Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1847-07-14
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1t Front tho London Chf0Iicle.
r. We are bound to say that he unlimited
n confidence placed by General ScoH 10 The
: troops under his command has been JUS.
s tilted by the event. His victory at Cerr6
# Gordo appears 10 have been by far the
e most brilliant affair OF the wsr. He des:
n crbes himself as being absolutely embar:
: rassed with the results Of his own success
prisoners Of war, heavy ordnance, arms
D and accoutrements. Under the head of
! prisoners alone. about three thousand men
have laid down their arms, with the usual
:. proportion of officers, besides five generals
Of highest rank. Gen. Santa Anna him.
self, with some six or eight thousand men.
escaped in the direction Of Jalapa, just id
time before the tower Of which wo have
spoken above. was carried by division Of
the United States army:
To speculate upon ltie further pfogress
Of General Scoll's army in the direction
Of The capital would be mefe idleness in
The face of such disorganization as must
now undoubtedly exists on the side of
the Mexicans. The troops of General
Taylor are still at Buena Vista and Sal
tllo, and il is stated TO be bis intention 10
advance on San Luis along the road ira
versed by Santa Anna in his late disastrous
retreat from Buena Vista; there he will be-
placed in a situation 10 cooperate with his
colleague in his views upon Mexico ITSELF
Undoubtedly, if military resistance be the
only obstacle 10 be appreheuded by the
Anglo American generals in their advance
upon Mexico, we shall expect shortly to
hear, the fall of that city, as we have just
heard Of that Vera Cruz.
For The honor Of humanity We should
be well pleased TO hear Of something like
probable termination Of this disastrous
war. AS 10 the point that the United
States troops would take military possess
siou Of the great towns of The country, we
have never disputed it for one moment;
but military possession Of certain points 10,
a country,s not identical with conquest of
The country. Even if the authorities at
Washington determine on that course,
they will find they entered upon task
which this generation will not see accoms
plished, and which must be perseyeted "a !.
at an expense that Congress will be littls.
likely 10 sanction. Perhaps the bestthing
to be wished for in the Interest of the
Mexcans themselves, is that the success
of the United States generals should be-
still more rapid and decisive that ithas
hithetto beenfs fnsorde thar they may heHss
Ildlixsasl lelmakes terms ssai oliees
course may admi. o. doubr, 6u5 yer
among alternatives il seems TO be the least
disastrous. That the United States will 3
again, on future occasion, with or withI
out cause, attack them, is clear enough.
The old fable of the wolf aud the lam6
drinking at the same stream is Of eternal
application.
From Yera Cruz and the Army Of GenS1
raj Scott.-Since our last, we have been
placed in possession of later intelligence
from Vera Cruz, aud also from General
Scott. We have noted few items of in
lerest. General Scott had not left Pueblo
on the 10th inst. He was waiting for re-:
Inducements from the eastward. General
Cadwallader left Jalapa on The 18th to Join
him, with some two thousand troops. The
correspondent of the N. o. Times thinks
thai The army will move forward as soon al
it receives this reinforcement, and the mo-
ney aud supplies which accompany it
The same which found so difficult a road to-
Jalapa. Alvarez is said TO have taken his
station with six thousand Of his Sonora
troops, between Puoba aud Jalapa, for the
purpose of cutting off Cadwallader's traint
and would probably be reinforced:
The Vomito was still adding 10 The niimi
her of its victims at Vera Cruz. Colonel
Banks, Of New Orleans, had died after an
illness of forty-clght hours.
Letters had been received al Vera Cruz.
from the capital, as lae as the 18th Of
June, but they contain nothing, it is said
satisfactory on the subject Of the election
for The Presidency. One Of them declares
that Santa Anna has been chosen, with exi
F,raordinary powers, to use in the prosecu-
tion Of The war, but is expressly forbidden
To enter into negotiations for peace. The
editor of the "El Arco Iris" says he has in,
formation that the election did not come off
al The time appointed. but is postponed un-
til the 2lst September. He says the gen.
eral impression is, that Herrera will be-
elected, aud thai negotiations for peace will
Immediately follow bis installation.
1t is stated in the correspondence of The
Times, and also Uf The Picayune, that our
dragons had quite brush with-lhe guer-
rilIas near Perole.-Three hundred oftheni
encountered four hundred guerrillas in a
ravine, and routed them, tie Mexicans
losing some thirty killed.. Our meu were
guided by the Alcalde OF Perole.
The picayuue says that the prospect
appears to Ire lha. stronger resistance is
to be- made to Gen. Scouts advance thar
has lately been anticipated. An immenss
force has been concentrated, and the Mex
leans pretend they have seventy pieces Of
caunon-some accounts say uinety.-Eoc.
Ne,Cs.
A Yankee has invented new kind Of
ink, called .the Iove-lelter ink" which is a
sure safeguard against actions for breach
of promise of marriage, as the ink fades
,,J Ioovac the cheat hIa nj: in ahour