The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-01-10

! England, after the success OF the allies at the
battle of the Alma, draws the following com
parisons between the success of the allied force!
upon that occasion, and the recent success o
| the Americans in Mexico, which are well worth
being remembered by both Americans and Eng
lishmen. Without entering into the question a:
to whether England and France deserve eithel
our sympathy or praise, we quote the compan
son alluded to, from the Times. II says;
cat the Alma the allies, with not less thar
/ so 900 men, took the entrenched heights q
the river, held and defended by about $4,000
Russians, losing in the battle 6o6 killed, and
| 2, 699 wounded They had a force decidedly
superior to that Of the enemy, and lostln killed
and wounded one fifteenth Of their force. Al
though but few Of their troops had ever been in
action before, all Of them were regulars, tho.
roughly drilled, and trained to obey the orders
of their commanding officers, who were vete-
rams and had seen service They behaved well,
and fought with steady and unhiching courage,
but against an inferior force. made up of troops
quite as unused to actual battle as they were
themselves.
At tile battle Of Buena Vista general Taylor,
with 2,759 men, of whom all but 453 had not
only never been in action, but were actually I'M
used to the discipline Of the field, being abso-
lutely raw recruits-met and put to utter rout
&c, 900 Mexican regulars losing over 700 men
or more than one-eighth of his entire force. At
the battle of Contreras and Cherubusco gen.
Scott, with $500 men, stormed over $4,000
Mexicans. strongly entrenched and abundantiy
supplied with artillery, drove them out and de-
feated them, with loss of nearly 1000 killed
wounded and missing, losing himself 1.014 of
his troops, including 76 officers, or more than
one-sixth of his entire force.
At Moline del Ray 3,447 Americans, under
the immediate command of gen. Worth, stormed
an immensely strong fort, defended by at least
10000 Mexicans, and after one of the hottest
and hardest engagements ever fought, in which
individual officers and men performed prodigies
of valorrarely paralleled in history, captured
four pieces Of artillery and took nearly eight
hundred prisoners, by the musket and bayonet
alone, with loss Of 1877, including Sc officers
being one-third of all the officers and nearly
one-fourth of the men engaged. And after
this battle general Scott with $500 men, the
sole remnant of his force, assaulted and cap
tured the strong and well-defended fortress Of
hepultepec-lo in that affair 1858 men, or
one-sixth Of his force-pushed on toward the
capital, dispensing all the bands that resisted
his advance, and finally took possession of that
city Of over 10000 inhabitants, held at the
time by nearly $4,000 troops.
Through this whole campaign raw troops
who had never drilled six monthsin their lives,
commanded mainly by young officers who had
shot, did the work of veterans. Every quality
+,,t ,,,o,1,c ,.,o,l ec1l;arc
step of their advance. There was no service
too desperate or too dangerous for them. They
shrunk from no fatigue. They took no account
of disparity Of force, however great. Single
officers more than once rushed alone into the
Of the enemy, and either held
their ground by personal valor till reinforced,
or We're cut to pieces by the superior numbers
of the foe. Every one of the principal battles
of our Mexican war was more bloody, more
desperate, fought against greater odds, and cost
heavier loss than the battle Of Alma. The
Mexican soldiers, in nearly every instance,
fought as we'll as the Russians And there is
not single point in which those battles were
not to the full as creditable to American arms,
as was the battle Of the Alma to the British
Yet while the American press has been Law
shin echoing British exultation and boasts of
British valor we are forced to defend ourselves
against the constant attacks of the English press
during our campaign, or endure in silence its
sneers at what were regularly I
ehroniced in its columns as mere skirmishes
unworthy Of notice, and without either charac-
er or credit as military operations
ANOTHER HoM1c1DE.-We are again called
Upon says the Alexandria Democrat, of the Sd
nst., to record the murder of an estimable Cit
zen, originating, as we, believe from the most
licIous habit Of carrying concealed weapons.
Mr.. A. Roberts, of Cheneyville, was killed on
Saturday evening last, by a man named Lee,
IN oyerseer on Mr. Fint's plantation. Roberts
md Lee had been on the most friendly terms,
md had been transacting some business in town
Turing the day. In the evening, both started
Q go 70 Lees house, up the bayou, where, it
een.s, Roberts was to spend the night-both
ldlng in the same buggy. On the way, just
IS they got to the upper limits Of the town,
ONE alteration took place between them, and
Roberts got out of the buggy, when Lee drew
pistola and shot him dead, Immediately driving
he buggy over his body and making his escape,
Though holly pursued within a short time
Lfter the commission or the deed. The only
WITNESSES VI the dcC were a couple OF ladleS
nd some children, who saw the shooting, but
now nothing Of the alteration between the
'arties that led to this tragic result. Both, we
understand, had been drinking pretty freely be-
ore leaving town. This adds another to the
aany victims of the Infamous practice of con-
family carrying concealed weapons.
The entire English nation is, of course, in
tate of intense excitement in relation to the
7ar in the the Crimea. There is mourning
throughout the kingdom on account of the ter
IDLE losses which have been experienced; for
4 the death Of some $4,000 men, of all clas-
es and orders-nobility, gentry and common
the whole population have some
ersonal interest. Among the plans proposed
) the embodying and mobiizing the militia of
be kingdom, and the replacing of the line in
he Mediterranean with the militia Plans for
Employing wrought iron steam batteries, NOR
ars Of prodigious calibre, rifed guns, and other
for sudden, vast and secret destruction,
" the attention Of the admiralty, the