Carolina Watchman

              1 annum in advance ■ ter $ ! per square for be first m 25 c enu for eacb subsequent tt^eraon cou i ._ . ■ till burning of moscow i u length moscow with its domes and i towei and palaces appeared o s.gln.h vv i „ w n had pined the advan-^m u»d napo con v .;" "" •■ , , , ., ,.. ■ 1 , ' , i i n and tnoughtiullv ■ r ath s dltered the gates with ■ 1 t a rv"r he ptissed through ■ f en^hewasstruek by the solitude h ;:;;; t :," him nothing was heard butthe heavy tramp of his squadrons as m z pass ed along lor a deserted and aban h soned city was the ; meager prize lor m which such unparaleiled efforts had been ■ \.> night drew its curtian over ■ splendid capitol napoleon entered h nes and immediately appointed mor fl in his directions he com ■ m anded himtoabstain from till pillage ■ for this sa.d he you shall be answer h with your life defend moscow a h all whether friend or foe h xhe bright moon rose over the mighty h city.tipping with silver the dome of more h lhan two hundred churches and pouring a flood of light over a thousand inhabi h tants the weary army sunk to rest ; h but there was no sleep ha mont ier's eyes i not the gorgeous and variegated palaces i and their rich ornaments nor the parks i ad d gardens and orientel ina_.niticencc . cry where sui rounded him kept him i wakeful bul the ominous foreboding that h some dire calamity was hanging over the h capitol when he entered it scarce h y a living soul met his gaze as he looked h the long streets ; and when he open h the buildings he found parlors and bed h roomsand chambers all furnished and in fl order but no occupants this sudden a 1 bandonraent of their homes betokened some secret purpose yet to be fulfilled — fl the midnight moon sailing over the eity.b when the cry of " fire !" reached the ear b of montier ; and the first light over napo h ing empire w;ts kindled andh that most wonderous scence of modem h commenced h the 11 using of moscow — montier nsh governor of the city immediately issued h bis orders and was putting forth every i exertion when at daylight napoleon has-b tened tu bim a fleeting to disbelieve the i reports that the inhabitants were firing fl their own city be put more rigid com-^b mands on montier to keep the soldiers from the work of destruction the mar-^h shall simply pointed to some iron covered booses thai had not yet been opened from h i rery crevice of v hich smoke w;is issu'mu^b like steam from the sides of a peut-up-^b volcano sad and thoughtful napoleon^b turned towards the kremlin the ancient^b palaces of the czars whose huge struc-^b ture rose above the surrounding edifices i in the morning montier by great cxer-^b tions was enabled to subdue the fire — ■ but the nexl night sept 15th at midnight.^b the sentinels on watch upon the oi't\bb krcmlin.saw below themthe tlnmesbursi-^b ing through the houses and palaces and^b the en of " fire ! fire '." passed through^b the cily the dread scene had now i._ir-h ly opened fiery balloons were seenh dropping from the air and lighting upoih lhe houses — dull explosions wen heardh on every side from the shut up dwelling and the next moment a bright light bursth forth and the flan.es were raging throu__!_h the apartments all was uproar aud con-h fusion the serene air and moonlight oh the night before had given way to drivingh clouds and a wild tempest that swepth with the roar of the sea over the city — h i'l tines arose on every side blazing andh crackling in the storm while clouds oth smoke and sparks in an incessant showeih went driving towards the kremlin — h the clouds themselves seemed turned in-h to lire rolling in wrath over devoted mosh cow montier crushed with the resporih ability thus thrown upon his shoulders moved with his young guard amid this desolation blowing up the houses and la the tempest and the flames — strug gling nobly lo arrest the conflagration he hastened from place to place amid the blazing ruins his lace blackened with the smoke and his hair and eyebrows signed with the fierce heat at length day dawned a day of tempest and of flame and montier who had strained every nerve fur thirty-six hours entered a palace and dropped down from fatigue the manly form and stalwart arm that had so often carried death into the ranks of the enemy at length gave way and the gloomy mar shall lay and panted in utter exhaustion but the night oftempest had been succeed ed by a day of tempests : and when night again enveloped the city.it was one broad flame wavering to and fro in the blast — the wind had increased to a perfect hur ricane and shifted from quarter to quar ter as if on purpose to swell