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fM ... ... -i pp'Ve m-mA)it''-' " H"01 .o L ih THE, SPECTATOR. t mn. F. BUSSON, nUXTHU TWM al lay tfMtki Cltf, fet. M, 1MT. IJtoCasjreaaja wpyof wwch m tnaagaafsa riant er,wm WWMial"ul Cas. Geasa has ta seek lanrardedtrythe tastf n-Haatiaa; Kbprobabte.tharefcre, lasrtoaWaaegtaa at a period of the atwMiasarelc at las a reading, aad it is WapW(Ok! ttttktpt!) essssihiag wore. Assteraaaaes, from Caasapoeg Coaaty, arrived tea lata to to added, which eaaaea regret that ita ear ly daaartan was at awperativelj demanded, in order to aware the tea annuity. Taw aBATieev-rrom a statement headed to a ay Mr. abator, it appears the aunbere that have passed byte Meaat Heed road gale up to the pree-atiaw,ara Mates...... .. IHO rameleo 806 Wagae.. ' 20 easUaaad mates. 4976 ..... .. 500 AM the fiaiMm hiTir r-rV- '- '" valley, the last f wheat enerieaoad' great Idafknlties, aad needed ; Baaay too are suffering severely from As aaar aacan be aecertaiaed there are a- boat MB wigeas hack, at or sear the Dalles, whose skaatieaet thia period Jf theseaaoa moot be truly die traaaafttotiTer being their only resource to reach the nrttlraimfr A sabscrirAion has been opened one h eraly reloaded to, to meet their present exigencies, Hi i laiinini ni which in prorisjoa, left here yestraday in abates, ander the charge Mr. W. S. Torrmace, withlastnrtlnaa aa to the disposal of the same. It need scarce to told that much wore remaiae to to daae,aadwedo net tear that the uomaaaJty will el tow liniii iiiiiiiaiiiiliiaMln rrln, on the contrary, but tkateTery fpentl. ebaaca and cfportaaity will to laatoextaadreBefiathaetoourearJenngieletw taaittokfaaaffiea. New PostRoute mom tmk Atlantic to the Pacific. -The ww Ministry in Chi U'fMtMi .re MbawJettftt. their, palitkis thtitBirirtJesors. Thiy have retail. edsMaV of the perseae exjled for alleged foliOoai oaMiM km year. .The have al io Oftmvi the trade-(for several years Uok prohibited) with the provinoeaof the Argen tine Reoublic. and re-established a poat for the conveyance of Maila across the Cordille ra or the Andes to Buenos Ayres. iaam; advantage of this pott, eerrasaoodeaoe might be conveyed to Buenos 'Ayres in about fif By the St Louis Republican, it appear that the jgaale law tor the gorerament of the Territory of New Mexico, together with a eode of laws establish dry Gen. Kearney to carry out iu rjrorlsioas, has bsta printed and comprises a work of lis pages. A diknt? to Comtssj was to be elected on the first Monday of August, 1847 can we say, our turn next? r will it to nearer the fact to exclaim, tur turn last : 17Wetotsr and Calhoun, sayi the Philadelphia Eaajajrar, an said to to now engaged upon great work, whisk an to to the crowning efforts of their live.' Mr. CsJhoaavpoa a Treatise on the Principles of Gov- , aad Mr. Webster upon a History and Ex i of the Constitution. 0rA newspaper has been established at Maoteny. called the -"Mountain Warrior." In every town where the American arms have penetrated, a printing press has been put in operation, i Teottble among the Ranchos. When it was thought a Mexican army was ap- S reaching Matamoras, and a little gunpow er would have to be burned in its defence, a great many 'timid men, with a whole army of women, retreated to the ranches, twenty or thirty miles-south of this. The men, poor fellows, were afraid to risk their lives and property so near the "voluntaries," when their blood was up, and the women, dear creatures, thought that bolts and bars, papas and mammas, could not shield their lovely persona from insult. Precisely what they apprehended by remaining hero has befallen them at the ranohos. Bands of marauding nfaTissnr whs live by plunder, have com bined and made the ranchos the theatre of their operations. From an undoubted source, ws learn that robbery, murder, and violence to fenales have been every day ocourren aa ftbr th last week. Oneman was way laid and ahot a couple of hundred yards from a raaoho. Ibr the small sum of five dollars. It is to be regretted that the excessive