From The War

From statements in ilie papers, it nppears ihat Santa Anna's nttai-k upon Gen. Tnylor at Buena Vis'a had been long premedilated, and was connected witli Brr.ingenr.eiVs by wliicb t!io whole of the Rio Grande country was to make a s:multaneous rising on the Americana. Am! bk plans seem to liave boen well concocled, and skillfully put in practica. Notliing hut the Lravei-y of Tnylor's small nrmv saved the whole of tliat couniry from fallng into the hands ol the Mexicana. A Titer from tliat portion of the couniry s.iys : "Santa Anna's unparalleled march agninst San Antonio, Texa?, n 1836, did not exceed the rnpidity with whicli lie moved the main body of his arm)' frotn San Luis to Agua Nueva. So certain was he of viclory that he only look twclve day's provis;ons with hiin, saying tn bis men, ''the immense graneries of tlio enemy are before yon ; yon have only to go and take thrm." On thpy movef, full of Ufe, full of hope ; rertain and su re bevond a doubt thatthey ebould carry cvery tliing bofure them ; and Santi Anna liimsclf looked forward to the day wlirn le weuld enjoy a reputation nnt inferior to that of Napoleon himsHf. Well tnay they have raised the sh"iit vvhen they found the Americana had abandone.! their c-imp at Agua Nueva. Well may Santa Anua j have said to hú men (in orr.',) "the Northern barbnrians, the de.poilers of your soil, the desocrators of your churches I are fleHng befo re yon ; onwarrl ! omvnrd and nvenge your slnughtered countrympn." On they rolled like nn avalancha, carrying everything hefore them ; but wlnt was their s'irprie on arriving at the plain of Buena Vista to heholi thal litlle "áparj tan band" standing cool, fum, nnd steady, wiih that oíd vot ran asfirm ns : he Sierra Madre itsplf nt thoir heid ! And what furthermore nrust hnve bren Santa Anna's as'onwhment wlien he recelved a reply to his d'Tnancl for un "unconditional surrender," 10 tho effect that "if he bad fifty piecos of artiüery and ahundred thnassnd inen to back him, a surrender was impos s ble ; thnt if he wanted the American. army he must como and take ihem !" - Wint must have been bis chftgrin r.ni mortificati"!) When, a 'ter two day's hard fighiing, band to hanH, he fonnd h'S anny cut to pieces and hisenemy standing firmcv tbnn ever, ready to rcneiv iIip eo'nflic' on the in -irrow 1 1 If, the grent Najio'eon of ihe West, who ba-i just retnmed frnm exüe, vvbo had promised every t'i ; g to Mexico nnd her people, found himself and bis sehemes thwnrteil ot the outsr-t. Ris fn'l as so great nnd his delfiat so signql ('all ihings considered) thnl I c;-m vr] account fur bis trenting !rj ir Bliss in the cavalier rmnnf-r th-it h? did, w'irn on the morning of the 24ih, thit officor npplied to him for an exebange of prisoners. IJ s all was gone. Every tliing. so far as be was concernod, was lol, nnd thnt too by a handful of undisoipliieJ volunteers." Some miacreints who disg'-ace the nnme of AtnTicans, took 20 M ai cana prisonar, at a small rancho near Monleroy on the night of the 28ih of March, tie 1 them and shot thetn thrnugh tl e hea Is. - Tliey bad cnmmitted no oflenoe, hut wpip slauglitered indiscriminïitoly,befausesomp time since, certain teams londed with provisions, were taken by Mexicms, betwren Mata moras and Monicrey, and the drivew shot. Suspicion rests on some U. Stites dragcons and Te.xan rangerí who are under command of Capt. Graham. Gen. Tay'or is determined to liang everv rnan pngnged inthis base transaction. - Ex. paper. The Vera Cruz Efigie of May 5th sivs: "We pnid a vi.