From The War

The Boston Courier snys the letters from the voluMeer regiments in Mexico show that the men have already seen enough of the war and the country and are desirous 1o return Iioiiip. A letter from n inemhcr of company B. ("Massiu-huseits regiment) to a relativa in this city, d.ited at Mtitaiiicios, May 4th, says: "I nm hearllly sick of ths lift; of n soldier. Our situation lcre t) garriaon is much better thari t vcold Ie f we wëre nn tho morch, hut still I do not at all relish it. My visions ofglory, and honor, &:. have all d kappen red, and in plnees of them I see nothing but the stern l'eilities of sak pork and hard biscuit, lumger, tbirs!, fatigue, nnd the disease incident to rnen from the Northern Stntes living in ft tropical cliinate. I have mach to say respecting the treatment we have received. When once free from my present situat on I will let you know how wc have been deceived. I novcr iliought tlinl, in nssuming the gurment of a soldier, I rhould be obliged lo forget thut I was born with t he feelings of a man. Such is the case. I wisli this cursed war would end, that I and overv one here could go to our homes." A volunteer, who hns returlied fiom the Mexican war, says: "I have seen the lephant, trunk, tusks, and all, nnj m more than sntisfieJ. I went out a olk soldier and return aTaylor W'hig." 'iatimore Pat. A correspondent oí ihe New Orleafis }elta, writing l'rom Saltillo, under dale pril 29, mnkes the following incidental lusion to the Virginia volunteefs. He s mistaken about their all being at Camargo : a part is at tliat place, and a part at Monterey, and perhaps a ooríon at China: "The roa Ís are safe below Mor.tefey. General Urrea has led in some disgust, frains go up nnd down wilh escorts of 'rom sixty to seveniy, The Virginia regiment is at Camargo: they have, by nll account?, inore clothing than ony other regiment in these parts. Their coats are curiosities; buttons, lo the numer of seviinty, give to the soldiersa sorl ofcomic appearance - it looks asifthe old chain armor was revived again. - They are a clever set of feüows, though somevvhat disconiented, as all soldiere are at first. Marching with blisteied feet anH heavy knapsicks, eating whit one een get wilh fingers, carrying one's clothes to the wushwoman's, and washing hem himself, and all that, will soon becorae natural and easy. Ah, "the e!eihatil" has a great many more spectators than admirers. " - Richmond Reoublican. TnE HeROES OF MoNTEREY. JuSt one year ago there marclied through our st reets as noble and splendid a body of men as ever went forth to battle. They were about nine hundred strong. The men were in the vigor of youth ful manhood, and as in perfect order and with military precisión theyparaded through our city, the admiranon of our people broke forth in loud applause of the gallant array. This was t!)e first Tennessee regiment, under the heroic veteran Col. Campbell. They left our city fiesh from their own happy homes in the mountains and by the river-sides in healthful Tenneee, full of hope, aml)ibition, and patriotism: they departed in cheerful spirits and withiinpatience for the scène of war. On Friday last the whole of this gallant regiment, whose history we have thus briefly sketched, arri.ed in our city. It numbers just three hundred and fifty, about one-third the force wilh which it left. Anii this loss it has sustained in a twelve months' campaign. Ithas averaged a loss of fifty men a month. - N. O. Picayune. Capt. Blanding, of S. C. gives the following descripiion of the country in and around Jalapa: " We have reached at this place an elevation ofabout 8000 feet above Vera Cruz. The whole face of the country has changed from thatof the lower country. The vegetation, the productions, and even the color ot the people are all. different. The complexion here is far fairer, and what interests us much, the women are far preitier. We find the people very civil and polite. They are the only people who have not run away at our approach. "Jalapa is situated in the bosom of lofty mountains, 60 miles from Vera Cruz and 190 from Mexico. It has a population ofabout 10,000 souls, and isof much wealth. It is built like all Mexican tovvns, of brick and stone, the houses chiefly two stories, flat roofs, with large