Outrages

A correspondent of the New York Sun makes some slarlling staiements alout the conduct of American soldiers in Mexico. He says: "At llie bombardment of Vera Cruz, ten women, children, and non-corriba(ants were killed lo one soldier, and the country peopla were much exoited about it. Td make the (error and liatred of the inlinbiinnts s-till greater. a party of American solddiers would somptimes go on a frolic to an unoflbnding villngp, and outrage the whole female portion of il, not even exeepting girls of eleven andtwelve years of ngp, and in no case is an offence nga'inst Mexican wornen very closelv inquirad into. The consequence was that American soldiers could not stfay out of sight of their cnmradrs without being killed by the husbands and relatives of these i insulted women." Again : 1 Americans will not rendily beliee these things of ihe army, but they are me. To subdue the exasperalion of the Mexicans, nnd ronvince ihem of the infention of the American government to rrspect tlipireustorns, certain observances of no valué in themselves, but acpted as signs of amity by the Mexicans, were paid by our milita fy to their religiou-i processions. It was a mere form, and a very j cheap expialion for sixty respectáble mnlrs that veere known lo have been horrib!y inu!ted in the caur.se of ttto montbs by the Atnericans." Tlia Sun s not the lest nuthoriiy n Ihe worM, but ihis account is by no means improbable It must be remembered (hat these are but the ordinary coneomitants of war. W hpn Gen. Scott was at Vera Cruz he 1 hung ti negro för an outrage on a Mexi- cnn womnn. The correspon Jent of the Sun says iliaf iwo uhite men were whip- ped( and expelled from the camp, for the same oíTence. Tbal'a the advantnge n villain has in being