University of South Carolina Libraries
~ it ., i. , 'b wy ,, /P} ' ^ ]'ice n " r b r 'N'Y~r + ti ,. ~ . 1 .y, ? ,>.+ F Ni ,,a yam .. " y.,. ' ,}'y!y, t a" , ""'p 7 1Z"T,2" a! v _ '3 4 ! r ,} a9r1' ' yi M "eG.. /- - .1 +4 rf - s~,r a. .J . !1', , ', ". ! i'.. . ?4~rtr{; rt .^"' U' ,Yy+.I1'" A " h~". W 4 r'''r'Q' r -. , , r ! ..'l;q;.tK i'l1 . a r1 , ilar^ ^ ?tr4ri ~ 1r, y.y'r'L?: d > lt .. S'a i,(j ry I CJ ,r . 5: r"!', ,tt'"?t.i vs..,n, t r:/' .) .u k Yt; lV'V'> nr{ ,l".t ,.r. ;J i C' A ! {1'7 ., 1 - j: '*- ... ': V ,'s., j tyi rr"~'a ti: i'WF,3 'f' "1': 's'K C" t r=, r.T,')w t....'j mow.'.i.rt.;, .Y.. " r yr',. ~ .. ,c . -. ty. .. 1'+AY... '^. Y4'n' iti ,')' " Y' i ..tiT r= "L ,Y 1.r'jX r ''~ wv+v. t ~'r w=M~' y, "} a h. " .. r LC 'Tnyi; ..i 1' :"4. v ; ^. _ ., r ? "' , ! . ,,{:.r/, r*1;. ,tea k 4 .' ?fl" f ,"J . ~f y y , r" Ik .tn lil '' lt 4 F:iJr 4 i '. C"?{': ti. ri ) Y-. r' ' h . x S +j~ ; n. Y'YJ tr- l 'Y t " : "j"f . nr t i ..r k'" n i a. :J .V' . '.. ti .. .! '" '" ',.}, 4"Y' tK^ + y " ' StA' t.. f ham. ~t r i y [y dfL , . .. I, ^ -hM'i 7 2 ,'f 7.1 ,.r +{~ Ye+r .1, .'1 . ~ y 5 j s " "rl'dWV+.~ '.,y' , t !yN . r. ,r, '"i ., .t _ .1.' -fi a ! "7^ ti C~ y '' h ,+" 4 : 1 ' >v' .,,i.r: , l ? , h ( Y^.:" - r:- ",r "=y r? i r r. ,ril: T.Sr'4 +^ _ 1.t d. S J 't ,+ a a, ''{' A t , .'tK - ,t f r, , ? f "ti. ' " '" . x1 + , er , t , , t" 'Jt ,}yam , _e i+ ., L'41. ; ' !, 4 Ir" IY+:' + of^r, - RR,..' j"' f,1, sa" 1N .t lr 1 l'iW'' " yZe 4G Yy r r. t-. r r1b!'1t'n .- ''_.. " ; ''?::. p - !r. 'J .: p.~.. r.' ! r Y1,- t ,Slrv } 'r d- it 1' aL/ ,'!r". "'r'^ ! _~ e . ., . ..... 4; ti . ,a v ':{ y4 . ., r ' 1C.' ',lc+lh "4 V 1 Are. 5. Ih1 t ,. 1 .T ti+h _ . <\ _ I'"' J >~ r ) Zti.. t r: Yt .r t. V " 'ny' .. t "S y. " .ticnf ,. . li!e will cling to the Pillars of th:,Temple of om Liberties; "' au;we will Perish amidat the..fluina: r ,, /yQOLU. IE 'UI. y a f14 . . tall * V / .V, j, r1j^ ."y f y - LISHED. EVERY WEDNESDAY. DI. F. URISOE. ~ gEDTOI2PROPRIETOR. NEW TERMS. rrw~DpLL as and iFnC aNTS, per annum, pad in advance-$3 inot paid within six tl lis from the date of subscription, and If note paid before the expiration of the r: ' searAll subscriptions .will be continued, ; <Y nless otherwise ordered before the expira ^ ton of the year ; but no paper will be dis i oatinued until all arrearages are paid, un I -.les at the option of the Publisher. Auyeerson .procaring five responsible Sub bcribers, shall receive the paper for one year,'giatis. DoVjuanRssssT conspicuously inserted at75 cents per square, (l2ilines, or less.) for the iJrstinsertion. and 37. for each continuance. . Those published monthly or quarterly, will be charged $1 per square. Advertisements not; having the number of insertions marked on them, will be continued nutil ordered out and charged accordingly. Communications, post paid, will be prompt Irand strictly. attended to. - The friends of Major A BRAHA M JO NES, announce him as "a candidate for the Legisliture, to fill 'the'vacancy occa idoed bj. the death of James S. Pope .The* friends of JAMES SPANN, Esqr. respeetfully announce him as a candidate for? the office ofTax Collector, at the ensuing elec ' tion april14 tf6 12 G E-The friends of WESLEY BODIE, an nounce him as asandidate for the office of S'heriiat the ensuing election. ? februay24 tf 5 87'The following gentlemen are announced their friends as candidates for the Office of Tax Collector, at the ensuing election: Col. JOHN QUATTLEBUM, GEORGE J. SHEPPARD,. EDMUND MORRIS, - SAMPSON B, MAYS, Lieut.JAMES B. HA RRIS, Maj. S. -C. SCOTT,. LEVI R. WILSON. 