The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-08-04
Army lntelllgonce.

Army Intelligence.
The bark MOpang has brought up from Vera
Cruz, the headquarters Of the 4th artillery, with
Surgeon J. B. Wells, Lieut. ]. w. Phelps Lieut.
and Adj't Howe, Lieut.. Actg. Quartermaster De-
Russy, and Lieut.. Couch.
Southwest Pass on the 2lst July, six days from
Vera Cruz, with 293 men of the Alb artillery, VIZ:
companies u, ID and @, and detachment of COM
pany l., 7S discharged teamsters and quartermas
ters' men, and Al convcts from the castle OF st
Juan de Ulua-in all ALP men. The officers are
Major w w Morris, commanding Captain r. C..
ty Lieut. Il.
commanding company c I'd Lieuts. A. l.. Maglton,
J. 8, Garland; Asst Surgeon Z. Swift.
The brig Saldana arrived last evening from Vera
Cruz, having on board companies L, G., and Ii, of
the 5'h Regiment of Infantry, with the following
named officers =
Robinson, commanding company LIST Lieut. H.
r. Selden, commanding company II I'd Lieut.. c. W:
Lear; I'd Lieut.; r.. II Long, Acting Adiutant; ID
The brig Apalachicola, Capt Hammond, also
arrived yesterday from Vera Cruz, with $50 men
belonging to the sh infantry, under Capts. Smith
and Bumiord.
Three other companies of the same regiment,
numbering $50 men, came over in the ship Alexan-
dria, Capt Ordemand. which left Vera Cruz on the
18th INSTANTLY o. Pic, July %.
Naval intelligence.
The bombketch Vesuvius, Lieutenant Murray
Mason, from Laguna, 7th July, and Campeachy 9th,
arrived at the naval anchorage yesterday. The
following is list OF her officers :-Lleut. Com'dg,
Murray Mason; First Lieut., II. p. Robertson /;
Acting second do, I. n. Murray; Assistant Sur
Gibson; Midshpman, D. c. Whithome. Pas
sengers-J. H. Isaacs, ex-collector OF Lagu-
ma; Second Lieut.. Marines, George Graham !;
John M. Middleton, Second Asst Engineer, u IS N .
he hue rnu Ia hn, tl,o hOA, Of
Surgeon Dulany and Purser Crosby, u s. N. The
latter officer was killed by falling from aloft, while
! engaged in p,lotlng United States vessel in the
harbor of Laguna. Norfolk Herald, dug. l.
The U. s. steamer spiiGre, Commander Pear
son, from Sisal, Yucatan, VIA Havana, arrived at
this port yesterday. The S. left the former place
the 18th, and the latter, on the 9th instant. The
S. is bound to Norfolk, Ia3 and touched here for
officers &c: F. Pearson, Commander; J. C. Will
hanson, Lieutenant; ]. w. Bennett, Acting
Master; B. r.. Mitchell, Assistant Surgeon; A.
P. Howe, Acting Chief Engineer B. F. Garyin,
e. A: Oakley, do. Midshipman; T. Pember,
Captains Clerk Charleston Courier, July 81.
Charles H. Haswell, engineer In chief, U s.
Navy, arrived here on Sunday, and took lodgings
at the National Hotel.-Norfolk Herald, July 81,
FROM MExIco.-The Monitor Republ,cano of
the 18th instant, published at the city of Mexico,
contains the document laid before the Supreme
COu1t OF III hepuOllc, Dy eleVen representa-
tives in Congress, alleging and setting forth va
rious grounds against the constitutionality Of the
treaty of Guadalupe. This important matter
has been for some time under consideration by
the Court, On the 10TH instant the Court deli
vered It's decision, IN the presence of all the high
funct! onarles of the government, declaring the
treaty to be constitute nal, and that the power
OF making peace, or declaring war, being vested
In Congress, its jurisdiction over the subject matter
was exclusive, and the States composing the con-
federacy had no legal right to assume cOgnlzance
thereof. This decree annihilates the positions as
sumed by the opponents OF the treaty who so
to cede portion of the Mexican soil to foreign
nation, without the consent of the State legisa-
lures. The supreme court of Mexico has decided
otherwise, after mature consideration, and the
question must be considered at rest forever.-N
D. Delta, July 25.
FROM THE WEsr-INDIAN WoMAN's TEST OF
FRIENDsHIp.-The st. Lo,sis Republican, of July
9th, gives the following letter from Prairie du
Chen, of July 2O-Since last wrote you nothing
very particularly transpired. The removal of the
Indians is quietly gong on, and the last party
reached St Paul's a few days before we arrived
there. On our arrival at Wabashaw's prairie, on
the 18th, we found Captain Morgan's company of
dragons encamPed; they embarked on the same
day, on the Franklin, for the fort, whence they
will accompany the Indians to their new homes.
The alarm at the Falls of the ST. Croix, as re-
CARDS the rising of the Chppewas, has entirely
subsidized. and no farther danger is apprehended in
,iidt quarter ht the ioTt, just DeIoTe le1t we
had quite stampede among the Sioux, some five
or six bands of whom had come down to eat,
drink and talk with the Wlnnebagos. News came
up from the nearest village, about six miles up the
ST. Peters, that party of Chippewas had made
their appearance on the bank of the river had
murdered one young man, and had gone off toward
the Falls. In ten minutes after the news arrived,
every man that had horse or gun was on his
way to the Falls. l suppose 600 warriors were out
after these unfortunate twenty Chippewas and
they would no doubt chad they caught them) have
scalFed, skinned and eaten them. But the richest
part remains to be told; the whole thing was a
hoax, got up by Sioux woman, Vou see the wo-
men are the same every where,) to test the Win
nebsgoes and see whether they leaned more IN their
friendship towards the Chippewas or themselves
tonlshed to meet one of the geological corps, Dr.
Rosedale, OF Cincinnati. 1t seems lhe had been
making a reconnaissance of the upper waters of
the Desmolnes. He was in what Nico calls the
Undne region, on the highest lands called the Co.
teau de Prairie, about one hundred and forty miles
due West from Prairie du Chen. Here he was
attacked by a party of Sisitons, band of the Up
per Sioux, who stole his blankets, horses &C.; also
those Of his companion, Colonel Daggers Be-
sides this, they broke his barometer, and nearly
ruined a very fine sIxshooting rifle the colonel
carried with HIM, by strlk king 1t over the rocks.
They detained them one night, and then told them
they might 60. giving them one blanket for the
two OF them, and some buffalo meat they had Just
been killing. The Dr. says he might have killed
them easily, but he feard the consequences. The
had they killed these, they would, probably, in
their turn, have been killed; therefore, they
thor ght discretion the better part of valor. The
government should see to this, and il also shows
TIE necessity of post in that region, for this out
rage took place either in or very the northern
boundary of Iowa. The DR.. starts for Fort SMELL
ing by the first boat, to refit.