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TO KATE
I’m thinking of the time, Kate,
When “ilting by thy side,
And picking beans, I gazed on thee.
And felt a peacock’s pride—
In silence leaned we o’er the pan,
And neither spoke a word;
Hut the rattling of the beaus, K ite.
Was all the sound 1 heard.
Thy auburn curls bung down, Kate
And kissed thy lily cheek;
Thy azure eyes, half filled with tears,
Bespoke a spirit meek
To be so charmed as I was then
Had ne’er before occurred,
When the rattling of the beans, Kate,
Was all the sound we heard.
I thought it was no wrong, Kate,
tSu leaning o’er the dish;
As you snatched up a lot of beans,
I snatch’d a nectar’d kiss —
A sudden shower made blind my eyes,
I neither saw nor stirred,
Hut the rattling of the beans, Kate,
Was all the sound I heard.
[ From theN. O. Picayune, Oct. 23.]
TERRIFIC GALE IX THE GULF.
Wreck of U. S. brig Perry—Loss of
the Revenue Cutter Morris — Total
Destruction of Key West—Fifty
Lives Lost—lmmense Destruction
of Property.
The schooner Sarah Churchman, Capt.
Baymore, from Philadelphia, via Key
West, for Brazos Santiago, arrived at the
N. E. Pass on Wednesday morning, the
2l«l, and landed Com. Sioat and son
fro.n the Pacific, and Lieut. Wm. C.
Pease, of the Revenue Set vice, bearer of
despatches to Washington. They came
up to town last evening on the towboat
Jefferson. To Lt. Pease we are indebt
ed for the details of a terrible gale in the
Gulf—of a fury unexampled, and from
which we must not expect l«» hear all the
deplorable effects in many weeks. We
will begin with tiie gale as it was fell at
Key West.
The gale commenced blowing from N.
E. the morning of the lllh ins’. By 1
o’clock it blew a perfect hurricane. The
tide ro»e rapidly and the storm raged with
incredible violence until near midnight,
when it abated. On the 12th it blew a
moderate gale and gradually subsided.
Every dwelling house, save five or six,
at Key West, was destroyed or unroofed.
The Custom House was blown down, the
Marine Hospital unroofed, and it is sup
posed Government property destroyed to
the amount of $300,000. Fifty wharves
disappeared, and the Salt Works are
destroyed. The U. S. Barracks were jo
buildings. Many families were turned
out houseless, but the U. S. Quartermas
ter came promptly to their assistance.
The loss of life is great. Many were
drowned and many killed by falling
buildings. Key West light house and
dwelling attached are entirely gone. The
spot where they stood is covered by a
while sand-beach. Fourteen souls pe
rished in these buildings.
Baud Key light-house is gone—totally
disappeared with the buildings connected
with it. The occupants too have perish
ed.
The Light ship in the N. W. passage
dragged her moorings and went to sea,
hut she was recovered and returned to
her position. The agent of the under
writers was doing everything in his power
to save property. Very great danger is
to he apprehended from the loss of the
light-house to vessels from Europe and
the North, bound to the Gulf. We must
refer to the list below for the injury done
to shipping, furnished to us hv Lieut.
Pease. The loss of the cutter Morris is
described to us in a letter from an officer
on board. We give the substance in
another column.
The U. S. brig Perry was in the same
gale or tornado, driven with resistless '
violence before the wind, but was finally
run ashore after all hope of saving her
was gone, and in all probability will he
saved.
All the lives on Indian Key and Key
Vacas are saved, and it is hoped all the
crews of the wrecking vessels.
The captain of the cutter Morris saved
the produce, the cargo of one schooner,
and distributed it, through the Methodist
minister to those in need of the necessaries
of life.
We are compelled to omit many par
ticulars in regard to the gale from the
preoccupation of our columns.
List of Vessels wrecked at Key West during the Hur
ricane of the J Uh inst.
