The New York Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1847, Page 1

= Whole No. 4952. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 15, 1847, ANK THEATRE —Benelit of MR. BLAKE, Tressurer "| Morallty of the Mexican War, in Europe and Ey Dee 15, be performed the 4: nited of the SPOILED CHILD—Liule Pickle Mise Herons Mare, Fee re Seas Fanny Heron—their first appearance in America Pie: i e London Sus.) vious > which, THE LOST LETTER Mr, Beas, Mr. Base; | _A# the star-spangled banner of the United States flut- Mr. Paul Ardent, Mr. yon Reainper, Mr. G Asdtews: Vir. | tered triumphantly on the walls of Chapultapeo, thirty Mrs. Abbott. After which, THE IKISH TUTOR— | soldiers were hung in front of the American forces The leron; |» Mr. Pe 3 Ri 5 ‘with the drama’ of the CRICKET ON Mr. G. Andrews; Caleb fobn. foorybingte, y M 3 Aue it, 90 cents Gallery. 28centa. AY oruelties ted by Hernan Cortez, on his first ex- pedition {nto Mexioo, have been surpassed in barbarity and heartlessness, by the heroic commanders of the mo- del republic. If despotism can be symbolized by a knout, American republicanism may be benosforth represented Bee caret enw, Massaer: Bags | bye gallows, and thie from the same spirit of historic be rama of VAL! it of th heral which would indicate French republicanism by Slavee—Premialuus Mr. Bellamy: Gra Clark a guillotine, "Never we undertake to aver most distinct, albee, Mr. sha. 7 onal ; Flos, Mr, parva: Vaane, Mee Tau ‘followed Boiss. here tas tagemaieotaseer tke sesare ox teerneyeies let oP NATH ATTEN haley Mise J ravell: The of Nestes—not by the rigor of Westermann or the cal- Aroaud, Mr. G. W. Smith: Alfyed, Mr. Burke. To cone Seaman @ Narva Fel hd yg FS: i BARK Mose oss Of Narvaez—as the nationality of the United Feitbone, Mr ‘rs Belin ae sit, fla States has been disgraced by one ofits subordinate officers et Mexico. That it may not be conjectured that our sympathy is exaggerated or our indi ous violence, wesball detail, ina rylabl eldents of unebristian vengeance which have stigma- tised with such infamous notoriety the name of an Bconts: and Gallery, 125 Cents CaS HAY RHE AT Re —Undermne mer peat Emenee x ab, cK Held: Qari ie ferlaney Lady Ro- Te the di of ation of superfiu- Mr rt otherwise unnot! martinet. Whatever troops eth; iva, Mra, Me hady Ro- | have been into California or into the more STES. ‘To cone! ‘of | Southern portions of Mexico, in accordance with the TH. eSRUM: ‘a Story of the Freuch’War | directions of the War Department of Washington, have and; Oscar, Mr, ‘Seaford {Corporal Mr. | been remarkable for thelr i ous character. Such Hield; Fmilie. Miss Hildreth | Doors open at pase 6 per- | was inevitable. ‘Ihe comparative youth of the United formance to nammence at 7 o’elnck. Boxen 25 cts—Pit, 10% c's. | States as an independent power.and the comparative suddenness of this unprincipled sgeression upon the neighboring territories, rendered it impossible that the army dispatched upon the expedition should be other- wise then singulsrly bi nous. All classes, all nations, all religions, added their quote to the enlist- ment, and diversified more strikingly the moral and fotawsr appearance of the armament. Am led under their standards not merely the bi oruits of the United States, but with them large num- bers of mercenaries and adventurers. Among such very doubtful additions to the American forces, were brij like the handful of Irish soldiers commanded by M (RCHELIS OLYMPIC THEATRE —On Wednesday nHE NEW PL, rmances will ANET—The New fleas, Mina M. Favor: ano, Miss Rober t OUSE TN DISASTER PLACE lemie Twitcher, Eq. Mr. Cono- 4 Satin, Miss Phillips. Af Le ct ae Stee Urner Boxes tt Pit, tae ria : ASSOR FLACE OPK — Wednesday. Dec. 5th will | Riley, and who deserted at different timesfrom the DL PAMERMOORn Land’ Hoary ‘Ashioe, Ss" Ferdivands | of the United States, to serve under that of Mexico. On Beneventano; Lucy of Lamermoor, Sig’ra Teresa Trufi; Sir | the cocasion of the hand-to-hand encounters which pre- Eagar of Kavenwood, 8’r Benedetsi; tert Arthur B la ceded the entrance of General Scott into the capital of 8'r Felix Genovesi; Raymond, St Settimio Rosi; All the invaded territories, these unfortunate wretobes Bix’rn Angiolo Mora; Norman, 8'r_ Felli Ibertaz wore captured by their victorious assailants, and brought Bitsor Bareciy Bast | Leader of the Orch’stra, | to trial in separate batches for the crime of desertion theatre, S0-ceuts. Box Office, t'psat Bto | Tbat military discipline is the very soul and existence 12 o'clock, acd at N seer from to 3. Doors open | Of a0 army, and that the rigorous and judicious punish- at 7 o'clock, To commence at half past7 m_ | ment of desertion ja abyolutely essential to the mainte- TLuO'S OPER NE—VWLL*® AUGusT, . | Rance of militar Ine, are uoive! ly re- Perey re Oe ca ee tori GUSTA re; | cognized and universally accepted. ‘That we acknow- -¢ has t-ken this house, and intends to prodi FRESCH BALLETS and for the first time GERMAN VAUDEVILL’ AND COME! Hermann end Deetz, ¢ Theatre Royal, ber m*er 15th, 1847 will be performed the farce e VILLAGE BARBE! ledge with the utmost distinctness; but it must be re- membered, at the same moment, that s natural distinc- tion has been invariably made between the desertion of native soldiers snd that of mere mercenaries; and it must be especially remembered that even in cases where the culprita have been proved most culpable, their sen- Rose. a country goby; Gurge, & peasant, Mr, Sat hi ten ig been pronounced with » calmness befitting . Heimann. After which, ¢ majesty of justice, and their punis»ment inflic ballet of LA SYLEHIDE—La Sylohide, Mao’lle Augusta: | without ae svolaica of Ale” taceeeiee of soolety, Pouald, Mr. Fredericha: Bendy) Mr Hermavn: Hels: Mr. | or of the noblest dictates and impulses of humanity. —Pasbeul by Mad. New Pas de Thy Mad. Au. | Inthe present instance, the manner of both judgment Gusts, Miss WY , by | Aud execution wus directly the reverse. The judgment tne Corps de Ballet. re be followed oa German voudevill: was burried, precipitate, and indecorous. The exeou- in one sect, by Angely, entitled RATAPLAN, The Litt! tion was characterized by the utmost r Drummer—Gros Can eant of infantry, Mr. Sauer; Ri elty, and by a fiendish pro!ongation at f thi Aithoug! g on the 9th ult, at Sen following morning at Mix- on the part of the com- manders of the United States was unslaked. The crime to which we would especially direct attention, was re- fer, Mi se aplan, a young Dummer, Miss Jacoby; Capriee. Hofm'ster; Tire Bouchon, innkeeper, Mr. W. dame Morton, Mrs. Hofmister; ‘There hi an officer, Mr. Hochhi jm; Pierre. Jean, R Stampf, Sachsen, ‘Van Lad "tn conclude. ‘with the I. and the agonies of deepsir. coac, the thirst for vengean lessrs. served for amore remarkable opportualty; it was to a8 He Marmion, a veteran Colonel, ‘i g consecrate a victory, and to associate with the glory of paar Yi ae Foca: 28, Twn thelr regiments the gloom of their tribunals. It was not show; Sth, iss Pentland: 6th, Edmond, Mit enough that s dozen men, who could not have been mh, 8th, Adolpl oth, Berna) formally convicted, were subjected to the degrading eet "aac pe Ficciiakn Werte saad chastisement of the lash; it was not enough that the let- Mrs Needhanes wee, het ueice, Miss Wel ter “D” was branded upon each man’s chi ae not millers drugti iokes; Pedrillo, mil noren had | weithed under 9 whip of raw pages, Ke , &e., by the rest of the company. Dani ji hide,wielded by a Mexican muleteer—the consummation Pothe piecessi'as Bollorus de Cadix, by Madam viselle‘Augus- | of these cruelties was delayed until the 13th ult., when ta aud Miss Wel rentel the ‘and the a deed was to be performed ieore which the ruthiess Pas Senl, by Miss Well-; to conclude with tt id | heart of the most sanguinary dictator might have quail- cog omy Nas io Devel bby? om meee ae far ge ed. On that day, th irty of these Irish deserters were ill commence at 73 ‘15 lerre brought out in a body at Mixcoac. They were pinioned; ropes were about their necks, and they stood each man ARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM—F T Banwum, | under a gallows. It wasa moment when the most pitiless 2 Rogorietar 6 Hrrcucock, ManegerSP/.ENDID FER: | Tighe have refrained from enhanoing their anguish; it ery Kveniog at '73¢ o’cloc! for a few da: ‘was one of those moments when the most dastardly ruf- TAMPBELLE ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS AND flan finds his evil passions relenting, and when the stoi- a COMEANY, who will appearin s, GHAND BHIO; | clam of the hangman himeelf has been known to soften. ‘BQUE ‘and also in their Popular | For nearly two hours death stared those thirty men in the ait Hy poe Aires $i jed the Cy face—during that horrible interval they remained each a ED. Miss JULIEN: MODELS | one with the halter round his neck, and the beams of Se nth Meh: CIVIC DRANG OUTANG: heck | the gibbet over his head, shuddering on the verge of the Admittance G] ‘the whole. 25 cents; children under ten years | grave, drinking from the bitter chalice of dissolution, f age and ol alone, 12 cen's. Reserved | slowly, to the last drop of its dregs of agony. For these 45 re netween Grand M Schaefer, oe poem ary ct "Y and FASHION of New York. OPEN EVERY San awd Meee Prince FN CHRISTY. C ABBOTT, J: RAYNOR: VAUGHN whose oruiaal act inimitable’ are i jored with cmwded and high! al ences, and universally admitted to excel every amusement of protracted and un} d torments, the thirty desert- are were indebted to a Colonel of the United states army, who had pointed to the neighboring battlements of Cha- pultepeo, and declared to these doomed men that the Seaagatbonesed tencagpoaemaen apen sek waln-at the ToD, su upon banners of the Aimerioan republic. When at last the stars and stripes rose triumphantly above the stones of Chapultepec, these thirty men ~ were all swang of 2 | together.” Th O name of this Colonel was Harney. imiler C in this city. m 35. conte, atrocities ever perpetrated in warfare, not Children under 10 years, half price. Doors open st 74 COR | one is recorded more cool, deliberate, and develish in its cruelty. It ina fitting illustration of the sentiments ef rapine and injustice in which this Mexican invasion has originated. It isa testimony, moreover, that the Americans have received ible reception from their opponents, for it je most famous re marks of @ most wonderfal soldier,who ever trod the that whenever an army is ruthl has very narrowly eecaped defer (From the Washington Intelligencer, Deo. 11.] . : 5 . ty . Instead of relinquishing, in deference to the popular will, thus clearly expressed, any part of his original scheme of conquering and annexing ® considerable por- Brose as OVEON—Eauance ugh Pinteux’s Sa- joon—Under the management of Mr. E.G. Gaeeiy.— THIS EVENING, will be presented a variety of en- tertaming performances, among which; M lanchi lay several fayorite the Mai Glasses Tir. H, G, Sheren ie fidele and Mise nercues ea ABLEAUX VIVANT, © Cupu id Venus” “ th, in victory, be sure it ‘Amazonian Triumph,” coming out of the Bath.” aud a Grand National Tableau in Honor of the United States. Gea HOLIDAY ENTERTAINMENTS AT THE LAFAYETTE BAZAAN’S THEATRE and Mechan- ical Maseam, cornevof Liberty street an tion of the territory of Mexico, the President comes to ued on Wednesda ay afternoan. Le Congress and demands its concurrence in a plan for ¢o- day: lonizing and annexing almost one-half of Mexico, with TH Cousistir g of Messrs. er recommendation to continue the war until he, the con- Parker, W. Meeker, J. H. Cleaveland,and J,G@. Evans who will | queror, conquers all the reaidue of that unhappy repub- Vie piogeed me ies ag i Patient in" | ie, in, the erent of ber Hot willingly severing from her soe id - | body her most valuable provinces. instead of advisin, &e. In addition to the above will be presented a magnifi- pet en ey whieh this gore ment might ha 6 Dardment of Vera iy 3 tatle of dan fuse VU lloe by the combined uavaland aiitary | On terms of honor, he informs Congress, tal States, ander Commodore Perry and M Gilbert's celebrated, bee of SABLI strain, and almost in the dialect of the sham he is persuaded “that national honor and interest, and of bringivg the war to u best means of vindicating the Stites. A to. the an honorable elose, will be to prosecute it wit increased ad Mechanical Mugen, 2 on. uldeen, elt rres afc | energy and. power, in the, vital parts of th countr: demne He knows that he an‘ by his own countrymen. his war stan Seviery et Le aL sOOM—TYRO- He cannot, if he ives ofthe Raisers. would, mistake the sentiment of the people ; and yet he ‘on We MI hatte Bo Graves more conquest, more butchery : he demands « oF It present an entire ¢ deeper penetration into the vitals of our adversary, and brows Tick leman and two | yet further waste of the blood and treasure of his own tickets, 50 cents. half-past 6: * * * . country. * ‘To proceed, however, to the main point, upon the re- assertion of which alone the President relies to justify bimself before his fellow citizens for his be mel io this war, vie. that the Mexican goveroment “finally, under wholly unjustifiable pretexts, involved the two countries in war, by invading the territory of Texas, striking the first blow, and shedding the blood of our citizens on American soil.” Not one word of thisis true. We re- gret the necessity, but the President imposes upon us the ob!igation, of renewing the demonstration of the ut- ter falsity of the whole of it. Mexico did not involve the two countries in war; Mexioo did not invade the ter- ritory of Texas; Mexico did not strike the first blow; Mexico did not shed the blood of our citizens on our own soil. This whole question, it will be seen, resolves iteelf into one of territorial boundary. Did, at the break- ing out of thyl war, the territory between the Neuces and the Rio Grande (Del Norte) belong to Mexico or to the United States? It did not belong to the United States. The requblio of Texas had no title to it. She bad not even a respectable claim to it. She pretended to no such title when she called a convention to form her constitution; for not momber was called to that convention from'any portion of the territory bounding onthe Rio Grande. Nor when, in her constitution, she apportioned the representation in her legi the several districts of her territory,did sh districts lying upon the RieGrande as enti P tation in the {'exan General Assembly. The whole country Grande, and indeed the whole country west of cept the small settlement of San Patricio, ly in possession of the Mexicans, until the United States marched into it driving be- lexican civil officers and the peaceful inba- Meneoat balf past o'clock. "No postponement on weather. OUILTY LiBRsRY LECTURE ROOM, Br SOME LYN Nis Musica it f shakes; ening, Dee, 1eie—M ACBETH, Tid Tio commence at 8 o'clock. IGINAL SPLENDID ALTAR PIECE of the Adors- tion of the Virgin t Jesus, and other Br. Buvaventura printed 16th century, by Rubens; just rcs ed from wert ex! ibitieg at 413 Broadway, comer «f 16] t. isston, 25 cents; serson tit kets, 50 c ose hi pile Moen Sabbah her fy Fs from the m Jeansyend renching over st ting in the world. way, adjoining Open every (Sunday exce: te H nts; children hal Tre anorama will commence moving at7 o'clock o f pric isely exhibitions.on Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 Senta secured from 10 A. M , till 12M. di2 12t*re pu GREEK SLAVE, comer of Broadway and Leonard street —This statue, by Powers, will remain in New York ort ti Alt d the 16th Oech Der willbe available until the close sof the exhibition. — ingle admsi rn $0 cont season ibition from 9 A. M, until 10 P. M ” ae, 50 cents. Hours of t NUN’S GYMNASIUM.