained a
heavy fire of grape and round shot, as they j
forded the San Juan, which winds around
the foot of the height, which fell like a shower
of hail in their ranks, without killing a man.
Lieut. Gantt's party were greeted with grape
and round shot, which cut the shrubs and
tore up the loose stones in the ranks without
killing any one; but the gallant young officer ;
came within an inch of being killed by a |
cannon ball, which raked down the steep and
filled his face with fragments of rock, dust ;
and gravel. This fire was accompanied by
a constant discharge of musketry, the enemy |
covering the upper part of the hill side, but j
the detachment continued to move up ; driving |
the Mexicans back, until they were recalled.
Capt. Smith’s party now arrived and moved
up the hill, the Rangers in advance, and did
not halt tor an instant until the Mexicans
were-driven from the summit. Whilst this
was going on, Col. Fersifor F. Smith, who
commanded the slh and 7th Infantry—the
6th, with Blanchard’s Louisiana boys, under
Maj. Martin Scott, had been ordered to sup- j
port the whole—gave orders for these com- |
mands to pass around on each side and storm
the fort which was situated about half a
mile back of the summit on the same ridge
and command Bishop’s Palace. Such a foot
race as now ensusd has seldom if ever been
seen; the Louisiana boys making the tallest
kind of strides to be in with the foremost. ;
Capt. Smith had the gun which he look upon
the height, run down toward the breastworks
and fired into it. Then came Col. P. F.
Smith’s men, with a perfect rush, firing and
cheering—the 6thand 7th and Louisianians j
reaching the ridge above nearly at the same
time. The Mexicans fired at them with
grape, but it did not save them, or cause an
instant’s hesitation in our ranks. Our men
run and fired, and cheered, until they reached 5
the work, the foremost entering atone end, !
whilst the Mexicans, about 1000 in number, j
left the other in retreat. Tire colors of the 1
sth Infantry were instantly raised, and i
! scarcely wero they up before those of the 7th |
wore along side. The three commands j
entered the fort together, so close was the
race—the sth, however, getting art advance
in first. J. W. Miller, of Blanchard’s com- I
pany, was among the first four or five who
entered. The three commands may be said
to have come out even in the race, for the
7th was not five seconds behind. In less
1 than five minutes the gun found in the fort
1 was thundering away at the Bishop’s Palacel
i More ammunition was found than our troops
, will use with the three guns that were cap
j lured. Onr of the guns was found con
, cealed. They are 9-pound brass pieces.
Several mules and half a dozen beautiful
1 tents were likewise captured. Killed, none.
' Wounded, in 7th Infantry, Lieut. Potter !
; bullet through the calf of the leg; Orderly !
I Sergeant Hurdle, of K. company; Corporal
S. P. Oakley, severely in the thigh. Oakley
: is from New York city, and a very intelligent,
i well educated man, as well as a good soldier
| Private White—the same who captured the
1 Mexican officer’s trunk at Marin, and who
received it and its contents from Gen Taylor.
I —wounded in the head. Fist Infantry;
killed, none; wounded—Lieut Rossell, in the
arm; Sergeant Maj. Brand, badly, in the
mouth with musket ball. Privates McLanus .
and Grubb, sligetly wounded—Sergant Up
tergraph, color-bearer,distinguished himself
by Ins gallantry.
Tims was this brilliant coup de main made
almost without bloodshed. 1 have not time
now to givQ the particulars of this glorious
affair. Capt. C. F. Smith was ih the ad
vance, with McCall, at the battle of Resaca
de la Palma, and is one of the most gallant
and accomplished officers in the Army—-so
! say all his fellow officers whom 1 have heard
| speak of him. Col. P. F. Smith —General
of Louisiana—distinguished himself on that
occasion, as did Maj. Scott and Capt. Miles
and in truth, every officer and man did his
{ duty nobly.
