From The War

The Union contttim Gsneral Scotl's official account of the Battlo. The nuinbcr of prisoners taken, as reported by him,is three thousand, instead of six. Sovcn tliousanJ however esenped. Our loss in killed and wounded is nol more than two lnrulred. Mcxican loss jn killed 350 [?] (our telegrnph report says - ) bjt we suppose inany more. All the prisoners taken wero paroleJ by Gen. Scott. No further tesislance is expected this side of Perote. Gen. Scott will pusli on his columns for Mexico with all convenient disp;itchSeñor Armij has been elected President of Mexico over Almonte, and the office of Vice President abolished in order to upset the expectations and outhority of Gómez Parías. The new president urges war to the knife, against the U. States, and active preparations were making for the fortification of the City, and ïhis was the spirit of the people. Some were inging a guerrilla warfare. Among the prisoners taken was Expiesident Henara. He will visit the United StatPs with La Vega. The liberty given tothe Mexican piisoners is the subject of complaint in some of the letters. The amount of money found in ïhe carriage of Santa Anna is variously e=timated frora 18 lo 70,000. Gen. Morales, who so gallantly defended Vera Cruz, and Gen. Landero, who signed the capitularon, were put under arrest by Santa Anna, and ordered to Guannjuato. In the city of Mexico civil order appcars to reign bul the tone of the papers breathes nothing'But vengeauce towards the United Slates. Tlie clergy of the archbishnpric of Mrxico hae bound tlicnitelves to the Government for a million and a half of dollars, payable monihly. The clergy of the different bishopnes are to do the same. The Pennsylvania regiments were not only in the fight of Cerro Gordo, hut in the thickest of it. A letter dated the day of the battle, the 18th, saya tliat our regiments were in the charge of' the morning uith the Tennes.-ec regiments and the regulars. The Mexicans for a time résped them with great desperation, but finally the trumpet sounded a retreat. There were 1200 soldiers sick at Vera Cruz on the 21st. The dead vere but few. Tuspanlms been capturedby thesquadron under Coai. Perry. The town was taken on the lüth uit. The Mexicans, ofter n desperate struggle, finding that nntwilhstanding their most strenuous excrtons,all resistance would be in voin, spiked all tlieuns, razed the defences of the place, nnd then decrled the town. Our loss amounted to four killed and fourteen wounded. Capt. Tatnall was slightly wounded, Li Parker severely; Lt. Ilolstcin and a pussed Rüdahipman sliglitly. Our areny cnptured lliirty piece-s of hvnss cannon, and a la'ge quantity of amniunition. Some of the Mexicnn officers who were taken prisoners, altribute their tüsosier to tlie cowardïce or cörruption of (ïen. Sania Anna. They admit that tliey had 8000 men in their lines, and 0000 outMde of the entrencliments. The Mc.xican infantry and artillery who fouglit so bravely at Buena Vista, were present, and sustaiued great loss. Many of the ofhceis taken at Vera Cru., whom General Scott had released without parole, as an acknowledgement of their gallantry, were found among the killed aud wounded. The fullowing account of the part taken by the Arkansas regiment in the battle of Duena Vista was writen by one of the office rs. "We took a stand about.two hundred yards from the ranch of the Buena Vista. The Kentucky cavalry, under Col. Marshall, I forgot to ment ion, had shared the day witli us, hard as it had been. - W hen the stand at the ranch was made, both regiments could not have countec more than three hundred and fifty men; the reit hod all leen leatlered by liorscs getting away, tlirowing them, or being killed under them. " The lancet, about two thousand strong, borc down upon us; at about one hundred ynrds dislance we levelled and fired upon them. Thpy sprung at the firo and wechargod them. Theysepratcd in two divisions, one on our left and tho otlier on our riglit. We )i-esscd those on the left, nnd the work of deuth was raging, lf balls and lances, sabres, smoke and dust, shouting, groaning, and tlying compose glory, we wc re in the midst of it. Not a word was spoken - it was all fighting. Ilere Col. Yell feil, and Captain Porter- and poor John Pemiam, the beloved of our regiment. "The Mexicana tuinbled on every si. le. I saw them struck down with sabres and trampled beneath our liorws" feet. I saw them büg willi uapliftw hands for mercy, but it was remembere that those very hands had driven thei lances into the hearts of our eountrymen They scaltered ; ono part leu back t the Moxican inl'antry: tho othergot acroh a Jeep guliey, and through tho gap OÍ a mountuin on ihe riglit, and vvore seen no more that dy. A piei:e of ordúance gave tliem a few farewcll balls as Ihey went. "During lilis lime llic other voluntcers rere