Southern Christian Advocate

DOMESTIC.

Latest Authentic News From Mexico. By the arrival of the Steamer Fashion at New Orleans, authentic information has been received from the city of Mexico, up to the 28th Sept. Gen. Scott is in quiet possession of the capital. The achievement cost great loss of life on the part of the American army. In the battle of the King's Mills on the 8th, General Worth's division lost about 900 men in killed and wounded. In the battles of the 13th— the storming of Chapultepec and the attack on the citadel— Quitman's division lost 300, Twiggs' 268, Pillow's 142, and Worth's 138—848 in all. Worth had scarcely a thousand men in his action. Our entire loss since leaving Puebla in killed, wounded and missing Mr. Kendall sets down at 3000; another authority makes it about 4000. And yet Gen. Scott entered the valley of Mexico with an army only a little exceeding 10,000. What wonders have not these "ten thousand" achieved! The Mexican accounts representing that we were any time seriously repulsed are not true. The Mexican loss is not definitely ascertained, but was enormous. None of our generals have been killed, but Maj. Gen. Pillow and Brig. Gen. Shields were both wounded severely, but were doing well at last accounts. Col. McIntosh and Col. Ransom, Lieut Col. Martin Scott, Lieut. Col. Graham, of the 11th Infantry, Lieut. Col. Baxter of the New York regiment, and Lieut. Col. Dickinson, of the South Carolina regiment, are dead. Gen. Bravo was not killed, but was taken prisoner. We do not see that Santa Anna was wounded. It is true that he has resigned the Presidency. Maj. Gen. Quitman has been appointed civil and military Governor of Mexico. It is said that Gen. Scott has imposed a contribution on the corporation of $150,000, payable in three weeks.

No less than nineteen of the deserters, captured by Gens. Twiggs and Shields at Charubusco, have been found fully guilty, and are to be hung to-morrow morning. The miscreant Riley, who commanded them, escapes the punishment of death, as he proved that he deserted before the war. He has been sentenced, however, to be severely whipped, to be branded as well, and to wear a ball and chain in the front of the army during the war! A deserter taken among the prisoners at the Molino, on the 8th, was summarily dealt with. It seems that he deserted from Monterey last fall, and a comrade who recognized him, to save the trouble of a court martial, at once pitched him into the mill flume and he was crushed to pieces by the wheel. Another batch of deserters, who have been undergoing a trial here in Tacubaya, will be hung in a day or two it is said.