The gallant conduct of Capt. Blanchard
and Lieut’s. Tenbrinck, and the two brothers
Nichols, is praised by all the officers who
were there. In truth the Louisiana boys
I have fought every day for four days, and I
assure you, as Gen. VVorth’s report will bear
me out in saying, and as every officer in the
2d Division will testify that this corps hits
distinguished itself on every occasion where
j they have been called on. The sons of Judge
! Nichols,of Donaldsonville, have stood fire for
four or five hours at a time, driving the ene
my—under their battery—from bush to bush,
and rock, and at last were among the fore
most to rush into the Bishop’s Palace and
take it by storm. Capt. Blanchard and his
! company have already made a reputation that
; will not soon be forgotten. S. G. Alen, pri
vate of this company was mortally wounded
in this fight, and died next morning. Capt.
i Smith had no one killed or wounded in his
party of regulars—two Texans were wound
ed viz: Win. Carley and B. F. Keese. 11.
Bishop’s Palace, Monterey, Sept. 24.
Gentlemen:—l date both my letters on one
day, because f arn obliged to foot up the
j news of the last four days, having had no
writing materials along. Even now, though
! J write in a palace , I am obliged to hold the
I sheet of paper in one had on my knee, for
want of a desk. But 1 have no lime tor ex
tra remarks—a chance offers to send you the
news, and I must hurry to give you a glance
at what has been done here, before the ex- ;
press goes off. On the morning of the 21st,
Col. Childs, of the Artillery Battalion, with
three of his companies—one commanded by
Capt. Vinton, another by Capt. J. B. Scott, j
and the third by Lieut. Ayres,—and three
i companies of tiie Bth Infantry—company A
commanded by Lieut. Longslreet and Lieut, j
Wainwright; B company, Lieut. Holloway,
commanding, and Lieut. Merchant; D com
pany, Capt. Scrivnerand Lieut. Montgomery
—was ordered to take the summit of Palace |
: Hill. The Colonel left campt at 3 o’clock, j
A. M., and climbed the mountain through the
! chaparral and up the sleep rocks, with such
: secrecy thot at day-break he was within one
hundred yards of the breast work of.sand-bags j
before lie was discovered. The Mexicans |
poured their musketry into them, but they
rushed up the precipice and soon had the
place. Three of the artillery men, having
rushed ahead 100 fast, found themselves in |
the hands of the Nexicans. They surren- 1
dcred: the Mexicans took their muskets and
shot them down with the very pieces tiiey j
had given up. 1 saw the poor fellows lying j
there.
I have but a few moments left to write in, I
and must therefore defer the particulars of
the storming of the palace until I have more
time. Col. Staniford went up at daylight
with the balance of the Bt.h, and Maj. Bcott
led up thaSlh. The Louisiana boys were on
the hill with the sth, at 8 o’clock, A. M.—
One of Duncan’s howitzers, in charge of Lt.
Rowland, was dragged up, or rather lifted tip,
and opened on the palace, which was filled
with troops. The Mexicans charged on the |
howitzer, but were driven back. A constant
firing was kept up for several hours, particu
larly by Blanchard’s men, who left a dozen
Mexicans dead upon the hill side. At length
a charge was ordered, and our men rushed
down upon the palace, entered a hole in a
door that had been blocked up but opened by j
the howitzer, and soon cleared the work of
the few Mexicans who remained. Lieut, j
Ayres was the lucky one who first reached
the halyards and lowered the flag. One 18
pound brass piece, a beautiful article, manu
factured in Liverpool in 1842, and a short
brass 12 pound howitzer, were captured, with
a large quantity of amunition, and some mus
kets and lances. The fort adjoining the pal
ace walls is not completed, but is very neat
ly constructed as far as it is built. The kill
ed on our side, in taking the palace, was
seven—wounded, twelve. Lt. Wainwright 1
was wounded in the arm and side by a mus
ket ball, but will soon recover, it is hoped.—
Mr. John Francis, of New Orleans, belonging
to Blanchard’s company, was killed. 1 will ;
give a full account of Ibis affair at another i
time. Colonel Childs, Capt. Vinton, Capt.