U. S. brig Perry, Blake, from Havana,
for Charleston, with Com. Sioat on board
from the Pacific, ashore near Sombrero
Shoal, inside of the reef, both masts gone,
anchors, guns, &c., thrown overboard.
The vessel lies in 11 feet of w u ater and
may be got off; all hands saved. U. S.
revenue cutter Morris, Walden, ashore
about three miles from Key West, in two
and a half feel of water, with loss of both
masts, anchors, chains, guns, bulwarks,
<kc., and one mile from the channel; pro
bably a total loss. Brig Colorado, of Bos
ton (probably) dismasted, ashore, but has
been got off; vessel tight, but much in
jured by coming in contact with another
vessel; it is uncertain what will be done
with her. Schooner Com. Kearney, ashore
in two feet of water. Schooner Gov. Ben
nett, Warfield, dismasted, discharging;
she will be condemned. H. F. Salford,
from New York for Brazos Santiago,
came in a wreck, being dismasted in the
gale; she will probably be condemned.—
Brig Matamoros, from New Yoik for St.
Marks, dismasted, high and dry, with pan
of the cargo thrdvVii overboard. Brig
Waskallaw-, from New York for Cedar
Keys, left before the gale came oh.—
Schooner Catharine H. Bacon, ashore
near the breakers, with the loss of both
her masts, anchors, etc,; she anchored
with one of Gen. Taylor’s cart-wheels;
she got off by assistance of the crew of
cutter Morris, and came into the harbor,
decks ripped up and otherwise much
damaged. Schooner Adelia Waldron,
of Bristol, R, 1., with a cargo of potatoes,
ashore in three feet of water; has thrown
her cargo overboard and may be gotten
off. BtigGen. Wil son, from New York,
ashore in three feet of water, with loss of
fore-topmast; she mav be gotten off, but
it is doubtful. Brig Napoleon, Libby, of
Boston, eight days from Havana, both
masts gone; the vessel lias since been
condemned and sold for S2OO. Barque
Prancfs Walls, Perkins, from Havana
for New York, fore and main masts gone;
the captain paid SSOO to a wrecker for
piloting him into Key West; he had his
shoulder dislocated, hut was in a fairway
to recover. Pilot boat Louisa sunk in the
harbor. Pilot boat Lafayette sunk in
tiie harbor; all hands lost—two bodies
wete picked up by the culler Morris.
The brig Exchange, Dyer, from Port
land for Havana, dismasted; lost male
overboard during the gale; ashore on the
reef, and since sold for $550. Ship War
saw, of Charleston, Crowell, bound to
Toulon; mast cut away ; on shore at
Matacurnbe Key; lost—all bauds saved.
Brig Commissary, of Bristol, R. I.,ashore
at Boca Chica; lost—all hands saved;
both masts cut away before going ashore.
Brig Falconer, Bragin, from Portland for
Havana; di>ma>ted and since sold for
about SSOO, vessel and cargo. Spanish
brig Lincedei o, Baraton, from Barcelona,
ashore at Key Vacas; vessel lost but
cargo saved. Schooner St. Denis, from
Newport, R. 1., came in dismasted, and
lias since been sold to an agent of the
New York underwriters for a lighter.—
Schooner Emma, Essen bray, for Nassau,
with loss of both masts and rudder.—
Spanish schooner Villa Neuva, for Neu
vitas, vessel and twenty lives lost, includ
ing a woman and child—one man saved
by U. S. brig Perry. Schooner Sarah
Churchman rode out the gale on the Ba
hama Banks in company with the ship
Adeline, with fifty passengers on board,
hound to New Orleans. Ship Eben Pre
ble, of Boston, is ashore on the N. W.
Bank, high and dry, and cannot he got
off. French ship La Reunion, Ardso ~
ashore on the reel; part of cargo saved.