cau. tioa of these deluded creatures should bring down upon tlisn. the evils they so much dtaH.JasawW Flag' teen days daring the summer months. with a steamer from nuenos Ayres to i land, the whole distance could be conveyed in 40 to 46 daysj which would beat the Pan ama route by some nineteen days. Mexicans Suefbisbd. Lieut. Crittenden mentioned at New Orleans that, while on the road from Monterey, the train which ho was conducting had been attacked. Owing to the terror of tho teamsters, the enemy sue ceeded in cutting offabout fifty wagons all of them, however, empty, except one or two, which contained nearly all the amunition of tho detachment, leaving then but about four rounds in their cartouch'.boxes. That night, however, the voluntoers were consol- ed for their misfortune by hearing from a Mexican who came into camp, that Urrea's capture had proved a most fatal and destruc tive acquisition for the Mexicans not know, ing the nature of the goods captured-by them, were quietly resting after their labors upon tho boxes of amunition, and smoking their cigaritos, when, suddenly a spark com municated to the powder, and a tremendous exDlosion ensued, bio wine some eicht or ten of them into eternity, and terrifying the rust so that they scattered all over the country, and ned like scared sheep. They believed that this was a Yankee trick a sort of in fernal machine sent among them to blow them up, and loud and deep were tho curses they bestowed upon the execrable Yankees tor their diabolical cunning. of. Jos. uaz. 0rThe sharp little conflict known as the battle of Agua Frio, we lay before our read era. Part of the 2d Ohio, hastening to the re lief of Gen. Taylor, from Ccralvo, in all 212 men, under Col. Morgan, fought with over a thousand Lancers, under Gen. Urrea, near Agua Frio, for fivo hours, until artillery came to their aid from Monterey. Limit. Stewart, of Company C. of that regiment, merits the highest praise for his daring bra very, in riding through the Mexican lines, to ask reinforcements. The American force, drawn up in a hollow square, repulsed charge alter charge of tho horse, sustaining a heavy fire from tho chapparal. Capt. Latham, with his riflemen, was about cliarg. ing into the chaparal, for a hand-to-hand fight, but was recalled, as it appeared evi dently the design of tho enemy to both break the square and induce the men to charge in to the sides of tho road, whero singly, they would not be able to meet horsemen. There was every reason to believe that men wero in ambuscade, ready to rako, at a single vol ley, any small body of men opposed to them. And so it afterwards appeared ; for on tho first fire From the cannon into ono or these suspected places, nearly SO of tho enemy wero killed. After fifteen minutes' fight with tho cannon, tho Lancers fled in every direction, leaving more than a hundred on tho field. We lost but four hilled and a few wdunded. The encmv kept up a fire from escopclasfbut generally overshot us. Capt. Graham, tj. Master, was shot through the heart, in the beginning of tho action, and died instantly. Col Morgan was himself cool, bravo and determined, with tho heart of youth and head of age as a young man but old Texan win always icel in battlo. Gen. Wobth's Visit to the Bishop op Puebla. Tho Mexican papers and their correspondent have much to say about tho official visit made by Gen. Worth to the very Reverend Bishop of Puebla at his resi dence. Gen. Worth went attended by a nu merous staff and was received by the Bish op in much state, ho is quoted as saying to tho Bishop "The fortune of war has mado me thrico happy, for besides giving us victo ry. I have had the pleasure of visitinor this ancient and beautiful city, and now that of becoming ono ot the lambs ol the flock which Rt. Rcvd. Sir you so worthily teach and di rect ;" a largo concourse of people who wit nessed the interview wore delighted withDte respect paM t:tkir Btorwo, aXl M ted that Gen. Worth was so good iiHafJtsW The Bishop Is rouMly abused ia tbM olty of Ms. ieo papers for iot closing' the churches