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: ! i i . 5 i Toroi! of tlio Watchman. ,vriibfleripik6n,pr year, Two Dollars payable in , luivande. ' put 'if not paid. in uklvance, Two dollars nn J fifty cti: will be charged. jVnvi Rtiir.MEtfs Inserted ot 1 foi the first, and 25 cts. oacjh subsequent insertion. ourt orders charged .per ct. higher than these 'ratcjs. A liberal deduc : lion toi thns whojadvertise by the year. I.EiTKtsio.the lid i tori must be post paid. ; Itcvioir of the Career, Character ' f I and Services1 of ZACIIARY TAYLOR. RnpublwhcJiroui the North American and U. States ' ' . 1 (In-,!, i.ii.: -i - TttE , CAROLINA WMCHlM"! ' BRUN Editor 5 Proprietors, HIS EARLY HISTORY. Iff & JAMES, Keep a check upox all voce ItCLEfiS. Do mis, and Linnr.TY is s.rr.." Gen'l..Iftrriton. NEW SERIES. VOLUME V, NUMBER l& ALISBUR Y, N. "C, THURSD A y7 AUGUST 17, 1848." I AVAR WITH MEXICO. - Few pctfibns ever doubled that the an nexation of Texas, Urgedlns it was, by 1V Pdtir ifi in snirit of enntpmnt rind mince to Mexico, and with the haughtiest Matarnords, instead of the more distant . only safe, but covered with glory. The and gallantry ; and in no other were there not think it "entirely sale to by his force furthlr" at the time. No: it js obpous, as from his letter of discretion and mercy of the Novcmbei 7, 1845 that the veteran's mind 1 commander. It was, undoubtedly, the previous anx in which individuals, 'ates and non-commis- Frm the V. 1". Ereninq Fosf of FriJaif evening. ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA. Loredo, because that was the nearest place ; hosts of Arista had fled ; Point Isabel and ' so many instances to his depot at Point Isabel, and he did j Fort Brown were permanently relieved; j and especially priva rwir i n n L' ir anri pa if csiiu t r " can rnro n nn viof-n i .11 1 v . r c : 1 . .. . .. . . . uvmv,; iuaVaiuius mm nu me mexican sioneu o licers. dis inrruhed lhpmso vps wrvrv mva ,- t-t,. ! towns of the Rio Grande remained at the j by exploits of chivalrous daring. In the . T! . , a " American disregard iof consequcncck, could fail to AVas full of kinUier thoughts than those of icau a war wun mat country. 1 he war battle and victory thoughts about the was foreseen, -ir not actually ucsireu Kof .u 1 r.i u,r sirai" America amveu nerc at one kI" . 111 U1C l" - 1 "ll,CtV 1 ,ei l u 01 V : ock to-day, bringing Liverpool dates of the i every bush had its combatant, every Jit- house OF rnMMnvs v 91 about the-, iety and alarm which gave such unusual . tie opening in the thicket a fray of per- 1 soldiers, if .depth to the impression made on the na- sons oof files; and for a time," so close ' IMPORTANT NOTICE. II nHftlth nnd Iivipe rf Ki nnnr tlft rrallV SOtlht nnI intonrlnrl In K nrn- I L t , Y ' V 1 i "'"F'icu; u jo i summer marciies, in umi uonai ieenngs by these two victories and furions wis tho dht w inpvtrip-il!v i , .. -' iumu huuu- vokcd.ns o new clement of political in- unhealthy icIinW to found the posts con-1 But. intrinsically, and in eve vsnect erwoven w re t he n p ?J ,, I S ;a',1 wi!l- al ,ho6i,li"S f-k ! 12 : i,'uc. and a means of popularity for the j .emplated by Government on the Rio ', ib,y were greatvenU, ?ul? of aS'e 1 ta I I D n s t I T'- """TT r'"" ' """f udmmtstrat.on. At all events, the proba- Grande. i I cknnot urge too strongly up-! and most subli.ne intert They se tied M""lo?!ib ' J ' -r !" Wd H1?'","!, r u,'h,er bility of such. a war was manifest enough. on the Denartrhenr" he savs "the neees. ' as it WPri ih whl . ,?"'eu' . v F - ? "a,ier.-os "'ec..mi. uscltss Ihcj cl.ul governor or governors of Ireland, until the (the whol. country anticipated it ;) and I 7ty 0( 3 those Zt's before the i'sult of 7he Min wfr ."h ' "? P0."