The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-10-27
have seen much hard service aud may he long live
to enjoy the honors his bravery and ptrepedy have
THE voLTIGEURs.

have much hard service aud may he long live
to the honors his bravery and intrepedy have
well earned.
THE voLTIGEURs.
From the Washington Union, Oct 90
The oowing Is an extract Of 4 letter from member
Of the voltgsur corps to his friend in this city dated
CRY OF MrxIco, Sept %, lsl7.
The votigeur regiment first inside the works and
castle OF Chapultepsc In TIE battle of the 18th in
slant and their little nag completely riddsd by ba
planted the inside tho bsttlements at least ten
minutes before any other This Is fact acknowledged
by nineteen twentsths Of the army although another
regiment now claims it, but 1t will not do This regi
ment behaved we'll In former battles but had not the
front In either they had 81 hit In
the battle OF the sh instant and only between 80 and
90 killed and wounded sw of the former In the last In
which this regiment In 'front.' and did the hardest
fighting of any. The fact Is, the Mexieans shoot too
high and those nearest to them frequently If not often
fight we'll.
Tell -, that his friend General Pillow has very
He is wounded, but will get well OF it Ills wound was
from spent grape shot in front Of the nstsp smashing
the bone"
The quartermaster's department In this city, Is
lively engaged in preparing steamboats, proceed to
Vera Crur the Ave hundred mounted Gsorria volun.
t~srs Two Of these boats expected to leave yes
tsra.y and third one to-day Tn. Telegraph arrived
yesterday from the Brazos will probably be sent round
and also the New Orleans, as soon as abe arrives.
We have oonvsrsed with an officer of the army,
gently from Vera Cruz who states it asserted and
believed there that santa Anna slept In Vera Cruz
the 3ot ult that his object to leave the
try Various circumstances had occurred, which went
to confirm the truth Of this report One thing which
gives color this report that there does sp
pear to be reliable a. to his
since he left the capital The intelligent officer from
whom have the information believes in the report
~ o, Com. Bulletin, lsh inH
Gov Martin OF Alabama, has again issued his proca-
nation calling the citzs to fill the requsition for
battalion Of infantry made on that State last spring
Astronomical.
MARpURo, lin kurhessen) Sept. 2 lS47.
t-,. latin 81 TrluI n
replied to the 10th August sending you 1T the same
time copy Of review which have made Of your valu
by tbs institute; ali Of which making toisrabie pack
age, forwarded through DR.. Flugel at Leipsc:
Since then have received of the 25th july and
ut once sit down to answer 1t by post.
First, tender you my thanks for the interest with
which you have taken up my views concerning the OBJ
servatiops Of Venus and for the effective manner In
which you have undertaken to make the plan known In
the United States The article in the National Intel-
geneer mo lo73s) expresses my ideas Thoroughly as
will probably have In the more complete essay
(4stronomiehe Nachriehtsn, No. beoD which has ere
this reached you
regret to observe that neglected to express in my
paper the why deem necessary that the small
stare used for mcromstrca comparisons should be
ected At early period and that they should be OBJ
rerved the selection being by means Of the Berli
Academy star charts. Though regarded the reasons
obvious became too late that they should have
been distinctly indicated and not have been passed over
In silence
fmicromstrical measurements shall prove Of real uti
lily Is manifestly that the point a Of the
heavens to which they refer should be determined as
nearly possible in the and from the same
elements the point c. ascerained by meridian obssr
vations This only be effected. II the small stars
dergo at each period and accurate determinations
ftheir right ascension and dsonation by comparison
with neighboring stars and especially with
the Fundamental to which the simultaneous
meridian OF the planet referred Thus
suppose all observations in s47 should be referred to
Virgins and Leons and those Of lS49 to Taur and
Arietis) But, the small stars being invisible (from
day Light ut the period when the observations are made
on Venus there must necessarily be . reduction to OF
from Ohapry Attn al
eliminate the vitiating effect Of proper motion, 1t B alb
sutsy essential that there b. for reference
years. which 10 the only with those
tanned In the Historic Ceiess,"" Bsners Zones" &c
GERLING
Lieut.. I'M. GILLIss, U. 8. N, Washington.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Oct. %, ls47.