aad leaving the city with Ida priests, adding (what is certainly not very natterjug to the army) that the U. S. army have more dread of the Priests than the Mexican troops. Col. May. -The New Orleans Bulletin, tells tliojbllowing characteristic anocdoto of Lt.Col. Mav. of the Draaoons. in conncc- lion with the reenHiattrelr Buena Vista : At tho timo Lieut. Chittenden was sent by Gen. Taylor during th late battle, with a flag to a detached body of 1000 or lftOO Mexicans that wore being cut to pieces by our fire, Col. May was on the cvo of charg ing them with his dragoons, but as Liout.C. was passing with his white flag displayed, May redo out and crossed his path to enquire the object of his mission. "I am going to tell those fellows to surrender in order to save their lives." '"Wait till I havo charg ed them." "Impossible, the old man has sent me and I miiftt go on." "But my good fel low," said May, cntrcatingly, "for God's sake just rein up for fivo minutes, and give us a chance at them." "Would do any thing to oblige you, Colonel, but I havo the old man's writers, and there is no help for it ;" and he gr vc rein to his horse, whilst the Colonel returned to tho head of his squadron in the womt of all possible humors against these things culled flags of truce. The wo For all enlistments 'during the war,' how ever, a bounty of $ 13 is given, besides the land or serin above referred to. There are some other instructions given to the recruit ing officers, but none of importance. Valuable Caeoo. The ahip Charles, which sails thia week for New Bedford, takes tho most valuablo cargo from this place, a. mounting to between $850,000 and $400, 000, over laden here. It consists of whale bone and hides. Besides those, aho has a largo amount of exchange on board and a very bulky mall. Polyntrian. Frtm Ikt RtniUt. Ctevcml Taiylr TIm PreaidretMJf. Horeafter there will bo few fears enter tained of Gen. Taylor's succcsr, no matter in how trying or dangerous a position he may bo placed. Whon frar and doubt wero agitating tho whole country, previous to tho glorious battlo of Buena Vista, Old Zach. was coolly drawing his enemy to the point which ho had marked out for encounter. Here,' with terribloodds against him in front and tho report of an enemy in his rear, ho shed lasting honor upon our afrcs by whip ping, with citizen volunteers, a welt appoint - ed army of four times their numerical strength. Wo do not wonder that tho whole country rings with the praises of our old he ro, "Rough and Ready ;" it would bo strange, indeed, if even among the opponents of war a feeling of exhultation did not extract a shout over tho bravery and progress of their darinc countrymen. It is at the same time rim.mniiw wi im.lnr.fnnil. inn.t.. vrnl With agret We llOUUO lllOt 1110 llOllllcai liar- splendid charges during tho action, though ' P"ci w' urc wy watching at homo for the whole number present was only four omelittlo emolument from office, can scarce troo.,s ly wait until a grateful country places its aurcl upon old Zuvh'x. brow before they be- United States. Mr. Dallas Vico Pros- gin to finger tho leaves which constitute the ident of tho U. S. has published a letter in chuplct, and endeavor to appropriate then) which he declares that the government of to their own selfish and unholy purposes. the l'. S. should not make a peaco witli j They will not glorify his achicvinents with. Mexico, without securing tiio right of way lout calculating how much political thunder f i i tn i . . . -. ior a snip canai across lenuanicpic in me southern part ol Mexico ; which he aays is entirely practicable for such an undertaking, and that a canal can bo made for 9 10,000, 000. U. S. papers of May 1st asse'rt that tho last propositions for peace with Mexico will demand a line south of Saltillo, Monteroy &c. but leave to Mexico all Senora and lower California. A Cai'Ital Toast. At a lato festival of the citizens of St. Louis, given on tho lOtli February, for thu purpose of celebrating tho lauding of Laclede and the founding of that city, we find tho following among tho regu lar toasts drunk on tho occasion : it will create. The dangers woundn death of tho soldier, aro glorious in their eyes only as far as thoy are availablo as po litical capital at home. Heaven has protec ted the brave old soldier thus far from his foreign enemies, and we trust that it will further shield him from the evil mcchina lions of political raneherot at homo. We aro invidious in our remarks ; they apply to both parties the spirit of Hellish ncss pervades all human nature ; but, for our own part, wo do hope sincerely that "Old Zach." may rebuke the hackneyed mis chief mongers now at work, as he only can. Wero he at this time nobly turning away from considerations of self and party aggran dizement, to declare his resolution not to run for the Presidency, he would earn a bright er fame than he has achieved through" his victories. He would be showing an exam- Ottr'Army The Volunteers and Regulars: With Slu'cM for defence; a Bullrr for cIlttt-fcliAti tl aPiM Cr s-rfwisw.fi s nnl a TllTraae shall for 'parade, may thev not lack Woo) P' of f,:de",t,J wor,l,y of, f ,ru, "'l'11 fA- mfArt Tf7wA L i.-'.i . - n...iA $u 1 ho Presidency should not ho a prr. for victory; never crying Quit.man to lho set up to tempt nmb.t.on into the further war, foe, but laying their ftr&t on tho enen's10"!1 "0,l ,sJ,,8t ll,0,,""! ,f fl",ftU backs. navDromntlv their ScoU. or chaw hXo " " tins moral upou the nnnds of the .'.. . " zo tho Taylor only knows how. HonrtiD. A servant girl in tho family of Gen. H. B. Diiyca, of Brooklyn, N. Y., sent all hor earnings, 830 to her friends in Ireland; una the next -ek received infor mation that her futhrr and mother, brothers and sisters, eight in number, had died of starvation. Tho poor girl, as may bo ex pected, is frantic. Another girl, in tho fam ily of N. B. Morse, received information that two of her sisters had died of starva tion. Bounty Lands fob Sbbvices in Mexi-co.-The Adjutant General has advertised officially that all non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, now in hcrvico, or who' may bo enlisted during tho war with Mexico, and obtain an honorablo dischargo, either by expiration of (lie term of enlist ment, or for disability incurred in the ser vice, shall receive 100 acres ol land, to bo located in one body upon any of the public lands, or shall rocdive bounty script to tho a- ring six percent, inter nually, and redeemable o government. Anotli the Adjutant Genoral's extra pay will bo given under the act of July 5th, 1838, only to those who ro-enlist for four years into tho company or regiment in which they formerly served. pcoj, mount of 100, 1 est, payable semi- at the pleasure of i er instruction fronr office is, that thrco i The wav Gen. Tavlob insfibes his Sol dirks with Confidence. During tho late battlo at Buena Vista, tho 2d Kentucky regiment of infantry became closely cngag- . ed with the enemy's "lancers." From tho overwhelming numbers of tho lancers, the Colonel considering his regiment lostj and about to bo cut to nieces, despatched his Ad jutant to General Taylor, to say to him that "his regiment was completely surrounded ; and that he "was fighting hand to hand;" that in all probability hn would bo totally annihilated," and to "ask Gen. Taylor what ho should do?" General Taylor promptly replied to the Adjutant, (whoso countcnanco was tho per fect picture of despair,) in the coolest man ner imaginable, saying, "Go and tell your Colonel that ho has just got them whore he wants them, and now is the timotogivo tliem Jcsscei" whereupon tho Adjutant wheeled his horse, clapped spurs to him, dashed up to tho littlo band, and shouted at the top of his voice, "Boys, Gen. Taylor says we've got them just whero wo want them, and now is our timo to givo 'em h 11." Tho intrepid Kcntuokianu caught the impulso liko elec tricity, raised u cheer, and with their naked bayonets, in less timo than I havo been rela ting it, routed them completely, and drove thorn from the field. , About half-past 3 o'clock, on tho 23d, m rT 1 yry", . ,,,,:-- & paa "