Blanchard, Lieut. Longstreet, Lieut. Clark,
(Adjt. of the Bth), Lieut. Ayres, Lieut. Me- I
Gown, and the two Nicholls seem to have j
been the heroes of the day. The two latter
“did the thing up brown,” and not only Judge
Nicholls but old Louisiana may well be proud
of such sons. The Mexicans lost at least
thirty killed—twenty-one had been buried
this morning, and I have seen a number lying
on the hill side, that were not discovered by
our men when they brought in the dead.
Yesterday morning the whole Division un
der Gen. Worth entered the town on this side.
and have been fighting there ever since.—
The heart of the city is nothing but one for
tification, the thick walls being pierced for
; muskets, and cannon being placed so as to
; rake the principal streets. The roofs being
i fiat, and the front walls rising three or four *
| feet above the roof, of course every street has j
| a line of breastworks on each side. A ten- i
j inch mortar came around from Gen. Taylor j
j last evening, and it is now placed in the !
largest plaza, to which our troops have fought 1
step by step, and from house to house. Dun
can’s batteries are in town, and the present
impression is that the place will soon be
taken. Gen. W orth has gained all the strong
holds that command the city, and has pushed
the enemy as far as they can go without fall
ing into Gen. Taylor’s hands on the other
side of the city. All this has been done with
the loss of only about seventy killed and
wounded; The achievement is a glorious
one—sufficiently so to satisfy the ambition ;
of any man on earth. I was expecting to
see Gen. Worth rushing his men into unne
cessary danger in order to win for them and
! himself great military fame, but his conduct
has been very different from this. His great
| study has been to gain these commanding
j points with the least possible sacrifice of life.
! At first it seemed totally impossible to storm
| these heights—it looked like charging upon
the clouds—but it has been done. Theßish
j op’s palace, which is as strong as it has been i
represented to be, lias been stormed and taken i
by our brave soldiers. 1 should have staled
that Col. Hays, with a body of his troops,
and Captains Gillespie and McCulloch were
at the taking of the palace. Capt. Gillegpie
was mortally wounded, and died yesterday
morning, regretted by the whole army.
I cannot keep up, at all, with the Rangers.
Their services have been inevitable to Gen.
: Taylor, from the commencement of the cam
paign. They right with all the steadiness of
old soldiers—and are constantly on the move.
'Hie country owes them much for their no
! ble conduct. I saw nothing, as yet, about
Gen. Taylor’s proceedings on the other side
of the town, because the information 1 have
i received is not well authenticated. Mr. Ken
! dal 1 and 1 both came out with this division,
neither knowing that the other was coming j
with it. until it was too late to return, and
there is no communication between the divi
sions except by armed bodies of men. The
j General has, however, taken three batteries
I near the town on the other side, in doing
i which he has lost about three hundred men ,
killed and wounded ! t I do not know the ex
act number killed, but will be able to ascer- :
tain before this teller goes—and will try to
give other particulars.
Gen. Taylor has arrived at Gen. Worth’s
head-quarters to-day, and is now engaged in
town with Ampudia’s messengers consider- i
I ing I lie enemy’s proposals for surrendering |
; the town and the large fort at the north east j
side of it. That fort is very strong, and is
believed to contain at least twenty guns.—
Hostililies have ceased until the conference
1 shall be concluded. There must be an im
mense quantify of properly in town, particu
larly arms and ammunition.
1 should have mentioned that the 2J Di
vison marched from camp with only two
; days, rations, and no tents. A large majority
| of the officers, and many of the men worked
and climbed mountains, chased the enemy,
| and fought forty-eight hours, with nothing
to eat but raw corn. Much of the two days,
rations were spoiled by the rains—and as the
troops were frequently ordered off at an
instant’s notice—They left their haversacks
behind.
There have been from ten to fifteen thou
sand troops at this place ever since we have
been here,but they are leaking out, in citi
zen’s clothes, as fast as they can dodge otfi ;
As soldiers there is no escape for them.
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SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 10, 1846.
lETWe regret, owing to the sickness of
■■ several of our hands, we cannot give more
i full details of the army news. We endea
vored yesterday, but without success to hire
additional fore e.