7 The following gentlemen are announced : " by their friends as candidates forthe office of Ordinaiy, at the ensuing.election CoilJOHN HILL,> f ,4 .JULIUS BANKS, C apt W .. L . C O L E M A N ' H : L" ~ ~T HE,AT TLE ~IFL he e, faiatnd rao fil tonen v1wels onth niidmght breez, dying 1 -moan. . Bdow ebang'd the scene.where morn beheld A gilant host in bright arrag; nartial notes exulting swell'd, To cheer the brave on danger's way; And hope and valor made the pulse beat high. Thrill'd-the warm heart'and fixed the kin dling eye. Now the pale beams, by moonlight shed, A field ofblood disclose, Where, on their chill and lowly bed, The martyr'd brave repose, And the dead calm, the desolate suspenso, With nameless horror chills the shudder ing sense. Thonusnds.are here who sprung to arms, When the shrill clarion pealed the strain, By danger's call, or glory's charms, Ne'er to be rous'd again. E'en now, while shades and stillness reign, A viewless band are near-the spirits of the slain. Whence came that deep tremendous sound? Wshence broke the flash intensely bright, Buruting the midnight calm profound ? A cannon peal disturbs the night : - TL pass, and deeper is the gloom, '$dall'again is silent as the tomb. d Ganing by fits on shiver'd steeT, Aquivering light the moonbeams throw, - ~d through tbe broken clouds reveal~ SFall many. asight of death and woe; ~ leaming onapalid forms aroud, ".treteh'd on the soldier's bier, the cold and * dewy ground. ~Ndnight,.and death o'er all the soil, A Ibarful deep repose have apread: SWorn with long hours of martial toil, ' The living slumbers with the dead, TNor hear the wounded faintly sigh, Nor dreamn of those who round them bleed a'dd die. SRest, : slumberers, rest-the morn shall wake An6d gyo to arms again shall rise! * Your ploep the clarion call shall break, Anflife aad hope shall fire your eyes (Buio! what'thousands strew the battle. plain, Whom day-spring ne'er shall wak~e . nor war note rouse agan. Anti-Stavery Meetine.-The procee-. Z aws fthe New England Anti-Slavery - agpnention, recently: hield 'in 'Boston at -wbich:Mr, Wetidell dit isculd have been 2: drallJ Philips has, aeguired so mnch -- otoiity, were distingished by that mod grtiba and decencyv so en;aimently clba A crigtic of all such assemblages. The *ewiaiona heaped upon Mr.- Webster ~ntlecturing the* people of Charlstea' their unceremonious treatment ofthe t~died sgent of Massachusetts, Mr uipnaf~lIar, is most amusing, andw*e reaJ~jld~ ike to know what thiey wo~ldhavebd Mr. Webster to have said or done in the premises. We rather in cline to the opinion, that he - adopted the part of prudence in not alluding to the subject, and if the~Anti-Slavery Meeting are anxious, to try the result of a campaign the object, or incident of which, shall be that, which they are so severe upon Mr. Webster for not doing, we invite them to make the experiment. One of their orators, Mr. Stephen S. Foster, (we wish we could. give the name entire) in the exuberance of his "fiery indignation," declared, that Massachu setts was the "meanest State in the Uni on," and her citizens no better than a ra:e "monkeys." We must say, that we regard this as any thing but complimenta ry-. However, it.is a matter of taste, and no business of ours. The gentleman. of couise, has the best opportunities ofknow ing the people among whom he lives, and we shall not quarrel with him on this point. By way of dessert to the rich entertainment, two or three fugitives slaves who had tsken refuge among their hospi table friends in New England, were in troduced to the-Convention, and enlight ened that body with a recapitulation of what their English co-adjutors had said and written on the sutbject of slavery in this country, all which must have been vastly edifying and entertaining, as it is a subject with which they must be very familiar, and upon which they are fully as well informed as their brethren in Bos ton. Several Reverenid gentlemen touo, addressed the meeting, and no duubt suc ceeded to impressing their auditory with a just sense of their Christian duties, par ticularly those of abusing their neighbors sad calumniating the South. Afterthese and similar pious and devout exercises, a benediction was invoked, and he Convention adjourned for the day. Char. Mercury. A Slave Case.