- ' a"-J' Sroap or force ' llr.5' of M"cb' 19 19' 10 f" 'J d- it wn'nro idrd fnV nnnarentlv hv il,n ocoupin uiose ptosis oeiore me suit. 01 tne ftlexican war there never of Mexicans which Americans were not lain any person or i.ersonj sujpccicd of con- who wQn Sia St from 1 mt will ft.A T 1 "il and driv- be, W poU and Gov. raer taken Lit Holiness 44r.t ! .; . inlerpref iht-ir freedom literal. -.A letter from Corunna nr.n Kngluh tefel had hndej Rln, Spain. AnoiLer defeat hal I t s the Carlists. One of the crossed into Fraoco, rat about t Intelligence haibeen lecriv, f war a Italy to the Kih ir. . monies army hxd urrnunJcd th tua extending from Cartalohc ti 1 Lombardiau troops Lad arrire ' Gen. Nunxante Lad, after his c " junction wilh Grosi, whr had t-' and had nearly destroyed it. V'.: ed a HUo Cite, and Monlelcot c . heavy contribution. Gen. Win- sent from Naples to replace Nir The Milan Gazette, f.f the 1" M. MoricLini Lad returned fiom V a fruitless mission to Iunpri:c!v The Emperor of Austria d?clh. discussion, and ihe Mini.Mcr tt gave evasive answers. We there that Austria is not dtpy?cd to ut' independence of Italy. The lireslau Gazette ftatej t!. : government Las already decl uc! i I form commercial treaties with x. j German empire, and to acknoui. of Germany. i The Ucrlin Zeitungs-IIallcl cf . tradicU the report that the IV! - ; preparing for another insurrcctL :. which great honor and profit might be ex- ! bended, with ef ery precaution to be taken; Europe that the militarv enerfrins of tl pectus llie great mistake oi the con- but the informktion which I obtain leads American people had not suffered from a irivwjtvna ivamly supposing that the me to believe that a summer movement long peace, and from devotion to com- rtriZP Of Vicforv Would f;i Win tinr cirn ! 1.1 U. i...Jj..i ...M! I ' - . -UUI lrCM.i:. i f" "IT .1 V r. -V .uu.1? uu ?uei ueu wun &reai expense oi i merce ana me arts ot industry that, in They! did j not dream that a Fate above them, of which they were the blind iri health and lifet" fact, nothing was easier or more: natural Sent tOiTcxks, ostensibly, and as he felt (than for Americans to follow the lessons stve and conciliatory course, to preserve peace and avelrt the horrors of -war., Re luctant toi mofe, and moving only, upon the Rio Grandp, when positively ordered by the American Government to do so, he went desirous jbf peace, but prepared for war, andireaqy to repel and punish any assault which this forbearance might not prevent, j It was not until March 29th, i84G. while bn the banks of the Rio Grande, that h was compelled to abandon his hopes, andl acknowledge that the at titude of the; plexicanb was " decidedly hostile." Jtisj foreign to our present pur pose to coimmint on the order of Govern ment vvhicLh induced, or exasperated, therrf to assume such an attitude; but when they threvy down the gauntlet and drew the sword; the soldier of Okeechobee sigh ed ; yet he wAs in a moment in his har ness ; andUn six weeks, Palo Alto, and La Palma, alid Zachary Taylor, were names for) history. 1 lALO ALTO. Who can far get the state of public feel ing in thciUn ted States produced by in telligence of te events on the Rio Grande, v Mrumcpts, was using them, their plans and and believed, 6nly to guard the new fron- of Washington, -in peace ' Jhcir projects, to build up the reputation , tier of tho republic, in the vicinity of a T war," and so be always ii I ol a new -and great spirit, before whose people whom fie considered " well dispos- every exigency of fate ' ,rv..,r., ,,.. iUuia.UUUiu uuw, iih; eu lowarus our Lfovemment, no ueneral the genius of Anthony before that of Oc- j in the world could have entertained more iavius.: .It bus happened with the last as ; pacific views and fishes; none could swtth the. first of American rulers who j have acted more faiiWully and judicious- ' i Vr c"(mesi oi mexico. when y upon the resolution, by a purely defen uiu uiaMjuct, uiu governor oi uuDa, in 1.120, projected the invasion ot the emnire I of Montezuma, bis grand desire was to procure a general to execute his will.suf licicntly' competent for that purpose, but not ' famous, oh; !rio !