THE DIABOLISM OF WAR.
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We extract the following from Inc St. Louis Republican letter writer's account of the late massacre of Mexicons near Agua Nueva, by some of our volunteers ::

 Let Us no longer complain of Mexican barbariiy-poor degraded, 'priest riddcn' as she is No act of inhumnn cruelty perpctrated by hsr most desperate rob bers, can exceed the work of yesterday, committed by our soldirry. God knows how many ot the unarmcd Fcasontry have been sacrificed 10 atone the blood of poor CoIqui,t. The Arkansas regiment say not less than thirty have been killed. l rode through the cbaparels and found n number of their dead bodies, not yet cold. The features iu every inst"ncc, were composed and tranquil-iying upon their backs, eyes closed and feet crossed. Yeu would have supposed them sleeping but for the gory stream which bedewed the turf around them. In some instances after the vital spark had fled, in the over flowing of demoniac vengeance. the car- bine ball dashSd out the brains of it's clay~ ey victim. .... .....

 Death in oil i;s horrors, have seen, asd been familiar with from my b,'yhood and could not feel the dread reality pcs fore me until Col. B. and myself rode down the arroyo to whore from the curling smoke, we supposed the woncn and children of these poor creatures were secreted. We rode up. Fear and auXi- ety wore depicted upon every co1ntcn, ance-tho women crowded arouI1 us 1 for protccton-and notwithstanding they were not more than half mile from the scene of this murdcroUs hu;chary, thcv were wholly ignorant rf wbn, ha4 hocn going on. An old female, wa looked as though she might be ti'e granimohcr of the whole, advanced 10 is, nnd, in the most inploring monaer askGd US ID send bnck her husb0n! and sons flo.n ;ho camp, where they supposed they n,d all been taken. I,hcn told them that fe4r-

 

 soon comprehendcd my fears, and tho old woman asked US 10 lead te ;he dead bodies and accompanied by two little boys Of about ten years of age each. we set out for the scene of murder.

 The fir., body we approached. the old woman exclaimed was a carcieror'-a donde eslan los otros, madre Je Dos, a donde iremos 2-' Wher, are the others Mother of God where shall we goa We then led them to another bo ", that of n man abou, thirty years of age, who lay ns tranquil us though he was in tho sweetest sleep. The little bay impclled by tha, instinct which seems 10 lead Us into trouble and difficulty ere il is ready for us. ou,s,rippcd his companions, and was the first to reach the body. He ad- vanced steadily to its side; gazcd upon the countrnance which was half conceal- ed beneath the broad brimnncd s,mbrero folded his hands upon his breast, and looked with dreaming earnes,aess upon the bloody victim of his i'll timed ven geancc. The heaving of his manly littlo chest. and the silent tenrs stealing from his dark eyes and rolling their searching way down his cheeks, told too eloqua"''yt that the little fellow had lost friend.- said too him in the mnst soothing tone [ could command Do you know lhai man r To which he replied Es lai padre caballero. He is my father sir.l tic walked round the body. examine4