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The Eagle gives q somewhat different ver-
sion Of the recent surprise and murder of dra-
go ,ns at Santa Fe, near the city, from that we
have published. We copy the greater portion
of its article.-Rcay,ne.
1t appears that detachment of some seven
ty odd dragons, belonging to the command OF
Col Harvey, left Jalapa some days since, in
visiting this city, to procure further supply
of horses. On arriving at. Santa Fe, nine of
the men were left behind, in consequence of
illness on their own part, and fatigue on the
part Of their horses. Lieut.. Hill and his COM
mand continued on, feeling that those who
were behind were perfectly safe, and soon af
ter reached this city, where he has since been
detained, although it was his expectation that
he would return the next morning. Nothing
further was heard from the men until Thurs
day morning, when news reached here inform
ing US that large party of Mexicans had at
tackled and literally cut them to pieces in the
most shocking manner. One of them was kill
led upon the spot, and five Others mutilated in
such manner as to strike any one with horror
at the sight
Means of transportation were furnished and
the survivors brought to the city as soon as
possible, but another of them died on Thurs
day night, and two others were last evening
reported by the surgeons as unable to survive
their wounds during the night. The hand OF
one is cut off above the wrst-the abdomen
of another is cut in such manner as to allow
the bowels to protrude. Another has several
sabre cuts on the head, penetrating the skull
and the arms and bodies of others are literally
hacked and mangled so as to render description
almost incredible.
Capt. Walker left the city on Thursday
accompanied BY his mounted rife
men, in search of the murderers, and, we learn,
encountered II rye party OF Mexicans, whom
he attacked and succeeded in killing four
Yet, we believe there has not been any thing
received of positive nature in regard to the
number killed.
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TREASURY NoTEs-GovERxMENT LoAN.-Mr
Secretary Walker permitted his private brokers
Corcoran & Riggs at Washington, to take up
wards of l6 million of the loan-only requir.
ing them to pay in two million per month,
which operation enables them to sell, at a
premium, as fast as they are required to pay
it in the Treasury, and thus they are enabled
to make large profit without advancing q
cent In the meantime, the Government a.
gents at New Orleans and elsewhere are com.
PEELED TO pay off creditors by drafts on Wash.
ington city at days sight, which is a great
inconvenience or loss to the holders. The pa
pers in New Orleans declare that this has been
the case for two months past. An issue Of
Treasury notes would remedy this, but then
capitalists would purchase these notes and
Corcoran & Riggs, would not be able to sell
their loan to meet their payments. II Corcor-
an g. Riggs were required at once to place the
funds in New Orleans, it would at once be re-
NEEDED, but then all hopes of profits would be
cut of, for we doubt, if the loan were called
for, il they could produce the funds. 1t lie,
without doubt stock gambling transaction,
between Robert J. Walker Secretary Of the
Treasury, and Corcoran & Riggs, brokers at
Washington, and thus the people will see the
great danger Of government Treasury Bank
at Washington, managed and controlled by such
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| The following is extracted from n letter from
Gen Price to the Mississppan, dated Monte
rey, April cath. The Regiment referred to is
the ed Mississippi.
"What more of evil yet awaits this regiment
in days yet unnumbered, inscrutatle Provi'
dence alone may say. 1t is styled in the gene
raj orders of the day, The Infected Regimen,,'
and in those same orders, Gen. Taylor has in
structed Col. Fitzpatrick (Col. Davis being alb
senO TO stretch line of sentinels around his
camp, so as to prevent any person from leaving
it, whilst the regiments whose encampments
are proximate TO this, and the governor of the
city of Monterey (Col. Mitchell of Ohio) are
instructed, likewise, to keep upa similar chain
Of sentnels, so as effectually to cut off all
communication with the 'Infected Regiment
The Surgeons report this morning, showed
upwards Of 100 sick in the hospital TENTS
Above sixty Of these, are cases of the Small
Pox. The latter disease is rapidly spreading
in the regiment, and the cases are assuming
each day a form Of greater malignity. Al first,
the disease was so remarkably light in its cha
Small Pox, none being more skeptical on the
subject than the writer of this letter; for had
seen cases of Small Pox elsewhere, and had
had var,slotd in my own family, but had never
seen any of 40 mild type as the disease which
had broken out among the Mssissippians -
At Matamoros, DR.. McPhail, the A rmy Hospi-
tai Surgeon at that point, pronounced the dis
ease Small Pox, and our Surgeon, DR.. Love,
gave in to his opinion. But Col. Davis, with
many others, doubted the correc tness Of the
Surgeons reports, and SO we dragged the af-
1icted in wagons to this point, leaving the dis
ease at Camargo, on our route, communicating
it to the Kentuckians who marched in compa-
ny with us; carrying it into Monterey in the
wagons, and even sending it to Saltilo, where
a teamster who was with our train now lies
sick of it.
