Norwalk Gazette, Wednesday, January 27, 1847 · page 2

i States.‘

' two years on the subject of Slavery.

who had let‘: thehosm of his home withl A FEAT BY was Mi:xic.ms.—’I‘he Mobile

all its abundance, in the full strength of
Opening manhood, now worn down and
wasted by disease, purchasing (having bor-
rowed the money) at fifty cents a pound
at a sutler’s store, a mots I of cheese to
moisten his lips parchirig with fever, hav-
ing no other provision allowed him but
salt port; and hard biscuit, which he had
scarce remaining strength to masticate.
He had seen him obliged to pay twenty
five cents a pound for bacon, and ten cents
a pound for what was called baker’: bread
and twenty cents a pound for iiugar——ex--
enditures which were rendered neccessary
by the state of his health. '
It had been strongly doubted in some
quarters whether volunteer troops ever
could be made irito effective soldiers; but
all such doubts have been dissipated for-
ever. The volunteer regiments that had

stormed Monterey could do anything-

The volunteer regiments who had endured
on the banks of the Rio Grande, could suf-
fer any thing. And was it not in doing
and snfiering that all consisted which went
to make up the soldier.

He besouglit. gentlemen—-he :earnesily
implored them as one who had seen a little
and but a little of this war--nothing of
battles, but little of its privations and trials
—.—he implored them, as one. connected
with the Government of tl_iis':—great_ and
glorious country, that they would send
speedy aid and comfort to their volunteer
troops, tizho were pressing for the advance,
longing, panting to meet the foe; be en-
treated gentlemen not now to delay to de-
liberate points of ,minor importance._

We all loved our country, and it was
utterly useless :’or one party to chargeithe
other with a want of patriotism. Mr. B..
was proud and happy to be able to say
that there were whigs in the front of our
army, who had deported themselves as
bravely on the day of battle as the bravest
of op osite opinions. Whether this war
should be ended in April or not, should
our regiments be again and again deciina
ted as they had been, uliether in battle or
in the contagion of a camp; whether ac-
ting or suffering; whether in the heart of
Mexico or unwillingly lingering on the
banks ofa pestilential river, they would
still be found doing their duty and their
whole duty to the country so long as life
endured.

Mr. B. said he had come here charged
rather with a miltary than a civil duty;
and if he had said anything to which, from
his position, fresh as he Was from the ranks
of the army, the House had been disposed
to listen with kind attention, he had said
it mainly in the hope and desire that they
would give their support to It resolution
which he held in his hand, and which he
proposed to offer, or get a friend to" ofier
at the earliest proper opportunity. It had
been drawn up, on Mr. B.’s earnest request,
by the Secretary of War, after he had lis-
tened to a statement of the existing cir-
cumstances of the volunteers (Cries of
“Read! Read I”) It authorizes the Sec-
retary of War to deliver to the commanding
officers of any regiment of volunteers,
such clothing as may be needed for said
volunteers, the same to be furnished to
the non-commissioned officers, musicians,

- and privates at the cost sum to the Gov-
erriment, the amount to be deducted from

the pay of said volunteers--the command-
ing officers to whom the clothing is deliv-
ered to be responsible for its- delivery
to -the -volunteers or return to the United

 

Our minister at Brazil is in a fair way to
at the country into trouble with that Gov.
eminent, from the impetuositv of hischur.
actor. He was sent to Brazil by Tyler,
and his excessive and virulent abuse of
Pol: is hen in Cwngress, ma’-es it rather a
hazardous experiment for this functionary
to recall httn. Wise asks no advice, and
is never governed by the ‘suggestions of
other people.

Tylerism secured his present appoint-
ment, and if he does not get into some
personal or oflicial difficulty before he can
be ordered home, he will disappoint "his
friends as well as his enemies mast assu-
redly. All the particulars of his late mis-
sion with the Government of Brazil have
not been published. It is possible that in
this case his fiery zeal was of some service
to the country-—neverthe-less he is it most
unsafe man for such a nation. But Mr.
Polk dare not recall him, let him do what
he ‘WY. unless absolutely forced to do so,
by the pressure of circumstances beyond
his control.

Caleb Cus/zir-g.—Col. Caleb Cushing, we
should have said, hesitates nbnut act-eptina
m“”l“l h°“°'"3' 39 has not vet deierinir:
ed whether he will trudge oJfl‘m Mexico
or not. ‘The Colonel is making cnnsjder
able Sll" in the Legislature .or°l\-1a3s,,chu.
setts, and he finds his position there quite
too comfortable, hastily to relinquish it,
A friend from Boston informs us that Mr,
C. has recently returned from the Copper
Reglo" 0“ Ilje HpperLalces, where he has
_made extensive purchases of lands, intend-
ing hereafter to reside at Chicano or its
vicinity. Perhaps Mexico will dlfer stron-
ger temptations than L ke Superior cop
per country.

