ms of lbe watdmnan ; t , ,. two doli ks payawe in aid hi advance two dollars it sl f,,rl!l first and 25 eta .. court orders clmrged han these rates a liberal deduc nise by the year n-t be postpaid g carolina watchman reting ofthe b ard of superin . common schools for the coun lvan held at the clerk's office in on the 5th day of october is 17 : said hoard being present on was held for chairman for , i ar when i v brandon esq was unanimous . cted iv board then proceeded tothe adop . ft\ie following resolutions lo wit : . , />. . ired thai die seveial school com ... careful i iml lhe centre of their dis build iheir school houses in the ithin a quarter ul a mile of it : and - - may i committee build a school • t ij 7i 1 1 a quarter ol a mile from lhe be disti iet until thev shall huve re r to at least two members ol of superintendents and shall huve ive of both in writing to do so tlesoki i that if any one ol the sever 1 committees shall build their school greater distance than a quarter ol i place designated by law viz : wiih mi first obtaining leave of al members ofthe board of superinten v will forfeit their claim to the public and lhal no payments will be made lo dljl ii y shall have collected the . that lhe chairman of lhe rintendenls be very careful noi lo , upon uny draft unless said draft be i io law because you cannot get ommittees lo follow the law or hit unless you com inre them noi obtain their share of the pub - ihey do iheir ichole duty . 1 that evei v sehool district / free \\ hile persons betw ecu - i lire und ttcenty-one years and tin have one teacher or one share ; and shall be no addition until the nuin nts to hi : und lhal each district hav 10 to 11(1 shall huve one-anda-fourih id each district having from 110 lo bave one share and a half each district in 130 lo 150 shall have one shape :. fourths and so on r to ascertain how many teach i-s-.-tiy the clerk shall exam •■ u many districts are entitled to more than one share according to the i • resolution then add all the frac i the number of shares so found whole of the fractions shall be 7 d lo the whole number of districts amounl thus obtained will be the f teachers required a vv brandon clin f iln school committee-men in ach dish iet for tin ensuing t/cetr ith 1847 i v i on \ gillon hugh .'. _., l-lt'hu id til i!i mil \ ■ '-' — marcus e reese david kilpatriek : - i jameson :. :>— john i mccorkle j m lowrawe m l rankin sa . — jacob ('. goodman stephen }'. mil \\ iliiam 1 < iraham . 5 — w iliiam i wood james kerr m i . v 6 a v cowan jacob hughey paul yo 7 robert wilson john luckey wil turner ?— lemuel johnston james watson i ire . \ .. d — qsborn g foard joseph ervin :-(' hyde ' 10 james owens alexander brown ■; « iexander fc 11 henry sechler david r brad ; w jam silliman vo 12 henry deal john m ritchie jus ighn & 13 daniel weaver daniel hess mi . cash so 14 — david linn r a patterson levi . ' — henry miller tan jacob shu - uiraham serhler lli — james c mcconnaughey james ■■>. lobn barger elijah rice daniel lyerly henrv son jacob correll cathey rice bones , 9 — samuel rurner george h gheen il fraley 20 — richard locke thomas kincaid ison a21 henry miller sr phillip owens s mckenzie -.— john eagle jacob setzer william ■-'--- daniel eddleman frederick st ire ' t idlemaii — john p rymer jacob yost henry - '— e e phillips john l rendleman ■ '• ick 26 jag l brown michael s brown -:.|' . •~ — william ii horah john i shaver i jehu foster radford bailey the - j iu b fraley sabret s.trott win albert t powe george w smith j -( harles l torrence isaac kesler john keiehy william a walton iger michael l brown martin klutts i iser i l—bavid peeler peter miller moses i baniel coil joseph miller john j-~john miller joseph a linn da i i jul trexler leonard klutts e j n\nmi bill simeon d peeler i - - ._— t — ■ 1 t * brunei & james t editor a proprietors \ " ke * k,r ',' r.7 '*"' ™" { new series do this and i_tr.r*7tv is im •• gen'l harrison ( number 27 of vi lume iv salisbury n c thursday november 4 1847 mmm**mmm m ——^— -_-_■__— ___■ ].__ in . 7 *- * • no 39 — willi bean jacob tile leonard hofner no 40 solomon eagle peter ll,_itm george bamp no 41 moses g morgan ji'*n hodges john morgan no 42 william stokes peter miller de wall lenlz no l — isaac ribelin jacob earnbart jr james mel ombs no 11 — david w honeycutt limrh \). kelly george a e jape no 45 samuel luckey thomas a.burke william p burke no 46 johu fraley jonathan barber john lyerly exposition of gen taylor's politics the new york " courier speaks of a letter of gen taylor to the lion j r in gersoll of philadelphia which it has ho ped lor some time past to obtain a copy of but has been disappointed " and for reasons which may be hereafter stated the general tenor and substance howev er it is permitted to impart to its readers : this letter is dated lhe ul of august 1847 at the headquarters of the army of occupation in mexico it commences by stai ing that in gen taylor is a whig not an ultra partisan whig but a deci ded whig that no one could have obser ved lhe debate in the congress of the last session ou the attempt to censure him for the capitulation of monterey conducted mainly on " parly grounds and doubl " the complt