—C (6) NON infor jie that | veot! Cyt hi 5, 17 it E pen, a sts and pa His a for form ny 46 Tteodre ip exercises the att of he ing taught, by having no title to the territory, the an- nofensor from Paris, with the small or broad | nexation of T'exas to this Uni-n could conter none upon ‘The Pistol Gallery is furnished with | the United States. Ware a peace to be made to-morrow Duelliog Pistals. and all the other on the basisof leaving things as they were before the war, the hema gp A between the Nueces and the Rio Grande would still constitute a part of the Mexican State of Tamaulipas, ko. N B—Mr. O. in Brooklyn, is now healthy and central solum, hich wil be for im. He now ope street, where any farther informa: a4 1208 . . ‘ . All that remains, therefore, to sustain the pretension of our administration that the boundary of Texas ex- tended to the Rio Grande, and that by her annexation the Rio Grande became the boundary of the United States, is the act of the Legislature of Texas declaring its boundery to extend to the Rio Grande. If that act could be considered of any effect whatever, it would at most leave ground for controversy und negotiation, as ‘was assumea by Mr. Donelson, But that act itself was a mere nallity. INTON HALL, on a 817, Subjects—Steam Navigal of intercourse between diflerent prion of a new method of propell fduitenee ieee die 2876 SHAD. WOOD PIANO FORTE ¥OR LE—Au elegant finished superior toned, 6% octave, Goth }, pannel i rte, made to order, b; iat makers in’ Germany. is offered for aulent x ery + bargain, $858, being richly worth over $350. T! Forte can be warranted id . . . ‘ . It is thus conclusively demonstrated that the terri between the Nueces and the Rio Grande ver id passed out of the possession or right of Mexico, to be, for touch, fi fanier “2 Fs mae ‘jane be ‘American wt )) OF rior instro: 150 8) ry e Uni . The fac }, more- Lanress and py he — id ‘ait date over, too notorious to need to be dwelt wes, y RE—J. Y. HENDER- thet the army of the United States, when it neared the Rio Grande, chased the Mexican custom officers out of their houses, and. when it amped on the bank of the river, found itself in the midst of ® Mexican population, and py then the corn and cotton-fields which they had fled from in dismay. The flag of the United States lanted by our army, us in defiance, under the guns nego fort, and at the same time the vessels of soy FOwrEs SON, manutacturer Piano Fortes, 519 Broadway, An assortment of superior rose woo! kept expresaly for hire: Also. an stock of new and pop ‘ke., 549 Broadway, ince streets. Me MUSICAL INSTRUCTION~F C. CAB cits the atter i A London’ elicits the at ee indies and gentlemen to kaded the moth of the Rio Grande—s nn, olorte, " Pils ensure yey impre ty ve: altogether pils who would have the tuition of a careful banks, without a Texan settlement of 1, will please address C.E. Castle, Box | any sort within a hurdred miles of it. Nay, Gen. Tay- 1, Terms quite moderate. References, Hi. © | lor himself, after literally obeying the executivs orders, Timm. Keqy G. Loder, Kaq. nal 12teod*re_ | by occupying @ position opposite Matamoros, thus re- Soean ames randoles, Ch ported to the War Department (under date of April 6, ‘ke ~The subscriber offers for sal ie 1846,) his Proceedings: — “On our side battery for four eighteen-pounders will be completed, andthe guns placed in battery to- day. These guns bear directly upon the public equare of Matamoras, and within good range for demolishing beautifal assortment of the above arti bronzed. raby, turquoice, and eut gl of various patterns; gilt and bronzed Gi ne th of eleven candies; Solar and iF Is, + the tows. Their object cannot be mistaken by the ene- The enemy! ‘What enemy! Does not this language nachoter foe nirehees We; stained i (iets tans treated) one w 8 prove that the brave old general umderstood very well ee winnie there for? babel noha’ until e . guns ing upon the pubile square of M: as the object of which, as he very truly reports to Mr. Marcy, could not be mista- ken! “And & this invasion of Mexican territory, under peremptory orders from Washington to the commanding an ae ‘the war begun e President of the Uni- tad }. without the knowledge of Con; though in . Nor vhen nor since has there been & drop of American (United States) blood shed by Mexico on American soil; nor then nor since has » Mexican sol- dier or armed man set his foot upon American soil, bsg perincluded) The foundation of the Presi- jont’s first, seoond, and last war manifestoes against Mexico being thus withdrawn from under them, what ia there left to sustain any part of the recommendations in the messave before us, of ther and more vindic- regener tion of the war? 1 plies M * A minister plenipotentiary was sent, instead of a com- wissioner, our government refusing to treat. on the boun without mixing it up with matters 10 sort of connection, and the corres- pondence between our Minister and the Mexican autho- rities was still going on when the army of General Tay- lor was, as iffor the purpose of precipitating events, marched from Co: Christi to the Rio Grande. About the same time, as we know from the President’s mes- sage of last year, he was himself in secret negotiation with the exiled military chieftain, Santa Auna,for what preoise purpose can only be inferred from the fact, that the day after the war was declared to exist, directions were given to our vessels of war to allow him to pass into Mexico. All these concurring circumstances show that war was premeditated by the President.— ‘That the war might been then averted by Mexico’s egreeing to surrender the United States California nda boundary on the Rio Grande, we doubt not; nor do we doubt that the Prosid nt and his cabinet have been willing, ever since the war began, ever Mexico would agree to surrender to their demand all of her territory that they have set their hearts on: and that this is what the President meavs when he 8} of “conquering a peace.” But we have still less that the original objeot of this war, and the sole true cause and motive of it, was conquest; or, in other words, the coercion of Mexico tosurrender territory which Mr, Polk ambitioned the eciat of annexing to the United States. Mr. Secretary Bancroft, in » letter of instruc- tions to Commodore Sioat, (then commanding in the Pa- cific,) on the 12th of July, 1846—two months after the war was legalized by Congress—very frankly disclosed his fact. “The chject of the United States,” says he, is, under its rights as @ belligerent nation, to possess itself susicely of Upper California.” And, further, said Mr. Bancrofe, * The object of the United States has re- ference to ultimate peace with Mexico; [udtimate, ob- serve ; possession of her coveted territcry being the pen- ultimate object ;]—and ff, at the pence, the basis of the uti possidetis shall bs established, the go- Yerament expects, through your forces, to be found in actual posseseion of Upper California” The President declared to Congress, it is true, in his message of last year, that this war with Mexico had not been waged in # spirit of conquest. Would any one suppose, with these instructions to our naval command- er, and corresponding instructions to our military com- manders, that he understood the import of this disclaim- er! No one oan at lesst misunderstand the purport of his present message, breathing, as it does, nothing but war, & conqueror’s peace, or the alternative of the anni- hilation of Mexico. Nor does the President seem to wn- derstand himself in another respect any better than he did when he disclaimed ony purpose of conquest in the rosecution of the war with Mexico. In setting forth, ‘or instance, im the beginning of this message, his own love.of peace, and strenuous efforts to preserve for us its blessings, we must look on him as exhibiting & very signal example of self-delusion. No man’s pacific merits could well be less. His course, thus far, in bis high office, on the contrary, realized ‘to the full, in almost every instance, what we said of ita year ago; namely, that, having seen that wars weM® popular in this coun- try and felt that he himself was not too popular, he had thought to himself, ‘‘ I will be a war President, and that will make me popniar, and r yr all my opponents and cempetitors odious. Accordingly, his very inaugural had # full-blown quarrel with England in it; his first annual message announced that he had done all he could to bring that quarrel toa focus; meantime, he had secretly taken steps for another with Mexico, by way of making sure of a war somewhere. 