Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-11-02
LATE WAR NEWS.
OAR Victories Confirmed.
Arrival of the steam shin Fashion


The CAPITAL IN OUR Possession
American loss in the battles of the 9Th
and l3fh-Generals Pillov q. Shields
arounded--Col. Mcintosh, Lieut.. Coils.
Martin, Scott, Graham, Baxter and
Dsckinson--Great less of officers and
men, &c.
From the N. o. Picayune, of the 18th.
The steamer Fashion, Capt. Ivy, arriv-
ed last evening from Vera Cruz via Tam.
pico, having left the former city on the 7th
and the latteL on the 9th,
By this arrival we have our correspon.
dence from Mr., Kendall and others up to
the 2sth September from the city ofMex-
leo. The news is glorious, ever glorious
for the American arms at the same time
our losses are severe. and the details of
the killed and wounded heart sickening.
Thank God none Of our generals have
been killed. bat Maj. General Pillow and
Brig. Gen. Shields were both wounded
severely, but were doing well at last ac-
counts, We are not about to repeat the
list of killed here it will be found in MIR.
KendalPs letters.
In the battle of the Kings mill on the
9Th, Gen. Worth's division lost about 600
men in killed and wounded. In the bat
lies of the 13th--lhe storming of Chapul-
tepec and the citadel-Quitman' division
lost 800, Twigg's 266. Pillows 142, and
Worth's 138-s4s in all. Worth had
scarcely a thousand men in this action
Our entire loss since leaving Puebla, in
killed, wounded and missing. Mr.. Kendall
sets down at 1000; another authority
given below makes it 1000. And yet Gen.
Scott entered the valley of Mexico with all
army only little exceeding O,0)O men.
What wonders have not these ten thou.
sand achieved The Mexican accounts
representing that we were at any time Sc.
riousIy repulsed are not tue. The Mex
lean loss is not definitely ascertained, but
was enormous.
Gen. Bravo was not killed, but was taken
prisoner. We do not see that Santa An
ma was wounded. 1t is true that he has
resigned the Presidency.
TRANSLATED.
Copy of a letter written by foreigner, to one of
ofhis countrymen in Vera Cruz, Ga Frenchman.)
MEXICO, Sept. ls, ls47.
My Dear Sir: avail myself of the de-
parture of the British courier to sketch you
the scenes it has been my luck to witness
in the capital and its environs.
The Mexicans having been beaten in
all points and in every way from the 9Th
to the 18th insts. General Santa Anna
left the capital 10 the evening of the 18th
and took the road of the interior. On the
l4th, in the morning, the Americans en-
tered the city in a very quiet manner, and
Gen. Scott was already in the palace,
when on sudden the people of the low
classes commenced throwing stones on
the Americans from the tops ofthe houses,
and from all the streets, whilst individuals
of better standing fired from the win
dows and balconies on the Yankees, who
| were far from expecting such treatment.
Gen. Scott ordered Immediately pieces of
artillery to be placed in all directions, and
soon swept the streets with grape shot,
but this proved insufficient TO subdue the
Instruction. Gen. Scott then sent a few
companies on divers points with orders to
break open every house out Of which they
should fire, to put to the sword those found
within, and lastly, to sack the property
thesein confirmed. This order, which was
executed with great mode Grafton (thanks to
the secret instructions of Gen. Scott, but
in some cases with stern energy, soon put
down the instruction. These scenes
lasted three long and sad days-from the
18th to the 10th, and assure you we
were much alarmed during the whole of
the time.
All foreigners, including those imbued
in other respects with prejudice towards
the Americans, agree in one point, that
the American army has not done the hun.
dredth part of the injury it had a right to
do, and which European armies would
have done in similar circumstances. A
foreigner myself and having seen warfare
in Europe towards the end of Napoleon's
military career, |, judging by comparison
give it as my sincere and candid opinion
that if a continental army had been stoned
and fired upon by the population of van.
pushed city, the lnha bitants would have
been dealt with rather roughly. Now we
are tranquil, but it is sad tranquility as
we fear new disturbances. Our precari.
GUS situation will not change for the bet
ter until peace be concluded or the Amer
leans send about Is, 900 men more. The
army of invasion is really too small. for
figure to yourself 1000 men in city of
upwards of 300, 900 hostile souls, and in
Puebla less than 1,5OG to maintain pop.
ulation of more than $4,000. This is re,
ally too little.
The Americans have covered themsel-
YES with glory in all the battles fought in
Mexico they are all and each of them
heroes. 1t is great thing to see hand
fil of Americans cut their way through
800 miles of dense population and hoist