The New York Herald Newspaper, May 6, 1848, Page 2

mon sagecity could not foresee, ot human agoecy com- trol ox not, however, more than @ a mind, bringing into view all the vast difficu ties of ve expected When your complsints on a = fen received hers, evincing as they you intended to nold the department responsi. ry untoward event, the heads of tho several Duresns were called on by me to show how they had ex- uted the dutier which had been + to by you doce all Wat was re me avd on # full examination, it ill satisty nvic'ion—that all your com Isints bleme to the War Department. or re unfounded It will do much t great industry, promptness, an- in rela- char- any more—it will show nm acity, and extraordinary exertion tion to everythicg connected with the war, the ation of each of these subordinat several branobes of the department, indirectly by you, | eee no good reas my c pinion, that an instance cennot be for much has been don: As upon the bureau which is charged with ties of executing the laws and orders for raising and send- ing forward the reeruitg and levies, I feel bound to af- ou have, by implication, lsid a heavy hand the onerous du- firm that you done to that branch of tho public services the gre st injustice. No industry has been spured~ no possible effort omitted—to which were authorised, and to send thera to their desti | nation within the briefest practiceble period. The nv- merous orders issued from the Adjutant General's office and its voluminous correspondence on that subject, will th sassertion You hav with unwonted zeal the charge in relation to diverting the detachments of the new regi- mente under Gen. Cad: jer’s command to the Bra- speculations as to is imputed error. Assuming that my orders diverted these troops, or apy others, (an assertion which I shall controvert hereafter.) the clroumstances justified the measure. The critics! condition of ‘Paylor, according to ail accounts re- ceived here at that time, is stated in my letter to you cf the 22d of March, To show that the department acted properly, though it incurred your reproof, it is necessary ‘to recall the facts as thry thenappeared here. Theyare presented in the following extract from that letter : “The information which has just reached us inthe shape of rumors, as to the situation of Gen. hep cool end the forces under bis commend, has excited the most painful apprehensions for their afety, Tt is almost oer- tain that Santa Apna has precipitated the larg: army he had collected at Sen Luis de Potosi upon Gen. Taylor; and it may be that the general has not been able to maintain the advanced position he had secn fit to make at Agua Nueva, but has been obliged to fall back on Monterey. It is equally certain th Mexican force bas been interposed between Monterey and the Rio Grande, and that it hos interrupted the line of commu- nication between the two places, and seized large eup- plies which were on the way to Gen. Taylor's army. “If the hostile force between the Rio Grande and Gea. ‘Taylor's army is as largo as report represents it. our troops vow on that river may not be able to re-establish the line, nor will it, perhaps, be possible to place a force there sufficient for the purpose, in time to prevent disas- trous consequences to cu: army, unless aid can be af forded from the troops under your immediate command “From one or two thousand of the new recruits or the tem regiments from this quarter, will be on the way to the Brazos ia the courses of three or four days. Ali the other forces will be directed to that point. and every effort made to relieve Gen. Taylor from his critical situa- tion You will have been fully apprised before this can reach you of the condition of things in the valley of the Rio Grande, and at the headquarters cf Gen. Taylor, and have taken, | trust,such measures as the importance of the subject requires. I need not urge upon you the fatal consequences which would result from sny serious disaster which might befal the army under Ger. Taylor, nor do I doubt that you will do what is in your power to avert such a calamity The course pursued by tho War Department on that occasion, which you eonvert into a charge, must, on revision, | think commend itself to general approbation Had it been indifferent to the alarming condition of Gen Taylor’s army, and forborne to ure, at the eerliest mo- ment, the most energetic measures to guard ageinst the fataloonsequences of its deseat, then too probable, it would bave deservedan arraignment as severe as that whicb you bave made against it fer having done ite duty in that critical emergency When you first received the reasons assigied for the course adopted here, they appear to have been satisfactory. In your de the 28:h of April, you say:—* Yesterday | i your letter of the 22d, and the Adjutant Gen ‘the 26:h ult., that all the recruits of the reziment 3, raised or likely tobe raised in time for this army e been ed to the Rio Grande.’ then intimate the slightest dissatisfactio: remonitory symptom of that deep distre Domatio ah Ge Tete aistval tx Merton gen represent yourself to have been seized. It is s coincidence not un- Worthy of notice, that the letter containing your first condemnatory remark on this subject was written on the day of the date of Mr. Trist’s first note to you, and only the day before your captious reply to it; and in both you aseail the War Deparime: our withering disappointment seems to have sium- bered for ten snd then to have be eroured by the sppearance of Mr. Trist in Mexi- co and your querrel with him If the order from | the War Departm bad in fect “diverted” the forces with General jader, rtill it was fully justified by the threatening aspect of affairs on the Rio Grande; but I em quite sure it did not divert them No previous order from the department had designated avy other Place of rendezvous than the Brezo for the troops that ‘were to join your column. It was well understood. be- fore you left Washington, that all ti troops for both araies were to be nent to that place, and there to fali under your commend This arrangement it wou'd be, here changed, until you far into the enemy's country asto render your commu. nications with that place of general rendezvous difficuit | snd dilatory, | Y u «lso complain that ths order was not counter- mand-d Ifthere had been euch an order. ond it had Dern countermand-d what would have been the 00! quence? The tro>ps would bave gone forward from Vaited Ststes under the former orders of the deport- ment. which would have takeu them to the same place You allege that “the news of the victo y cf Buena Vist reached Washington in time to count-rmand Cad walaaer’s orders for the Rio Grande before his departure 10n N-w Orleans” J notice this svecification of ne. gleot of duty, to show tne extent to which you have car- Tied your fault-finding, and the industry with which you have searched for occesions to indulge it. Your assumption is, thet the news of the victory of | 8 not, nor it expeoted that ad penetrated so ine the forces | | ble share in the glory of those memorable conflicts? The period of their bed not expired. ‘When thun sent away, but one of the veven reqiments had leas than thirty, amd most of them had more than forty-five days to nerve. According teyour own opiriow, concurred