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The News From Mexico

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Parent Issue
Day
3
Month
April
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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The riews of the disasters tliat have overtaken Gen. Taylor and his nrmy hao e.xcited great interest throughout the country, and all kind of speculations are afloat, some discrediting the accounts entirely, and others belioving tliem in full. No intelligence hns been received dtreclhj from any person in Taylor's army ; and consequently wo knoic scarcely any thing about the trulh of the rumors abroad. - But the sitnation in which Gen. Taylor was placed aflurds ground for believing that he may have sufiered very heavy lossns; and if Santa Anna has pursued him wilh his whole nnny, the capture of Gen. Taylor's entirc forcé may notbe improbable unless timoly succors reach him from Gen. Scott. Some accounts say ihat he succeeded in reaching Montercy , while others leave him at Rinconada Pass, and a large body of Mexican troops between liim and Monterey. Accounts are contrndictory. Weshallhnve reliablo news shortly.{L The Ernancfpator and the Nation;il Era, which have been endeavoring to hold up Mr. Senator Cilley as a good Liberty man, and screen him from the condcinnatiou of the other Liberty papers, now give him op as utterly indefensibie. We say, innen. If we canno'. liave better ones than he has proved, ne had better not have any. Mr. líale takes bis place in the Senate. We wonder if he will have courage enough simply to move the abolilion of the Gag in the Sennte, which bas existed there unquestioned, for ten ortwclve years ! We shall see. (fê Wc learn by the Marshall and Jacksor. papers, that Col. Speed was entirelv successful in obtaining subscriptions for stock in bis Telegraph line. - He is confidetit that the route will bc completed from Detroit to Miivvaukie early in the foll.

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Signal of Liberty
Old News