- an obscure and modest man, and so perfectly destitute of anibilipn as to be willing to fight and con quer In the name for the benefit of Velas quczj nierely, without any selfish aspira tion !jf his owmjjThe rcsultwas that Vbl.iSfi'ucz" chose the humble fcortcs, as the agent to yin his laurels ; anj we know how it all ended, immortal rcnoyvn for Corses contempt and .oblivion for VelaS- qucz. '' . ,Whcn Mr. Polk sent Brigadier General 'ichary Taylor, with the troops of the Onitcd States, to Texas, to fight his three months war on the Uio Grande, it never entered into his calculations that the then comnnjntively obscure hero of Okeecho bee might return from the campaign to l,.fll nil I.Su ju.lliiu jiUI lit IIIqIIIIUUO .lllllltJ Ul IC iivnvMi, uuu uiisi nun iruui uiu bf.ai of honor he ko unworthily occupied. There Is, however, a special Providence xin,thc jfall of a sparrow, and there is, cer tainly,, not less in the unexpected uprise of a great man, modest and unambitious, to pMver and dignity among the chiefs of mankijndJ It was upon the Rio Grande, rcmoiil from'his country and from succor, amid deserts; surrounded by Mexican cha parrals and Mexican armies, outnumber ing, three or four fo one, his own small and ill-appointed force ; sent thither, in the midst of all those dangers, to perform, at the President's order, the needless bra vado1 of planting the American lias on the banks of 'the long-coveted Rio del Norte, ! ana uie sun more supcrliuous uuty ol pro- .tcctinj the Texan frontier from Mexican 'invasion ; it iwas there, in the first clash of thoj President's war, the country sud-j denly j)ccamc aware that it possessed, in -;Mr. Polk's general, a greater man than Mr. Ppl(k, a towering spirit, with new and mighty tlcstinies, worthy to be united with its own'. There was the thunder of bat tle ; the smoke of cannon ascended to the .firmament, and with it a name a thought United States Postage. Mr. Hume asked Lord Palmcriton to nro. At lasf t ore nr ilo ntnft thing on the Mexican siJc. yielded before ! the unconquerable resolution of Taylor ucc l'ie further correspondence between the and his little army. The spirit that die- 1 authorities on this subject. tat eil tbp rpm.nrt.-nhlA rlnnntnK pp'mnrl-. 1 Lord Palmerston deferred answering the able as the utterance of a resolution at once so calm and so gigantic " should the enemy meet me, in whatever force, I will fight him," meant the last clause to be understood as the promise, not of a fight merely, but of a victorious one. Taylor Jrown, and meant to do it ; not an American in his army but had set out in the same spirit, meaning to do the same thing. In what ever way effected, the General had infus ed his own determination and confidence into the hearts of all his soldiers ; and between the ning of the 7t those two dat 0th of April and the eve i of May, 184G. Between ?s had occurred all the e- vents, successive steps in the progress of war, betweenjthe murder of Col. Cross in the chaparral, and the departure of Gen era 1 Taylor if om Point Isabel, at the head of twenty-three hundred men, to cut his way to thb relief of Fort Brown, through the as yet unnumbered hosts of Arista. The public mind, in fact, was on a sud den stunued and alarmed by the novel and dangerous cijrcumstances that had arisen. There was not merely war on the Rio Grande, but formidable, urgent war ; and to prepare for in readiness for The history of the battles of Palo Alto anil Resaca de la Palma will ever be as captivating to A- e"J'"dV"" '';n'.r''ll:hnJ sot out -lo relievo Fort I t X rnnn et mucin anr t r national glory. ! ' Was it not the "bulging" system of tactics, which General Taylor resolved to employ even against Arist, with all his might of armed men, occupying defensive positions selected by that General him self? Nothing was ever hjsard of, in the history of the war, more d.-jring than that jrjarch of Taylor, on the 8th and 9th of May, to Fort Brown, in which, to proceed at all, h e- was obliged to chiarge right up on and over the lines of Arista's army of upwards of six thousand mtjn. It. was at noon on the 8th, that Arista, in complete order of battle, posted at Palo Alto, and occupying the whole road to Fort Brown, was perhaps surprised if not actually confounded by the return of Gen. Tay lor, whom, four days before, in the Mata moros newspaper, some Mexican idiot perhaps the General of the North himself had charged " with flying in sd coward ly a manner to shuOiimself up at the Point." There he was again, with his lit tle army eighteen hundred infantry a gainst Arista's four thousand two hun dred horse