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arch 1 in.ax.rouni -.1% O08r n r *0101, most- ang ~ ~ ~ ' 't~ e seres ofrevollt pn sh eqth t e 4iffqrentpatte behj btle i aod gihtinp each otley w~fi uiwoia.l for. -i Fwa~d IhaL. een he Britlsh c MInl9#e v.anhe tlit dtes'haird it Iy darjetire ntekt :itree u 'ear a afbeing shot by som orelipidifforep. conternding factions.' Gomez . riias has I -sRarthl the priests have their patyj thpse ( in faoqr .of peace, have part a) tien 4here aue.the war men, t pd ahak Anuuia .oien, the, Anionte mi n, ardwhatid.h o w .A41 was . "confutlAn .yrse e.:,iitunaleil, I an .I ,can makei.itkher. head.no taj of the t .4iffret ruNUra, - :3..,ri.g slit Thei MXiCaps hare -edn irin noon to-day, and-4ron'th . mo-sof their I but ter ies,:nnd t ie roar. of% roul- shot and I . shell has beenreonatantly dinning in the i d As.ofour men. - Strange thitth ilo not a effect more. they mpust thj 9ey.e I destroying the "Yaikees," as n j ow I all'-term us,'by dozets, el'othi ui ot ke up 0 such an inesntin flng. T e 'eathe. coniidune' ue .[or landing, and'muhitions and siipylies arerapidly ac. umi'latin at the depis. The officers ol c the navy .butinue to ,use their best ef fqrts. Glorious News. THE CITY OF VERA CRUZ AND CASTLE OF SAN JUAN D'ULLOA Surrendered-to the American Arms!! Office of the Herald.& Trib-ne, MOBILE. APRIL 4. American Arms again Victorious! San Juan D'UIRa is Oursti. The Pensacola Gazette received a - few moments ago, brought over the -following gloiriouis ne~ws.. The United 8tateis war-steamer Prince ton, hearing the broad peinant-of umm. Conner, arrived at this p irt this morning. and came to anchor off our wharf, at half paet .ine o'clock-exchanging -'salutes vith the -Navy Yard as she passed. The Princoton sailed from Vera Cruz on the 29th ultimo, aid. brings the glorioun intel ligence of the reduction of that ciy with the Castle of. an Juan de Ulloa, and the entire., unconditional surrender to our arms. We understand that the Princeton brought a bearer or dlespatches for Wash ington. He is no * waiting at H11all's Lan. ding, to convey the glorious tidings-east. ward. We are indebted to one (if the officers of the P. for the followingsimmary of the pro ceedings in this most hrilliaui achievmnent -an achievment that will redaund 'more to the glory of our Army 'and Marine. among the nations abroad, than any thmtt yet has place in 'sur military annals. March.9th.-Disemnbarkation of troops commenced. 13th-investment of thecity completed. l8th.-Trenches opened at nilht. 22.-City summoned to) surrender--on re-fnsal, seven mortars opened a'Airo of bombs. 24th-Navy Battery, three long 32. pounders andehree 68-pounders-Paixha.nI gons-opented a lire in the morning; dis tanece 700 yards. 4. ~26ih.-Anuther batterey of four 24 pounders anud ihree mortars opened. Trhis day the navy battery openen a breach in the wvall of the city; the fire was very dnes tructive to the town, 26th.-Early in ihe morning the enemy proposed for a surrender. Cuommissioniters on -the American side--Genls WVorth and Pilow, andi Coel. Totten. 29th-.Neszoia tions completed-city and castle surreerMeicn tro--ps mar A mericanl troops .ocueni the city and! batteries of the town and castle--at nosen * of tht day the Amenrican Eessign w'atsits. ten over both, and seas saluted by our ves r ets.. TJhie garrison, of ahnut 4000 men, laying 't downo their arms as priso)ne'rs of war, and * being seat to their hsome s on parole. Five r Generals.