American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-10-22
NE VS.!
FURTHER FROM THE ARMY.

ARRIVAL OF THE NEPTUNE-RUMORED At
TACK ON GEN'L TAYLOR-IMPROBABLE
REPORTS-THE MEXICAN LOSS ISCREAs-
ING, &c. &c.
Our city was somewhat startled last evening
by rumor received through the tolegra phi,
that Gen. Taylor's army at Monterey had
been suddenly attacked by the Mexicans, but
that after considerable loss he dispersed them
with great slaughter Of the enemy. Believing
"Old Rough and Ready" in his present posi-
| ton, could "defy the world in arms" we pay
but little attention to the rumor, which is thus
given in the New Orleans Delta of the 18th
instant:
Important Runner We received information
yesterday Of the following import, viz: That
after the armlstiCe between Gems. Taylor and
Ampudia had been signed, and while the Ameri-
can army were reposng after the atIgues Of
the battle, they were suddenly attacked by the
, Mexlcans-that they turned on their treacher-
Gus assailants, and after great loss on their own
part, defeated them. For the truth of this
statement, we do not vouch, although unless
our informant was himself greatly deceived, it
is true.
The steamship Neptune, which it was feared
had been lost in the late gale, arrived safely at
! New Orleans on the 18th inst, with dates from
Galveston to the 10th inst. The N o. BuIIe-
tin says:
/ We have received an extra of the Galveston
News, of the 10th inst, containing intelligence
from the army, received by the schr. Blanche
E. Sayre, from Brazos ST. Jago. Capt. Hill,
the United States Quarter Master at Brazos ST.
Jago, received dispatches from General Tay-
lor on Wednesday last, which Captain Wet
more of the Blanche E. Sayre, heard read, and
communicated from recollection to the editor
Of the News. In the information thus commu-
nicated, we find nothing in relation to the seige
| of Monterey in addition to what has been al
ready published here, except that it IS stated
that the Mexican lost in killed and wounded
twenty-one hundred, and that four hundred
were taken prisoners during the combat. The
American loss is said TO have been, in killed
and wounded 500, in which nearly all the ac.
counts seem to agree. OF this number two
thirds were killed.
! We have already expressed our unbelef in a
report that the Mexcans had lost 1900, and
this last report, considering the great adVan-
tages under which they fought, taxes credulity
to the utmost.
The city was in possession OF our army when
the bearer of dispatches left, the enemy having
evacuated it.
The report that the Mexcans had taken a
train of wagons on the road from Camargo to
Monterey, is contradlcted.
The Neptune brought, among other passen-
gers: Major Fry, and Lieuts. jackson, David
son and Patterson, all of the Kentucky vouI-
teers; also Mrs. Barbour, rehct of Major Bar
bour, who fell at the battle of Monterey.
The Picayune has the same reports as given
above. 1t says:
From the Galveston News Extra ofthe 10th
inst. we learn that the schooner Blanche Z.
Sayre, Capt. Wetmore, arrived there the eve.
ming previous from Brazos Island, having left
there on the It'll inst.--two days after the
Mckm. BY this schooner the Galveston
papers have secondhand accounts of the bat
ties of Monterey, but they are by nc means so
full as those we have published, nor are they
from so good sources of information. The loss
of the MeXlcans is put down at a much higher
| figure than we have before seen. We shall! not
copy the Galveston accounts, persuaded as We
are that they are not authentic as compared
with our own. The conviction is BECOMING
more general in the minds of wel-informed
gentlemen here connected with the Army, tina,