Most of the vessels engaged in wrecking
lost, or have sustained injury; only one
is now engaged in the hu>iness. The
Eliza Catharine is ashore at Key Vacas,
in a man’s gauieu, and one of ifie brigs
ashore is one hundred yards above high
water mark. Four or five vessels are in
-- ; ' ..j,, anu one irp me
reef that we know of, vessel coppered, and
no doubt all hands lost. About twenty
one vessels ashore on the reef; all their
cargoes ol no value, being damaged;
among them, and not mentioned before, is
the bark Iris, Dillingham, from New Or
leans for New York. All the warehouses
are either blown down or unroofed; the
streets ot Key West are full of lumber,
and not six out of six hundred houses hut
what are either unroofed or blown down.
Thecurrent ransix mile-an hour through
the town of Key We<t. The light-houses
at this place and Sand Key are washed
away, and not a vestige of them is to be
seen.
The brig Peconick, w hich cleared from
New York for Key West, and subse
quently put into Charleston with loss of
topmast, has arrived here dismasted, h
was reported that a Portland brig, the
Eliza, was coming down, but it has turned
out to he the Peconick. S nne cotton lias
drifted into the harbor, and some vessel,
cotton loaded and not yet heard from,
must have been in the hurricane and suf
fered from its violence. A schooner with
a new lantern for Tortugas light house,
is lost wittt her cargo—all hands saved.
The while water now extends sixty or se
venty miles to the southward of Tortugas.
The Government will lose by the loss
of the brig Perry, revenue cutler Mor
ris, two light houses, fortifications, Cus
tom House, and Hospital, not far from
$200,000.
Many vessels, doubtless, will get
ashore from the fact of Sand Key light
house being gone. Dead bodies are oc
casionally dug out from tinder the ruins,
and no one can tell how many there are
remaining. As far as ascertained, fifty
persons have lost their lives, and it is sin
gular that so few are dead and injured,
when we remember that the air was full
of hoards, limber, slate, &c., and build
iugs falling in every direction. Btone
could not withstand the gale, and all
seemed to he going to destruction. Many
persons escaped ih boats, and held on to
trees, expecting every moment to be
washed away. The scene was awful in
the extreme.
From Havana. —Before the Perry left Ha
vana the steamer arrived there from Vera
Cruz. Gen. Paredes, the late President of
Mexico, was a pessenger on her. We hard
ly need say that not many papers have
reached the city by the circuitous route the
passengers on the Perry arrived. The news
from Mexico was not, however, of impor
tance.
Letters received in Havana from Vera
Cruz were in several cases endorsed with the
announcement that Monterey was in posses
sion of Gen. Taylor. No details were given.
Great apprehension is expressed to us by
Com. Bloat whether the British steamer from
Vera Cruz, which left about the 9th inst.,
could '.survived the late gale, if she were un
fortunately caught in it. The accounts
given in another column do not realize the
Commodore’s description of the violence of
the gale.— Picayune.
[From the N. O. Picayune, Oct. 23. J
ARRIVAL OF COM. SLOAT.
We had the pleasure of greeting Com.
Sloat last evening, just arrived from the
Pacific in company with his son. The
Prince'tdn had apprised us of his arrival
at Ohagres. lie would have returned to
the United States in the Princeton, but
that Vessel was short of cool and it was
determined to return home in an English
steamer by the way of Kingston and Ha
vana. Arrived at Havana he there found
the U. S. brig Perry, Lieut. Blake, and
look passage on her for Charleston.
In another column we have told of the
gale which the Perry encountered. The
gallant Commodore told us last night
that he had followed the sea now ibr near
| ly forty seven years, and thought he
knew what a storm was, hut that he never
before had seen it blow. We need not
detail his very interesting description of
the gale and the almost miraculous pre
i servation of the shipandlhe lives of those
ion board. From the wreck of the Perry
j he readied Key West, and thence went
I on board a schooner hound to Brazos
i Santiago, w hich put him aboard a pi 10l
boat, so that he reached this city lust
1 evening by a towboat.
