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Exciting News from Mexico

Exciting News from Mexico.
The community has been thrown into fer
ment, during the present week, by the doubtful
yet intensely interesting reports from Mexico.
Extras have been proiusely scattered among us
containing rumors of the most improbable and
contradictory and even absurd character. all
going to show, however that hostilites have
been again renewed between the two armies.
and that bloody. if not disastrous, results TO our
arms have followed. No man can shut his ewes
to the conviction that Gen. Scorr, whatever NAV
have been the result of the latest battles is in a
condition Of imminent peril. His army cannot
exceed, at most, 10000 men, and he is in the
heart of popuous country, surrounded by
people who have given repeated proof of their
vindictive and relentless hatred of the Ameri-
cans, and their lnappeasable determination to
fight to the last "for their affairs and their fires
Over and over again have the Mexicans been
routed in pitched battles by the gallantry and
bravery of our troops, and yet what General
PIERCE calls the great object of this war
PEACE" appears to be as remote as in the be-
ginning! Disasters weaken the power of Mex.
leo, perhaps, but they do not appear to diminish
her invcterate disposition to fight. Gen. Scott
and his army, we believe, are in imminent perH.
If it is true, that Gems. Worth, Smith and Pill
low have been killed, and that our loss is from
100 to 30O0 scarcely any success achieved at
such loss can change tie color OF the result
We do not believe that the City of Mexico is in
our hands, nor that Scott has ATTEMPTED to carry
it by storm. lie has immense trains of artil-
lery, and mortars for throwing shells, and would
not have attempted the City as reported 1t
would be folly of which, it appears to US, lie
would not be guilty.
! The news below reached New Orleans on the
18th ult by the J. l.. Day. Since that date
there have been no further arrivals. Additional
intelligence will be looked for, of course, with
intense anxiety:
From the New York Herald
The steamer James l.. Day, arrived at New Or
leans on the 18th ut, with the important inlel-
gence yet received from the OF war
The Arco Iris OF Vera Cruz, had received letter.
from Mexico; under date OF the 9TH, stating that on
the Ith the Mexican commissioners declared that the
propositions made by Mr.. inst were nldmissbIc in
consequence OF which General Santa Anna convoked
council OF generals, VINO decided that notice should
be gwen 10 General Scott that the arnisce was at an
end, and appointed the 9Th Tor the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
OF hUstitirs.
On the s,h, General Scott attacked the Mil del Rev
or Kings Mill, IN the immediate vicinity OF Chapel
tcpec, and, according the Diarig del G0jierao and
the Boletin, published at Atllsco near Purba our
army was rcpulsed after short conflict in which we
lost about tour hundred in killed, and from six tc
seven hundred IN wounded, and tell back upon Tacu-
The account given by the Boletin, represents III,
battle to have been the most bloody and severely con
tested OF the whole war. This, however is a Mex.
leans account, II concludes as follows
! AT ii O'Clock the enemy commenced n retroea dt
movement, and by2 O'Clock in the afternoon he with
drew AL his forces TO Iacubaya, abandoned the tive
points he had occupied, and blew up the house oil
Mata, although some say 1t was on fire by boml
from Chapocpec,
1t is believed that Generals Twiggs and Pierce d.
5000 men.
than at Churubusco
1t is impossible to ascertain the loss of either side
Ours does not amount To 100 killed and 80 wounded
There are a few misslng-nearly all not killed OF
wounded, retiring 10 Chapoltepec.
Inc enemy, according to the confession of an Irish
man, who came over To in the evening, carried OF
400 dead and GOO or 700 wounded
A Mexican letter announces that Riley and hi
legion OF ST. Patrick 20 in number, were ordered by
the court martial 10 be hung The sentence was ap
proved by Gen. Scott, and on the sh OF Sept, tn
~hole ieg1oh rere hung IN presence Of the army a
also Of the enemy
We translate the subjoined letter from Jaapa to TIN
irc9 ms, without Nouchlng Tor It's correctness =
When Gen Percy abandoned the mill I'll Rey,
bomb discharged from Chapoltepec tell among tn
ammunition wagons Of the enemy, in the yard OF tn
mn, causing tour OF them 10 explode, by which 30
Americans are said 10 have been blown up including
Gen. Worth, who according 10 the accounts had no
been seen or heard irom the following day at Tacu
baya."
The next accounts we have from the capital com
ina letter 10 the irco hris, dated the 10Th inst
which the following is an extract -" The Mexican
government has taken three hundred thousand dollars
winch were being sent by commercial house to In
, enemys camp. General Smith has expired By tn
enclosed slip you will see that the Americans muta
ted and cruelty assassnatcd the unio tuna.e lush VIII
were taken at the battle OF ChuTubusco."
Another letter from the capital, under date of Iii
and Eth says, II appears that the enemy conyIl
ced 81 the Improbabnty OF reducing the city, BY an
other means than by bombardlng il because there
5 no doubt that he has lost 800 10 1000 men, who wer
placed h0rs du cOnbGt 10y the action Of the sh an
among them thliiy-seycn officers and three colonel
were hnied' ana one colonel wounded, |, appear
, that the death OF Gen Pillow Is uncertain.
OF the esentiul deHOueReAt we have only n bri,
account but sufficient 10 US that the Amer
leans have achieved brilliant triumph and thai on
army IS revealing IN the Halls Of the Mont,zuma
he only reliable account have OF the last struuu
. before the capital, is in letter addressed 10 N
Diamond our Collector at Vera Cruz, from Orizab;
, as follows
ORIlAnA, Sept. 10, lsi7-I have the honor 10 in
io'h you that an express arrived here this evenin
rom Mexico, which brings intelligence that Gener;
scout was IN the city OF Mexico. That on the 49,
; me American troops took Chapoltcpec and the Cita
dtI ana went INTO the city that night General Bray
was kHled, and General Santa Anna was wounde
IN the arm, and has retired with the remainder of h
Q WXoops, winch have suffered much, TO Guadaoup,
our rend, Sc"
I letter, from credable source, confirms all tbr