The New York Herald Newspaper, May 14, 1847, Page 2

OVERLAND EXPRESS FROM NEW ORLEANS To THE NEW YORK HERALD OFFICE. ‘To-morrow. morning, at eight o'clock, the Weekly | Heraid will be ready for the public. It willcontain another highly interesting letter from | Mr. Bennett, who is now in Europe; reports of the reli- | gious anniversaries held in the last week; full details of the battles of Cerro Gordo and Sacramento; the march of General'Scott towards the capital of Mexico, and his official despatches; the capture of the city of Tuspan the latest, news from the army under General Taylor’ | correspondence from Washington and other places; the | closing scéncs in the Legislature; and » variety of other Antelligenge of interest. It will havertwo illustrations—the plan of tho battle | ground of Cerro Gordo, and that of Sacramento. ‘The Herald for Europe. | ‘The next edition of the Herald for Europe, to go by the steamer Cambria, which will leave Boston on Sun- | day next, will be ready to-morrow at one o'clock. It will form a complete history of the Important events that have occurred in Mexico within a short time. Among its contents may be mentioned some important | letters from Mr. Bennett ; reports of the religious anni- veraries ; the details of the Battle of Sacramento; the march of Gen." Scott to the capital of Mexico; the capture of Tuspan, Ke. Xe. It will beillustrated with « correct plan of the battle field of Sacramento. TELEGRAPHIC From Philadelphia to New York. HIGHLY IMPORT. FROM MEXICO. THY RAPID ADVANCE THE AMERICAN FORCES To THE Halls of the Montezumas. The Capture and Occupation of Jalapa and Perote. The Flight of Santa Anna. The Downfall of his Hopes with the Mexicans, His Bfforts to Raise another Army. Another Revolution in Mexico on the Eve of Breaking out. The Legislature of this State adjourned at half past eleven o’clock yesterday morning. We give, on the outside of this day’s Herald, the letters from our special correspondent, including a list of all the acts passed during the session. We also give our telegraphic report to the latest moment. Our readers will find the business of the session ** posted up” to the time of adjourn- ment. BORTIFYING THE CAPITAL. Full Particulars of the Capture of Tuspan. LATER FROM GEN. TAYLOR'S ARMY. Proposed Junction with Gen. Scott. Mason Wittram Watiace Suita Buss, the Assistant Adjutant General of the Army of Occu- pation, under General Taylor, is a native of the State of New York, and was born at Whitehall, in the year 1815. His father was a captain inthe army during the late war with Great Britain; and The Prospects for Peace, sometime after its termination, died in the civil &e., de. dic, service. For many years Major Bliss’s mother has re- sided at Lebanon, New Hampshire, at which place he received his early education. In the year 1929 he entered the Military Academy at West Peint, and although he was the youngest member Of his class, he very soon evinced .extra- ordinary.talent for mathematics, and for the-ac- quisition” of knowledge generally, During the whole four years: of. his academic career in the. |: difficult branches of mathematics, natural 'philo- sophy arid ‘the-seience of war, he stood among the distinguished’ of ‘hts class;'and the develop- ment ofthis mind.and taste since his graduation, have indicated that in the study of ‘the modern languages:and history he would have been even, more conspicuous. He-was graduated’ with dis- tinctiom in 1833, and shortly afterwards ordered to join his regiment, then stationed on the bor- ders of Georgia and Alabama, where there exiit- ed considerable difficulty among the: Indians. Having served in the field about a year, he was, in 1884, selected and. ordered to West Point, as Assistant Professor of Mathematics in the Mili- tary Academy, which station, although he was only nineteen years of age, he filled with marked ability, and entire satisfaction to the Academic Board, till, in the year 1840, his promotion sepa- rated him from that institution. While occupying ‘this positiop, he embraced We have received by 2 special and extraordi- nary overland express, from New Orleans to Philadelphia, and by the telegraphic line from Philadelphia to the New York Herald office, the following highly important intelligence, twenty- four hours in advance of the mail. Our advices from New Orleans are to the 6th inst. We, copy from . the Commercial Times, and the Daily Delta of thaticity.. “ The steam sbi “New. Orléans, which “Teft Vera Cruz on, the both ult., arrived at, New Or- ans on the evening of the 5th inst. way Gen. Scott was vigorously pressing the enemy, Peat | the defeated’ Mexicans no respite, »Ja> Japa and Perote havé been occupied; and the re+ port was curfént when the New Orleans’ set sail; that Gen. Scétt was on thé point of making ‘4 demonstration on Puebla. Ag bs Santa. Anna, when, last heard from, was in go forlorn a condition, that it was expected he would. ive himself-up tothe American Governor of: era Cruz, preferring to’ trust ‘himself to the generosity of ‘an open foe to exposing himself to the tender mercies of his own countrymen, who now denounce him as their betrayer. ” “ The Mexican army, after heavy losses of kill- ed .and wounded, has broken, up. altogether, searceiy an officer or soldier remaining. with their standard, General Santa Anna, who.commend- ed in chief, was the first, according to’ some, and the last, according to others, to leave the ‘field, accompanied by only twenty-five dragoons, ta ing the by-ways; and a party is even found to sert that they saw himjn one of the villages of t! Sierra, in search. of horses to remount hija es- the opportunity which the. facilities around him. afforded, to gratify his taste for the modern lan- guages, and the study of military history. Be- sides perfecting his knowledge of the French language, so as to. enable him to speak it fluent- ly, he made himself thoroughly acquainted with the German language, and German literature.— At the same time he obtained a fair knowledge of the Spanish and Italian languages, and studied most critically the campaigns of Napoleon and Wellington. His acquaintance with Spanish has been highly useful in the present war, as he has been able to translate all the despatches received from the enemy. His appointment to the office of Assistant Adjutant General, with the brevet rank of Captain, in 1839, caused him to be relieved from duty at the Academy early inthe year 1840, and ordered to Washington. He remained but a short time on duty there, and was thence or dered to report to General Armistead, then com- manding in Florida, as the Assistant Adjutant General of the forces prosecuting the Seminole war. The efficient and valuable serviees which he rendered in this war, as chief of General Ar- inistead’s staff, caused him to be noticed and mentiened by the head of the War Department, sa man possessing military genius, and high professional attainments. In the beginning of 1841, he joined General Taylor, on the frontier of Arkansas, and has re- cort. ‘The fact of this General not having fallen back on Jalapa, has left room for the supposition that his flight is prompted ‘by the fear of being’ sacri- ficed for treason imputed to him, and which’ has no other foundation than the adyerse results ¢x- perienced by the Mexican arms in every enéo ter with the Americans. Gen. Canalizo, in_his retreat on Puebla, dis- mantled the fort of Perote, carrying off all the ordnance he could, and spiking many he had to leave behind. He get at liberty all the crimi- nals confined there, including the assassins of Falconi and his brother-in-law, who, some of our readers will remember, to have been cruelly murdered in Vera Cruz. In consequence of this, the American. troops advanced in triumph from Cerro Gordo to Ja- lapa, where the corporation and civil authorities went to meet them, and took possession of the city, where they behayed themselves in_ the same quiet and orderly manner as in Vera Cruz, Gen.. Worth had left for Perote and Puebla. The paes, nine miles from Jalapa, occupied by the enemy; has: been abandoned, and-was taken possession of by an advance. Col. Childs is the Military Governor of Jalapa. General Patterson has recovered his health in a great degree. 