Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-10-16

force, with that promptness and energy
which my high obligations impose upon me.
have the honor to be your Excellency's
very ohedient servant.
ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA.
Hostili,ies were then renewed immedi.
ately, by a demonstration on Chapul,epec,
or Ell Rey in the neighborhood. The &C.
counts received are from Mexican sources.
and abound in extravagant assertions. The
Della discredits the rumors about the
death of Gems. Worth, Smith and Pillow,
and the explosion of shell in the Amer.
lean magazine, destroying 900 of our men.
II relies on the report that Scott entered
the City on the l3th-sho owing that the
bombardment and battles lasted foe days
1t is said that Scott made feint upon
the city from Tacubaya to cover the real
attack which was made in another quarter.
As soon as our troops had entered, obliged
as they were TO cross a swamp or arm of
the lake breast deep, they were attacked
by a whole host of Lepero's or the Lac.
zaroni of Mexico, armed with knives,
sticks, &c, who were very promptly sent
to the right abou,-face by some we'll d.
rected charges Of grape and canister. 1t
is stated that Santa Anna has retreated
with his force TO Guadalupe.
Gen. Lane started from Vera Cruz on
the 10Th. with $500 men TO the aid of
Gen. Scott. Much hard fighting upon the
road was apprehended.
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
Government for peace was inadmissible,
circulars were addressed to the clergy, ex.
horting them TO endeavor TO obtain popu-
lar instruction, and at the same time TO
the magistrates of the States of Mexico
and Puebla with the same object Her.
rera, by whom the circulars were signed
as the military commandant Of Mexico
tells the people to arm themselves with any
and every description of weapon within
their reach, and assures them that people
determined not to be conquered must ulli
mately overcome their invaders, whom he
enjoins upon them to destroy "by fire anc
sword"
Meagre as our accounts are, they are
sufficient 10 show that the battle at the Mil
of Ell Rey, was hard fought one. Again
on the 18th, there is reason to believ,
there was a general engagement, for the
correspondent of the Boletin of A,lisco
writing on that day from the Capitol, say
in letter:
"At 5 o'clock in the morning, the bell
awoke US by the announcement of al
alarm. The batteries of San Antoni
Abad and the corresponding battery o.
the enemy opened fire upon each other
We have seen discharged by the enemy
a multitude Of bombs, the greater numbe
of which burst in the air and long befor
, they reached our trenches. At the sam
hour a firing commenced at Chapultepec
on the right side of which and in III
mountains (whence came the attack at
, short distance from the enemy are sta
,, toned our forces Of cavalry and infantr,
,cho are Matching the enemy.
We opened. at half after 6, from tn
battery of the "gari,a" of Belen, or it ma
be from that starting from the end Q
Paseo Nueva, which is situated in til
angle formed by the causeway leading I
the villages Of La Piedad and Tacnbays
a But where the enemy directed all his et
forts appears TO be the "gari,a" Of Sa
Antonio Abad.
!. The italics are our own, to draw the al
Y tention of the reader TO the statement tina
G the enemy was stationed in force at hi
, point of attack. These engagements, how
. ever, were but the prelude Of what was "
. the severest task of all-the stormng {
the heights and works of ChapuItepec an
. of the citadel, and from some accounts
i. would appear, of the city itself.
!. 1t is not in the great loss our army hs
d suffered alone that this intelligence is in
/. portant. 1t shuts out all prospect Of
e peace. The Mexican commissioners, wit
:. Herrera, the peace advocate, at their hea'
n declare that the moderate terms propose
by Mr.. Trst were entirely inadmissbl
i. and their ullmatum was equally SO to Il
q We find that the governors of sever
# of the States, at the very moment that n
O gotations were pending, were issuing al
v dresses TO the people melting them to ri
the 23d of August, it is announced in II
Diorio del Gobierno that seventy membe
:, of Congress had declared their unwillin
4 ness to deliberate in the capital while II
:. army was threatening it, and they acco
h dinghy retired to Toluca.
y Santa Anna, there is every reason to
B. leve, is still in the field with force Of |
,. nconsiderable strengthened Parades
n said to be between Puebla and Jalapa wi
- body of six thousand men. We ha
or nothing to look for, therefore, but pro: