Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1846-11-17
Late From Mexico.
Correspondence oftbe Pieayun

Oi'' e'ohnehce oil the Picayune.
MONTEREY, Mexico. Oct IL, 1916.
Genttemen:-We have received news
from New Orleans up to the 18th ult. II
seems that there is no probability ofpeace
being established for some time to come.
Lieut.. Armstead, of the 9Th infantry has
just arrived from Washington with des-
Patches for Gen. Taylor, but the instruc.
tons sent him are not known to the ar.
my.
mail which was sent from Camareo
by Mexican express rider for the army.
ABOUT the list uit., and which. it is be-
lIcved, contained important dispatches for
zen. Taylor, besides many private letters.
was taken by the enemy and conveyed to
Ampudla' who received it on the day of
the capltulation. Whether the Mexican
mail rider was killed, as is pretended. or
carried the mail of his own accord to Am.
Pudia, Is moi known; but certain it is that
the mail is in possession ofthe enemy
Alter the Mexican army had retired TO
Saltiiio, Gen. Taylor, hearing oftbe loss
otthe mail, sent messenger to Ampudia
and requested him to return the priyate
correspondence. The selfappointed most.
master t, ofour army replied, through a Mr..
fauliac. that mail had been taken and
received by him, but that he had
forwarded the bag to Santa Annal Mr..
faullac, however, hoped soonto have tho
pleasure either of sending back the nr;.
vate correspondence or of bringing il in
person. -
Gen. Taylor keeps his own counsel 70.
sPecting the nature of the instructions re.
ce:ved from Washington. The Washing.
ton letter writers probably know more
ABOUT 1t than majority ofthe officers I'm.
Ger Gen. Taylor at this moment Some.
thing is brewing, however, and can see
Lat some movement is soon to. be made
though none has yet been ordered
later date has the following. ls1
NO news yet from the first mail that
was captured by the enemy. Another
large mail started from Camargo = ssw
days ago (the 9th inst. which shared the
tate OF the first. This makes two ionor.
taft mails that have been captured from
us within month. The last was TAKEN
out OF the mule train.
everything is as dull here as noss;ble
as ioF letters and papers, we never e5.
pect 10 see any more as long as Ampudia
is permitted to act as Postmaster General
Tor our army.
santa Anna is at San Luis Potosi. but
is dong nothing. He sustains Ampudia
Ia his late conduct. The fever and apue
is spreading through the army at fear.
full rate.
All the Texan regiments having been
discharged, their term of enlistment beine
out previous to the capture of Monterey.
Gov. Henderson is raising new regi.
ment TO serve during the war. MANY of
the old regiments, it was thought, would
again enlist.
Gen. Mirabeau B. Lamar has been
commissioned by Gov Henderson to act
as civil and military Governor ofthe Tex.
as frontier. He is to make his head
quarters at Laredo, Mexican town on
the Texas side of the Rio Grande. To
enable him to extend his jurisdiction, he
Is authorized to raise and have under his
command company of one hundred men.
The required force was raised from among
the disbanded Texans, and General La
mar is now on his way to Laredo to fulfil
the duties of his new appointment. Suc-
cess to him.