7 d General Shields was improving; there are hopes of his recovery. isaueexlianucutude titty) deveadeansha talons from Vera Cruz; his troops in good health. The people: in Jalapa are following. theit usu- al occupation, and do not at all seem displeased ut our presence. | Javara, April 23, 8A. M, An express has Just arrived from Gen, Worth, He entered Perote yesterday moruing about 11 o'clock, and found 4 Mexican colonel, who was charged ‘with the surrender of the place and all the arms and munitions of wargenerally. None of the large guns were spiked and were found in excellent order. Ampu- dia, with about three thousand disorganiged lancers, moved out just far enough to avoid a conflict, and then proceeded on of Ske Santa Anna had not passed through Perote, api must now be in the mountains on this side of that plyce. We. mained with him ever since as the chief of his staff. He has been im every battle fought by General Taylor in the Mexican war; and for his good conduct at Palo Alto and: Resaca de la Palma, he was promoted to hie present rank of Major. Although Major Bliss has not had: the understang that information was rectived yesterday, good fortune to perform deeds so dazzling as that thet Ge Vorth had Hardy his outpost towards Pacbla. and would march immediately in that direction his: of leading a eharge, or commanding a battery, yet he has invariably bedn found in the thick- est of the fight. At Palo Alto his horse was killed under him; and in each of the succeeding battles his horse was either. killed or wounded. Major Bliss is a man of great modesty, and sim- plicity of character, perfectly free from ostenta- tion, and gifted with a mind which discovers truth ata glance. The rapidity of his mind is such, that he seems not to reach:his conclusions | by the, ordinary process of reasoning, but to seize themat once. Endowed with an under- standing as enlarged and sagacious as it is ra- pid and acute, he is firm and decided in his opinions, and clear and ¢oncise in expressing | ath ult, Gen. Santa Anna had atrived at them; and what is most of all requisite in a-| Orizaba, with about two hundred dragoons and soldier, he holds sacred the'duty of obedience to | immediately commenced recruiting, having now It is certain that Santa Anna is at Orizaba.a town at the foot.of the mountain of that name. with about one thousand troops, He was seen at that plage on Sym- day morning Inst, and was heard to express his desire of remaining there till he could muster a sufficient force to make another stand. He will not dare to return to the city of Mexico, ia the universal opinion, until some suc- cess should crown his efforts to redeem his thousand promises to the deluded people and the clergy, the lat: ter being now his only backers. It {a aaid that those who now cling to his drooping standard dré brought from Onjaca princtpally, ahd that arms, those too being in very bad condition. We learn that he pretends he can yet reptilec the in- yadurs of the soll, i? he con rouse the Raubhoros and form them into Guerilla parties to annoy small bodies of our citizens and soldiers, whom they may have the temerity to attack . Accotding. to the Mezi¢an Chronicle of the Ao Y as under his command about six thousand: men; orders. Major Bliss, it is believed, has never | including the fugitives from Gerro Gordo, applied to the government for any office, but.has | {t is stated that a correspondence haw been seized always held himself ready to go wherever order- | by the authorities ut’ Mexico, ‘addressed by a ed. Itis hoped that government will not over- | &te#t personage ig Asner Reon, offering a certain look & Nia of ffi sum if he would bring about an early peace, ook the-merits of an officer, who has shown} and to place all the requisite means at his that he possesses the ability and professional | disposal. ‘ ‘ knowledge necessary to command an army, and eee A oc fle They ‘ iq | ate fort own fo! stance. who isso zealously and effigiently serving his The ary werk ‘in excellent spirits, and ‘ar- counteys: ae rangements were'in course of spmpietion for the He iatheonly child, of a widowed mother, | expedition to, the, southward; anda start would whorthe ha’'not ‘seen’ since 1840. When this | 8000 be. made after the ports along the southern sacrifice of duty and affection upon the ‘altar of | COusts Were secured. nad t >a upoa the altar of | 4 grand expedition is.to be. fitted. out for the his country is considered, in connection with |" Pacitie, not by way of Cape Horny but by inter his indefatigable exertions to aid the gallant | 1#l navigation.’ It has a reat existence, and the Taylor to prosecute the war'to a glorious peace, MOvement is seriously contemplated—of its ob- will it b r| Peare, | leet, we are also ignorant. Jt js to be composed will it be said that sueh gallantry and patriotism | entirely of sailors and marines, two thousand in shall go unrewarded 1 all. Is it not Quixotic 1 We are prethy confident : that it will be abandoned when all the-difficulties Tue Dey Doc at tux Navy Yarp.—We are | come to be eelenets although: it may'at thie gratified to learn that the corner stone of the moment resolved upon. 4 rth United States Dry Dock, at Brooklyn, was laid gaye se Cruz correspondent of the Timbs yesterday by Commodore Smith, Chief of the send you the first t Bureau of Yards and Docks. The Commodore | thiscity, the Mexican vo numbers of & paper issued jh Chronical, a new paper printed in emai English and Spanish, arrived at the Navy Yard at 12 o’clock, M., and | cli vise follo ig aobeone wet, 1 ERA Ee one A the stone was laid without ceremony, at a quar. | , Jem. Morales menetires the vorncity of the American : | officers by the Mexinan st . ser before’ 2'P, M., in the presence of the officers | can hari ty Peete & i a4 Pape fmietakes 1 | but this documesit would seom to justify stich @ charge. of thayard-and dock, elicitingnine hearty cheers barely ; | Juan Morales, General of Brigade o, i of # ion. from -the workmen employed: | pble 10 the Nationtand ite Mite The sone bears only. the plain inscription of the. It baving come to my knowledge that some chiéte ahd officers of the Invading arity “of 1 : present year, (1847.) which have Operated sguinst Thek on eta trae Vers Crug,’ sald that not more than two or three hundred of them have any | “} sand killed. not have cecupied the place without Ere baring de- fenders in the ruins JUAN MOR, tes | Satara, April 24th, 1947. | Gengral Scott is said to have despatel a | to MeRico or to the point occupied by the Legialetl junta. This is the song, and the olive branch. Vera Crvz, April 29, 1847. | _ An express is in this morning (April 29th, 1847) bring- | ing intelligence of the continued advance of General Worth, and some disconnected rumors from the city of Mexico. The citizens are throwing up walls of sand, 1 fancy, around the place, and expect the soldiers to de- fend them. How far their expectation will be realized, ‘we may judge by the past. ‘The public voice is openly heard iu opposition to the late Mexican der gue, Sante Anna. “Coward,” “ Down with the traitor!” are the cries that are now in the eapttal. T am very happy to learn by this express, that Genera! Shields is not dead; he is improving. The steamship is expeoted to mor Very moment. {From the New Orleans Delta, May 6.) We have conversed with an intelligent passenger, who came over on the New Orleans. He says that he under- Gen, Taylor had succeeded in communicating with Gen. Scott, and that the object of his despatch was the formation of « mutual understanding between them, with a view ofjoining their forces preparatory to a de- scent upon the city of Mexico. Santa Anna boasts that there is still another Thermo- pyle on the road between Puebla and Mexico, Scott pushes on without stop or falter; the destructive storm of Cerro Gordo delays