Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1847-11-25
Che 4flrxifan 1uar.
Gen. Scott's Dispatches.

The Union of Monday evening contains the
official variations, by Gen. Scott, of the battles
of Moline del Rey, and those near, and at the ia
king Of the City of Mexico and, beside, the re-
ports of Gen. Worth and other officers.
Though incapable at The present time of CIV
ing the whole Of Gen. SCOTS communications
we hasten TO lay before our readers the following
glorious resume of the late brilliant actions Of
our army promising that we not at all sur
prised that the CALLED Union winces so grievous-
ly at the first paragraph in it:-.N Y. Tribune
This Army has been more disguised than sur
prised that, by some sinister process on the part
OF certain individuals at home, its numbers have
been, generally, almost trebed in our public pa
pcrs-beginning at Washington.
Leaving, as we feared, inadequate garrisons
at Vera Cruz, Perote and Puebla--wlih much
larger hospitals; and being obliged, most reuct-
anty, from the same cause general paucity of
numbers) to abandon Jalopo we marched [Au.
gust 7-l0] from Puebla with only 1878 rank
and file. This number includes the garrison of
Jalapa and the 2, 429 men brought up by Brig.
General Pierce, August 6.
AT Contreras, Churubusco, &c. august co.
we had but S,497 men engaged-afe deducting
the garrison fSan Augustn, Jour general depot
the intermediate sick and the dead at the Moi-
no del Rey (September 81 the three brigades,
1881 men--were in the battle in the two dsys
September IL and l3-our whole operating
force, alter deducting, again, the recent killed,
wounded, and sick, together with the garrison of
MlXcoac (ihe then general depotl and that of
Tacubaya, was but z, 1870; and finally, after de-
Quoting, again, the new garrison of Chapultepec,
with the killed and wounded of the two DAYS we
took possession September l4) of this great cap
tai with less than 5000 men And reassert,
upon accumulated and urquestionable evidence,
that in not one of these conflicts was this army
opposed by fewer than three and half times its
numbers-in several of them, by yet greater
excess.
Irecapituae our losses since we arrived in
the basin of Mexico:
AUGUST 10, 90 Killed, l37, including IA
officers Hounded, s77, including 62 Officers
Missing, probably killed. IS rank aud file To-
tai, 1862.
SEPTEMBER Skilled, TIC, including off
GERS Rounded Cos, including 40 officers
Missing, l8 rank and file. Total, 7S0.
SEPTEMBER IL, 3D. H.-KiHed. 1870, nclu-
ding 10 officers. Founded, 703, including 6s
officers. Missing, 20 rank and file. Total,
S62.
Grand total Oflosses, 2,7o3, including 3s3 Off
GERS.
On the other hand this small force has beaten
on the same occasions, in view OF their Capital,
the whole Mexican army, of lat the begnnngl
thirty odd thousand mcn-posted, always, In cho.
sen positions, behind entertainments, or more for
midable deiehces of nature and art killed or
wounded OF that number more than 1000 officers
and men taken $3.50 prisoners, one-seyenth off d.
GERS, including 10 generals, of whom had been
Presidents of this Republic; captured more than
20 colors and standards, rs pieces of ordinance,
beside 81 wall.pleces, 10000 small arms, an i'm.
raense quantity Of shot, shells, POWDER &c, &c.
vi that enemy, once so formidable in numbers.
appointments artillery, &c. twenty odd thousand
have disbanded themselves in despair, leaving as
IS known, not more than three fragments the
largest about $500 now wandering in different
directions, without magazines or military chest,
and living at free quarters upon their own people.
The most important of these letters, slightly
abridged, will be found below. This gives sue
cinct comprehensive, graphic, and the only Off
cial account of the Battle of .herieo-as Gen.
Scott calls the FIVE bloody fights of the Goth of Au-
gust, which opened the road to the walls of the
Capital of Mexico. The position OF the army at
the close of that bloody day, and the reasons for
conserving to armistice will be read with spe-
cial interest