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Neiv Series.
JUNE 8, 1847,
V ol. 5. Nc. GO.
From the Dollar Newspaper.
EARTH'S FLOWERS .
' BY "E."
Oh! what are Earth's flowers?
A perishing race,
Whose brightness the beams.
. Oi the noonday 'efface;
The autumn winds sweep them,
So brief is their stay,'
Like daws of the morning
Forever away.
And what are Earth's pleasures?
Alas, they are frail
As the reed that is broken
By Summer's soft gale;
Like the flowers that wither
And die ere the light ,
"Which awoke them to beauty
Is shrouded in night.
TROM THE ST. LOUIS REVEILLE.
ALL ABOUT A DOG.
. Mary Allerd entered a complaint before
.the Recorder, against William Russel, for
throwing a brick at her dog and missing
him. The charge, as it thus stood, was
not very serious; but those legal gentle
men who commonly infest courts are ne
ver content with just so much of a story,
like Mrs. Wiggins, who married Jim
Tender, and wouldn't be saiisfied until
"she had the whole of it" i.eiiher would
thev be satisfied about the dog complaint.
"You say he threw a brick at the dog
and urinal him?" inquired the counsel.
"Yes, sir," said .Alary, a little stout
English woman, "he did, as I'm a livin'
'oman."
"Well, whal followed?" was the coun
ters second interrogatory. ;
"Yy," adds the injured proprietress of
the dog, "that ere brick then kim agen
me, and when I wosn't doin' anything in
-the vorld agin Mister Russel."
; "Ah!" exclaimed the counsel, rubbing
-his hands, "now the case begins to look.
promising. Well, what did you do then,
Mrs. Aiierd?"
, Vy," says she, "I ups and throws it
back at Mister Russell as 'ard as I could,
and says I Mister Russel, says I, you
" knows, says I, that I'm a widder and
-ain't got no husband to protect me, else
.you vouldn't be a servin' me in that ere
V2y, says I, and then he ups and throws
right at me, and then I ups and throws at
him agen, and then ve kept on a thro win,
and that's all I has agin him."
"Strong case," saj-s the attorney, "you
can stand aside. Call Mary Standing,"
he added to the Marshall. Mary stood
up. and was sworn she, too, was Eng
lish. "State what you know about the
case, Mary," said counsel.
"I don't know nothing," says she, "but
I knows the dog, and lis's a case!"
. "Ah," says counsel, ."bad dog is he,
ch?"
"He aint anything" else!" said a boy
witness, who was waiting his turn.
"Never mind, little boy," said the legal
man, "your time will come after a while.
Go on, Mary." , '
"The other day," 4 says Mary, "when
I vos a sthandin' "
"Of course," says counsel, "when you
were standing you are ahvavs standing;
you arc Mary Standing ha, ha, ha
pretty goodl go on." The court smiled
gravely. ''
' "When I was a standin' at the gate I
seed this ere dog make a run at Mr. Rus
rcl, and then run back; and then I seed
.Mrs. Allerd and Mr. Russell a throwin'
stones at each other."
"Ail, you did?" says counsel.
"Yes," says Mary, with emphesis, a ;
little hu filed at the counsel's previous '
joke, "I did!"
"What kind of a dog is that of Mrs.
Allerd' t?T" inquired the counsel.
"lie's a long dog, with a short tail,"
says Mary; "and be isn't exactly a dog (
nit her he's a rcr!"
- "Oh," says the counsel, "a troublesome '
pip, is he not, Miss Standing?" " '
"I've seed other pups," says she, "a
good deal more so," and then she gave
iier head a significcnt kind of a shake at
the questioner.
"Stand aside, Mary Standing," said the
counsel. "Come up, Tom Denny."
"Yes, sir-RF.E," says Tom, a juvenile
with a very moist nose.
. '()rdcr!" says the Marshal.
"Go on," savs the counsel and Tom
did ."
