Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-10-15
THE WAX.

tons would now be issued from Washington
to the ''arny of ulrasioa" and to our passive
blockading squadron on the gull. The indi-
cations OF Impotence and passion in the col
umns of the Union, plainly showed that the
plan Of the campaign and the stroke OF policy
attempted through SANTA ANNA and the revo-
luton in his favor, had brought upon the ad
minstration disappointment and discontinue
and nom the same official index, we gathered
that the whole system was TO be changed, and
Mexico, il possible. was to be made 10 suffer
speedily for it ALL We were enabled to pub
lish in our postscript Washington letter sta
ting the tenor Of the proceedings of cabinet
council called with the view of considering the
condition Of the war, and the next step TO It's
prosecution, and that II had been determined
that Tampico should be taken as a favorable
point from which TO suecor General TAYLOR.
This statement is confirmed by letter in the
New York Journal Of Commerce. The i'm
mense desert between Salhllo and San LUIS de
Potosi will be great barrier TO the transporta-
ton Of provisions for the army, and should
Gen. TAYLOR meet with any accident at the
latter place, he could not retreat across the des-
ert. Tampico, by way Of the valley of Paru-
CO, will therefore, he the point to retreat upon
in case of a msadventure of our forces, and
the point from which to transport provisions
The correspondent of the Journal of Com
merce says that such orders have been given
as promise that we shall have possession OF
Tampico in thirty days. San additional
steam force is TO be employed" The same
writer says
"Tampico can and will be taken without a
fight, if few light steamers be used, and boats
to land some FIVE hundred or thousand men.
There is very little more prospect of any more
fighting, unless We attempt 10 take the Castle,
which will not be done. II is barely possible
that, if Gen TAyLoR's army should keep on
10 San Luis de Potosi, and IN its march be re-
duced in strength by sickness and privation, il
might there meet with resistance. Upon 9TH
er contingencies the battles are over, and all
the energies of patriotism and chivalry will
continue to be directed against Mr.. WALKERS
marked, sealed, counted and weighed dollars
in bags or boxes which, ne says, will save the
useless trouble Of counting"
This relief from the trouble Of managing the
ub-Treasury system will hardly be a conso-
laiion for the continued bleeding Of the Treas
ury, which without commensurate results has
begun very much to annoy Mr. Polk than
whom, as correspondent of the lnteillgencer
says, there is probably no man in the country
more heartily sick of the war. The Impotence
and disgust the plan pursued excites in the
cabinet. is nodoubt very justly as il is striking
ly exhibited in the publication by the Union,
accompanied by It's commentators, of a letter
from New Orleans paper, written by an
officer, which speaks of the policy ofthe gov
eminent in prosecuting the war with Mexico
as "unwise, impolitic and imbecile!" The
Union says the letter is sensible; and the sug-
gestons OF the officer are eminentiy entitled Ia
our consideration I" This letter ridicules with
much severity the instructions TO Gen. TAY-
LoR to conduct what is so called "war of re-
conciIiation"-i. e. make all the citizens Of
Mexico our friends by paying them high
price for avery thing, and not appropriatins
theirproperty TO our use withoutcompensation.
The approval of his views by the Union, be
tokens change in this matter.
We are now to see what is TO come OF anoth-
er mode of attack or as a well known police
officer here would say of bringing Mexico $50
the condign." There must be very great
change in the management Of tklngs from
Washington, and there must be very grea,
change in the movements Of our languld squa-
dron, or the war will not soon be ended. In
the past, except the conduct of Gen. TAYLOR
and the regular officers and soldiers, who did
all that man could do, there islittle undeserylng
of censure.--Richmond Compiler.