the sea of fire ami extinguish the last hope the fire was approaching the kremlin and alrea dy the roar oi the flames and the crash of falling houses and the cracking of burn ing timbers were borne to the ears ofthe startled emperor h e arose and walked to and fro stopping convulsively and ga zing on the terrific seine murat eu gene and berthier rushed into his pres ence and on their knees besought him to flee but he still clung to that haughty palace as il it were his empire but at length the shout " the kremlin is on tire .'" was heard above the roar of the conflagration and napoleon reluctant ly consented to leave he descended into the streets with his staff and looked a bout lor a way of egress but the flames blocked every passage at length they discovered a postern gate leading to the moskwa and entered it but they had on ly rushed still farther into the clanger — as napoleon cast his eye around the open space girdled and arched with fire smoke and cinders he saw one single street vet pen but all oa fire into this he rushed the carolina ww idhmm bkuner & james , ' „ , . p t • i " eep a c rck fpon alt yocr editors c proprietors \ ls safe ' { new series rulef.s do this anii liberty < cen'l harrison i number ig of yolume iii salisbury n c friday august 14 1846 and amid the crash of falling houses and i raging of the flames — over burning ruins b through clouds of rolling smoke and be b tween walls of lire he pressed on ; and at i length half suffocated emerged in safely b from the blazing city and took up his h quarters in the imperial palace of petows-^m ky nearly three miles distant mortier^h relieved from his anxiety forthe emperor h redoubled his efforts lo arrest the confia h gration his men cheerfully rushed into every danger breathing nothing but h smoke and ashes — canopied by flame and h smoke and cinders — surrounded by walls h lof fire that rocked to and fro and fell with i la crash amid the blazing ruins carrying i idown with them red hot roofs of iron ; he b i struggled against an enemy that no bold b i ness could awe or courage overcome — b i those brave troops had heard the tramp lof thousands of cavalry sweeping to bat h i tie without fear but now ihey stood in h i still terror before the march of the confia h i gration under whose burning footsteps h i was heard the cessant crash of falling hou h 1ms and palaces and churches the con h itinitous roar ofthe raging hurricane min-^h igled with lhal ofthe flames was more h i terrible than the thunder of artillery ; and b i before this new foe in the midst of thisfl i battle of lhe elements the awe-struck ar 1 i my stood powerless and affrighted i when night again descended on the city b i it presented a spectacle the like of which i b was neverseen before and which baffles all i b description the streets were streets ot'h blire — the heavens a canopy of fire andh bthc entire body of tbe city a mass of lire h i fed by i hurl icane that whirlcdthe blazing h i fragments in a constant stream through h i the air incessant explosions from theh i blowing up of the stoics of oil and tar h band spirits shook the very foundations ot'h ithe city and sent vast volumes of smoke h i rolling furiously towards the sky huge h ■ sheets of canvass on bit ~ amt ' : floating ■ blike messengers of death tin .^ t | h . h h flames the towers and domes of lu h i churches and palaces glowed with a red-h i hot heat over the wild sea below then ■ i tottereing a moment on their basis werem i hurled by the tempest into the common ■ i ruin thousands of wretches before un-b i seen were driven by the heat from them i cellars and hovels and streamed in an in-b i cessant throng through the streets chil-h i dren were seen carrying their parents — h i the strong the weak ; while thousandsh i more were staggering under the loads oth i plunder they had snatched from the ilames.h i this too would frequently take lire in theh i fallingshower,and the miserable creaturesh i would be compelled to drop it and flee forh h their lives oh it was a scene of wo andh h fear inconceivable and indescribable ! ah h mighty and close-packed city of housesh i and churches and palaces wrapped from i limit to limit in flames which are fed hyl i a whirling hurricane io a sight this worldl i will seldom see i but this was till within the city t°b i napoleon without the spectacle was stillb h more sublime and terrible when theb h flames had overcome all obstacles andb h wrapped every thing in their red mantle h that great city looked like a sea of rolling h fire swept by a tempest that drove it in h to vast billows huge domes and h towers throwing off sparks