against two thousand encum bered, too, with a train of no less than three hundred wagons, carrying the sup plies for Fort Brown ; there he was, in deed, that " cowardly" American General, who was soon, of course, brought to a halt by the majesty and terror of the Mex- mn arms ! question until Mouday. Mr. M. Gibson said he hoped tho govern. From tie Riehtnoml T. GEN'. CASS'S WESTERN . TIONS WHILST SECUET. WAIt. j It will be remembered, that I?. : A. Wise, in Lis testimony girrn t fore an Investigating Committer ment would consider that the establishment ol of Keprcsentatives, in January, 1- an American line of packets would be ot great advantage to the trade of this coontry. He un derstood that tho present cause of complaint was that a duty was levjed upon all letters brought by American packets, and be could as : sure the government that any such distinction made between letters brought by those packets and by English packets would have a prejudi. cial effect upon both countries. I In answer to a question from Mr. Hume, The Chancellor of iho Exchequer said that swore : " I Mteve that Iwis Ca, S. er ensaeS in tperulating in the ',- retary of war." How much ground there wa charge against a personage h V. highest and most honorable r T.:, try, the reader may learn from t!. traordinary. development : j From tie Louistille Ju " In 163C Lewis Cass, Henry II . Smith, FraocU Markoc, Jr., n J H i then ot Washington city, fornW x'i hfincn. it wnetli.it covpnn linnrlrrl men negotiations wore going on between menca this day, rushed at once right into close I o Lruish goveTnmcut, with respect to the Uociation under the title of the "W , qua-iers with seven thousand, driving , post oII,cc- r t, Tr rSo.l lh.r 'Tfu'at;r-: ' llUjli.l .j;, , me i9tciauoii ceruiicairs o: .- . r. ; r ii . i" ws. ii 19 as tuiiuws; "De it known, that Lewi Ca-, 1 FrancU O. J. Smith, Francis Maik-. McIIcnr)-, on die 2?ih day of A r,l. . ed into an association, wi;h tli t $220,000. for the purchase and -.' f certain Western States and Trnit : according to certain article of oi r date, and signed by said partief.nnd t . proprietor of thom-anj i! ,' thorti r-vl 1 mnll A . t. 1 .1 i hi- in, cn tiicti, iiuiii uit-ir icuouuis, iuun i- , , , . ; to us CUUSaheiiirav ne.thoirthinlcPts.nov.thnir . ul c,a. pi wu aafq uccn m un ! oamn itsplf until tb Mvl.on ADi'T 'I"? ePPctat.oa of finding it part tf our pain- 4. i . i . tul duty to announce some terrible convulsion an utter jj.ut, and Arista and his troops, in Irelnd ,)Ut lo lhig wliaterer civil chased by a handful of American horse, aml criminai acts may have taken place in de. rather or observation than injury, to the ; fianc0 Gf the law, the public tranquility has been Rio Grande, seized upon the friendly op- ; preserved. - portunity of night to place its waters as a I We are now arriving at the period when barrier between them and their now ter- either all the preparations made by the Con- rible conquerors. Taylor remained again federate clubs must bo crushed, or that some upon a field of victory lamenting, how- fearful outbreak will occur. The chief leaders ever, the loss ol thirty-nine killed, ana ! ninety-three wounded, officers and men of whom Lieutenants Inge, Cochrane and i Chadbourne, were the highest in rank of ! those slain; while Lieutenant Colonel to a deduction of one third fart cl thereon, and to the payment ofo f of the Confederates are. now either in prison, or under prosecution by the government for se dition or other misdempahnr. Smith'a Tim. The purchase and manufacture of arms is lfsihr "'"Z tW I'i . ; it t I i I ?du laiiuii, auu iw uu vim i i. piocL'cuing rapioiy in ireiana last weeK stanus ot arms were pur whereof the aggregate sum- f pec it.-.! ten certitkale has been paid; tlc i, ! dullars bein? a portion of the capicj to said in raid article of a.-f' a T T u in i ri i .1 .i Aj'isi wuck r?ii fiaiiuj ui iirm were our- j Mcintosh and Captain Hoe, of the 5th in- ii i r. i 1. 