The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-12-04

had witnessed suchdisorder you that did
not feel At all safe and after God all hopes rested en-
my knowledge Of their language, which did not only
prove OF service to but to many OF neighbors
Some say that these skrmshes muss have cost the
enemy at least 1000 but suppose although with
any foundation for it. that it could not have been
more than half that number. Notwithstanding, It is
shameful that they had not all found their graves here
The Of these people when they entered the
city really astonshed me- for they looked more like ban
diti pirates than like soldiers could scarcely be-
eve my eyes when them about the streets with
heard much of cleanliness people United
States expected to army though small In decent
see that their discipline consists 1. their obsdsnc: in
the exactude Of the officers In fulfilling orders and In
the severity and cruelty even with which they punish
think that their entering the city In so unmiltary
manner was intentional the part Of the chiefs, Who
shut their eyes, that the soldiers might pillags
much a. they were willing to for saw soldiers loaded
their officers Now, suppose, they win want to excuse
Themselves the plea Of the hostility they met with in
the tn city However all this confusion Is now At an end
lished With all this have mails, 10 there any
communication between this and Vera Cruz.
Santa Anna has announced, Is said that Con gress
will meet at Queretaro, and 1t Is not yet known who
will be elected President 1t Is said that the coalition
for the presidency Of Zacseca and that they will not
submit to any other government The devil only knows
The official documents that passed in the negotiations
,os peace were published here and you would be aston
santa Anna and his commissioner; great ds. Of dG
nifty, wisdom, patriotism and ciroumspecton OBJ
served while at the same time in all that relates to the
other branches Of there exists nothing but
uncertainty and confusion The said documents are
also very useful to history because they show the
duct Of the United States and If the Mexicsns knew
how to make good OF them they would excite the
sympathies Of other nations.
When the enemy entered the city, the strangers i'm
respective nations Many Others placed their baso
mics white nsg-ss symbol of peace; but what was
fha hmm ana nta
nsgs that nosted in every street Now you must not
suppose that all residences Of spanisrds but
riss found it very to place the
present emergency, under Its protection. Some Of the
fsgs have been taken away, but many still remain
adjoining the balconies. D. DE LA M.
STATE OF SANTA FK.
From the Santa Fs Republican, Oot 81
The whole population Of the territory Is not greater
much greater amount Of wheat and corn Ii annually
raised than any whose knowledge Of the territory
has any conception Of To show that the territory Is
susceptible OF improved and more extended cultivation
!: enough to state the fact that crop at least fsu.
the wheat crop here Is as easily and abundantl produc
tive in the States With the least possible labor,
to that Of Missouri and other States produced The
-four is remarkably ne, and what far better there Is
certainty Of crop every season The ordinary pests
Of grain rust midsw, 60, So, do not sfiot here The
agreuturist his seed and In due time resps rich
~ rive ms has S11s
least available implement imaginable The same Is true
Of corn growing In year from this time any Anne
rcsn citizen In Santa Ee will be able to eat habtually
oil the plants that produced In the ATTITUDES In
the Union In grain growing the territory has great
pacities not only In the soil that now farmed but
from vast and rich bottoms and valleys that have not
hitherto been cultivated account OF the proximity OF
twothrds the richest and most beautiful portions
wholly neglected from this CAUSE In these parts arr
tho adventure and enterprise Of ths American
farmer. Within the last year. the demand and con
sumption Of grain being unusually great the price ha
been augmented but must the ensuing be less from
Astounding the nrs for the in
vestmen Of capital that strikes the is the manufac
ture Of woollsn goods What there to prevent The
country s wonderfully adapted the growth Of sheep
The rich grasses that overspread the numerous fine Val
sysas sweet and nuricous In the winter % the sum
merthe absence Of rain to corrupt and destroy their
nourishiDg properties leaving only the brous structure
of the plant and tho superabundanoe Of the grasses
comparable advantages for stock raising Instead Of
wnerng animals in stables built ut much expense, aud
feeding with stinted allowance the provender gathered
from scanty fields the pssturer drives his herd to the
exhaustble stores Of hay, clothing the ample valleys
whore the stock may roam and eat to safety Even
now, there 10 annually produced In the territory sum
cient woo-that is wholly lostto cothe the whole po-
pulstion From the want of demand for the article and
the total absence Of manuactores the sheep arc
rally not shsared and the wool wholly lost The value
Of It is, from the superebundance Of theeuppy, very
small 1t can be bought In any quantities for from foul
to elk cents pound and Is, moreover, Of very good
quality.
INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.
Lieutenant Steele Of the second infantry, Il
| whom General Gu tman ascribes the honor o
| leading the storm Of Chspultepec, and who wa
| among the first to mount tho wals and to whose
ntrepidty Gems: Scott and Twggs, and Col Riley bes
testimony is, IL n said citizen Of Delaware county
brother of the lamented Osmsn N. Steele, under
sheriff Of the county assasnated during the antirent
connections.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE
1t Is said that there at the navy yard at Nor
folk seventeen national vessels of all clssses: three
ships Of the line one of which Is In the ship house
large steam frEate buidDg four rgates three 'loops
of-war briggs three steamers aaoat and the steam
eloop ALLEGHENY.