--A letter from Albany, to the New York Tribune, dated the 29th ultimo, has the'following: "Mr. Lamotte, of New Orleans, arrived ere last evening, en route for France. mmediately upon his arrival here, it was mored that two servants who accompa ied him were slaves., The emancipators vere instantly upon.tt-e alert. This morn ng. a negro, after having beensupplied ith'a petition, setting forth that the per ions: mentioned were,-detained as slaves;: iroceeded to be o ceo oof the. u t Y te , andthe slaes Fore brought.to ro.ttde-was a come y regress, somsevednieein years old, sad he. other a smart looking lad of about nine Fears.- The Adjutant General, and seve al lawyers of ability, were present. The. lave negress cried bitterly at the prospect >f a separation from her master. with whom, she replied in answer to the inqut -ies of the court she desired to remain. Ihe result was, after a rigid investigation f the alfair, that the court made an order tetting the slaves at liberty, and discharg ing them from the service of their master. Before making this order, the presiding fudge interrogated the slaves is regard to heir disposal, and advised them that they vere at liberty. They, in reply, persisted n their determination to remain with their ,uardian; they also rejected the dazzling >ffers of their colored friends. Riot-Maryland runaway Slaves.-We learn from an extra of the Carlisle (Pa.) Herald, of the 13th inst., that that town was thrown into great commotion and ex :itement, on Wednesday afternoon, by an attempt on the part of a large portion of the colored population to rescue several slaves (one man, a woman and ,a little girl) wvere arrested in the morning, and in the afternoon taken hefore Judge Hepburn an a writ of H abeas corpus. which resulted in their heing fully identified as the proper cy of Col. Hollingsworth and Mr. Keune :iy, of H agerstown, Md. They were there Fore remanded to the custody of their own Bra. During the hearing a 14rge crowd of in ruriated colored men and women gathered in and about the Court House, who evi denced by their violent conduct a disposi tion to rescue the fugitives hy force. An attempt was made first in the court room, but quickly frustrated by the constables. :.A second. attempt was made as the slaves were brought down from the court room to the carriage. wvhich resulted in a serious riot. The attack was made at the door of the carriage, where, before they slaves were got into the vehicle, a-general rush was made on the slave owners, and constables by the negro mnen and women, and a frightful melee ensued in the Street, in which, for some minutes, pavin'g stones were hurled in shotders, and clubs and canes used with terrible energy. The re sult was, that the womnan and girl escaped,. whilethe man was secured and taken back to Maryland.- Wd- regret to sag :.tit Mt. Kennedy, one of the owners, was vetry se verely hurt, having been felled to the earth under a successionof blows ~from :stones and clubs, which comnpletely-disabled him. Aboy in the strest; by thecrime of Black, was also severely woti'nded in.ih'e head by a stone, that his life was endangered. The remainder of the party received no serious injuary. The sheriff and constables have arrasted' a score or more of nejgroes, who were. identified as leaders in the i'iot. who are now confined in jail ioaw ait theiy til. . The Hierald days. our citizeud gen. erally made norinterference. The'evi leoce that the slaves were fugitives: was clear, id, thenmama of our citizens therefore re-. garded themn as :the rightful property of Letter from Sinta Anna.