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From The War

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
June
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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New Orleans, May 19, 1847. Major Gen. Patlerson has just nrrived from tiwtheatre of liis late éeUvê ópera ■ tioii". lle returns lo miister out of service his volunteprs, who are coining here. His división is broken up, only ihre regimmti out of nine leinnining in the fiftld and ha is left without a command Ho lofl Jalapa on theöth, and lias letters from Gfn. Sontt lo the lOtli. Gen. Quitmin ma relied on the 7th lo juin Gen. Wnrth at Perote. Tlio anny will prohablv prncped as fir a Puebla - nol furthcr. Gen. Scott's dispnsable ibrce dops notcccppd sis thousansJ. All the report nfdrputation from the Capital are without f onndalion. No signs of pence - no signs ofááPfchinglikesurrpndoi". Thpre :ue lint 'wo attePBativéü left tp us- to fall back mul luM nntothe seacoast nnd fronter line, or t' conqner the whole coupIrv, provincfi hy province, exlend our jurisdicti'in, and collpct tn.es nnd contrtbutlon. All tl-.is la imposaiblei.fi Ity thons-md men wotild nt èn bc requirpj. To fnll back IWW wart! bp Hisgrncful o, nn3 ruin Ihn Administra! 'lm, and thev wül nol do it. Weak tniiuls pprceive an error, and pride of oninion is 'oi sirong with snch men The Government are in a dreiful predicnment nnlesi thev can bu a Mcê. Thero is a gnn'-ral burst of indis;nntion nt the promntion of Genpra's PilloW rmd Qnitmnn - gpneml nseust in ilm wTioiftnrmy at the proceedings at Washington." New Orlpan papers of iIir 16th uit. contnin lato ndvices fron Vera Cruz and Brnzos. A band of 40 guerillas Ind bpcn raplurrd nar Brazo, and another of 16 had heen laken near Vera Cruz. Gen. Worih entered Puebla on the 13lh, without oppoaition. Santa Anna's forcé, reponed loritnoun1 to 10,000 men, wns in the nnighborhood but insteid of lnyingdown his 1 : f ■ ■ , r evpn eiidnng'-ring a hair of his head, in dpfence oi'the city, prec'pitntplv 'elrpaci tnwards the cnpitnl. Gen. Vnlcucin w:is ropoited to bo hetw-en Puehh and tho capítol vv il li 10,000 men determined to give Wort !i bntlle. Capt. Meyo caplurid C-lasforma on the 13ih M'iv, nnd hile rcu'ning from the lown as fired uoon hy a lurge hndy of leicTtis in nmbash. Midfhiiman Piingle and fii'teon men were wpundeil. PI e Permsylvania volunfeers were jrarrisoning Jalipa. A train w'nh sipplies Pr the army has been cnptured hy tlip enemy. Herrera wns elpcted President on the 15t' May rit a Convoca! fon of Congrpss for thp purpose. Santa Anm was a ca". rlidte,but it is not staled how many votes he re.eivnd. Nei Vera Ci'un, a Mexícnn train of 120 laden mules liad been capiured. - The capture of nn American train i a mistake. Tlie senport tnivn Nantl;i lias leen taken by the Spitfire. Four volun'eeis, one n Fein ylvanir.n named Kvnrlan,have lieen drummed out of cnmp f ir st-aling. Forty of Canalse's men haxe been cnpturi-d near China. Gen. Wonh had a skirmïsh wiili a party of Mexicans near Puebla, in whii-h seven Mexicans were killed and a large iinnibpr wounded. Tho Picayunn correspondent writfS iVíiin Vera Cíi'z, Mav 8. "In the "b'agle" [news paper] which I STid, you will find a list of fifiy-flve sold eis wlio will remain in Mexico ifter the war is over. They hn e taken np their homes nmng-t thf smd hil's, imda lou !er i'lest than that which called tliem io hf field will be reqnired to cali tl.ein iiencf. Tho numher of the nrmy whn will thus remain n Eautprn Mexic alrendy far exceeds that of the California of tho same class. Thrse deaths all occurred within a period of ihrpe weeks, and, as I oan jnge by the "dead-enrts1' wliich 1 pas-; d.iily in the stress, ib.p montli of May will teil a worse stun than April has tuld." It is siated ín tlie New Orleins Mer cury of the 21sl, that the ollicer mu! prívales of tha Mnssaohuspiti Régimen had some difficnlties receiitly, grwiii{l out of the inlemperate ha!)its nf thfifatter. One of Capt. Sincliir's clerks had bepn stabbnd by a Mass. volunleer for refusinp n glass of rum. Tlie anny corresptrlent oftlin Ne" Orleans Pella writitig frotn Buena Vita, iinder date of April '29th, has the fii). lowing: By the way, the honorable Thomn? Corivin was luimt n fffigv hy "n laig and re-jppcta'jlc ciinvocation" ofthe boy a í-.v niglits since, with very Rtrong ai)' uiipquivocal symtotna of disapprobatinn A great rna"y prayers, intendeil for Ih honorable Senalor's benefit, were put u on the occasion. We are sorry to bf compelled to re.nark that their peculiar oharncter is hit off in a popular little tract entitled 'The SwearerV Prayer.' Two thousand ble-bodied men, t if -aid, csn ohtain empluymeut ns comm"i laboréis along the line of the Erie railway between Otisville and üinghampton - wages ninety cents per day.

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Signal of Liberty
Old News