A Picture

A Correspondent of the Philadelphia Norlh American, nfter describing the battle of Cerro Gordo, thus writes of the horrors of the battle field: - "I nevnr desire to visit anotlier such field ufter battle. Whüe the figbt is ra ging, men can look upon death and slirink not from hls bloody features: but to walk coldly oer hundreds of human bodies blackenftd nnd bloated by the sun, scat!cred round among broken muskets and dismoanted cannon - the steed and the rider ofTering iuviting bnnquets lo the foul bird.s that here fatten upon them on every side, sickens the senses and ïhe soul - strips even victory of its gaudy plumagc, and stampa the whole with an unspenknble horror. - Passing down the ravine where the National Guard had thrce times atlempted to dislodge the mounted Rifieiiicn, who, silpported by the howitzer battery, liiterally raincd death nmong th3r rank?, 1 was obligc to turn back end retrace my steps. "The gorga wns clioaked np with the bodies of the flower of the Mexican army. The wolf-dog and the buzznrd howled and screamed as 1 rode by, and the stench wns too sickening to endure. "Passing on. we carne to the hospital, where the badly wounded still lay - the Mexicana first, nnd next the Americans. I could not but notice the difi'erence between them. The wounded Mexicans groancd pitifully, whilo not a monn was heard from our people. The Mexicans cannot embro fire and pain likc the Americans. Quiek and impetuou', they will for a moment face danger or death lik e héroe?; but the long tedious hours of sickness or pnin, 01' a lnstin-g bnttle, in whicli men are required to overeóme extraordinafy artificial and natu ml obstacles, nre too mucli fur them. Thcy havo all the blaze of burning shavings, not the lasting fire of chnrred coal. "For many miles we passed along n Jitch, dug from Eucora to the pass of Cerro Gordo, which furnished us excellent ivater. All along the roud were the bodes of Mexican luncers, and their horser, :ut down by Harnoy's Dragoons, when hose fire-eaters chased Santa Anna and liis refreating troops beyond Jalnpn. Almost every man's skull vvns literaily spul open with tlie sabres of' oui' iiorsemen, an:i thoy lay sfrelclieJ ujion ibe ground'in groups."