-The Mobil Tribune contains the following letter for Santa Anna, translated from El Republi cano, of the city of Mexico, of May 16. Official letter of his Excellency the Gen eral-in-Chief (Santa Anna) accompanyin; some intercepted documents of the ene-m HEAD QUARTERS, PUEBLA, May 13. Army of Operations-Excellent Sir The commandant of the flying reveau guard of tobacco of Orizaba, the Col. D Juan N. Caraveo, whom I left with hi command near the National road, betweet Perote and Nopalucan, to observe th movements of the enemy and to. haras him when the opportunity might of'er,'ha remitted to me the accompanying docu ments which were taken from the enemy' mail which left Jalapa. for Col.' Worth' camp. Among them you will find the Genera Scott's proclamation to the Mexican' na. tion, which from its style appears to have been written originally in Spanish and no translated from the English. The proclamation of Scott's is writtet with the most refined hypocricy and witi the most iufamous perfidy. It is the great est insult yet offered to the Mexican peo pie, whom it has attempted to lull (aquier se pretende adormecer) to make the victim of the ambition of that nation which is the enemy of our race, when in another place it feels no embarrassment in proclaiming by the press and in official documents, that it carries on against us a war of conquest and that this war miust be made at the cost of the blood and treasure of this unfor tunate country. Your Excellency will note in one of the accompanying intercepted letters, that Ge neral Scott, the Inspector General of the United Stato3 Army, considers the.above proclamation well adapted to aid the views of the invaders. You will observe, that this letter har monizes with others which have been-late ly published in this capitol, and which with reasons have been regarded by all well disposed Mexicans as more prejudicial for the venom (ponzona) which they conceal than the loss of a battle.. : But in the midst of the malevolence ('.ccona) which General Scott shows hi bas against me, he does-me too -much.hon= or when he says that they had bee'nwde ceived as: to my. real 1itensions,;and tha on- account of this mistake hia.Goveromeni S e ei tea'yt e =dreazu 4 at'Jt wascapable of betrayingiy country. Be fore this. should happen, I would prefer. to be consumed by fire-and my ashes should be scattered that not a single atom be left. Would to God the Mexicans would open their eaes to discover the poison in the golden chalice that the perfidiots Scott prob'ers to them, and that the reply to his proclamation may be one shout of univer sel indignation against the invaders of our soil. Let a war be made against these without period, that when we may no lon ger be able, hecause Providence may have decreed the subjugation of this unfortunate country, there may remain to our children or grand children, when the wrath. of the Omnipotent shall have passed, the noble work of revenging the outrages committed by the Republic of the United States on Mexico. God and Liberty! ANToro LOPEZ DR SANTA ANNA. To his Excellency the Minister of War and Marine. From the N. 0. Picayune, 30th ult. MORE INCIDENTS OF THE BAT TLE OF BUENA VISTA. The Arkansas Intelligencer publishes an extract from a private letter of a~n officer of the army. containing some anecdotical particulars of the battle of l uena Vista we have not seen before in print. We copy the extracts. The conclusion will excite the risibles: On the 21st February the whole army fell back from Agua Nueva to Buena Vista, except the A rkansas Cavalry, unde.i Col. Yell, which was detaitned to guard the provisions in store until the wagons could-return from Buena Vista. In the evening Gen. Wool learned that Santa Anna was close to Agua Nueva-to which place the 1st Dragoons and 1'entucky Cavalry were immediately ordered, with directions, in conjunction with the Arkan' sas Cavalry to hold the place till the prG visions were removed. On our arrival, at 12 o'clock at night we found til the storet packed in wagons, except labout three hundred bushels of corn. A minute after the A rkansas Cavalry, who' w~?e stationed a half a mile in front, fired at the advance .of the .Mexican army cand fell hack. Col. Marshjall, of the. Kentucky Cavalry, ordered the wagons to'fall back on Buena Vista, while we waited to set' fire to the buildings contai-ning thie corn and to covet the retreat of the wagons. IV shall nevet forget this retreat. The Mexica lan'eere itt full force .were not five minuten behind us. wh~en our squadron left Agua Nueva-. the distance to Buena Vista