The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-04-20
NEW YORK. THURSDAY MORNING. APRIL 90 1913

the word triumphant occurs; in No l. in rear ~
= In Leouidas, in the rear' In No l. Santa Mar
tha lin Lesnidss y Churubus,o;' in No, l. Gen.
scott now assumed command for the fret tims;n In
No. l. he ordered Gen Pillow with Cadwslad.rs bril-
gade to assault tao enemy upon the lett -n Lsonidss
enemy's right at Churubusoo; in No. l. got sntan-
gled In some wide bitches waist deep in mud bin LIE
which they nohy did, No Greene. n fo a
terlinsd before Werth;' in No |, in conjunction
Con P.-How dot ssthe witps,s account for tina. re-
marksble coincidence! Was this part of wness's re-
port composed or copied from thu memorandum or re-
p'rt found by the witness on Gen. Pillows table at
A cannot account for the coincidence; have al
ready said that copied from memorandum found in
Gen. Pliows ofhce; may have made mistakes in my
copy; have never seen tho paper No before coming
posed by HIMSELF how did it find its into paper No
II Is witnesses intimacy with DR.. Hiertend, Gen. Pill
owS S t 50 great a. to warrant the ,uppostion that
witness took with Major Gen Pillows pspor?
A. cannot account for the article finding its way into
paper No l; never knew that De. Hestend took any
to him
Gen. P-Amopg the int eatior sin psp.r No l are
the following: "Msjor General" after ''mud and VA.
fer" state, II tbs witners's memory admits, whether
.ne same words were ntsI,ned in the
whence he obtained the order or arrangement Of the
Leonidss Letter?
do not reco'Iect. II has been long since took
my copy from that paper.
Gen The remaining intsrlineations con' aired in
rail- before Worth sin oornnotion,p sro not found in
the Leonidas letter. State whether thoss int rpss-
tons we're in the payer from which witness took bis
A. do not recollect.
Gen. Upon being asked by Major Gen Pillow, wit
or memorandum What has become ofthat paper?
Gen Whist does witness mean By partial copyy
A tOok Oteaa and col al Uarka of
Gen. P.Read again the paper No l. and state whether
it IL not identical with the paper from which the witness
A. cannot say that it is dsnca It resembles it in
come respects
Gen in wtness's letter, ,igned LeoDilss, occurs
He evinc.d on this oco.siou as he has done on other
occasions that masterly military genius and profound
knowledge OF the rcience Of which has xetonshcd
60 much the mere m.rnes of the profession His plan
very similar to that by which Napoleon effected the
reduction of the fortress Of U, and Cen Scott
rfectly we'll pleased with that hs could not interfere
with any part Of it, but sf it to the gallant protector to
carry it into glorious and successful execution !"
This question objected to- a. not being on the
written psper before the court which Msor Burns
stated the original of the Leopidas letter. after
remarked that he thought the prosecution would fl I'D
those words to have originated in hoax of of the
question: stating that taken It from the copy Of
tnst letter printed in the New Orleans Picaye not
having had that original paper 10 his hands longer than
Gen here asked permission Of the court to append
to tho record copy Of his circular in which he had
Of declining With many thanks for tbs intended kind.
nesshe feared that the partially Of his friends had
Mscr Burns requested to BE- allowed to state that tn,
money subscribed with the exception perhaps of s5,
Capt NAYLoR was here called and duly sworn
Tho report here breaks of
LATER FROM COL alLpIN's BATTALION.
From the st. Louis Republican April Ill
Yesterday received n letter q COrrcgpoudeut
ut Bents Fort dated the 9Th of March Our last
from Fort Mann announced that ord had bee
received from Col Gilpin directing Company 4, and
section Of artillery Company c. march soon ss
practicable and join his command, then three miles
above Bents Fort the Arkansas They were ordered
to b there by the lah of February il possible the
Colonel had received intelligence of combined force
atty miles Of his camp to tbs south which he designed
to attack But they did not arrive until tho oath Of
sebrusry owing TO the mserabl. condition of the cats
They were still in Damp Fort Bent ct tn. date
the letter The battalion had rrovsioas sufcient to
last them until tho feat Of June next The horse com
Bent the men having TO live Taos -four, little bet
ter than meal bran and occasionally dried pumpkin
mo!ssses purchased BY the soldiers Colonel Gilpn
pected to leave the projected expedition about the
10Th Of March, should the from tho States which
was hourly looked for not bring counter orders The
Indsns coming in from their hunting expeditions
and the Chasennes rotpg the scalps of
twenty or twenty-five Snake and Pawnee Indans taken
during tbs winter
DEATH OF CAPT. WILSON.
UNIrlD STATES FLAG. SHIP CUMBERLAND,l
Vera Crus, 2sth March, ls4s.
sir-I am once moro called upon to announce to the
Department the death Of another officer of the Home
Squadron. Commander James 3. Wilson departed this
II on the 18th inst being then in command of the u
s. steamer S2tfre," end acting senior officer In
the Alvarado river
have the honor to be, SO,
M. G. PERRY,
Commanding Home Squadron.
Hon JOHN Y MASON, Secretary of the Navy, Washin;-
ton.
NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
We learn at the Navy Department, that under sn or.
der of the department Of the ID utimo the soop Alba
ny, Commander Kelly, about the LIST instant, was de.
spatched from Taspsn to La Guayra, tho port
TO Caraccss, to communicate with Charge dARsres
the Hon BENZ J. Shields and will give al necessary
protection to our conmerc &c In that quarter.