- "Do you know this dog?" he inquired
of Tom.
Vl reckon," says Tom.
You reckon," says the court; "don't
'you know?"
"Well, I calculate I do," answered
Tom.
"When he run at Mr. Russell what
did he d?" inquired the attorney.
"He run'd back agin," says Tom.
"Ah, he jumped over Mrs. Allcrd's
fence in the yard again, did he?" inquired
the counsel.
"No, he didn't," srtys Tom.
"Ah, he went through the gate, I sup
pose." s:ivs ihe counsel. " " -
"Weil,-you' supposes wrong,
Tom. ' .
"Did he run round the fencej" contin
ued the counsel. ' i .
"Not adzactly," answered the witness.
"Well, where did he go? Come, tell
the court at once," cried the questioner.
He run'd back, I said,"- "continued
Tcm.
"Your Honor," says the counsel, boun-
cing to Ins feet, "in this case there wa3
; evidently a fence, and the dog was either
inside that fence, outside of that fence,
. or ox the fence -il stands to reason, and
j the court will sustain me in' the point I am
I about lo make. The do must have been
t at these points at different times; he
could not be at all three in one and the
same period of time; and1 now the ques
tion is, where did the Witness see him,
and how did he get there? and I insist
on a categorical answer." ;
"The counsel can get it without being
dogmatical," said the court. "Where,"
added his Honor to the witness, "or how test, cheapest, and m every point of view,
did this dog get into and out of the yard?" j the most desirable. ': He also dwelt forci
"Whv," savs thewilncss, "he crawled ! Uv upon the advantage to be derived from
through a crack, just as easy as'nuthin',
whenever he had a mind to. '
"Ah," savs counsel, "now the case is
clear,
ly."
your Honor sees through it plain-
His Honor put on his spectacles, look
ed fixedly through them at the parties,
lifted his pencil, and fined Russel five dol
lars. f
"The case is made," says the Marshal,
and Mr. R. was straight in custody for
the items. -
"Who is the case?" inquired the juve
nile. ' '
"Mr. Russel is," says the deputy.
"Well, I'm blowcd," said Tom, wi
ping his nose, "if I didn't, think all this
ere time that it was the doo as was the
CASE
From the Baltimore American.
BALTIMORE AND PITTSBURGH.
In conformity with public notice, a
Mce'ing of Merchants, Traders and other
citizens of Baltimore, favorable lo a Rail
road connection with the city Pittsburgh,
was held at Franklin Hall, North street,
on Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
The meeting was called to order by
Thomas Finlev, Esq., who nominated
Thomas Wilson, Esq., us chairman, and
P. II. Sullivan was appointed Secretary.
The object of the meeting having been
stated by the Chairman, a Delegation from
Western Pennsylvania, consisting of the
Hon. Andrew Stewart - and Henry
Blackstone, Esq,, was introduced to the
meeting. -,
The Hon. Andrew Stewart, of Penn
sylvania, then rose and aid that a few
davs ago he was
present
with his col-
league, Mr. Blackstone, at a meeting of
the Pittsburgh and Connellsville Railroad
Company. It was then very manifest
that a portion of the Stockholders inten
ded to surrender their charter and appro
priate their money to the Philadelphia
Railroad Company, or to the making of a
road westwardly. At this meeting two
or three different propositions to this ef
fect were made. They were, however,
postponed, and an adjournment of ten
days was had in accordance' with ihe re
quest of the Hon.' J. P. Kennedy of this
city, in order to afford an opportunity for
a committee of gentlemen from Baltimore
to reach Pittsburgh for the purpose of
consulting with regard to the connexion
between that city and Baltimore, if such
committee should be appointed. . From
the tone and feeling exhibited at that mee
ting, Mr. S. was firmly of the opinion
that if something of the kind was not
done speedily, the stockholders of Ihe
Pittsburgh and Connellsville Company
would surrender their charter.