ion ef his my politics that he has held a commission in the army ofthe united states for forty years ■ — this commission being one of the last issued by mr jefferson ; that in the last presidential eleeliyn he advocated the e lection of mr clay believing that he and his friends " assimilated more to the prin ciples of mr jefferson than their " oppo iii tils ii however ihe people of the united slates shall spontaneously elect him he shall feel himself bound to serve ; but that he will nor accept of a party nomination exclusively that if he should be elec ted he will go into ollice unpledged to any particular course ; that he was deter mined lo carry out the intention of the fr uiiers ofthe constitution of whom two referring fo washington and madison were among early presidents of the coun try antl lhat he is determined in strfch case to be the president of the " nation and not ol a '• party gen taylor proceeds ihen to define hi present positon — that he does not think himself qualified for the presidency : that he would willingly postpone his name to secure the election of mr clay or any of ihe distinguished men ofthe same school now presented to the public this letter is ihe courier understands the most lull and satisfactory expression of general taylor's views vet given by bim mr ingersoll will nor consent to its publication because it is an answer to a letter forged by sonic individual and pur porting to have been written by mr in gersoll when no such letter was ever written by him the courier thinks mr ingersoll right in the position hi has ta ken and hopes he will take the proper measures to relieve himself from this dif ficulty and obtain the consent of gen taylor to lay this interesting document before the public a new york letter in the philadelphia inquirer says — " if report speaks true some ot our new york merchants are ma king well ofthe mexican war it is said that vessels have been hired for govern ment use as most exorbitant rates and that their owners receive as much for a few months use of a vessel as she is worth lt is also said that some gent\prnan gf this city are engaged in constructing steam boats for the government without w\n(r directed to do so directly and selling them at prices varying from thirty to forty thou sand dollars over their cost and fifty or sixty thousand dollars over their worth to the government agent how true this is i do not know but i can truly say that our citizens believe it and are very indig nant at it sailing of united states ves sels the week ending the 10th instant was a busy one in the quartermaster's de partment at new orleans the follow ing united states vessels sailed on the night previous viz : schrs sarah and gertrude and brig lawrence for tampi co ; schooners heroine and whig for bra zos santiago and schr eleanor for vera cruz the cargoes ofthe vessels consist of hay grain lumber about 35 horses it each and a number of teamsters as pas sengers the united states steamship alabama sailed on the morning of the loih for vera cruz and tampico loaded with quartermaster's stores about one hun dred men ate on board to be employed as teamsters in the army dcf3 alexander il everett american minister to china died on lhe 28th of june at the house of dr p parker se cretary of legation who has been for seyeral years resident at canton sons of temperance ■ r m the raleigh register of october 27 mr editor .- at the annual session of ihe grand di vision ol ihe sons of temperance of north carolina a resoluti n wns passed to ihe effect that such action as had been taken by ihat body upon matters affecting tbe public and ihe cause of temperance generally should be drawn up and enclosed to ihe editors in our city with the request that they and the conductors ofthe press throughout the state would oblige us by laying lhe same before their readers in their respective jour nals in compliance with the above resolution below we give you a summary : the fo lowing officers were elected for the ensuing y.-:,r : joshua boxer of salem g w p john white of chapel hill g w a alex m gorman of raleigh '-. s eldridge smith of raleigh g t ■* rev c l coolet of hiflsboro g c samuel g smith of fayetteville g con james pi ttick of raleigh g sen during tbe last three months a new division has been opened at greensboro and one at salisbury under the most flattering circumstances and at this meeting of the grand division a charter was granted for the formation of a new division at elizabeth town in bladen county ; and we rejoice to be able to assure our friends that our cause is in th-se places in such hands as will ensure for it n prosperous nnd respectable standing the prospects of tbe old divisions as represented by the delegates present was cheering and we have great cause to congratulate the friends ofthe order upon the union and harmony which prevails in our ranks the following resoi a tions were adopted : resolved tha the thanks of this grand division are due and are hereby tendered to brother c f deems for the able and faithful address delivered in this city in defence ofthe principles of our order and the cause of temperance generally resolved further that an application be made to bro deems for a copy