-it to the castle of San Jam d'Ulloa on Sunday last, and regretled to find so much sicknes existing there. nntwithslnnding ihe grpat care used by ts ahle and gentlemanly commander, Major Bicchus. We are inf rmed that more than a fourlh of those placed there to keep it in order, nre Inboring undcr some prostr.iting disease." A oorrpspondent of N. O. Delta writes from Vera Cruz, May 8, - Yestenl:iy morning Gen. Quitimn lefi Jalapa witli all the volunteers, excepling Ihe2nd Pannsylvanian, for Puebla, Gen. Scott will lenve on Tuesd.iy for the same place, and after bis arrival, f not otherwise ordered, he will march into Mp.xico. Th ÍS "marching inlo Mexico" you m.ny think strnnge language, butone of our own men carne from that place the 2nd int., and he says "we won't do anything ol-p." There are about 2000 troops in Mexico, and but ona combany of lancers in Puebla; and they are only remaining to keep the barracks clean for our soldiers. Gpn. Anaya is now the acting President of Mexico. Santa Anna says publicly that he intends to oppose the advance of t'-oops upon Puebln, but it is well known that his object is to ]rey upon our re;ir. I Ie is a ware that a train will Wve here to-day, tnking neaily a million dollars to Jalapn, and he is determined to mnke an eñbrt to capture it. For this purpose, he has men stalioned upan every Ijeight overlooking the rond to give notice ofitsappronch - Rut lie wül hae warm work f lie gets tliis triin. (en. Patirrson wlil bo in liere in the conree ef two hours, on his way home, and ill the 12 months' vulunteers will I e in duripg t lio ne.xt four dnys. An lllinoisian w;is s'iot from the roadside yter !ay, aud bis leg broken." f'roin a MexíOBB piper. r.iiiií'nl lotclllyence from Illónterey and Villajes oí' (he Froutier. Tho greater part of the above nnmed city has lieen burnfd, narnely, from the entrauce near ihe country house of Gen. Aiisla in ihe Plaza del Meon, andón the north side ns far as tlie Bridges; iot more tlian a fourth part of the houses have Leen left in any direciiiin. Tl.cy liBve deslroyed thn tower ofllie cnilipdr'al, have tlirown down the bplls, uil of which have boen melted. At Francisco, tliey hnve taken a!l ihestud of horses, nr.d have co:i))letely destroycj the convent. They have hume 1 all the wlhges, from Marin to the vicinilv of of Mier, leaving nothing hut ruins. - Tlir-y have the s-mie fruin E.stancin, to Cerrulvp; not a .single rancho bit hns boon destroyed. They liave burnod, in the same way, all the ranchos from Reynosa lo Maiamoras, and the commandant of :hat city has said tha! on the approacli of Urrea, he would sot fire to every house. All these injurie-! and birbaritips have been perpetrated bv way ofvengennce f(rthe grent damnge dinelh5in by Urrea with his continual trininphs, lie having relieved thein of property lo the value of two millions, cons:stit g of wagons mules and efTects, which he lia-; distrihuted among his Iroops. Tnylor hns published ■ pmclamalion, decl:iring Urrea, Cannles, and tlie troops which foüow tlipm, lo be brignnds, and ihat he will not give qnartpr to to one of them. This i-; a piece of eruelly which wil! cosí ile American army dear, as tiie foreps of Uerra are inereiMng from daV to day. The families of the towns anl villages which have been burned, go wandering nbout the ficl.ls, and are coniinually emigrming fi-oni a'l paris. It is painf.,1 to hear llie acenuuts of what happens lo these unfirlunate peo:le, who have sulf.i:-pd andaressiifr-ring the extremesf evils, having no other agylum bul the rooontnin, in whic'i to escape the lury of the Qbridled soldien. The Nrw Ynrk Tribune Inn-ihlea fro n La Patria of N. O.'enns, a leltor date i Vera Cruz, M;i_v 5t!i, a gortion ofwhicli nu copy. "As the general aMenlion is so much fixe'i on ïh-i movt3iii3 its ofGm. S.inta Anna, I will say, lint (v re -e:i! a Mes il isknown that lie is stil] at Üi'izx'n re(niiting iroops to pirsue t!o war whh vg r. The number enlir-'oi by Santa iitvi, at the Inst dales, ivas 4000, only hü'f ol' whom we re provided with arns. All are gaid to be anímate 1 by the greatest patriot'sm, and they have sworn 1 i S.-intn Anna to sjiill ihe fasl dronsof llieir IiIodü for the cause of Mexico, b foro they wül retreat from the Mwmj. Tho snme thing hnpppned nt the city oi'Cordovn, whichj lins Oriza! a. Santa Anna bas di.siribuleJ a hun Ire.i commissions to guerillri lenders, who were to coinrnand part es ofüO to 100 men. M;iny oftheso part'es are now making their excursions on the ro;id from Vera Cruz to Jalapa, ben they have beg-in to initiate ihe American soldiers in the disasters peculiar tothat kind ofwarfare. llardlv aciay but four .to cight men perish by the hands uf tho guer'ller.is. Against them (en. Scott is said lo Inv e laken serions measures. We rnpy t'e following from the Maamoros Flair. .Mav 8th: 'General Cushing met with nn accident of a very ferious nalure on Tliursday evening, wliich we are truly sorry lo hear, i? likelv t prevent his moVing about for some time. Accompained by a Indy, he was taking a walk through tho streeto afier niglit-fall, and ín going out of the Plaza at ihe south-eist corner, where the slreet is forlified so nsto leave only a foot-path not exceeding two feet wide fof egress, he placed his foot upon a loóse brick which g.ive way and precipitated him into the ditch, breaking the bone of his left leg, just above the ankle. He was taken to his qmrters immediatdy and D. McPhail called to nssisiance, from whose surgical skill expectations are created lhat the broken bone may speedily be healed. At present h is sullering much pain, and the accident dislresses him much, as it prevents his fulfilling the dulies of his recent appointment." A correspondent of the New Orleans Times, writingfrom Tampico, May, 6, says : "Ifsome of the persons connected with the army do not return to the United Staies ncher than when they left it, then it is not because they are not well paid. For instnnce: the commindant of this place receives, in addition to his regular pay asa colonel, S200 per month ; the chief of pólice, who is a major in the regular service, $100, and some dozen
of oilier minor officers in like proportion." Tho Mexican General Canales lias! ssiied on order, dated April 4th, ofwlm-h the fi.llowingis an extract : "I '■earn, with the greatest indignrU'.on, that the Americins havo committed a most horrib'e masacre at the ranchero of the Guadalupe. They made prisoners, in their own liouses, and by the sidenf; their families, of twenly-five peaceable men, and rnmed!ately shot them. To repel this cl?M of wnrfare, which is not I war, but ntrocity in all itsfury, tliere is no olher course left us than rotaliation; and, in order to pursue this metho-', rendered imperative by ihe faial circumslnnces above mentioned, you will mmediatedeclare martin] lavv, witti the understanling that, eighr diysafter the pnblication of the same, every individual who has not taken up arms (being cnpable ofso rioing) shall be considered a iraitor, ani inslantly shot. " Mar;inl Iaw being in f ure, you are: bouni to gnve no qmrters to nny Amer'cin you may meet, or who mny present himselfto you, even though he be wiihout arm. You ure nlso dire te.l to publish to nll t!ie towns in thi-: State, forcibly impressing them with tlie severe isliment that shall bn iudicted for the least omission of tliisordor." New York, M.-vy 31 - 3 r. M. New Orleans dates to the 23 1 receiveil, c)n;ai'i Iit3' aivicua b t'i from the; Brazos and Vera Cru7. The must imporiant item from the Brazos is a repor; that Col. Doniplinn had an encnunter wi:h a lirge firce of MnxVais from Durangoht Pass Toro Gerno, between ; Saltillo and Chihuahua, and hnd suíFore i ■ r. defoat. A g'-eat nuniber of the Americans killed and all his anillery takfn. - Arother report is that he Ind f un 1 hunself compelled to re'U'n tiChihav hua. Gen. Tnylor was üb-mt moving toward vSin Lu;s Pomsi. Gpii. Cariwallailr hnd receive.l orders to procued lo Veía Cruz. Cap'ains WeVstr and Crosrningsfei 'd dfihe Rfassachtisotla voluntpers, lndarrived at Npw Orlean'-. Si also had Father McE'roy. The ndvicss from YciaCruz are to tl.e 14ih inst., but thev iucluda nath'mg later Oom General Sctt. The !eicans bod taken Herpdin, who fouglit at Sacramento, to D'jrango as a prisoner charg-d ilh treapon and withbeln too fond o.' Anicrican g'!'1