Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-10-13
THE WAR!
BY LAST NIGHTS MAIL-INTER-
ESTING DETAILS.

ES1lNG DE TAILS.
~ By last evenings mail, we received
a Daily StLouis Reveie, containing mass
of details concerning the last sanguinary bat
ties before and in the city of Mexico. These
details were derived from various sources.
principally Mexican. Wegive below short
extracts-the most important that our eye
rested upon in hastily scanning the accounts
before Us:
Prom the Diario del Gobiermo.
At half past four O'Clock, this morning,
the Americans attacked the position of the
Mill of Ell Rey, close TO the fortress of Cha
pultepec. His numerous and brave col
umns were, however, repulsed three times
| by our valiant soldiers, who this day gave
| brilliant proofs of their patriotism and bra
very. More than a thousand of the enemy
remained on the field of battle, and on our
side the loss has been less than half that
number, having to lament the death of the
gallant Col. Don Lucas Balderas, and Gen.
| Don Antonio de Leon being wounded, to-
gether with several other distinguished chiefs
and officers.
The "tra or Santa Anna, commanded,
lin person, the column, which forced the
| Americans to retreat, taking with them,
without doubt, the CO nyiction that ii is only
| through ryers of blood that they can pene-
trate the city of Mexico, and that, at all
events, they will there find their scpulchre.
| One of the Mexican letters says: The
| Americans, in compensation for their loss,
or whatever you like, hung, yesterday, at
San Angel, all the prisoners of the Legion
of St. Patrick they took at Churubusco,
N n all the worl thought hey would have
been spared capital punishment They have
expelled from their houses all the inhablt-
ants of the village of Mixcoac, in order to
establish there their h. spials and headqua'-
| ters.
The Pcayunc of the 2Sh ult. ar; An
attent We perusa of our Mexican papers con-
vinces us that in the battles that followed
hose, and Irece led the taking o! the capt.
tai, the McXlcans made even a still more OBJ
stnlte resist nee and that the city was not
carried until our lii L. army had suffered
| loss unparalleled n 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 pend
ing. On the day the Mexican commission
ers gave notice that the proposition of our
| Government for peace was inadmisSihlc,
circulars were addressed to the clergy, ex-
horting them to endcavor to obtain a popu-
lar insurrcct II, and at the same time 10 the
magistrates of the states of Mexico and Pu-
ebla with the same object. Herrera, by
whom the circulars were signed, as the NH
itary commandant of Mexico, tells the peo-
pie to arm themselves with any and every
description of weapon within their reach,
and assures them that people determined
not to be conquered must eyenually over
come their invade s, whom he enlons upon
them TO destroy shy fire and sword"
Mean ime as our accounts are, they ae
sufficient to show that the battle at the Mill
of FL Rey was hard fought one. Again,
on the 18th, there is reason to believe there
was general engagement.
AT O'Clock in the morning the bells
awoke us by the announcement Of an alarm.
! The batteries of San Antonio Abad and
the corresponding battery of the enemy
opened fire upon each other. We have
seen discharged by the enemy a 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 stationed our forces Of caU-
dfry and infantry, who are aoatching the
enemy.
We opened, at half after six, from the
battery of the ''garita" of Belen, or it may
be from that starting from the end of Paseo
Nueva, which is situated in the angle form
ed by the causeway leading to the villages
of La Piedad and Tacubaya. 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 continues to ring.
Gen. Scott fought from the morning of
the 18th TO the night of the 18th before he
effected an entrance into the city of Mexico.
1t is not in the great loss onr army has suffered
alone, that this intelligence is important. II
shuts out all prospects OF peace. The Mexican
commissioners with Herrera, the peace advoc'te
at their head, declare that the moderate terms
proposed by Mr., Trist were entirely inadmisslbe
and their uilmatum was equally so TO US. We
find that The Governors OF several OF the States
at the very moment that negotiations were pend
ing were issuing addresses TO the people, melting
Them TO rise against their invaders. Santa Anna
here is every to believe, 10 still n the field
wi a force % in sonsiderabe strength. and
Paroles is said to be between Puebla and Jalsps &
with body Of six ,housane men determined 10
prevent any ,eInforcements from reaching Scott. s
We have nothing to look 70 :, therefore, but pro-
secutlon of the war for an indefinite period.
The position of our two commanding gen sHn
Taylor reduced to the feebest defensive srengtn
and Scott cut down we know not 10 what extent
man enemys city of 200, 900 population, are suea
as to demand the mmedie te atteution of govern
ment. Santa Anna Is doubtless sliA sirons Is
enough to menace the valley of the Rio Grand''
and here should be no dely in reinforcing TsyRt
With Scott the demand for more troops must D.
equally pressing. He is not only in city ee''
tanning h. s,ile polu Ia ton. of.2OO, 600, hn ="
Santa Auns IN his immediate vicinity.