for publication and that the grand division have the same printed for circulation resolved further that bro deems be furnished cre dentials empowering and authorizing him to act for this rand division in this state in procuring applicants for dinners and forwarding them to the proper authorities tor tilling up the same and opening new divisions the following resolutions were also adopted : resolved that women and children have been the rreaiesl sufferers from the ravages of intemperance that it is as important for them to protect themselves from iis evil effects as for men — that it is essential that they should be interested in the temperance movement that woman and lhe nsii:g generation may be inspired with a horror of intemperance and veneration for temperance men and temperance principles therefore resolved that this grand division rejoice in the or ganization ofthe " daughters of temperance and ihe ■■ cadets of temperance and is pleased to learn lhat ihey have already the conlidence of the ladies and youths of many states of the union ; and we trust that every facility will be granted by our brethren in north carolina to plant " unions and sections in every pan thereof resolved that we hail the " washingtonians and ! rechabites as efficient and worthy co-laborers with us in the great work of temperance and that we will cheerfully and sincerely unite with them in suppressing the monster and driving him from our borders for the information of the public the following was ordered to be appended to this notice : rledge of the sons of temperance i without reserve solemnly pledge my honor as a man that 1 will neither make buy sell nor use as a beverage any spirituous or malt liquors wine or cider form of application for a charter the undersigned inhabitants of , believing the order of lbe sons of temperance to be well calcu lated to extend the blessings of total abstinence and promote the general welfare of mankind respectfully pe tition ihe grand division ofthe state of to grant them a charier to open a new division to be called ihe division no sons of temperance of the state of , to be loca ted in , aud under your jurisdiction we pledge ourselves individually and collectively io be governed by ihe rules and usages of said grand di vision and also by those ofthe national division ofthe united states enclosed is the charter fee 5 — books 1 names of applicants it must also be stated whether the applicants are mem bers of the order or not — if they are — of what division zt all applications must come free of postage and those coming west of greenshorough to be directed to joshua boner g w p salem and all last of that place as well as all letters on business connected with the order throughout the state to be addressed to a m gorman g s raleigh members of the order who sign an application for a charter must have cards of clearance to he sur rendered to the installing officer previous to being insti tuted capt james ii r taylor we have had the pleasure ihis week ! of taking by lhe hand the gallant officer whose name heads this paragraph and who has just returned to his native state from the fields ol his valor viz : monte re and buena vista — ral register ueut kingsbury this distinguished young officer who was so honorably mentioned in lien tay lor's oliicial report ot the battle of buena vista for his good conduct passed through this city on saturday u.t en route for fayetteville to assume the command of the arsenal to which he has recently been appointed — red reg many ofthe leading administration jour nals at the xorth disapprove in strong terms ofthe spirit of conquest displayed by the organ lof the administration at washington we are happy to hear that some of the influential members ol the cabinet are equally decided in their dis approval of it col wm b campbell who distinguish ed himself in mexico as commander of the 1st tennessee regiment has been elected by the tennessee legislature judge of the the fourth judicial circuit of that state lie was formerly a member of congress and is a whig dc/3 american loss in the last battles is 238 killed 1338 wounded 47 missing total 1g23 ; and over 3,000 since genera scolt left puebla punishment of the deserters we have not room for tho orders i foil in which the trial and sentences of lhe differenl deserters are given but give the substance by a general order dated the 6th of sept it | appeals thut a couri martial of which col ri ley ofthe 2d infantry was president tried 29 men fbrdesertior tothe enemy their fate m_v be read in the sentences of gen sco'.t sentences the court found the above named prisoners the names are given below severally guilty as chaiged and sentence each 2-3ds ofthe members of the court in every case concurring in the sentence to be hanged bv the neck until he is dead 2 the general-in-cbief approves the fore going procoeding aud sentences with the fob lowing exceptions the cases ol thomas riley company 1 3d infantry james mills compa ny h same regiment and john riley compa ny k 5th infantry ihese three prisoners severally committed the crime of desertion as charged in the early part of april 1846 al thai date the united stales were t peace with mexico and am the