About 6 o’clock, Gen. Scott nnd staff, in
full feather, escorted by the cavalry, entered
the city amidst the huzzas of the soldiery on
nil sides. As he entered, the bnnd of the 3d
Dragoons, mounted, interested the crowd
with “Hail, Columbia.”
Throughout the 14th and 15tb, the Mex
icans continued firing frym the tops of the
houses, killing nnd wounding many. Th<
Rifle Regiments and Infantry w ere then sent
in pursuit, and silenced them wherever they
went. The Mexican* were much mistaken
when they came to engage tho Rifles from the
house-tops. The deadly aim of tho Rifles
picked them from tin ir hiding placet when
they least expected it, and they were very
w illing to cease so unequal a contest.
9 City or Mexico,Sept. 26, 1847.
Assassination* continue to occur. No
less thnn ten niunlerw! soldiers were found
this morning, in the vicinity of th” quarter of
San I*lllllo, nn<l eight on the previous day.
Col. Mclntosh died hist night, and is to
Im* buried to-morrow with nil military honors.
He fell pierced with two balls w hilc gnllnntly
leading his men to nttnek the Caaamanta on
the Btli Sept., nnd his system, suffering
under wound* received in former battles,
wiu not able to overcome the shock.
G. W. K.
