Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1847-06-11

Virginia Regiment mentioned as the other Lieu
tenant killed whose name is not given-bnt being
vague rumors, We think it improper TO chronicle
Them.
The New Orleans Courier reviews The ad.
dress of the Tennessee officers, impugning the
conduct OF General Pillow and his utter want
OF military skill al the battle Of CeIro Cor
do, and impulng TO him an untrue statement
made 10 General Scott. We have room but iol
the following extract:
"We are told that General Pillow informed
General Scott that he had rcconnoitered the ene-
my's position, and was sure il was defended by
only one or Two guns. Well, every word OF this
disclosure 10 General Scott was true. General
Pillow did reconnore the enemy's work, and he
found il weak, as he reported il to be. But by
some means or other, (perhaps by deserer) the
enemy was apprised of General Pillows recon.
noisance, OF his report TO the commanding gene
raj, and OF the intention 10 assault the batteries
This information was conveyed in the night OF
the l7lh-lhe enemy Immediately sci 10 work
added five or six guns 10 the batteries, marched
upwards of Two thousand men 10 sustain them,
and placed strong detachmen's OF infantry, with
some light pieces OF cannon concealed on the
flank Of the route by which our troops were ex.
pecled 10 advance. We are told this fact is well
understood in the army; il il came 10 the know
ledge of The officers who signed this address TO
The public against The Brigadier General, they
ought TO have mentioned H.
These officers say that General Pillow was not
al the head Of The reg inent when II advanced
that he neither led nor followed it, Who has as
serted that he did lead or follow the regiment in its
advanced Surely the General himself asserts no
such hing-nor, 10 our knowledge, have any OF
his friends made such an assertion. But we know
il 10 be nue-tha when the General was wound
ed he was very near The right OF The regiment:
This information has come 10 US from gallant
officer who was on the ground, and an eyewitness
OF what took place. Why was moi This tact
stated in the Address OF the officers 10 the Public 7
This address 10 the public, from The officers
OF the I'd Tennessee regiment OF volunteers has
not been provoked BY anything said or done by
General Pillow On the contrary in his official
letter, he bestows high applause upon the regl-
mcnl and its officers for the steady and gallant
manner in which they bore themselves in The al
tack. If any part OF the Generals conduct de-
serves censure-and it the intimatons ol lhls
address are we'll grounded, he is unfit for his sa-
tion-if he deserves censure, il would be more
proper in military point of view, and more con-
sonanl 10 usage, 10 have preferred charges against
him to The Commander-in-Chef in order that his
conduct might have been investigated and the
real truth brought 10 light II is a serious mat
ter TO throw before the world such inIimaliors as
these against General officer, whose personal
courage and gallant bearing in action" are &C.
knowledged BY his accusers. We await the re-
ply OF Gen. Pillow, in full confidence that he will
rebuff every item OF accusation, that has been al
legged against him.
We republsh from yesterdays Wing The fol-
lowing article. We do not desire to do injustice,
and we give the article entire. There was time
when we should have felt surprise at seeing an
American paper endorse any portion OF such
bitter vluperatioR upon our own country-bul
the course OF The Wing papers On the Mexican
war has prepared us for any specimen Of parIi.
zanship, however extravagant or untounded.-
Journals which openly charge or uncandidly in
sinuale that il was The deliberate purpose OF the
Chief Magistrate OF the Union 10 sacrifice dis
tirguished General aud his brave army at Buena
Vista, through political jealousy, will hardly slic-
kle al an approval OF the vndictive assaults oil
the British press upon the character and conduct
OF their own country. We wish The Wing had
been more explicit as 10 what portion Of The Lon
don Times article ii commends for "lbe truth
and force" (which 1rW atone Tor Whatever OF in.
Justice there may be in Others" To our minds,
the whole article merits The reprobalion of every
true American:
From the Richmond Wing, Juno 8.
BRITISH OPINlONS.-T The leading English
journals, without manitesting any sympathy for
The Mexicans, whom they bitterly reproach
for effeminacy and cowardIce, speak, neverthe-
less, very harshly oil our own proceedings in that
country
The London Morning Chronicle, after express.
ing its surprise at the tall of The Castle OF San
Juan, which, we'll victualled and in ordinary
hands il says, should have been for months i'm
presnable, adds: ave can scarcely lament
over the calamities Of Mexico; bul sill less
can we rejoice in the success OF The U. States"
The London Spectator breaks on, in this strain
of biuer inyecive: 1.-THE Americans continue
their triumphant progress but without glory. II
appears TO be fairly inferred from the dispatches
OF Gen. Scott, that, having before him the for
lress OF San Juan G'Ulloa with garrison, and
The city of Vera Cruz with redundancy OF help
less population, he deliberately made his election
10 war upon women and children! Crimes like
that can never be committed with impunty.-
The race that commits them bears within itself
the curse Of internal corruption" &c. &c. How
charmingly British writer's discourse on the love-
illness OF universal freedom and philanthropy -
If their practice were al all correspondent with
their professions, they might be justly cited as
models for the imitation Of all other people. But,
alas their wre,ched white slaves furnish prac-
tical satire upon their boasled love Of freedom;
while their recent battles in India and China, 10
90 no farther back, are full of sangunary incl
dents infinitely more revolving 10 The feelings OF
humanity than any which have occurred in the
progress of the Mexican war-which, whatever
else may be said of it, it cannot be denied has
been generally conducted in a manner as lille
calculated as possible 10 aggravale the calami-
ties inseparable from war in its mildest form.
But The London Times vents its indignation in
still more emphatic language. The lombard
ment of the city OF Vera Cruz, instead OF an al
tack upon the Castle, il declares 10 be $50 extra.
ordinary, and so contrary 10 all the usages Of
modern war;" that nothing but the official an
nuncialion could have procured its credence TO
the fact. 1.-THE lustre oil the arms OF The United
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