The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-10-28

troops be kept here in ideness to maintain what
not want Either send them through by San Luis,
The interior route would be the most expeditions least
expensive and surest aud the great desert' bugbear
Snsn has SO terrified the good people Of the United
Luis to this place. represent that there would be
dhcnlty at all especially by the Zaostecas route and
very little hard marching. The order to march either
way would be received with the most unslloyed salts
faction by every man in the entire column the
General Scott enters the CITY the will be prose-
cuted " with the utmost vigor" 1t is quite time
BuENA VISTA. Sept 90. lS47.
While Gen Wool was engaged in the investigation
Of the murder Of Dewitt the priva in Captain Mesrs
company Of volunteers, much excitement produced
by the commission Of another murder Wednesday,
and which Is still on the tapis. Two attached to
the quartermaster's department. named Raynes from
kentucky. md Patterson from Illinois one blacksmith
and the other wheelwrght, had been in the habit
OF meeting party Of Mexicans near a rancho about
monte On Wedussdny they LEFT their quarters to
meet their Mexican friends, but not coming home at
n sh' bsr made Sd Gs them ns next
partially buried and near them evidences that they
had bsen playing cards Immediate measures were
arrested and properly punished In the time, at
night on the 23d inst report was received At head
quarters that armed body of from the different
camps to the number of ab ut sixty, proceeding
in the direction Of the ranches the camp IL
supposed with the intention of murder
Raynes and Patterson The general ordered
out his body guard OF Dragons and directed his aide
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prevent outrages aud persons found thsr.
to be arrested and brought to the provost guard The
dragons and Captains Deass and Sherman's companies
oflght artillery were also ordered out and the d.
recton given In less than twenty minutes about three
hundred men In the saddle and after the mob but
they could find no traces of them Hearing the tramp
OF horses they probably dispersed and them
selves In the extensive corn fields in the neghborhood
twas bright moonlight night and we had fns gal
lop oft, If nothing you that the ap-
pesrance Of 80 many armed mounted men, With their
gttering sabres dangling by their sides in this wild and
romantic country, was beautiful sight In every al
rection, could squads Of men emerging from
some corn field dashng down deep descent or gallon
ing through the chapsrral galoppng into rancho
scattering in all directions to detect any loierers er
walking their horses up from some deep dark arroyo.
Returning from fruitless hunt we had to cross
very deep ravne, full hundred feet deep two or
three hundred across, at the bottom of which small
scent only wide enough for horse and ascent on
the opposite side Of similar character was the only
all mounted had to march by files When in the bottom
OF the dark and gloomy arroyo and ascending on the
other SIDE the greater portion OF the command
OF the moving figures against the clear blue sky was
very beautiful The light artillery batteries Of Capts
Dess and Sherman both In excellent and very
efficient troops. They indefatgably drilled both as
light artillery and dragoons and their efficiency Of
course thereby increased The dragons are also in ex
cellent trim and well mounted to the MURDER
OF the two men-By untiring three Next
have been arrested about whose guilt there ia no
doubt One Of the rascas doubtless upon the principle
that misery likes company peaohed on his comrades A
military commission, composed Of Major T. Houzard
Harper of the Virginia regiment Capt Napier assistant
quarter master, and 1t Benham, Engineer Corps with
corder have been sitting to-day II they nd their pri-
soners guilty they will be hung dead certainty and
community. One of the poor devils, real Mexican
blackleg, very handsomely dressed hand cufed and
short has just passed my tent Although the unfortu
nate wretch must take highland fling with hearty
choke sauce as the saying is could not help laughing
at his manner Of getting the ground He Is evi.
IDENTIFY accustomed to have his legs fettered goes
along with swinging easy, dancing, sort Of gait,
very graceful such as suppose the small footed Chinese
ladies are compelled to adopt. The commission will sit
tomorrow and i suppose settle the business
Ing us inspector general to Gen Wool received orders
from Washington to day to join his company t the
other line. Capt. H. Thompson who left here for
Vera Cruz in company with Cen Cushing, to join his
own company Is assigned by the order to command
| the squadron Of dragons here.
THE HEROES OF LIE WAR.
From the Baltimore Sun, Oct At
Arsry vho sas s Msaa
patriotic families In the State The old 27th Regiment
Of Maryland militia will readily associate his with
which encirces the GROWING cap Of our Battle
Monument. Capt. Donaldson is a graduate of West
Point and served with the regiment Of ARTILLERY dur
ing the Florida war. From the 4th artillery he was
transferred to the LIST artillery and during the excite
ment on the northeastern boundary he the
advance company on the frontier He afterwards
selected to run the boundry line compliment for
valuable information furnished BY him to tho War
Capt Donaldson stationed at Pensacola was
with his company the first to reach Gen. Taylor Ia his
supposed critical position at Matamoras He then pro-
ceeded with Gen. Taylor in his onward march, and
highly distinguished himself at the stormng OF Monterey
so much 80 as receive brevet from the
and Gen. Wool made him his chief com issary q COM
piment ms decided as that of brevet appointment
The battle field of Buena Vista the next scene Of
Capt Donaldson's gallantry, and General Minon will
forever recsect the shell and canister scattered by him
among his rsnks with his 24pounder howitsers Capt.
Shriver, to whom so much credit is awarded served
under him In this great engagement. He still remains
with General Wool his chief commissary, but will
doubtless join his company at early day with Gen
Scott in the city OF Mexico aud occasion should again
occur will add additional honors to the he bears
as well as to the city of his nativity.
From the Boston Herald
COL Martin SCOTT Shall relate his fabulous tea ts
We wills but without expecting to be believed We
never believed them possible ourselves, till eyes
into proving that possible which had denied and
rided an impossbilitr, sheer romance We saw him
two potatoes into the air and bore them both in
the air with a single bullet We r'- do this with
both rifle and pistol We him take Jwn five swal-
lows successfully the wing with his rifle with single
ball. We saw him plant four successive balls In the
centre closely that but hole could have been de-
tected At the fifth shot, his rife hung fire. Neverthe
less the half the diameter of the ball within the
hole. We saw him shoot at living objects at least
thousand times but him draw trigger In vain
never knew his bullet to vary hairs breadth from
the spot where he had previously said he would place
Gen. VIM. g. Butler was in Nashville Tenn on the
10Th inst.
ARMY INTELLIGENCE.
Capt J. Jones, Of the Voltigeurs Capt 4. j. Jones
and Lieuts Marsh and Perkins, Of the 18th Infantry
with Oil men, will leave this evening for Vera Cruz
These troops have at the barracks for
some weeks past. Transports have been engaged and
are now In the river ready to receive on board any
troops that may arrive here-N o. Della, 1911 inst
The Victories I'm Mexico.
MAYORS OFFICE, Oct. 81, l8t7.
To the Hon MoRRIs FRANKLIN,
Bvasf IanfR narA of