not a day or hour on bis onward march; with a boldness, an energy, and 3 mas- terly activity beyond all parallel, he has passed through the considerable town of Jalapa, traversed the danger- ous and difficult road thirty miles beyond, and appeurs with the old vanguard of the army, under the gallant Worth, before the fur-famed castle of Perote. Correspondence of the Delta. Jatara, Mexico, April 21, 1847. L arrived at this lovely place yesterday, aud found that Gen, Twiggs bad hoisted the Americun flag in the city the day before. He followed the retreating heroes of Cerro Gordo to within a few miles of Jalapa, when all traces of them, as a body, disappeared, and he encamped forthe night within three miles of the town that eve- ning, and entered and took possession of it oarly the next morning. Santa Anna did not pass through Jalapa; but in com- ny with Ampudia and Torrejon, turned off to the left at his hacienda, and halted for the night at the “nine mile pasa,” which was being fortified, but which, on second consideration, it was devmod prudent to evac- uate, This evacuation took place yesterday morning, and in the evening Col, Harney's dragoons took posse sion of the Pass—Gen, Worth following in their footstep ‘A number ofsmall arms werg taken at the Pass, but they are of little or no valve. Gon. Worth, it is said,will move on to Perote, at which lace many think he will have a fight, as it is reported ere that additional defences are being made. All along the road between Perote and Puebla, the Mexicans here say we will be opposed,and contrary to the general belief, it is sald the comniander-in-cbief will shortly move in that direction. ‘Tho list of killed and wounded, on our side, is much larger than was at first reported—it is over 360, ol. Childs ts the military Governor of Jalapa. Trend you ® Mexican paper. ‘There are two days later Boog here, but this contains all the important informa- 2. Jatara, April 29.—Gen. Worth approached last even- tug within four or five leagues of Perote, and entered the elty to-day. We had scoounts last night that it had been evacuated by the soldiery,Swho spiked all the guns defore leaving, I am extremely glad to have it in my power to state to you that Gen. ‘Shields has impreved much since my last, iid Lieutenant’Hemmond, who ceme from him this ‘evetiing, thinks there is @ probability of his recovery. ~"Mpat of the wagons’here will leave for Vera -Cruz in the 'jhorning, and if it is the intention: to remove early, will retard-it forten ortwelye days. * 2 x% ah " Satara, April 98—10 A, M. Att express has just got in from Perote. Gen. Worth: réwehed that town yesterday, at 11 o'clock A.M. He “found it completely evacuated by the soldiers of the ene- ing, and a Col. Vasquez left behind to surrender it with decency. Animmense number of small arms, the big guns of the castle and city, and ammunition, wero taken ion of. It was unfounded, the report that the ths had been spiked in the castle; they were found in excellent order. "Gbn. Ampudia, with bout 3000 cavalry, in a wretched ‘cdhdition, was near the town when our troops enteredit, ‘when he put off. " Sitpta Anna had not been'in Perote since the fight at Cerrd Gordo, and he is supposed to be somewhere in the induhtains. t [Correspondence of the Vera Cruz Eagle.) Yesterday, at noon, | left the encampment near Cerro Gordo simultaneously with the thousands of Mexican prisqners who had Toon xdeased on parole, and who were wending their way to their different homes, or to some place from whence they may again be forced to take up arms against us. I believe their line, extended ag it,was along the road, was full five miles in length. The Guarda Nacionale was the ool corps that main- tained any order in their march—tho residue trudging mong as best they could, and in most admirable dis- order. Werode vver the road on which tl marched with great difficulty, turning our horads heads twenty differ- ent ways in'the space of half an hour, to avoid riding them down. They were less sad than men under simi- lar circumstances would generally be,and cracked many a joke at their own expense. This was in the early part | of the match. But towards sunset, when they had measured eighteen or twenty miles of thelr journey— most of them in'their bare feet—they became quite si- Jentand wad, and the effects of the fatigue of tne day, combined with previous privations, told sensibly upon them. | felt much interested in ths riumierous camp + women—those devoted creatures who follow them through good and evil—and it grieved me to see them, worn down with futigue, moving ut @ snail's pace, their heavy burthons almost weighing them to the earth. The woman of sixty or more years—the mother with her infant be co nf her rebosa—the wife, far advanced: in thatstaté that “women wish to’ be .who love their Jords’’—the youthful Senorita frisking along with her lover's sombrero on her head; even to the prattling girl who had followed padre and ‘madre tothe wari—could ll be seen at one view moving along—and bearing the hardships of the tramp, unconscious of the existence of iyisery in the world. ‘These women, like the Indians, are the slaves of the mon—a slavery they submit to under the all-powerful in- fluence ofaffection. In addition to their bedding and wearing apparel, they pack upon their backs the food’ and the usensils to cook it in, and worn out as ey, are by the toils of the day, whilst their husband or lover sleeps, they prepare his repast. . [noticed one ms ‘& General—who left Gen Scott's quarters about the satne time | did.) He was an elderly man, and T'soon perceived from his hobbling that he had but one leg. ‘His progress‘on the Inarch was an object of curiosity to ie, and { was sarprised to seo hhn keep up #0 well with the more youthful and perfect-limbed. | halted for some time at the haciende of Santa Anna, to rest my Horse, and my eye tan eagerly over the colamn of prisonérs to ‘seo ff he had képt up. The fourth ‘or fifth man to the writer was himself. He had refused dozen offers to ride, both from our then and’ his own. About 11 o'clock at night all of them passed iny tent— Save those Who had'sunk down from the ‘effects of the march—which was about three miles from ‘this place,— An hour afterwards a polite voice at the tent asked per- inission td light 4 segar from the fire, I looked out, it waa he. Hesaid he had not been able’ to kerp up with er ve | the advance, but would reach Jalapa in one hour's: time. ‘The segariiglited, he hobbled off again, and this morn- ing I met him in the streets, apparently not at all affect- ed with the jaunt, . When the’ Mexicans first surrendered, it was abont their dinner hour, In one of their forts the camp ket- tles were taken trom the fire, and the rations were being proportioned out, when the order for surrendor came from the second in coittiuatd—Ao they had to march out | Without thelr dinners, ‘Chat evening, although large quantities of food had beet served out to them by our commissaries, they were picking up old bonds,’ stale pieces of bread, und vey thing that cOuld be eaten. Y exterday, tharch, they would ran up to a beeve, Killed thé 6 by our advance, and cut off every \ \ | On day be ¢ that could be obtained, as eagerly as though’ they were half famished From the foot of Cerro Gordo to Santa Anna’s hacl endga the wax lined with dead Mexicans and hor: At‘or near the ranche where General Twiggs overtool the retreating enemy, they Jay thick around, and » more horrid scene ft wonld be Uitfoult to pleture, “Mexicans lay dex’ in every direction; some resting up against trets, others with legs and armas extended: and occuslon- ally a lancer lying With his arm upon the ofiarger ‘that received “his Géath woutid from the satie volley that eae thé citver of hiv rider. ‘Some of the ‘prisoners passing through would'occasionally halt to view the fea- tures of the déceased, and then, mending their gait, regain their place by the side of’ those who were more fortunate in the fight. At the place above cited was to be seen all the propor- ty, other