LATEST FROM VERA CRUZ .
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Editorial correspondence 0 lhe Picayune.

 VERA CRUZ, April 5. l547.

 A great number of cannon and other mil itsry stores were captured at Alvarado, for there were no less than seven forts and bat teries on the water Aide. IL is said that Com. Perry has brought off every thing of value, and trust the report may be true. To my thinking all the more valuable spells taken from tho Mexicans should be carried to Washington City, or some other place in the United States where every body can see l them.

 April 6 have jus. seen man who left the city of Mexico ten days since, com ing by the way of Orzaba. He gave a most .udicrous description of the fighting al. the capital.

 My informant says that there are somo twenty Americcn deserters at the City of Mexico. They rendezvous at the ten-pin alley of man named Hawkins, and are in a mos, pi,iful condition There are also near one hundred American prisoners in aud about the cily--perhaps Major Borland's party.

 April 6. Colonels Kinney and Banks with Capt. Merrill's company of 2d drag rons, returned last evening from scout in the neighborhood of Madgo de Clabo. The country is full of cattle--but they are de> scribed as merely wild, and difficult either to catch or drive. Some plan will be con- trived to bring them over.

 saw Senior Arraugoiz, the former Mex ican Consul at New Orleans, a night or tive siHce He had just arrived from Havana, and had received a permit to proceed to. ward Mexico. He frankly told me he did not think his counlryneu in the least incli. ned to make peace with the United States.

 The very la,es. report at Vera Cruz, was that Santa Anna would dispute the passage of our troops to Mexico with an army of 20,0O0 men, but it was an indefinite rumcr 10 which Mr. Kendall attached little i'm por.ance.