‘*—'-*~'-—~—#

K9-*zeucr’t:y.—-A state of things exists in
this Commonwealth which will inevitably
produce much discussion Within the neiit
The
Legislature has at last agreed to submit
to the People the question of calling a
Convention to amend the Constitution.
If the People vote in favor of :1 Convention
two years in succession, it must men be
held; and as Slavery is one of the prom-
inent causes ofdissatisfaction. and unea-
siness, it will hardly be possible to prevent
1 discussion of the subject iniall its vari-
pstttqbearings upon the prosperity of the

a e. ‘ .

During a marriage ceremony at Grace

' Church, N. Y. on Thursday evening, two

or three ladies fainted, others had palpita-
tions of the heart, four were carried out,-
&c. Grc. It turned outthat the stoves had

‘been heated for the evening with charcoal.

 

'I‘ribune basin letter dated on board the steam-
frigate Princetonfon the 20th ultimo, of which
the following is an extract: ‘
“The Mexicans have at least performed
one feat to challenge surprise and praise.
They have cut out and burnt our prize
schooner “Confederations,” (share on
Green Island. On the night-of the 18th
a party approached the schooner in lboats,
and, as there was nobody on board to re-
sist, they fired her and escaped back to
Vera Cruz without loss. The John Adams
was anchored at the time about one and a
half or two miles distant,.and the first no-
tice received of the hostile attempt was
the blaze of the burning vessel." ' I '

7/te .N'cin Tract House.—The exterior of
this building extends 80 feet on Nassau st.
and 70 feet on Spruce st ;' it is five stories
high; and it contains fifteen presses and
one hundred and thirt persons, all in the
employment of the ocity. The whole
building is heated from top to bottom by
steam pipes, and is supplied with water
and gas in every apartment._ Beside con-
taining a number of convenient stores it
also contains rooms occupied by the Amer-
ican Board of Foreign Missions, the Amer-
ican Home Missionaary Society, and a
variety of crimmittee rooins:-_the second
story being occupi.ed_.by t_he"l‘rac_t_Society.

 

Correspondence of the Tribune.
WAsniNo'roN, Jan. 18, 1847.

Mr. Polk will not find it very easy, it is
to" be feared, to raise the 10,000 men which
Congress has granted him to carry “on his
war with-. Mexico. Men, who have an ap-
petite fur fighting,\care not to encounter
the almost certain diseases of the Mexican
climate. It is decorousito die for one’s
country, no doubt; but one would like to
select the manner and place. One would
make a rlramitic exit, if posssible, falling

merit, around him: and thus deserve the
Spartan epitnpli—“Go thou and tell Sparta
that we have obeyed her laws and are
here.” - -

' Before the regiments asked for can be
filled, the unhealthy season in Mexico will
commence. Col. Baker stated that unless
the additional force required could reach

better be sent; as the poor soldier would
meet a uorse enemy in the atmosphere
than he could encounter in the field. is it
possible that these regiments can be raised,
eqitippedqtind dispatched within the inter-
mediate timcl I hardly think so.

Y o

I‘he bounty offered in lands and money

on the battle told, with glory, linen gar-

.\Iexico before the first of April, none had".

 

 
 

 

RATES OE POSTAGE.
ll/Ir. Niles. from the Committee on Post Of.|
fices and Post Roads, has i'epoitteda bill in the
Senate, which provides that after the first dayl
Julyinext, the tariff of postage shall be as follows: ,
“On all letters not weighing more than‘
one third of one ounce, five cents; if weigh-§
ing ‘more than one third, and not exceeding;
one half of an ounce, ten cents; and five‘
cents for every additional half ounce orl
fraction thereof; but it shall not be lawful‘
to deposit in any Post Office, to be convey-‘
ed in the mail, two or more letters, direc-i
"ted to different persons and enclosed in the I
same envelope or packet; and every per-

and newspapers not sent front the office of
‘publication, and all hrmdbills or circulars

in any post ofijce to be conveyed in the
mails, anything in_the act to which this is
an amendment to the contrary notwith-
standing; and the fraulting privilege oftlie
members of the two Houses of Congress
and the Delegates of Territories, in respect
to letters addressed to them, shall be the
some as it is in respect to letters written
by them',‘and conveyed in the mail, and
their rights to frank documents printed by
the order of either House of Congress,
shall "continue as long as their privilege to
frank letters; and it shall be lawful for
any mail carrier to transport newspapers,
out of the mail and not subject to postage,
for sale or distribution to subscribers.“

