Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1846-10-22
From the Union of Monday.
OFFICIAL.
OUR ARMY In MONTERREY.

| We Law before our readers this evening the
official dispatches of General Taylor, detailing
the heroic and victorious onset of our army
upon Monterey. They confirm, in the main,
the accounts which we gave in our extra last
night. They bear the most ample and honora-
Bile testimony to the gallantry, the skill and
the patriotic sclf-dcvotlon of our officers and
soldiers. In this respect, the intelligence from
Monterey fully responds TO the lightweight
expectation of the country. Regulars and
olunteers-through thrce-days battle, al
ternatcly under a burning sun and drenchng
rams, against a foe strong in an overwhelming
superiority of numbers, and in the advantages
of position so strong y fortified as to be APP
parcntly almost gnable-seem to have
Wed with each other, under gallant leaders, in
efforts of noble and chlvalrous daring. The
result is triumph every way memorable in
military annals. In three days our army has
carried cnrcnchmcnts which the enemy had
expected to maintain against any exhibition of
military force on our part, and in which they
had probably stored, ,on this calculations, II large
magazine of provisions The Mcxicans are
thus driven from their chosen stronghold and
one of the strong keys of Mexico is now in
our hands.
Our loss in the prolonged confict-though,
probably, not greater than was inevitable from
the nature and circumstances of the action
has yet been severe, and will appeal most
powerfully to the best and deepest sympathIcs
of the country. The brave men who have
fallen herocally in their country's righteous
and victorious battle, will live in her grateful
remembrance. We cannot, at this moment,
particularze (as we hope to do hcreatier)
names and deeds ofdstngulshcd honor. Suf-
flee il to say, the fallen have met death of
devoted patriotism and of high renown. The
living may rejoice III the convection that Their
valor has crowned with new glory the Prov
css of American arms. Their government and
their country will justly appreciate their sig
nal services.
! The terms of the capitulation of Monterey
|-all-important as the possession of that post
is to the farther successful prosecution of the
war-will arrest the attention of the public
mind The surrender by the Mexican army
OF the military stores, provisions and cannon
collected in the city, will add very consldera-
bly, to the resources of our troops, and weaken
in greater proportion, the means OF the enc
my. The dispatches of General Taylor do
not inform US fully of the representations and
views upon which he acted, in granting to the
encmy-SuIjccf, hOrcrer, 10 instructions dhd
CRITTERS from both gOrerHmcHtS--an armistlce of
eight weeks, during which time, in the alb
scnce of such orders, neither army is to adj
vance beyond a specified line, about thirty
miles in advance Of Monterey. II must be-
borne in mind, however, that, in demanding
such suspension of hOstilltcs in one of our
lines of operation, the Mexican general may
very probably have held out to Gen Taylor
prospects ofa paciiication between the two
countries, which, in fact, do not exist.
! BE that as it may, however, we understand
that Lieut.. Armistcad, the bearer Of despatch
es from our Government to Gen. Taylor,com-
muncating the failure of our offer of ncgota-
ton, and cnjolning renewed vlgor IN theprose-
cution of the war, had arrived in New Orleans
on the LIST instant, ard is said at once to have
chartered the steamboat Galveston to convey
him to Brazos, St Iago. He will probably
reach Gen Taylor's camp to-day or to-mor-
row. If he be not already there. These de-
spatchcs will doubtless induce Gen Taylor to
concentrate his troops and collect his resources
as rapidly as possible, with the view of re-
suming his operations vigorously so soon as
hc shall receive orders to terminate the arms
tcc These orders, we have no doubt, will
promptly be issued from Washington. We
trust they may reach General Taylor in SIX
teen DAYS, the time in which Capt. Eaton per-
formed the route to Washington. In such an
event. little delay (at the worsD can be occa-
stoned, and even that little time can be useful
ly spent IN securing more complete and effect
i've preparation. At all events, there can, as
we conceive, be no doubt Whatever, that an
armstcc which was thus agreed to by Gen.
Taylor subject to the order of the two Gov
crnmcnts, should be at once terminated.
While upon this subject, we may take oc-
cason to state that the recent rumors which
have appeared in some of the journals, of the
actual or intended departure of Mr.. Sldcll
and Parrott to General Taylor's camp, to avail
themselves of any opportunity of negotiation
as commissioners to the Mexican government,
are without any shadow of foundation The
reception of our last overture to negotiation
by the Mexican rulers has determined our
government to pursue It's military operations
without cessation, and with the utmost energy
till the sole object of our war-a just and hon
cradle peace, with proper security against a
repetition of Mexican outragc-shall be OBJ
tanned In fact, this would only be carrying
out the principle which the administration has
UNIFORMLY avowcd, and which they announc-
ed in the letter TO Commodore Conner, ac-
companyng their late ovcrturcs of ncgocla-
ton.
Dispatches from Major Genera!
/ Z.TayiOr, received at the war
| Office last night.