like blazing h lire brands and towered above these h waves and now disappeared in their mad h dening flow as they rushed and broke h high over their tops ; scattering their spray h of fire against the clouds the heavens h themselves seemed to have caught the h conflagration and the angry masses thai h swept it rolled over a bosom of tire co h lunms of flames would rise and sink a h lung the surface of ihis sea and huge vol h umes of black smoke suddenly shoot intc h the air as if volcanoes were working be h low the blaek form of the kremlin a h lone towered above the chaos now wrap h ped in flame and smoke and again emer h ging into view — standing amid this scene h of desolation tind terror like virtue in the h midst of a burning world enveloped but h unscathed by the devouring elements — i napoleon stood and gazed on this scene i in silent awe though nearly three miles i distant the windows and walls of the a i partment were so hot that he could scarce i ly bear his hand against them said he i vears afterwards it was the spectacle of a sea and bil i lows of fire and clouds of flame moun i tains of red rolling flame like immense i waves of the sea alternately bursting forth i and elevating themselves to skies of lire laud then sinking into the ocean of flame i below oh ! it was the most grand the most sublime and the most tertific sight bthe world ever beheld h l baltimore monument — the philadel hnhia times says that boston is very just ify called the monumental city the fol h lowing inscription found on a monument hit one ofthe grave-yards of that city says hthe times has been copied for us by a h friend verbatim e literati m h •• here lies the remancesof a very wor h'l>y and respectable citizen who kept a irrocery and chandelier establishment at b t e corner of and — streets — i this stone is erected by his bereved and widdow who takes this oppor tunity to inform her friends that she in i tends to carry on her husband's former bu i si ness at the same place and wants to b rt { he custom and paternage of all her many former friends and cus b torn ers from the st louis republican prairie and mountain life i ogling a bull one of our fellow travellers who sought h the mountains for health recreation and i novelty.withoutany speculatingaim what-h ever was a plain blunt good humored h and free spoken man by the name h ogle from somewhere in illinois if mem-^h ory serves correctly on the 22d of july h the day we reached independence eock.b he was out far from camp in company fl with our excellent little surgeon tilgh-^h man ; both of them always active and ea 1 ger in search of game they had en 1 countered various stray groups of buffalo i succeeding admirably in scaring them fl one after another out of sight when iatefl in the day they were lucky enough tol cripple a veteran bull so badly that llicyl were enabled to follow and overtake hniih on their mules popping another ball or i two into the old beast he dropped rolled i his eyes tossed his head angrily and thru i lay still apparently quite dead while theh victorious hunters jumped from their sad h dies hobbled their mules drew theirfl knives and prepared for the butchering i in great exultation little surgeon tilgh-^b man a passionate and already accom-^b plished student in anatomy had conceiv-^b ed an intense desire to obtain and carrv bb home with him should he get back thel complete skull horns and scalp of a buf i falo actuated by this inclination he nowl set to work cautiously examining the phy h siognomical aspect and phrenological re-h sentation of his newsubject ; during which h in enthusiastic forget lui ness he seated h himself upon the animal's shoulder lean-h ing over between the horns and enjoying h in the fullest degree his new and fantas-h tical ottoman ogle more intent uponh procuring meat and returning to camp i had sharpened his knife and made a vig-h orous cut near his tail to commence the i peration of skinning a violent shake of h the ok ,,. . . ° . . i i . h his decided civf intimating no doubt h in an instant sent thvu chfam,hant l ing five yards distant and t_ie e ° n j 0 , 11 " h i then picked himself up and took to hfsh h pedal propellers may be interesting toh h imagine while ogle who was a slout.h i round shoultered and slow-motioned man,h i was suddenly seized with a nimble fit.thatb i sent him jumping over the age bushes h band getting out of the way with that ex h traordinary rate ot speed rendered classic i h in the famous epic of ' old dan tucker fl strange as it then appeared and strange b i as it must now seem in reading the rnr_r fl h tally wounded bull rose and run a fall