in by the department. they could have been legally retaloed om your live of operatioas till the leat hour of their engagement If pot deemed expedient to take them oo towards Mexioo with you, their services, a’ hot critical period, would have been of inestimable Uris bolting (he post at Jaiaps—so important. snd *O Unexpecled y Abanpdoned—ard in Keeping open the cemmuuicasion between Vers Cruz and your bead quorters, whereby supplies, munitions, and recruite could be safely and expeditiously forwarded to you Had this been done, you would aave been epured the trouble of inditivg many items of grievacce ond com- plainte War Department for having failed to furoiah them if you bad retained the tweive months volunteers until the end of their agreement —ond no eul- ficient reason has yet been shown for their premature disebarge—you m for 8 reason at least, have reorived, without much obstruetion, supplies from the wy of the revolting scenes of barbarity read irom Vora Cros to Ji , in which #0 many lives of our fellow-citisens have been sacrificed by the ruth- less guerilleros, would not have occurred. : Another and still more lamentable calemity is, 1 think, | fairly to be ascribed to the early obstruction of this im- portant line of communication ‘The brave and patriotic men who were burried on to Mexico, in small detach- ments, in order to reinforce your army, were unexpect- edly, but necessrrily, detained at Vere Cruz, until the numbers there collected were sufficient to force their way through the strong guerilla bands whioh held the difficult passes on the JaJapa road. While thus detained on that inhospitable coast, in the sickly season, they were exposed to the attacks of = wasting pestilence, more formidable, and, as it unfortunately proved, more destructive than the Mexican army. ‘When the unwelcome news of the premature dis charge of this large body of volumteers was received here, unaccompenied by amy explanation to show the necessity of the act, it excited very general surprise and regret. Its consequences were ut ouce foreseen ; bu: | the stop had been taken and could not be retraced. It was loudly condemned. Many did not believe that » measure which sppeared to be so unwise and so inju rious to the operations of the army, could have emanated from youreelf, but they were less charitabie towards the President and the Secretary of War. Both were de- nounced for what you had done; they were unscru- alously charged with weakness and ino: ity; with on actuated by hostility to you, and a to se- cure popularity with tre volunteers. Nor were these bitter ssseults intermitted, until it began to be suspected that they were misdirected If you really regurded on the 6th of May, the augmen tation of your forces as being of such vital importance, it is almost as difficult to account for the course taken to re-emgage the volunteers, as for their premature dis. charge. 1am misled by information, on which | ought to rely, if many of these volunteers would not have con- tinued in service, if proper meusures bad been taken at Jalapa, while they were indulging the hope of partici- pating in further triumphs, and of being among those who wouldenjoy the enviable distinction of first enter- ing as victors the proud capital of the Mexican republic. Though the subject was there prerented te their consi- deration, no vigorous efforts seem to have been made— no attempt to form new companies—or to muster them into service, until this powerful inducement was weak ened or withdrawn—until they hed been detached from a victorious army, as if no longer deemed worthy to be a part of it sent sixty miles towards their homes into « pestilential region, and tuere brought within the sym- pathetic influence cfthe sentiments which it was natural that many should feel and manitest at the moment of em- barking to return to their families and friends. Con sidering the manner in which the President’s order on this subject was attempted to be excouted, it isnot ong more than three thousand patriotic volunteers, sent away by your order ofthe 4th of May, only about “ fifty individuais” were found willing to re- engage. You seem to suddenly cor ceived the notion of converting th “like Cortez,” * into a self sus- taining machine;”’ and, to make the resemblance between yourself and the Spanish hero more complete, you in- duiged a dream of fancy, until you reem to adopte it as @ mal Ot belief, that you were “ doome: Washinaton;” and you became, *‘ like him, always atraid that the next ship, or messenger m)ght recall or farther cripple” you It should not be forgotten, that the de- sign of this uneountably military movement was first ccmmaunicated to Mr. Trist, before you had given apy intimation of it to your government, and while under the perturbation of mind which his ur- welcome presence in Mexico had produced Hsd you confided this extraordinary plan of a campaign to him wppy change” in your relation: iter you 1d bis ‘ farago of insolence, conceit, and arro. wan nd aiter he, too. mistakiny notoriety for fume, tad sought to win it by disooeying the orders of his go- vernment. defying its authority and ssssiling its cou- ct—this aistinguishing mark of your confidence in bim would bave o: ach less surprise. ‘his novel conception, 20 suddenly adopted, was as suddenly carried ; your army was, indeed, converted * into a self-sus- taining machive ;” you discharged the twelve mouths volunteers, and bro: Se pont posts at Julepa, and on the way to your main depot, * resoly d,’’as you an- nounced, “ no longer to depend on Vera Cruz or home,” you put yourself beyond t) ch of the suppli had been provided by the government, and r yourself in ® great meseure, inaccessible to the recruits and levies (except in stropg parties) which had been ment your command. in b's way youren- dered unavailing. ior @ time ut least, oli that bad been or could be done by the assiduous and incessant labors of he War D-partmment iu ail iis branches ; and then you recklessly put forth the grounuless cowplaint of “a to- tal want of eupport wma sympathy” trom it Your letter of the 25th ot July, which was not receiv ed at Wasbington uatil the 30:h of December last, sboands with cc mplaints egsil the depariment relereia strong terms to the wants an army at that iime Before you veui theu desti‘ure condition aground of charge ogainat th War department, you ought (o have recoliec ed that thes effl ctions fell u)on itin the mide: of your experiment of mskivg it @ h ne” and were the dn. atema) that experiment. There sufferings come fore your estimsted period of isolation from’ Vera Crug aud tome” bad half expired When you had desigueuiy and unuecessarily absndoned both ‘snd entered upou your self-sustaining position, “ cut of from alleu ples and reinforcements from home, unt | perhaps late in November ” by what pretence of justice do you complais of the War d-partment for the distres-es you thus voluntarily inflicted upon yourself and the gal lant army under your command? Something very t irom censure and reproof is dua for the eatra- 'y efforts which were successtuily mada to with recruits and supplies in your se ques. Buena Vista should have gatirfied the War Department that Cadwainder’s forces were not jed_on the Rio | Grande ; and the owirsion to countermand, as