The Commodore’s health is somewhat
i impaired and has been suffering for sev
i eral months, but from recent exposure his
| appearance indicates no sign of indisposi
tion or infirmity.
We are indebted to the Commodore for
various information on different topics,
frankly communicated to us, but make
but little use of it at this lime. Dupli
cates of his despatches, brought over by
the Princeton, have already gone on to
Washington. His arrival at Chagres at
about the same time as the Princeton was
most opportune on every account, and
will prevent any confusion or trouble from
the non-arrival or failure of messengers.
O
The Commodore was at Mazatlan on
the Tib of June. The evening of that
day he received news of the battles of I lie
Bth and 9th of May—not formal reports
or authorized accounts, but straggling ex
-7 Pc
tracts from private commercial letters.
The moment was critical; there was no
lime to delay. The Commodore decided
•‘to take the responsibility,” and at 8
o'clock next morning he set sail for Mon
terey, and on the 7th of July the standard
of the United Slates was officially planted
in California. Not ItII the Commodore’s
return to Mazatlan, after the middle of
August, did he receive the communica
tions from his Government which justified
the wisdom of the step he had so promptly
taken.
The flag of the United States was
hoisted at Monterey. Upper California, on
the 7th of July, 1846. On the 9th, it was
displayed at San Francisco, Sanoma, and
Bodega, and a few days after at Sutter’s
Fort on the Sacramento. On the 12tlf, a
n .. r *ii • —. . v, «nj
was hoisted by the foreigners, (principally
American and English.) at the Pueblo of
San Jose. On the 16lh, the mission of
San Juan, about forty miles from Monte
rey, was garrisoned and fortified. On
the 26th, the corvette Cyane sailed with
a battalion of riflemen, to take possession
ot San Diego, and cut off the relreat of
Gen. Castro, the commanding General of
Upper California, into Lower California
or Mexico.
When Com. Sloat left Monterey on
the 291 hof July, all Upper California,
North of Santa Barbara, was in the full
and quiet possession of the American
forces, apparently very much to the satis
faction of all the inhabitants, who have
been long desirous of seeing their coun
try under some stable government.
The gallant and adventurous Fremont
commands the riflemen who went down
on the Cyane to San Diego. His men
are animated with the bitterest feelings
of hostility towards Castro for Lis conduct
towards their expedition before the war.
The Commodore graphically describes
the mode in which justice is administered
now in California. In some cases, sur
geons and pursers are converted into
magistrates, and admirable magistrates
do they make. The people at first stood
aloof, but they have found that true justice
rather than Mexican law' is now admin
islered, and that it costs nothing. This
has surprised them and is working its
natural effect in concilating them. Were
the flag of the United Stales now to be
hauled down in California, it would not be
replaced by that of Mexico. The inha
bitants of California will never submit to
the rule of their old masters.
Lower California, too, will probably
succumb to our arms if the war continues.
Representations of its value to our com
merce will be made to the Government,
and of such a nature as to induce prompt
action unless Mexico speedily sues for
peace. The next news from the Pacific
will probably be to the effect that the ports
of Mexico on that coast have been block
aded. Mazatlan fias been spared as a
measure of policy. It is now an Ameri
can and English port rather than a Mexi
can one.
At the late hour at which we write, we
can but thus indicate a few points of inter
est upon which the Commodore touched.
The Sailor's Vow. —The Philadelphia
Sun tells a story of an Irishman and a Ger
man, who being at sea together during a
storm, vowed each a purse of gold to the
shrine of the Virgin. The generous Irish
man complied with his promise as soon as
he landed, and meeting with his more wary
friend, he inquired if he had done the same.
“Nix,” replied the German. “And what
do you think will become of you when you
go to sea again?” asked Pat. The German
put the thumb of his right hand to his nose,
and shaking the extended fingers in a pe
culiar way, said, “If te VVargin ketches me
at sea again, I’ll give her leaf to plow the
masts out of the ship.”