world ; for the present war did noi break out m fact till a later dale and was not recognised lo exist hy the act of congress ot the united states lil the i3.h 0f he f0|lowjng month no higher punishment can therefore he le gally inflicted upon hose atrocious offenders l.lwey.j mill and j riley than lhat pre scribed tor a slate ol peace viz : fifty lashes with a rawhide whip well laid on the bare back of each — and their punishment is committed ac cordingly — with the addition that each be bran ded on a cheek with the letter d kept a close prisoner as long as this army remains in mexi co and then drummed out of the service so much of ihe punishment in lhe case of henry newer company i 4lh artillery as re lates to hanging is on the recommendation of many members of the court remitted ; and a like remission is made in case of edward m herron company g same regiment out of con sideration for a son a private in the same com pany who has remained faithful to his colors there being some slight circumstances of mitigation in the several cases of hezekiah akles john bariley alex m'kee and john bowers all of company h 3d arlillery iheir sentences are commuted as iu the cases of t riley j mills and j riley above the remainder of the prisoners tried by the same court and fir the same crime viz : hen ry venator company i 2d dragoons ; f rhode company c 3d infantry ; lawrence macky company k 3d infantry ; patrick dalton com pany b 2d infantry ; john sbeehan company g 5lh infantry john a myers company g 4th infantry ; henry whistler company e 4th arlillery ; eli/ier s lusk company c 2d in fantry ; james spears company d 7ih infant ry ; dennis conahan company i tih infantry ; james m'dowell cempany i 7th infantry martin dydon company d 7th infantry wm h keeck company f 4:h arlillery win oatbouse company i lid infantry henry get ker company i 4lh artillery ; wm o'conner company k 1st artillery andrew nolan com pany g 4th artillery herman schmidth company h 3d arlillery ; will he hung accor ding'to iheir several sentences between the hours of 6 and 11 o'clock in the forenoon ne.xl afterthe receipt of this order as may be ar rauged by the commander of lhe post or camp where the said prisoners may respectively be found the above named men excepting ii venator f rhode j a myers anel ./. shee han were executed at san angel sep 10 1847 by command of major gen scott : h l scott a a a g two days subsequently we have further or ders from which we learn that the four men named ahove were not hung on the 10:1 as ihey were passing at the time from tacubaya to mixicoac they were ordered to he hung on the 11th september and the sentence was executed at mixicoac thirty-six other prisoners were tried by a court martial over which col garland presi ded their fate may l>e read in the following sentences dated the 10th september after their conviction for desertion : and the court accordingly sentenced the se veral prisoners two-thirds of the members in every case concurring in the sentence each to be hung by the neck until he be dead — their names are given below before lhe*same court martin miles of com pany a 8lh infantry and abraham fitzpatrick of lhe same company and regiment were duly tried and convicted upon the charge of desertion and the court two thirds of the members con curring accordingly sentenced each to be shot before the samecour wereduly tried and con victedupon the charge ofdesertion the following named prisoners : — j:tmes kelly company c 3d infantry john murphy company c feih infantry . john liule company c 2d dragoons vnd the court accordingly sentenced each to receive fifty lashes well laid on wilh a raw hide on his back ; to forfeit all pay and allowances that are or may become due him ; to be indeli bly marked on the right hip wilh the letter d two inches in length ; lo wear an iron yoke weighing eight pounds with three prongs each one foot in length around his neck to be con fined to hard labor in charge of the guard du ring the time the army remains in mexico and then to have his head shaved and to he drum med out ofthe service before the same court was tried upon lhe charge of desertion lewis preifer of company c 41 h infantry whom the court found to be not guilty of desertion hut guilty of absence without leave and accordingly sentenced him ' to forfeit all pay and allowances ihat are or may become due him anj he discharged the service 2 the general-in-chief approves the pro ceedir.gs findings and sentences in the forego ing ca.