soon af that newe was received, the orders to send them there, | was a neglect deserving severe animadversion. How did | you ect under rimilar circumstances? With better means of information as to the Rio Grande frontier, after the victory of Buena Views you did not deem it prudent, after being forty-one days | in possesrion of the news of that victory, to iseue posi | tive orders to remove asingle man from that frontier; | yet you venture to cenrure me for not having sent the troops away the moment the news reached Washington. | You received information of that victory on or before the l4th of Meroh, ior on that day you proclaimed it in orders to your of April, more than | forty ther » you itsued on order to the com | manding officer at the Brezos to embark for Vera Croz “such detachments of the new regimeots as may have | beem ordered by the War Department to Point Issvel;” | but you made it conditional with referenco to the eafety | of the line of the Rio Grande ; and ncid to that offecr that you relied upon his “ sound judgment to determine | on the spot whether that line would not be too much ex- posed by the withdrawal of the troops in queetion.” ‘Thos it appears that you do not hesitate to impute ne- | glect of duty to me, for not having adopted and acted on tho conclusion that the line of the Rio Grande was | safe the moment | heard of the victory of Buena Viste; | but, when acting on the same eubject, you cared not adopt thet conclusion, although you had mn in posses- sion of the same information forty-one days. Your own conduct in this matter completely refutes this charge of yours sgainst the War Department. It does more: it shows how rash and inconsiderate you have been in se- | lecting topics for attack. But the most serious consequences are attributed to | the long delay of there troops at the Brazos. For your sake, I rincerely hops these consequences wre much aggerated, because | am quite contident it will be nb that youslone are responstbis for the delay. The Department did not not—issue spy order in regard to the movement of the troops, aft arrival in Mexico, The order from | the department of the 30th of April, making # division of the new levies betveon the two eclumns, does not | contradict this assertion, for theee levies were then | mostly within the United States; only portions of ther had then reached Mexico, Until this order took effect, | the troops at the Brazos, and, indeed, on the Rio Grens and with General Teylor, were under your entire and unrestzicted command. And, as to this matter, you under ho misapprehension; for, on the 25th of April fore you were informed what bad been done here cnre the Rio Grande line, you issued on order in ri tion to the troops at the Brazos, This place, you well | knew, was the goueral rendezvous of the new levies from | the United States, and before you sailed om your expe dition to Vera Cruz you were notified that the Mexican army Were advancing upon Goneral Taylor, To have assumed that you had tle: the Brazos, with « view | to meet any provavle contingency, orders for the pro disposition of the troops which were, or might ba there, would have impiied an opinion that you wan Suitable qualifications for the high station which had born wes gued to you. These troopa were a part of your command, ani rub- | Jeot to your orders; and if they remvined one day at the Braxov after it was thers known that they were no needed on the Rio Grand line,and would ve serviceable with your column, the iault was entirely your own. und in nowite imputable tothe War Deportinent If your opinion by not extravagant—and you aay it ix not— hut bat for the diversion of Gen Cadwalader’s forces froc YU. od the’ much precious time’’ Jost at the Brazier you “might eashiy have taken this city (Mexico) in the month of June, at one-fifth of the lose sustained ia Au- gust and September.” you have inde ‘most fearful | ‘sccount to settle with your country. I cannot. however, but regard your spe om this subj-ot as fanvifaland wild You Ui vate the force whicn landed at tl quently joined you. From the bast be made from data in the Adjutant General’: 0 the number was much less nan you imagine, and did not probably exceed one thousana As the refute tion of your charge agsinet the depurtment for divert- ing thren te impaired by the pumber, be ut more o tant to inquire inte that lative opinions the country wii new levies, which bad just eo vice, would nave enabled you to vap Mexico ww Juve, ww the ety of lt los why ey were been #0 us. ful, revd WaLY VoUnteers oe, wud were us you of peril, bad toughe by eu (roops, and MeFiied ®u Bowura- ual condition of the | | tion in er | ‘and it was proper that it should | | reterence to the public geod. | surance of future action on the subject a still pending; s regard to the public good th | service as commanding general | nocent and the guilty—the ace! | cam claim the beueft of the maxima tion, and to rescus you from the em- berrassmenis in which yoar ill-judged measures bad in volved you. | have brought into view this unaccount- able movement of yours, with no purpose to make any comment on it asa military meseure, but soley to show that tho evils resulting from it are not just grouncs of cusation against the War Department, and that the labored attempt to rt them to such @ purpose dis- closes th Firit with which you have ex- ecuted the assumed task of its sccuser. As you 6 Of others, | feel lers reluctant to pressnt tos conciuding part, you manifest the utmust solicitude | to place yourself in the position of an injured and per- secated man. With all the aid you eso derive from ategy, you will be likely to fail in your st you caa have the fuli benefit of your bigh facts, and your forgetfulness of others, your fanciful conjectures aud surmisca Your recall is, you assert.the long suspended *: blow of power,” which you had the sagacity clearly to predic:- It is somewhat remarkable, that ycur predicticns pre- ceded the events which you imagine provoked thi blow. earlyas the 25th of July, soon after “th happy change in my (your) relstions, both official ard private, with Mr. ‘Trist,” you looked, you dismissed from the service of my (sour) country.” If your recall can be regarded as @ dismissal, you are en- itled to all the credit ot the iment of your own prediction In prerenting in its true light the President’s com pliancs with your own request (o bo recalled, which | | you now denominate your dismienal, 1 may be obliged to atcip it of the embellithments you have ingeniously | thrown around it; though, in doing this, you may be deprived of much upon which you depend to sustain | your claim to be considered a persecuted men. tly es June. you begged to be recalled. t this application was “ rebuki is not eaylog the exsot thing. The request wos," that it would oR Wi You al- declined’ Mad to your exclusive all render it proper in bi opision to withdraw you from your present command, his determination to do so will be made known toyou.” ‘This was not a denial, but a suspeneion of present action, accompanied with Your a the way of the immediate gratification of your wishor; bat the President prom’ question when that obstac! ipg from the stat army in Jaou and that he ought no longer to require of you This certainly caunot be called