-60 inferior officers, and 270 comn- I parny officers beinig amongst the. prison,. i The total lOnb ofthe A mericatn army, fromn she day of handing, (March 9,)is 05 persons * killed sand wountdedl. Ojfccrs Kiled.-Captain John R. Vini ton, 2d At tille'ry; Ca ptain A lb~urtis; 2d Ini fantry; Mishsipman TV. Rt. Sheubrick, Ofcery s Wounded.-Lieti. Colonel Dick J inson, So~uth-.Carolina Volunteers, severe. hy; Lient. A. S. Baldwvin, navy, slightly; a Lieut. Delszin Dahvison, 2d ifatry; very slightly; Lient. Lewis Neill, 2d Dragoons, aeverely. All the wounded are doing well. E or the Mexicans, thie slaughter is saidi to I hut. been immietise. The commandingi Generai wase stationedn in the city, wvhiile his second in command hebi lhe Castle. Their e .regnlar feirce was about 3.000, and they M had aebout the satme nnobier of irregulars. Outside the city was Gen. La Vega iih a a fore. (If from (,000 to 10,000 cavalry.5 Soloniel Harney, ith between 200. anid .400 U. S, dragoons, charged on and repui- b sed. ttis immense force with terrible cat- 0 nager~seaitering them in all directions. t They had~ barricaded a bridge, to protect h therr~selves, but our artillery soon knocked I slvay;is.nbstacle, and gavye Hlarney's com pinti d t-hance at thieui. * Let .lip the dog of war, and cry havotck." aI :11 wI Atr wn so ee ustk belu -nidty 'n'th in. Niine fiis e eh a rtij ll'sattnck otir viessels udtiakian Si bilck~ ho ~ui ktiln1 eng soning P autter on shore. ith the, i ity tt.n hopes ol ikh *nemy-fel11'a alieV' ad rt prosiu!onta in the Castle*id sustain protracted uiegeie -' iT.e PriaicqtonAl iommuhandid,, y Crep: a%1qEngle; us she sailed oin .Vera-Cruz n. Onner'a flag wyas silutma from the atife afSan -*usI it defida :sTh. Cot'nomndre is a passenger on bone'd maving; bee relievcd, by Com. Perry be. toreihe -comMen'retnent of tiiese opefa Tin. The -P.h'laving landed .the bearer X.despatches far Washington anid Colbhel ro.mttene at -this pince, sails inimediately for hiiidelphla; via Hiamin. We havei'nt een able to obtain- a -IIt of. her officers' inlI. Inmeoti' a.owing to tho lateneiss of her rrival, we have been, enmpelled to theimy osether theo ferogning piarticulars in the itmost possible haste. - Morales, wha had 'coiand-of the citv mad- reliused its surrender as long as a shots vas left or a soiluiier.ti, matt atRun; he was leposed en the 26th, and the surrender re. -eived thr.ugh ten. Laniero. SU.ITERVILLF* S. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1847. AGINTS FOR THE BANNER. Massis.-DaLonatg & Wnmr.,Sumierville, S. C. T. W. Pzauas, Esa., Camden, S. C. CO.TTON. The price 'of this article,in the Charless on -markel, ftr- the *eek Pnding' Fridav Ie ath, viiiteid from i0-to 12-cents per >OUnld.. IUSITERVII.E TMPERANCE SOCIETY Friday, A, ril 2nd, 1847. The Society met at the. Methodint Church.. The udilence was not so lave an was expected, as nany persons wore detained at the Court House by heir anxiety te learn the result of Stsrk's trial; hWit iulte a respectable number were assembled ."Rev. r. W.M:.tICHAMPE, the ortorofthe evening _ade i Iucid and elquent exposition of the principleiiM the remperanee movement, and was followed Iy Rev. WV. Lawas and T. B. RusaLL. Three names were Adled to the lalies list and two to that or the males. Rev. JouN S. RICUARoSON was elected the orator hr the next meeting. The Sock-ty then adjourned, to meet on Friday he 7th of wlay. SUMTER VOLUNTEERS. We have received a let ter, from a n officer ofthe U .