These being the facts, you will not be slow
to conjecture, that the least of our misfortunes
is the spread of the disease in our own ranks.
That which most afflicts all, is the reflection
that the second regiment of Mississippians has
been the instrument of introducing the fright
full pestilence into the army. Am l not right
in saying that inscrutable Providence alone
can tell what farther Of evils awaits us in the
womb Of untold time
AS yet, there have been but few deaths of
Small Pox, but this cannot long be said. So
rapid is the increase Of the disease, that with |
all the vigilance which the Surgeon and his
assistants can exercise, some, for want of nurs-
ng, must suffer. There are now in the hospi-
a hiring men (horrible to relate!) from whom
The flies Every numerous in this country,) could
not be kept, and who now suffer the appalling
md loathsome consequences Of the deposit of
he egg of that visitor of putrefaction."
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FARMERS AND MERCHANTS BANK, AT MEM
pHIs.-We have received letter from friend
at Memphis, dated May Oath, in which he says
on that morning the following notice was post
ed on the door of the farmers and Merchants
Bank -Vieksburg Wing.
Resoloed, That a temporary suspension of
specie payments by this Bank is advisable
Noteholders are cautioned against parting with
their bills at discount Tor sacrifice,) as the
Bank has abundant means, which will be made
available in few days.
[signed c. LOFLlN, Cashier.
The following paragraph appears in the Mem
phs Enquirer of the 22d inst:
FARMERS AND MERCHANTS BANK.
A run, on this institution was commenced
on Wednesday, which was kept up briskly
through the morning, and to some extent, until
the usual hour of closing the Bank. The de-
mands were promptly met. On yesterday, the
excitement had nearly subsidized, few calls for
specie being madeyand the public confidence
appearing to revive from the temporary panic.
OF the entire solvency Of the institution, no
one here entertains doubt.
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Life of General scott.

Derby, Bradley g. Co. have just received a
Life of Gen. Scott, illustrated with plates, and
bringing down the career of the General to the
surrender of Vera Cruz. 1t contains Plans Of
the City and Castle, with View of the Bonn
bardment The work is small and cheap, (25
cents,) and contains oil the principal facts in
the lite Of its distinguished subject. At this
time, no one need be urged to read the Life of
Scott All who can find time will hasten to
read history full Of stirring events, and Of
brilliant deeds.
The closing part of the Life states one or
two facts in the history Of the past year, which
are not yet familiarly known to the public.
On page 229 it is stated that letters were
written, at the close Of last Summer, from
Officers in the Army of General Taylor, the
friends of Scott, expressing the kind feelings
of Gen. Taylor, and hoping that Scott might
yet assume the command. Thus satisfied that
his presence on the Rio Grande would not be
unacceptable to Gen. Taylor, che addr, ssed a
letter to the Secretary of War, early in Sep
TENDER, requesting to be assigned to that COM
mand, to wl,ch request he received rude and fiat
REFUSAL"
1t is certainly most remarkable, that within
three uonths Of that very time, the President
found it necessary to order Gen Scott to Mexi-
co! This was the 23d of November. The
key may be found in the fact, that, tn the mean
tune the storn,ing Of Monterey had taken place.
After the plan had been finally arranged,
says the lille, the President sent for Gen. Scott,
and con6ded to him the command OF the Ar
my in Mexico, and gave him the most solemn
assurances Of confidence and support.
On the Both Of November, Scott sailed from
New York, in the fullest confidence that the
Government was acting IN good faith.
Just about the same time, Col Benton arriv-
ed at Washington--had an interview with the
President-and all the promises Of the Presi-
dent faded away. A plan was Immediately
got up, to supersede both Scott and Taylor!
Scott had arrived on the Rio Grande, unsus-
picious. "The President saw him depart in
the fullness Of this confidence, and, yet, be-
fore he reached the Army, the proposition TO
repudiate him, was already there! Yes! The
very Army into which he was to breathe
which he was to train and prepare for the
deadly conflicts that awaited them-was in
formed in advance, that the President had no
confidence in their Commander and Chief!n'
A duplicity like this, and series of in
trigues, has rarely had parallel in any coun-
try Cincinnati Chronicle.
