The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1847-10-02

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF HosTILITIES.
REJECTION OF PEACE PROPOSITIONS.
The City o. Mexico Entered.
TERRIBLE SLAUGHTER
Gen. WORTH SERIOUSLY WOUNDED.
REVOLT AT PEUBLA.
LETTER OF SANTA ANNA TO GEN. SCOTT.
Four REGIMENTS OF THE MEXICAN,
ARMY ROUTED by a FEW Hun
DRIED AMERICANS.
Paroles at the he ID Of GHerrillns.
Our express package contains an extra
from the office of the Mobile Herald and
Tribune, dated Saturday morning, Sept.
25, announcing the arrival of the brig
Csceola, Captain Smith, arrived at PEN
sacola on the evening of the 21st inst,
having sailed on the 10th from Vera
Cruz.
The Tribune is indebted to passenger
from Pensacola for Vera Cruz '.Sun OF
Anahuac" Of the 10th; and also for let
ter from Pensacola. All the news they
contain is published below. Verbally
the Tribune is also informed that there
had been a revolt at Puebla, and that
Scott, there and in the city of Mexico,
had lost at least two thousand men.
The following is the letter received
by the Tribune from its correspondent at
Pensacola:
Correspondence ofthe Herd and Tribune
PENSACOLA, Sept. %. 1S47.
The brig Osceola, Capt. Smith, arrived
at the Navy Yard here last evening, after
a passage of 81 days from Vera Cruz, and
brings late and important news from the
army of Gen. Scott.
1t appears that hostilities were assum-
ed on the 9Th inst, Santa Anna and Gen.
Scott having mutually charged each 9TH
er witha violation ofthe armistice and by
the last accounts our troops had posses
sion of two streets, and had driven the
principal part of the Mexican force in or
towards the plaza.
Our troops had suffered greatly from
the fire of the enemy, placed in windows
and on the tops Of houses, and that Gen.
Worth was seriously but not MORALLY
wounded. Our loss since leaving Pue-
bla was three thousand men.
Mr.. Trist's proposition for cession of
portion of California, for considera-
ton Of twenty millions, had been agreed
to by the Mexican Commissioners, but
another proposition, fixing the boundary
line Of Texas at the Rio Grande was pre-
emptorlly refused.
Paroles was said to be on the road be-
tween Vera Cruz and Mexico, with a
large force of Guerrillas,
The Sun Of the 10th says, troops have
been arriving in great numbers from the
Brazos during the last five or six DAYS,
more, there will be from two to three
thousand men ready to march lor the in
terror.
These accounts are derived from the
Sun OF Anahuac of the 10th inst, and
brought by the Osceola, and verbal com
munications from Mr.. Dimond to the Cap
tain at the moment of leaving.
| have no doubt they may be relied on
essentially. This news reached Vera
Cruz by the Orizaba route.
am very respectfully,
Your obcdient servant, D.
The following is extracted from the
Sun of Anahuac Of the 18th inst.
PuGBLA Sept. II, 1871.
Ny Dear Suu-l promised YOU before
left Vera Cruz. tive months ago. that would
from tune 10 'ne, il | was fortunate enough
10 get rews, TO drop You Il few wolds
hope these few lines will be VIGOROUSLY
passed through The chapparella. mosquitoes.
SC. aud what is worse, the guerrias of
Cp,ro Gordo, Pneu,e National and all the
modes and hiding places of these desper-
ate men
Letters arrived here from Atlixco, stating
that an exp ess had arrived there Oh his way
SAID cypress had brought letters from the city
of MEXICO dated the 9th INST.
These letters stated that the propositions
made by Mr. Trsl were rejected,
or at least one portion of them, and
that hosltlites had recommended on the
afternoon of the 9Th, and that battle had
been fought on that evening by few hun
dred men from General SCOTS army against
four of the picked out regiments of the Mex
lean army. the eleventh regiment of the line,
the third and fourth regiments ofligh intan
try and one regiment of the National Guard,
all commanded by General Leon. The
euemy's forces had been badly used and
their loss exceeded two thousand five hun,
died.
The letters say that MIR. Trist's propositions
were these That the citizens of the United
S,ues would not have anything to claim
fl IN MeXlco for damages occasioned by