No allowance or compensation shall be made
to Deputy Postmasters in addition to theircom-
missions as authorized by law. excepting the re-
ceipts from boxes, or’. excepting the sum allowed
by law to the Postmasters at the cities of VVash-
ington and New Orleans; but the Postmaster
General may increase the commissions of Deputy
Postmaaters, five per centum on the letter and
newspaper postage received by them, and three
per centum on the amount of the mails distribu-
ted and the receipts for boxes used in Post Of
fices beyond one thousand dollars, shall be ap-
plied by Deputy Postmasters in defraying the
' expenses of their offices.

The Brz'bing Casein Iowa.—Tlie Investiga-
ting Committee of the Iowa Legislature have
not yet: completed their labors, though some of
the testimony taken before them has got into the
papers. Here is a specimen:

is ridiculous tor the purpose, To misc
soldiers in the last war-ti war of defence,
and consequently ti glorious war-—it was

$120 and a half section of land.
flattering inducement is now held out to
brave the doubledanger of disease in the
camp, and no despicable enemy in the field-
In a yvar too, where little glory is to be
acquired, and where defeat might not only
be disgrace, but extermination! l'lie mis-
erable bounty of $l'_2.—one half payable in
advance-—and a quarter semion of land;
a parsimonious proposal; an ill timed
economy I

. Mr. Polk, It is suggested, promises to
give a_Captainc_y to any one who will as.
sure him of a company; and will be glad,
undoubtedly, to commission as Cnlonel
whoever will offer for his service in Mexi-
co a thousand in n, which is the required
number for ti regiment. If such be his
determination, it is probable a few compa-
nies may be raised. '

Thejelection of Hunter to the Senate
somewhat “flutters the Volsces :” or in
Otltet‘,VVOr(I8 tnortifies the Administration
paper-and well it may: for Hunter is not
One Of 35039 “Who crook the pregnant
hinges of the knee,” or support a President
because he is President. The “Union”
takes no note of his election editorially:
it copies on article from the family paper,
the Richmond Enquirer, which. damns
Hunter with faint praise. The day of
caur-us candidates, so.fnr as the Adminis-
tration is concerned, seems past—that of
independence has succeeded. Cameron
find Hunter. both i1.'a'q7enrIent and honest
men, IIBVB bebfl 0l'lO.'\'8I'I Lggjglatureg
largely democratic, to seats in the Senate
over the regular canditates; over candi-
dates whom the Administration made it a
point ofhonoi to elect. In their course,
nhjuring the confined horizon of party,
they will throw a far reaching and com-

whole country.

Thelocnfoco papers are copying with
great delight an article from the London
Times, commenting upon Mr. Websgeps
speech in Bosfon, and ridiculing the idea
of l7|‘0tPctltl2 American industry against
British competition. It is from such an-
thorities that the Lncofocos always draw
their strongest arguments. Their princi-
ples. their allies, and their sympathies, are
all British, and it is natutal that in England
they should find their strength and their
advocate. ‘t.

The annual meeting of the American
Colonization Society was held at Wash-
ington on the evening of the 19;}; inst,_
the Hon. Elisha Whittlesey, of Ohio, in
the chair. It appears from the annual
Vepflrt that the receipts of the‘ year were
‘eff fltl"_"‘ ll“ 1845. the difference brinr
0 to _v in egacies which i E
.317 395,44, and in '1.-45, $1 .,'f..,l“.;‘,§"_' 
spefl ers were the Hon, S, A_’D‘,,,,,,],,,, of
Illinnis, Rev. Dr. Parker of Philadblpliia
Rev. Dr. Eddy of Newark,N. J. and Rev.
Mr. Pinney. ’ '
"Iad2Tri.ns in .Me.i:z'c’o.—-The Apaches, Ca.
manches, and other savages continue
their inroads in the States of Durango and
Chihuahua, killing the ‘men, and carrying
off the women, and children prisoners.
The Mexican editors insist that the savages
‘"".~' led by'American officers. If there are
any Arhericuns among them they must be
renegadcs—feIlowswho havg long lived
among the ‘Indians and imbibed all their

natural ferocity.-——Jv'. 0. Pic. Jan. 7th.