persecution or p' ihment I donot deem ir proper tocomment on the ite of thi: quarters of the army, to which allusion letter grenti hould be removed at the head- made inthe your request; nor to exprees an opinion as tot Of responsibility therefor, which resis up on ycuraeif or others; that matter is, to a considerable extent, involved in the in jos before the court of inquiry now sitting in M Your request to be re cslied, thus ultimately granted, ginary complaints, whieh could not be pas notie®. nor voticed without exporing their groundl ness. If the exoosition bag given offence, you can only youreelf for introducing complaints so entirely un- founded. The crowning outrage, as you regard it, is the simple fact that you, aud" the three arresied cfiloers,”? to be“ ple Judge and his prisoners, are impartial justice |’ you exclaim. And why is it not im- partiel jusiios? Oa what ground of right can you claim so Ave your case i from their ‘00 bave assumed to be their judge, and ed them guilty ; and comp! 4 of the country do not allo tute @courtto register your decree, But you are not their rightful judge, although they were your pr Before that court you all stand on the q have equal riguts. Though you may h fying conviction thet you are innoce gulity, the yovernment could act up » tion, By b coming an accuser, you did uo place your self beyon the rewoh of being acoured ; anu unless you are clothed with che immunity of despotic power, aad the Kiog ca: de no wrong,” | know not why your conduct, wher made the eunject of charger, may vot be in » court of inquiry, nor cau | perce. ve wit oF ter right you ouve to complain of and ara vernment, than the other officers whom y Use, aod whore caren, with yours, Wale Fé ferre: awe court. If yours ie m hard cane, theirs is vot 1 you can rightfully complain cf persecution by thage verom ot £9 own vbay wiih egasl Justice, end au equa cleim Lo public #ympatuy. that the law their accuser, to ine to act didnitely on the | ‘The charges against you did mot emanate from the government, nor did they relate toa matter in which it could fee] any proulier interest. Not it fem) sible for vou to do wrong. or th»t you were exempt from all responsibility for whatever you might have done, the government deemed it proper, wh charges were pre ferred against you coming from a source eatitled to rea- Prot, to cause chem to be investigated As the usual and mildest mode of prooseding. th-y were referred to a court of inquiry. Until youcan show thet you enjoy the tramscendental privilege to have your official con- duct exempt from all examination ever, you have no causs to complain in regard to the charge Ifyour extraordinary pi support from your distinguished E you ought to be mindful thet the three accused officers put under arrest by you, have like claims for distin- guished services. On the of impartial bistory.tacir pames and their gallant deeds must appoar with yours; ‘and no monopolising clsims. sesking ~ malignant exolu- sions’? at the expense of the “ truth of history,” will be P-rmitted to rob them of their fair share of the glory won Wr our gellantarmy, while uader your cot sd. . With your sesault upon the character of y: erra- tic brother,” I shall not intermeddle; but I must repel your charge that he has beon favored for being a politi- cal deserter “to the true faith’—for siguail: bis spostacy by acosptable denunciations of one be hed Sereaeriy professed (and not without caus highest ebligations. The reasons for not sending your charges against Brevet Mejor General Worth to the court einer are set forth in my letter of tho 13th of January. | regret they are so entirely unsatirfactory to you, but am consoled with the assurance that they are in other quarters more favorably received. The errors of your Letersahs on my letter have arisen from your misapprehensionof the text. The principle there leid down is of vital importance to subordinate officers, and in no respect impairs the rights or the authority of those in chief command. As the principles whion you arraign are the creations of your own fancy,and have no countenance or supp-rt from my letter, | am inno way 3 inaplicated by ‘the fatal consequences” you deduce from them. Whether legitimate or |, they do not disturb the positions laid down im my letter. I cannot, however, but regard your solicitude for the support of discipline to be more ostentatious than pro found When a general at the head of an army of free- men, who do not lose their rights as citizens by becom- ing soldiers, sets up pretensions to dictatorial power— when he contemne the authority of his government, ond is muah more ny to censure than to execute its or- ders aad instr s—when be denounces as an out- regeands Po i the attempt to submit his acts, to be am offence against | su ordinate officer, to an investigation aM mildest form—when he ad- ministers an reproof to his superior, for holding the sacred right ts 0, peal, w parity depen the security and protection Bi ‘all under his command. such a general sets an example of insubordicate opn- duct, of wide and withering influence upon sound mili- be only y extending my comments mn your letter/ might multiply proofs to show that ee accusations Rraites the head cf the War Department are upjust—that your complaints are unfounded—that the designs imputed by you to the government, to embarrass your operatiors impair your rightful authority as commander, and to of. fer outrage and insult to your feelings, are ali the mere creations of a distempere! fancy ; but to do more than I ane would, in my j@dgment, be a work of supere- otion. in conclusion, | may be permitted to say, that, as one of the President’s advisers, I beds fali share in the responsibility of the act which as signed you to the command of our armies in Mexi- co. I felt interested, even more than naturally appertained to my official position, that success ‘and glory should signalize your operations. It was my aa) bring to your aid ‘the efficient co-operation ofthe War Department. I never hada feeling that did not harmonize with the full and fair dischi of this ty. I know it hss been taithfully performed. There are come men for whom enough cannot be done to make them grateful or even just. unless acts of subserviency and personal devotedness are superadded. From you { ted bare justice, but have been dissappointed. | found you my accuser. In my vindication, I have endeavored to tain s defensive line; and if I have gone beyond it at any time, it has been done to repel un- rovoked — To your feme I have endeavored have been gratified with the many occa- had to bear public testimony to your abili- ties and signal services asa military commander in the field. It has been, and, under any change in our personal relations, it will continue to be, my purpose to be liberal in my appreciation of your distinguished military merits. ‘n respect to your errors and your faults, though I could not be blind, I regret that you have not permitted me to be silent. I have the honor to be, very ts tfully, your ebedient servant, W. L. MARCY, Secretary of War. Mojor Gen. Winrieip Scorr, U. 8. Army, Mexioo. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE, THIRTIETH CONGRESS. Senate, Wasuincton, Mey 5, 1848. Mr. Auten, of Ohio, to previous notice, ask ed and obtained leave to bring ina relative to the public lands, and for extending the time forlocating Vir- givia land warrants, which was read the first and second times by unanimous consent, and referred to the Com- mittee on the Public Lands. Mr. Arcuison, of Missouri, asked and obtained leave, Sccording to previous notice. to bring in a biil in refe- rence to the public lands, and for the purpose of grant ing Sr io the State of Missouri, for the construction of @ railros: Mr. Beit, of Tennessee, asked and obtained lesve, according to previous notice, to bring in a bill suthoriz- ing the United States District Judge in Tennessee to hold @ special term, which was r twice and referred to the Judiviary Committeo. Mr Hate, of New Hampshire, moved to take up the resolution which ke bad previously offered. in favor of Purchasing jor the use of the Senate, five thousand © pies of the resolutions, addressee, &o, published by © der of the House, en the occasion of the death of the late Jobo Quincy Adams. Mr Tvuuney, of Tennessee, moved to lay the resolu- tion om the teble, on which motion the yeas and nays ed (ct varie and resulted in the affirmative, by yeas nays Mr. Jonsson, of Maryland, moved to take up the reeo- lution which he bad previously offered, calliog upon the President to inform the Senate respecting cfilcers serving in the ermy—bow and when appointed, and whose nomi nations had not tesa sent im. The motion was sgreed to, and the resolution adopted Mr. ALLEN, of Ohio, moved that the vote by which the Senate ogreed to the resolution, be reconsidered. “ir JoaNson enquired whether avy Senators had fail- ed to vote on the resolution. Mr. Avven satd that he had not voted at all. Mr. Jounson enquired the objact of the Senator of Ohio in not voting Mr. ALLEN replied that he doubted the propriety and constitutionality ofthe resolution demanding of the Pre- sident bis reasons why nominations had not been rent in. Mr. Jonson eaid he had no objection to a reconsiders- tion, it the Senator from Ohio desired to discuss the oon- stitutionality of the qaestion. The vote having been re- considered, the question reourred om agreeing to s3id resclution. Mr Auten, of Ohi opposed the resolution earnestly | aDd zealous) 4 ela epee od ously. He said that the President was autho ughout the whule cf it, and particularly in | riged by the Constitution to appoint officers during the | Taeess of Congr-as. whose commissions do not expire un- til the end of the following session, and Congress has no more power to ask the President why he does not nomi neste them, than the President bas power to ask the Se- Rate why nominations portzoned or Fejeoted, are not con- med. On motion of Mr. Hansecan, the eubjeot was infor. mally laid aside, Haxxecax moved that the bill President to occupy Yucatan with a | a view af aiding authorizing the military force, with e whites against the Indians, be taken | up, which was agreed to. Mr. H. then proceeded to a4- drers the Senate, and spoke sbly in support of the Bill He seid thet England bad already interfered, and was obtaining s foothold in Yucatan. He also charged that Sepa Grewal ber poy ine oe! arms and ammu- nition to the Indians, and stirr - tion and bioodsbed “cag raappaiS” Mr. Cuavron foliowed, and argued the question brief- ¥. ae to the violation of the treaty, whic probably ere this ratified. The principles of the bill involved ion of the treaty, which was serious matter. The bil alto Violated the armintice. trrenson Davis, of Mississippi, proposed a sub- i.ute, euthorizing the Frealdent to Meade portion of p# now in Mexico to Yucatan, “ Sy maWvclantane , and supply their Mr. Critrenven, of Kentucky, opposed both the bili and the amendmont. A billto-raive more. volestbert was siready pe ding. He advocated caution in inter fering with the affeirs of other countries. Ho was ready to go as fara® any man in the cause of humanity, but thought we ought to have © regard for the lives and heslth of our troops, whom it was Propored to send to Yucatan. issippi, supported the measure, out Ly vet thes M and out, which he defended i, i \- miaitaten z in Connection with the ad. ithout taking any question, the j cman Monday” 7a , Senate adjourned the 8 House of Representatives, @ House convened at 11 A.M. Ti vad wih apensen ‘he journal was ‘The Speaker presented » the present of s portrait of Baron de Kalb, of revolution- ho was in at th» battle of Camden, from through Mr Wi American Consul at It was, ommotion, referred to the Ci ig PD 0 the Committee on Mr. Hotes, of New York, offered a resolution in fa- Yor of an alteration in the mileage law. Objections were made. Mr SterHens, of Georgia, cffered resolutions de ory of the Taylor platform addrestes old Lacke Vet, ler a6 the b s/s, which lies over. Mr. R LL, of Connectieut, called fo jeae, Whereupon the House » into a Committee of the Union, and proe: commnnioaticn respecting r the regular cordingly re Whole on the T ind after some tims the colnmltise rose ind rsported oie. House adjourned till Saturday (to-morrow) Eatensive Flour Miss Destroyed by Fire, Burrato, May 5, 1848. The furing mille, at Kinsee, Onto, beionging to Ras: all Hay wood, of Buffalo, were entirely consumed by fire, on Sunday night lest. The of the building wae $58,000 “Tbe value of the wheat and fi $10000, Fully insured bdeaseds ““"Peicgates to the Baltimore Convention Atnany, May 5, 1818, ‘The Van Buren delegates to the Batrimore convention will hold a preliminary meeting, at the C1 f York, on the 18tn fastant. ag nile Marne Burrato, Mey 6 —Rrowipts bin the past tw fou: hours —Ficur, 3.100 bbw; whent, J corn, 10000. Salve of 4.000 nble, fl $4 S73 Wheat Salon 01 92000 bus cinding Chicago. at 980. and Vilau, 1129, Corn -B-ie# 0! 2,000 busbe Oats 8 Connaught. at MW @ made at $76, The market wae firmer, sof 6000 bushel made at 330 = of 260 bbis, were at 18560, INEW YORK HERALD. Sorth-Weet Corner of Fulton and Nassau sts. JAMES GORDON BEANET®?, PROPRIETOR. New Worm. Saurday, May 6, 1848. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Manirana—Masani- RLLO. CRATHAM THEATRE, strect—My Hus- BaND's oe ‘hatham Ben tHe Boatawain—New Yorx As it Is anp Bre Wars. MECHANIC’S HALL,—Broadway, near Broome street— Cuasty's Minsraete—Crmrorian Sinaine—BURLESQUE Dancina, &e. at 3 and 8 P. M. PANO! |A HALL, Broadway, near Hauste~ ses — Samvann’s Paronana 01 Misstmpri, 3and 74 P.M MELODEON, Bowery—Erwior‘an amp BaLLap Sime- me, PALMO’S OPERA HOUSE, Chambers street—Statua- ky ano ILLusrmatep Picrursa. TEMPLE OF THE MUSES, Canal street—IuLustRa- Tep Prctungs AND Mutnorotitan MI: sTRELs. = 4he Circulation of the May 5, Friday. ‘Aggregate tesue The publication of the Herald commenced on Fri- day morning at 5 minutes before 8 o’olock, and finished at 5 minutes past 7 o’olock. List of Letters. In consequence of the arrangements preparatory te the use of new type, we are unavoidably compelled to defer the publication of the list of letters remaining in the New York post office, untll Monday next. Ne om Europe. The Hermann is in her sixteenth, and the Britannia in her fourteenth day; the news by one or both of them, may reach us at any mo- ment. Sanifesto of the White House to the Balti- more Convention=A Prospect for General Taylor. We give in our columns this day an impor- tant document which we find in the Washing- ing Union of last Thursday. It may be term- ed the Maniresro or THe Wutre Hovas, furnish- ing the instructions and views of the President and his kitchen cabinet to the approaching Bal- timore convention, to meet on the 224 inst.