In this state of affairs he had consented
to come on to Baltimore to get a Com
mitt2c appointed, if possible,, to visit
Pittsburgh. He thought if th:s was done,
the charter might be saved. Since he
had been hese, however, he had learned
that it would be 1 impossible . to . procure
such a Committee from the Board of Di
rectors of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company. The appointment to be
in lime must be made to-day. The Pre
sident was at present, he understood, out
of the city, which, with the short period
of time to elapse w hen the presence of
such committee woCld be indispensable,
would preclude the possibility of an ap
pointment from that body.' :
Mr. Stewart stated that the Pittsburgh
Company were willing to give the con
trol of the charter and the road to the
Baltimore Company, they having a ma
jority of the stock, together with the sum
of $750,000, if their present subscription
could, by re-opening their books at Pitts
burgh and along the line, be increased to
that amount, which. the friends of this im
provement were confident they could ac
complish in a very short time. . -.. :';
Mr. S. then referred to the impossibili-
ty of the two ;Boards, whose iuterests it
was hoped might be identified,' accom-
plishing that object by the independent
1 action which they were at present pursu-
mg ino one sitting here and the other in Now, how is it in regard to tne vvnee
i Pittsburgh. Their actions were likely to linn- route? This route, from the summit
j be misrepresented, and 1 jeaUusies and
! heartburnings created, .and nothing but
- the conference of a committee from each
city could
mid produce any harmonious ac- going up ono s mountain and down anoth
He regarded thc Piitebarrh ihsittr.i er,for therao3tpaii atthc raasimum grade
lion
as of immense value to both cities. ; It
was the policy- of the enemies of this
connection, however, to get Pittsburgh to
surrender this charter. Thev. dreaded
this connection. They knew "-it was the
i shortest and best route between the Atlan-
tic seaboard and the waters 01 the Ohio.
As to waiting for any more favorable
i legislation from Virginia, Mr.-- Stewart
I thought it was idle. ' That State was ma-
J king her James River and Kanawha and
j other connections with the Ohio, and it
( would be her policy to protect them from
j any thing in the shape of a rival. He re-
I garded the present as a crisis one in
which we should use our efforts to save
the charter and secure the connection with
Pittsburgh. - " !
Mr. S. then entered into a comparative
view of the route to Pittsburgh; and the
route lo Wheeling, and showed conclu
sively that the former was by far the shor-
, the great trade which flowed into Pitts-
burgh from the country North and WTest
of her, and adverted to the fact that near-
ly the whole trade of Cincinnati and the
other towns on the Mississippi and Ohio
rivers m earning up would pass v heeling
and find its way to Pittsburgh, a more
important point
the rate of freight being
about the same to either city.
He also alluded to the fact that even
now, although our road was only finished
to , Cumberland, and we had to wagon a
great portion of our trade a distance of
one hundred and thirty miles to Wheeling
at the rate of a mile and a half an hour,
frequently employing one hundred wa
gons in its transportation, East and West,
we successfully compete for the western
trade; he therefore submitted, if the con
nection between Baltimore and Pittsburgh
was formed by a continuous Railroad,
could there be any successful competi
tion? The western trade and travel
would then pour into the lap of Balti
more. You would thus secure forever
the trade of Pittsburgh with l.er immense
manufactures and increasing population,
now amounting, in the city and adjacent
towns to about 70,000, with from 300 to
400 steam engines . in . daily operation;
12,000,000 of dollars idvested in iron;
1,5000,000 in cotton; and 1,000,000 in
; glass manufactures, supplying western
merchants on their return from the Last
with iron, nails, cutlery, cotton, glass,
fcc, which cannot be supplied . at Whee
ling, Fish creek, or any other lower ter
minus. Extend, therefore, your road to
Pittsburgh by the Youghiogheny, the best
route in the Union, where you find alrea
dy the concentrated trade of three fivers
the Allegheny, Monongahela, and O
hio with her Lake connections at Erie
and Cleveland; and where Cincinnati,
Columbus, St. Louis and .other Western
cities will hasten to meet you, and avail
themselves of your Railroad, the shortest
and best to reach Baltimore, Philadelphia,
N. York and Boston to the North, and
Washington and other cities to the South.