in the midst oí the fight on llie Bank. Wftn ve rcturneJ to tho field nftcr tlic rout of tlie laneers, tlie aspeo! ofthings brightsned in our favor. The Mexicnns charged sp wttfain Mxty yarda of a 6-pounder and the Mississippi regiment; in nnotlier moment a fire burs' forth from our men, and tho enemy fell Hite wheat before a gust of wind. :;The Illinois volunteers wcre in tlie mídst of 'glory.' Never did I béar such a roar of guns. A lady may sn-ocp lier (ingers ulong the pii.no's keys for the muskets, nnd strike the bass strings every tecond for the cannoní, nnd il seems to me an idea of the firing might be ccn. eveci." The City oí' Pueri.v. - The city of Puebla, says the Mobile Tribune, which isabuutlGO miles from Vera Cruz on the way to tlie oapital, is o:ie of the most remarkablo places on the western continent, lts popUlation is estirnated at 80,000, and ils churches are noted for their e'egance and weultli. The cathedral is magnificently ornamented. The building was complcted in 1808, and is said.to have cost Sö,00ü,0ü0. There are ten chapéis attached to it - all richly decorated. Besides this, there are several churches of magnitude and great wealth. The New Orleans Picayune bas receivedan account of the killed and wounded at Cerro Gordo. Thero were no ofiicers of the regulara killed, 14 were wounded, and 38 prívales were killed, and 130 woundeii One voluntcer oflicer wes killed and 7 wounded. Tbree priates killed and 43 wounded. Total 53 cilled - 267 wounded. Linter lVoiii Mexico. A special session of the Alexican Conress was held upon the receipt of the ews of the battle of Cerro Gordo ; and t was decided tliat all who might onter ïto any negntatiun for peace with the Jnited States should be deeniod as ■aitors to the Mexican nation and govinment. The Mexicaa account of the battle of Jerro Gordo, sets down the loss of the U. . fnrees at 4,000, and tliat of theirown t about 2,000. The correspondent of ;he Picayune vrites f rom Ja lapa, April 15, - " We have news which is thought to je reliable, of Santa Anna. A íeport ame in this morning to the effect that ie is at or near Orizaba, in commamï of 5000 troops, and that he inteada opening a guerilla war in person, by following in Gen. Scott's rear,and attacking none save mail parties. "Il is still uncertain wlien a nwn moveinent of tlie army is to be made. - The want of transpo: tntion is severely feit, lor witfi tlie pre-ent means General Scott findsthe grealcst difliculty in extending his line of operations. In tlie mean time sma'.l parties of ladrones and rancheros are commnt'ng deprtdaiions in ihe rear, and such is fhe nature of the coun 1i y that tliey can only be punished with the greatest difficulty. "The dilligence or starre is just in from the city of Mexico, whence they have rece ved papers to the 22nd inst. The news of the terrible dcfeat at Cerro Cordo hod reaclied the capital, and while it astonished and overwlielmed all classes, the tone of the papers and of the public men, and of the Congrega itsclf,would also show that it had served lo inflame the people still more against the United States. "The editor of "El Republicano" says that we may take Puebla, that we may even capture the city of Mexico, but that there must be no peace. The duty ofthe people is to see their cities saeked and destroyed, and themselves immolated, before they talk of peace. - The guerilla system of warfare appeara to be recommended on all sides as theii only salvation; bythis means they drove out the Spaniards, and in the samo way they say they must tlie iniquitous, usurping and grasping North Americans from their sacred soil." The Picayune correspondent writcs. April 2ö,- "Gen. Worth has ad vaneed onc of bis brigades, with a baltory and a troop of dragoons, to a placo called Tepe Aguaica, twelve leagues beyond Peroie to enlarge his circuit of supplirs. The general im)ression novv is, that Gen. Scolt, unable to keep up liis communication rognlarly through tlie tierra calient 'for want of horses and transportation, will cut hiinself loóse froni Vera Cruz, pusli on toward the City of Mexico, and lo a certain extent depend upon the natural resources of the country." A letter from Vera Cruz, April 29 says, - "An express nrrived last evening fron Lieutenant Dixoü in command of 102 convalescent soldiurs from thu hoapitala in this city on their road to joiu their respective regiinents at or near Juhipa, statiug ihaj the party had beca uüacked by about 300 Me.xicnns. Tlio expresa rider met, two miles tlüs siue of wliere he lelt Lieut. D., a train of about forty wagons in charge of Cap't. Corglian Ker. Some f'oars are onlei 'taincJ í'or s train tliat was some five or si.x liours aliead of ihem. In fact, tlio Mexicana liad grent rejoicing nnnng themselvcs last evening ii conecquenco of 'ho capliire of ono of our w igo:i trains by the cnemy. "