The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1847-01-29

Is that nlne.tenths al the volunteers called in.
10 service, have never seen an enemy, while
nearly One.lenth Of the whole number have
fallen victims 10 tho climate, and another
tenth been sent home with shattered con.
stitulion-inValids for life! In short. with /
the exception Of the national glory won al
Monterey, the expenditure of life anil treas
uTy, has been utterly useles; and we are this /
day much farther from a peace than we |
would have been If nothing had been al.
tempted until October, and the attempt then
made in the right direction. The summer
has given far moro victims 10 the climate
than 10 the enemy; and we hold that the
Administration should be held to strict &C
countability for having mismanGged the war,
instead of being assaled, at this time. for
getting into it. We hope, therefore, that
Mr. Critlenden, Mr.. Clayton, and Others
who, like them and COL Baker, are ready
to stand by their country, will press upon
the Administration the absolute necessity Of
more energy and greater exertiOn in the
right direction Let them ask arhy the
means placed at their DISPOSAL have not
been used? why they are not even now U.s.
ed2 and why is it that they are attempting to
bring The war to close with an insufficient
FORGET These are grave questions in which
the whole country feel deep interest; and
by adopting this course the wings will occupy
their true position.
Let them take the lead, too, in providing
for the army in the field. Let good and
sufficient clothing be provided for the vol
unteers; and above all, let them rot go into
the field again, without sufficient number
, Of chaplains and surgeons. They have suE
fered greatly aud unnecessarily from climate
and neglect; but be it the duty of the Wings
10 guard against such suffering in future.
Colonel Baker, in his speech, says that the
whole efficient force now in Mexico. under
Generals Taylor, Wool, Worth, Paterson aud
E Butler, that is, every effective man in the
, employ of the Government, with the exceP.
ton Of those in Sata Fe and California, is
= only eleven thousand FIVE hundred! Add TO
this the eight thousand men now assembling
j. in different parts Of the country, and we will
have assembled somewhere, about the Isl
! of March, twenty thousand men! Now, sup.
: pose We abandon Monterey, Saltillo, Maia'
= moras, chihuahua, Tampico. CamragO, and
the different interminate doPois, and assem-
BILE every man of the twenty thousand for
= march to the city of Mexico, either via Ver'
Cruz or San Luis POtosi, those familiar will
y such subjects, we'll know that after deduct
~ ing The necessary force TO keep oPeR-a con
- municaliOn with the seabOaFd, the Pctua
~ force embodied in the field could not excce,
p fifteen thousand troops! But We will no
e abandon Montery, Saltillo, Matamoros, Ca
MARCO, Chihuahua, MoncloVa, etc., and
!. follows as q melancholy fact, that ten O
twelve thousand men, is the extent Of tn
army with which the Administration inten
m TO march to the city of Mexico and conque
ID peace in the presence Of an army Of thirty
n. FIVE thousand men under the command {
Az Santa Anna, with the whole Mexican natio
II reused 10 resist an invasion of their county
e. PUBLIC LANDS FOR MILITARY SERVICE
a The Baltimore American urges the fol
an lowing views in behHf of grants of publ
Ter lands TO soldiers who serve throughout th
by war. The proposition has every consider
O On alton of policy, humanity and justice to re
th commend il:
ne ga provident and parental government
ire when il calls for the services of its EitiZeI
in. in the field, will take into consideration q,
lie only the hardshiPs and dangers Of the can
ou paign and the battle, but il will take thoug
in also Of the condition in which the survive
lis. of the war will be left when the time com
to for disbanding them. For the actual wan
the and perls Of the present the COmmissa
en- and the QuarteT-masteF will make the be
Ba- provision in their power, it is to be hope
we Immediate service carries with it its on
ec> excitement: those that enter into it knC
that it has trials as well as attractions.
MIS- I6eYond the present, so far as concerns q
this provision for the future, the soldier ran
has looks, nor would the amount of his pay
his? low him the means of doing so if he WI
and disposed. la the meantime, however,
call Occupation which he pursued before the I
y oflbegan is now interrupted: and when pc,
,low comes il may find him destitute Of mon
leth and destitute Of employment. Il put
'. atllands were granted, the disbanded sold
3 10 would have something 10 look to-sog
bis? thing TO be made available. But besil
lied this. system of military colonization mi
war follow which would be productive Of Q,
f the effects 20 the whole country and espeCiI
sim 10 the Western frontier. Men accustOn
lble. 10 associate themselves together as solid.
teal comrades and mesmates, would be likell
the end il agreeable when the war was owe
that settle together and have neighbouEhoo,
and their own. Their warlike habits might
ltion casionly find indulgence 10 rspelling the
] de- tacks Of Indians q maHFauding Mexic'
that while in agricultural pursuits the general
into nor Of their lives might pass peacefully
, and happily
,llars ---
.oun- The collections At The Costoms foE the
past, Al this port. fall short about mil
D the e. compared, with last yeeF. The rece
eeTs, IN December were &l.lS2.;
lion. and for theyear lc4o were 1883
scip> And % lo45 1csio0r
"a 10
,ught deficiency ell
! We e vas supposed that lne aec1anls. .l