From The War

The New Orleans Delta.says A. S. Standard, contains n letter from Saltillo, from vvliich we take several paragraphs. The testimony is that of an eye-wi ness, who .so far from showing any partícula,1 bvrorfur war,n general íills hisktler witli praises ofllie bravery oftha American troops. The obvious reflcction, thal thu e things seein doubly horrible wlien the purpose for vvhicli tbia war is waged is considered, does not seetn to huvo occurred lo hiin: "At one t'm-ï duiing tlie fight, we re turncil over the ground on wliich was made our fint cliargp. We t'iere snw the mangleii bodics of our fallen comrades, and althoiigh animnted by the exeilement of the ficice contest which was just then renewed, yet I ihink Ihera was Bot ft heart umong us which did not for a moment cense to beatón bel o'.dingthat horrible sceue. Ji.it for bis slraw bat, nnd a fewolherarticles of olotliing whi h the niifiaris had left on him, I shoiild have Hiiled lo recognize the body of young Kggleslon. He was shot, slahbed, and olherwise nbnsed. This was, indeed, the fate of all whom I taw. Lieut. Mooie, and a man named Couoh,ofour compnny, were the only peisons whose bodies I easily recognized. Afier ihebatile l rode over the whole field. Partías were engnged in burying thfldeftd - but there were still hundreds of bodies lying stiif nnd cold, with no covering save Ihescunty remnantof clothing which the robbers of the dead found valuelessto tuke from them. I saw the human body piereed in every place. I saw expressed in the fucesof the df-ad almost every expre ssion nnd feeling. Some seeined to have died execraling their enernic5, and eursing ihern with their last breath - olhera had the most plncid and resigned expression and feelii g Some sfcincd to have died defending their lives bravely to ilie last, while others evidently used their last words in supplicating for mercy. llere lny youtli and maturo age calmly repoïing in untimely deaii. # Among the hundreds of the dead whom I siw thore, I was mucli touched by the appenrance of the corps oí' a Mx:cr.n boy.whoso ege, I should ihink, could not have exceedod ilfteen yéars. A bullet haü struck hini ful] throngh the breost, nnd must have occasioncd almost instant deatli. IL; was lying on his back, his face slightly inclined 1 1 one side, und, nlthough cold, yet beaming with a bright and sunuy smile, which eloquenlly told the specttitor that ho liad fallen with his füce to his country's foc. Saltillo is ono vast hospital. Resideonrown woundtd, (fouror fi e hundred,) Gen. Taylur has collected all the wounded Mexicana who were left by thoir army, and put them in hospita!. It is most disgusting to visit one of thoso places. - Aüofthem, (the Mexicans,) oro badly woundel, for those that were slightly wour.ded went off. They are dvingevery honr in the dny." In the terible ga!e experienced at Vera Cruz during the siege, upwards of ihij-ty vessels were driven nshore, a larga portion of which are expected to be lost. Many of thora were loaded with governmint stores. Among the vessels lost is the iron stej rnihip Ilunter, buik nt Pittsbirgh, and owned by Lieu'. Mi-Lnuglilin. SI e was cha tered by the Government. The Vicksburgh Whig publishes tiie following private letter, written by Wm. H. Scott, Orderly Snrgeant of the Vicksiurgh South rons. Saltillo, March 2d, 1837. "In ■ letter which I w rol e a few days since, I gave you a very full account of he affair of Buena Vista, (pronounced Wano Esa,) and will now give you a bv scènes which I have witnessed, not ïinntiened in that letter. The fust view that we cauglit of the cnemy was when they turneó the 1 ft flank of our lines, and were pursuing the flyiglnfantry and Horsemen. Colurrn fter column succeeded, until they iormed a dense mass, numbering something like welve thousand men. No words can nvey to you even a faint idea of their m)os:njnppearance. Their arms, brilIhntly burnished, reflecting a milltoa times the dazzling raysofthesun - their rich nnd gnmly uniforms stood out in bold relief ag.iinst the soiled and tnttered gnrments of the "suffsring volu"tee-s" their cavalry - lancers - drawn up in beautiful style, in numbers from two to tliree thousand, nnd in lines, the beauty of which the most accurate military observer could have found no fault wilh; andadded to this, they were for the time, victors. I assure you we did not look upon tliem wiih contempt. But when the quick, sharp ringing ofour rifles sounded the death knell of score after score of them, thre hearty Mississippi cheers told full well that no cowardly fear paralyzed that little band. Rushing on, oursmall force would have scattered the retreating foe in all directions over the deathstrown field, had not our watchful leader. Col. Davis,pcrceived that we were about lo be surrounded by an overpowe.