-es the remainder of the prisoners sentenced to death by the court are as follows : frederick fogal company e 2d dragoons : henrv klacer same company and regiment ; henry logen shammer company f same reg iment francis o'conner 2d infantry john appleby company d,2 ! artillery : m t fran dus company k 3j infantry : petern.ill.com pa»y b 6lb infantry george w jackson company h 1-t artillery kerr delany com pany d 4;h infantry : john price company f 3d infantry john cuttle company b 2 1 in fantry : richard parker parian liiz and joh-i benedick company f 6«h infantry auguste morstadt company i 7th infantry : john rose and larhlen mclachlen company f 5th in faulty john cavanaugb company e 8th in tantry ; richard han v company a 21 artille ry ; gibson mcdowell company a sth infant ry lenviel a wbealon company a 6lh in fantry patrick amis „ and harrison kenney company e 4'h infantry ; robert bngan com pany i 4lh infantry george daiwigand bar ney hart company k id artillery ; hugh mc clelland company d 3d artillery and john mcdowell company a sih infantry will be hung by the neck until dead between lhe hours of 6 and 11 in the forenoon next afier the re ceipt of this order under the direction of the commanding officer of the post at which ihey may respectively be found executed sept 13 1847 at mexico on the recommendation of the members of the court the sentences of abraham fitzpal rick company a sth infantry john brooke company f 6th infantry and david mcelroy company e g'.h infantry are remitted on account of mitigating circumstances in the cases of rogers duhan company f fiili infantry samuel h thomas company c sth infantry john dailey rifle regiment : tho's cassady company i 8th infantry andimartin les company a 8th infantry the sentence of death i commuted to the following ; to receive fill lashes well laid on wilh a rawhide whip lo be branded on a cheek with a letter d to be kept in confinement while the army re mains in mexico and then to be diummed out of service vve conclude this miserable record of rrtri butive justice meted oul lo those scoundrels a ken in arms against their own companion with the following from the american star • execution of di st rii rs — on the morning of the 9ih was hung at san angel sixteen deser ters from the american army who had taken arms against their government immediately after some ten or twelve were whipped and branded on the cheek 1 riley the chief of the san patiieo crowd came in tor a share of the whipping and branding and right well was the former laid on by a mexican mutineer gen twiggs deeming it too much honor to the ma jor to be flogged by an american soldier he did not stand the operation with that stoicism we expected the next morning four oihers of the same company were executed at mixicoac and on the 1 h thirty more were hung upon one gal lows at the same place the thirty were brought out for execution about the same time that chapultepec was stormed and col har ney pointing to thut place told ihem that they should live long enough lo see the american flag hoisted upon lhe battlements of that fortress and no longer in a f,-w moments our colors were raised and afier it was shown to them they were launched into eternity the clergy at san angel pleaded hard to , save the lives ofthese men bul it was in vain gen twiggs told them thut to ampudia aris ta and santa anna did these men owe their deaths for they stooped to the low business ol soliciting desertion from our ranks and had suc ceeded in seducing from duty and allegi nee the poor wretches who had to pay so dearly for their crimes accordingly io our military laws riley could not be hung he having deserted from the army before the commencement of hostilities but all lhat could he awarded him was well adminis tered moim___-2il lo thp patriot harrison an incident at the grave the remains of gen harrison are de posited in a vault built on a beautiful mound close by his old homestead al north bend indiana about three hun dred yards from the bank of the ohio — the top of the mound on which a beau tiful little monument of white marble bas been erected is nearly level forming a circle of about an acre and a half which is fenced in wiih * white paling and kept perfectly clear of trees or bushes giving to the whole a view from the numerous boats passing on the river — and a boat never passes in daylight without its pas sengers seeking the upper deck to obtain a view of north bend and the patriot's grave on passing down the ohio some four years since on the steamer benjamin franklin her passengers to the number of about one hundred and fifty sought the upper deck when two miles from the hallowed spot and as they approached in full view ofthe tomb each head was uncovered and a tinge of mel^ncli'dy was depicted in every countenance it was an hour after daybreak and thus early by the side of the tomb was observed the bereaved widow with a young female probably her daughter standing near her both dressed in deep mourning as was then customary when opposite north bend the boat was slopped for a few min utes and some of the ladies on board wav ed iheir handkerchiefs to the mourners in token of sympathy with them in their grief which was promptly responded to by the young companion ol the sorrowing widow a more touching scene wa never be held and it drew a sympathetic tear from every eye which was doubtless responded to bv those early visiters a the grave of the revered husband and father this in cident has been called to mind by a recent and gratifying occurrence in the west — we observe lhat a public meeting of the friends and f-dlow-soldiers of lhe late pre sident wm henry harrison was recent ly held at cincinnati when on motion of col has s todd.it was resolved that '• the soldiers ill the late war in lbe north west and ihe friends ofthe late lamented president harrison be invited lo convene in the city of cincinnati on tin 6;h of no vember next to