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TUSSDAIT, 11, 1847,
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rom Chambers Edinlurg Journal.
THE DAISY AND THE STAR.
The rnodet daisy on the hill,
That drinks of morning dew its fill,
AhJ spreads its leaflets to the light,
And then in quiet, meek repose
Its crimson coronet doth close
Beneath the shade of night,
Lives calmly out its little day,
Then fades unseen away.
And yonder shining star,
That dwells in heaven afar
Whose trembling ray no more is seen,
Lost in the myriad orbs of light,
That spangle o'er the vale of night,
Than is the daisy on the green,
Will but live out a longer day,
Then pass unseen away. C. Witcome.
Till UNEXPECTED RETURN.
BY DELIA PERCY.
A cheerless looking apartment in a sec
end story back building, used as a sitting
room, carpeted with a homely imperial,
and furnished with a pair of divans, half
a dozen mahogany chairs, two of which
were remarkably uneasy a mirror, and
underneath a centre-table, on which was
frittered several magazines, a half-finished
letter, and a scrap of unhemmed ruf
fling a stove after the radiator fashion,
and a solar lamp ou the marble stand
r.ear, shedding its faint rays over the de
perted room; imagining tin?; you have
before you, as near as 1 can give it, the
apartment where Mr. and Mrs. Gregory
Kussel had their first quarrel. The ho
neymoon not having passed as yet, I
thick it was entirely too son to begin,
but I suppose they were of a different
opinion, or else the quarrel would have
been postponed to a more suitable time.
Two hours had passed since they had
left the room: Mr. Russell to march down
stairs, and bang the street door after him,
and his better half to ascend the remain
ing flight, and weep over her abuses in si
lence. Abuses no doubt they were, and
who dare say otherwise, when I tell them
that Mr. Kussell had so soon had the au
dacity to insist upon her sending regrets
to a party which she was extremely anx
ious to attend, and not only that, but had
given her to understand that henceforth
fhe was seldom to think of attending
concerts, operas, or any place of public
amusement, and never without his own
especial escort What wonder then if
the three weeks' bride, who had never
been in the habit of consulting any other
mentor than her own wishes, had called
such interdictions "barbarous" and "un
heard of," and even gone so far as to ex
press a wish that she had not married
such a brute of a man." This was the
case, and it w as this that had sent the
husband out in search of a quieter and
less annoying place, than his own home
had proved to be that night. One word
had brought on another, and when Mrs.
Russell wished that she had found some
ne more congenial to her tastes, the hus
band quietly arose, took his hat and po
litely told her to find some one then.
Two hours had passed, and the clock
struck ten, when Mrs. Russell, with swol
len eyes, went down to the sitting room,
to warm her shivering form, for she con
cluded such a wretch of a man was not
worth freezing herself to death for. She
drew the easiest of the two easy-chairs
to the stove, and set down very haughti
ly, as though she was conferring a great
honor upon the room by granting it her
presence. And indeed you would not
believe how cheery that deserted room
looked after she came into it. If she had
only looked a little happier, it would have
been quite a pleasant little room. I won
der now that 1 called it dreary. An hour
passed on, and the hands of her timepiece
pointed to eleven o'clock. Her coun
tenance had changed during that hour
the expression of haughty anger had given
place to a resigned look, and I think if
Mr. Russell had come in then, she would
Lave said
"Gregory, you have been very unkind
to me. but I will forgive you this once, if
you will promise to let me go to that par
ty." Rut he did not come, and the lady went
ou thinking, and the watch went on tick
ticking until the hands pointed to twelve.
Then the little lady lose, and a resigned
expression had given place to a very, anx
ious, loving look, and the paced the
ap-irlment slowly with clasped hands a
ttir now and then falling from her hea
venly blue eyes. What an Eden of a
room that little apartment has become! I
don't think I noticed those snowy em
broidered curtains before, but now she is
lifting them, and peering ?o fir out in the
d.ukncss, they really looked beautiful,
filling he drapery about her. If Mr.
Russell coracs in now, no doubt she will
t-av "Mv love, I have been very "anxi
ous about" you; why did you stay so
late?" I don't thi;:k she would make
:iny allusion to the P'rty now-
Again the watch was drawn .from its
hiding place, the hands pointed to one.
She threw herself upon the lounge, and
h-irst into tear". Wlnt pity she should
?. .Vim the j:';rbus bistre on her eyes
i'in. tiiii thought she heard the street
door open, and she sprang from the lounge
to the sitting-room, door, but her fancies
had deceived her, and she went to her
seat murmuring:
"Oh! if he would only come back, I
would never wish to go away again it
was I that was to blame; dear, dear Gre
gory, where can he be!"