ten miles4 the road beautiful. . You will understand how wve travelled when I inform you that our empty .wagons made the distade'e in thirty and our. loaded ones ink forty'min' utes. -Good race horse time. ' 'About an hoor before sunsetton thO22d I with some two or'three officers, Yode 46 ihe .ridge within three -oN four htndtid yards of the enemy and tok a good viw of the elephant, and iiteil you ac'aidly frojn the appearance of Santai Aaditre myr, an his immense superiority of nudm hrIfeared the result.; b'ut still we hAc old Zach~to lead us ont and ou befova wives iid eountry te fight rto andIlfl mnd destruction. = To consequence of -th alsity of the great number of similar std ies, Col. Wilson, our Governor, had -th man arrested as 'a deserter. Thus mattet tood umil yesterday, when developement sere made by an arrival from Jalapa he first that has reached us' for a week nding to confirm our worst fears.. We conversed yesterday with a gentle ran who arrived in the morning, and i iforms us that a point about two mile n the other side of Puente Nacional, h aw the ruins of the-diligence, underneat. rhich was'a human body stripped Witi te exception - of a pair of drawers, anc iutilated 'in the most beastly manner. 'his is supposed to be the body of Col ewers. Near him lay another porfect:l aked and likewise dreadfully mangled Our informant was assured that five other dies lay in some thick chaparral a short stance from the road. Now the number r killed, with the man who escaped, ex etly corresponds.with that of the party hich accompanied . the unfortonate Col, owers, and. leaven no doubt in our mind its destruction, Our readers will recollect a 'party of exica'n robbers recently captured near era Cruzw by a party of an toers under o1 Banks. 7Ten of them ha e been tried r robbirrg, secreting. arms and ammuni )tm &e. Five have been acquitied and five nvicted' -The latter were sentenced to or :and a half :mons' work upon the ablic streets and thoroughrares in chains. wo more yet remain to ,e tried.' We pe this example may be salutary. The Eagle inform us that on the 28th party of six Mexicans, coming into Vera ruz from Santa. Fe, were attacked by me of their own countrymen and robbed all they had about them. The Eagle gives some details of Com, wry's expedition to the south, but noth g particularly new. The commodore rived at Vera Cruz on the 24th uIt. ENTa ANNA STONED IN, T HE CAPI'foL. From La Patria, of yesterday, we learn at letters have been received in this city the way of Tampico, from the city of exico, to the 21st 'ult., in which it is ited that Santa Anna -arrived in the apitol on tbe-19th May, as was expected; at the redeption was veriditibrent from hat lie anticipated, TIe populace or ewers "upon, bim'curses-botbrloud'aii ep; and fromi words, p -oceeded, as. the i nursury story rns, to try what virtue ere was in stones: -His Excellency not ing ambitiousto follow the'examplo of Stephen, escaped with great difficulty. id, protected by his friends, sought an ylnm in'the palace. ' The people, indig tmt at the frequent defeats of the Mexican mies, and the failure of Santa Anna to deem h;s numerous promises, sought to venge themselves upon his person. Had not been for the armed force and the lice, the unhappy President would have en dragged through the streets, as was ce the fate of that poor amputated limb, hich taas served him so long as a most tent remainde'of courage and gallantry bich are now badly in want of new ops. These tatements are based upon in !matiou, communicated by very reliable rsons. to a commercial house in this city bich obtains the first and most authentic ws from Mexico. We (of the Delta) give the story in our rn language, as wve learn itfromn La Pa a and other souicee, not vouching for truth, but not discrediting it. We ink it not improbable that his Excellen tas arrived at the point in his history, iere he must make one of those rapid scents from great power to great'uoth ;ness, -so characteristic of all who rest air hopes upon the fickle and treacherous able of Mexico-.a rabble, whose nature a strong compo'ond of the worst vices of rililization and barbarism.