Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1847-01-20
F.ATC FROfa TIE AMY.

We CLEAN from Southern papers the
! following additional particulars Of opera
! lions in Mexico. The military and civic
authorities Of Tabasep have renounced all
/ allegiance to the Mexican Government,
because it has failed TO afford them pro-
! lection. Com Conner left Tampico on
1 the 18th ultimo. He had been sick OF
intermittent fever.
When the Mexicans LEFT there they
| threw overheard the guns Of their gun
boats, and concealed rneir heavy fort pie
I ces up the river Most of those conceal
! ed, with other arms, have been discover
ed and destroyed, ta "A
+ There are about 1900 troops here,
! believe under the command OF Col. Gates,
and we are moneutarily expecting The ar
| rival of more. | understand thlt there
! are about three thousand Mexioans At Tu-
! la, town some eighty miles distant, who
threaten an attack upon us before The az
! rival OF reiniorcements; but | am much
mistaken il they will not return much
faster than they come; l0.000 men coulI
not take This place,
There is much sickness at Monterey.
A letter from that point dated on the 4th,
says.
Santa Anna still continues to Impress
The natives with the belief that he will
shortly show himself in front OF Monte
rey. The last extraordinary express
reached here this moraing. by which lie
sends that he has made eight days Of the
Journey from San Luis de Potosi TO Sal
tilo, and Ii the people of Monterey need
net fear that they will be able 10 celebrate
the December .fesio out Of sight of the
"periidious Americans" | have heard
that re has addressed another bombastic
letter TO General Taylor, but of The truth
Of it | cannot say. His rumored sp-
preach seems to excite neither surprise
nor uneasiness; Tor it was actually known
that he was advancing, the simple fact Of
Gen. Worth and his division--not to say
any thing of Gen, Wool, who is now at
Paris being between him and the pass
o: R;connada, who allay The tears of the
most ,imid; for by the time be gets through
that place, he will haze cause to rest him
self before moving on here Santa Anna
is more OF a trickster thaa warrior, and
won't be likely 20 travel over waste and
bleak country towards as formidable an
| enemy as he would be likely 10 encounter
in this direction. The loss Of battle he
we'll knows would lose him his present
| foothold, and he will likely wait until he
can come down on some small dstatGh-
ment. s-t s... 81. a.~ az a.-.a
u Another letter of The 9TH ut, contains
| the following .a...a.4 oA ..arss@ .a
| Il had The pleasure Of more than an
hours conversation with one of the prisr
oners yesterday, and he gave he many III
teresting items, both as regards his cap
ture, and of Mexican affairs, The gentle.
mans name is Henry z Lyons, of Mary
> land, and This is the third time that he has
| been ia the clutches of he Mexieans
+ Mr., Lyons says, that the first sintma-
ton they had Of their release. was from a
a Mexican Colonel, who handed each man
$40 ffom Santa Anna, and iold them they
: were at liberty to depart. Other than
: the lying and forced marches, TIE treat.
ment was good. .ssEa. e. 4t# n
1t was currently reported and believed
: in The Mexican camp, on the a.t,imo
. that Vera Cruz lad surrendered, to tiis
Americans. The Colonel was interfoga
ted on that head by Mr.. L., who ans wer
ed that he. believed it was So Whci
q asked where Gen, Ampudia was, he STA
: ted that he was in the Castle of Perote
b where Mexico put all cowardly Generals
The forces Of San Luis on the 9th ult