fl half a mile from the spot where it st fl i fell while ogle and the surgeon aitv-fl i recovering irom their consternation moun h ted their mules and followed the runaway with desperate determination not i to be swindled out of their supper thc i bull slopped worn with weakness almost i to the last gasp and turned upon his pur h surers in an instant two more ball i were driven into the creature's side and i after moving a step or two and glaring h wildly around him down he tumbled heat h foremost as before surgeon tilghmat h thought proper to maintain a respectable i distance for a lew moments before re his scientific examination of th h animal's skull but ogle who possessed fl as daring a spirit as any man alive anc h whose eye uneasily marked the sun plung i ing lower and lower momently towards i his fiery western couch walked cautious i ly but firmly up to the beast and deliber i ately stuck his knife up to the handle ir h the region of its liver what was the as i tonishment of the two amateur buli'alc h butchers when the tortured monster agaii i tore the earth with its short horns anc i struggled furiously to its feet ! the sur i geon was on his mule and fifty yards dis i tant in an instant ogle was not so lucky i for his mule was on the opposite side o i the bull while his rifle stood against e h sage bush in another direction to gei i possession of both was impossible and he i could only precipitately seize the gun anc fl make oil on foot with an expedition ai once alarming and ludicrous ogle rar like a man about to dive into the watet fl for a swim and as he started and jumpec hover and cut round the sage bushes that bgrew thick and high all over the ground turning quickly every moment to see il lihe bull was alter him tripping stum i bling half falling and stumbling again in binanv desperate efforts to recover himself his cumbrous form doubled up straighten hed out again twisted wriggled and boun bded about in contortions so unchristian hiikc and inconceivable that nothing like lit may be mentioned unless one can ima b__:ue such a freak of modern improvement fl calvin edson manufactured into d bstoiit man by means ofa blown up indi_j hrubbcr suit and running a race with i b whirl a ind ! h the bull dashed violently after ogle i blew minutes but paused again too weal flto continue the chase there is some 7 ' ithing most appealing and piteous in th'l bslow turning of these huge creature hi'ron side to side and the indescribable glare of their dark eye-balls when strnf 1 bglin between death and impotent rag bpain misery anger wonder blind fur band overwhelming terror seem to sped 0 bin this minute denotement of departirp blil'e again and again will they rou'g from the approaches of deatf 11 band make new efforts at escape and d venge this poor bull suddenly discov ered ogle's hat on a sage bush where he had left it and making a plunge the an imal drove one of his short horns right through it so that when he rose erect a gain he had the hat sticking upside down upon his head nothing could exceed the absurd effect of this picture a witness ofthe scene might have observed doctor tilghman in the distance rolling from side to side upon his mule in an ecstacy of laughter while ogle having just paused from his flight and turned stood staring at the bull with a hat on in the most lu dicrous amazement • w ell you may take my hat said 0 gle seeing as you've got it already aud iseem to have no notion of dying i the next moment the bull fell forward ipanting in agony upon its lore knees star ling still more wildiy and then slowly roll led over on its side with a long gurgling igasp that together with the stiffening out lot his legs told the work to be at length ifairly over i day was just sinking to a close when ■ the two successful sportsmen got to work lin earnest with their knives upon the fl warm carcass ; ogle stripping oil his skin bto get to the meat while the doctor was b sawing at the under jaw to get the tongue bout which latter operation was rendered bperplexingly difficult on account of the b beast having plunged his nose into a stub bborn cluster of the everlasting artemisia bas he fell to cut a tongue out conveni bently and well the head should be turned bup so as to rest upon its horns but in this bcase the old bull as if bent on giving his bbutchers as much trouble as possible with bmalice prepense and aforethought ramm led his proboscis tight into an abominable hsage brush so that the little doctor had ito tug like a trojan to turn the ponderous hskull even a few inches to get a chance hwith his knife at the throat h night lowered over our camp at rock hlndependence and nobody could tell any hthing about ogle or the doctor signal hguns were fired at dusk at dark at seven height and nine o'clock but still they did hnot appear and it was near ten when the _____! -.'