Mr. S. said that Baltimore co'uld look
to no further legislation from Pennsylva
nia or Virginia that they had both en
tered earnestly upon rthe prosecution ol
their own rival routes.. Pennsylvania
had granted a most favorable charter, not
to Baltimore, but lo her own citizens to
make a Railroad from Pittsburgh to the
Maryland line.
Virginia had granted a conditional char
ler to Wheeling, and it is now for Balti
more to choose between these two routes.
From the . reports of your Engineer , it
appears that the Pittsburgh route is 48
miles the shortest, and by about one-half
the cheapest.. The route to, Fishing
Creek being estimated at upwards of $7,
000,000, and the route direct to Whee
ling at $1,500,000 more making over
$8,500,000; while the route to Pittsburgh,
is estimated at about $4,000,000.
This is owing to the great superiority
of the ground over which the Pittsburgh
route passed. From a point near to Cum
berland, a uniform inclined plane was
formed by the River to Pittsburgh; this
river had cut down and subdued all the
intervening mountains over which the
Cumberland Road now passes the Mea
dow Mountain, Keitzer's Ridge. Negro
Mountain, Sideling hill, Woodcock or
Chesnut lidge, and Laurell Hill. All
these mountains, by means of this river,
had been subdued and cut down to one
continuous, ' graduated inclined plane for
your Railroad. The grade no where for
one hundred and thirty miles, out of 157
it miles the whole distance, exceeding 2G
4-10 fee t per mile, and averaging less than
ten..: -' - . '"'?."
: Nature i has thus done more work to
your hand, in removing' these mountains
out of the way not by tunnels but by a
thorough cut than all the. men and mo
ney m .the United States could accom
plish in fifty years. - . . ;
i For this route you are offered nn un
conditional charter, and 750,000 to take
near Cumberland, reaches Wheeling, not
by following a river, but. by crossing ri
vers and their tributaries at right angles
! of fifty-two feet per mile. From the re
port of Mr. Latrobe, your Engineer, it
appears there are no less than nine tun
nels in the last 52 miles of this route.
Hence it has, by high authority, ' been
well calied "the route of bridges and tun
nels." -
Taking into view the character of the
routes, I do not hesitate to sav that the
best route to Wrheeling is by way of Pitts
burgh. Here are then two routes presented for
your acceptance the one terminating at
Pittsburgh, the other at Wheeling.
Which will you take? Will you not take
the nearest and the best route to. the Ohio
river, which will enable you to compete
most successfully with all present and
prospective improvements.
- But you are told there is danger of en
countering formidable competition at Pitts
burgh. There is nothing in this. Do
you not now compete successfully for the
WTestern trade with your Railroad half
done? Last year your revenues East of
Cumberland amounted to about $900,000
and this year will amount to more than a
million, a sum nearly equal to the whole
revenue of the Pennsylvania improvement
from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia. Finish
your road to Pittsburgh, and what have
you lo fear from competition from any
quarter?
One word in regard to the advantages
of this western section as lo the invest
ment of funds. I venture to say there is
no Railroad in the United States could
promise a higher rate of profits. It is
now ascertained that the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal will soon be finished to Cum
berlar d. The concentrated trade of both
Rail Road and Canal will be thrown upon
this western section, with the super-addition
of the immense mineral and agricul
tural productions supplied by the inter
mediate country through which it passes.
Will not the substitution of a Rail Road
for a turnpike on this western section
more than double the business and the
profit ori both the eastern and western
sections
Mr. S. urged on the meeting the neces
sity of prompt action on the part of Bal
timore, and assured them emphatically
that if something was not done by Satur
day the Pittsburgh charter was gone.