[From the AT. O. Picayune , Oct. 23.]
THE STORMING OF MONTEREY.
The following account of the operations
of Gen. Worth’s division at Monterey, and
defence of the capitulation, are from the pen
ot Cui. Balie Peyton of this city:
Monterey, Sept. 25, 1846.
My Dear Sir —After a most obstinate and
sanguinary conflict, which was continued
from day to day for five days, Gen. Ainpudia
capitulated this city on the 24th inst. Our
loss in killed and wounded, has been extreme
ly severe, not less then 500, amongst whom
are some of the most valuable officers of the
regular Army, as well as volunteers.
The Ist Regiment of Tennessee volun
teers, commanded by Col. Campbell, suffered
more severely, perhaps, than any other
which was engaged during the siege, having
had twenty-seven killed on the field, and
seventy-seven wounded, some of them mor
tally, and many of them seriously, and this
out of a force ot only 379 men. Notwith
standing this tremendous loss, lire regiment
charged under the lead of its gallant colonel
and other officers, and was the first regiment
which stormed the fort* mounted the breast
works, and unfurled the stars and stripes
upon its walls, amidst a perfect hail-sLotm of
balls, which was pouring upon it.
These Mexican towns and fortresses are
incredibly strong, and a few men fight bet
ter from houae tops, and behind sione walls,
or are more adroit in ihe use of stationary
artillery than the Mexicans, in these ac
tion Gen. Taylor had, ail told, about 5000
men, while Gen. Ampudia’s force consisted :
of 10,500 infantry and cavalry, besides mill- ;
tia, raiicheros, Alc. Gen. '1 aylor had eigh- j
teen pieces of artillery, of which seventeen 1
were field pieces, while Gen. Ainpudia had
forty four pieces, thirty-eight of which, with
two standards of colors, are now in our pos
session.
Our Army arrived before Monterey the
morning of Saturday, the 19lh inst., and
about half-past 8 o’clock, while reconnoiting
tire out works of the city, a ball, discharged
from a 12-pounder, struck near Gen. 'Tay
lor and staff, and bounded with terrible velo- i
city over his head, at which the old hero did
not change a muscle or even ba his eye.—
This day, the 19ih, was spent in making re
connoisances of the place and its various out- |
posts, amidst a good deal of tiring on the part
of the Mexicans, trorn cannon and a short
gun called an escopette, which carries a i
large bail to a distance of 500 or 600 yards. 1
On Sunday, the 20th, Gen. Worth was I
detached by Gen. Taylor, in command ol the !
2d division of the regular Army (about 1500 I
strong) and Col. Hays’s regiment of Texas i
Rangers (consisting of 400 men,) with a 1
view of turning the city and occupying the j
Saltillo road, for the purpose of cutting off the 1
enemy’s supplies and reinforcements, which ,
wete daily expected under Gen. Santa Anna, j
The division performed the march—making a
road; filling ditches, &c.—a distance of about
six or seven miles, and reached the vicinity
of the enemy in the evening, about 5 o’clock,
when the General, with an escort from Col.
Hays’s Rangers, was fired on by the batteries
placed on the heights, and also by a corps of
the enemy’s light troops, 'who were cent
through a corn-field to cut off his parly*
From this time until ihe appearance of the
white flag, on the evening of the 24ih, the
division of the Army commanded by Gen.
Worth wo* incessantly pAaratjotL and was
evc*r successful—never for one moment hesi
tating or faltering—putting to rout the j
enemy’s cavalry on the plains, driving his j
infantry through the chaparral and from the ■
house-tops, scaling immense heights, cap- i
luring guns, and storming fortresses which !
were not only deemed impregnable but which '
seemed to be almost inaccessible. And, best I
of all, these brilliant exploits were performed ;
with the loss of fourteen killed and fifty-six ’
wounded; and during the lour day's contest
there occurred not the slightest error or mis- j
take on the part of the commanding General, i
nor was there, at any lime the least faltering i
or hesitancy on the part of the officers and i
men—regulars and volunteers—in executing 1
his orders. Indeed, it. is difficult to defer- j
mine which is most worthy of admiration, :
the wisdom and energy disp ayed by the able
and accomplished commander or the galian- ’
try and ardor with which he was sustained by |
those under his command.
