As our last Postscript narrated, and our new accounts make
clear, General Scott is or has been in possession of the Mexican capital—and in a scrape. Scott and Santa Anna could not agree on terms of peace; the fighting was renewed ; the Yankees took the great city, killed many people, ruined some of the public buildings, created "ample work for the glazier," and remained in a "fix "—apparently in want of an intelligible policy, certainly in want of supplies and reinforcements—there are even rumours that they have been driven out again. On the first blush, it would look as if the sovereign citizens of the great Republic must be so disgusted with these untoward victories as to refuse further supplies, and to recall the army. But the affair is too serious for that : United States men are not of a temperament to succumb to defeat, and the very extremity of the danger may evoke a teat tonal feeling in favour of prosecuting the war. There is trouble in store for all parties.
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