Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1847-11-26

The Union of Monday night, 18th, concludes
the publication of Gen. SCOTS Dispatches
They are exceedingly well written documents,
and are particularly interesting for their display
of his own good sense and ability, as Command
er-in-chief, and for the honorable mention, which
is made in them of numerous subordinate officers,
who distinguished themselves in the bloody ac-
tons he describes. The General is profise in
his praise of his interiors, who fought under him,
bctraying none of that jealousy Of his brother
officers, which sometimes exhibits itself in the
reports of commanding generals The following
general summing up Of the wonderful deeds q
his Army is from his latest despatch. The first
paragraph Is u pointed aud proper -~s.l- of the
Union, which it IS well known has on severn
occasions greatly mngnifed the amount of his
force:
This army has been more disguised than sur.
prised that, by some sinister process on the part
OF certain individuals at home, its numbers have
been, generally, almost trebled in our public pa-
pers-beginning at Washington.
Leaving, as we all feared, inadequate earri-
sons at Vera Cruz, Perote and Pueblaowith
much larger hospitals, and being Obliged, most
reluctantly, from the same cause general pauci-
ty OF numbers) to abandon Jalapa we marched
august 7-l0J from Puebla with only O 7ss
rank aud file This number includes the oarri-
son OF Jalapa and the 2,429 men brought IN by
Brig General Pierce, Aug. 6.
AT Sontreras, Churubusco, &c. (Aug. 20) we
had but S,4S5 men engaged-after dedneting
the garrison OF San Augustin, four general as,
potl the intermediate sick and the dead |; AT the
Mono del Rey (septembcr 81 but three brig
AIDES; with some cavalry and artillerv-maAit.
IN all S,26l men-were in the battle In the
two days Sept ~ and lS-our whole operat-
ing force, after deducting, again, the recent kill
ca, wounded and SICK, together with the garri-
son of Mixcoac (the then general depot) and that
OF Iacnbaya, was but 1880; and, hnally. after
deducnng the new garrison of Chapultcpec. with
the killed and wounded Of the two DAYS. we look
possession (Sept l4) of this great Cap;,al Will
less than 5000 men And Ire-assert upon ac-
cnmnlated and unreasonable evidence that in
not one Of these conflicts, was this army Opposed
by fewer than three and half times It's num-
pers--in several of them by yet greater excess.
reeapitnlate our losses since we arrived IN
the basin of Mexico
AUGUST 10, 2oe-- KILLED, 1877; including IA
officers. Wounded, s77, including so ofieers.
Aissing, (probably killcd,) 38 rank and fls,-
Total, 1862.
SErTEMBER s.-kilied, 1l6, including Off
GERS Wounded, 665, including 40 otfieers-
Missing, Is rank and file. Tofal, 5ss.
SEPTEMBER ~, 10, I4.-Klled, $50. includ.
ing 10 officers Wounded, 7Os, including as
Officers Misssng, 29 rank and file. Total s62.
Grand total oflosses, 2,7l9, including $50 Of
hcers.
On the other hand this small force has beaten
on the same occasions, in view of their Capital,
the whole Mexican army, Of lat the beeinnine1
thirty odd thousand men--postcd, always. In
chosen positions, behind entertainments. or more
formidable detences of nature and art /; Killed or
wounded of that number more than 1000 Off
GERS and men, taken $3.50 prisoners, one-seyenth
officers, including rs Generals, of whom had
been Presidents of this Republic captured more
than 20 colors and standards, rs pieces Of oriin-
anee, besides 81 wall-pieces, 10000 small arms,
an immense quantity of shots, shells, powder,
VI that enemy, once so formidable in num-
1ers' appointments, artillery, &c, twenty odd
thousand have disbanded themselves IN desnair,
leaving as is known, not more than three frac
nents-the largest about 2,500-now wandering
IN different directions, without magazines or q
military chest, and living at free quarters upon