.4

l“‘9l‘en8ivc view over the interests of the-

‘I do hereby certify that on Tuesday,
jDec. 2, 1845, I wiisauthorized by Co‘. Wm.
‘Patterson of Lee County, Iowa, to offer to

fotiud necessary to promisea bounw of',.Iosiah Clifton and Reuben Coulee, each
Vvhatlthe use of one hundred dollars for ninety!

nine years if desired without interest, i
lthey would give their vote in an election
Q then about to come on for the United r. tutes
lsenators in the General Assembly for such
in man or men as the said Col.-Wm. latter
,son would name for the office of United
iStutes Senator. Also, I was authorized

by Col. Patterson and S. Haiglit to ofler

Jos. Clifton individually on their own Flirt

and the part of their associates to enter
,into a bond of $10,000, if necessary, to
lsecurc him an appointment in the Land
10fIice as Register or Receiver, provided
;he would vote for the men for the United
:States Senate whom they would name.—
‘The above named Coulee and Clifton are

members of the House of Representatives’

of Iowa. Witness my hand and seal,
Dec. 3. I856. Joimson Cii.iPit.m.”

‘votes it was hoped to buy for the regular Polk
‘and Texas candidates for U. S. Senators.
Zkfilwaukee Gaz.

W'z'n.!er in the Cz'ty.—-A man and woman
iaccompanied by 4- children were brought
; to the Alrns House, on Tuesday afternoon,
;the 19th, having been piclted up in South
‘st. in a perfect state of destitution. They
;lltt(I lately arrived in the ship Hector, from
.Liverpool, and after suffering __from the

ship fever, they were cast upon our shore,
lwithout money, or sufficient strengih left
,them to earn a loafof bread, and thus had
ithcy been wandering about the city for
several days,in a state of starvation The
youngest child of this family, says the Tri-
bune, was described by the Alrns House
pliysician as follows: Its age was 2 years
andahalf; it had an aged and haggard
appcarance,nnd t was so exceedingly poor
that it was computed the flesh upon its
bones would not weigh it single pound.

not articulate its mother's name above a
whisper.

ll/Ir. W1'se's Repoi-ts.——A letter from the
Hon. H. A. Wise, U. S. Minister at Bra-
zil, to the Patent Office, has been publish-

ricultural iriterest, especially the culture
of tobacco, grass,.garden plants, &:c. He
says few of the Brazillian plants, valuable

‘Angola grass.’ which grows very high, and '
could be used to great advantage in the-
United States. The cotton about Rio Ja-
neiro grows very high. is large, and more
sil y ’than ours. The ceral grains in
Brazil are quite degenarate. Mr. Wise
says that an immense service can be 1-en.
derd to the agriculture and general devel-
opment of- the resources of the United
States, and he promises to do all in his
power to aid this endeavor.

Shipwreck and Great Loss of I.z'j'e.—Let-
ters from Nuevitas, (Cuba,) dated 30th
ult. speak of dreadful gales and SIIIPWTCCI-B
of recent date. Among them the ship
Creole of Mew Orleans, with 150 passen-
ger’. bound to New Orleans, was wrecked
a:short distance to the windward of Neu-
V1388: Forty three persons were lost in-
cluding the Captain. ‘Another vessel was
lost o.n.-the'Guabr:j_a_, an,d',.went tofpieces.
Nothing was knoivp of he; name, sup.
posed all hands lost. ‘-Two utIi.eI'fVess_els..

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‘far as regards the interior of Mexico, let

son so offending shall forfeit the sum of,
ten dollars, to be recovered by action, one,
lialffor the use of the informant, and the all to R‘ free commerce, first placing finger, and six fimes wi,h,,,,, choice 0,_,,,,,,,.,,_\._
other half for the use of the Post Office them collector‘-s of our own, and estiio-‘,m._,,;0,, ,he,.e,,n,0.
Department; and all newspapers convey-llisliing a suitab e tariff of specific duties,‘
ed in the mail shall be subject to postage ; 5 I y means of which _we shall levy, from the‘
,Mexicun nation itself, a revenue fully ade-
(quate to cover all the expenses, naval and,
. - | '
printed or ltthograplied, shall pay postage;
of three cents, to be paid when deposited.

Johnson is a “Democrat,” and Coulee and.