1 r v u r t r . , , i i.i chasod by the Dr. Doyle Club, of which, Mr. fantry, were, both by rank and the sever ity of their injuries, most distinguished among the wounded. The loss of the Mexicans was never accurately known, but was always be lieved to have been eight or ten times that of the Americans, who gathered nearly two hundred of their dead. But the injury to ir : n i iiL..t Did he intend to run away a second ! ilc,A,cu "T" nVL.ue, counieu y i.e . k. . cu time? Poor foolish Mexicans!! At two ! mounded, picked upon this fatal field. .ii,. u - i Here tell her pride, the dream ol her mar- o clock the Americans were in motion , 1 V ,t f . .... . 7 tv j -..tr 4-.tial merit, every thought of her ability to Dufiy, of tho Nation, is the President. Twen- ty thousand stands of disused military flint mus kets have been purchased in London for the use of the insurgents, and all coming over in bafches. IJyland, the noted pike-maker, has left Dub Jin, for Carlow, with a, large consignment of pikes. f The rebels have prepared a m)ap of tho city of Dublin subdivided inio districts, in each of He it known, also, that Mi l ?! whole, or in parts not less than one i, an a:sininent of this certificate ly 1 . or hi Attorney, and record thenif! Secretary in ihe transfer book of l "Wasliiiitoa City, li-3 J. Setretary. This Association Ibr the r :r; speculation, was firmed when Lc Secretary of War binder Mr. Cass himself, the chief of the in 820,000, and others paid in Tic at the sarue Brown and my of rJ?ay marching td moment, the garri ions at Fort .int Isabel, and the little ar or, marching and counter support both, seemed about to besvvej)t away by the rolling avalanche. Arista had dressed the Rio Grande in su perior numbers ; the chaparrals were swarming 'vith his troops; Fort Brown had been st tiering bombardment for four 1 i i Uita ilium i-iY hu lfc cinucij out - -aision of future eminence, which, in ; rounded ari cut from any communi A moment, struck upon the imagination of tio wthhe American General, except ijf jiiii i- in uie utmeu oiatcs. ,.,. na JOIJifi up ftfrfirififl thrnn?h the n- ' ,.nA ;., 17 t.i: r .t. advancing in irood order, lirmlv and rnso- i . . . . . . - O D J , " Iutely until it was necessary to bring the kinc a total ol 8120,000. which, the points at which the clubs arc re- ' capital of 8220,000 was not! t ' ppeclivciy to muster, and where barricades are to bo thrown up, are indicated. It is now arranged that if, upon the forma the arrows and the olive-branch. The rampart of the Rio Grande was annihila ted, and the republic of the silver moun- Mexican cannon into requisition; to com pel the fearless desperadoes to halt at se ven hundred paces, and unlimber their own artillery. But why should we re- Yt n t Vi n ft- 1 t I rIa v r m 1 1 I o t. t r nir 1 . tRins stnnfl nnnn nnrl nr1nnrnnti inpnnn. erT boy, nay, to every girl, in the United , , r , . ' ... , . , States. All the boasts, the promises, the b!efof beinS an' lhlS hSher ih !hc effortsofthexMexicanchiefcamefonaught; " victim of our vengrance, or any thing vollevs of j?rar,e strHt-xo-pmsand rhar. ,ower lhan the object of our magnanimous vunt?a Ol 111 d )c -airrtl dlicllil -mill Ciiir- ; . . rrl . I' l 1 1 Ti 1 V 1 1 n . 1 , JPitV' Ihe victory of Resaca de la Palma ges of horse, were alike in vain ; and at J . . . c x . 1 . r 11 .u u . r . 1 u 1 was, in ciiect, the conquest ol oMatamoros night-fall, the hosts of Arista retired be- ; r- V- -i c u i w 1 u V-1. c .1 u ii 1,1 ot the Rio Grande ol all the country hind the shelter of the chaparral, and the . c . r.u i , . . , . 4 . i . 0,1 to the loot ot the mountains to Monterey; Americans slept victoriously on the held i n .1 u. 1, it , -r, , t4, 3 l , and all these mignty results, which im- KntllA lnr I r n Karl ri nmc nAl rtf (M'n f j ' , . 