The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1847-10-26

further prosecution OF the war, and ap-
pointed Gems Paredes and Bustamcn!e to
command the ,reops thus TO be raised.
The Whereabouts OF Santa Anna was
not known al the capital on the z6ih Sep
sember--rumor placed him in the vicinity
of Puehla.
COPS Dickinson, Baxter, and M'lntosh
have died of their wounds; Gems Pillow
and Shields are recovering slowly. Our
correspondent makes out our total loss TO
be-in Killed. wounded, and missing
sixteen hundred and tweaiy-one-
The American Star Of the 20th Sept,
in speaking OF the execution Of the. de-
sertcrs, says that sixteen Of them were
hung at San Angel on the 9th; and, imme-
dia:cly after, some ten or twelve were
whipped and branded oa the cheek with
the letter ID. Riley, the chief of the
crowd, came III for share Of the whip
ping and branding. The next morning
four others were executed at Miscoac; and
on the 18th, thirty mole we're hung upon
one gallows al the same place. IL app
pears that Riley, according to our militia
ry laws. could not be hung, he having de-
serted before the commencement Of hos
tiilies.
Rumors were rife in Vera Cruz OF San-
IA Anna being in PuebIa at The head Of
come 900 men. Speaking on this sub
iect, the American Star Of Sept. %, pEb-
lished in the city of Mexico, says that
Gen. Rea with guerrilla force had en-
tered Puebla few days previous, and the
force under Col. Childs being so small,
he Withdrew them TO the heights COM
manding the place. where he was quite
secure, and from whence he could bom-
bard The city at viii.
The summary of lhe Picayune is sub
staniially the same as that of the Delta.
except that the forme. gives more COM
prehensipe statement Of the extent OF our
loss. as follows:
1.-The news is glorious. ever-glorious,
for the American arms. AT the same
time our losses are severe, and the details
of the killed and wounded heart-sieken-
ing. Thank God, none of our Generals
are killed, but Mai. Gen. Pillow and Bri-
ga,ier Gen. Shields were both wounded
severely, bat were doing well at last ac-
counts. Coils Mcintosh and G. Ransom,
Lieut.. Col. Martin Scott, Lieut.. Col. Gra-
ham. OF Infantry, Lieut.. Col. Baxter Of
The New York regiment, AID Lieut.. Col.
Dickinson, Of the South Carolina regi-
ment are dead. For the rest Of the de-
plorable lost, we refer to Kendail's letters.
"in the battle Of Kings Mill, seven
hundred. OF the 9Th, Gen. Worin's di-
vision lost about six hundred men in kill
led and wounded, in the battle. OF the
18Th, the storming of Chepultepec and
the attack on the citadel, Quitman's divi-
sion lost 800 men, Twigg's 268, Pillows
l42, and Worth's l3s-making the loss
s49 in all. Worth had scarcely 1000
"Our entire loss since leaving Puebla,
in killed, wounded, and missing, Kendall
sets down at full 1000. Another author
ity makes II 1000. and YET Gen. Scott en-
tered the valley Of Mexico with an army
Of only a little exceeding ten thousand
men. Wha! wonders have these 10000
men achieved
The Mexican accounts representing
that We were at any time seriously repul-
sed, are not true. The Mexican loss is
not definitely ascertaiaed, but was enor-
nous.
"Gen. Bravo was not killed, but taken
prisoner. We do not see that Santa An
ma was wounded. 1t true that he has
resigned the Presidency"