Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-10-12


on the 9th, Gen. Scott attacked the Mill
del Rey, or Kings Mill, in the immediate
vicinity of Chapultepec, and according 10
the DiGrio del Gobierno and the Boleiin,
published at AtliscO. our army was repui-
sed after a a severe conflict, in which we
lost about 40O ia killed and from 900 to
700 in wounded, and fell hack upon Ia
cubaya.
An attentive persual of our Mexican
papers cOnvinces us that in the battles
that followed and preceded the taking of
the capital, the Mexicans made even
stiil more obstinate resistance, and that
tue city was not carried until our little
army bad suffered loss unparalleled in
any OF the battles OF this war. There is
no doubt the Mexicans were preparing for
another conflict during the whole time
that negotiations were pending. On the
day the Mexican commissioners gave
notice that the proposition of our Govern.
ment for peace was inadmissible, circulars
were addressed to the clergy, exhorting
them to endeavor to obtain a popular in
surrectiOn, and at the same time to the
magistrates Of the States of Mexico and
PuebIa with the same object. Herrera,
by whom the circulars were signed, as
the military commandment of Mexico, tells
the people to arm themselves with any
and every description of weapon within
their reach, and assures them that peo>
pie determined not to be conqured must
ultimately overcome their invaders, whom
he enjoins upon them to destroy "by fire
and sword"
Meagre as our accounts are, they are
sufficient to show that the battle at the
Mill of FL Rey was hard fought one.
Again. n the l2,there is reason to believe
there was genei al engagement.
AT 3 o'clock in the morning the bells
awoke us by the announcement of an al.
arm. The batteries of San Antonio Abad
and the corresponding battery of the en-.
my opened fire upon each other. We
have seen discharged by the enemy
multitude of bombs, the greater number of
which burst in the air and long before
they reached our trenches. At the same
hour firing commenced at Chapultepec,
on the right side of which and in the
mountains (whence came the attack at a
short distance from the enemy are station.
ed our forces of cavalry and infantry, who
are watching the enemy.
We opened, at half after six. from the
battery of the "garita" of BeIen, or it may
he from that starting from the end of
PaseO Nueva. which is situated in the
angle formed by the causeway leading
to the villages IF La Pielad andTacu,aya.
But where the enemy directed all his
Efforts appears to be the ''garita" of San
Antonio Abad. The servant is at the
door; must close-the alarm bell con.
tinues to ring. s..
Gen. Scott fought from the morning of
the 18th to the night of the 18th before he
effected an entrance into the city of Mex.
leo.
II is not in the great loss our army has
suffered alone that this intelligence is i'm.
portant. 1t shuts out all prospects of
peace. The Mexican commissioners,
with Herrera.ihe peace advocate, at their
head declare that the moderate terms
proposed by Mr.. Trist were entirely in.
admissible. and their Miimatum was e.
qually so to us. We Fl d that the Gov.
ernors ofseveral OF the States, at the very
moment that negotiations were pending,
were issuing addresses to the neople, Incl.
ting them to rise against their invaders.
Even as early as the Odd of Augu t i, is
announced in the Diario del tiobierno
seventy members ofc ngress had declar
ed their unwiilngness 10 deliberate in the
capital while tn army ofthe enemy was
threatening it, and they accordingly re
tired to Toliuca. Santa Anna, there is
every reason to believe, is still in the
field with force of no inconsiderabe
strengthened Paroles is said to be be.
tween Puebla and Jalapa with body of
six thousand men. We have nothing TO
look for, therefore, but a prosecution Of
the war for an indefinite period.
The position of our TWO commanding
generals-Taylor reduced TO the feeblest
defensive strength, and Scott cut down
we know not to what extent,in an enemy's
city oftwo hundred thousand population
are such as to demand the immediate at.
tention- of the Government. Santa Anna
is doubtless still strong enough to menace
the valley Of Rio Grande and there should
be no delay in reinforcing Gen. Taylor.
With Gen Scott the demand for more
troops must be equally pressing. He is
not only in city containing hostile pop.
lation of two hundred thousand. but has
Santa Anna in his immediate vicinity. land
we have had too many proofs of the eel.
Gritty with which he can raise armies to
trust to his inactivity.
We find it stated in the Arco Iris, of
Vera Cruz, ofthe 10th inst, on the author.
ity of private letters. that in the bartle of
the Mill of Ell Reg. fought on the 9Th inst,
the Mexican loss was considerable "for
besides" says the journal, ''the death of