The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-10-15
ADDITIONAL intelligence
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Special Correspondence of the N. Y. Herald.

We have been stationed here to remain some time or
at Jaaps, to protection to the passing trains
have no tune to write out account of march
attack the Bridge and our several the
hills and capture of gusrlas and recovery Of property
stolen from our trains.
We have bearded the lion in his den
Gen Lanes command arrived last evening on tner
way to join Gen Scott, comprising the sh emo hss'
under command OF Col Brough; the atm ndians Eol
German and three companies Of the sth infantry iney
were accompanied by two companies OF tns Louisiana JANA
mounted men They fired upon repeatedly from
the chapsrral and yesterday morning an iiated Dali
struck 1t John Kline of Lewis company rs ne was In
passing into lis head just above his ear
believe His loss is much deplored by his fellow officers
We have with Country McClusky acting as wagon
MASTER and Chris Lily who is LIST Lieut. Of Lewis com;
YANKEE IN MEXICO.
Gen. Cushing is expected daily from the Brazas.
FURTHER MEXICAN NEWS.
from the New Orleans Pcayune, Oct. 81
We yesterday found opportunity to look through Ale
of Mexican papers from the 9th to the 10th Of Septem
Der both inclusive We find very little Of incident in
them extract but gather from them very clear
idea of spirt Of hostility with which the people
animated towards us very determined effort is made
to excite prejudice against for the execution Of the
Irish deserters We find this execution the SUBJ
j.ct of an entire supplementary number of the Dnro
del Gobeyno Of the 10th ult II is in the an ad-
dress TO the Mexican people without any signature but
evidently partakng in some measure Of an official char
though have not doubt that the circumstances OF
the execution grossly exaggerated 1t gives the
Mexicans! Among the European volunteers whom
the American army has hired to kill u.s. there
Justice Of this war, who profess the same Roman
Catholic religion which profess, but who being
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consented to enlist Some of these aburng their
have passed over to our army to defend just
From thess, his Exceeucy the President formed the
of st. Patrick At La Angostura and at Churubusco
they bore themselves with the highest ntrepidity and
which only after its defenders had exhausted tn cir
last cartridges, they were made prisoners,
The generals of the American army who caunot count
upon their soldersin so iniquitous, through
the influence Of acts Of ferocity, determined to
shoot these rshmen Scarcely was this known in this
city before every breast filled with horror at the
thought His Excellency the Minister of Relations in
n touching letter to the English consul, the estimabe
lady Britannia Maestys Minister various private
individuals both Mexicans and foreigners ourselves
and the ladies Of families residing at Tacubaya in
terceded for these brave expected that If
they could not be pardoned they would at least be
capital punishment.
it would have been deemed base and repugnant to the
laws Of civilization practised in modern offer
the bloody spectacle of the execution Of these and
yet 1t could have been paated to certain extent by
the part which these men took in the defence of Churu
busco but they had share whatever in the slaughter
which was made the day before yesterday upon the
it. my countrymen? this day, in cold blood these Ca
ribs, from impulse Of superstition and after the
have hung up these holocaust-they have them
selves said ito the of the general generals
who there fell And in what manner did they hang
them? Noosing them by the neck they stood upon
the ground. and so suspsuding them that they died
by inches" strangled by their weight, the mode
adopted being such that their horrible agony more
than one hour A spectacle worthy of such men,
rather demons escaped from hell This they did with
eighteen OF these unhappy mea, and among them
the brave Captain Refill, whose head they stuck upon a
pike aud planted at Churubu,cc. To six Others who
proved that they had not volunteered, but been i'm
pressed they gave two hundred lashes each, and
PEELED them to dig the graves Of their companions
hlexicans These the men who call us barbsrians
thew cvilize these who
have plundered the houses OF the surrounding villages
Who have stolen children from their fames who have
slept inches devoted the sacred dead who hav.
with h~sphemous rev-ry clothed themselves in the or
of this affairs who have thrown upon the ground
the body Of Jesus Christ, and have made themselves
drunk In drinking out Of thu sacred vessels Accused
may they be Of all Christians, as they are of God
Its commissioners have 1T already published
that they should inquire Of their first OF
blood and nrel- what injuries have done to them
that they should thus seek revenge themselves Their
mode Of concsang their confusion ut being able to
reply these inquiries and Of satisfying their dspes
because would not consent to an ignominious
send Us from the Kings Min day before yesterday our
assassnated countrynnen who had in manner offend
60 ssS had IN shsr
MErrcANs: The supreme government coDjures US, in
the of the honor of race in the name Of our
dignity q men, and OF God himself that should all
unite by unanimous and continued effort to
these great ourages to yield never to dismay and to
wage this without truce and without relenting
May seize every selfish cewardly Mexican, who
say self that he has fulfilled every duty
public officer and good citizen; who has not contr
buted by every means In his power towards this
with person. with the influence of his position with
a part Of his fortune with his labor by maintaining
q number Of soldiers by aiding every way those who
fight and who has not 30 employed the which God
in which God has placed him. that His images shall not
be cast down. nor His holy name basphemed.
MExIco, September 10, ls47.
The Mexicans appear in great to have laid
formerly spoke Of Americans before they had tried
To- fha AaiA rhav kuy. bat
new, deprecstng and demonstrating attitude. 1t would
appear that they have learned nothing
Gently taken place-the full details Of which, MIR.
Tris concluding letter have been spread before the
papers written in the most earnest spritws translate
the leaders Of the Daro del Goberno after the
battle Of the Kings Mill
Quesen. foy Scott for Polk for that part of the PEG.
PIE OF the United States in favor Of the oar, for all
that nation and for the porid
What the cause, what the impeng motive that the
United States of America have brought plage, desola
ton and death upon the Mexican Republic
What offences have this Republic committed?
What reasonable or just aim does that Government
entertain TO gain which 1t has adopted bar
barous and unworthy christian and civilized people
Does 1t suppose that by such conduct worthy OF
hooters and savages 1t vindcate rights which can
only be legally asserted by of pacific negotiations!
From the conduct pursued by the American Govern
ment, what can possibly ensue but at once in
termipable and Of determination, nasnuch the Mex
lean Republic Is determined to disappear from the
ogue OF nations rather than humiliation and
disgrace?
Ahs very clearly 10 our mind That the Mex
leans have had surfsit Of fighting though their blind
obstinacy Is by means subdued The very next arti
ticle In the Diario before letter the Cover
nor OF Guanauato to the Minister of Foreign Relations
acknowledging the receipt Of letter announcing the
termination OF the government to submit to
sions which shall compromise Mexican honor The Gu |
snsyuato ofncia approves this determination of the
Central and tenders the assistance Of That
State, In money and men, the full extent of its re-
sources. ~ " I've ~
From the State of Jaisco, too, we have like accounts
The official proclamatons which were issued mon The
receipt Of the news of the battle Churubusco or San
Angel ~ the Mexcans term it. breathe war to the knife
They must lay down their arms SO long as ain
gle American polues the soil OF the country their re-
mains must be consigned the same earth In which
repose the victims of Pao Alto, Resaca Montery An
gesture, Cerro Gordo and San ADgel-the enumsra-
on not ours Providence has reserved for Jaisco the
nonor OF humiating the American pride Let u.s. saws
the Governor give ths world occasion to say Jalisco