He reminded them that whichever com
pany reached Pittsburgh first would have
all the advantages in its favor.
He came here to ask that a Committee
should be appointed on the part of the
Board of Directors of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company for the purpose
of visiiing Pittsburgh, but, as that was
now impossible, if a committee from this
meeting should visit there they might pro
cure n postponement of the action of the
Pittsburgh Company, and thus prevent a
hasty and unwise surrender of this valua
ble and impoitant charter.
: The address of Mr. Stewart, which
was very able, was listened to with great
interest. .
On motion of James George, Esq.,
the following resolution was adapted:
-Kesolveii, That a Committee of Seven
be appointed by the Chairman to proceed
to Pittsburgh, in order to confer with the
Pittsburgh and Connellsville Rail Road
Company upon the subject of a rail road
connexion between the cities ol Baltimore
and Pittsburgh; and that the Committee
report to the Citizens of Baltimore the
result of their mission and the facts
which they may obtain bearing on the
question.
, The Chair then appointed the follow
ing gentlemen to compose that committee:
JOHN GLENN,
: ROBERT GARRETT,
WM. HE A LI).
P. II. SULLIVAN,
CI1AUNCEY BROOKS,
JOHN L. CAREY,
JOHN Q. HEWLETT.
, Isaac Cruse, Esq., then rose and ad
dressed the meeting, introducing various
important and interesting facts in relation
to the trade with Pittsburgh.
The following resolution, offered by P.
II. Sullivan, was unanimously adopted:-
7? estlve rTThat the' thanks of this men
ting be respectfully tendered to the dele
gation from " Western Pennsylvania for
their 'attendance, at this meeting, and to
the Hon. Andrew Stewart for his able
address, in explanation of the importance
of a rail road connexion between Balti
more aud Pittsburgh.
The meeting then adjourned.
THOMAS WILSON, Chairman.
P. H. Sullivan, Secretary. "'
An editor of a country paper thus hu
morously bids farewell to his readers ; -The
sherifi is waiting for us in the next
room "; so we hate no opportunity to be
pathetic. Major Nab'cm says-we are
wanted, and must go Delinquent suIk
scribers, you will hive much lo answer
for; -Heaven may forgive you, but we
never can. ' , ' "
: The bar of New Orleans is to give a
grand dinner to Mr.' Webster. The price
of tickets is $15. Almost' every ticket
waa lakea 23S60U aiolltrsd."- ' ; ' - :
ARMY INTELLIGENCE.
FROM THE N. O. PICAYUNE OF MAY 20.
Third Dragoons. The destination of
one-half the 3d regiment of dragoons,
which was ordered to join Gen. Taylor
has been changed. Five companies have
been ordered to join Gen. Scott. Three
of these companies, to wit, Capt. Dupcr
u's, of Louisiana; Capt. Gaithers, of Ken
tucky; and Capt. Ford's, of Indiana, leave
this evening in the Fashion fr Vera
Cruz, under Lieut. Col. T. P. Moore.
Captain M'ReynoId's company, from
Michigan, will probably leave to-morrow
on the steamship Mary Kingsland for the
same destination.
Col. E. G. W. Butler will, about the
1 5th proximo, establish his headquarters
at Palo Alto, where Capt. Butler's com
pany, from Pennsylvania ; Capt. Mer
rick's, of Marylaud ; and Capt. Hagan's,
of Alabama, are already encamped, and
where he will be joined by Capt. Cald
well's' of North Carolina, and Capt. Dufis
of New York, there to await orders from
Gen. Taylor. Capt. Sitgreave's compa
ny, from South Carolina, will join Lieut.
Co!. Moore, at Vera Cruz.
J The above disposition of the compa
nies of the 3d dragoons has been made
by aj recent order from the Adjutant Gen
erals office. The diversion of troons in
tended for Gen. Tavlor's column would
lead us to suppose that it is not designed
that the Rio Grande army shall make a
movement toward San Luis Potosi for
sometime.
