From The War

íühAPSt) OP LoiJO. W-OLF IsLAND. Tiiis fsland, at whiclv. the American forcc5 are concontrating,. preparatory to o descent upon Alvaradó and Vera Cruz, is ihus descríbed by a correspondent of thePhiladeiphia North American, who writes from Lobos under date of March Tth : - "The Island of Lobos is a lovely littlespot, formed entirely of coral about two miles in circumference, twelve milo3 from the Mexicap shore, about 130 miles from Vera Cruz. It is covered, (or was beibre we landed) with a variety of trees & s'irubsthe highest of ihc former perhaps 25 feet high, and thoso ore so ihickïy? covered with vines that one can hnrdly get through them. There is hardly a.tree, orshrub, or plant growing here I' fiave ever scen before. Banian trees,, spreading over large spaces of ground tliir limbs forming props ns they pierco into the earth and take root, while the tops thickly thatched witli evergreen vines, form most beautiful arbors. Lemon, lime, fig, pa)m% cane, and a hundred other species of wood, aro growing with all the fïeshnoss and beauty of theiiesii VVc are ïiterally roasting during a portion of the clay. The sun is so hot thnt our faces and nrms aro blistorcd f exposed but a few minutes. To-day, by Fanrenheit, in the shado I scored 82 dog. - The univors.il remark nmong the volunteers is, if thïs is winter what wil] stnnmer be ? There are very few sick, tind they are from tho country - none dange'-ous." Extract of a letter from a vo!unto3r in tho ranks atTnmpico, whose statements may be fully roüec! on : t; We are encamped 'About n milo dislant from Tarnnico, on a small prairie surroundod by ohaparolls. Wo sloep on the ground with one blankot around us, and are as unoomfortable as we well can bo. Thero aio land-crabs, musquitoes and sandilios in groat abundance. The first occasionally take a grip of a man's too, and squeezo it with oonsiderable vigor ; the two lattor aro singularly activo and hungry. Wo have plenty to eat, and that is tho onl)r circi:mstanco of a favorable charactor 1 have to report. Ourofficers are dospotíc and dictatorial, and we have a most irritable and tyranica] ordcrly sergeant. The guard house is never freo from prisoners. Ríen aro sont tiieroind punished for the mo-1 Irifling oflences. [ have seen a recruit bncked, gTggcd, and corr.pcllci] to carry a long pole, u tuier a broiling sun, for not stepping properlv in tho rank?, and another has been tied üp by tho thumbs for the like oflenco. - One of our Boston recruits wns gaggod with a bayonet, bis ttoth broke and looscned, and his mouth cut severely. Tho best soldiers 1 have met witb in the U. S. Army are descrlers fcom the Bñtísh;, Thoy all damn this servico, and would give a yoar's pay to bo back ng.iin undcr the Union Jack. In the midst of nll, I am not in (he loast disheartened. I havo bilhertoescaped the actual lash of milittiry despotism, and will certainly try to koop it írt a disraricë. We have not yot received nny pny, but are permitted to purchnse on credit any article we may want f rom a suitler, who charges fóp his goodá'twice os muoh as their legiiimnte valuo. At least 15 per cent. of the men are on tho sick report ; diarrhaïn, fever and aguc are the prevalont disoasos. I continue in good heyllh."ïivo Baf tfcs wïih tbc Jlcïeans! Beforo our paper reaohes them, our readers will doublless all have heard rumors of tho reported disasters of the army under General Taylor. Our latest cxchanges are full of regorls, contrndictions and spoculations on the subject, which we think not worth while to transfer lo our columns. 13 ut vo have condensed the following statement, which we believe , embraces every material fact l&t has yet been made known. Our readers may rest ossured that although we use lesa staring capitals than some of our neighborp, we give from week to weok a complete summary of overy important transaction in the war. The inmediato mission of Gen. ScoU was to mako an altack on Vera Cruz and its castle, while Gen. Taylor should be loft in the interior, near Saltillo, with a portion of the Army to act on tho,defusive. Gen. Scotl is tho senior officer, and ofcourse has the command of the whole Army. Gen. Scott made requisitions so largely upon Geu. Taylor, that the latter was left with only about six hundred regular soldiers, and about5,500 in all. It wassaid to be Gen. TaylorV intention to collect a large amount of transportaron and supplies,and ad vaneo on Zacatecas, in March, or the first of April. Gen. Scolt.who arrived at Tampico on the 18th of Febniary,embarkod from that place on the 21st, for the Island of Lobos. Brigadier Generáis Quitman, Pillow, Twiggs, and Shields, wero also embarking, wtth their forces, supposed to be destined also for Lobos, hut that was not certain. lt may be for some point nearer Vera Cruz, as a corps of observation.