When the difficulties and apparently insu
perable obstacles are considered, I venture
the assertion that the series of successes
obtained by the division under Gen. Worth’s
command, in Ihe recent operations against
Monterey, will bear a favorable comparison
with the proudest achievements of the Ameri- I
can arms, lie was opposed by a greatly |
superior force, which was well served with
artillery and posted upon the highest peaks
of the Sierra Madre. He stormed heights, j
took three pieces of artillery, turned them on I
the enemy, and with these and the aid of one '
of his own pieces—which he contrived to
place upon the summit which commands the I
famous Bishop’s Palace, eight hundred feet I
above the base of the mountain—united with
the inestimable services rendered by the
dauntless and invincible spirits who stormed
these heights, he reduced that stronghold of
the enemy and drove him into the city, upon
which he turned the guns he had captured. |
He bivouacked his force for the night on the |
bleak mountain, and the next day, after bom
barding the town, he conducted his forces into
° . I
the streets amidst a shower of bolls dis
charged at his person. He was seen every
where, directing everything, driving the
enemy from his batteries, forcing him from
street to street and house to house, until j
night ended the conflict. He maintained his
position in the city, placed a ten-inch mortar
in one of the strongly fortified squares, to i
direct which he placed that gallant and '
skilful officer, Maj. Munroe, with instruc- 1
lions to fire a shell (weighing ninety pounds) 1
every half hour during the night. Thisduty
was performed with terrible effect, almost
every shell falling in the plaza, where the
enemy’s forces were collected to the number
of 7000 or 8000 men. He had made every j
necessary preparation for pursuing his ad- i
vantages the next day, even to placing some
of his artillery on the tops of high buildings,
which would command and sweep the house
lops from which the enemy fought.
Such was the state of preparation when
Gen. Ampudia capitulated the city, reflecting j
equal honor upon ihe military skill of the
head which conceived, and the indomitable
energy of the gallant spirits who executed
the plan of operations.
Our most serious loss occurred on the 21st,
when Gen. Taylor only intended to make a
diversion in favor of Gen. Worth, who was
engaged in the attack on the other side of the
town, but owing to the ardor and impetuosi
ty of the troops, they very soon became in
volved in a general engagement, which Gen.
Taylor felt bound to sustain. This excess of
courage involved melancholy consequences,
but it is surely a mod excusable weakness,
j if it be a weakness, to display an excess of
! ardor in the field of battle.
The volunteers from the different States
behaved in the most handsome manner.—
They have won for the citizen soldier the
admiration and applause of the officers and
soldiers of the regular army, who speak of
i their conduct in the highest terms of appro
bation and eulogy. Amongst the volunteers
i none have shone more conspicuously than
j the Ist Regiment ot Texas mounted riflemen,
I commanded by that Chevalier Bayard, Col.
J. C. Hays, better known as Jack Havs.—
This corps, from the Colonel to the private,
has fully sustained its former reputation.—
In the first affairs in which Gen. Worth’s di
vision was engaged on the morning of the
21st, Col. Hays, with several companies of
his mounted riflemen, were thrown forward
to open the ball, which he did most beautiful
ly, encountering and shooting in the presence
of the General, the Colonel of dragoons who
commanded the enemy’s forces. In scaling
i heights, storming batteries, and clambering
over walls and house-tops, l ie voice of the
gallant Colonel and the reports of the uner
i ring rifle ot the Ranger, were ever heard in
the van, 'The courage and constancy, and
subordination of this corps, is Lite theme of
admiration in the Army.