It was so remarkably weak, that it could‘

ed in the Union 11 on some to ice of arr-I , ,
' P P ° lfoco aristocrats contend to this effect,)

for common use, could be transplanted to‘
this country, though lie mentions the,

lof military etiquette may perhaps be par-

 
 

Com. Perry’: Plan for Closing the W'ar.—
The correspondent of the Evening Post thus
sketches a Plan for prosecuting to it favorable
close our War with Mexico. The Plan is said
to have originated wit.h.C_oin. Perry :

Abandon all expensive, sanguinary and
doubtful projects of farther invasion. So

as content ourselves with the occupation
of the provinces already conquered, or so‘
much of them as" we may intend to keep as
“indemnification” for the war. On the
other hand, let us take immediate posses-
sion of all her ports, both on the Gulf and
on the Pacific, and occupy them as con-
quered territory, till she shall come tojust
and honorable terms ofpeacef Open them

military, ofsucli occupation. in regard to;
Yucatan, which is constantly blotting hot?
and cold between Mexico and ottrselt-'e:=,
compel that province at once to its elec-
tion bctween the two. If it shall abide by
the fate of the former, include its parts

extend a cordon of military occupation
across the Isthmus whicli connects it with
Mexico, so as to cut offihe hlexicans from
the supplies (chiefly of the indispensable
article of salt) which they now derive from
the cunning and double dealing Yuczitccos.
VVhen we have our enemy thus shut up
on all sides, let us hold him so, like ii fro-
\\l1t'(I child shut up in a closet, or held
firmly and patiently by the arms, till he
comes to his senses, begs pardon, and
promises to be good.

Correspondence of the . Y. 'I‘ribune.
VV.-isniNc'roN, Thursday, Jan iltst.

The Rio Grande may yet be the ultimn
thule of our South VV'estern F.inpire.~—
"I here the god Terminus may place his
immovable foot. To this complexion may
we come at last.

In the House of Ilepresentalivcs there
is a quadruple opinion in this regard. The
Northern Whigs are opposed from policy
as well as principle, to the extension of
our territorial limits: and they constitute
a party in Congress, respectable in number
—-still more respectable from ability, and
worthy of all con.-ideration from the fact
that‘ they now reflect the decided senti-
mcntof the non-slave holding states. The
second party is coinposed ofthuse loc.ofo-
cos of the North and East who, desirous
of extending our conquests even to the
Pacific, profess to be still more desirous
of prevr-nting the territorial extension of
slavery; in sudden horror of which seems
to engross and agitate them. The South
ern locofucos and whigs, who, iridi'fl'erent,
or scemin,.'_:ly so, to the acquisition of fur-
ther territory, yet insist, ifat-quired,it shall
be subject to no law for the exclusion of
Slavery, constitute ti third class: A fourth
is formed of those Members who insist
upon Texas as she was annexed, and not
us conquest has made, or farther spoliation
may make her. This class is strongest in
principles and weakest in number.

Now how is opinion so various to be
recoricilerll how made so consr.-ntaueous
as to be productiveiof any accession to
territory ‘l I

Preston King, Hamlin, G-"over 8; Co.
are committed to the acquisition of terri-
tory, and to the exclusion of sl-.tvery—so
much so, perhaps, as to fear tergiv'ers.ition.
Rhett and Burt, with their allies, will nev-
er allow the separation; no slavery, no ter-
,ritory, is their determination.

to each other’s action a neutrzilizing resis-
tance. Like two opposite bodies, coming
into collision, with equal momentum and
rapidity, neither can pursue the path in
which it was moving, but is driven back
and becomes immoveable. The alternative
tlierefore, of Southern “Democracy” will
be a junction with the Vtfliigs for the abno-
gation of further acquisitions-—prcfcrring
rnther to relinquish territory than to coin-
promise an assumed principle.

The dissensions of these factions may
assure the safety of the Republic, already
endangered by their union. It is there-
fore to be hoped, that the divorce may be
complete and irrevocable.

Col. Benton has declared his irtention to
,vote against the Army bill, now before the
_Senate, with the amendments that have
'been made and threatened appended there-
unto; and it is said he is not the only non
content of his party. The amendment
; proposed by Gen. Houston-—-i. e. to give to
the “citizen soldiers” the selections ‘of
their own officers--the Senator from Mis-
souri particularly condemns; and in truth,
if these same citizen soldiers are unworthy
to be trusted with the miserable pittance
which Congress offers them under the
specious name of bounty, (and your loco

they most assuredly are unqualified to
choose their own officers. However, the
candid truth is but this: that ifGcn. Hous-
ton's amendment be not carried, no soldiers
will he enlisted; and if it is rarrivd, they
will be gooalfor nttlzing when criIi'.s-ted. The
most disreputable conduct of our citizen
soldiers at Monterey has not been revealed
tothe country. An occasional infraction

cloned the raw levy: hardly, habitual vio-
lations of the laws of morality.

