Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-10-05
News from the Army.
From he New Orleans Na,ioral


than 1t was six weeks past. Men who
have lived thus far through the season
without an attack, begin to hope and to
speak with far more composure and. Ger.
tainty otto morrow, next week, and SO
on. But whist the fever has decreased
IN amount, it has proportionally increased
IN maiIgnancy, and I dare say the troops
garrisoning this place have never, nor
ever VIII, encounter so conquering and
oncenquerable foe. The companies of
the Isl infantry were nearly decimated in
June; and Ct one time the whole task of
holding this town. and protecting the mil.
lions Ut property SO widely distributed
throughout the town, devolved upon about
one hundred and fifty men. Then death
stared every man in the face. To 90 in
the sun was to invite sickness, and vet
this important duty was done soberly.
Faithfully, and cheerfully; and while
Mexican laborers were receiving from
The government forty five and fifty dollars
month, these men, and many of them
Intelligent and respectable, were receiv-
ing all ofs seven. The Louisiana battalion,
| understand, has also suffered greateIy by
the fever; and | am told that at the pres.
ent time the sickness is greater among the
volunteers than the regulars; and that the
four compnies constituting the battalion,
limited, would not make mitch more than
one full company.
1t has been rumored here that father
Jarauta, the guerilla chief has again in
contemplation descent upon this place.
1t is said that he has been emboldened
into this idea by his success in preventing
Wells from forming junction with I.ally.
Rumor goes ON further to say that he has
a large number in his interest in ibis city,
and that, at a given signal, they are to
oVerpower the guard at the gates, and at
the same TIME to attack the weak points
about the town, so as to call off the atten.
ton of the garrison, whilst he and his
horde will rus in, visit the 'spots and
good places" pay his respects to his
American friends, and retire. Old sol.
diers don't believe this; they think that
Jarauta prefersa country life.
The command of the troops q do not
mean the governorship)has passed into the
hands of Lieut.. Col. ID. s. Miles; he is
we'll qualified for the position, Amt afraid
ofresponsibility, is prompt and energetic,
knows all about his command, and is
ready at any moment to receive Jarata or
any ofthat Kind. And they say that he is
not bad at reading the marriage ceremony,
as made evident and evening or two ago,
on which occasion he performed the priest.
ly functions in the marriage of Captain
Lewis, U. s. pilot, 10 young lady from
Galveston.
The rumors from the army are so
chaotic and various, that l can make
nothing certain of them, but will write
you so soon as something definite comes to
hand.
SEPTEMBER 1st, ls47.
Lally is still! in Jalapa, and has receiv.
ed a slight wound. By the way, there has
been some trouble between him and Capt.
Walker, formerly of the rangers. 1t ap.
pears that Walker had been sent down
with a mounted force to the relief of the
Major, and, after his arrival, acted rather
independently, and did not exactly meet
with the MAJORS appreciation; that the
Major finally arrested him, or, rather or
dered him into arrest, and that Walker
disregarded the order, and withdrew his
command to Coatepec, some thirty miles
distant. Iprsstime the Captain thought
the times too interesting to be in active
arrest. He has made himself the terror
OF the country in and about Jalapa and
Perote; and | am told that the natives
are little anxious to have him withdrawn
from that part ofthe country. After he
left Jalapa,he overhauled some Mexicans,
and recaptured the mail taken from hallys
train.
understand that a court of inquiry
has been in session for some time, in.
stituted at the request of Captain Wells,
for the purpose OF investigating the cir
cumstances attending his expedition, and
forming therefrom an opinion as to wheth-
er he Captain Wells) is to be regarded
as blameless. Col Miles presided; and
understand that the court exculpated Capt.
Wells entirely, and, on the contrary. re.
garded his conduct as perfectly officerlike.
Chicago Journal.
The brutal and unprovoked attack of
the Chicago Journal on the canal apprai.
sers has excited more remark and indig.
nation in this community than anything
from such source ought probably to de-
serve. 1t is well known that before Ia.
king the Office, the appraisers were re-
quired TO subscribe an oath faithfully
and iHpar.ially to discharge their duty"
and In administering this oath, we are in.
formed, they were obliged to declare, in
so many terms, that they owned no pro.