The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-10-20
From our Baltimore Correspondent.

eDe BALTIMORE, Oct, 20-5, p. M
Resumption of travel to ashingtonIr of Richard M
TMner-IHe markets-EBect Of the Te,os, &C.
Thanks to the energy of the Railroad Company their
road is again good travelling order, and enabled
again my daily communication with the readers
of the Union
important intelligence from the OF brought by the
SUMS pony express and issued by that paper
afternoon, copies of which send you. The gori
ous Notwithstanding the tremendous loss of life our vcto-
res Full details will, it expected be received
this evening with lists OF the officers killed and wounded
The trial of Richard M. Turner, charged with faudu-
eny obtaining funds Of the Mechanics Bank amount
of $50 O0O which expected to progress to-day, has
been postponed until Monday will remembered that
he obtained the money by presenting shecks which had
been paid, but cancelled through third party
to the counter of the bank.
The MARKETsThe advices by the steamer Cambria re-
ceved yesterday have had the effect OF unsetng the Bal
moe market for breadstus and the telegraph being out
order to-day intelligence of its effect the northern
markets has been received In the Baltimore market yes
erday afternoon, however, after the made pub
lie, there sales of few hundred bbls City Mills flour
$6 So and this morning about 800 bbs taken
the price 1t previously held SO 62t to
So 10; but sales made SO go Holders of
Howard to-day firm in asking So So The
market unsettled and must remain until merchants
receive their private advces, which will be before to-
morrow The scarcity OF flour and light receipts will pre-
the from having any very great immediate de-
pressing effect
Wheat has declined since yesterday about cents per
bushel Sales to-day of IL 900 bushels at m
1872 for good to prime reds and ordinary white 1872
1876 cents family flour do. 136 14O White corn is
selling SO cents, and yellow alto ~ centsvery firm
Whiskey is firm, with sales at % 80 cents.
From the Bait Sun, extra of this morning
Our "pony express" having arrived Petersburg Va
this morning, with dispatches twenty iour hours in ad
vance OF the mall stopped few moments to forward
the following portion of the important they bring
from the seat OF war; and they started under whip and
spur for Baltimore
The despatch, though not so much in detail as we an
ticipated, is highly interesting and important The
count it will be seen taken bodily from the New Or
leans Picayune OF the 18th inst. fAlA Ge1
The announcement of the death of many of our gal
liant army, with Coils. Ransom and Mcintosh, and Lieut.
Coils Martin Scott. Graham Baxter, and Dickinson, will
cause profound throughout the country whilst all
will rejoice to learn that Gems Worth, Smith, and Pillow
are safe.
any of the engagements, gratified to perceive,
were Mexican fables, and that General Scott is in
full possession Of the city of Mexico
| The steamer Fashion, Captain Ingram arrived last
evening, from Vera Cruz, via Tampco having left the
former city the 7th instant, and the latter the 9TH
From the Sd to the 7th, outward bound vessels de-
at Sus s sSoe but
! The Fashion has experienced very rough weather.
By this arrival the Pcayune has its correspondence
Der, from the city of Mexico. The is glorious,
ever.glorious, for the American arms AT the same
me losses severe, and the details OF the killed
and wounded Notwithstanding Thank God, says the
Pcayune none OF our generals have been killed. but
Major General Pillow and Brgadier General Shields
both wounded severely but were doing well at last
account. te
The Pcayune says We not about to repeat the list
here Ii will be found in Mr.. KendaPs letters but we
NAV mention, however that Colonies Mcintosh and c.
Ransom Lieuts Col Martin Scott, Lieut.. Col Graham,
of infantry Lieut. Col. Baxter, of the New York regi
ment, and Lieut. Col Dickinson, Of the South Carolina
regiment dead For the rest Of the deporabe list
| we refer to Mr. KendalPs letters.
In the battle of Kings Mill, hundred Of tho sth
Gen. Worth's division lost about six hundred men in
killed and wounded in the battle OF the 13th--the
stoming of Chapuepec and the attack the citadel
Quman's division lost three hundred, Twggs's two
hundred and sxtyeght, Pillows one hundred and forty
two, and Worhs one hundred and thirty eght--making
the loss eight hundred and forty-eight in ALL Worth had
scarcely |, 900 men in this action
Our entire loss since leaving Puebla in killed, wound
ed and missing Kendall sets down at full three thous-
! and Another authority, given below, makes IT four
thousand; and yet General Scott entered the valley OF
| Mexico with an army OF only little exceeding ten
thousand men, What wonders have these ten thousand
achieved! ~
The Mexican accounts representing that we were at