windows, all grated, but curtained; the floors are pavea wilh tile or marble. - The town presents quite a romantic appearance - it is filled with orange and lime trees, and all kinds of evergreens. Fountains of mountain water are in many parts of the city. Around, rise mountains of singular beauty, and above all other things in sublimity is the majesíic Orizaba, covered one-fourth ils distanca from the top with perpetual snow. The most dull to what is beautiful in nature stand struck with the sight, when the carliest rays of the sun tinge its snowy top with the most delicate pink, not vet hoving dispelled the sombre hue of twillight resting Opon th world below. "The climateisdelicious, th air pure and uvigornting. Thick clothes and blanken arfi nlways comfortable, even in summer, as s now the season here. - livery iropical fruit grows here in perfect luxurance - ihe bananna, the pine npple, tlio phntoin, the orange, the K-mon and lime, the coffee, the cocoa nut, abound in tliis neighborhood. Not moment passes Lul some queerly dressed Wexican male or femnle presentsat tho door of my tent a half bushei basket laden wiih these delicious fruits, for salo, Wu fenst, and at small pnces too. So ripe is the fruit, that no sickness has been cnused from t. I would say, that as a residence, it is infinitely superior to any place I know of in the mountains of South Carolina. Where will you find there a spot nbounding in tropical fruits, a temperalure of from 65 to 70, with ico brought from the mountain side; and egetables in obundanoe? Our officers and men are so delighted, they talk of tnking up their abodes here instead of returninghome. And as for flowers, lhis is the residence of the Goddess herself. - Before me lies a cactus of surpassing beauty, picked wild in the field. For size and color, the flower exceejs the very choicest production of any of our hot houses. I have wished a thousand limes within the last few hours that I could place it in ycur hands - t is too fine for rny rude tent." Five Mexican.i have been tried and found guiliy in Vera Cruz of robbing nnd secreting fire arms and ornmunition. They have been sentenced tofouranda half montli's Work'upon the public streets and thofoughfares. Gen. Twigg'sdivison of regulara left Jalapa on Saturday nnd Sunday for Puebln, a large train acc-ompanying. The iroO)S which mnai;i to garrison thia placeare the ïst artillery, 2d Pennsylva-nia, and fhree companies of the lst Pennsylvania regiment, the balance of the latter being ordered back front Perotc Themiliiary government of the city, un der Col. Childs, is perlinj 3 the most rigid ever enforced. During the diy nnd night sentinels are posteJ nt ihe corner of evei'y street, with ins'.ruction to pefmit no suldier t') pass certain boundsi At night all who are foun] out nf er eight o'clck, are thrust into the guard house. The hospital is now filled to overflowing.nearly 900 souls being encl-'Sed with' in its wallü. Vera Cmz. May 29, 1847. Since 1 lost wrote you up to the present time, ihere has iiot been nevvs enough, ( c mdensed, to fill otie small page. Murj cers on the roadside have become so cañamón thnt we cense to regard them as interesting." Since the surrender of Vera Cruá have heen nnchored at th's place, at Sacrificios, Lobos and Antón L;zardi, vessels varying in number from 50 ío 80 in the government employ - all charter' ed by the day, at pnces varying from $50 to $100 per dny. Some ofthem have been here three months, wiih stores - tlie original cost of which one month's demurrage would pay for. You will see anchored within pistol shot ofeach other, five and six vessels, wnh coal for the army - the quantity cor.tained in the whole six not beingsufficient to fill the hold of any one of them. The demurrage of oneof these vessels is not less than $60 per day. lt would take more time than I con spare at this particular moment to give a faint idea of the waste, and I might add bare-faced plundering ofthtí government property as carried on here.. The case ofthecoal vessels, as given above, is but ihe hislory of all store vessels employed by government. The surf-boats, wliich coU us at least $600 a piece, are scattered along the beach for miles in extent. Sixty-three surf-boats bilged and strewed along the beach in