I knew it would come to this. She
really does look beautifully now, notwith
standing her long eye-lashes are bathed
in tears, and the lids drop heavily with
their weight. The wachman cries
"Past two o'clock," and now the key
turned in the street door, and the door
opened and shut again; she. heard foot
falls; another door opened and shut; was
he not coming to her? Another footstep
and then a quick succession of -them up
the stairs. She opened the door and m
the dim light of the hall, saw a stranger
form ascendiag the stair case. She would
hive screamed, but the power of utter
ance seemed denied her, and like a marble
statue she stood to wait her fate. ...
"Mrs. Russell, I presume!" said the
stranger.
The gentlemanly pleasant "way in which
he addressed her, somewhat relieved her
extreme fright, and she found her voice
sufficiently to inquire if any accident had
happened to her husband?
, "Oh, no Madam," he replied, "I come
on quite a different errand; I just left
your husband in very comfortable quar
ters, where he will probably remain for
the present."
Then seeing that she seemed very
much agitated, he added "
"But you need not be in the least a
larmed, for I can give you the best evi
dence that he knows of my visit, and even
sent me lo pay you a call." '
So saying, he produced the night-key,
at the sight of which Mrs. Russell turned
very pale, and shuddered from head to
foot.
"Do not be unnecessarily agitated, my
dear lady, but come into the sitting-room
with me, while I explain the cause of my
visit, which you no doubt think a very
strange and unreasonable one."
So saving, he took hold of her hand to
lead her into the little snuggery, when a
smart blow across the-1 mouth with the
other hand reminded him of the proprie
ty of keeping at a distance.
"I beg your pardon, lady, I meant no
offence," said the 6tranger, with a good
natured smile, as he threw off the Span
ish cloak, and cap which had almost hid
his person and face from view, disclosing
the figure and countenance of an elegantly
formed and noble-featured young man of
five-and-twenty. There, was a quiet hu
mour resting in the large dark eye, and a
half smile hovering about the mustachioed
lip, that told how capitally the stranger
was enjoying his part of the affair; while
the troubled countenance and dilated pu
pils of Mrs. Russell's eyes showed that
the passing moments were as hours of
agony to her. Still the two looked as if
made for each other, both so young and
beautiful and tncy were not unlike in
features. The stranger broke the silence.
"My name is Harry, yours is Berth.3, 1
think!"
This lime Mrs. Russell fixed her eyes
on his, nodded an assent, and turned away
with a sigh.
"I think we. are . not unlike, Bertha;
that is, I think our tastes will be more
congenial than yours and your husband's
are. I am very fond of gaiety, not at all
given to domestic life. If you would
like to come and live with me, I will pro
mise to devote every evening to amuse
ment. We will suit oursslves in our
choice of entertainment, and leave .this
humdrum husband of yours to suit him
self. You are very handsome, to my
thinking, and I am willing to make the ar
rangement. What say you, Bertha?"
"My God this is too much?" and Ber
tha Russell rose from her seat.
The stranger would have stopped her,
but before he divined her purpose, she
had opened the door, glided out. closed it
after her, and turned the key upon him.
At the same moment a merry laugh from
within the room, and a wild shriek from
without, rang through , the. house, and
Bertha, exhausted with those hours of
watching, sank lifeless upon the stairs.
The fright of the last hour had unstrung
every delicate nerve, and set free the
grieved spirit, from its beautiful cage but
it soared not far fom its earthly dwelling
place, for when Bertha felt her husband's
arms about her, and his warm kisses on
her lips,, the marble face lost its rigidity,
the heart-pulse beat but the more quickly,
for its slight cessation, and from the dark
blue eyes the soul looked .forthwith re
newed vigor alter its snort wanderings.
"My husband! my husband! was it a
dream!" .' r
Mr. Russell lifted Bertha in his arms,
turned the key of the door, and there, be
fore them, still stood the stranger his
handsome face rather more demure than
when-Bertha locked him in.;., Mrs. Rus
sell's form quivered, and she clung to her
husband, with a tight grasp.
" The stranger stepped closer to them,
and bending hs head, said ?