than munitions of war, taken from the enemy. In one place, arranged in good order, wore’ ail the pack saddles—thon the pen containing mulos—the provisions next, cdmiprising tee, beans, bread, pepper pilonceos, garlic, &e’, piles of shoex, knapsacks, And all thie parn- | phernalia of » Mexican camp, Capt: Robt. Allon, A. Q: M., stopped for # moment and gave orders as to tho re- moval of there igor The muskets taken from theenemy were being broken on stones as | passed the spot where they were. Thoy Wero'of no earthly use to us, and henco the summary mode of dixposin ‘gof them: ~* “ ns ‘ Tavavay April 91; 1987, ° Gen. Worth lott yesterday for Perote! ‘The puss oc? clipied nine miles from here by ‘the evemy, has been abandoned; and war taken possession “of by an advance Igat evening. . Col. Childs is the military Governor of Jalapa. At Perote, tis thought Gen. Worth will meet with mach opposition—guien eabe ? sen. Fatterson, | am happy to inform you, hasrecover- od bis health in © great dearee, uirbanvnanitc t this Place, but with’their followers took ‘a hand goed, proceeded to a mountain pass miles here on the r¢ Mexico, which they inene ‘fying. but wi they evacuated this ing. A colonel of infantry says that this nine ~ was selected ‘eae fight at Cerro asa they should be so unfortunate as to have to fall back. No intention of making. astand, he: sare, yee. ht % boasted very much in Jalapa, and sai ae whip the Americans, but that he men from the pursuit until he Alas, the sequel. Cerro had dri usinto the sea. Gorco, he sald. was intended by nature a3 a defence against all those who attempted to heat and if the Americans were not point, it would be useless to oppose further obstacles to their advance. This he said Jnlapa on the eve of his departure for the scene of action. But, to wheedle the people in his usual style he now excuses himself by saying that he was not prepared—that the action com- menced much sooner than be expected—and that his defences were not completed. "3 From the Vera Cruz Eagle, of the 28th ult. We ond yesterday that information ha reevived at J; ‘that Gen. Worth had hia out- posts towards Puebla, and would march immediately in that direction himself. Wo are somewhat doubtful as to its truth, however, not being able to trace it to any sitive source. The Istest information received from Berote, which might be relied on, (we think) is that issued by usin an extraon Monday last, and repub- lished in this day's paper. Generals Scott, Patterson, "Twiggs, Pillow and Quitman were in Jalapa, General Shiclds still lying in & very doubtful state in a hospital on the battle-field at Cerro Gordo. Rumor says that Puebla will yield without discharging a gun; if 0, they will show more wisdom than bas been evinced be several other Mexican cities, with hardly a hope for success against us ‘ It is now certain that Santa Anna is at Orisaba, a little town at the foot of a mountain of that name, with about 1,000 troops around his standard. He was seen at that place on Sunday morning last, and was heard to express his desire of remaining there until he could muster a sufficient force to make another stand. In re- gard to the sincerity of his assertion, much doubt is en- tertained, as it is supposed that he is exceedingly desi- rous to leave the country, but fears to attempt a move- ment of that kind openly, lest he should be assassinated immediately, which will, no doubt, be his fate ultimate- ly. however long ho may prolong it. He will not dare return to Mexico is the universal opinion, until some success should crown his efforts to redeem his thousand romises to the deluded people and the clergy, the latter ing now his only backers. It is said that those who cling to his drooping stand- ard now are brought from Oajaca principally, and that not more than two or three hundred of them have an: arms; those they have, too, being iv a very bad condi- tion. We learn that he pretends he cam yet repulse the “invaders of the soil,” if he can rouse the rancheros, and form them into guerilla parties, to annoy small bo dies of our citizens and soldiers whom they may have the temerity to attack. Forlorn and dastardly hope! How much Castilian blood courses through the heart of ‘a man who could stoop to such cawardly devieer? ‘We have been credibly informed that a son of General Santa Anna is at tho head, or very closely leagued with the murderers who infest the road between this city and Jalapa, and that he makes Santa Fe, ashort distance from here, hia rendezvous. We hope that an > will be placed upon his actions, and that, if found 5 ity, bi will be dealt with as promptly as the nature of bis parti- cipation in snch crimes would justly merit. the republic, k. from. that Commanp or THE Mexican Ansy.—It in generally re- rtod that the Mexican government have removed jen, Santa Anga from the ohief command of the army, and appointed General Valentine Canalizo as his auc- centor.—Vera. Cruz'Chronicle of the 28th ult. By a person just arrived'from Ori: Gen, Saute yenath atrived there with» from Cerro Gordo, Hé stso assufes. us that. corres-. pohdence had beet seized by the authorities at, Mexico, addressed by og Senor Refon. offering certain sam‘if- about an earl; reat personage he-would: bring In Puebla, Gen. Inclan is commanding. They are for: tifying the town for resistance.— Ibid. The following is a brief description of the cap: tured citie . CIPY OF JALAPA. The city itself is upon a high ill—highest in the cen- tre, #0 that the streets incline considerably; 1 much, 80, that.no wheeled vehicle can pass along any of them ‘ex cept the main street or wong, which, bas i Seana a rite and deacent. . The city is surrounded by @ wall, and has a strongly built church near the western gate, which could be converted -into » citadel. The strects are paved. The houses;aein’ other Mexican towns, are of stone, with flut roofs and iron-barred windows. Oppo- site the city on the left of the road. is a hill from which the road might beannoyed, and shells thrown into the town; the road iso handsome and substantial structure of checkered pavement, and must have been very costly. ‘There is no yellow fever at Jalaps. TEROTE AND ITS CASTLE. Ste At the base of a high mount, bearing the same jiame some distance-from-the road-on the left, is a cluster of, houses with a church, called Perote. Opposite, on the right of the road, and. commanding it in every direc- tion, stands the ‘castle. Jt is upon a. fiat. sandy plain, strongly built of stone, and encircled by a deep dry forse or ditch, The main entrance is by going over a chevauc de frize by a stile, descending some twenty-five or thirty. atone steps to tha bottom of the fosse, and crousing it to the gates, which are ona level with the bottom, The population of Perote ix estimated 'at 3000 to 10,000; it is a fine little walled city; the houses are generally of one story. built of stone and cevered with terraces; the prin- pipal street ls remarkably fine; the others are wide and paved. Perote is distant from Jalapa about fifty miles, and is noarly midway between the capital aud Vera Cruz. ‘There is no place of eny importance after passing Perote until you come to =P . On & murket Co it in reully astonishing to-see the great variety of the best fruits of Europe. and of the tropics, piled around the square. On leaving Perote you rough extensive ntations of mague (aloes) ‘The castle is one of the ive chief fortresses of Mexico, where the State prisoners are confined, and where we believe Midshipman Rogers has been detained.. Annexed is a description of Puebla; the intel- ligence of the capture of which is daily expect- ed by our special overland express:— CITY OF PUEBLA. This city is walled and fortified. . It is built of stone, place to make a defence to cover a retreat in case | yspeace, find to place all the'requiaite means at his disposal 4 seeded an entranc: nding tl pop eles pre- i \ | | } ‘After ascending it about five miles, two forts were dis- | covered on the right bank, both of which opened upon | the squadron. Immediately