every ai reet ion. We have had several cases of bona fids yellow fever. The rainy season has xegularly set in, and we may espect sickness to increase on us daily. We havo adopted most stringent regulations for cleansing the city, and I am in hopes that we, the sober part of the population, may escape the Yellow Jack. I learn that Com. Perry wos in town the other day, beating up a large number ofsaddlesand musquettobars, for an, expedition into the interior sumewhera. I have no doupt that Tobasco is to b? nttackedin ten or iwelve days. A large forcé has collected there, and the passea in the river are well fortified. After this he starts on an expedition across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec- surveyíng and fighting is the object. The ships of the squadron are blocking up every town and outlet on the coast, from Tampico to Campeachy. Their sevrice is most arduous, canstantly exposed to the weather, the northers, rain, heat, musquitoes andsand flies, they areconstantly breaking down under it, yet they hear up moit manfully, and never complain. From the Vera Cruz Eagle, Mat 29. In our paper of last Saturday (only one week ago,) we announced the fac(
that CdL Sowers was in this city as bearer of despèttehes to Gen. Scolt, and todny we are called upon to inform the public of hls horrfd ó"eath - not with his enemy in front to ópposè him, but cowardly shot by thofe who darèd nöt to show themselves. lt appears that hè left this city on Saturday lást With an escort óf 5 men and Lieut. Mc Donnel of Capl. Wheat's company, expecling to find tha Captain at Santa Fe, or at most a very short distance the other sidë. They arrived at Santa Fe and lodged there di ring the nighi, finding thnt Capl. Wheat had left ; in the morning, anxious to puáh forward, falthough it was ascertained that Capt. W. was soine 30 miles ahead) with an addition of two morö men to the escort, Col. Sowers set out for Jalapa. The next thnt we know of this lit'le party isthearrival of oneof the men, who returned and reporled its surprise and de struction. We conversed yesterday whh a gentleman who arrived in the morning, and he nforms us that at a point about two miles on the other side of Puente Nacional he saw the ruins of the diligence, underneath which was a human body stripped, with the exception of a pair of draw crs, and mutilated in the most beastly manner. This is supposed tn bc the body of Col. Sowers. Near him lay anothflr perfectly nakeJ and likewise dreadfully' mangled. Our informant was assurecl that five olhers lay in some thick chnpparal, a short distance from the road. - Now the number of killed, with the man who escnped, exactly corresponds with that of the party which accompanied the unfortunate Col. Sowers - and leaves no doubt in our mind of its destruction." The Jalaptj Star, of the 9th insl., conlains the following: "As the column of Mcxican priioners ere marching ly on the anemoon of the 18th, we observed moving on wilh the rest, a liltlc hoy and a lamb. Amidst the fire and smok?, and the roar of musketry and artillery, hice had sol latei}' envelopea tlie hill, these wenk and defeneelrs crentures had stood unharmed. As tliey passeJ along our lines, th.y were everywheie greeteri wih a kind look and word. Countenances dark ■with the (lercepassions of the recení confiict, clouded wilh the remembiance of fallen friends, and of revenge but half sated, relxxerf into a smile of minglcd pjessure and pity - pity, tint they should have been xposed, and pltnsuie, that Ha who wha guards the sparrow, had slieltcre(3 titefli from Üu ravages of the i ron si o i' ni. The La Patria, a Sjianisb newspaper printed at New Orleans, publishes :i letter from the city of Mexico, whicli latea that Sants Anna arrived in the city on the 19th of May, when the rabie asspmbled and cursed and stoned him They were near detroying his lifc. No guns were fired, but numerous attempts were made to reach him with daggers The mob was very vocifcreus tn denunciación of the braggard. Oné cried out - "Where is your wooden leg?" Another answered, "that he had left Cerro Go--do in such a hurry that he Ibrgotit," &c. &c. ■ With great dimculty.and by the timely interference of a sirong pólice, Santa Anna Was enabledto rcach the palace.where .he took refugei