"Bertha, has your own brother Henry
altered so moduli the last five years, that
you have not one smile of recognition for
Lira?" .. - ., . - -
"Harry, darling .. brother Harry, is it
possible that it is you!" aud she was
clasped to her brother's heart: for she
staid not to chide him for so cruelly frigh
tening her. It was enough for her to
know that the brother they had mourned
as lost was before her. , . ; ,
When the excitement of meeting was
over, and Harry had explained the reason
of the report of his death by saying it
had arisen from a severe wound which he
had received in the Circassian service
while fighting against their haughty Rus
sian oppressors, Bertha asked her hus
band how . he had chanced to meet him.
Mr. Russell said he was at Tremont with
a few friends, and as they were about to
leave the hotel, the carriages from the
night line came up, and his eye fell upon
some baggage marked "Col. Henry Gor
don." He was not long, he said in ma
king the acquaintance of. the gentleman,
for in their youthful ' days they had been
bosom friends; and afterward?, as they
sat over their wine in a private roam, Mr.
Russell had explained to his brother-in-law
the cause of his absence at so late an
hour from his young wife. He also told
him of his determination to make Bertha
a domestic wife; for ha was sure it would,
in the end, increase her happiness as well
as his own. Harry conceived the plan
of proposing an exchange, for he was
sure his bronzed complexion and altered
figure would sufficiently disguise him. --j
Mr. Kussel did not object; he. knew that
his wife seldom lost her presence of mind
in any emergency, for she had "a strong
intellect, as well as a loving heart, and
the harsh words she had used he knew
arose from an angry spirif, disappointed
in the wishes, of the moment. Bertha
was very gay, and thought it might have
a happy effect on her. He was right,
for never again did Bertha seek her own
pleasure in preference to her husband's;
or rather, what constituted her husband's
happiness seemed also to ccusiitute hers.
' I know not whether it was the fright of
the evening, or whether the spirit in those
moments of unconsciousness, saw in the
husband's heart such overflowings for her
that she could not do aught but devote her
life to his happiness Be that as it may,
Bertha ever after made a most domestic
and loving little wife. '
Ezcitta? IVctts Trem Yera Cruz.
From the New Orleans Picayune of '
April 23. ; ...
The United States steamship Massa
chusetts arrived here last evening from
Vera Cruz, which place she left on the
evening of the 14th. Our correspon
dence is, down to the latest hour. The
news is of the most stirring interest.-
The best advices lead to the impression
that a battle was fought at Ccrro Gordo,
nearly midway between the Puente Na
cional and Jalapa, on Thursday or Fri
day last. We have heretofore announ
ced the advance of Gen. Twigg's division
into tlie in'rior. When last heard Irom
he was beyond the Puente Nacional, and
in close proximity to the Mexican army.
Gen. Scott was expected to arrive at
Gen. Twigg's headquarters .on the night
of the 14lh instant. Gen. Worth left
Vera Cruz with the last division of the
army on the 13th, and biveuacked that
night at San Juan about twelve miles in
the interior. He probably joined the ad
vance on the 15th. Santa Anna was said
to be at Cerro Gordo, where La Vega
and Canalizo where posted with a con
siderable command. The Mexican force
at that point, when joined by Santa Anna,
was estimated at fifteen thousand strong
consisting of two thousand regular in
fantry, three thousand cavalry, and the re
mainder irregulars. The pass of Cerro
Gordo is forty-four miles . from Vera
Cruz, and is naturally a very strong one.
Some difficulty i3 anticipated in forcing
it. Rumors state that Santa Anna C3n
obtain any amount of irregular force he
may desire. Rcconnoitering parties from
the American army had been fired upon
and several waunded -amongst whom
was Captain (now Lieut. Col.) Johns
ton, of the Topographical Engineers, who
was shot in the arm aud hip whilst ex
amining the Mexican works at Cerro
Gordo. Intelligent' officers, who arrived
in the Massachusetts, entertain very lit
tle doubt that a general engagement has
taken place. . . . . - '
A number of soldiers have been shot
in passing -the road to and fro. All ac
counts represent the Americans a3 confix
dent f-yicloryrnJ lne, Mexicans as
burning for vengeance. Our next advi
ces from Vera Cruz will, .we doubt not,
bring us the details of an important en
gagement. - ; -' ,
We subjoin the news from the Vera
Cruz papers and our correspondence.-f
The letter from Mr. Kendall, of .the 11th,
written at San Juan, is the very latest
from the army.. The soldiers were suf
fering at Vera Cruz from sickness, but
the veraito had not appeared. Nat. Int.
Correspondence of the N. Orleans
Picayune. -
Camp at San Juan, April 11, 1847.