But why should we censure the soldier
when he is encouraged in military insub-
ordination by his own officers’! I doubt
which feeling—vrhether of disgust or ridi-
cule —Will dominate the minds of persons
who learn that Co]. Yell, ex-Governor and
ex-Representative as he is——and other of-
ficers of the Arkansas Regiment, have been
put under arrest and ordered to -be tried
by nCourt Martial, because they refused to
drill their men! Unfortunate Colonels I
They may have feared, and justly too, that
they would have been the persons drilled,
not the soldiers, had they commanded and
.atterqpted.the exercise prcscribedby mili-
. aws.

are sai

likewise in this system, and in either case, _

 

 

use.‘ The four strongest candidates‘
d to be Col. Webb, Gen. \Vard andl
'l‘em le of New York, and Gen. Cadwal-I_
lader of Philadeldhia.

suspe

The latter, it is:
said, has offered the President a complete

brigade as a condition of the appointment;
and it is presumed, -therefore, that his
chance is the most flattering. Col. VVebb,
however, has hopes, and so have his friends
of success; against Gen. Carlwallader's brig

ade he puts his own qualifications and Mr.

Secretary .Marc_1/‘.9 sc7it.'nie7.ts fou.-arrl /rim.

Are they not sufficient to ensure him the
place, barring ucc2'r’erits ?

There is another family quarrel going
mi in Virginia, such as is only “got up ’ in
Virginia. The Legislature balloted six
times for Senator, in place of l‘ennyback-

The election of Hun-
ter has made the liegcs rebellious.
The secede s are gainibrilling in their
strength, to the great cliagrin of the
Richmond junto. The Vtfliigs look on
and enjoy the sport; and alien they have
been sufficicnt‘y amused, \Vlll join the (‘al-
lioun division, and elect their canrlidatc.
Probably, James M. Mason will be clioscn
-——a retreating conservative. He went off
with VV. C. Rives, and‘ came back alone.
Judge Huntington of the Senate, in a
speech of lialfau hour, exposed the absur-
(lily of the sub trinsury, and ridiculed its
inconsistencies with the actual state of
things. The Judge has made the matter
of finance his study, and comprr.-licnds its

1:.

sorted to. Besides, they had it very large
and strong fortification, a short dist'a_i_ice
from the city, which, if carried with _t_h‘e
bayonet, must have been taken at a great
sacrifice of life; and, with our limited train
of heavy or battering artillery, it would
have required twenty or'twenty five days
to take it by regular approaches.

' That they should have surrendered. a
place nearly as strong as Quebtc, well
fortified under the direction of skillful
engine-ers—thcir works garnished with
forty-two pieces of artillery, abundantly
supplied with ammunition, garrisoned by
7000 regular and 2000 irregular troops, in
addition to some thousand citizens cap‘uble
of (and no doubt actnnll_v,) bearing arms,
and aiding in its rlefcnce—to an opposing
force of half their number, scantily suppli-
cd with provisions, and with a light train of
artillery, is amun;_r the unaccountable oc-
cnrrenccs of the times.

I am dccidc-tlly opposed to carrying the
war beyond Saltillo in this direction, which
place has been entirely I]lt:lIl(.lOI'I€(I by the
Mixiciiii forces, all of \\‘l'l(‘»lTl_llft\'C been -
concentrated at San Luis Potosi; and I
shall lose no time in taking pos.~cssion of
the former, as soon as the cessation of
liustilitics referred to, expii‘cs—wl’iicli I
llizivc notified the lllcxican authorities will
lbe the case. on the 13th inst. by direction
of the President of the United States.

If we are (in the liingiiuge of llli“. Polk
and General Scott) under the necessity of
“conquering a peace,” and that by taking

intricasics. He was more, even than usu-
al, eloquent and logical to day. I t.rust his
remarks were taken down and will be re-
ported. I

 

LETTER FROM “OLD ROUGH AND
READY.”

The following letter from Gen. Taylor will
be read with great. interest, especially in view
of the hostility lately manifested toward the wri-
ter by certain individuals in the confidence of the
Executive:

Head Q,uartci's. Arniy of Occupation or Invasion, é

Jlify . Your very kind and

lllo.~t'ri-:ni«.i', Mexico, Nov. 9, I846.
D;rzr . . . . .

acceptable letter of the 31st of A ugust,
. . . . . . reached me only a short time since
for which I beg leave to tender you my
sincere tlianks. (A few confidential re-
marks on ccrta'n public transactions are
here omitted.)

