The Arkansas banner., 1847-05-12

rough and rocky road, cut thTongh rugged detiles and dense chapparral by our troops is now lined with our wounded The Rifles, Col Haskelfs Tennessee volunteers, the lst artillery. the 7th infantry, and Cap,aia Will iiafns' company of Kentucky volunteers, have perhaps suffered most. Gen. Shields was severely, and l am fearful, norsaiiy wounded. while gallantly leading his brigade to storm one of the enemy's farthest works Gen. Pillow was wounded, although slight ", while stormiBga fertilization on this side commanded by La Vega. All the field off, eers of Col Haskell's regiment were wound ed a, the same time, save himself or the Rifles, Capt Mason has lost leg, u EwelI has been badly wounded, L,. MsLane, slight ". have already mentioned the gallant Maj. Sumner and other officers wounded yes ,erdav. f--' have speei6ee some regiments above which sIgnalized themselves; it happened to be their fortune, in the disposition of the bat ile, 10 fall upon what all good soldiers may term pleasant places---the most difficult pla- ces to storm: and bravely and without fal- tering did they execute the perilous duties assigned to them. At l o'clock this after noon Gen. Twiggs, whose division has been in the hardest of il, was pursuing the flying enemy towards Jalapa Pierson, who com handed the forts nearest Plan del Rio, asked ot Gen. Worth time to consider before he aa- pitulated. Desirous to come to terms, Gen. Worth gave him.f .ffieeH miastcs, and he sur. rendered internationally, Had he not done so the slaughter would have been terrible. write in great haste and have no time flor particulars The names ef the killed and wounded will ascertain as soon as possi- possible. think that five hundred will cov- CT our entire loss. Had it not have been for the positive cowardice of Santa Anna and Canalizo, who ran, before the banle-at least in brave mems hands--was half lost, 1t would have been far greater. No Jne, al present. can estimate the loss oi the Mexi- cans 1: they are scattered on the hills, in the roads, everywhere.
 What disposition Gen. Scott is to make of the prisoners is vet unknown. He may set them all at liberty on their paroles, from the difficulty of feeding them, and to accelerate his own advance movements. We shall hear by tomorrow. wish he could send the officers a; least to the United States, for there IS fine string of them.
 It is now impossible to name officers who have distinguished themselves. 1 cannot. however. omit to mention Cols Hamey, Ri- ley, and Childs, of the regulars; Cols, Ba- ker, Forman and Haskell, of the volunteers, as every one is talking of them.
 write this in great haste, and with noise, confusion and every thing else around me ou cannot appreciate the victory. To de- scribe the grounds and Qualifications of the enemy, the difficulty of turning their outer works, and the toil and peril undergone by the troops were impossible. No time to say another word. send this of by an express It Is Gen Scots's intention. know, to push on towards the city of Mexico with all haste Tomorrow will write more fully, and send Gen. Scotl's express. <.
 Yours, CIV. K.
 CANT AT PLAN DBL Rio,
 April l9. lS47-A. The route of the Mexicans last evening was toiaI-com mpleie. They were pursued within four miles of Jalapa by Gen. Twiggs. at winch point there were no one to follow. Santa Anna himself, instead of eniombing himself as he threatened, escaped by cutting the saddle mule of his team from the harness of his magnificent coach, mounting him. and then taking to the chaparral. His service of massive silver, nearly all his papers, his mo- ney--every thing in his carriage, even 10 his dinner, was captured. l have capital story to tell about his dinner when have a mo- ment to spare. The Mexican loss upon the heights was awfull-the ground in places IS covered with the dead Among the bodies found was that of Gen. vasquez, and near him was Col. Palacio, morally wounded. Their loss in the retreat was terribly severe-every bv-paih IS sirewn with the dead Had our dragoons been enabled 10 reach them in season, all would have been killed or captured-Santa Anna among them. Canalizo. with his noted lancers, had the prudence 10 bamos early. Even up ,o this time it is impossible 10 give anything ike a full or correct list of our wounded ofieers-i, Is surprising that many of ihern were no, killed. Lieutenant Derbv. a gallant rosag officer of the topn- graphical engineers. was badly but not mor- tally wounded while storming one of the heights Lieut. Eweil, of the rifles, is snp- posed to be morially wounded. This regi- ment has suffered terribly Lieut. Dana. of the 7th infantry, was badly wounded; Capt Paaen, of ihe 2d slightly Lieut. Davis, of the rifles, was very badly wounded in the hip Maj. Summer, of the 2d Dagoons. but commanding rifles, is improving.
 The list of killed and wounded officers in Col, Haskell's command yesterday have been able 10 obtain. IL should here be sta- ted that Capt Williams company of Ken tucky and Capt Charles Nayior's company of Pennsylvania volunteers were attached temporarily 10 this regiment Here is the { list:
 Killed--lss Lieut. Fred B. Nelson, com manding company; 2d Lieut. c. G. Gill, com pany F. Both these officers were from Memphis.