1 arrived in this camp at 1 1 o'clock
last night, tne road from Vera Cruz run
ning for the ' most part through heavy
sand. The division of Gen. Worth, from
the excessive heat and wearisome road,
suflered incredibly.
The news in camp is stirring. An ex
press has come down to Gen. Twiggs to
the eflect that Santa Anna was before him
at Cerro Gordo with 15,000 men, as near
as could be judged from reconuoissances
mads by Capt. Hardie and other officers
of dragoons. '
.Lieut. Col. J. E. Johnston has ben
severely but not mortally, wounded while
examining Santa Anna's works, which
appear to be a succession of breastworks
on the eminences in the Vicinity of Cer
ro Gordo. Every thing would now go
to show that Santa Anna is determined
to make a bold stand,"
A dragoon who had been sent down
express by Gen. Twiggs was yesterday
found shot by the road side just beyond
this. His papers had not been touched.
The Mexicans are playing a bloody, and
at the same time bolder, game than is usu
al for them, as it is thought they have kil
led no less than fifty of our mea within
the last three days oa the road.
- Gen Scott stopped last night cine miles
frera this; to-night he will reach General
Twiggs's position. If Santa Anna is as
strong as he is represented, he . probably
will not be attacked far two or three
days. -
Correspondence or the N. 0. Delta.
Vera Crcz, April 13. 1817.
As I stated in my letter of this ruern
ing, the brigade of Gen. Worth took up
the line of march for Jalapa; but, from
rather sadden indisposition, the General
did not leave with thora.. About one o'
clock an express reached him with the
important information that the column of
Gen. Twiggs had fallen in, wnh a large
force of the enemy at Cerro Gordo, a
strong position beyond Puente Nacional,
and that a. skirmish had taken place be
tween Twiggs's advance guard and the
enemy, in which Capt. Johnston, Topo
graphical Engineer, wa3 severely wound
ed and several others. In half an hour
afurr the reception cdjj this news General
TJjrth had mounted Vis horse and was
off so sJden, indued, that I. missed
him, notf standing I repaired to his
quarters, t' gather the particulars as soon
a3 I heard it.
There is no doubt at all but that Santa
Anna, with from 12,000 to 15r000 men,
is between us and Jalapa. It is. conce
ded on all sides. But if Gen. Twiggs
does not whip him, he will at least keep
him in check until Gen. Scott, who left
yesterday, reaches him, which will be to
morrow night. Major Len. I'atterson
left here with two brigades of volunteers
on Friday, and fie' has no doubt reaehul
tlie advance before this hour.
Gen. Twiggs has between 2,500 and
2,700 men choice ones, too -under his
command, and I entertain little fear for
his safety. Gen. Patterson marched with
Shields's and Pillow's brigades, and all
the forces," exceptjthc garrison of the town
and Quitman's brigade, are either at the
scene of action or on the road to it.
Gen. Scott, I think, was pretty well
satisfied befove his departure that San
ta Anna was in the- neighborhood
of Jalapa, and making good time to
wards that point before the express reach
ed him. "
" A terrible battle will be fought at Cerro
Gordo, or there will be little er no fight
ing. An intelligent Mexican told me to-,
night that there would be no fight, and
that Santa Anna had with him four prora
nent members of the National Congress,
with the aid of whom he hopes to nego
tiate a peace I believe truly that - it is the
wish cf his Excellency to end the strife,
but whether he will embrace this occa
sion (which, by the way, is an excellent
one) I cannot say.
-The horses of the Tennessee cavalry,
arrived to day from Tampico, and as soon
as they, are landed I expect Quitman will
leave here.
Vera Cruz, April 14, 1317.
There has been a skirmish at Puente
Nacional, and ve hourly look for the in
telligence of the capture of Cerro Gordo,
a strong mountain fort, twenty-two miles
from Jalapa. A decisive battle is expec
ted at this point, for it is the best vantage
jrround tills side of. Perote. GenI Santa
Anna was at or near Jalapa at the last ac
counts, but by this time there is scarcely
a doubt that Cerro Gordo is . carried by
assault, and the army in snug quarters at
the healthy and delightful city of Jalapa.
Vera Cruz is as quiet and well governed
as any city in the United States. It would
improve the health some to throw down
the walls and let in the fresh . air, as tho
commander thioks of doing. . : u
Vera Cruz Anchorage, April, 12, 1847.