4 , 1 r j mediately followed that great leat of arms, North. The eacle of the pricklv-near and tion of the iurv to trv Du(Tv or his fellows, it serpent, after two severe buffets, had shall appear probable that a conviction will bo flown away, screaming, from the bird of bad, the clubs are to rise immediately and pre plan of tho Association was I ihe Wett and hold them up f ;r a of value. Cass being Secretary in virtue of bis official station. Lav ! advantages over piivato indivl ! : ciation gave him tho control oft: ness. He appointed the age:t j tries of land selecting his own greeing lo be responsible f r ! ajrent went to tbe West and u. . Mortified, but enraged, and Reinforced were-magnificent trophiejsvon for and d YiewJdid detailed Then was with niOJUitrQops, iinumbergjeatlx ceeded his losses, Arista fell CaclTto tlil , .. r T ; iiiiu uuu ouuin iu 11 t 1 i,iu strong the very strong position pf Resaca , n de la Palma, where he hoped to enjoy a and . k tQ an ei)Jr vent the trial by an anticipatory, and, as they hope, a successful outbreak. FRANCE. ' j Whilst the metropolis of France is still un- ; der martial law, and a vast army, under the 1 all under Cass direction, at. 1 1 command of an energetic dictator, keeps under j reclly and through Lis rsen?, i : restraint all tho ill-subdiied passions of discon- J the management of the lands, tent and resentment still lurking in the hearts J After several years delay, t! of the vanquished insurgents; we can scarcely J iL Association began lo Lave expect any very great amelioration iu the cou- ' cions that thcro was little cr t; dition of the Parisians. ; their getting anything for tl- ir It is, however, satisfactory to state lhat order their applications to Cass for ii.r utiu a lo.crauic uegrec 01 iianipniii cuiiuiiuu to be maintained. The disarmament of the affected in the various, arrowtisscmcnti is ri ft' 'C Ji y ' nroco ntoit tn- 4 W Viii TTTi f Kr n rrrnrrI rr,i.Miali !!'. wl i.l Inc n nnrnlionclin coninc In " " M - v q . it. i 4 . y f . M .v--ri L b lliv lit. ruuuv ' - v 1,1 1 u "11 1 Lanvu yJ ' 1 ivcj i. 1 1 ( 1 . ii 11 - :t ' 1' ' w It is not necessary that we should re- , tcrmedium pf signal guns and the desper- ceedeu nis losses, Arista iea onckio me j j j sought to prevent w;tr who was prevail of a recurrence of the recent fierce hos- history of the appear- ate agenfcybf the daring Walker. nM ami nrnrrrnfu tf fwinnnl fVu tf n 5 umc Ii s t if Vi Awholp milllif. miTin Texas, at he horftl of the Armv of Occu- 1 filled with anxiety and boding fear. Then great success, but, in reality, onlV awaited c .: ac n 1 ,.,0c Kitfori,- o.nnc0,i tKmvnntnn Ins own linal and overwhelming over Utiiiuil, IIUIII Ilia itiiujiiig ui iiauaaa iu.j , im, uiiu ui"-i'j iivuou, mu '" 7 . .5 i. - .-I i . .i ; t f ' ...L U A t hr in July, iftio, until tie met me iuexicans improviaeuce oi ouveriiuiciu wmcu imu at Palo Alto, ten months afterwards. All sent so sfnall a force of Americans to en- the circumstances of this period, describ- counter, jn pat remote spot, far from re- j d in his Official correspondence, have long 1 inforcementp, the shock of the Mexican j been )efpre the public, which is familiar war it had o rashly provoked. Then, too, j with every detail. All that we need pause it was lhU Ihe words of Taylor's last des- j to remade is, that Gen. Taylor, however patch, onjlekving Point Isabel4 Should ilnctino.1 (n min tnnnivn in tlio nnnrnnoli.:' tliA pnpmV iTIPnt m. in whritfiVftT forCfi. I ! ing wW went to Texas not to make war shall fight him" disclosed a hero equal ; tion of the Army of Occupation and the change whatever in Gen. Taylor's views throw. RESACA DE LA PALjV The Americans slept on Palo . . . , . . i la tl its calamities unties ; the sittings o! uio .National Asscmuiy a nnI ivr.n nn.n are iitit intruded unon and i u tc rn;pt eu uv a t.IJ4. UU. V II w theti. in th mnmcnt bt his Ptent triumnh. ' clamorous mob, the while doing full justice to the heroism of; ot no avail. lotuinz e-'- learned from him. Afier a o : each other, tbey appointed . Hubbard, ono of their own t. since U. S. Senator from New look afier their interests, an I a' and his agent had dealt by llcm disorder bein confined to 1 ctly. Mr. Hubbard opened a c 7 4 a A. Alto, on his officers and men, who had fought so well and bravely, yet indulged in no ex ultation unworthy of his calm, humane, ! unselfish, his truly lofty character. Did their own Chamber: tho theatres have been re opened l.y t ho aid of the Government, and many a field of victory nine killed, aud forty- j these victories, which intoxicated so many nine wounded; but among these were Americans, and begot all those novel no Ringgold and Page, whose names will re- .:ons about the COnnucst of 44 Mexico," main identified forever with the recollec- inevitable destiny," &c., produce any with Cass; but failing in ctcty satisfaction from Liin, Lo wrot a forming tbo honorable KccicUry ho was a rascal; and the 1. -i. was quiet and silent un-.'