— This is a very important paper in the present crisis, and will have great effect upon the or- ganization of the democracy, on its assembling in convention at Baltimore. One of the first points which strike the mind in this manifesto, is the resuscitation of the reso- lutions which were reported by Mr. Butler, of New York, in 1844, to the then Baltimore con- vention, and which were passed by that body almost unanimously, upon the nomination of Mr. Polk to the Presidency. After the usual declaration of opinions in relation to banks, the currency, internal improvements, the tariff, and other questiens upon the policy which separates the democracy from the whigs, atiention was particularly called to the seventh resolution, which related to the efforts of the abolitionists and others, to induce Congress to interfere with the question of slavery, or to take incipient steps in reference thereto. The revival of this par- ticular resolution, and the recommending it to the notice of the approaching convention would seem to indicate that the influence of Edwin Croswell, of New York, and John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, had succeeded in persuading the politicians of the White House into the belief that the admiesion of John Van Buren and the barnburners into the Baltimore convention would be contrary tothe democratic creed, and would lead to great alarm and con- fusion in the subsequent action of the party Only a few weeks ago it was said there existed a very strong disposition in the White House, and among its special advisers, to let the barnburners into the Baltimore convention, with all the Wilmot proviso hanging about them. Intimations of such a purpose as this, existing at Washington, naturally produced » great excitement among the old hunkers at New York, and the nullifiers of South Carolina The friends of Mr. Calhoun, at the South, and the members of the party in New York, directed and drilled by Edwin Croswell, have been stirring themselves in relation to this busi- ness ever since; and the probability is that the joint influence, both of remonstrances and threat, have induced the White House politi- rt ‘ington to issue the present mani- festo, showing that they have been at last com- pelled to resist the desire they entertained of ad- mitting John Van Buren and his delegates into the Bultimore convention. The struggle, however, on the question of ad- mitting these delegates, may be continued, with more or less effect, up to the very day of the meeting of the convention. Mr. Calhoun from the South, amd Croswell {rom the North, are united together in opposition to the barnburners; and the chances are decidedly hostile te the hopes of John Van Buren, and to the whole pro- viso movement. Besides showing the present situation of the Wilmot proviso question before the meeting of the convention, the manifesto also discloses other important views in relation to the new issues which have arisen in connexion with the Mexican war, and the treaty sent to that re- public. On this last point, however, there is a very great deal of vagueness and uncertainty manifested. From the position Mr. Polk has assumed as regards Yucatan, and the probability that the treaty may be indefiaitely delayed, or al- together defeated, in Mexico, we should not be at all surprised to see the Baltimore convention boldly assume the ground of the annezation of all Mexico to the United States. 1n fact, this ground appears to be the only new issue left for the con- vention. The old issues of Texas and Oregon are settled, and nothing seems now left to go upon but that of the annexation of all Mexico; and if it should be necessary to adopt this broad question in order to ensure a democratic victory, we have no doubt the convention will do so. Another very important point disclosed in this manifesto is that relating to the one-term prin- ciple. This question of one term is left in just as indefinite a position as that of the annexation of all Mexico, or of any other new or old issue. The disclosures of this manifesto, as well as its concealments, appear to concur in the idea already put forth, that Mr. Polk, in spite of alj that has been said to the contrary, might become a candidate for re-nomination ; and we feel very sure, thatif the convention should take him up under necessity, from its difficulty of deciding upon the claims of the other candidates, he would consent to run a second time, There is nothing in the terms of the present article, or manifesto, which conflicts with such a view. Thus stands the matter at this moment, as con- nected with the Baltimore convention. From this manitesto of the Washington Union, which has evidently been prepared by the kitchen cabi- net of the White House, with, it is probable, the concurrence, and at least with the knowledge, of the private secretary of the President, Mr. Knox Walker, there can be very little doubt but that, if the opportunity is afforded—that is, if the treaty should be rejected or delayed—the annex- ation of all Mexico will be made one ot the new issues in the approaching contest for the Presi- dency. That issue, and the one term principle which was left open at the last Baltimore con vention, will again be left in the same position by the present convention, thus leaving for Mr Polk achence of re-nomination again, under the united and bitter influences of Calhoun atthe South, and Croswell at the North, by which John Van Buren, and the barnburners of New York, will be rejected and prevented from sit- ting in the convention at Beltimore. This later affair, therefore, will aggume anew and highly important aspect. If John Van Br ren and the barnburners should be rejected on the ground of their Wilmot proviso position, what willthey do? Wehave every reason to believe they will not give up the ship so easily jome may imagine. No doubt they will or- ganize anew democratic convention at Balti- more, and will take their ground boldly and re- colutely for the whole Union, as they have al- ready done for this State in New York, and very probably they will nominate General Taylor for their candidate, as they did at Utica, a few months ago. Having done this, they will then trust to the chances of defeating the election of a Presi- dent by the people’s vote, and of carrying the three chief candidates into the House of Rep- resentatives; and in that body General Taylor would have as good a chance as any other man. As regards the whig convention in Philadel- phia, we see very little prospect of General Tay- lor being taken up by that body. Mr. Clay or General Scott will, no doubt, be their choice.