- A large detachment of the squadron
Jeavcs to-rday; for Tuspan, commanded by
the Commodore in person. The officers
anticipate something of a fight there. It
is believed that there are upwards of 2,
000 troops at that place, under the com
mand of Gen. Cos, with some sixty pie
ces of cannon.
The squadron c-vp'ured at Alrarado
sixty pieces of heavy cannon, all service
able and in fine order, with the exception
of three.
The greater portion of the army is now
on the road ta Jalapa; rumor has it that
Santa Anna is there with a large force,
and intends to dispute the pass near that
place. The vomito has not yet made its
appearance,
Mexico, .March 29, 1947.
The city of the Montezumas h in a most
extraordinary situation at this present wri
ting.' Farias and the "Constitutionalists"
had a civH war of twenty-three days' du
ration, in which nobody was killed, and
neither party lost or gained an inch of
ground. That is, no one wa3 killed of
the fighters, unless we count some acci
dental deaths; but a great number f harm
less citizens lost their lives by the inces
sant firing up and down the streets, with
which the belligerents amused themselves
instead of going within reach of each oth
er. Santa Anna wrote lovingly to both par
ties, and did his best to urge them to cat
each other up, but, as soon as he could
reach the city with some force, he threw
them ail overboard. He is playing for
the Dictatorship, and is, in fact, clothed
with absolute power at this moment.
He has induced the ch;rgy to aid him
with money to meet, and, as he says, to
exterminate Scott and the "perfidious in
vaders." But his plan is undoubtedly to
make peace, whila he is yet entrenched
behind American bayonets, and perhap3,
with the help of American gold, he will
put his enemies where they cannot inter
fere with him. As soon as he has a clear
field he will use his army to seize the
possessions of the church, to maintain
and increase it as a foundation of a throne.
Whatever he pretends, he has his eye on
the clmrch property, and has twice put
forward' Gomez Farias as a catspaw to
grasp it, bnt when he found tho clergy
too strong for him, he made no scruple to
sacrifice his tool and come out en. the oth
er side.
From the Vera Cruz Eagle of April 13.
Santa Anna! Again must we appear
before our readers without having any
positive information as to the dcing3 and
whereabouts of the enemy. Rumor in
the mcv.ii time is rife with news, and we
must perforce set down to her account
many things, which, however much we
may believe them, we dare not give to
the public as veritable. One of the most
important outgivings up to this time, is
thatSanla Anna, seconded by La Vega,
and a force of near 12,CC0 s:rong, has ta
ken a position between this and Jalapa. j near Mo?soulf where he has already
which is said by those familiar with the j found some beautiful bas-relief, and a col
country to be very s'.rong. This report : lossal lion, lie hag aLso found a great
we find very generally believed by many number of small lions in bronze ladies
officers of the army a:id by the citizens cf necklaces a copper hemlet of great beau
the place. ty, and a multitude of siaall article ia
A Plot Discovered. Some day last gold and silver. Abo, a quadrangular
week a number of Mexicans were discov- ; pillar covered wiih inscriptions and de-'
ered in the act of inciting the citizens of j sigrs. They are all in a gcod slate cf
Tamnico to revolt and drive the Ameri-
cans from tha place. We are not advis-
ed of the particulars, but learn that Col.
Gate3 banished them from thfi citv, fpr-
bidding their return under pcnaltily cf
death. .
Breaking up or General IIeapqi-ar-
tkrs. Yesterday evening at
t 5 o'clock
fjn f;rtt rrn hl-a ct:if! pfl itipir nmr- !
tors in the Plaza and started for Jalap.i. ' fr 5T' hs cr0P w,li be, J"3 than lt h;13
Thev were escorted bv Col Harnev's 2d : been fo.raay J""' AH ??re? l'13.
dragoons; and will probably be up with crop will be a short one even .kou. ih3
Gen. Twiggs, of the advance, in two or ; weather Lecone faroraole imaately.
three day. - j Hamburg 1 elegraph.