all the boats were manned. with storming parties, and while the steamers anc gun- . ‘iiwntly returning the fire of the forts, they | (the boats) dashed’ on, and quickly took possession of | the forts. the Mexicans retreating down one side of the hilyas tho sailors ascended the other, | the town of Tuspan, but in a little while another fort uated ona high But, commanding the whole'city, open’ Upon _the; vessels and barges. * ‘At the same time volleys of musketry were fited by | the enemy from the chapparal, this latter fort was also promptly attacked, and like other two, was carried | without the enemy waiting to cross bayonets, our noble | tars proving themselves first rate fellows for this spoctes | of bourding work. Simultaneously with the occupation of this fort, a division of the expedition Iunded in the town, and at once took possession, of it, ‘The greater part of the inliabitants had fled and left but a few scat- tering 40 ithin reach of our balls. In the course of the contest seventeen men and officers were killed and wounded. Capt. ‘Tatnall received a ball in the right olbow joint; Lieut. Jas, L. Parker, aid to the Commodore, a severe wound in the upper part of the left east; Lieut. Whittle, a flesh wound in the right leg, and Lieut. Hartatein, « flesh wound in the right wrist and thigh. “All the wounded, however, are now doing well. Several guns of the ‘Truxton wore found mounted upon the forts, all of which were recovered and brought on board the squadron. Other articles beloaging to the Truxton were likewise recovered. After retaining possession of the town from the 18th to the 22d instant, the force was withdrawn and embarked, leaving, how- ever, the Albany and gun boat Reefer, under Captain Breere, to guard and command the place. It may be proper to state, that all the forts of the place were destroyed by our forces. There being no further work on the coast for the squadron, Commodore Perry contemplated, we learn. ® movement towards tho Inte- rior, with a fine body of 2500 tars, thoroughly organized, should such a step be deemed advisable, AFFAIRS ON THE RIO GRANDE—-LATER FROM GEN. TAYLOR'S ARMY. Dragoons killed—General Minon at Encarnacion—Health of the Troops—Gen, Taylor at Walnut Sprin, is Nomination foa the Presi- dency—Return af the Volunteers, §c. The New Orleans Delta of May 6, brings the following interesting intelligence from Gen. ‘Taylor's army :— ‘We yesterday conversed with an officer direot from Saltillo. He left there on tho Lith ult. The force sta- tioned thore and at Buena Vista under General Wool. was composed ¢f tho lt and 2d Illinois regiments, the 2d Kentucky regiment, the 2d and 3d Indlanians, the Arkansas cavalry. The Ist and 2d {llinois were e term of enlistment of the whole of 4 Three of Col. May about to lea them will have expired between the Ist and 20th prox- imo. The acto J foree that was in the battle of Bu Vista, are still stationed there, as are also Col. Ma} latter, numbering some made a scout inthe ad- folning country. They found Gen. Minon in the neigh- hood of Encarnacion, at the of a thousand or fifteen hundred lancers. They thought to draw a fight from Minon, but were unsuccessful. Three of the Ys who separated themselves from the main body, got killed before they returned to camp, by some prowling Mexi cans who hung about their lines, ‘The troops at Buena Vista and Saltillo were in excel- lent health ; and the wounded, who were daily Visited by Gen. Wool, and who sew. that ail their wants were tended to, were rapidly improving.” With the ‘wounded jexicans, who are in a separate. hospital, ‘attended ||-their own, surgeons, it, ix. different. The” place 1s ina most filthy condition;the American govarnor or the towti “| had to compel the alcalde to pay more attention to their -wente and to the cleanliness of ‘thé place. ‘Gen. Taylor is still at the Walnut Serine. He has heard of his nomination for the Presidency by several pressed and persons in the United States, Dut sVotds ro: ferring to it or saying aught about it; “He-evidently ap: pears chagrined, but at or about what-he does not com- mrinicate to thowe about him. Our informint left his camp on the 18th ult. The Kentucky rifles, who werethen at the Walnut Springs, wore. to start for Camargo, oh thelt way homie, ith the next down train. ‘The headquarters of. Humphrey Marshall’s Keutucky cavalry were at Cerraivo. Tom Marshall's ‘company was at Camago. But few or none of the volunteers will re-enligt. ae . Camanao, April 16, 18472" In compliance with my promise, I seize the pen to'ad- dress you few lines, although [, scarcely know of any- thing that might be of intercst to your readers, ¢xeept that there is no longer a doubt of Gen. ‘Taylors’s inten: tion to advance upon San Luis Potodi. so’sdon ashe can obtain a sufficient number of 'inén and means of ‘trans- portation for the enterprise. I have satisfied myself of this by the General's requisition upon the Quarter- master’s Department for,a large number of India rubber bags, calculated to carry: water. ‘Seyeral: thousands of these were yesterday sent up in a train.. Kavh one’ is capable of holding from four to aix gallons.’‘Thi¢ seems to me conclusive evidence of a contemplated march pea the waterless country between Buena Vista and Unis. f On the other hand, the disbandment of the volunteers, | whose term of service is shortly expiring, will leave Gen. Taylor with.but a very small force. Several’ regimenth of Indiana, Ohio, Iilinois, and Kentucky, and one from Mississippi and Arkansas, will before long retarn home. The }Louisville Legion is just now embarking at this place on their way home. You will perceive by this, that unless new forces arc sent here, it is scarcely probable thut any active. operations will take place in this quarter. Camargo is almoet entirely deserted by the’ Mexicans, Be fem, and those in the Government’ employ, are re ining. i o-Rereow 1 start for Monterey. It is believed that Urrea,with a considerable force, is still tp the neighbor- hood of Marin, a little village a short distance froin Mon: | terey. Genoral Taylor's order is. that no‘ smaller bodies than a thousand ought to travel between the two places. You have no doubt heard of the capture of San Juan. If this and the battle of Buena Vista do ‘not convinced Mexicans that they can’t hold a hand while playing at this game with us, | am at loss to guvs what could.” * Col. Belknap is in command of all the country butween -Cerralvo and the mouth of the fiver. ‘His government is rigid, but from all ‘appearances extremely judicious. He bas put his voto upon all-grog-shops and” geurbling establishments since hi arrival here. and tn consequence whole expedition now moved on stoadily towards | % | but’ they record the decease ot George Suckley, Esq. o every thing is very quict and peaceable.” He is this day stariing for. Matamoras, for the: purpore of ‘regulating in affairs in thit place also. AFFAIRS AT CHIHUAKUA. (From the New Orleans Delta, May 5. ‘A kind friend has fayored us with a perusal of a letter from a young gentleman of Col. Doniphan’s regiment to and the streets are well paved. Here water is abundant, | but from the Naoionab Bridge to this place no water can | be obtained—the natives substituting pulque asa beve- | rage. From Jalapa to Puebla, there are occasional heights. near the road, whieh, if fortified, might anvoy | invaders... Infact, from Vera Cruz to Puebla this isthe | cage—the travel being alternately over broad, unob- structed roads and narrow pusses, commanded’ by | his parent in this city, which was brought. bys. special heights. ‘The road.passes through Puebla.’ The Pus- | express sent by,Col, Doniphag to, Gen, Fay lor’s camp, planos have a particular character; they ate cunning | at Monterey, and thence to this elty. This letter is the and courageous, and the most, expert robbers and assis- | first communication of the important fuct that Col. sins throughout Mexico, where there i# no lack of such: | Doniphan has reported to Gen. Taylor, The distance Yet, Mr, Thompson calls Pucbla™ the Lowellof Mexico.” |"between Chihuatius and Saltillo is 400 miles." Col. Don- If an offender is brought before an Alcadé,’anywhore | iphan sent a guard of 12 men, whosucceeded in reaching else, and is known or ascertained tobe a'Pueblano, his | Sultillo in safety, and communicated with Gen, Taylor, } | | “Resolved, That the universal dissemination of the Biblo is an object that should interest the best feclings, asad bngu ro the highest efforts alike of the philanthro- RAARY WE IN NEW YORK, of the bar. ly afterwards, ee mara readi tack, Commodore bia American ec Society. rry hoi ing peadincen an ies the Spine, P The thirty-first anniversary of this Society was celo- ‘and at once lead the rest of the vessels up the river. brated at the Tabernacle yesterday morning. A very large audience assembled to hear the proceedings. The Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen presided, and delivered an address which was listened to with respectful at- tention. Joseph Hyde, Kaq., the assistant treasurer of the society, read the Treasurer's report. He stated that the receipts of the year past have been $205,069, being n advance of $7,760 26 over those of the previous yoar. janager’s report was read by the Rey. Dr. Brig- It stated that the namiber of new Auxiliary So- ‘ha ) cieties, recognised the past year, is one hundred and ten, and in nineteen different States and ‘lerritories,— None of the mai have died the last snniversary, New York, one of the vice presidents. The number of new Life Directors, and Lite Members received is 648. Tho number of Bibles aud Testaments (say is 671,500, in English, German and French, besides 4160 imported in other foreign tongues. The distributions of the year have been 626,878 copies, an increase of 143,006 over those of tho previous year, and an aggregate since the formation of the socivty of 5,124, 143. ‘he report states that these books have been scattered the past year from the most eastern counties of Maine, to the most western of Mis- souri and ‘I'exas, and from Florida in the south to the new territory of Minesota in the northwest, with scarce- ly an intervening couuty which has not received a por- tlen. ‘The increase in the issue of books is much greater than that of the increase of funds, and the society is consequently in debt to aconsiderable amount for paper ‘There bave been employed through the year sixteen ents, aud seven more for # portion of the year, Some of the local auxiliaries also employ agents,and many em- pod Bible colporteurs. Besides the home distri- ution of books, and the large grants for the army and for seamen, otkers have been sent the past eur to three of the West India islands, to Maracaibo, to astern Mexieo, to California, to Honduras, to Brazil, to Buenos Ayres, to Chill, to the Sandwich Islands, to Gib- raltar, to Bremerbavenin Germany, to Western Africa, and to India, the latter for the use of the natives who are loarning the English language. ‘The managers have also recently published a new Portuguese Protestant Bible for the use of the Portuguese seamen and whalo men in the American service. In addition to the grants of books ready printed, grants of money have been made | to publish other copies abroad, in France, Switzerland, | Russia, at Smyrna and Constantinople, at Oroomiah in | Persia, at ‘pre Madras, and Lodiana in India, ma- king @ total of $18,000. The Board have also ——— ted $10,009 to aid in the circulation of the new version about to be issued im China, and nearly the same amount towards publishing the Hebrew Spanish, Hebrew German, and modern Ameri- can Scriptures in the Levant. The report stated that it is not improbable that more copies of the Scrip- tures have been published and circulated in the English language than in all the other tongues of man combined. ‘The annual issues in this tongue now certainly do sur- pass those made by all the rest ef the world beside. In conclusion, it was asserted that there had never been such 4 demand for the Bible, both at home and abroad, as during the year now closed, and that there was every prospect that the demand would be still greater during the to come. At the rigs of reading this report, which was quite it was Resolved, That the report which has just been r be printed ‘and circulated under the direction ata managers. Resolved, That the thanks of the society be presented © procured and circulated to those auxiliaries which hav les, and made remittances during the past year, and particularly tosuch as have heen esgugod ina regular. systematic supplyof the destitute within their respeoj “tive fields of operation. : “The Hou, Luruct Bribiom then addtessod the dsociety. “He'mid that the course-of-the: seasons was’ not -mere * miarRed or decisively certain than the. influence of. thé Bible upon the woll-being of mankind. It had taught us the origin of ctr rade—it had taught tus‘our relatioi to our fellow man, and: the duties: rosulting from those Tolations. It had instructed us in the right worship.of our Maker and the obligations we owed to God—it soft- envd-and-amelivrated the Horrid features of war, that gtdat scourge: of:humanity—it- was. everywhere fuvora- ble'to public liberty and individual freedom—it exerted 4 grout and benign influence upon the establishment of laws and their execution—it tempered justice with moroy, and inouleated “glory to God in thé highest, and on sh peace, good will toward, man.” In all coun} tfles the Bible improves the moral and intellectu- atcondition of man, purifies literature aud directs selence to its true end and aim. This precious gift to man is not limited in its. benefits to this world, but it points out the road to perpetual blessings inthe npxt, Without revelation, we should have nothing more thin a faint hope of the immortality of the soul. Bo- fore it was imparted to us, nothing wus certain—nothing satisfactory ; an hnpenetrable veil concealed the future from man’s auxious vision. It is true, some extraordinary minds seemed to penetrate some distance into the glooiny abyss, of ‘faturity; but they could ascertain Nothing detinité, and their philosophisings were but the results of a more inquisitive intellect or more brilliaut ithagination than their inferiors enjoyed. Such was the edhdition of man without the Bible. At length the star of Bethlehem rose ; God was pleased to manifest his mercy through his son ; the prophecy of ages was vindi- cuted, and-the scales of doubt fal from the eyes of man, Not only was the immortality of the soul proven, but the great problem of the redemption of w ruined world was solved. ‘To spread this glorious revelation among the heathen ix the great work im which this soci- ety is Suspigyod. What man of benevolence or Christian fecling would not wish you God speed? The success of your past efforts will stimulate you to further exertion, and fu the vast field before you, you will find abuadaut ‘oom for operation. Learn’ frow u pugan philosopher to “consider nothing as done while anytiiin b done.” All may unite on the common g: sal charity and good will to man. (Appluuse.) dn this age of sectarian bickering aud contention, it is indeed gratifying to find some common ground upon whieh ail men of pure principles may associate, Scatter wide as the winds of heaven the seeds of light and truth, they will yet spring up and produce a rich harvest ef tempo- ral und cternal benetits, Mr. Bradish closed by oflering the following resolution :— ; for it is not less conducive to the in this life, than It is essential to his hat which is to come, Hatey, of Salem, New York, next took thestand, and occupied the attention of the audience for about twviity minutes. When, said he, the Cartha- wenian hero took his son to the altar, and made him Swear eternal hostility to the Roman name, be well kuow that he was implanting printiple which would “ grow with his'growth, and strengthen with his strength '— Tn tke manner, if we would firmly implant. religiot principles, we must take advantage of the eurliest dawn of the mind in teader youth, Nature abhors