Nine Thousand Lives Saved

it is stated, on good authoritv, ibnt tlie lives pf Nine Thous'and Pe jple were s.ived by the donaiions of provisions in the Mncedonian. Tliis simple ('net is stated in some half dozen Unes, which are hudiiled nvvay among a crowd of temftfin tlie columns ol' the newspaper press. - Nine Thousnnd Livcs Saved! Had tlie same number of lives of Mexicans been truien by gunpowder nnd cannunball, we shou!u' have column nftèr column, leiter iiled upoii lellcr, giving ihe delailsof the bloody transaction, overilowing wiih rejoie.ings, and set ofF with the usual flourisl'.es - ■' Glurious Viclory - American Arms Triumphant - Our Soldicrs Covered wilh Gtory - Nine Thousand Mexicans Saugilered," &.c. Thejo litlle iacls soeak volumes on