-N. 0. Del From the Charleston MecrcuYif. ~ Mr Ediior.-Believing that the (of Ling extracts of 'let ters received from mssed Midlshipmnan J1. J. Pringle, will be ceresting, you .are at liberty to publish am. 'Steamer .Scourge, AL~vaR-ADo, May J6, 1d47. "As a vessels is about sailing for Vera ruz, I write you a' few lines, to relieve in from any :anxiety which' mray arise mi some itaistaenents in the papers. -I ant the day 'before yesterday -with a at expedition, under Capt. Mayo,'ahout I. miles up the river tol attack -a towni fled Tallascoya. Thel town surrendered' ithout s'esistance, but thismorning,about arise, as were coming-through 'a narrow irt of' the riveY, where 'the trees were ry thick,:my boat (the Scorge's) which as not itT-sight of-the rest of the expedi m;. was fired upon.-snd six out of-twelve sunded, soina dangerously. I redeived to balls, one graztng my ai-mand the ber lodging .in my -neck~,-pai'nful, but attit, all dangerdes. The ball is still there, 4i the doctor thinks it had better nit'n'ow a extracted. We'returned- their fire, but a most'disadvantagedus positioin, as it as impossilie for us to land,'and~ they: ere' protected sby trees, so that we-could. at even aee them. -Thev: followed 'us me distance douvn the" ri'ver. fi-ibngas ey' wven-, hut at- last stopped, foi-tunately r us, :as the river was so - narrow' that ecy 'might have' killed every one of 'us. on need not he at all unea'sy, as I hope on to -be well,~anJ the wound it not :n me slightest.- degree langerous. -1'wl rite you again as-soon as I am bettsr." e cofi eat .e6su it'at the whole r.army ae . arms;and-I with boots f and spui be ;reiof my, noble r steed's band,-laid down on a few n soft pe eintog to sleep, but soon e strains melodious music from the senemy -came foating on the even- I in togbre Iote.softened by distance . yet dsj anever before so affected B by mumsi was at once banished, n andvisi me:r4. and all those dear i ass ial anqiail, life, filed my c I :nind, *oleIl only by the thunder a , of aritilfe i greeted the first streak i of morin ad foretold-to-all strug- i gleihi~h e * * - Durin" -old.;Zach:was near one ' 3 of the;reg: sofinfantry. and saw, the S men dod eir heads in every direction a to avoidt Is, when-he said '*MIand ( I up to the :men-don't be fraid, they b will alfg r -you"-=while speaking a d ball caitte ing close to his head and o he invo dodged-dontinuing his a speech.-' odethem if you can, it is a not'ly .ipT - ' . e S .ffer th .I wasordered with six- o tee:man rk Maj Bliss with a flag of truce- ias Anna. When we ar rivedwi ut one huodered yards of i a regimen neers, which seenied to be C the rear , we: were hal'ed..-; Maj. fc Bliss was ua dfolded and.. conducted to ti Santa A. ntbe-departure of the. e mnajor a p 'tio liadcers was ordfered fl from the,; went and- took ~post front- pl ing 'nyd a En'd- within ten steps of :T me.-Th i command dismounted hr his e;iit le :same. He was a fat. goodl6 w ore a short suck a coaajoeat 'med with lace and seemed C quite Po iAs .he dismounted he se handed i leIrein to his orderly, an4 of comma ting in front of his platoon, in a ve " manner. Presently he P called~h' erly, who- handed, from a in pocket a do of his saddle, a bottle, at from iha colc a drink, without say ing a.o., epmuch to my astonish- S. ment,atn enced strutting as before. I justtli ectedAliad in my holster th a'small :whiskey, and that it b wouldio in foutdonoe by this Mexi- M cano; a inmy rein to the right file g of ngyp d commenced playing C thepe isoit-ofn'my men, ein :a th e'.ii litedshort, and- ordered .itbotloute-f : 00 lean. ried saw my i'edatt. antie ialked faster-1jl -icrease he halted'and took a th drink , .0 nd took-a drink. Thus we i ~ sointime, untili actu- .S ally blulied 'li nif, for he--walked to a the rear of his platoon-when I halted as and sat. dyot'9 the. grass. F-ra.lik Picayune, 