0 that, no sooner had the interposition of the Senate foiledghim in his original war-plan, than, by s diligent improvement of his time, he had another fight ready to substitute for that which had been refused him. Grown more wary this time, he took care not to be foiled by any body’s discretion ; and, though Congress was sitting for five months before he had brought every thing to bear, contrived to havea war completely in « blaz ad our succorless army placed in what (their prowess unknown) seemed sn almost hopeless predicament, befor ountry or Con- gress knew one word of what he was about. Such are She general and the larger faots, to that merit of loving peace which the President ‘appropriates to bim- self. [f we look closer and soan the particulars of things, we must not only say that President Polk is not pos- sesved of that virtue of a ruler which he claims, and— we regret that we must 7, it—has shown, and every where in this message shows utterly indifferent to the carnage and calamities of war Of little less than stone, indeed, must his heart be, who can look, without the strongest commiseration, upon the spectacle of a nation reduced to the extremity of distress in which Mexico, known from the first to be incapable of resist- ing us, now stands. Not one spark of compassion can his breast ever hsve known, who, after inflicting upon a wretched people, destitute of any resource against us but their hereditary obstinacy, all theslaughter snd humilia- tion which we have everywhere inflicted upon Mexico, can coolly resolve in his heart that this is not enough ; not blood enough, not tears enough ; not snfficient ravege, not satisfactory disaster, not national woe and degradation duly Sop ; for that the victim-people, though covered with blood, and prostrate in the dust, still, with desperate though feeble hands, fights, though vainly, for its hearths and altars—that, therefore, as Mexico does not yield, we must now begin to strike her “im her vital parts ;” and, besides seizing for ours per- petually territories the utmost that even rapacity has dared avow for our aim, most pacidically and peace- lovingly exhorts us to go on rivaging the rest of Mexico, until the nation yields or is destroye Why, the very savage of the court-yard, im other times—that most brutal of mankind, the bully of the bailiwick, who chewed up an ear or nose, or scooped out with thumb a prostrate adversary’s eye—was humane, was generous, in comparison with this ; for he, when he fought, never fought the weak, but rather his match ; nor, when his rival champion lay gasping and helpless under, oper to the last, and ready to die sooner than utter the craven word “enough,” would he and then, moreover, have helped himself to ver he could find in the maimed man’s pockets, : even in his hardened heart there would be a manly pity, because there was courage: if he did not @t once raise up his enemy with respect, he at least would not begin “ to strike at his vital parte ;’’ and well for him, too, that he would not ; for the very crowd of a court green, coarse as it then was, was yet undebauched ef every right sentiment by party politics, and would not bave suffered in the bully what it now endures in the President. So much for the mercies and the compunc- tious of him who proposes, for the luore of five misera- ble millions of indemuities, which he himself acknow- ledges Mexico could not raise the means of paying, to butcher or enslave a whole empire of Republics! But this is not all: how stood the fact of our very right to ‘ask for those indemnities, after having helped ourselves to Texas, for the liberty of peacefully annexing which it 18 well Known that we stood ready, under the * hoe ad- ministration, at any time to have given more than the amount of the indemnities as a price? Evenin the mo- ment of annexation, the Chairman of the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the House ot Representatives, speak- ing 8 the organ of the Executive in the House, said, to quiet the last opposition, that he had the liberty of assu- ring the House that it was ascertained that the inju feelings of Mexico could be healed with money. Such was the intimation then held out; and there is every reason to beli that authorized but unoflicial offers of at least the amount of the indemnitivs had been more than once made to Mexico for her rights over Texas. Finally, however, in the mere confidence of im- punity, we took it without a price: but at least, by @ last reserve 0 or of pity, upon the remon- strance and the unanswerable showing of Mr. Ben- ton, that we were about to take much more than ‘Texas, (which had nev wessed any thing beyond the Nueces,) Congress ted, and by its resolution of annexation, ordered the Executive to adjust, by friendly negotiation, the proper boundary between 1’ asand Mexico. And, now, once more for the peace- lovingness of this our President. His duty stood assign- ed him, He knew that we had taken what we had olten offered to buy; he knew that if, in honor and faith, the indemnities were not cancelled by our seizure of Texas, at least that now an injury to Mexico had been com: mitted. But he knew that, feeble as she was, she dared not aecept that war; and: t once, with a pitilessness the most singular, not content, though we had just ravished from her @ vast and rich territory, nor touched by the forlornness of a nation utterly uuable to reveoge such treatment further than by the impotent resentment of withdrawing ber ambassador from our court, he sends General Taylor forward to seize, in addition to all that she had been stripped of, even'the petty and barren slip, the mere selvage of sand, the desert space between the Nuecea and Rio Grande, which Congress had plain- ly meantto spare For this worthless object, and unJer circumnsta nces so vehemently invoking forbearance and mercy, has Mr. Polk illegally and unconstitutionally in- volved usin this cruel war, every step in which is piain- ly, according to the progress of his plans, to lead us jurther and further into" the bowels of the land.” Yet, in the face of all this, President Polk can talk smoothly of his love of 6, the '* liberality” of the terms he has held out Leer Mr. frist, and especially the genero- sity with which, wherever the sword goes to crimson the fields of Mexico, the olive branch torthwith waves, ‘as fast as ite companionsmites! — * ‘ . Can the President 0 little conc how mere @ mock- ery of peace and fraternity is this invading @ country with declarations of love, this sweeping off its provinoes with @ besom made of olive branches, as to expect that Mexico will not be fired with a double reseatment by the imperious and degrading form of negotiation to whioh he would have her submit? If ho does expect it, then is he a stranger, not only to all the netural and be- coming passions of men defending their country, its honor, and its independence, but to all the exampies of history and all the suggestions of prudence. War has never thus been made, except by conquerors the moat arrogant and merciless, The rule of the Romans, not less wise magnanimous, was never to negotiate afters defeat. Can the President intend that we are to treat 7 the face of disaster, should it ever come? Dere he that the pretended “ olive branch’ ‘would not them be instantly withdrawn! What, then, is and nominated Senor Pe: Pena, the President of the High Court of Justice, ident, and Generals Herrera and Pacheco, his colleagues, according to the constitu- tion. At the same time he despatched the body of the army to Queretaro, under the command of General He- Tera, retaining only about 1,000 cavalry about his person. As there was no money to pay the troops, the army has almost entirely dissolved. The Congress, which was to have met at Queretaro has not assembled. nor has any provisional government been install-d. The States of Zacatecas, Durango, San Luis, and Aguascalientes, have met and chosen a president; but as our means of communication with the interiorare few and uncertain, I cannot vouch for the correctness of this information. —— nae the inevitable effect but to require that they whom we are invading, d and dismembering, should, at ly defeat, come forward to terms ne made harder and more hu- miliating by utter di ture—the rout and dispersion of their armies, or the capture of their forces and cities? Of negotiation under such circumstances, the ve viclis of Brennus and his Gauls the “Wo to the Conquered !”” is the notorious and inevitable law. The sword stands ever ready, in all such oases, to be oast into the scale of ransom ; and none buts nation of cravens and fools ever resigns itself to making terms at such a moment.