AN IDEA OF WAR.
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in letter from Vera Cruz, te the Auburn Advertiser. The writer presents truly and without exaggeration one of those scenes in the progress of war which Gen. Taylor says is enough tO. i'll the ,ehOIe land with mourning:" .r

 "Ncver had beheld such destruction of property. Scarcely house did I pass that did not show some great rent made by the bursting of our bomb shells. At almost every house at which passed to examine the destruction accustomed by those dreadful messengers of death, some ono of the 1amily-if the house did not happen to be descrtcd-would come to 1 the door, and, inviting me 10 enter, pcin, out her property destroyed, and with a pitfu sigh eXclaim, La bomba, Ia bomJa!" [the bomb, My hear! ached for the poor creatures.

 "During my peregrinations camo toa rible bomb had exploded, and laid the whole front of the house in ruins. While was examining the awful havoc created, d beautiful girl of some seventeen came to the door and invited mo into the house. She pointed to the furniture of the mans sion tern into fragments, and tho piles of rubbish lying around, ard informed me, with her beautiful! eyes filled with tears, that the bomb had destroyed her father, mother, brother, and two sisters, and that she was now left in the world alone! o, war, wqr, who can fell thy horrors! Who Han picture thy dsioym.licS!

 "nurins tho afternoon, l visited the hospital. Hero lay upon trnckle beds the mansled creature who had been wounded during the bombardment. In one corner was poor, docrcpit, bcdridden woman her head white with the sorrows of se"cn- " years. One of her withcrei arms had been blown off by.a fragment of she'll In another place might be seen mNngled creatures of both sexes, bruised and dis figured by the falling of the houses and the bursting of tho shclis. On the stone floor lay little child in complete state of nudity, with ono of it's poor legs cut off just above the knee! The apartment was filled with flies, that seemed to delight in lhe agonieS of the miserable creatures over whom they lowered, and ihe means were heort rending.

 II went about from cot 10 cot and at tempted 10 condoie with the sufferers by whom l was invariably greeted wiih kind smile. Not even this nbode of wrctchcdness had been exempt from the Nccurscd scourgc of war! A bomb had descended through tho roof, and after landing on the floor exploded, sending some twenty already mangled wretches to the sleep that knows no waking

 "In the course of the afternoon the army took possession of the city of Vera Cruz, and the streets were ,hronged with our troops. AGter visiting every thing worthy of nltc, at sunset l returned on board, ha- wing received a lesson in the horrors ct war which shall no. soon forget.

 Yours, truly,

 "E. CURTIS HINE."