But my object is narrative and not eulogy.
It is not necessary for me to go into detail in
relation to the terms accorded to the Mexican
Army in the capitulation, as you will have
seen ihe articles, or the substance thereof,
published in the newspapers ere this reaches
you. If any one not acquainted wit h the
tacts of the case should object th it our com
manding Genera! lias granted terms too fa
vorable to the retiring Army, let it he re
membered that our invincible little Army had
already suffered severely in bareing the bo
soms of our best citizens, an J bravest officers,
and soMiers; to the batteries of an unseen
foe; that the city Was still immensely strong
in its defences', that tfie Mexican Army was
double that of our own; this Army was in
possession of the strongest part of a city, each
house of which is a fortress within itself;
that each remaining street was barricaded j
and most of them defended by cannon; and
that when driven from the city the Mexican 1
Army possessed a fortress called the Citadel,
of immense capacity and great strength, to
which the whole Army could have retired, j
To have taken this work without a siege 1
train, as we were, by assauft, would have
cost us very dearly. Independently of these 1
considerations, our provisions were growing
short and our ammunition was quite limited. !
We were far removed from our supplies and (
reinforcements, while the enemy might have
been reinforced at any moment. And lastly,
the policy avowed by onr Government does j
not inculcate the idea that tins is to be a vin- j
dictive or exterminating war against the peo
ple ol Mexico, but on the contrary to conquer
a peace, or in other words to whip Mexico to !
her own satisfaction, obtain our ju»t rigiits, j
and conclude a peace upon terms such as I
would be becoming in a great and magnani
mous nation towards a weak and distracted
Government. All this lias in my opinion
been accomplished, in as lull, complete and
ample a manner by the course pursued in the
capitulation, as if we had stormed the citadel
and put their whole army to Lite sword. Tnis
is, in my judgment, the last battle which will
be fought in ihe Mexican war. Gen. Am-
I'mJia, in unr*“tJr pacific course on Gen.
Taylor, stated repeatedly that he knew that
Gen. Santa Anna was disposed to peace; that i
he was well assured that the course adopted ‘
would lead to peace between the two coun
tries; that his object was to save the effusion
ot blood and the honor ot his Government.
But it the war is to be prosecuted, we are in
the possession of one of the strongest, most
healthy and beautiful places in Mexico; from
which, when our reinforcements and supplies
arrive, onr Army cannot be expelled by any
force which Mexico will he able to send
against it. We have taken arms and am
munition with which we can act offensively
or defensively, according to the course of j
events and the policy ol the Government. If
it be the policy ot onr Government to extend
our boundary beyond the Rio Grande, then
the line of the Riuconada, agreed upon as
that beyond which the Mexican troops are to
retire, is the most eligible which can be in
dicated by the geographical features of the
country.
Gen. Ampudia and his Army left, this morn
ing tor Saltillo. He was treated with cour
tesy and respect by Gen. Worth, whose quar
ters are in the city, and who accompanied
him to tfie limits of the tQwn. In fact, all of
our troops displayed that forbearance which
always marks the conduct of brave and mag
nanimous men towards those whom the for
tune of war has placed in their power. You
will observe that in my narration of tlie
events ot the battles, I have confined myself
to the operations ot that division of the Army
which was commanded by Gen. Worth. I
have done so because I was with his com
mand, near his person, saw what occurred,
and know that which 1 have staled to be sub
stantially correct. \ou are not to infer that
1 mean to intimate that the main Armv,
under the command of Gen. Taylor, did not
perform (eats equally worthy of the applause
and admiration of the country. Others well
informed as to tacts, and much better quali
fied for the duty, will no doubt give a detail
ed account of the operations of this portion
of the Army. Take the Army altogeiher, I
doubt whether a superior body of men ever
rallied under the flag of onr country.
Very truly, yours, &,c.,
BALIE PEYTON.