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Having understood that our Rncill,ngs OF
last week have been perverted, so far as Charles
B. Green is mentioned, into personal attack
upon that gentleman, and having had CONVEX
sation with him since, we cheerfully give place
to the following correction. We wish, how
ever, that the first paragraph should be under
stood, as it was understood between ourself
and hm-that the fact of his having been q
Director of the Commercial and Rail Road
Bank of Vcksburg, and President of the
Branch of that Bank at Vernon, is fully admit
ted-but that the terms 'rascally,' &C., as used
in that article were not applied to him, per'on-
aHv, nor to his associates in the Branch at Ver-
non. We do not know who they were, and of
course could not apply such terms to persons
that we did not know. As for those that per-
verted the editorial and tried to make sfuss'
between ourself and an old friend, they are
welcome to our heartest contempt
Correction. - The editorial remarks in the
mississippi Creole" of the 29th ult, under the
name of 'sCharles B. Green,' were not inten-
ded to impeach Mr.. Green's honor or integrity,
nor to be applied to him personally.
Neither were they intended to convey the
charge that the Branch of the "Commercial
and Rail Road Bank" located at Vernon, was
dishonesty or fraudulently managed by Mr..
Green and his associates in the Directory of
that Branch.
Said remarks were made to have political
bearing on the canvass preceding the ensuing
November election, and were quotations made
from Democratic papers, SO far as the terms
applied to Banks and Bank officers were used.
J. L. MITCHELL.
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WINFIELD S. FEATHEKsToS, of Choctaw, has
been nominated as the Loco Foco candidate in
the Second Congressional District by the eau
Gus held at GreensbOrough, 'ChOetaw county.
There seems to have been some trouble in the
camp. The two-ihird rule was adopted and
enforced.
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CoNMERcIAL.-Net0 Orleans, May 90 Full
advices having been received, it is discovered
that the Telegraphic report of the Liverpool
Cotton Market as stated under our Foreign
News is not correct. Instead of there having
been decline, prices are I'd better than at the
sailing of the Cambria on the Sd April. The
sales in New Orleans have been very slight,
and a slight reduction has been submitted to.
Stock on hand 1912 bales.
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A ft,s
The health Of the army was good The
small pox had nearly disappeared, and those
that had the disease were but slightly affected.
The LIST Mississippi Regiment, under Colonel
Davis, was to. have left Cerralvo on the 2oth
instant, for the mouth Of the Rio Grande.-
Col. Davis was fast recovering from his wound
-Bulietin.
From. he american Flag.
Carabajal still keeps himself in our vicinity
his Camp is about sixty miles from here, on
the San Fernando road. The force under his
command is small-not exceeding fifty mem
but sufficient to plumber all trading parties
coming in or going out from Matamoros' we
once thought Garabajal gentleman and above
such petty plundering, and right sorry are we
to find him at the head Of band OF dastardiy
robbers. His education and talents fit him for
higher station, and (knowing that he reads
the Flag)we appeal to him to cast himself
loose from his present evil associates, and seek
a more elevated position. If he does not, we
shall expect to hear Of his being elerdfed to the
topmost branch of the tallest tree between
here and San Fernando.
Assignment Of Tfoops.-The following regl-
ments have been ordered to JoinsGen. Scott:
the 9th, 18th, 18th, l4th apd l5sh regiments Of
infuntry and the regiment of yolligeurs.
The 10Th, 18Th and 18th regiments of infan-
try and the Sd dragons have been ordered to
Gen. Taylor.
A mule train which left here about week
ago for Camargo, under an escort OF Massachu-
sets volunteers, commanded by Capt Walsh,
reached there in safety--all fudge about their
being attack ed and the mules stampeded.
The ship Remittance arrived at the Brazos
on>the 18th inst, bringing Capt Marshall, with
two companies of 10Th regiment Of infantry.
Three Mexicans, who were attempting to
way-ay and rob Mexican merchant, and his
servants, between Camargosand Mier, unfortu-
nately for them, in the dark mistook three
Texans. and were all killed.
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We have been requested by many OF his
friends, members of the Wing party, to an.
nounce SAMUEL FORD, Esq, as candidate for
Representative from this county at the ensuing
November election
The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-06-05

We arc authorized by many Wings to an
nounce Mr.. GABRIEL FIELDER, Of Scott county,
as candidate for Senator in the District COM
y ,sed Of the counties Of Madison and Scott.
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Why is the life Of an editor like the book
Of Revelstionsl-Because it is full Of types
and shadows and a mighty voice, like the
sound Of many waters, is ever saying ntO him
Write.
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The Rev. JAMES MAcLrNAN will preach at
the Methodist Church in this place on Sunday
the 9th inst, at | / O'Clock A. NJ.
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Coz. JEFFERSON DAVIS has been appointed
Brigadier General, rice, Pillow, promoted
Better late, thar never. e
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