We are also, for the same reason, com
pelled to omit several items selected from our
I northern exchanges.
tEFThe election returns come in slowly.—
Those received do not enable us to announce
the entire result with certainty. We may,
however,state that Messrs. Cobb, Lumpkin,
King, Stephens and Toombs, are re-elected.
We entertain no doubt of the election of
Messrs. Iverson and Haralson.
It is reported that Mr. Towns is beaten 30
votes by his opponent Dr. Jones.
O“We surrender almost our entire co
| linn ns of reading matter to give the details of
the hard (ought and gallant actions, which
have distinguished our arms at Monterey.
Many very interesting details, and feats of
individual chivalry are yet to he recounted.
We shall expect for many succeeding mails,
items which will ho gratifying to every
American who is proud of the military glory
of his country.
Our loss has been severe. While a grate
ful country will mourn her departed heroes,
their example will serve to inspire her sons,
to emulate their gallant deeds. Their me
mory will be sacredly cherished, and their
names occupy an honorable place in history.
In the loss of such men, our country pays
a high price for military renown, for that re
spect for her rights, which a too great for
bearance on her part had caused Mexico to
forget. But lasting benefit will result from
it of a political character, and a long career
of peacefuyirosperity. We doubt not that the
eight weeks armistice will he immediately
succeeded by a treaty of peace, embracing
terms in every way honorable to our country.
[LrThe Chronicle &, Sentinel is a very
unlucky paper on this Mexican war question.
When the accounts of the gallant cxjdoits
of our army on the fields of Palo Alto, and
Resaca de la Palma reached here the Chron
icle was pouring out a tirade against the
Mexican war, and the story of those glorious
achievements, which will ever be famous in
our history, went out in that print side by
side with cavillings and cargings at the at
“ o e*
litude our country 7 occupied in tiiis war. So
in the present case. The news from Monte
rey must cause a thrill of pride through every
patriotic heart, and cause it to swell with
enthusiasm at these added glories to our
country’s arms. Yet it must be a damper to
read on the same sheet ihat records the bril
liant story, comments which represent the war
as unauthorized in its inception, < ouductccl
in an unjust spirit and marked by acts of
our commanding officers, which place our
country in the wrong before the world.
Such denunciations will grate harshly on the
national feeling—upon that love of country
; which we breathe in our native air, and
which is an instinct of our nature.
No essay can be read with much plea.-ure
which take especial pains to convince the
reader that his country is in the wrong.
They were not read with pleasure during
the last war with Great Britain. They are
not read with pleasure in our present war
with Mexico. Such are some of the editorials
i of the Chronicle. Yesterday appeared one con
demnatory of Gen. Kearney, who, forsooth
I has committed the grave offence of conquer
ing all California, and annexing it to the
United States. It seems our arms have been
too successful to suit the taste—the cunser
the taste, of the Chronicle. There is too
much in it, of what the Chronicle calls “po
gressive locofocoism.”
It also quotes, approvingly, the censures
of that anti-American print, the National In
telligencer, which has argued the Mexican
side of the question so zealously during this
whole war, upon an editorial of the Union,
which advocates the propriety of compelling
the Mexicans to contribute to the expense of
the war.
The article quoted from the Union so fully
shows that our government would be right
hi doing this, that we do not deem it neces
sary to add a word in vindication. We al
lude to it, however, to show the avidity with
which some whig papers seize upon every
opportunity, in which they fancy they can
portray our government as in the wrong in
its foreign relations.
The greal success which lies marked all
the leading measures of our government
under the present administration, and which
the great body of the American people con
sider as highly honorable to our country, the
Chronicle and its kindred prints would cha
racterize as “progressive locofocoism.” U
seems to annoy them that the administration
has done so well—that it has realized so fully
the expectations of the great party that call
ed it into being.
[LUThe London Times states, as an evi
dence that Indian corn is becoming a regular
article of exchange, that large quantities
have been shipped from England to France,
and they have been paid for by importations of
gold.
GEORGIA HAIL-ROAD.
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Spears, P. Slo\all, Dawson & Weaver, D Antig
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