vacuum—ind this axiom ix peculiarly true with et to the youthful mind. its curiosity is insue its requirements must be fulfilled; it will have ething to feed upon, and, unless we provide that which is good, it will fasten upon evil. 1 am decidediy of opinion that the Bible should be regarded aga manual in’ all our district schools. The only objection | have at aud Christian: Wall being of sen 4 sand houses. condemnation is sure. Puebla is situated at the ex- tremity of a very large plain, on the Vera Cruz side; ‘its parallel, and very wide and well paved—the houses built of stone and covered with terraces, and two and three stories high. are remarkably fine. The public place would be admired in almost any part of the world—it forms a pertect square; facing it stands: the cathedral; on three other sides are magnificent palaeos,. ‘Chere are many other edifices strikingly admired for their beauty. ‘There are few churches in the world more magnificently ornamented than the cathedral «f this ‘sity. Allthe chandaliers ‘and ‘lamps, which are in great num- bers, are of massive gold and, silver; the dome. is in marble of the country, of great beauty and fine workmanship, ‘There. are ten chapels, richly. deco- rated, and’ closed each of them with on fron) gate door of yery great height and of the: finest finish. This church was finished in 1803, and is said tohave cost $6,000,000: ‘There ‘are also many other fine churches, The Almeida, or public Walk, ig very well kept. . It 1s composed of three alleys (of 600 to G00 feet each) of pop- lars and other fine, treea, and is surrounded by a wall, at the foot of which runs a fine Jittle stream of water, ‘There are a good many fountains in different parte of the city, and a few jets d’euu, or water spouts. Kew ci- tleg in Europe are finer than Puebla; but much cannot be said for the population, which, since the late-expul- sion of ‘the European Spaniards; who were by far the most intelligent and industrious portion of it, leaves a curious contrast between the present occupants of pub- lic and private edifices: indicating the. highest state of civilization. The same may be said of the whole po; lation bordering the road from Vera Cruz to the c. Time will no doubt correct this. Puebla is distant from the capital about seventy-vight miles, THE ROUTE FROM PUEBLA TO THR CAPITI.. Tho only town of any note between Puebla and the city of Mexico is Cholula, the ancient capital of a great independent Republic, which contained during the time of Cortez, and according to his own account, forty thou- It has declined into a town of six thousand inhabitants. The noted pyramid hero is work ofart which, next to the pyramids of Egypt, approsohos near- ost.to thors of nature {n magnitude and vastness... I base covers upwards of forty-eight acres of ground, or about four aude half:times more then the largest Kgyp- -tlan pyramids. -Cholula- is--seventy miles from Mexioo., The capital wallod city, but is not.supposed to be susceptible of bborn defence. It is a very wealthy city, and contains a population of one hundred and forty thousand, abounding in fine. buildings, costly ehurches, public squares, and broad and regular streets. THE CAPTURE OF TUSPAN=-FULL ACCOUNT OF “THE EXPEDITION. Passing the Bar—The Spitfire led,the Way—Two Mezi- can Forts Opened onthe Squ Two of the Mexican Gonerals, prisoners at Corro |, Gordo, are now hero, Poagiiny { , Gen. Scott has his héndquarters in a largo house on the principal street leading from the market. Gen. Shields, I hoard to-day, was/ in a doubtful state, ond that will be good news to those whd have been ad. yleed that ho was mortally whunded.. | “nn? 1 Zempoalteca, of the 19th, the government tho State VAC . ni gy ‘ie early part of the fight of the 18th. ,From what authori- t she editor derived his information. i ain unable to say, f he speaks of the repulse of threo soveral charges led Gort Soot, i which our lose is set down at one thott- The churgo ho allutios to’ T prosunie, is that mxde ‘Gen. Pillow, in which some handfed of- our pe gia killed and wounded, As to the charge which carried Cerro-Gordo, it.was one of those determined ones that ne opposition the enemy gould make,wowd fora moment. eheck its progress, and it was made by Gon. Twiggs in- stead he Gen Scott. ‘bpeaking of Gen. Twiggs reminds me of aremark made an officer of the Mexicans, He said that the height ‘Cerro Gordo had been given for defence to the second ia command, aud he lad Leeuw told Lo pick the choicest troops tor the servive, as cither Gea. lyigge or Geucral Worth/would storm it, “The choicust,troopa were placed i ‘paper of containg a meagre apoountes the } Mubiearx Movements.—A detachment of two tae meee soe. iZeNOMMy advised’ ine that hundyed and forty-seven men left here yesterday | tendaut’ upon yg nobpalumuin’ ee et 4 j afternoon for the sent of war. Company I, 3d ae by RARE eapeaned are chesgeahiv x) on Ine. tn Artillery, Captain Martin Bark commanding the | ecusation “of "injustice Thay Niginatiae ¥ ter rf detachment; Co.tK, 8th Infaniry, Captain C. Rt. | front: FOR, ‘Titel wih given vote ac f tn fue’ Gates, and Co. A, 7h Infantry, Lieut. J.R.Seott, | nieatiob I have derived “tom: Genta Suge get | ~, " ‘ ‘PF. Mor- t@ *uuimon me tn general terms to surrender; that ey: sommanding company. Lieutenant C.F. Mor- | ti neutrals were preveuted from Inari the place; that | sis, 8th Infantry, accompanies the detachmeat. | if the Mexican families could have left, the enemy would | | there, but they wire of: no-avail, ‘The’ ubtompe made, and snore wen no wiving back whiist/Iwigys, Hur- ney or Riley lived to Jead the storm. When Santa Anna and Ampudia ingloriously fled from the field of battle, they wore ashamed 10 pass 4 1 was |. ed and Captured by the Sallori— Flight of the Mewi- cans—Arrival at Tuspan—More Fightiig—The Fort and Town Captured—4 Naval Land Expedttion Con- templated. Thee verland Express’ also brings us @ copy of the Vera Cruz Flag of the 28th ult., from which we extract ‘the following interesting particulars of the capture of Tuspan by our nt tars :— The expérition consisted of the steamer Mississippi, flag ship.) frigate Raritan, sloop of war ths ip john Adama, ‘Germantown, Decatur, Spitfire, Vixen, geome) ‘Vesuvius, Heels, Etna) Bonita, Petre! and Ree for. Among the vemels were distributed 160 men be- longing to tho Potomac, and 340 belonging to the Ohio, Any oth of winiel- rem ‘at thisplace, -Aftersome delay at the Island of: Lobos; aemiting the arrival of the sail- Ing vessels.wnd'«ubsequenty at sea, owing to’a dispersion Of the vessels by w northeF, everything was ready f Janding on the morning of the 18th dost, at whieh tine tho Missivsippl was anchored off the ber of Tuspan river, while tbe other steamers. having had their masts taken out/and otherwise tong! c way, took in tow the gun boats and bar; dition, carrying, in_ all, about 1200 mm of fleld artillery, The other vesrels o1 iipined at anchor under Tuspan shoals, oF bight rhflés dart ward of ‘this bar’ “ ing tho bar the Spitire kid 'the way, and was. félowet by the Vixen and the Seourgo, each having a gun-boat fn tow. Two of the steamurs struck on the bur, but were not suffered to be stopped for a moment, ‘They literally ploughed their way over it, By 19 o'clock he squadron re. ) whieh lies six population ds estimated at 50,000 souls; the strects are | zt | ‘They left Chihuahua on the 20th of March, an | in about 30 days at Saltillo. estate Col. Doniphan had sent Dr, Connolly, o citizen 9 | Chihuahua of American origin, to the governor of Ch: | huahua, who bad fled to Durango, proposing to have a ‘treaty, and suggesting that com loners should be {sent to agree upon the terms. Accordingly the Mexican, |soommissioners had arrived and entered upon the nego- | tiationa, Col, Doniphan proposes that if tho ple of | Chibuabine will guaranty. the wafety of the Ame leap | residents and traders in Chihuahua, and will hold them. {selves aloof from any participation in the war, be will { evatuate the town und proceed on his course. The | Mexicans