American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-10-24

Alleged Reasons for The .frmisce As every
thing relating to the great battle at Monterey,
4 is Of interest to our readers, we copy from the
! American the following extracts of letter
4 from an officer of the U. S. Army dated Mon
terey, sept. 25tb:
yesterday morning flag of truce came in
TO our camp offering to surrender the town,
4 provided the troo;s could march out with Their
arms, cOlors, artillery and private property,
j which Gen. Taylor refused, They entered,
:. however, INTO an armistice from 10 until II
4 O'Clock. Gen. Taylor transferred the nego-
i tiationS from our camp TO Horihs Head Quar-
ters at the Bishops palace, large work situat-
i cd on an eminence in rear Of and commanding
the city. After much discussion Gen. Taylor
Z agreed that the Cavalry and Infantry should
march out with their arms, and that the Artl-
lery should carry field battery Of six 6-pound-
q ders and thirty rounds of ammunition and per-
soma, effects. All the forts Notifications, with
j their arInamsnts, ammunition, supplies and
Government property of every description to
i be delivered over to US at ten O'Clock this
morning. They are allowed one week TO
vaeate the city, and are then to withdraw be-
4 yond this province, the whole of which is given
up to US except Tampico-ond this presume
they claim, as the Navy has not succeeded in
taking it. This, you will perceive, makes the
Sierra Madre mountains the boundary.
"Gen Ampudia, during the conference, said
q he had positive informa ton that Gen. Kearney
had taken Santa Fe and that our citizens had
4 captured California. What slice has been
S taken from them
They have further entered into an arms.
Hice for eight weeks. Gen. Taylor agreed to
this on Ampudia's positive assurance that our
q commissioners we've in Mexico arranging the
basis of G Treaty.
Ger Worth has just completed a series of
The most brilliant operations IN modern war
fare, and with but little loss, Iio carried four
works and then came into the town when eve
ry house was fertilization. He thus acted
fDvided his forces into two columns, moving
parallel, and opening their way with pick axes
ahrosgh the houses and walls Thus when
Rhey Knocked hole in the house they Of course
had possession, and in this way avoided the
streets and the enemies fire from Toofs of hou-
ses and barbados thrown up III every street.
sour SIDE or wing of the army has haG some
hard fighting, und our loss has been very great.
They had very strong work on this side, the
SSouth East, built of EARTH stone and sand bags
containing twelve, nine, six FOUNDER and
an old fashioned thirty-twO pound howitzer,
with large musketry force. This work was
f1anked by stone house arranged with loop
holes and flat roof with parapst for the men
10 lie behind. Both of these were again flank
ed by another rsdoubt about 500 yards distant,
heavily armed with cannon, infantry with ss-
copets and fine English musksts, The first
works were carried, but attended with great
Toss; for independently of all those, there was a
cross fire from very strong castle about 1000
wards distant, with shells and IL pound shot.
/. j l. 4 : II
as they could do nothing in this kind If work,
we have had but little chance. However, when
our troops moved down, Rdgely rode up to
Gen. Taylor and volunteered to move with two
pieces to see what could be done, as all of Ms
were ignorant of the ground. He cheerfnlly
granted if Twiggs consented. We NOV
ed forward at a dashing gallop, with only two
pieces, leaving Caissons behind; when within
400 yards they turned their whole fire upon us.
II tpas terrific. We, however, gave them three
or four rounds, but discovering the strength Of
The work, and percevng we should be annihi-
dated in ten minutes, retired, having had ito
men and hree horses wounded verify be-
lieve two moro rounds, as they then would
.have had the exact range, would have knock.
ed us all over. The third and fourth infantry
land the Baltimore battalion threatened the
right AMI the Mississippi and Tenn. volunteers
attacked and carried it on the left. Poor Wat
son was shot dead, through the neck, about Sc
s,venty yards from the work, leading his men on.
The third infantry went into the engage
tnaent with twelve officers; five were killed, one
MORALLY and one slightly wounded Judge of
the fire.
"Shortly after these were carried, Gen. Tay-
or told Rldgely to take two pieces and move
on an open plain not over $50 yards from the
third fort mentioned and silence it,. Il. told
him he thought it too strong for our pieces to
affect it in the least, and asked if it had been
recoinnoitred He said no, and proposed it
should be done. Ridgely dashed off half speed
and percelvlng 1t was very strong, returned and
reported. God only knows how he escaped, as
there was continuous blaze of musketry fired
at him until he returned, and yet neither him
self nor his horse was touched. We then turn
ed our own guns on them and served twelve
FOUNDER until the ammunition was expended.
We were then despatched with two pieces to
sweep street, strongly defended with cannon
and musketry.
ave had on the Esd, severe street fight,
the Mississippi volunteers all with rifles, some
Of the Tennesseeans and Texans on our side,
against some 5000 Mexcans, whom Ampudia
Aad collected in the plaza They evacuated
and carried off the cannon from the third fort
On the night Of the 22d. We took possession
on the 23d, and Gen. --- brought on this
street fight, greatly to Gen. TayIors disgust;
but he had to support him. Bragg was sent in
with his battery, and got badly used, as he also
was on the 2lst.h
DEATH FROM BURNING CHARCOAL. Two
students of the Genesse, Rochester, Acade-
my, named MeMinch and Tra1ler, placed a
kettle of burning charcoal in their sleeping
room Oh going to bed In the morning, Trax-
Ter was dead, and McMinch nearly So The
after is expected to recover.