.cr . Hubbard charged bim wilh su S; who are only fn their proper ciates. Eveu to this day, the A A' ihe j:;o;, keepers have resum-id business. Gen. C:tvaignac pursbes the even tenor of, hi government, and appears so fir to possess the confidence of all parties. Whether the unquiet saints, not been able to get anything c . Wc arc authorized to make tl.. not desirimr. not even expecting war to to any emergehcy ; but, at the same mo- ; campaign on ine iuo orauue. jiut. ucaw occur: but. manifestly, hoping or think- ment, that hero, marching with his petty j day, the 9th ol May. dawned wun me as- iog-f tho; wish was father to the thought" twenty-thHe hundred men, plunged again j surance c-t another name. Amia, uraw . I . ... . , . . . . r! .1 a 1 I in rr t r. rr r. li rr nil his InrfPS. With rPintorCC that there would De no war. and that i into me iviexican uesen, auu-was v - .i i .i n i i i . I . i. . i-. r .in-m.t mpntc fmm hftvond the river, was en i n a nAC Ann r i nf.ni" I tin t-ir txi-. T I in ncf n I iih i i i i i hi 111 i.iiu iili iii,u. j ' mw iiikdVilvb vi . 1 un mil i null' l 1 1 ii i. , ij& w..vw.Q.. j i m - . r Tl 1 .' in .i 1 i rv . f ' el .1 , l..,k IronnhpH in thft ravinft fit l.A lfaima. in tier wouja imvc me goou cuecioi remov- ah was, lor some unys, auspcuau, uyuui, -..i- v . , ing tbe'only danger, by preventing the j and painfuf speculation. Every man had ! the very heart of the chaparrals ; whence, otherwise! possible inroada of exasperat- for his neighbor an anxious query about although, on the preceding day, the two a xtt-LTL'tZ ri1 c Ti;t. onnn.ro K AmnrUn pmwsnr, Gn Taylor : i armies had measured strength n a kind undeniable, both from bis official letters 44 Had he Ttot marched that army to inev- of formal duello ot artillery, at which , maganimously. with a gentle and pitiful ml b;u't nn.l fmm nnil,in'mn r.lr. I 5tKU ATlnr.tion ? Had bp. not hftcn sur- Arista had been beaten, it was (manliest forbcarance in all thinrs. Had bis mod- ly than bis calm and just accounts of the rounded, iri those thickets, by overpower- j he could not be driven unless, in close eratc spirit prevailed in tho councils ol u ;i, , i:ie violent oppHsiti-.u made to it, com- as the man that nominate! f.:.. c- n. mini,.,., t:a ; mKlU nnd tKw Ka nrnshprl rnt fiffht. in hand to hand rencontre, at the ti1ft Administration, we should probably rw.; S1 far to m.Klifv It as to defer it being buluinore Contention lour 30 t'tbAILtLII 1111 ttlit.1 lllttlllAI IllCliaillllUlia lllii HUIllUbldi uijv. HH.IU wv... v.w.a'w., . O ' . .. t. .1 ' i-v. . "on the Rib Grande ; for he always scout- to pieces. bfr compelled to seek safety in point of the sword and bayonet. And have had an earijer peace ; and, we can cdthoATild rumors of gathering armies, the calamity of capitulatiou ? Rhe should ; this was precisely the character ot the we,j believe, it would not have been less that designmgmcn, anxious for hostilities, have the good fortune to reach and shut fierce and sanguinary "'eot Ea lalraa, honorable. cnt homo : from his indisposition to "call ; himself up in Fort Brown, how long could I in which Taylor renewed the attack with ; (7b he Continued.) for yolimecrs from the United States," be maintain himself there, waiting for re-1 only about seventeen hundred mpn. Can- j vhicb he did not believe would "become ' infbrcemetits ?" In short, the country was nons roared and horsemen charged at ; t t ie,o,rOTn ivv necessary, under any circumstances ;" ' full of sucli speculations, and the anxiety tirst, as on jne Precui.s r buuur, .u. iu.ioo 1 - anu jrotn the fart tbritnlthnno-h inslructed Decame, u possible, still more intense. ni waaBuuuvuu.vy.-.