Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1847-05-06
California.

The Union contains official dispatches from Com
Stockton, detailing the late battle, &c. which resulted
in the recapture of Ciudad de los Angeles The dis
patches of the commodore do not differ essentially from
the accounts we have already published. The first
communication is dated at the City of the Angels, JAN
H. and gives an account of the engagements of the
8th and 9th, of that month. The dispatch says:
Having made the best preparations could, in the
face of Boosting and Wgant enemy, we left San
Diego on the ooh day of December, THAT portion of
the nsurgent army who had been watching and annoy
ing US having left to join the main body) with about
six hundred fighting men, composed Of detachmens
from the ships Congress, Savannah, Portsmouth ard
Cyanc aided by Gen. Kearney, with detachment of
sixty men on foot from the LIST regiment of United
States dragons, and by Capt. Gillespie, with sixty
mounted rlfemen.
We marched nearly one hundred and forty miles in
ten days. and found the rebels on the Sh day of anu.
AIRY in strong position, oil the high bank of the " Rio
San Gabriel" with six hundred mounted men aud ou
pieces Of artillery, prepared to dispute passage a
cross the river.
We waded through the water dragging our guns al
ter against the CALLING fire Of the enemy without ex-
changing shot until We reached the opposite shore
when the fight became general, and our troops having
repelIed chlrge Of the enemy, charged up the bank
in most gallant manner, and gained complete victory
over the nsugent army
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Mesa" to this place, the insurgents made another
desperate effort to the capital and their necks
they concealed with their artillery in ravuo I'M
til we within gun shot, when they opened brisk
fire from their field pieces on our right flank and at the
same time charged both on our front and rear. We
son senced their guns, and repeed the CHARGE when
they fled, and permitted the next morning to march
into town without any farther opposition.
THE Administered officers of the army, lately ar
rived at New-Orleans from Vera Cruz, are of opinion
that Gen. Scott will be prevented from marching into
the interior of Mexico farther than the highlands of
Jalapa by the approach of the period when the term
of several volunteer regiments under his command
will expire. Some of those terms will expire before
the first day of July, when The men may re-enlst or
not. If they choose to return home the General will
be under the necessity of disbandng item, and pro-
vidng the means of conveying them to the homes !;
and this duty he might be called upon to perform at
moment when it would be extremely Inconvenience
him. and hazardous to the army 1t is the part of pru
dence therefore, to remain at Jalapa till he receives
re-inforcements from the United States or till Gen.
Taylor is far advanced on his march as to render
junction with him easy and sure.
Gen. Taylor is in the same situation The chief
part OF his forces consist of volunteers enlisted for
twelve months; and though their terms may not expire
soon as those of some of the regiments under Gen.
Scott yet his situation would be CRITICAL if he found
himself San Luis Poos, or in the vicinity of the
capital of Mexico, while his volunteers claimed their
discharge and no tloops at hand to replace them-.N
0. Courier.
Who ,Oould not be a soldier? Su6erings of The
Troops. March 26.-This is the first quiet day we
have had in the last twenty and words cannot picture
the nconveRiences the annoyances and the suferings
of the army, both regular and volunteer has expert
enced during this period One half of the time the
sun has been fairly broiling the men in the valleys
and upon the sand hills-the other half with scanty
raons and without tents, large portion of the men
have been exposed to the rude, cold norhers and to
clouds Of sand that fairly blinded the eyes already in
famed by the fierce rays of tie sun.
The water, too, has been Indifferent, and in many
scarce thousands of ticks and other insects have
covered the men, and the labor has been incessant in
the trenches, both by day and by night yet all has
been borne without muTmuring. To be sure, there
has been some repnng at the fact that the grand pro-
gramme of the performances before Vera Cruz, in so
far as regards the non-aval of all the heavy ordnance
advertised in the bills of the day intended to open
the ball with, has not been carried out to the full ex
tent hoped for and anticipated still, all have gone to
work cheerfully with the limited means at hand, and
the result of the siege must forever remain monu-
meut in their praise,