.-;. i v ? nr ateurs at length found camp ■ wuiiasuppij v , ° . , ., ,. ' b i jl li i • ." h meat and the doc ■ tors laughable history o a ,- u ,, . ■ j vr uiig a bull from the savannah republican ■ small matters — the present congress ■ seem resolved to give a pretty fair illus tration of what is meant by democratic economy after charging the whigs with extravagance because they reduced the expenditures ofthe government to some thing less than 821,000,000 and levied duties upon imports to an extent sufficient to pay not only the current expenses but the locofoco debt of the nation these ve hry men according to a statement recently ■ nade in the senate will have to appro priate at least fifty-four millions of dollars ■ luring the present session if all the i ublic bills pass the amount will be swell i i up to 808,700.608 ! ! ! this is done un i r the pretext that the country is in a i jte of war and in order to complete the i diction some twut'i pei cent is taken h mr ritchie's printing account but h nogntil it was proveu that he had clear h edtaneth ing like 800,000 on a single job !! h fit not the people be deceived ho we v i ei these immense sums are not given hi folesitimate war purposes much of the ■ . mey is distributed in the pavment of s contracts given to political favorites h a for the support of partizan depei-idants h ut no inconsiderable portion of it i.s hi sandered not only uselessly but frau h cfently it wili be recollected that du hj i the profligacy of mr van buren's b i it was alleged that a certain mrm hl i of congress from the eastern states h dually boxed up and shipped home a h ge quantity of superior paper some h ) reams if we remember correctlv — f e same wastefulness and extravagance hi a small way are beginning again to be t libit « * el . h • the clerk of he house of represen h ives recently advertised as we learn t man exchange paper " for estimates h furnish the members of the 29th con h l'ss with 800 enghsh pen-knives four ■| ides best pearl sfag or buck handles h be ofthe highest finish and ofthe best nlity the pattern well known as the ongress knife — twenty dozen ditto h'o bladed there are 22s members of house among whom these spoils he to be distributed making just four a piece for each member and h s over for which we suppose they will h*s coppers are 81550 given for pen-knives ; hhy not give another thousand for tooth hcks and two more for pocket-handker ■ let's ?'' why not furnish mr sawyer hth his sausages or mr a b and*c hth their brandy and oysters gratis . — this would be but another step in grancf system of progression if of congress are to be furnished hth knives for their families at home hy not supply the material upon which huse them ! and as sawyer uses h knife indiscriminately upon quills and why not furnish these " devoted of the dear people with a sup i of the real genuine bologna this huid tend to elevate the tone of their h patriotism and give them increased h>r for the various rows which ennoble h distinguish particularly the lower hise our cotemporary of the charleston eve h ning news sjieaking seriously on this sub h ject says : '• such peculation is unworthy h of the men who ought to compose such an i - ■ i . .. ___■ assembly ■ attack on gen taylor the new or i leans jeffersonian an administration pa i per — is out iti a savage attack upon cen h taylor to whose want of prudence and i sagacity it attributes the breaking out of h the war upon the frontier with all the i consequences that have resulted the i tropic regards this attack upon the vet i eran as an indication of the feelings of i the administration itself and the jeffer i sonian it seems to think has been select i to throw out this feeler with a view of i ascertaining how tar it may be safe to i follow up the assault upon the reputation i and feelings of old rough and ready i we shall see h the court of inquiry — the court of i inquiry at fortress monroe in the ease of i gen gaines merely met and adjourned i on saturday cu n gaines is closely en i gaged in preparing a written statement of i his case which will probably be laid be i fore the court to-day or to-morrow one i ofthe grounds of justification is that the i secretary of war in a letter to gen g i under date ei november last speaking for i the president used language which would i authorize the general commanding the i western division in a case of " imminent i peril to make