The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-10-23

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Gen. Quiiman's column erecsed p bFeastwofk
and put into position q battery Of lbs, one So
pound howitzer, intending to warm up the CIT
adel in the morning. Gen. Worth's column got
his guns in a position to take everything in the
vicinity, and alter night Lieut.. Hagner threw a
few shot into the city, which no doubt intlml-
dated the enemy very much, as they had a
taste Of this at Vera Cruz,
After the results and successes Of the day,
Gen. Scott intended on the morning Of the l4th,
to make a lodgmeut, in the "New Paseo," Zen
tering by the San Cosme gate) and lombard
the city, and for this purpose the balance Of
Gen. Twigg's division was ordered from FL
Piedad to the support Of Gen. Worth.
On the night Of the 18th, Santa Anna evac-
uated all his positions. and retreated from the
city, having had more than one half Of his ar
my killed and:swounded or taken prisoners
among the latter, Gen. Bravo with his staff, at
Chapultepec. Santa Anna found that if he
fought US on the 18th, he would hardly have a
body guard left to cover his retreat,
Earlyi n The morning the two columns took
up their march, Gen, Quitman and Smith, at
head Of their commands, entered the Grand
National Plaza att o'clock. The column wos
formed in the Plaza, and, by order CT Gen,
QuitmOn, the National Standard Of the Cerro
Gordo Division, while the command came to a
present, was flung to the breeze over the Ma
tional Palace, and it now triumphantly waves
over the HALLS OF THE MoNTEzUMAs.
We copy the following extract from the Pic
ayune under date at Mexico, ofsept. 18th.
Al little after midnight, Major P~alacios, ac-
comPanied BY two three members of the muni-
ciPal council Of the city, arrived at Gen.
Worth's head quarters, and in great trepidita-
'tion, informed him that Santa Anna and his
grand army had fled, and that they wished at
once to surrender the capital! They were re-
ferredt to the commander-in-chief and imme-
diately started for Tacubaya; but in the mean
time the firing upon the town ceased.
Att o'clock this morning, Gen. Scott with
his staff, rode in and took quarters in the Ma
tionol Palace, on the top Of which the regimen
tai flag Of the gallant Rifles and the stars and
stripes were already flying. An immense
crowd Of blNnketed leperos, the scorn of the
capitol, was congregated in the plaza as the
commander-in-chlef entered it. They pressed
upon our soldiers, and eyed them as though
they were beings of another world. So much
were they in the way, and with such ea-
gerness did they press around, that Gen. Scott
was compelled to order our Dragons to clear
the place. They were told however not to in
jure or harm a man in the ~mob-thoy were all
our friends.
About five minutes after this, and while
Gen. Worth was returning to his division near
the Alameda, he was fred upon from a house
near the Convent Of San Francisco. Some Of
the cOwardly Polkas, who had fed the day pre-
vious without discharging their guns, now
commenced the assassin game of shooting at
every one of our men they saw, from windows,
as well as from behind the parapets on the
azotes or tops of tho houses. In half an hours
time our good friends, the leperos, in the neigh
borhood of the hospital of San Address and the
Church of Santa Clara, also commenced dis.
charging muskets and throwing bottles, and
rocks from the azoteas. l have neglected to
mention that just previous to this Col. Garland
had been severely wounded by musket, fired
by some miscreant from a window.
For several hours this cowardly war upon
our men continued, and during this time many
were killed or ~wCpndod, 1t was in this spe.
cies of fighting that Lieut.. Sidney Smith re-
ceived his death wound. The division of Gen
Twiggsin one part of the city, and Gen. Worth
in another were soon actively engaged in put
ting down the instruction. Orders were giv.
on to shoot every man in all the houses from
which the firing came, while the guns from the
different light batteries swept the streets in all
directions. As the a~ssassins were driven from
one house they would take refuge on another
but by the middle Of the afternoon they were
all forced back to the barriers and suburbs
'A"y ASSNh pSloOHS udNG uUuOtleSS Deen
killed during the day, but this could not be
avoided. Had orders been given at the outser
to blow up and demolish every house or church
from which one man was fired upon, the dis
turbances would have been at once quelled
Asst is, trust that the lesson the rabble ant
their mischievous leaders have received to-day
may deter them from future outrages.
On entering the palace Gen. Scott at ono,
named Gen. Quitman Governor Of Mexico,
most excellent appointment. Some wag i'm
mediately proclaimed aloud in the plaza al
follows: "Gen. John A. Quitman, of Missis
slppi, has been appointed governor Of Mexico
vice Gen. Jose Maria Tornel, resigued-uer
suddenym 1t seems that the valiant Torne
ran off at an early hour, and his magni6cen
house has been converted into a hospital 70
our wounded officers. Yours, &c. G. W.. il
1.-THE Delta's account continues:l
Gen. Worth's command halted four or 6y
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