Mass OF NEPTUNE The Astronomische Nschrich-
ten OF Sept It, Isi7, contains communication from
Mr. Lasse Of Liverpool concerning his observations
upon supposed satellite of Neptune They seem to be-
conclusive iu favor VI tho existence of suoh satsts
and snor. basis for rough computation Of the
OF the primary He has gwen eleven diagrams OF the
position Of the satellite corresponding to AS masy die
the remaining in l5l7 careful examination OF
these disgram shows that the satellite must have made
eleven twelve entire revolutions about Its primary
superior conjunction, December 1876, to the
July 23d, l847 and that It's period of revolution
must therefore, been 2l3 days 1913 days The
Of these periods BIZ most consistent with
the observA o. ls47, and the former with OF
those OF 1896 that the longer period seems to be the
most probabls one.
of satellite Neptune which he has ted
appear be than four damsters OF the planet
He did not however estimate the distance when the
tee its greatest elongaon, but his greatest OBJ
served distance corresponds to the time when the
satellite at rather than half its greatest posi-
bs distance from the primary By comparing the times
observation with the probable times OF Of
the satellite with the planet 1t Is easy to ascertain the
direction the body from the other and thence the
the line which joins them,
observer of the earth. This mode OF computation
has given damsters Of the planet as the mea-
runffh
Neptune; and Of the observations give great
mean distance ten dismsters OF Neptune. But We
the apparent diameter Of Neptune which has
been measured with great precision by Gale, Eneke
Challis Walker and MITCHELL and found to be about
\ seconds, and certainly than three seconds Of
The probable mean distance OF the satellite from
Neptune h therefore, about twenty seconds OF and
cannot be great as thirty seconds
IT, however, the distance Of the satellite Ii
assumed to thirty seconds and the tins Of revolution
10 days the mass of Neptune can be easily computed
be half of the of Uranus instead Of being
twice large that OF Uranus, which the
qured by Leverrer's and Adams's theories. The OBJ
srrvatous of Lasse then to prove that Neptune
cannot have more than part OF the mass OF
the planet of theory and that it's is probably
than fifteenth part OF this theoretical planet
This extraordinary deficiency Of mass, combined with
that Of ecoenricy (Which Was first ascertsined by Mr.
Walker. and which Levsrrier very unwilling to ad-
nit because he regarded 1t fatal blow to his theory
but which later observations have established beyond
dispute down exceedingly the effective action Of
Neptune upon Uranus The unexplained Irregularities
of motion OF Uranus amount to hundred and eighty
planet but of which Neptune with its pre-
sent orbit the greatest possible consistent with
Lasses observations could not account for more than
twenty seconds and does not probably account for five
seconds.
This depends its support upon Lasse
estimated distances but rigid scrutiny OF these esti
mates to be consistent with each other and
uenty worthy Of confidence Here, then, the
final to the most magnificent structure which hu-
man genius erected the moral Of the ancient
seems be reproduced In the defeat OF the bold
attempt to scale the heavens by ng planet upon
to inanity. Yours, very respectfully, b. I.
RUMoRs CoNTRADIoTED.-Rumor are rife in
the city, many of which have no foundation
For instance we received this morning a teegraphic
bulletin from Philadelphia editor, inquirng when We
should publish General Scotts dispatches! This curl
osty probably produced by the bunder of ecrb-
bier in this city, who writes to New York that large
budget Of dispatches had arrived from the camp But
the that dispatches have been received from,
general descriptive of the late stirring events and
indeed no letter have Understood, from General
SCOTT since the 4th OF June Either they have been
terepted they have been withheld from the appre-
hsnsion Of their falling into the hands Of the gusas
This state Of things cannot contnus much longer, AZ