— On the contrary, every brave and every patriotio heart only summons up, at ‘an instant. a more unconquer- able cou i and the Fesolution “Never to despair of | Let me now give you the result of my obseravations du- the Republic” becomes the only thought which ee citi- | ring y “ : of “a, when wes pry zen will consent to entertain. Left almost at our meroy | of tl between the two different asshe is, by factions which not even the extremity of publle distress seomsable to quiet ; her government aud jer armies in the hands of those who appear equally in- efficient for alther peace or war; her troops every where driven from the field or lying slaughtere: her capital,and several of her large provinces in our hands ; her treasury as empty as wasour own inthe gloomiest day of our revolutionary struggle—still, in the pertinacity of her refusals to treat, Mexico bas shown vome gleams of thatold Numantine spirit which prefer- red to surrender ; that Iberian obstinacy which the Moor could never quell, nor even the irresistible ar- mies of Nay tame. Whether she has caught it from her race,or whother the growing fierceness of a uni- ek national Hate, such r alway ina country overrun by invaders, ins} houorabi ig ing of the fight is decidedly valor- ous, but being unsupported by,and having no confi- dence in, his commanders, he soon loses courage, and has no perseverance. In the battles of the last month, the guards behaved exoeedin; the troops Of the line, severely thi lee y several times. An excellent citizen and soldier, General Antonio de Leon, from Oaxaca, fell at the head of his division on the 8th of this month; Colonel Bal ras and several other staff officers also fell on that da; The last battles near the city have i, fatal to the officers. At Chapultapec fell three gene: 4 and five colonels, among the latter a well informed Il, much better than king and repulsing young man from Yucatan, nemed Cano, and who had Notwith- been educated in France and Germany. spect it. Iti js it will formidable. | standing th i Such a spirit, once fairly awakened, has ever proved in- caption he soos lint se amey pe eg tet vincidle; and so we shall find it to’ our cost, if, by pro- y the inefficiency of their longed and cruel warfare, such as President Polk would have, we stir it up throughout Mexico. RGHCE the soldie the less with which cesses would not have been inflicted by a very despicable opposing force. the 11,000 troops with which General Scott entered the valley of Mexice having been dimin- Inhed by 8:500 dead wand woundee. @ American soldier is individually courageous be- yond all doubt, but he fights always cach. by himself, Bas And it is theseYew Mexicans, thus faithful to their government.and thes repaid by its affection and fidelity, that President Polk intends to drag into our Union, whether they will or not, by way of making them into a kind of human indemnity, » corporeal capital, an ani- mated scrip, out of which are to be repaid the old tosses | and thus the ofa large body ot them hasnot that of certain of our citizens! A ret sympathy with love | oneness nor the force which perf at subordination alone of country must onr President hi and marvellously gir Their tactics are wretched, and y Opposed precise notions about the right of province, « good deal | by an enemy of any determination, their personal valor more populous than was Texas in 1837, to choose under | would not suffice to cover the miserable defio! mey of what government it shail live. But we have filled our vacant space, and. exhausted our allotted time. What- ever more we have to say on this Mexican war we must their command Every witness of the late events, who has the leest idea of warfare, must be convinced that General Scott might have gained sion of the capital at an earlier period, and with infinitely less sacri- fiov, if he had attacked the original position of Santa Anna at El Penon, where be might have taken the latter prisoner with his whole army. The conduct of the American troeps in Mexico is now much changed, and not calculated to overcome the violent prejudice with which they are looked upon, Contrary to their promise, they continue the douane and the impost on tobacco. Nothing is done to purify the city; the streets are still covered with filth, &o., and the Alameda, or public promenade, they have made the burying ground for their dead. All the houses that had been deserted by thelr owners, were taken possesion of by the genei and others,the rooms broken open, the furniture used and destroyed, and everything at all eatable, devoured by the soldiers, who seem ever eating—morning, noon, and night their teeth and jaws are hard at work. Hun- dreds of drunken men parade the streets at night, and no one’s life is safe in the streets after dark. The sol- diers rob wherever there is an opportunity, and at the least resistance they shoot or stal thelr opponent. The leperos invite the American soldier to a drinking bot ‘and as soon as he is drunk they despatch him. Ther are days on which as many as twelve Americans lose life in this way. General Soott has demanded 160,000 pesos as a contribution from the city. ‘Asto the future we have no hopes; th government with which the Americans mig! how of treating; the irritation against them becomes ly greater, while their number is too small to force ibmission to any administration of their own. Nothi is in their power but the point which they occupy. Pi ebla has been taken by the guerillas, who ha’ me - fully misused the inhabitants; it is true, we learned last night that General Patterson, at the head of 3000 comes until some occasion shall arise to call for its ut- rence. [Correspondence of the London Chronicle } Mexico, Se) peace, at th it. 26.—Im the height of our hopes for the members of re busily employed considering the ponals, @ report gained ground in public deemed impossible On the 4th instant ist delivered his proposals, on the 6th the Mexican American Las e wi Mr. commissioners sent their propositions to th camp; butas early as the morning of the 4th! sawa number ef persons busily employed on seveml points ing the fortifications, thus violating one of the articles of the armistice,and from this fact I drew the in- ference that Santa Anna no longer meant to conclude a peace. You will have learnt ere this, from the American papers, on what points the proposals of Mr. Trist differed from those which the Mexioans were inclined to grant, and I need not, therefore, repeat them; the Americans demanded too much,and the Mexicans would give up nothing but Texas. But you must remember that the Americans expreased themselves most vaguely when the indemnification for the enormous sacrifice they de- manded came in question,and although they promised some, they named neither its nature nor the amount. Some people say that they offered 26,000,000 of dollars; others, that they would make themselves responsible for the English debt. Now, when all this is at an end, the exact demands of either party are of little conse- quence. It seems that the,luckless advisers of SantaAnne, ‘acheeo, and Tornel, immediately after the armistice was concluded, strongly urged him to continue the war, and he but too willingly lent an ear to their advice