requisitions for volunteers i and should that point not be conclusive fl ot the case that the call for volunteers i was a mere error of judgment and not an i offence against the laws subjecting the i offender to a court martial and that too i upon the former precedent and official ad i mission in the case of the call forthe lou 1 isiana volunteers last year norfolk lha 1 con i from yucatan i we arc indebted to capt j p levy for the latest advices from tabasco he left there on the 13th instant advices had just been received from pechucalsa that a declaration had been made there lor santa anna and federal ism gov belches was at the head of the movement the motives oflhe insurrec tion are represented as any thing but pat riotic the chief object being to raise con tributions from the indolent agriculturist nd overburdened merchants . vl e conduct ofthe government of yu catan is bv captain lew as marked byduj4 nitj . > ro fessing neutral ity the people are said to be the r os t vir ulent enemies we have mexicans avail themselves of the anomalous position of yucatan and place their vessels under the protection of the yucatan flag to screen them from our vessels oi war by these vessels the other ports of mexico are supplied with provisions and other de sirable articles we have been informed from a source entirely distinct irom capt levy that the government of yucatan is playing with our government and that the most influencial merchants oftbe coun try side with mexico in the war with the i nited states and u<cd all their influence to put down tin late quasi revolution in yucatan — y o picayune the old french claims the house of representatives yester day performed an act of grace for which we most cordially give them credit bv a large majority and against a verv stre nuous opposition they passed the bi'il pro viding some though inadequate,indemni ty lor the french spoliations on american property prior to the year 1800 a gen eration of men has passed awav since these claims were assumed bv the gov ernment and were first presented to con gress : they have been strongly reported in favor of by succi ssive committees ; — they have vanquished the prejudices of numerous opponents in both houses who have given them a candid examination and bills have passed one house or the other at different times ibr their relief : but never until now has a bill for the ob ject received the concurrent vote of both houses it does honor u the justice of congress and we rejoiceat ir although many of those enterprising citizens mari ners or merchants whom these lawless spoliations ruined have long since sunk into their graves and cannot be cheered by this act of tardy justice their children or grand-children we hope survive to en joy its benefit — nat int the new tariff — we see that the go vernment paper has been deceived in re lation to the valuation of dutiable commo dities under the new law friday's pa per says the duties are to be collected on rhe '• actual market value nt our ports ,* in new york or philaclelphitt.no at canton or manchester the reverse is the fact in y sun ad valorem duties — the ad valorem h duties are ail on the foreign valuation not h the value ofthe articles in this country as i many suppose this is an important and i wiil prove a serious matter to some ofl our manufactureres — pad chronicle h ponton — the word " ponton often us i ed in the accounts from the army is of h french origin and means a fiat-bottomed h boat or lighter ; and a " ponton bridge h is a bridge composed of such craft h a striking fact a few days ago mr cameron of pa presented to the senate the proceedings ofa meeting •• of demecratic citizens re siding in the valley of wyoming express ing their entire opposition to any altera tion in the tariff of 184 — among the prominent actors at which meeting was hendrix b wright esq the president ofthe baltimore convention which nomi nated polk and dallas ami by which the famous resolutions were adopted of which so much has been said and in conformity to the doctrines of one of which mr dal las professed to consider himself pledged to give the casting vote in favor of the british tariti — a tariif of which sena tor cameron truly said " ii the bill had been drawn by a british statesman it could not have discriminated more in fa vor of british workmen — a tariff of which senator niles declared in his place " not one-third of the senators approved — a tariff which senator benton brands as con tradictory incomprehensible grossly de fective and fraudulent ' ! and yet such a tariff thus disparaged by those who vo ted for it — thus confessedly crude and im practicable