The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-12-06
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z1oH1v IMroRTAMT
FROM MEXICO
AND THE
ARMIES OF THE CENTRE AND INVASION.
MoNoLovA AND CHIHUAHUA
KEN.
THE ARMSTI0E BROKEN UP.
GEN. TAYLOR HAS AGAIN
COMMENCED HOSTILITIES.
MARCH OF q T. N. W0RT TIL
ON eAiT1iio.
THE REVOLUTION IN MEXICO.
SANTA ANNA DRIVEN FROM GAN
LUIS PoTosl.
His Reported Retreat to the City
Of Mexico.
MARCH OF GEN. PATTERSON
FOR TAMP1oo.
&c. 20. &c.
N A h Oh OF @ Il N. W0R T n
ON eAiT1lio.

BY the steamship McKim, at New Orleans.
from Brazos, which port she left on the oath inst,
we have later and highly important intelligence
from Mexico.
The McKim brought as passengers Majors
Mclean and Graham, bearer of dispatches from
General Taylor, and Captain Davis, bearer Of
dispatches from General Wool.
General Wool took peaesable possession of Mon
elova on the 3Oth October.
The Governor and number of the most in flu-
entail citizens forma an escort, on hearing of &C.
neral Woops approach, and met him about four
miles from the city, and welcomed him as a
friend
General Wool occupies, as his head quarters,
one OF the best houses in the city, and every at
tention is paid to him and his troops by the inhs-
bitants.
The army of General Wool-tws thousand
mems in excellent health and spirits. The
country through which they have passed on their
march Astounding in eve ny thing necessary for
their subsistence, and which was obtained at
the most reasonable prices.
News was received at Monclova OH the I'd Nov.
that Col. Donphan, of Cen Kearney's Santa Fe
division, had taken the city Of ChihSah,a, with his
command, numbering 700 men, without resis-
lance.
COL Riley, Of the Sd infantry, had been ordered
| to march with his regiment on Victoria de Ia
maulipss. and was already route for that place.
Gen. Taylor, on the arrival of dispatches from
our government ordering the discontinuance of
the armistice, despatched Major Graham to Sal
tillo to confer with the Mexican camp, and in
form them of the fact, and that thereafter each
party at liberty to act they might think best
Not soldier was to be seen at Salhllo on the
arrival at that place Of Major Graham. nor had
any made their appearance previous to his leaving
there.
On the 18th Nov. General Worth received or
ders at Monterey to march against Saltillo, and
everything was in readiness for his departure.
No resistance, however, was anticipated from tho
enemy.
Letters received at Camargo continue to speak
of Santa Annals preparations at San Luis Potosi.
They state that he had collected at that place
30, 900 men but little credence was given to the
statements.
General Wor this division still occupied the city
OF Monter ey, and Generals Twigg's and Buffers
commands were encamped outside the town.
1t was also rumored at Camargo, on the 7th No
vember that another revolution had broken on :
in Mexico, and that the Santa Anna party had
declared him Dictator. The partsans Of Santa
Anna, headed by Gen. Valencia, demurred at the
Dictatorship, and drove him and his over-zealous
friends from San Luis Potos. The Dictator, in
consequence, was falling back in the direction Of
the city of Mexico. This rumor, however, was
doubted by the better informed citizens of Ca
MARCO.
The inhabitants of Camargo are talking seri
ously of a territorial government.
Gen. Patterson had left Ca~argo with 1000 w'e~,
en- route for 7ampieo.
Gen. Ampudia, the Mexican chiefa Monterey,
was reported to be confined in prison at Mstagor-
da, on account of his capitulation to Gen. Taylor
of the city under his command.
Colonel Gates has been appointed Governor Of
Tampico.
Gen. Butler is still suffering severely from the
effect of his wounds
Col. Baker had recovered from the injunes he
had received.
The loss of the troops by sickness on the Rio
Grande, since the opening of the campaign, IS
estimated at 1900.
The McKim left at BraZos, the u. 8 brig So
mers, and schooner Arispe, loading for Tampico,
for which port she would soon sail with q COM
panv of regulars, provisions and munitions o
war.
The schooner John Wainwright, of New York.
was lost in gale off Brazos on the 18th Noveu\-
Der. Several other vessels dragged their anchors
and put to sea-
The McKm lost overheard on her voyage,
Charles Muller, of Baltimore, Of the Texas Rang :
ers, and - Churchill, of Capt. Mays U. 8.
Dragons.