Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-09-21

arms ammunition, &C., were taken.-I
Numbers of muskets being thrown away
BY the Mexicans in their precipitate flight
Taking il altogether it was the hardest
fought battle during It's height, for 3 hours
that was ever fought on the American
continent. =aesss,a.As-s..s-ss -
We take the following from the ST.
Louis Reveille of the 10th inst:
By Special Express for the Picayune.
BRILLIANT VICTORIES.
Important from Gen. Sect!
Battles Of C0utReRas and Churu.
buscO-
Total de feat of the Northumberland
Scott encamped seithin ttro and half
miles of the City of Merico-Nego-
tiations Nth Mr.. Irist for Peace
commenced. 81
The victories were decisive, but far as
we can Judge from hasty perusal of a
portion of our letters, the proposition for
an armistice was made by Gen. Scott
probably at the suggestion of the British
embassy, The report we have hitherto
given that the city of Mexico was at our
mercy appears unfounded. Should peace
not follow from the negotiations now PEN
ding,another battle must ensue,th enemy
having from fifteen to twenty thousand
men yet left. But the road is opon to US.
and the city is only two and halfmiles
from our eneampment.
Our entire loss in killed and wounded
is short of eleven hundred; that of the en-
envy is not we'll known. His loss in killed
alone is believedto be fully equal to our
entire loss, and it is estimated that at least
5000 prisoners were taken. The num-
Der of his wounded was not ascertained,
but is supposed to be very large. Gen.
Scott himselfreceived wound in the leg
below the knee, but from the manner in
which Mr.. Kendall speaks of il, we are
led to hope the injury slight one.
Editorial Correspondence oftheP;cayuae
TAcUBAo, (near Mexico,) Aug. %. ls47.
The celebrated Archbishop's Palace
of Tacubayo is now occupied by Gen.
Scott; and portion of the army, after
twice defeating the enemy in two OF the
hardest fought battles ofthe war ARE quar-
tered Immediately around him.
Early on the morning OF the Goth, Gen.
Worth was ordered to move with a part
of his Extraordinarily brigade-to-
wards the scene of action at Coutreras,
TO aid in the attack upon Valencia, for to
force this position was deemed indispen-
sable. A few discharges of cannon were
heard about o'clock, and heavy rat.
Ting of musketry, and some even said that
in the distance they had seen large mas
ses Of Mexicans in full fight towards the
city; yet few dreamed that the batteries
at CoutreTas had been stormed and CARR.
ed. Yet so it was, Gen. Scott himself,
accompanied by Gen. Worth, started for
the scene of action, when they were met
by Capt. Mason, with the joyful intelli
gence that Valencia had been completely
routed, after short but terrible struggle
The attack upon his works was planned
by Gen. Smith, and resulted in the capt.
ure of Is pieces of artillery, some 1900
prisoners-among Them Generals Bal
anco, Garcia, Mendoza, and the notorious
Salas; all the ammunition and camp
equipage, while the road alongwhich those
who escaped fled was strewed with mus.
kets. No less than 700 OF the enemy,
among them many officers,we lett dead
on the field--the number of wounded was
undoubtedly far greater.
have no time now to enlarge or com
ment upon this we'll PLANNED and brilliant
achievement, but reserving more full
description for some other time, must pass
on to other exciting events. The works
at Coutreras completely in the power of
the American army, Gen. Scott at once
ordered Gen. Worth TO fall back upon
San Antonio, TO turn and capture that
work, and then to push on towards the
capital by the main road, while the main
body of the army under Gems. Twiggs,
Pillow, Smith, Pierce and Cadwalader,
moved on towards San Angel and Cob
oycan. Scarcely had the advance ofGen.
Twiggs got half mile beyond the latter
village, before rafting fire of musketry
announced that it was actively engaged
with the outposts of the enemy, and the
heavy booming Of cannon now gave token
that the noted Sd division had ia lien upon
another strong work. But few minutes
more and a tremendous firing from the
right. and Immediately in the main road
from San Augustin to the capital, made
it evident that Gen. Worth's division was
actively engaged. He had completely
turned the works of San Antonio, but
while doing so the enemy had abandoned
the place with the loss of their heavy
guns, and had fallen back upon his second
and stronger line OF works. II was now
at the commencement of the battle, about