The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-10-13
But Linden saw another sight,
When the drums beat along the height,
Commanding fires Of death to light"
The touch-holos of the artillery

Commanding fires Of death to light"
The touch-holes of the artillery.
The Army of Invasion has gained another
hard fought field Its onward banner now waves
from the parapets of the Sierra Madre. The
steamer Powhatan came up this afternoon at
about five o'clock, ornamented all over with Co
lors and streamers waving in the wind. On land
ing, the purport OF this triumphant dsp' ay was
announced to be the taking of Monterey. The
good peorle of the Federal City were met on their
return from their various churches with the news;
and the sermon and the preacher were at once SUI
perseded by Gen. Taylor and the Mexicans. The
post office was crowded with applicants for the
news and some one ofthe lucky few possessed of
New Orleans paper, was detained to read again
and again for the crowd the news from the camp.
As one detachment of listeners disappeared to
tail the important tidings, another Immediately
filed its place at the windows. All were gratified
at the intelligence that the Baltimore and WASH
ington volunteers occupied prominent place
among the fighting men but there followed anx.
ious inquiries, not yet to be satisfied, OF the killed
and wounded. 1t appears, however, that Major
Williams of the regulars, citizen of this district,
is among the slain. He leaves family here of
five young daughters, who have now neither ia
regiment of volunteers, Is reported also among
the killed. An intense anxiety prevails among
citizens to hear of the list ofkilled and wound
ed OF the rank and file, because Baltimore and
Washington are interested to the number Of some
six hundred men. Before leaving this city, they
frequently paraded the streets at night, singing
some such chorus this -
We are going to join the army,
We are going South, heighho;
We will cross the Rio Grundy,
And We'll march to Mexico"
Alas my brave fellows, if the news Of the
night be correct, many of you are at the end Of
your journey, and Monterey will long be associat.
ed in this region with the memory of those coura-
geous young men who will never return. 1t is
said that the draft upon Baltimore, in the
volunteers, being chiefly upon the hard-fsted
ssyoung democracy was the cause of the recent
defeat Of the democratic ticket in that city, but
they have amply made up for it before the walls
and bastons, breastworks, trenches and pail ,ades
of Monterey.
1t is only day since that gentleman calm
upon Mr. Marcy for some little post Of honor con-
nected with the Army of Invasion, was told that
there would be no necessity for employing him,
be no more fighting: The opinion gained ground
every day after the intelligence of the evacuation
of Santa Fe by Armijo without the firing ola gun.
1t was apprehended that that movement only
disclosed the policy of the Mexicans to be to en-.
tice the invading army into the interior and to
them off in detail. 1t was expected that this
would be the policy at Monterey, and that Gen.
Taylor would find it evacuated, and the enemy
as far in his advance as ever The result changes
our calculations entirely, and shows that the Mex-
cans are actually beginning to fight, and perhaps
just beginning, Yet we hope this reverse will
contribute vastly to shorten the war and hasten
conclusive peace.
You will have received all the details. We are
informed that messenger, with the official
count OF the fighting, and the capituaton Ga We
ry honorable one to the Mcxicans, as well as to
Gen. Taylor,) reported himself at the war de-
Tartrnent this evening, and that Gen Scott ex-
pressed some disappointment at the result. Gen.
Taylori is further said to have adopted the liberal
capituaton allowed to Ampudia, from conside.
rations OF Observation-Disclosures which neu-
tralized the advantages of the brilliant achieve
ments i'll reducing the enemy's well-arrangcd for
mn We f1rth ar in
the absence OF the full returns Sufficient is
known TO satisfy us all that Gen. Taylor
and his brave and hardship-enduring ar
my have done their duty and we have no
fear, for one, that that worthy officer is to
be superseded, Notwithstanding the malicious
whispers to that effect. We know very well
that there are men, who from mere party con-
slderations, would make pretext of the fortunes
OF war to suppant old "Rough and Ready
simply because he is whg; but the course of
the administration in regard to him has been
most praiseworthy and honorable. We know,
too, that the President has had evil suggestions of
party expediency whispered into his ear, but we
also know that he has regarded them with COM
mendable condemnation ofcontempt. He shares
IN the victories OF the army, in the honors of Tay-
Tor, and the demagosue deserves the larietta of
the rancheroes, who would make the chief con-
Quoting this war party man, or the war itself a
party business. llp
An honor, say we, to old Rough and Ready. and
the brave men under his command. IT. instead
of great victory, he had been utterly routed and
dispersed, there 10 no living man who would de-
plore it mare sincerely deeply, for the sake Of
Taylor, than the President of the United States.
If, therefore, there be undsr-current for the
superseding of Taylor we claim that the admins
tration Is not party to the miserable enterprise.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct IL, 1896
The glorious news from Monterey important though
is to be but lightly considered absorbed are
the people in the excitement of the election and the
chances Of success Possessed by their favore cand
dates
Cook, the who yesterday murdered his wife, and
then muated himself died last evening about 10 o'clock
at the hospital He was hardened wretch though SEN
sble to the he not the sqhtest symp.