News from the soutIl.
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We publish in another column all relating 10
our military operations in Mexico which we can
CLEAN from our exchanges. Our readers will
know as well as We do what importance TO attach
to the rumor that the Nexican Government has
appointed Commissioners to meet Mr.. TIist at
Temesluca in order to treat for peace between the
two republics. No one can tell with any degree
Of certainty the influence exercised by the city OF
Mexico over the people Of that nation, and conse-
quently cannot foresee the effect which the danger
the capital is in, from the armies of the United
States, may exert in producing speedy peace.
Reinforcements are pouring ia to General Scott.
Generals Cadwallader and Pillow, it seems, from
the latest accounts had already joined him, and
Gen. PIERCE had started from Vera Cruz with the
same object When our forces are united, even
the Mexican rulers must see that their capital Is
at our mercy. The certainty that they could not
beat back General Scott with any force they could
possibly assemble may have induced them TO ap-
noint commissioners to treat with Mr. Trst On
the other hand, the selfish councils which have
heretofore swayed Mexican politicians and Mexi.-
can Generals, may lead them madly to hold out
to the last aud oppose the march Of General Scott
although they have no idea Of success They
may be willing to see their great city stornaed,
their soldiers slaughtered and the horrors OF war
brought home TO them, in order that their hopes
and hypocritical efforts may in the future tend to
their advancement, and place in their hands the
power 10 oppress and ruin the Mexican people.


The same arrival which brings the rli1or
aforementioned, informs US of another brilliant
exploit of our troops-an exploit which reflects
high credit on the American arms, although no
battery was taken or fortress stormed. Nothing
can try the bes, qualities Of soIdier-his cour-
age, discipline and endurance-more than a re-.
treat before overwhelming numbers through a
hostile country. The exploit of Col. DeRussey,
in cutting his way out of the pass near Huejutla,
with only one hundred and fifty men, though sur
rounded BY nearly tenssimes that number Of the
enemy lighting at every Py. STEP =; and making his
odds, speaks high for the skin and valor of Off
GERS and soldiers. Such feat needs nothing but
that hundreds should be counted as thousands, to
make it fill conspicuous place in the annals of
war-to make it eclipse the lustre of Moreau's
celebrated retreat through the Black Forest


@ Richmond Enquirer.