and flattery. Thay remin jm that September was his fortunate month, in which he bad have found something to“ glean ” between Vera Cruz and the capital, Our object, however, in adverting to this work, is to point out one particular im this war with which the American accounts leave us wholly unac- quainted. However difficult it may be to handle the Mexi- can people and territory, or to dictate the terms of @ peace,it is well known that the country contains an enor- mous quaatity of the precious metals, Partly the pro- perty of the church, and partly the remains of the for- mer splendor of the vice royalty of New Spain. Mr. ‘Thompson gives the following account of the wealth of the Cathedral of Mexico: “The clergy do not, for obvious reasons, desire that their wealth should be known to its full extent, but quite enough is exhibited to strike the behoi with e first object that presents itself ing the cathedral is buildi silver, euter- the altar near the centre of the it made of highly wrought and polished 4 covered with » profusion of ornaments of On each aide of this altar runs a balustrade, pace of about 8 feet wide, and 100 feet long. are about 4 feet high and 4 inches thici inthe largest part; the handrail from 6 to inches wide. Caen the top of this handrail, at the distance of 6 or 8 feetapart, are human im: beautifully wrought, and it 2 feet high. All of these—the balustrade, handrail, and images—are made of a compound of gold, silver, and copper, more valuable than silver. I was told that an offer had been made to take this balustrade. and replace it with another, of exactly workmanship, of pure silver, and to gi of dollars besides. There is much more of the same balustrade in other parts of the ehurch; | should think in all of it not less than 300 feet, As you walk through the building. on either side there are different apsrtments all Qiled from the floor to the ceiling with paintings, statues, vases, huge candlesticks, waiters, and ® thousand other articles, made of gold and silver. This, too, is only the every day display of articles of least value ; the more costly are stowed away in chests and closets. What must it be when all these are brought out, with the immense quantities of precious stones which the church is known to ? And is only one ot the churches of the city of Mexico, there are between 60 and 80 others, some of them possessing little less wealth than the cathedral.” We do not impute to the officers in command of the American forces a base intention of plundering the ene- my ; on the contrary, General Scott’s orders of the day have uniformly presoribed respect for the private prop- erty and the, religious edifices of the Mexicans. But, considering the character of the Ameriean army the lawless independence of the adventurers who have joined it, and the usages of war, we shall certainly consider it as an unprecedented event if this enormous booty es- capes from pillage ; and it is not unlikely that, to avoid the horrors and losses of private captures, the wealth of these public edifices may be regularly spproprinted ase prize of war. Such a mass of the precious metals has, prebably, never fallen into the control of any conqueror since the soldiers of Pizarro ocoupied the gorgeous tem- ples of the Peruvian deities. ¢ have yet to learn the American accounts of the capture of Mexico, though we publish in another place « narrative,drawm up by an eye witness, of the attack. But it is by no means improba- ble that this campaign will end like « great raid into the enemy's country; and that the Americans, in: it at the rejection of their terms, and slarmed by the isolation of their army, will have recourse to measures of violence which they wouldghave been ashamed to empley in the oarlier stages of the war. So true it is that every suc- successive step in these transactions has been more guil- ty and disgraceful than that which preceded it. [From the London Times, Nov. 16 } It is very difficult to imagine that there can be any class of persons who could read with satisfaction the in- telligence which we yesterday published from the seat of warin Mexico. They who only wish to.aee such boot- will Bnd po kind . They who involuntarily sympathise with an aggrieved and in- yaded nation, of what character soever it may be, will onal grounds for disappointment and who are interested in,the national credit of @ people sprung from the same stock with ourselves, must lament that it has been sullied by such atrocities as those into which the Americans have been drawn by the consequences of their first unjust . The inevitable horrors of a city taken by storm have been al- most eclipsed, on this occasion, by the spectacle of fifty beaten the Spaniards mn, had arrived in that city and dri it the : at Tampico, &o , and when the Amerioan proposals were but this pero is not, quite trustworthy, lide mos laid before the committee, it was plainly seen that no e the Mexi: will consent toa even if peace would be concluded. In the afternoon of the day the semblance Americans will on which the Mexican counter propositions were de- livered to Mr. Triat, General Scott sent a note to Santa y can maintain Anns, complalning of the violation of the armistice, and | th ait the course of events demanding satisfaction in the next twelvehours,without | here. ‘The party which wishes the annexation of the which he should deem the armistio aend. Santa | whole country to the great northern republic, is too Aona’s answer was decidedly hostile and offensive. On the morning of the 7th the troops took up their positions, but the ds d without hostilities; on the Sch ened by the thunder cf cannon, the Ameri- attacked the Mexicac position at Chapul- ‘bis rook might be made a very strong castl but in its thencondition was by no means impregua! A violent attack was made early in the morning by th Americans upon # mill, Molina del Rey, and the fight lasted long time, considering the usual mode of fight- ing of the one party. The Americans retreated nl times,once in great disorder and haste,and if this partial and temporary victory had been well followed up by Santa Anga’s cavalry, he would have gained a decisive victory; but his large body of 4.900 horse remained in- tive, Ateight o'clock the Mexican positio nm by the American; five guns, 640 prisoner: about the same number of dead #ud wounded, were lost to the jeans. It seems that on this occasion, as on forme: , the ‘ioans brought an insufficient force to the attack, eral Scott expeoting to take the whole position, cas- tle andall, by eoup de main; we are told that only 3,000 men were brought into the field, and that the rest of their troops were not even in Tacubays. The result for once undeceived General Scott; he lost 1,000 men, dead and wounded, aad gained only » useless victory, for at one o'clock, [’. M., he had to retreat upon his old position, after blowing up @ cannon foundry close to the Molina del Rey, and having carried off his dead and wounded. Santa Anns caused the bells to be rung, and announced to the capital and the country that the Mexican arms had gained a victory. The quiet of the next two days, served to increase the confidence of the Mexicans, and it was asserted that General Scott was about to retreat to Puebla. On the Saturdey an attack was made by ® large Mexican force upon Tacubaya, which was repelled by « small body of the enemy’s troops. On Sundsy, September 12, the three batteries opened their fire upon Chapultepeo, which was continued the whole day, and did great damage to the garrison and to the buildings. The mill and foundry were again oocu- pied by the Americans, and on the following morning, under cover of rong fire from the batteri columns of Am need from isposition of his Americans. At nine o'clock they took the fortifications midway up the hill, and immediately advanced upon the next. At that time we saw from the Axoteas, the garrison of the castie in full flight down the almost perpendicular hill, towards the city, and a few minutes afterwards, the banner with the stars and stripes