J, Ad. Rozier, E.-q.
Loss of Recenue Cutter Morris. —An of
ficer who was on board the Morris during
the gale, writes us:—“lt is very doubtful if we
ever get the Morris off, as she is about one
and a half miles from the main channel. ;
Capl. Walden is busily engaged in discharg
ing the ballast, and will make every effort
to gel her off.”— N. O. Picayune.
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Augusta, Bept. 28, 1516. Jy 42
AUGUSTA, GEO..
THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21>, 1846.
ItfWe publish to-day an admirable ac
count of the taking of Monterey, from the
pen of Balie Peyton. To his remarks upon
the Capitulation, we invite the attention of
[ our readers. They will go very far to obvi
ate any objections which have been honestly
entertained to the terms of the Capitulation
by many who could not possibly know the
strength of the positions or the peculiar cir
cumstances of Gen. Taylor’s Army.
MR. CLAY’S OPINIONS IN 1820.
It was well said by some gray beard, Tern
pora mat ant er. el nos mularner in Hits , winch
may be freely translated for the nonce—the
limes change the demagogue, and the detna
ffojrnes change the limes. Until we have
C"' C? C 9
reached a period when honest adherence U>
truth is denounced as impracticable, and
every changeling in politics fancies himself
a public benefactor. Open apostary from
any political principle, is justified upon any
mean pretence of party tactics. The con
stant bribe of popularity and office is held
out as a reward to every scoundrel who is
ready to barter his convictions for his inter
est. The severity of these general reflec
tions is not, we admit, sustained by the pri
vate character of our people. But to know
how well they are applied, and how richly de
served, we have only to know the history of
the whig party—especially its southern
branch, and many of its leaders. The forms
of consistency which venality often assumes
for success, have been unblushingly aban
doned by them, and praises have been la
vished upon all who would sell their princi
ples and follow their party. They have
openly preached change and called it advance
ment. They have trusted to this nic-name,
to escape the charge of inconsistency.
It is, it seems, upon some false theory of
this kind that our friends of the Chronicle
Sentinel hope to defend the gross and palpa
ble inconsistency of Mr. Clay upon the sub
ject of indirect taxation, lie (Mr. C.) de
clares in a part of the speech from which we
quoted, and upon which we commented in
our paper some days since: “That it (the
tariff system of taxation) is a system under
which there is a sort of perpetual war be
tween the government and the people.” And
again, “we do not derive our abilities from
abroad to pay taxes; that depends upon our
wealth and industry, whatever may be liny
form of taxation.”
This is law the of the system as laid down
by Mr. Clay, and cannot be altered by the
exigencies of the government, the amount of
imports or the amount of duties levied.
The propositions are general and abstract.
If they were ever true, they are true for alt
times and all places, and to deny them now,
is no proof of their falsehood, but a most
thorough and convincing one of the falsehood
of their author. The conditions of the pro
positions are unchanged and unchangeable,
i bat the system ol indirect taxation is a war
fare between the government and the people,
and that the amount of revenue is a lax upon
our wealth and industry, however it may be
raised, whether by tariff' or direct taxation ,
is as true now as it ever was, and tn deny it
only proves Mr. Clay was ready to deny the
truth for the hope of office or the subscrip
tions of the manufacturers.
Ampudia. —The N. O. Picayune nf the
23d, says:—“We learn from an officer who
was at Monterey on the 6th inst., that in
two days after ifi3 evacuation of the city
Gen. Ampudia was removed from the com
mand of the Mexican Army by a council of'
officers, and that Gen. Mejia was restored
thereto. r l he incapacity of Ampudia is as
signed for this important move. This in
telligence was fully credited in our camp at
Monterey on the 6th inst., hut must be taken
with grains of allowance.”
tCTGen. Jesup, the Quartermaster Gener
al of the Army of the United States, was at,
Cincinnati on the 6th inst., on his way to.
New Orleans.
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