The Arkansas banner., 1847-05-19
Interesting letter from the Army
cAnAaeo, Mexie0. AprIIls. I'd.

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 CAaAReo, Mexico, April Is. 1T. !sy Dear L.--Siaee ny last letter long time has necessarily elapsed aud you are by this time, no doubt from ether of the several gal last achievements of little arny of occupation. BnenA Vista. q bloo=iy and well contested field , where many of ste best and bravest champions of their coanIy's eanse men who were the admired ant beloved of their friends and the brightest raents of the social wosh offered up their lives 10 purchase victory to that eoantrys banner, ,Asl has ! yet continued 10 wave over many well fought bat { tie as unsanqaished as ust4rnished Vera CFaz, whose castle with iss thousand guns. dehed the world, ~as fcced ,c yield to the exhibition Of American skill aaa American energy. and last bu, no. least far distant Chihuahua with its hofdes of citizens and soldiers Is forced to capitaisie ta mere handful of ragged and half starved Yankees, whom no obstacles can retars and no dangers is.- | tmilate
 Buena Vista. Vera Cruz and Chihuahua, a bright and glorious constellation of victories that will eveF shed an additional halo around American ysicr and elevate 10 its proper estimation ,he irresistible rage and untirng energy and inirepidity of Ameri- can cti-sa soldisy. My last letter dated believed
 March 7th contained lis; of the killed z;i woun- ] hope you received in due time. Immediately upon finishing the P. &. mounted to overtake CoIcaeI i Curis's command, which did that nighl at Mier. the eoluHn having arrived after dark and the wag- /. Ons being considerably mixed up, we contented ourselves with few slices of '.old ned spitted spon a ram rod. and just drzpie'' of old cos nac
 aad pot for the first time spread eur blankets 10 take ! il "af rresco'' for the night fhree days more cansioas marching in cioSe colsvna under the i'm mediate inspection cf General Urrea's scouts from every sssaiable hill top, bFoG zht ns ,o Ceralvo, where we were gladly welcomed by the command of Major Giddings, who had just previously sac- ceeded in repuissBg an attack of some three thou sand ''yaicT bessics" without mu-h other loss than some fifty ws-oas, among which, unfortunately for the prying Mexieans who were ransacking if, was the ammunition wagons, having beer SC; fire to a. mong the rest, 1t was consequently blown to a.oms
 Among the escort of that train was sgreesbly sur prisea to find yonr old friend Davis Thomson. with a detachment of Pikc's boys, from whom you have doubt this heard all the particulars Of she a
 fair. The night after we left Ceraivo. we found ourselves more thiekIy beset by the enemy's spies than before, and durBsthe night one of the piekets came numbering into eanp--haying been attacked by large body of their cavalry. The long roll was scarcely sounded when inc men were all al their posts, prolonged around the four sides Of the square formed by the wagons; |; but after reconno;.sring every thing remained quiet and ous anxiety to see '';he elephant" was disappointed For two days more we passed the fresh tires of the enemy an, oh the second. one of thsr spies was captured. after having woanaed his cap;or from hin We gleaned some little Information He was afterwards recog- mixed o( the most relentless and blood thirsty ef the ranchero captains and identified with the massacre of the defenceIess teamstess of Smiths train some two weeks before. The next day while standing between four guards he was shot and mor- tally woaadrd; of course, ''no body did i" When we reached Ramos, about six miles from Marin, we halted for ,he double purpose of baxying the dead of Smiths masssere-and asceriainiax the position of the enemy. as we were in the neighborhood where we were certainly to be attacked. I have looked upon the faces of he dead asder many cir camsianees, have witnessed unHsoyed the death struggle of the wretch whose crimes had brough, him to the scaifold, I have gazed without emotion upoa the siossed carcass of murdered man. ard stood with perfect apathy over the revolng tenant of The tisseeung room. but few. nethinks however l stern. could stand upon spot where all around within hIs sight were strewn Wiih the torn and mangled remains of what 50 lately were men. For about mile and a half there laid either singly or in clusters of three or icar the bodies of the pn armed men, upon whom these 6sbas had gln,ted ibeis cruelty. During the afternoon one of the buIying parties Sas driven in by the Mexicans. and brought wIih them wagon load of the bodies and as group aftet group would gather nearer to gaze upon ihem. many and deep were the nniisI- ed imPreoatlons and sesys oG vengeance upon their nasdssers. The next morning we moved in Close eosau.E nosaen'anly expecting an attack, but sboa, -Four miles irosa Ramos we unexpectedly met with the Identical Old Zsck himself, m that identit al same eid coat" now become z. celebrated as its ~earer Aiter short eonsassation we were wheel ed ssoas'i sn withthe ssditon of bis drSgoons and stseng detachment oi ..shs red right arm, we pashed on to Cadseyta in ovter if possihle to over take senof uusa who had slipped of in that disee- ton, bat sA we gained by the move was a sight of one ofahe most besatifni towns ia Mexico. cada- aeyia is the Seville of this part of the Repabe in hasised by many of the weaithiess rropsietors ef the valiey of Msnserey It dsplys more taste. eieaaii- r<ss, ssA eoznfor thas is .sas;iy met wish in MexisAa hcrcugh. The intesIof of every hlock ef