consult npon the most suitable measures for rrecting a monu ment it north bend designed to be a me inoi'ial of the national gratitude to ihat illustrious patriot vv :• doubt not that this movement will receive a hearty response irom not only his fellow soldiers but from all who de i ghted to do honor to him u bile liviu ch sun ' ~ interesting from mexico we copy nrom ihe xew orleans couri er the subjoined extract of a private let ter which the courier states io be from a high source of military in format ion and says that every word t it may be implicitly relied upon besides recapit ulating the victories obtained by general scott on his way from puebla to the city of mexico it gives the amount of iorce with which he commenced hi inarch and the number of lives lost 0:1 both sides du ring the insurrection which followed the entrance of our army into the capital : city of mexico sept 19 1847 my dear friends : at last we are in possession of the capital of mexico ami snugly quartered in the far-famed halls of montezuma believing that it will interest you to un derstand the principal movements ol our army since it ef puf.h!a as i am conver sant with ihem all i will relate ihem and you will and them among ibe most inter esting operations of war lhal have occur red during the nineteenth century when gen scott had completed bis ar rangements and concentrated his forces at puebla in the early part of august and when he saw the sudden disappearance of the speck of p'ace which had been held out to him and mr prist be at once de termined fo move bis whole available force upon the capital by which demon stration he hoped to compel the mexicans to accept our offer of peace accordingly our advance division twiggs's 2,600 regulars took up the line of march in the morning of the 7th of august ; the divisions of quitman worth and pillow 00 regulars 5.200 volun teers following in the above order and at intervals of twenty-four hours we expected little or no resistance un til we reached the valley of mexico nor j did we meet any we encountered strong j natural fortifications at and in the vicini ty of rio frio but lhe em mv seemed i to hold himself in reserve for ibe deter mined resistance our army met witb af j ter passing that region midway between ', puebla and this city and after we had entered the valley of mexico i the reconnoissance uf our engineers iand information derived from other sour \ ces induced gen scott to make his lirst demonstration upon the pinon so called — i a height very strong by nature and dou ' bly so by the science of the mexicans who ' left nothing undone to make the position impregnable a further reconnissance satislied gen scot and induced him o believe that the pinon could be tinned bv the hank ; which was accordingly done and we retired from avotbi passed thro chalco and after innumerable difficulties reached san august in ten miles from tho capital on the 18th august worth's division was thrown forward a league to san antonio on our right and general pillow with cadwalader's and shield's brigade's and twiggs's division on our left worth's division was much annoyed by the enemy's guns at san antonio as we were trying to turn that position while a i brisk cannonade was can led 011 by ihe 1 troops under gen pillow againsl the en ; emy's batteries at contreros i.i the morn ing of the 20th august riley's brigade of regulars supported by cadwalader's bri gade assaulted the strong works ; while . the rifles stood ready to hank and at a signal one rush was made the workscar , ried twenty-two guns some eighteen pounders and o'brien's guns taken at bue na vista captured and also eleven hun dred prisoners si ty wagon loads ol am munition three hundred pack mules and , eighteen thousand dollars in money he sides killing more ihan seven hundred men ; and all this was done in smu nfeen minutes by lhe watch wih a los^m our part of only forty-seven men killed and wounded leaving nur prizes shield's brigade pursued the enemy to tlalpan followed by all the troops under p how ; w hen ( len scott ordered twiggs by one ffad.pnlow by another and worlh by a third to ad vance upon the enemy then in large force and strong position 18.000 me at chu rubus'co and the tele du pont near by worth drove the enemy irom san au gustine who lied to the li 1 ih j-tinl at these places an obstinate resistance was made for two hours and mor when the enemv fled to the city followed b the dragoons and lighl troops lo the '• < n gates leaving upwards of three hundred dead and one thousand prisoni 1 besides a do zen guns and huge quantities ol fixed am munition our loss was aboul one thou sand and loiiy killed and wounded ii re we captured about sixty ol o ir deserters fifty of whom were hanged 1 1 week in these three fights \\ •■ losl many uf the best and noblest < ifici rs in the - 1 i eueral scott wiselj recalled 1 he 1 1 oops as bv entering the city which could most readih have been done the authorities would have been dispi rsed aud all chan ces ot peace dispelled forever < n the 21st general mora chief engin eer of mexico came out and meeting gen scott at colucan made propositions lor a truce the advance of tie army moved to misquaka and tacubaya and