in its detail and threatening in its results the most disastrous eons-e quences — this tariff repudiated andseoff le 1 at by a considerable number ol the ve fl-y men who under some strange infatua flion have nevertheless voted ior it — this budious and inefficient measure which is in bankrupt the treasury lead to a large national debt to diminish the wages of blabor to discharge the currency to check bour manufacturing prosperity to cripple bcommeree to paralyze agriculture — this habominable measure has been forced up lon the countrv by means which even its flown friends dare not avow and which hthey even shrink from characterizing ! — h.vnd this is done too in pretended confor imity with a pledge said to have been giv flen in the resolutions ofthe baltimore con tention in the teeth of the fact that the hlvesident of that convention is seen a hmong the number of its active opponents hand uniting with his " democratic nigh hbois of wyoming in the declaration that bl'olk and dallas never would have been ■ nominated by that body had it been pre hsumed that they were opposed tothe tar biff of '•!_>. against which that resolution h professes to have been levelled the an hnals of party perfidy abounding as they hdo in acts of treachery and fraud furnish fl no case surpassing this in magnitude and i enormity — richmond whig i two days later from mexico h pensacola july 25 1846 h ir — thel s frigate rarilan com greg hory arrived here yesterday from vera cruz ■ which place she left on the lttii inst hring ■ ii:g two days later dates than received hv lhe i princeton the vera cruz papers ofthe i5tb and igth ■ puhlish the news ofthe oregon treaty under tho h head ol •• \ cry important news the papcis state that in consequence of the treaty lhe h mexican people are called on to make increased h efforts to save their countrv from the rapacity lot the robbers ol the del norte they remind the mexicans of the manner hut which the french were driven oui of spain halter madrid and die cities ofthe country were im possession ofthe enemy this was dune h''v a guerilla warfare in which small parties ■ f the enemy were murdered whenever they h were found h paredes has not left the city of mexico it h^'i f.find impossible to raise a body of even ■ ion to follow him it is the opinion of all well informed persons ■ ilea there is nothing u prevent gen taylor's directly t the city of mexico there hai - no troops to oppose him gen more the new commandant oftbe cu b ; '' ind city of vera cruz who has succeeded h vice-president bravo ha eutcred upon his hiuties he has a body of several hundred men woru every morning on the low sand beach the castle where he is throwiog up additional breast works about sunset tbe sol hliers are exercised at target iir i « j r the g ms hare mostly of large caiii-ie an ! throw shot lo ha great distance h the american squadron is anchored under islands the opinion daily gains lhal ■ the castle can onlv he taken by escalade or ■ ** boarding as jack calls it this the sailors h"t die squadron are esgei lo undertake h the british steamer arrived at vera cruz h ii the i4tb without santa anna and the best ■ inthirif-d now n there is no probability of his coming there at all ■ the ye//ow lever i making great bavoch a hm.i.j lhe ti..ops both in the castle and in iho the soldiers being m isl • fn m the in hrfi.f ; are not accustomed to i hi ol lha ■ t and therefore suffer in health very se hvereiy vera c u z could easily be taken wiih two or three thousand men who could land ei hther north or south of it — a present the city his near deserted b excellent health prevails ihi ngboul the h-fj iron the frigate rarilan alone excepted bon board wbicb vessel the scui - to a h i capital punishment fl andrew howard who was j at ■ i'over \. h on the 8th inst for lhe mnr i !• i of miss phebe hanson in his confes hsimi says : — i ■• my conviction is just my punishment bmerited but had 1 1 noun that i siiould wh'ii-f been hung if i wai detected i should wm i<e have committed ilu deed which has doomed me a young man just in the prime of life to an ignominious death / sup posed the punishment was imprisonment far if ." a gentleman of baltimore has ordered as a present to gen taylor a complete set of camp equipage made principally oi block tin consisting of 100 pie i *. kettles pans travs cups coffee-pots knives and lurks c c the whole ofthe equip age will weigh not more than 100 ihs and is yet sufficient to prepare dinner li.rh'lty persons among other relic in one of i europ ean cathedrals is a bottle lull i f lhe i lentical darkness with which moses ovenpread the land of egypt .'