- j-r? or wishes '.' Did he ever show any in crease of war-appetite ? Did he not, in fact, remain till the last, the samo calm, moderate, merciful spirit, who had no burning passion to go on indefinitely kill ing Mexicans and conquering Mexican territory, but was anxious that peace should be restored, and thought lhat the United States could afford to treat her element in the midit of anarchy and confusion. will tolerate a dictatorship one single day Ion. gor than is absolutely necessary, time alone , a member of the Association, a 1: ran reveal. A great dial ha to be done be- paid $10,000 into the Lands if (' e a rcputiiic can ue esmuiiaueu upon any m, ua .......vv. - ; ever in consideration I l.u t: fortnant requests us if the Uiu, call on the Run. Henry HuV, s ment of the truih to demand r f ' lion of the letters lhat passed 1 ' : Cass, particularly the letter to t! lary of War. We shall cne! n ' piper to Gen. Cas; ii bo lias l: ' let him spea out or'au'.Loti 1 ! ran3 to sneak out for. Lirn. Mr. O I I stable foundation?. The Paris papers of AYednf jday have now reached u, and the AtsemMy bas presented a-ain one of those disgraceful scenes which have been rccasionally exhibited sinco its formation. When the .question whether the education al the Po!ytcjhuic and other schools should be entirely g'raiaitou?, or whether the rich should pay for lhs education of thePr pupils, cr..r n. r.riin!e"nt agitation look olace. and the Covernmeiif, a!th-ugh i! carried the resolution, public are aware, is a proronu . v . . vnvy law illtll (iiiuuuii 111011 uvitu i'www.w.w. - o , 1 1 L, 1 , by Mr. pancroft,acting Secretary of War,1 ! when it wias suddenly put an end to by a ; of foot approaching loser and f loser to as early as June 15, 1815, to occupy a ' fresh arriypl from tbe seat of war, with each other breaking into partiesfo thread post'" on or near the Rio Grande," he a- i the astouii ling account of two marvellous the dense thicket--and so engaging, at voided doing 8o (Mexico having made ! victories. 1 Palo Alto and Resacade last, squad to squad, man even tq .man, , in nu tirrmrni An s.t an am a , i'n ma 1 trj 1 iu im: : iiiui tr.a aiii iiiiii'ii ill a 1 ck. iv 1 1 1 v ui v aa - vi u.1 uiiiiii aii t ii . 111 1111 1 1 1 11 1 1 1 i'i 1 ;i 11 v a aa iiiiu a v v www - - - - - . j . r- . T vyiwumiiru uji uiu 1 icoiucni: mcrs of January' 13, 18 1G, " to move for i,-.i . .... " ftu wim lis lorcc lo the K10 Urande ; aud! there b selected the site opposite denly thet American there was w , l c a. ,hi tni. hnttln in modern time nle iCro was no loss, were there ever so many opUlunUics ; that animates .he Amjn P-. U'n.iichnnnr. ihe nrmv was not I civen for the Jisnlav of personal courage ' 3- ' IIV VrfWV J M m- j - - U At the dinner given to General Mueius and Quitman lat winter, in the city of Washington, the Vice President said, with point and verity, " there is no Am erican father who will not exultingly highway, ;and say to Ui on that oiil biley ylor I' " . loubt such is the spuit bro:i"hl into operation Until 1."0. . Noti..-Mr.Hfnry Huaru a : The point in dispute was not to important as j Hampshire, from 1635 10 lsll.-L . opened atid advised declarations 01 iiiC that ihe lime would soon come for ' THE TRIUMPH -'i 'i i..g from the rich u hatever superfluities they ron mrn possessed." The tioyernmeiit amendment, " r 1J : , " r;.. Loved by (Jeneral Lafno.icic.c. was car. ied cations of dismay in the r.. after a ffi-htfal tu.uui.i The. l,e,ident was ty than arc now dicot c ral ivt ir-n r nm lled to i.ut ion Lis hat and anWin the ?pc;iKers, 1 . 1 the filing, aud tho tiebale was lesuuuu me following day. ' CONTINENTAL. Letters from Rendsbourg of the 10th July. . '.I T I. . ' I I ;.rrM.litolv tf-.t.. ih.it wr wr.u l'oiimaiK ni nuui' .- Olk" - T recommence, the cen i, of uoaeo having r .... A tit Court, the democrats wi-re im pledges of the party t t Taylor. Tbey see the'ro .t are anxious to prevent it ;l : there is no earthly hcj .. doubts anv where among !', Taylor men. All is conlM 1 - i ll.. 111 The tuivcra publics P,''f answer to ; mJc atld dlsn,a' " " the Uoinau Deputies. Ii is of some importance, ' ,h. i,MnJ tiinWel o'er 1 . . huwi:v ' tLut the Ujii.au Commwus Lavt 1 or oott..:rr th-!l uiaasj.U 1'? , V
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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Aug. 17, 1848, edition 1
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