— All the fuss and noise made in this quarter, in favor of General Taylor, as is well known, is utter delusion and mere fanfaronade. But, by the nomination, and with the support of the barnburners ot New York, and those who sym- pathize with them throughout the Northern States, including, also, all who favor him from the whig and democratic ranks, both in the North and South, it is most probable that Gen. Taylor would become a very formidable candi- date among the lots which may be presented by the various parties. The Scot¢ and Marcy Oorrespondenct—Another Peppered Plate of Soup. We give in our columns to-day, the famous Scott and Marcy correspondence, which recent- ly created such an uproarin Washington among the politicians there, and which will probably cause a great deal of observation and remark, of various kinds, among all parties throughout the country, during the ensuing summer. This cor- respondence consists of only two letters ; but if they are few in number, they make up in leagth sufficiently to satisfy any appetite or apy con- science. They are the crowning and concluding epistles between General Scott and Secretary Marcy, and embrace all the complaints, annoy- ances, follies, and fatuity of the military man, on the one side, and all the smartness, ill-tem- per, sarcasrh, eloquence and patching pretensions of the bitter Secretary, on the other side. These epistles are even more remarkable than the original hasty: plate of soup; they are more highly peppered, too, and therefore,will be proba- bly better relished by all those readers, of every party, who like good cookery, either in the read- ing room or dining hall. These two letters are also full length portraits of the two distinguish- ed individuals—each self drawn. General Scott’s letter is heavy, long; tall, turgid, ill-tempered, courteous, heroic, silly, and ridiculous, all mixed uptogether. Secretary Marcy’s is even longer, more studied, much more bitter, ironical, sarcastic, pointed, energetic, eloquent, and much more successful. As a fighting man General Scott has his equal only in General Taylor; but as a writing man, he has not the sense and pru dence of hool boy. Secretary Marcy, on the other hand, is a full grown Machiavelli, with ali of the tartness and some of the irony of Vol- taire. Under such circumstances, therefore, it is needless to say that General Scott has been Tae Conprtton cr Irxtann.—We perceive that the revolutionary movement in Ireland forma a topic for discussion in some of the newspapers, which will doubtless continue until we shall receive some conclusive in- telligence as to the result of the present struggle for revolutionary principles going on-in the island. By the latest accounts, it would appea thatthe government and the Irish people have joined issue, at least that portion of the masses that are favorable to establishing a republic, and a total separation from England. We, in America, can form no adequate Idea of the misery and destitution that for years past have prevailed among the masses of the people there. It is gratuitous folly to taunt the Irish laborer with @ disposition to idle, if he can pro- eure employment. The best evidence that can be adduced in refutation of such a charge, will be found in the fact that thousands of those poor people cross the British Channel during the harvesting months, presenting an appearance of squalid wretchedness and poverty which does not belong to any other people upon the face of the habitable globe; and it cannot be questioned, if such a m of misery could find employment at home, that they would notfgladly&stop there. The average daily pay of an Trish laborer who can get employment, is from eight to ten pence British. This sum, weekly, will scarcely support his family on the cheapest food that can be pro- cured—the potato; and it was the failure of this crop alone that produced the famine in Ireland during the past year. Lord John Russell, the British minister, was warned of this failure in the early part of the preceding winter, and ob- stinately refused to bring in a timely measure of relief. The result was that famine began slowly and gradually to mow down its victims, until pestilential disease expedited the work of death; and while all this was going on, corn and the fat of the land were leaving for Liverpool ; and now, side by side with this minister, are to be found the O’Connells, shamefully bartering the rights and liberties of a people to whom they owe the very bread they have fed upon tor so long a series of year: These O’Connelle, in coquetting with the go- vernment, and obstructing the advance of liberal sentiments, would fain have it understood that they represent the masses ; but this is a fallacy. The electors are a limited constituency, consist- ing of the £10 and a higher class of freeholders, who have been cut up a good deal since the introduction of Peel’s mea- sure of free trade, which has tended to de- preciate, a good deal, the value of land.— These very O’Connells, too, have reduced Con- ciliation Hall to the condition of a large begging shop, or depot, for the procurement of government places, pretty much upon the same plan as that of the French noblesse, whose corrupt sale and bar- tering of places under the government, undoubt- edly had a share in sowing the seeds and expe- diting, if not exclusively laying the foundation of, the French revolution. The masses of the Irish people, who see that land has been the great festering sore upon the body politic for years, will undoubtedly join the standard of re- volution; and if the bugbear of repeal were granted to-morrow, it will only tend to retard the fiaal overthrow of British rule—provided the government cannot succeed in disarming the far less successtul in his writing than he has been in his fighting, and that his campaign with Secretary Marcy has been by no means equal to the glory of his-campaiga with Santa Anna In fact, Secretary Marcy, clothed with his fifty- cent-patched-pantaloons, has achieved a brilliant triumph ovér the conqueror of Mexico, the mo- dern Hernando Cortez of American history, and the greatest military leader and the silliest letter writer of the age. It may be thought harsh and disagreeable, by the political friends of Gen Scott, who wish to make him President of the United States, to be toldin plain language these fatal truthe ; but we are independent, and care no more for General Scott, or any other great man, than we do tor the newsboy who rears out, “‘ Here’s the Eztra Herald, with a revolution in France!” We are forced to do justice, and will do justice to the great merits of Gen. Scott, while we censure him for his weakness, silliness, vanity, imbe- cility, and want of all sagacity, in the common political affairs of life. Of Secretary Marcy we kaow as much as we do of Gen. Scott. He isa strong-minded, clear-headed man, with little principle and less delicacy to prevent him from trying to aspire to the spoils of office, or the honors or emoluments of power. He is just es exact and certain about the mending of his breeches—price fifty cents—as he would be about ripping up the weaknesses and indiscretions of Gen. Scott. Of the justice of General Scott’s cause, to a cer- tain extent, we have ro doubt. He was selected to take command in the campaign from Vera Cruz to Mexico, from the neceasity of the case, and because Mr. Polk and his Cabinet dared not brave public opinion by refusing it to him; but there is no doubt that as soon as he set out on that expedition, Mr. Polk went to work to super- sede him, if he could, by the nomination of Mr. Benton as Lieutenant-General. In the com- plaints put forth by General Scott, there seems to