-ing force, and ordered us to retire and rallv. DlSTANCES FROM VeRA CrUZ TO MeXIco. - From Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico, whihert our army undor Geu. Scott is doubtless alrendy marcliing, is a80 or '290 miles. - viz: From Vera Cruz lo Santa Fe 12 miles Of the destruclion of ihe ciiy of Veía C uz by the b n b rd ner,Mr. Kendall writfs ns follnws: "fíardly a building soutb of Ihe Plazn Gronde but is either burttü.tcrn in piece-, O ir,u;h iiij'irei', and the streets are filleJ witli i ubbisl) and fragments. The National Palacc, wliich is on tlie Plaza añil nrar the oulor range of our mortars, had five shells bnrsted wilhin t, one of wliich killed a woman and two children I ving a sleep in the kiichen. The Cnthedral, ot an opos'le sido of tlie Plaza, was alsosomewhat injureJ, but the churchrs soullr "fit. anJnearer our mortars, suffered the mosf. I write this letter in a house wliich must have been hot enough during the bombardmenf, for the signa ofshell are all around ms. The residence of our former consul, Mr. Hargous, was struclc twice. One of the shells came through ihe roof, ludgod at the (bot of a bed hiel a gentleman had jusl left, and omplelcly demolished every thing in the room, and the furniture was of the most costly descrlption. One of ihe nma'es des 'i es t'ieexpl a n a tre.noi dou ;- th house sli')i)kin all fa partsl as w.'tli aa eartlirjujke, and liis first impresión ni thot every [hing in it had been rendeJ lo fragemants. Moni lis, probably years, ill elapse beíbre Vera Cruz s n tho situation wlieretlie siega found it." The l;.tfs' arcounts from Veía Cruz represen! thdt Ger. Fe tt wos n en i g lo start for tbe city of Mexico as ftoou as suffe e it meaáa of traasportation coi.1 1 be provided. Alverado hm surrendered without resisinnco (o ihe detachment sent to t.ike possesion of it. The town of Julape ftjso had cent iu Alcalc'a with a civil escort, proflbring ihesuirtnder ofthnt town, nnd praying Ihat a torce be sent by the Uniled Slatea ío tnke possession of tho town and to protect tho rights ofthe citizons. It is said Ibat Gen. Taylor wu.s p-cparing, w:th the grealer part of his forces, to make a junction with Scoit at :ome point l.e:ween V n Cruz and Mexico. Things in the city of Mexico had again become quiet. Santa Anna had Brrivei, and taken the oalh of office as IV sidoiit. Tl:e Prfest party, as offering in grrafer almndiince the eleinenls of stability to liis sway, are said to be in high favor with Santa Anna. Immediately upon his irmuguration he published an nddress to his countrvtne.T which breathes a spirit of dtterniined hostility to the Americans. Me exhorts them to ceasc iheir intestina commotions, and to unitc heartily for the expulsión from the soil of the common enemy. lie anticípales provided lieis rr.)fery seconden by the people, lo bc still able tomake head successfully by against the nvading forces. 07" We wish our readers to undfrstand our language just as we use t. We are not in the habit of exaggerating matters to make ihem look favorable for our cause : nor are we inclined lo act as a special pleador in orJer to extenúale unfavorable circumstances. We have noüced indicationsof trickery of this sort n some antidnvery papers, and we hear. tily despise it. A friend once inquired of us why we did not give a more 'favorable account of u ceitain antislavery meeting. We replied, that we represented it precisely as it appeared to us, and to represent it in any more favorable colors would be a fraud on the readers,and by doing so weshould justly forfeit their confidence. O, said he, you might adhero with strictness to the true outlines; but couldo't you paint the picture at the same time so as lo make a very favorable mpression ? Perhaps we might have done so: but any kind of "painting " which would convey a different impression from the real facts, would have' been on'y a labored method of telling a lie We do not go in for painting at all : but for a true delinealion of facts. In ref- erence to the antislavery cause, if ouP hopes are not as elevated and brilliant as thoseof some, we arenot at all given to despondency. We are neither in 'the garret nor the cellar : bot by a coniinual surveyof the whole field, we findsuffi. cient encouragement to labor on daüy in the fullness of faith that our work and that of our coadjutors, will not bc in vain. tt? The KalamazooTelegraph is out for Gen. Taylorfor President, and Gov Woodbndge for Vice President. The Telegraph thinks " Cass stock will run low againsi such a ücket as Taylor anj Woodbridgc."