Later from the BRAsos.-The schoo
ner Alcyona, Capt. Titheradge, arrived
yesterday from Brasos Santiago; having
sailed thence on the II th instant.
An express passed through Matamoras
on the G:h instant from Gen. Scottto Gen
Taylor.
Fourteen hundred troops and upwards
are en amped near the field of Palo Alto.
It is cal e l a camp of ii strjction.
The Flag has late papsrs from Zacatc
cas. So far from meditating a withdraw
al from the Mexican confederacy, the
Flag reprcscnisathe people of th;s State as
more embittered against this country than
ever. Even the clergy seem disposed to
aid the Government effectually with their
means. ' -
The Flag publishes from a Victoria pa
per a circular of President Anava to the
Governor of Tamaulipas, showing the ex
traordinary powers conferred on the for
mer by Congress in view of the invasion
of Mexico. The substance ot this docu
ment we had before. Under the decree
of Congress, A nay a has no power to make
peace with the United States, and any in
dividual who shall enter into treaty with
us, either in his public or private capaci
ty is declared a traitor.
From Vera Cruz. The steamship
Eudora, Capt. Wilcox, arrived at a late
hour last evening from Vera Cruz, which
place she left on the 14th instant, bring
ing as passengers a number of officers of
ihsarmy aud volunteers, nnd 170 wound
ed and sick privates of the 2d regiment
Tennessee volunteers.
correspondence of the picaycne
Vera Cruz, May 13. 1817.
A band of about 200 Mexicans has been
prowling about the mounted riflemen's
camp, four miles from this place, two
nights in succession, and last night the
men were aroused twice by the approach
of Mexicans. . Early this morning our
gallant Capt. Walker started out to give
them battle, and had a nice little skirmish
killing four of the enemy by the time my
informant left, and he represents Walker
a long way ahead of the scene of the first
brush, following them up. I gness ihe en
emy will find that ihey hive got hold of
the wrong chap before Capt. W. has done
with them.
Jalapa, May 11, 1847 clock P M.
Since the dilligencia went out at noon
to-day for Vera Cruz another dilligencia
has come in from the city ef Mexico full
of passengers, and bringing news of not a
little importance. Among the passengers
was Mr. Kennedy, who after being badly
treated here about the first of April, was
driven to the city of Mexico.
All the passengers say that at the cap
iti 1 there was no Government, no order,
no responsiliiity ill was anarchy. A
noyo was still President pro lem., but had
neither influence nor authority. A new
President is to be elected on the 15th of
the present month the tenth chief magis
trate this distracted country has had with
in the last eighteen months. I cannot
stop to count them all up, but such is the
fact.
It is slated that the propositions made
by England some months since to ofTei
her invention m settling the difficulties
L between Mexico aud the United States,
have recently I e in taken up by the Mexi
can Congress, and after a warm discus
sion, in which one of the membe s said
that the whole affair was. but another at
tempt of the monarchists upon the sacred
liberties , of the Mex:can Rfpubii the
motion even to cor.si- e: them was lo. t by
a vote of i i to 23. From this it would
seem that the present Congress h deter
mined to shut every door against all pro
posals of an honorable psace.
Santa Anna has sent a letter to Con-
1 grcas. fronr Orizaba. Hp state that he
now has seven thousand mn, and that
; hi3 force is rapidly increasing; and more
': over that all are burning to encounter tho
, Americans again. He wants money to
carry on his operations, but Congress has
not eeen fit to vote him a copper one
reason probably being that it has not a
capper to give. Santa Anna, 60 far as I
, can learn, is the only man who is spo
, ken of in Mexico as a candidaie for tho
j Presidency, and he is in very bad odor
witn trie mass.