After considerable appnrrmt delay on the
part of the Quarter Mustcr’s Depzirlmcnt,
in gettng steambouts into tl.-c Rio Gruride
adapted to its iiavi;_:atioii, I succeeded
toward the latter part of Augusi,in throw-
ing forward to Cainargo, (a town situated
on the San Juan River, the “fest side,
nearly 500 miles from Brazos Island by

place,) a considerable (lr-pm. of provision
ordnance, ammuni ion and for:i_;:c, uni‘.
then, having brought together an import-
ant portion ofmy comrnand,I determined
on moving on this place. Accrirrlingly,
after collecting 1,700 pack mules, with
their attendartts and conductors, in the en-

transportation for our provisions, briggzigc,
doc.) I left, on the 5th September, to join
my advance, which had preceded me a few

on the route, which I did on the 9th, and
after waiting there a few days for some

—-2,700 Regulars, the balance Volunteers.
l For what took place afterward, I must
lrcfer you to my several rcports—particu-

llarly to my detailed one of the 9th ult.—

Thus do ;I do not believe that the authorities at=
,Clifton, “Indepandents“ from Lee Co., whose;tl,_e two great sections of the party oppose’; Wnsliington are at all satisfied wi h my

conductin rega'rd to the terms of the
Capitulation entered into with the Mexican

seen, as they have been made public. tliro’
the official organ, and copied into various
other newspapers. I hate this moment
received an answer (to my dispatch an-
nouncing the surrender of Moiiterey, and
the circumstances attending the same,)
from the Secretary of \Var, stating that
"it was regretted by the l‘resident that it
was not deemed advisable to insist on the
terms I had proposed in my first commu-
nicution to the Mexican (,‘0ll”.n'lt'll'l(Ié‘l', in
regard to giving up the city”——addin_r_r that
“the circumstances which
doubt. justi‘-ed the change.” Although
the terms of capitulation may be consid-
ered too liberal on our part by the Presi-
dent and his advisers, as Well as by many
others at a distance, particularly by those
who do not understand the position which
we occupied, (otlieritise they might come
to adiffereut conclusion in regard to the
rnatter,) yet, on due reflection, -I see
nothing to induce me to regret the course
I pursued.

The proposition on the part of General
Ampudia, which had so much to do in de-
termining my course in the matter, was
based on the ground that our Government
had proposal to his to settle the existing
difiiculties by negotiation, (which I knew
was the case, without knowing the result,)
which was then under consideration by
the proper authorities, and which he (Gen.
Ampudia,) had no‘ doubt would result fa-
vorably, as the whole of his people were
in favor of peace. If so, -I considered the
farther effusion of blood not only unnec-
essary, but improper. Their force was
also considerably larger than ours; and
from the size and position of the place, we
could not completely invest it: so that
the greater portion of their troops, if not,
the-whole, had they been disposed to do
so, could any night, have abandoned the
city, at once entered the mountain passes,
and effected‘ their retreat——do what we
could! Had we been put to the alternative
of taking the place by storm, (Which there
is no doubt we should have succeeded in
doing.) we should, in all probability, have
lost fifty or one hundred men in killed,
besides the wounded—which I wished to
avoid, as there appeared to be a prospect
of peace, even if a distant one. I also
wished to avoid t_he destructiori of women
and children, 'which_i_nust have.’-been very

were v.°recke,d,"i,iarnes'not ,Im'g’wn,. -V»

barf
. I

he - Brigadier Gcnegralsli

ip still hangs in

 

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water and 200 by land, and 1-10 from this

emy’s country, (the princip-.tl means of

days to C-erralvo, a smail village '75 miles

of the corps to get up, moved on and.
reached here on the 19th. with 6,050 meng

commander, which you no doubt have,

dictated, no,

the capital of the country-——\vc must go in
Vera Cruz, tulle that place, and then march
on the city of .\'e.\ico. To do so "in. any
other direction, I consider out of the
question. But,admitt.ing that we conquer
:a peace by doing so——sny,at the end of the
~next twelve months—will the amount of
gblood and' treasure, which must be ex
‘pended in doing so, be compensated by
,the same I I think not-—-csleriatly, if tl e
lcountry we subdue is to be given up: and
llI_llIl.'lglne.t,he1‘e are but fvw iizdividinls in.

lour country who think of annexing Mex-
iico to the United States.

