Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-05-25

captured him the other day and hung himi
upon the first limb strong enough to bear
his weight. That he is playing them false
you cannot beat out oftheir heads--that
he has sold the battles ofBuena Vista and
Cerre Gordo for a consideration they are
equally confident, and in proof they ale
eternallJ talking aboutsihe $4,000, 600.
Gent Worth still remains at Perote,
where he has near $500 men. Col.
Martin Scott, with the 9Th infantry. ARR.
we'd last evening from Vera Cruz,
and will proceed TO Join Gen. Worth :
The first number ofthe American Star
IS out to-day, and Is=completely running
over with news and information. G.W.K.
p. s. Important ! 10 O'Clock, A. M
The diligenciaq 0, stage coach is lust in
from the city OF iMexico, from whence they
have received papers up to the l22d inst.
The sof the terrible defatiat Cerro
Gordo had reaehedthe capital, and while
tastonishedand overwhelmeda all classes,
the tone of the papers, of the public men,
and OF the Congress itself, would also
show that it had served TO inflame the
people still more against the United States.
Aneya has been appointed provisional
President. believe, and has been gifted
with tull powers on every point ex-
cept that in relation to making peace with
| The United States-this no one thinks of
Congress, in extraordinary session, has
even declared any one traitor who talks
of peace. The editor of EL Republican,
| says that we may take Puebla, that we
may even captere the city Of Mexico, but
there must be no peace. Tie guerilla
system of warfare appears to be recon-!
mended on all sides as their only saliva
ton; by this means they drove out the
SPaniards, and in the same way they say
they must expel the Ubiquitous, usurping
and grasping North Americans from their
sacred soil. aa1 800 1-.r'
From passenger, a Spaniard, who ar
rived in the diligencia, we lear% that as
yet they have done little or nothing to-.
wards fortfying Mexico. He also says
that there is a strong party in favor of
peace, although the members hardly dare
avow themselves. There are no re gular
troops of any consequence on the route,
and all those who escaped at Cerro Cor
do, with the exception of portion of the
cavalry, have dispersed in every direction.
JALAPA, Mexico, April 25-Afernoon.
have borrowed the copies of El Re.
poblicano for an hour. They are dated
at the city of Mexico. April 21 and %,
and the latter gives full account of the
battle of Cerro Gordo.
The Mexican particulars of the com
bat, as usual, are peculiarly rich. They
say that Santa Anna sustained the combat
with 5000 men against II, 900 and fought
valiantly TO the very last.
Gen. SCOTS loss, on the 18th and 18th,
is put down to over 4,COO, while the loss
of the Mexicans is admitted to be 1900
men in killed and wounded. They SAY
that the Americans fought like hordes oil
savages, killing all that presented them
selves, whether wagoners. old men or
women. - i2j
( Gen. Canalizo is openly accused of bad
conduct at Cerro Gordo. They say that
when he should have made a charge,
which would have been decisive, be with
drew with his cavalry-in plain terms that
he ran. a s-...a..,raes- al. ..-..r
Don Pedro Maria Anaya has been ap-
pointed temporary President presidente
substitute. One of his first acts was to
concede full pardon to all prisoners who
have been confined for political offences
since 1921, and entire forgetfulness ofthe
past. o. Ls-4 iaa GTaI-I a--g- asE5 e.
! Gen. Salas, who was President ad in.
terim before the arrival of Santa Anna
| from exile, has issued proclamation an
nouncing that he is empowered to raise a
guerilla corps, and calls upon all good
Mexicans to join his standard In BIZ:
concluding sentence he says that "war tc
death, without pily, shall be the device Of
| the guerilla warfare of vengeance!"- .-
G.w.K.
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