An artillery officer in the Mexican war, 1846-7; . g the he was greeted with three hearty cheers as hepassed us. We are about thirteen or eighteen miles south ofVera Cruz. There are at this time, , sixty-four ships, etc., at anchor in sight; the vessel withG Co. has not yet arrived, but as the wind is fair,I presume she and nearly all the others that are duewill be in to-morrow. Genl. Worth has just enteredour stateroom; I must stop to shake hands with W. looks badly; his old woimd has given hima good deal of pain within the last month. I heard yesterday that the
An artillery officer in the Mexican war, 1846-7; . g the he was greeted with three hearty cheers as hepassed us. We are about thirteen or eighteen miles south ofVera Cruz. There are at this time, , sixty-four ships, etc., at anchor in sight; the vessel withG Co. has not yet arrived, but as the wind is fair,I presume she and nearly all the others that are duewill be in to-morrow. Genl. Worth has just enteredour stateroom; I must stop to shake hands with W. looks badly; his old woimd has given hima good deal of pain within the last month. I heard yesterday that the Genl. thinks that he willbe killed in this attack. I cannot think that a manwho has so bravely passed through so many dangersas Genl. W. would give expression to such feelings,even if he entertained them. Glorious news has just been received from Army. The news comes pretty direct. ABritish Man-of-War which communicated this morn-ing with Vera Cruz, on coming out gave the last Mexi-can papers to some of our Naval Officers—in one of. GENERAL TAYLOR In Mexico 67 these papers was Genl. Santa Annas report to hisGovt. He states that he fought Genl. Taylor on the22nd of Feby. at Aguanueva, not far from Saltillo,and again the fight was resumed on the 23rd. Thathe, Genl. Santa Anna, having lost in killed and wounded1000 men, found it necessary to fall back to Incarna-tion, whence, after having taken care of his sickand procured provisions, he would again advance toattack Genl. Taylor whose loss he estimates as 2000. This paper also mentions that there had been fightingfor three days in the City of Mexico in consequenceof the attempt to raise money by forced loans fromthe Clergy. This is certainly most glorious news,and coming as it does from the Mexicans, we mayfairly infer that it has not been colored too stronglyin our favor. Genl. Taylor has then whipped theirgreat man! This news will have a fine effect on ourtroops; all are even more anxious than ever to be ledto the
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