Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-03-31
The Defeat and Tiightof Gen. Rosas.

The Defeat and Flight Of Gen. Rosas.
il was announced in the Sun Yesterday
that Gens Rosas, the Governor Of Buenos
Asyres, had been defeated and routed by
the allied army Of the Brazilian Empire
and the Argentine Confederation, under
General Urqaiza, formerly protege Of
the former,) after a sanguinary battle,
and great loss of life. The Bahia Justi-
ella, of the 10th ult., has the following
confirmation of the news
con Saturday last, the steamer ar
rived from the South, bringing the graft
fyinp news of the downfall of Rosas.
The ministry had not time to forward
dispatches to the different Presidencies,
but made known the important and au-
spiclous intelligence to his Excellency the
Counsellor Francisco Gonsalves Martin,
requesting him to communicate it to the
other provinces of the North.
"The combat was sanguinary the
number killed on both sides amounting
to four thousand men. Many of our
braves scaled with their Brazilian blood
this glorious victory. The brute of Pa
lermo, (Rosas, with his daughter Ma
nuelita, took refuge on board of an En-
glish steamer, and thus was safe and far
from the field of battle. What vile and
infamous coward We hear it said that
the German troops We'd in bravery and
courage with our own particians, and with
the loyal aud valorous soldiers of Urqui-
"a. Urquiza was reposing quietly at
Palermo
"Long live his Majesty the Emperor.
Long live the patriotic illustrations and
energetic cabinet of the Goth of Septem-
Der. Long live all the Brazillians who
glory in this heroic and brilliant feat OF
the Brazilian arms"
The allied force arrayed against Rosas
amounted TO sixteen thousand regular
troops, composed of Estierians, Para
guans, Uraguayns, Corrientians, and a
large number of German soldiers engaged
by Brazilian agents, in Hamburg and
other places on the European continent,
after the Schleswig and Holstein war
In addition to this force, several hundred
men had deserted from Rosas' army
The Brazilian squadrons, with four or
five thousand men as corps dc reserve,
was in Parana. The allied army was
under the command of Gen. Urquiza. the
Governor of Entire Rios, and crossed the
Parana on the Gath of last December
1t was opposed in its passage of that RI
yer, by General MANILA, brothcr-in-
law Of Rosas, who had force of FIVE
thousand men, nearly the whole of whom
run away ordcsertcd, and either returned
to their homes or joined the ranks of Ur-
quiza-Manzilla escaping to the city Of
The daughter Of Gen. Rosas, mention
ed in the above account is q remarkable
woman. She has managed the affairs of
the Argentine confederation for long
time, softening the roughness and cruelty
of her fathers acts, wherever an oppor-
tunitv enabled her to do so. A recent
private letter from Buenos Ayres thus
speaks of her:
"There is one redeeming, purifying
spirit about him--his daughter, Manuelto
Rosas, a noble, graceful, accomplished,
splendid woman. She alone can exercise
any soothing influence over the savage
ferocity of the father. If "A good act be
done by the government, her hand and
heart is there; If life be spared, it is on
" by her intcrposition; and if rumor be
true, she has exposed herself to blows,
and even death, to save others. The
admiration, the homage, the universal de-
ference paid her, even by the bittcrcst
enemies of her father, will be enough to
stamp her as no common woman. She
receives the legislative bodies. foreign
ministers, and almost, if not entirely, the
whole diplomacy goes through her hand
She has her clerks and her secretary, and
all foreign agents negotiate with her
The coordinate branches, if they, mere
! cyphcrs, can be SO called, once or twice a
year 90 out in body of two or three
hundred, to pay their respects to her
1t is universally conceded that if her
equal be living, she can have no supc-
rior."
1t is difficult to tell what will be the
result of this victory. The motive OF
Brazil, in entering into this war, was to
protect her province of Rio Grande. The
motives of the Governors of Entire Rios,
Corrientes, Paraguay, and Uruguay, the
allied provinces of the Argentine Confed-
Grafton, in joining together, was to crush
Rosas, in order not to be crushed by him.
The sole object Of the long career of Ro-
sas WAS to rule over the whole of that
section of South America. His determi-
nation was to drive the Brazilian empire
into republic, and then annex it to the
Confederation. He called it the only blot
upon the face of America. While Oribe
was beseiging Montcvideo, for upwards
of nine years, he caused good deal OF
trouble in Rio Grande to put that empire
to vast expense. He would have made
! IL, ;,,t, no oJ
not been opposed at MOntevideo by Eng,
land and France. The probability now is
that the successful leaders will get into
trouble among themselves for ascendancy
Such has always been the case in all parts