don the walls of the castle of Chapultepec. Santa Anna retreated fight- ing towards the fortification of Belen, but the Americans followed, and although they lost a great number of their weak to gein iteend. (ieneral Paredes, who arrived in the neighborhood duri taking possession of the ent which no one has ng about than himeelf,) communicated to his friends fact (’) that the Eu- ropean powers were prepared to supply Mexico with protection and—a king, as soon as @ majority of the peo- ple should demand both. It is to be expected, that Ge- neral Paredes will soon raise his standard somewhere in the interior, and proclaim the plan of Iguala and the Tratados of Cordova, but it is quite certain that he will find but few followers. American ideas of humanity and justice :— In the battle of Churabusco they took about 70 deser- ters from their own army, who had joiued the Mexicans, P¥isoners. About fifty of them were shot, but ene offi- cer they could not condemn to death, becausehe had deserted from them (a common soldier) before the be- ginning of the hostilities. This man was branded upon the forehead and on each cheek with a large D. and when the mark on one cheek did not appear distinot enough, General Twiggs caused the operation to be re- peated ; after this the unhappy culprit, and all those who had not been shot, received fifty ‘stripes each, « similar dose being promised them once a month for the next six months, ‘Those who were executed at Miscoac had to wait fora whole hour under the gallows, that they might have the pleasure before their deat ing the American flag flying trom the tepeo. 3.600 Mexican prisoners a: iog in which there is not room fo1 for ten days no one entered this prison, nor was ¢1 the unhappy inmates allowed to leave ‘it, even for one moment, Imagine the condition of these wretches, guilty of no crime ! [From the London Times, Nov. 13 ] From the first conception of the scheme for the an- nexation of ‘Texas, by the government of the United States, an long ago as the administretion of (ieneral Jackson, down to the last acts of violence and bloodshed committed ,by the American Generals in the course of the present horrible war, scarcely an incident has oc- curred which has not been foreseen and predicted by every dispassionate ope spectator of these events, ‘and, at the same time, denied by the Americans, until ite actual accomplishment fendered all further power of negation unavailing. Never was the sophistry of po- litical passion more consistent; never was the sequence cfevents more uninterruptediy pursued by the policy of a nation; and the deepest scheme which has ever been devised for territorial aggrandisement and mili- tary aggression by the Cabinet of an absolute power, at the head of a great army, could not have been more systematically carried on than the subjugation of Mexico has been by the successive Presidents of the most de- s men,their ranoeand valor were irresiatibleaud by | mocratio republic jn the world. We do not, in- A.M, they had taken both the Belen and San | deed, suppose that this extraordinary enterprise, From thence they threw a few shells into the | which may now be said to have been in course of execution for more than twelve years, was deliberately Oe. ae arte ante Anne left with his troope, | contemplated agd contrived at “that distant period by after having liberated all the criminals from the prison Acordada, and went tothe Villa de Guadalupe, about | American statesmen or by the American people. It is two English miles distant from the capital. At break | by no means improbable, that if leading members of day the magistrates (El Ajuntamiento), sent adepu- | ofthe American Senate had foreseen all the conse- qdences of the ani tion of Texas, and had believed that the year 1847 would see an American army strag- gling to maintain itself within the very city of Mexico, they would have recoiled from this long series of rapa. cious and sanguinary actions. It is not umlikely that if the American people had formed a more accurate es- timate of the cost of the province which they were so eager to filch from a neighboring State, even their nn- tellecting ambition might have been checked by so la- vish and wanton an expenditure of their resources and their blood, But the solemn prediction of these dread- fal scenes, which have sullied the character ofthe United States by the revival of the passions and evils of offensive war, was disregarded, though it proceeded trom the most eminent writers and statesmen of America, and though it was re-echoed by the convictions of avery observer in Europe. ‘Ten years ago the Americans affected to deny the charge of territorial Fapacity, yet they were abetting the sion of @ Mexican province to their own uses, and entually incorporated it with their own posses- . Three years ago they affected to deny the posri- bility of » with Mexico, yet the President ordered the troops of the Union to march into the disputed ter- ritory on the frontier, with # perfeet knowledge that such @n act was an unprovoked declaration of war. Last year the war was to bo terminated by bats on the Rio Grande, and a oertal observed towards the Mexican 0" midable adversaries ; but this summer all the horrors of war have been inflieted by the Ameri army, the city of Vera Cruz has been bombarded, the whole country overrun, and Mexico iteeif occupied. ‘The Mexican Re- public is completely prostrate, and Gi much the master of the capital as of what then’ Butchery and pill cannot be the main Objects of any army in our joine political pur; must at least serve for pretext, and the sccomplis! ment of that political purpose is that which determines the success of # campaign, But in Mexico there is no power with which ® lasting agreement ean be made ; there are no institutions which give what may be term- ed personality to the nation: the whole community is, aa it were, resolved into a masa of private persons, who are, of course, animated by the strongest detestation of their iavaders which race, religion, and wrongs can in- spire. Under these circumstances, General Scutt’s posl- tion in Mexico reminds us of nothing more than that of a landiord who has just succeeded to an outlying por- tion of the family estate in Roscommon or ‘Tipperary | and, as the American government will find it more dif. cult to break off their fatal connection with Mexico than it has been to march into the country, we shall not be surprised to find them permanently engaged in ® work aboutZas dificult as the ad- ministration of Ir About five years ago an ‘American diplomatist of character, who had recently been employed in Mexico, published his recollections of thatcountry. It is not uniustructive to turn back to these pages, for the {nots they record have been confirmed aa his anticipations of peace have b After stating as his opinion that @ not much more physical strength tation to General Scott, demanding some guaranty for the safety of the capital, which (the deputation) was most ungraciously received both by General Scott and Mr. Trist, and the only promise they could obtain, was that the life and property of private individuals should be respected, if no resistance were offered to theentrance of the American Army. When the lower classes saw the city wholly without « garrison, they immediately banded together, and crowds of leperos advanced upon the palace, stealing or destroy- ing all they could get hold of. The different archives and government offices were attacked, plundered, and all the most valuable papers and documents torn ard de- stroyed. At 7 o'clock the American troops advanced from the Alameda towards the centre of the city, and as soon as this movement was perceived, the leperos and othsr low people began to fire and throw stones from the roofs of the houses and from the little cross streets. One of the aides-ge-camp of General Worth was severe- ly wounded at his side by one of these shots. As the mericans advanced, they had to storm and take pos- session of th by one, aad clear them from t driven from