be much truth; yet he was wrong to notice it when he saw the attempt to supersede him was defeated by the interference of his friends in Congress. ‘On the other hand, in the quarrel be- tween the General and some of his subordinates, in relation to the publication of letters in the newspapers, and particularly in relation to General Pillow, faults +seem to have been committed on both sides. General Pillow and his fee friends, no doubt, en- deavored, by sending letters to be published in journals in the United States, to stand well with the people, even at the expense of truth and veracity. This seems to be the result of the investigation made by the Court of Inquiry; but General Scott did wrong in issuing the order.on that question, or in making such atuss and noise about it, when it appears, py the same enquiry, that he ‘had himselt infringed upou the rules and ticles of war, in relation to corresponding with newspapers. We have every reason to be- lieve that some of the letters published in this part of the country, extolling the military cape city of General Scott, were written with his knowledge, and by his friends, in much the same way thatthe Pillow letters were written. There is also great force in the remark of Secretary Marcy, that he was no more subservient in his intercourse with the War Department, and his superiors in the administration, than hi bor- dinates were in their conduct to himself. On the whole, therefore, the complaints of General Scott against General Pillow and others, and also aga net the administration, have just as much foundation as the complaints of General Pillow egaiost General Scott have. All the difficulties wumong these generals seem to have arisen from the overweening vanity and conceit of each, and the absenc. ot ail common sense, sagacity, cooiness, aad discretion, which appear to have dmarked in a higher degree the military conduct of Generals Laylor, Wool, Smith, Shields, Quitman, and a few others, of both armies. Me 3 While, therefore, on a full review of this tt edition of the soup correspondence, we in’t_ but censure General Scott for this e: hibition of his inconsistency and weukness, to the extent which he has shown it, we do not believe that the American people will deny him the great merit of the military talents which he displayed in the campaign from Vera Cruz to Mexico ; and we should not be sur- prised if, in the midst of all this exhibition of weakness on his part, they were to take him up in the whig convention, make him their can didate, and elevate him to the Presidency, ia spite of the letters of S+cretary Marcy, and any opposition that may fcome from any quarter Yet it must be said that the quarreis and exni- bitions among our generale have tended wary touch to injure the whole military race, and coo! down the feelings of sympathy which the first heroic deeds of General Taylor on the Kio people, and effectually checking the revolution- ary spirit. Indeed, if there were a parliament in College Green to-morrow, the same spirit of disunion and faction that has so long rocked the island to its very centre, would be carried in there, so that the fate of Ireland, just now, stands in equipoise in the scale. If the government yield repeal, it will be looked upon as an ominous sign of fear, and will only sharpen the appetites of the people for fur- ther concessions. If they succeed in disarming the people, it will not be without bloodshed; so that a crisis has arrived. The jealous policy pursued towards Ireland by the British government, has long been fully discussed; but where a safe medium of commu- nication between England and the old and new world could be so easily effected, by establish- ing the terminus of a railway at some of the southern ports of Ireland, the refusal to adopt so manifest an improvement tells very powerfully against the British govern- ment. Every year the British Channel and the coast of Wales are the scenes of ship- wreck, and immense loss of life and trea- sure, which could be easily avoided by establiah- ing a depot for the transit of all articles of com- merce to and from the English markets, through ireland, from the terminus of a railroad at some of the southern ports of Ireland, and giving that country some share in the benefits that must ac- crue therefrom. Unless something is done—and effectually and liberally done, teo—provided the crisis is not already past, Ireland will ever re- main “a thorn in the side” of England. With Ireland united, England possesses a power tha she could wield to her advantage to an unlimit- ted extent; and it is only to be wondered at, in this age, how blind the British government seem to be—how totally regardless of their own inte- rest—not to adopt proper measures to allow the sister island to participate in the advantages of that union of which we hear so much. But we have our fears, that like the closing scene in the drama that led the way to the French revolu- tion, concessions from the British government will come “too late.” Tur Morats or Royauty anp RepusetcanisM Contrastev—Lovis Priuirre anp Mavame Twr- 1Lz.—We give in another column, this morning, several extracts from the National Police Gazette of this city, and also from the New YorkGlobe, giv- ing an account of a most extraordinary and atro- cious case, wisich give the condition of morals among certain classes of societyin this republican land. According to these newspaper accounts, even with all the extenuating circumstances stat- ed by the organ of the New York democracy, in favor of the woman Tuttle, the case presents a most extraordinary parallel in its atrocious morality to that which was represented in the private letter of Louis Philippe, in the famous Spanish marriages. In fact, we don’t know but that the Borgia morality of Louis Philippe’s ted—deeds which astonished the hole wets at the time, until they were ri- valled and made common by the achievements performed from Vera Cruz to Mexico. family has been extended and improved upon, in genius and scope, by the case which recent- ly originated in Maine and was completed in New York. The existence of such things in Leonard street, in New York, would hardly be believed by the community at large, engaged in their usual avocations, and conduct- ing their affaira with their usual prudence. But it seems that euch scenes occtit, and such prac- tices exist, under the very eye of the police, in Leonard street, and are extenuated by the very organ of the democracy. Royal and republican morals, in some respects, approach each other in atrocity and infamy. Such houses as we have described would, in another age and in another country, be torn to piece: and such practices re- prehended by all respectable people; and we trust there are in this community some compunctious feelings of conscience on the subject. The mo- ral and religious anniversary week is now ap- proaching; here is @ topic that might engage them from now to the day of judgment. Navat.—Commodore Perry left Sisal, Yaca- tan, about the 10th ult., forthe coast Brig Etna, Capt Neagle, the steamer Scourge, Capt. Taylor, and the schooner Bonita, Lieut. Blackburn, were at Tabasco on the 13 h ult Tue Saran Sanns sailed punctually yesterday, for Liverpool, with twenty-eight passengers, and $260 ,500 in specie.