They were still doing a little in the
way of fortifying the city of Mexico, but
a Spaniard informs me that all the ob
structions they have erected so far could
be kicked over with the fot. Ths city
had been placed under martial law, and
the direct excesses were anticipated. The
citizens had all been called upon to lako
up arms in the common defence, but un
fortunately nine-tenths of them had no
arms to lake up. Nor were therj any
cannon at the capital other than a few
small and indifTcrnt pieces.
There is certainly a party, and an influ
ential one, in Mexico which begins to
talk of peace ; and where four weeks
since they did not dare breathe their sen
timents, they now come out openly and
avow themselves, Still the measure is
far from popuhr. The peace party is
composed of the mora henst and intelli
gent property holders, the merchants and
perhaps the clergy :o thee are opposed
the military, who have all disgraced them
selves, and all the demagogues among th .
lawyers. If the priests couid be made
certain that they would continue lo hold
their rich benefices secure, they would
probably be all in favor of peace.
On the approach ef the Americans it is
said that Congress, with all its archives
of the Republic, will move to the city of
Morelia. Of course all my news is ver
bal, not a paper having come through.
FURTHER FROM GEN. SCOTT'S
ARMY.
Another steamship which failed from
Vera Cruz on the evening of the 13th
instant, arrived at New Orleans on the
18 h, with seven companies of the Illinois
volunteers, on their return home, to bo
mustered out of service. Tha other dis
charged regiments were to follow as fast
as possible.
The cause for sending these troops
home several weeks before the expiration
of their term of service is thus explained
by the "Jalapa Star :"
"The Twelve Month Vclunteers.
Four regiments of the above troops will
leave here to-dav for Vera Cruz. In dis
charging these men at the time he does.
Gen. Scott has been actuated by feel
ings the most commendable. He has
been advi?ed that Vera Cruz is now quite
healthy, and, knowing that in a very few
weeks the vomito wili set in, he dispenses
with the valuable services of those men
for the remainder of their terra rather
than expose them to the epidemic. Ho
would be glad, we know, that they would
re-enter the service, bu' is not at all dis
pleased at the alternative they have adop
ted. In a few weeks they wu!d have
the right of returning by law, and they
express their gratitude to the command
ing gcneral,'.who has had the kind con
sideraiion to send them at a time when
they will have no fever to contend against.
Three Tennessee regiments, two from Il
linois, one from Georgia, and one Ala
bama regiment, and Capt. Williams's
Kentucky company, are the ones to be
disbanded." ,
On the night of the 12th instant a party
of eleven dragoons, which had been sta
tioned at a little village by the name of
Santa Fe, fourteen miles from Vera Cruz
on the national road, was surprised by a
body of Mexicans, and seven of th;m
killed and three wounded. The other
made his escape, and carried the news to
Vera Cruz. Capt Walker's company
was immediately ordered out ia search of
ihe murderers' .
FROM THE CITY OF MEXICO.
The New Orleans Picayune has papers
from the city of Mexico down to the 23th
ultimo. From its notici of heir contents
we learn that Santa Anna was at Orizaba
diligently engaged in raising troops and
granting permits to guerilla bands. He
was supposed to have recruited an army
pretty considerable in numbers, though
very inferior in discipline. On the 2id
of April he addressed a letter to the Sub
slitude President of Mexico, in which ho
entreats him not to despair, nar to mako
a treaty with the United States, but to de
fend the capital. Notwithstanding the
evident dissatisfactionfelt with him by
manv of his cauntrvmcn, the supreme
Government has continued him in tho
command of the armyby express orders.
The necessity of such an order indicates
that his authority had been severely sha
ken. It is. stated that thesubst tude Pres
ident shows a good deal more apathy than
ii acceptable to the Editors of ElHcpub
I cano. They appeal him to a-ou-c him
self and call forth the energies of the na
tion to meet the crisis. They denounco
as cowardly and infamous any course oth:r
than war, and a Un war. Those who
are suspeeted of mora peacpr.ble views are
ueuoanctd ia zo measured terms. . .
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