The New York herald., 1862-02-07

or ioauing with troops anu stores consist vi euo
ships Undaunted. North American, Idaho. Ocean
PEARL Wilder Farley and Western Empire; also
some steamers. The Maine Fourteenth regiment
First Maine battery Second Vermont battery ana
Fourth Massachusetts, battery, of the New England
division, were embarked yesterday. Probably all
the above vessels will sail the present week.
The entire division will consist of about ten thou
sand men.
We have highly important news from Mexico,
relating to a great battle fought between the
Spanish troops and the Mexicans, at the National
Bridge, near Vera Cruz, in which the Spaniards
were defeated The conflict at this important
strategic point is said to have lasted five hours.
From the western part of the republic intelligence
represents the Mexican people as being completely
united in the effort to resist foreign invasion. All
international dissensiOns have been abandoned in
one grand movement for the common cause. This
news reaches us by quite roundabout mode OF
transit, but it proves to be the quickest after all
from the very heart of Mexico in ten days. 1t ap-
pears that courier was despatched to Acapulco,
and reached there before the 26th ult. The news
thus brought was taken by the steamer Panama
from Mazatlan to San Francisco, and was thence
telegraphed to New York, the dispatches being
dated as late the 4th inst. We give in full to-
day the treaty entered into between the French
and Spanish generals relative to the position to be
allotted to the French troops in the invading
armies, the substance of which we laid before our
readers yesterday.
The reception oflate Southern papers has placed
rebeldom. The Richmond Examiner of the 4th
inst. publishes long editorial bewalng the con-
dition of the rebel cause. 1t says:-'We have
thousand proofs that the Southern people are not
sufficiently alive to the necessity of eXertion in
the struggle they are involved in. Our very victo
ries have brought injury upon the cause by teach
ing us to despise the public adversary. The i'm
mense magnitude of his preparations for our sub.
jugation has excited apprehension and had little
effect in rousing us to exertion. We repose
quietly in the lap of security when
every faculty of our natures should be reused to
action" n thinks "better to fight, even at the
risk of losing battles than remain inactive to fill
up nglorious graves" 1t goes on to recite the
|, frl tn and 70 Tho ooI
poses the following: -First-"We must first Danish
from the country every stranger in it who cannot
give satisfactory account Of his purposes and
objects here.' Second-"For the whole CON-
muniy to throw themselves heart and soul into the
war, and practice all the selfdenal that the crisis
demands
The same paper thinks that the Burnside ex-
pedition has failed. at has lost its pres
tise and hope; and henceforth the highest achieve
ment it can accomplish will be that of taking care
of ITSELF"
The rebel official account OF the battle of Lees
burg, Va. has recently been made public. We
give it in full in to-day's HERALD. The rebel loss
in that engagement was in killed, wounded and
prisoners, one hundred and fifty five men.
A local correspondent of the Norfolk Doy Booh
writes complaining article relative to the recent
escapes of slaves from that city. He says these
escapes are made through instrumentality of
secret societies in Norfolk, who hold their meet
ings weekly and in open day. He estimates the
value of the contrabands recently escaped at
twenty thousand dollars.
The Virginia correspondent of the Charleston
Courier says that out of the Fifth South Carolina
regiment numbering eight hundred E,en, whose
term of service is about expiring, but one hundred
and seventy have signied their willingness TO en-
list for the war "
The Richmond Dispatch says the local editor of
the Richmond Enquirer recently visited Baltimore,
and passed the federal lines without any difficulty
His report of the prevailing sentiment of the
people of Maryland gathered from reliable sources,
is most encouraging. He represents that fully
nine-tenths of the people of the State and of the
city of Baltimore are earnest sympathzers with
the Southern views"
CONGRESS-
In the Senate yesterday, among the petitions
presented was one numerousy signed by citizens