Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-10-31

NEW ORLEANS TRoPIc OCTOBER 81.
We greatly indebted to Lieut. SAcKET of the Dragons
aud Lieut. CURD, of the artillery, for the following facts
They left Monterey the 4h, and reached Matamoros
the sth Lieut. Cum is bearer of dispatches from the
my 10 Washington
On the moraing of the 9th General TAYLOR with McCu
oughs company Of the Texas Rangers had advanced very
the town. when several twelve Founders opened
upon them from the Mexican CITADEL which caused General
Taylor 10 return far the Walnut Springs the American
camp, about two and half miles from the CITY, The
the day and the next occupied with recommending by the
engineers in ascertanng the nature the Notifications of the
city preparatory to the siege. About the 20h Gen
Worth was ordered with his division Of about thousand
men 10 take the city rear and the heights
handing IT, the particulars of which have been published.
On the morning Of the 2lst about the time Gen. Worth
was calamity carrying all before him the other side of the
town. Cen Taylor advanced with his forces the opposite
sd to divert the attention OF the enemy from Worth oPcr
atoms IN the His engineers all actively employed
III making the reconnaissance, with ORDERS if opening Of
fered call for troops make the He called up
the brigade commanded by Colonel Garland composed
the third aid fourth regiments United States infantry
lead the attack Attached the fourth regiment the
pany of volunteers commanded by Captain Cheeve who be-
haved bavey They passed through fire of forts
and encountered in the of Monterey destructive and
CALLING fire from barcades in 'front.' Immediately the first
ny and the Baltimore battalion ordered ino the city
to support the third and fourth regiments when the whole of
the command ordered TO the left avoid the fire
OF the enemy. They found themselves exposed to fire
equally severe from another bancade At the time the
Mexicans firing from every house top pouring down
muskey And this is the point where many of the Amer
lean officers killed. From this point the command
moved TO where they could fire the gorge the
forts they had passed At that the fort attacked
IN front by the Mississippi and Tennessee volunteers. And
here may be mentioned that company of regulars scaled
the walls Of house the gorge of the fort and poured
CALLING hre OF muskety upon the Mexcans Within causing
them to evacuate the place speedily This attack of the
uners and the tire OF the regulars caused the evacuation al
luded to- While the approach the attack of the fort
the tennessee regiment were taken in flank by shot, by
which many of them killed and wounded The Ohio
regiment also took active the operations of the day.
Ioo much praise cannot be awarded both volunteers and
regulars Tor their gaany, this day. The batteries of
Captains Bragg and Rdgey necessarily engaged at this
point as the terrible destruction Of horses amply testify and
was in the thkest of the fire during the whole
lime Where the " shots fell fastest and thckest there was
the undauned hero Of Palo Alta and Resaca de la Palma
80 much for the first day. during which time and the pece
ding night the fort taken Of successfully
famed BY Colonel Garands command and Captain Rdgeys
battery.
On the 22d there little fighting on the east side of the
town. that being confined Gen. Worths movements on
Inc west, but during the day Col Garands command was
renewed by Cen Qutmans brigade, consisting of the Mssis
appi and Tennessee volunteers
On the morning of the 23d Gen. Quman seeing that the
Mexcans had evacuated second in his rear promptly
look possession OF IT. when the opened their fires upon
him. He Immediately repeled the assault and renewed the
attack upon the city Gen. Taylor reinforced
Qutman with his whole command, the foremost of which
was the Eastern regiment of mounted Texans under the
command Of the unterrihed Col Wood, who, from Mex
housetop, in the midst Of terrible FIRE from the enemy
addressed his undaunted troops calling them remember
Me Goiad, and the murder of Fsnnn and other patriotic
Texans The Texans then up their cry and rushed
TO the onslaught, fighting from house house with the
rifles they had used against the enemy the battles OF
their country, doing fearful and bloody Throughout
the day. And my here remark that all the troops under
Gen. Taylor worked with the energies and ercenes Of
determined TO conquer de- and that the bloody
IN the extreme far the Me1cans concerned The
reader may appreciate the terrible ferceness OF the battle
when he informed that from ere o'clock in the morning
until dark the of the battlefield nothing but
tnued roaring of artillery, escopees muskey, and the
earthly shoutngs OF the assaants with the howzers and
bombs that added TO the terrible dapason Of the day.
On the night THAT Of the 3d. at o'clock, Gen.
Worth, from his position, commenced throwing shells into
that portion OF the town occupied by the enemy The second
shell fell within twenty feet Of the Cathedral which contained
an immense quantity Of ammunition killing great many
of the Mexican cavalry and which, if il had fallen into the
Cathedral would have destroyed all that portion Of the city
At o'clock, probably in consequence Of the shells falling
a around his residence which in that quarter Of the
town, Gen. Anpudia in his letter for capitulaon BY
Col Moren, who from being lost, did not deliver the
until morning The result that Ampudia must have
passed very uncomfortable night the shower Of shells
continued until morning.
The number Of Americans killed and wounded in the siege
OF Monterey 500, about 200 of them killed. The
Mexicans known to have lost certainly $780, and probably
1900 in killed and wounded.