Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1846-10-22
From the n. q. fiesyune. Oct. ~.
Arrival Of rI,e Na,sm.

Tho steamship Neptune. Capt spinney arrived yos,cr.
day evening iron Galveston we need not sew that very
general Joy dased throughout the city upon learning
OF the safety of ship which men had given
up ss lost
For the critical situation in which the Neptune
eed, and her from peril refer TO the report Of tho
captain which give below. Mrs. Barbour the wife Of
Major Barbour who fell Monterey came passenger on
the Neptune Major Fry. OF the Kentucky volunteers aud
several other officers OF the Kentucky mounted regiment
and OF tho Army, also passengers from Galveston
From the Galveston News Extra Of the 10Th ms, We learn
that the schooner Blanche E. Sayre Captain wcoe ar.
rived there the evening previous from Braros Island
iS uye on inc 'h insI-two days after the Mckn. BY
TINS schooner The Galveston papers have second nd
counts OF the battles OF Monterey but hoy are by mo
50 i1 as those we have published are they from so
good sources OF information. The loss Of the Mexican. is
put down at much higher figure have before seen
We shall copy tho Galveston accounts as w,
are that they are not authentic compared own
Inc conviction becoming mote general In the minds of
welniormod gentlemen here connected with the Army
that the loss sustained by troops undcrratod in
the memoranda" We published the 9TH inst day or
two more will, rust put cnd the suspense in which
NO all are placed to losses. aud especially To the
| present condition OF the wounded
From Texas there is but little news. The brig Empitc
arrived nj Galveston on the 9Th from Now York in
twenty-five days. The captain having passed close
to vessel bottom upwards in the Gull stream nearly in
the latitude OF Cape Haeras Sho appeared have been
newly ccPPcrcd had very Hat bottom and was OF about
200 tons buien. We read in the News Of the 9th inst,
as follows:
The editor of the Texas Democrat says that Gen woos
advance division under Col Harvey would An
tonic on the 9th u Tho will be by the Preside
IRON which place hc passes OF the are distant
not nero than forty miles, which defended by few
resolute men against odds The editor u the Demo
crat says many supposed will be made but he
does not know where the Mexcans can raise Irp- TO civ,
battle anywh1re the tOutc Chhuahus lie how yer
admits that IL ptVblomatcal whether the necessary pro-
visions and forage be procured after crossing the Rio
1randc The editor himself San An,onio and saws
That there are actually complaints OF and
giving and executing orders, &c.
such are the reports OF the Texan paper we received
no papers by the Neptune, and copy what in the
News.
A grand barbecue given Senator Houston at
Huntsville, Texas. the Goth ult which the General
spoke for an hour and n half.
E1frsst FROM tie log Of lLs SioansAp Ntpnsns
Z. . steamer Neptune, Spinney, from Galveston l lth
INST, where she put In the LIST inst in distress from
orasos Santiago having been anchor eight hours outside
the bar, blowing gale from the NORTH with ,ren,end.u,
heay sea running IN from E. N. E. during which time the
steamer rolling heavy and labong hard sprung leak and
broke the connection pipe in three different PLACES
found that in crippled impossible TO Law any
longer and keep her ahoat hoisted signal of distress and
Kept ny Tor ten hours several small Government boats
were lying inside the the tme none made any
attempt TO come to relief. Temporarily repaired the
steam pipe and bore up for Matagorda and Galveston
we made the latter port where the dam,gcs repaired
Chartered the brig Rudolph Groning OF New York TO
take the cargo IL s place OF destination, and owed the
brig to Sunday last. The Neptune left New York
tor Point Isabel the 25h August and put in once for
stress OF weather, aud twice machinery
tunes 10 fuel before she arrived her destination and
peTenccd very bols!eTous weather all through