the Palace and re placed at different points, treets cleared by their fire. The discharge of amall arma continued all day quarters of the olty. Small groups of riflemen advanced in all the streets upon the leperos, who retreated before tl bat reap, red a8 soon as their opponents had marched off. In the af- ternoon, amail bodies of Mexican troops of all deserip- tions entered the city, portions of the army which was already dispersing. and spread the report that Santa Auna would soon follow them. The irregular American troops spread in all directions through the city, making war upon their own hand, partly against the armed le- peros, partly against the smaller shops and warehouses, which they soon cleared out. It was strange sight to gee these people, drawn hither from all parts of the world, in the most grotesque attire, the most diversified arms, without @ leader and without any subordina- tion, strolling about the streets in groups of trom two to ten or twelve, driven some by mere curiosity, others by greed and cruelty, recklessly exposing them- selves to instant di + Two Germans, with but one gun between them, seated themselves beneath the balcony of my habitation, drew some bread, apples, anda bottie with pulque, from and most com: sedly made their atternoon’s meal by the acoompani- ment of # most lively fire of small arms, while the balls struck the wall negr them in ell directions. They talked about the city, which au mpared with Carleruhe One of them ther seized ‘and prepared to fire at some one of the leperos, but Se other snatched the gun away from him, accusing him of not knowing how to take him, nae mead by instantly shooting rome un- happy lepero he the head, that he at least knew how to take aim. Immediately afterwards the equal y good aim of » Mexican laid him dead at tl f comrade, who, ceolly stooping, took up the pulque bot- tle and the gun, and retreated to some less dangerous spot. Suoh # horrible indifference to life I ne’ nessed before, The evening made an end, for the ti to the enormities, and the night pased quietly. But the morning came, and with it a renewal of the struggle and its attending horrors, | refer you to D.’s letter tor some details of the events of the dey. ‘siesais, {wate This day ended the fighting in the streets. that the idselenua have Toatin. the city at least two | people’ Shall we send Soot and Worth to glean « field hundred ‘On the Thursday all was quict, and only | which has been thus reaped!” The result has proved few stray shots were heard at intervals. that Mr, Polk has not been ig I Seceens to = Slate Re rigued te Predoney ab Guadaloupe, | eho te ohn ead at teal defeated in fifteen minutes; and he adds, with the virtu- ous indignation of 1842,“ Shall 0 to war with miserable Irishmen hanged ina body, for deserting the colors to which they had attached themselves. We have no wish to uise the fact, that, over and above the un- due and fortuitous aggravation lent to every incident of war in a season of profound and general peace, thia actof General Scott's, may assume « deeper dye from want of oy ae consideration of the circumstances which might be alleged to justify it. No doubt desertion, the most emphatic of all military crimes, besomes @ more formidable contingency and demands more severe treatment in an army or on an expedition where the temptations are unusually it, and the restraints un- usually small. The American army, om this occasion, has been described as a heterogeneous aggregate of halt the nations of Europe, and it is certain, trom the consti- tution of the population, that such must, to » large ex- tent, be the case with every considerable expedition sent out by the United States. Excepting smongst the de- scendants of our 20,000 Puritans who cluster about the States of New England, it would be dificult to define the breed or the locality of «real Statesman. The broad distinctions already subsisting betwee: orn and southern, eastern and western States, are still fur- ther increased by au average influx of 200,000 emigrante yearly from all parts of Kurope. Beyend the cirole of & looal militia, there can be found but little spontaneity of union; and, under such conditions, it may be inowm- bent on a commander to secure, by the terror of exam- ple, that fidelity which he can hardly expect from sug- gestions of patriotism. Yet, after ail such considera- tio1 @ must avow our conviction that this act, which sale and exterminating cruelty, may matoh the barous rigors of pest wars, does the general, the army, and the expedition, with & deeper stigma than any it wore betore, A ‘party of miserable creatures, d of a home or country of their own, took their services to a 00- lonel, as they might have done to « contractor, and leas- ed their sinews, to the work of a war as they would have done to that of@ railroad. We do notssy that their constitutional instability deserved the indulgence they pa have claimed for it themselves, but we do might perhs) think Gi in front of the Mexican lines, partly as men whose fideli- ty it was desirable thus to secure. They were, of course, seized as the battle it against them, tried, and con- demned. No lots were cast, no forlorn commutation or expedient of decimation allowed. Four were the benefit of extenuating circumstances, Three were grudgingly permitted to escape through « hole in the law, and were punished only with such infiictions short of death as could be devised by » disappointed court. The rest were taken ine heap to the gallows, under which “they were kept standing for an hour or two, till the flag they had deserted was fiying from the walls of Chapultepec, when they were all swung off to- gether as the stare and stripes rese into the air.” After this revolting example of melodramatic massacre by su- prem authority, the reader will not be surprised to learn that the execution of such resolves has sinee, been taken, with characteristic promptitude, into the hands of the troops themselves. One of our papers sta ttithat “a comrade recognizing « deserter, to save the trouble of ® court-martial, pitched him at once into a mill-fume, where he was crus! by the wheel.”’ If the ee, for tions an these falls to one side or the other, the justice of the war, some parties must have an ugly reckoning before them, and one which is yet fer from elosed. if there is any conclusion im which all sides are now agreed, it is that neither bloodshed nor conquest have won astep towards peace. Of this fect, the Uabi- of Washington now eppears fully isent, and eral Scott, after all his efforts, has coly exnives at that precise ag nye) which we rtrayed two months ago. He is now in Mexico with a force which numbered about 9,000 battles, in which it was per the city he is encompassed by who, if they do but der at their ordi practice, would assasinate his whole army in a twelve- month. ‘His communications are so far safe, that no in likely to be forced: but it eannot be is free intercourse between any two of men before the late uced by « fourth, warm ef savage leper rete them. The Amerioan intelligence itself states, that the road from Vera Cruz to Jalapa or Mexico could only be kept open “ by « solid column of infantry from the gates of one city to those of the other.’ Nothing but the want of enterprise amongst the Mexicans, permits the arrisons @ single yard’s patrol beyond their poste. _wen at Vera Cruz—the base of operations—the imme- diate neighborhood of the city is only kept free detachments, and so suspicious is tl within the walls, that Colonel Child sont sixty bombs, facetiounl: ricans,” amongst the habitations of the citizens, to re- call the late inflictions to their minds. Meantime, the Mexican Congress is assembling at Queretaro, and, with a laudable resolve of adding no faulte of co: to those of omission, has prociaimed its unsnimi y in fa- vor of prosecuting the war; #0 that nothing has been hange of positions, with this advan- tage for Mexicans—that they are somewhat more impalpable even than before. 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