4Lh inst. re LATER.tFROM VERA CRUZ. r The steamship Fashion, Capt. Ivy, ar- - rived at. this port yesterday from Vera Cruz, having lefrthere on the 30th uIt. The Fashionbrought a small' mail to Col. Huni. a ad ii'is tunderstood that the steamer Ne Odleans,- fosail on the 31st, .would bringath6.principal mails. She is looked for every'bour. Verbally we learn that the Mexicans were busy fortifying the Pass at Rio Frio, fo between Puebla and the city of Mexico. Gen. Scott, wiih the rear of the army, . was to have left Jalapa on the 29th ult., and would areivgat Puebla on the 4th inst. where it is presumed he will await the arrival of the rcinforcements being forward- fr ed to him, before he advances farther. t We have beal a rumor that Herrera th has been eleci edPresidout, but cannot trace it to a reliable source, and we think 03 the result of tlsegdlection could scarcely bed kinown at the capgil so soon. From the Apmerican Eagle we learn th ihatithe diigncc which left Vera Cruz ra fur Jalapa on-th ui nt. without passeu- i ge, but with the trunks.filed with ver'y fine dry goods, vsstopped two miles L beyond the Nat al'Bridge and robbed, and then bitrat stroyed.' The driver and postillion Its tompanied it were released and adehei w'hj~ro Jalapa. The diligence ih 'shoufd 'have come l into Vera Qu,ihe24tb uit., only name down to whers theother n'ad bee3n des- in iroyed andsat on r~etarded. This, it is th .feared, .will- patsfend tolthe' use of dili gencies on' the rd The robbery was no doubt the work.'of Mexican banditi. We c now come, to a ufore atrocious act by the 374 same ruffians' jWe; copy the facts from fri the Eagl-ofh ih' : w - Horrid.--It ivth pain'rmigled with a bi desire fer!n enetw undertake to 6( relate anotheir.-insAcre of our coni-y- ci roen in tirendi ~betand brut-al raimer. w Inrp's aMwtatizrdaf, only one sc week a. goe w thiIfaeac hat pa Col. Sowers w ii~tis'hias hea'rer of vi -despatches to ~-c a al~ day we w are called :pC uorartlie pirblic of.his til horrid deathssth iaininy in front w to oppose hib$wadly-shot by those; tv who da. ~o~htemselvUs o1 ;It appears tha erEihis city on Sat ni nrdfay.-last~ ~certf five- men and ai ~ieut.M'DtDO fCn Wheait' coum- bi pia'ny,Meeip hdthe captain 'at it Santa lp,:eg ot~ very short distance w the othe!side ~ ianed at banta FE ws adilodgod tler Itrzi thie night, findingiin tliatLDpteWlife eft, ;in tie' morn~ se tag, anitus' iddb~ard (although it ii was as'ckrpina II#W ws some tihi ty fc rilies ahkt)'dtfraaddition of two, more il 'tI eucort Cl-Sw " set utfor Jala 3 hat n nw of thlis liitle si Sarys~ly ~lras of one of thie ien tI ~ ~ad ue~ofted lis surprise a VERA CUZ, May 2d -- "My wound is -now.mochibetter, and I >A; e yesterday got ont of bed; as the ball has s not been extracted, the doctors at ret a thought that I would have been compelled= ', - to go home, but as'it look a veryTavorable - turn, Ithink it will very soonjbe well and I am already going about. Leaving uhe Scourge to complete her repairs at. Af-a= rado, I came up here for a day or two 1v.. s recruit, and am lounging about as man. Com. Perry 1s shortly expected ::.^r from Tabasco, which place, rumor says will he attacked in two or three weeks. It m I is the only place accesible to the Na which has not yet surrendered. I hopoe-' to be there,- and then will be anxious td return home, as soon as possible, as all- a the fighting will be over. The wound' a my neck, I thought at first would have rendered it necessary for me to return home immediately; but contrary to all expectation, has healed so quickly, that-I shall soon he again fit for duty. So far I - - have been very fortunate in being in all of the excitement, and am looked upon as a fortunate fellow in receiving a wgouo4, ." when so few have been received by the navy. As- I return-to Alvarado toumorrow I must bid you adieu." - . From Vera Cruz.