Alvarado. The port of Alvarado, - . m, '
which has been closed for several months, Ax Vcocioxabl Minister. Art
i3 now open to our commerce and to all illiterate Scotch collier went to the ainis
neutral vessels not having on board arti- ter of the parish in which ho lived to ses.
cles contraband of war. ' 1 about o-G'tincr hi first rV.'.U ivinti-J
W orth s Brigade.- Major General When he got into the minister's house h
Worth, with ths 1st brigade, will proba- - t -
. , , T ,T . t V ; was asked how many cotuaan-aDat
bly leave vera Cruz to-day, following m J
the footsteps of his illustrious predeces- lfiere wre.
eps oi nis illustrious pr
sor. ' The government of the town and
dependencies have been turned over to "Go array, go away," said the minis
Cel. WriI?on, of the 1st infantry. t.r: i.vou mu?t uara T-cr CVB$r;oxs bet-
THE:Ho,p;TAL.-Many of our "gallant
,Jfiro 1 (( nnw rrnctMtil . Kir i iin
.. . t j vv..v., . , ,,
and the hospitals are rilled to overflowing : liZl'u
with them. The disease most prevalent ! As the ecl!icr u'"s g? av
is diarrhiea, which in nnny cases has nue leading from the minister's house, h?
proved fatal. - " ' I met a fellow miner, goin on the
Expedition to Tustan. On Friday errand,
last the sloops of war Germntown and "Well," said he, "how many commsad
Albany and two bomb vessels departed ments are there?"
for Tusnan. On Simdav ihi T?iriirv ! 'I?:i."
with one hundred additional marines from
the Potomac, siiled for the same place,
and yesterday Com. Perry, with the rbg
ship Mississippi snil steamers Spitfire,
having bomb vessels in tow. The Petrel,
Bonina, and Ecla followed suit. The oh -
ta r ti,, a-rm,v,t,n ia tn take rosses -
ion of Tuspan," which we understand
1 ... i 1 ,
sion ot i usoan,
will be effected by landing the sailors and
marines at a convenient point.
Headquarters or the Ajtvv,
Vpm Cni7. Anril 11.
;. Major General Scott, General-in-cliicf
' of the Armies of the United States of A-
rnerica, to the good people oi Mexico:
PROCLAMATION.
Mexicans: At the head of a powerful
army, soon to be doubled a part of which
is advancing upon your capital, and with
another army under Major General Tay
lor in march from Saltillo towards Saa
Luis Potosi I think myself called upon
to address you.
Mexicans: Americans are not your en
emies, but the enemies, for a time, of the
men who a year ago misgoverned you,
and brought about this unnatural war be
tween two great Republics. We are the
friends of the peaceful inhabitants of the
country we occupy, and the friends of
your holy religion, its hierarchy and its
priesthood. The same church is found
in all parts of our own country, crowded
with devout Catholics, and respected by
our Government, laws, and people.
For the church of Mexico, the unof
fending inhabitants of the country, and
their property, I have from the first done
everything in my power lo place thcia
under the safeguard of martial law a
gainst the few bad men in this army.
My order to this effect, hnowa to all, aro
precise and rigorous. Under them sever
al Americans have ilready been punish
ed, by fine, for the benefit of Mexicans,
besides imprisonment, and one for a rape
has been hung by the neck. It is not a
proof of good faith and energetic disci
pline? Other proofs shall be given as of
ten as injuries to Mexicans may be de
tected. On the other hand, injuries com
mitted by individuals or parties of Mexi
co, not belonging to the public forces, up
on individuals, small parties, trains of wa
gons and teams, or of pack mule, r any
other person or property belonging to this
army contrary to the laws of war, shall
be punished with rigor; or if the particu
lar offenders be not delivered up by Mex
ican authorities, the punishment shall fall
upon entire cities, towns, or neighbor
hoods. Let, then, all good Mexicans remain at
home, or at their peaceful occupations; but
they re invited u bring in for sale hor
ses, mules, beef, cattle, corn, barley.whekt,
flour for bread, and vegetables. Cash
wiil c3 paid for every thing " this ' army
may take or purchase, and protection will
be given to all sellers. The Americans
ars strong enough to offer these assuran
ces, which, should Mexicans wisely ac
cept, this war may scon be happily end
ed to the honor and advantage of both bel
ligerents. Then the Americans, having
converted enemies tnto frisnds, will bo
happy to lake leave of Mexico and re
turn to their own country.
WINFIELD SCOTT.
. THE RUINS OF BABYLON.
It appears by letters lately received,
that new discoveries have been made a
mong the ruins cf Babylon. Mr. Ley
ard ha? continued his search to Ninnavel
preservation.
The prospect of the Wheat crop ia this
section is most unpromising, with the ex-
; ceplion of the fields on the alluvial soil
of the river. The dry, col l and windy
weather of the last few weeks, together
I Wltil 5' e ina'Je 6"(I havoc witn it;
and unless we have rain and warm waaih-
i a- t i
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them."
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ter fur mvself; bat I ar.rs for him hck :,se
his rumens better kno-vu ;!:a.i iait:c."