were favorably inclined to the terms proposed. | and it was expected that ina few da: be on its march to join Gen. Taylor, who had fled from Chihuahua were fast’ retar business was resuming its activity, d arrived ing, and GENERAL scorr, * errr ‘ [From the New Orleans Delta, May By. ‘The sagacity and good {udament exhibited by Gen. : Scott in all his relations with the Mexicans, are produc- | ing the most favorable results on the mifids of the people. By various little courtesies and kindnesses manifested to the officers and soldiers of the. captured merits mn of Vera Cruz, and by a respectful regard to the prefadiecg | and customs of the people, he has succeeded in a great measure in softening their antipathies and allaying their jealousies against our beget and government. “One | act of generous concession to the army of Vera Cru, pro- duced the most kindly foglings among men, who a short tite before had exhibited t it yards our eountt On th ‘themselves in the defepce of the tq Sight officers werg necordlialy, Pre q (ho complimented'them igily on thelr | conduct, and refused totake their parole, This act of magnanimity wna not thrown away upon the , Mexicans. Ip all the towns through which they passed they gavo the | most tavorable reports of the liberality ind goueroslty of | Ube commander-in-chief of tho Ameri¢an foreep’ . ‘THE ARMY. © Seventy-five volunteers, besides officers, under co: basen’ of aout, Gove ansived ot Dorion om tonda dng: from Vermont, ‘They quartered -at itha We Hotel, and started fer Newport on Tuaday. The England regiment has now about 700 privates-enilsta ‘The North Bend will sail from Newport about the 16th. with threoor four companies for Vera.Crus, Itis ox- | nested that tho whole regiment will be filled. and on | their way by the 26th, The men are suid to form-a fine looking corps, P Capt. Webb left’ Hattford for: Newport on Troads; afternoon, with about 40 United States Teeruita} 4008, hearty looking youn, men. aot ‘ . The last act of the Rhode Island Legislature, adjourned on Saturday last, wi hay ig a pad resoliy, tions In commendation of the services of the late Major John R. Vinton, of Rhode Island, and appointing 4 ¢ | inittee to cause his remains to’ be removed | Cruz, whore he foll in the service of his coustry bo interred in the city of Providence, his native pla moans ae cit; Intelitgenoes: ‘ Svopen Dearw.—-Coronor Walters: held en’ Inquest Yesterday upon the body of @ man (known only by the Sognomin. of Dublin.) apparently. about 30 years ali. who fell down in a fit in Orange street. He was conveyed to the Tombs, where he expired almost immediately Vordiat, death by appoploxy. « Hi Fines,—A° fire was discovered ‘yesterday morain; about 2 o’clook, in the four-story brick paper warehoure of Messrs. Bulkley & Gookin, No. 110 Johu street, ‘The promises wore slightly damaged. Axotuiin —A fire took place in the rear @f No 216 Seventwonth street, occupied by A, Dugan as a dye- house Dainage trifling News raom Avoary.--We are indebted to, thy kiud- ness of the gentlemanly, egmmmept Fa ae yteaiye tno sr ioe atone Fsve o'clock in the wfterhioon, Our friend Me E. 8, Dennis, of the Negiaven ‘and Springfield Railrond, favored us lust night with Boston papers of yesterday morning. which yer- breed | ever heard,that carries any show of weight with it.is.that | the Bidlo discloses “scenes which may well be postpoued | forthe maturer judgment of riper years, This objec ion, however, comes with a bud -grace from those who | pluee in the hands of the young, tictitious publications |'which conceal vice under & flimsy gauze, ana stimulate | the passions by exelting the prurient imagination. ‘This | sqmeaiishness about the phrases of the Bible—-this depar- tere from good old Saxon terms, reminds ine of an aneo- «ote, A lady who had been reading one of Dr, Johnson's | books, meeting te doctor one day, told him that she | dnighly approved of it. | He inquired her reason. Sho re- | ‘plied that she had read it all through, but did not ob- | Merve a single indelicate. word. “ Madam,” seid the doctor, “ that proves that you were looking for such words.” So it is with the objectors to the phraseology 6f the Bibles if they did: not look for bad words they would not find then. ‘The peculiarity of American eo- olety renders it more important here than in the coun- tries of the Old World that. the young should be fur- nished with meéyng of religious instruetion. Children do not remain long under the influence of their parents, ‘They go off to tho far West at an early age, to build up Cites and villages and States there; and whether those cites and. those villages are to be distinguished for juils And penitentiariesand aluis houses,or for houses of prayer, wad rows of smiling cottages,depends upon the moral edu. cation of the young men who plant them. What is to preserve us from new favgled political sahemes, make us faithful in our intercourse with foreign nations, and wise im our administration at home? What is to do all this? Why, the Bible—and nothing but the Bible. (Great applause ) - It is to the Anglo-Saxon rage that we are to fook for the maintenance of religion in its purity. The spring of the Kussiaa bear and the howl ef tho Austrian | Wolf are to be met by the growl of the British lion and tho scream of tho American eagle, (Voeiferous and long continued applause.) Mr. Halley presonted the follow- ing revolution ; ~ ‘Resolved, That there are oxisting ciroumstances in ‘the history of tho churchy end foauresin the eonatitu- tion of Aumerican society, whieh will render the wide diffusion of the Scriptures among our youth, measure highly oxpedieat and important, The next speaker waa b, Goupenor, Enq. of London, A delegate from the British aud Foreign Bible Soviety, Mr. Corderoy commenced by saying that one of our writers hud.stated-that two of the: most important ques- tions which could be presented to the human mind were: Int. Is there a God? 2d, Has God spoken? and if so, when and how? |lt is a work of'superfluity to prove the ‘exlatence ofa God; but how has God spoken ? He spoke forsix days, and on the seventh religious worship com. menced—tho morning: stars sang together. But bas He not spoken otherwise? -Yes! “God, who at sundey times nnd in divers manners spake In time past unto tie fathers by the prophets, hath in these last day’ spoken unto us by his Son.” Phe preservation of this tuvela- tion 1s a suiracle, and its possession an inestimable bless. ing. 1b. stands among. books like Adain among fhen—the first of all. Mr. Corderoy gave some vatuable statistics respecting Bible Societies. Ho said that in 1804 not a single society existed throughout tie world, which had for its objeot the publication of the Scriptures without note or comment. In 1847 there wore 9000 such societivs in active operation. In 1804, it is estimated that there were but four millions of Bibles in clreulation among all nations. In 184%, over thirty ‘millions are known to have been distributed In 180% the Bible had been printed in only forty-nine languages, In 1547, itis printed in 136 Janguages and 163 languages ond dislects. Jn 1804. the Bille was accessible to 200,« 000, of people, 1847, if ix accessible to 60y.000.000, +The British.aud Foreign Bible: sq:sery disteibutod last year 1A1i83 Wiblesewud the i mds in its treasury amounted Wo. £117440.98, 8d, -@ Lhreo millions of Bibles have been civouluted in France by that Sociery, Ly means, of colporteurs, during the past iiteen yours, this was a great acwevement im a couniry, lirough ube Bireets OF oUF UF Wikose principal cliies dusiagiue evo lution w iibiv swan denggod tied to the tau of an wen! Not many years since, colportour iu travel Larougl that coduiry met a cure who » even seen & Liljeehu always prowch ry. He bought & Bible trou tive coir became converted, and now enides } of 650 converted Momanixts, 1m the provi | dy. Bibies were also being circulated in | King of Prussin was extreioely interested in (his abject: | he Joins the Britisu and Forvign Bible Society, in paylug he tatd me