-We have adviceE from Vera Cruz via N. Orleans to the 25tir uIt., but-they fdrnish nothing~fromr.Gen'rt Com. Percy had returned to-Sacrificios, having. touched during his croize Lig na, Frontena, and other small ports on the coast. At Laguna, as we learn from the; . N. O. Delta,. he.raised the blockade,giv iug instructions to the officer in :" commaa to levy the new tariff on all imports, and a war tax-of ten per cent ad valorem on all - exports. He took possession of the fort as&. -. the mouth of the river, Guasacualco, de; stroyed- the guns of the enemy found .there,' . raised the American flag on the fort,.where' it now floats, and saluted it -with a salvo:; -" of twenty-one guns. He -proceeded to a. town, up the river some twenty. amile (name not given,) of which he took pea . able possession, and. where also the American dag. The alcaldeso wot neighboring-villages, while there, camii4?L offering hir-peaceable possession'doitf respective bailiwicks.- He alsosiucceed in securii at:tisplaieeisa.ori jci opograp .oit -e the Mob1ie Herals'y tbat I f It " basco on the 9th ut :t. Hisfori'coiil of thee tcamers Mississippi, Vixen, S and Scorpioti; the frigatel sloops-offwar,.Germantown, .Ad aiii.i Albany, ard- several bomb, vessels.. :w resistance to the attack was. anticipated,; t and thso.return of the squadron was, daitly rbi expected. -The frigate Potomac and steam- - er Spitfire remained to protect this pors of the coast. Vera Cruz, it is said, has already nearly recovered the effects of tire siege--the peo.4-34n pie are returning, the knocked down houe; .:" sos are being rebuilt. the streets cleaned,- .; shops opened, and all the activity ofa sea purt displayed. Among other things there- - is an American circus in full operation. :; - - WAR NEWS FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS. - - The Story of Charley Huner.-By Yankee Doodle.-Little Charley Hunter has been a bad boy and done what he oughter not. This was the way heflid it. One day Mister Perrey wanted to have - a chowder of Mexicano, a la Alvarado,- and was going to let the school go down and see him eat it; and he asked bister Scott-.: 3 . to go down- with his school too nut Mis ter Scott had rust been eating soap aJi Uloa, and he did not care a pin for Me cano a la Aivarado, so he- told Usher Quit man thatt lie might take some of the boyge,, and go. That Mister Perry told Master Hnier, who- ba'd just come to school, to , e go dowvn and watch the Alvarado, -and ~.. keep any- thing front getting inrto it till he ~ could come-for Mister-Perry could not go fast. -- - -- ~ - But Master Hunter was a- greedy b'oy.. - add had not been wvell broughtap-and-did not care ; and a saucy boy, :had no res~ pect for his betters,-andf his parents should-.,~ have been whipped- for not whipping him, more-for-so soon as he'got where it wap~-,Y he ate up all the lvarado'and more~ too. Hie was very-hungry acd had gone a'good~ ways-; but hadn't orter doue so-for when they could get nothing te eat and- had to go back feeling, worse than anysbedyever felt before or ever will feel again. Then Mister Ferry: shut Master Charley up ti I lie and the ushers could find out -what to - do with him-;- and one of'the ushers tho's they ought to put a piece of rope round , his neck and tie him up- to the yard arnr. -But Mister Perry did not-dare do that, for little Charley had twenty millions of friends,., whoiwould have done so to him if he had.' done so to Charley-so all that Mister Ferry.could do was to send him-awey from -~j school,2 but- be-gave a smart man two slii~ ling a'ad six pence to write a reprindo o Master H-uuter.- and told -.all tae ushietsto read, it in tieir divisiohs Blbvigou se6 Charley does tnt care. LO he is a- biad - - boy ! and will get somewvhere -if-he don't~4 stop;. and'so-will jou'if you do so .,. . A Yankee doya east has invented a machine that ill reapi, thrash, winnowur and gripd- Another Ya'nke Ioeor,. determi'ediot to he outdone, has inveia~~ od a rmachine that will spiottons, s'et pommies, roc)ithe cradle,arn'~steckon .& pair nails, whitle shinglesf whtisilet w,'2 kee Doodle, attd puff-itself in the news4M ""