I do not intend to carry on my oper:i\
tions (z-is previously stated) beyond Saltilo
——rlecming it next to impracticable to do
,so. It then becomesa queslio:i:as to what
is best to be done. It seems to me the
mostjudicious course to be pursued on
our part, would be to take possession at
once, of the line we would accept by nego-
tiation, exlcndingifrom the Gulf to the
Pacific, and 0ccu_r)y the same, or keep what
we already have posse.-sion of; and that
with Tarnpico, (which I hope to lnlte in
the course ofncxt month, or as soon as I
,can get t.he means of transportation.) will
give us all on this side oftlie Si~rre Madre,
and, as soon as l occupy Saltillo, will .in-
clude six or seven States or Provinces,
' thus holding Tampico, Victoria, Monterey
S-altillo, i\'Iouclm'iu, Cliihuiihua, (which I
presume Gen. Wool has possession of by
this time,) Santa Fe and the Californias
—and say to ll-'Ie.\'ico, “Drive us from the
country !”——throwing on her the responsi-
bility and expense of carrying on an offen-
sive war-at the same time close y block-
ading all her ports on the Pacific and the
Gulf. A course ofthis) ind, if persevered
in for a short time would soon bring her
to her proper senses, and compel her to sue
for peat-e~ provided there is a government
in the country stiflicfciitly stable for us to
treat xvi h, which, I fear will lardly be the
lease for many years to come. Without
large reinforcements of volunteers from_
the United Stairs-— say ten or fifteen thou-
.~and~—-(tliose previously sent out having
already been greatly I't'(lU(!E(I by sic__ ness
and other casualties.) I do not believe it

tillo, which is more than ‘.700 miles beyond
our depots on the Rio Grandc-—a very long
line on whit-li to keep up supplies (over a
land route, in a country like this) for n.
largelforco, and certain to be attended

contemplate, when closely looked into-
Ifiom Saltillo to San Luis P_otosi, the
next place of importance on the road to
the city of Mexico, is three hundred miles
——one hundred and forty badly watered,
uliere no supplies ofany kind could be
procured for men or horses. I have iri-
formed the VVar Department that 20,000
,cflicient men would be necessary to insure
lsuccess ifwe move on thatplace-( a city

;containing a population of 60,000, where
the enemy could bring together and sustain
besides the citizens, an army of 50,000,) a
force wliich I apprehend will hardly be
collected by us witli the train necessary
to feed it, as well as to transport various
other supplies, par'.icularly ordnai cc, and
munitions of war.

In raga rd to the armistice, which would have
expired, by limitation, in a few days, WE lost
nothing by it, as we could not move even now.
had the enemy continued to occupy Suitillo;
for strange to say. the first wagon which has
rear-.hcd me since the declaration r fwar, waslcn
the Bil inst. the some day on which I , received
from Vifiishiiigton an acknowledgment of my
dispatch announcing the taking of Monterey ;—-
and then I received only 1525, so that Ihave been.
since May lust, completely cripped, -and am still
so, for want. of transportation. After ra king and
scrn ping the country for miles around C‘-amargo,
collecting every pack innle and other means of
traasportat.ion, I could bring here only 80,0009
rations, (fifteen day’s supply.) with a moderate-
supply of ordnance. amunition, (Sic. to do which,
all the corps had to leave behind a portion of their
camp equipage necessary fortheir comfort, and,
in some instance among the "volunteers, their
personal baggage. I moved in such a Way. and
with such limited means, that, had 1 not suc-
ceeded, I should no doubt have~:bee_l1 S6V_6l'8ly
reprimanded, if nothing worse. 7-1‘ did so to sue-
tain the Administration.

iii It is -It I

Qtithe two mounted regimentéifrom Ten-
nessee and Kentucky, who left their,.ifespectiva
States-tojioin me, in J one. the latter_“_Iias just
reached Cainargo; the former had not" got to
Matamorns at the latest dates from thordé Ad- '
mittihg that they will be ITS long in retugiiing as
in getting here, (to say nothing of the time nec-
essary to’recruit their horses,) and were to be-
discharged in time, to reach home, they could
serve in Mexico buta very short:,tin_ie., The-
foregoing remarks are not made with the view‘
of finding fault with any one, but to p'o‘in't'out; the '
difficulties with wliich I -had to c_o_ntend.,
Montery. the capital of ‘How '_L'.9‘en, ig,_situated '

It '..-"I: is

great, had the.storming,,process,[;been ‘re-

 

on the San J nan River,.whei‘e”-it'cbm6g:‘out of: ,

would be advisable to march beyond Sal- ,

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with an expense which will be frightful to‘

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