President of Mexico Resigns, and Paredes Is Elected--Mexican 41
Troops Concentrating at Matamoras--Taylor Marches to the Rio
Grande--Rattlesnakes--Mirage--Wild Horses--Taylor Concentrates
His Troops at Arroyo, Colo.--Bull Fight--Mexicans Flee--Taylor
Goes to Point Isabel--Join Gen. Worth--Field Works--Arrival of
Gen. Ampudia--Orders Taylor to Leave--Taylor Declines--Col.
Cross Murdered--Lieut. Porter Killed--Gen. Arista
Arrives--Declares Hostilities Commenced--Capts. Thornton and
Hardee Captured