-Army, formerly an officer ofthe Sumter Volun. Pers, of the date of March 7th, which mentions that he braith or the company was good. , This tetter Is if a ate.previous to the death of e-rg't. Mcaruv, pnd.conuequently, makes no mention of it. The New Oil ans Delta,'nf March 28, in its cor. esp'ndence. from the army N'fore Vera Cruz of blarcl 11, mentions that Wi1. H. BAL.ARD, LEwIS Saa, and Lt. Col. DaecnissoK, of the South Carn ins Regime nt. were wvoundled in a skirmish, near the vails ot Vera Cruz, with the enemy, who were ompelled to retrent. The two first meritioned, we clieve, are of the Sumter Volunteers. SERGEANT MIURPHlY. The death of this gentleman was mentioned in our inst number, as a peart of the army nlewb, uinder the ead of the correspondence of the Charleaton Mer ury. Sergeant M. J1. M. Mune ied, on the 9th of larch, at the island of San Antonio Lizardo, from rmfnamation of the hcowels, brought on by the un ihole'sormenessof the food which he was compelled to at. He wasM tile thIrd Se'rgeant of the Sumcter iotunteers, frowu this District; amtI, before his de. arture for tho Alexican war, a lawyer clf this place, i professaion and practice. While among us,.ho ras respected for his uniform integrity, and endear. dl tj his friendly 'ittues.. He was an only son, mough not an only child; and thmis circumastance akes greater his loss to his h'ercated father. lie ied, in the prime of youth anul early- manhood, mnugh not on the battle field, yet in the ser ice of his country, and his death has brought nor sw to many a famcily imn this District. His remains e in a foreigma land; but the reusemb'rance ol him with us and in our heat tsn. AMERICAN AORICULTURIST. -We have received the A pri Noc. of this valuable gricultural periodical. Its circulation Is large and lcreasing amn ong Soutthern planters. It Is now ublished 'by HI-nR.R & SRovHERs. Terms: One lollar per year in advanice; three copies for Two. toilars; eight copies for Five Dollars. Address C. I. Saxton, 205 Blroadlway, New York. Issued onthly, of 32J p.,ges, royal octavo. Postage one nil a hall cents on eatch numbmer. TH E RA IL ROAD. Mr. Jons C. McRAE, the al~le Engineer f the Wilmington and Manchiester Rtiil land, was in thmis plice on Satturdlay th~e 0mh Inst., with a beautiful-and wveil exe. edmap of thme proposed road, whmicr 'as seen by maony of our citizens. We arc informed that, at a meeting held Marion Court Ilmuse on Monday tihe 1,t inst., Cormmisesione.rs were appointed, y tihe charter Commissioners, to consiuet r tharee in eaich beat company, whose du. It should be personally to visit the mtem. ers of their respective com panies undl so. rit subscriptiocns to the rail road.- The :anefits elf the excecution of this measuare r e evident amd uvere irmmnedin.el. ....:..v. -t - jZ 'PL4 ne o ,reash 'WO resent he e i ts V t m rtath ~ gtiet the ti aRL1!t pie Y required -for stich etecut . re Ietfuliy' gesttoI c iptra sjumijarProceedig;- fur, by Ntsh s el dubt nn tlat the 111ere 0* hegad; will..it&forwarded. InharlngonDhtrt , aire informed th' the subberiionareIamontd e Lwen twenty and thirty thousand diliiFe; li Alarion,.bet eeri thirty and forty thou sand dollarsi and thaithey are dlly in creasing. Ii- -aitis -place, between- 300 and 400 Parps hqve bii thus far sbapried;''and there are--lists oI In by cominissioners in various pait of time Districtewho, doubt less, iave receIved'laegesscriptions. We are reqiuested to sta.dAlat subAcrip tion lists are now open is this place and tihe (istrit, accoiding, to the caption, of which subscribcres are alqtocd .to' pac up in money, labor, or materials, at their discret ion. Thi, w il' enable , many- to subscribe, who, otherwise, would Llut be able. Speed to the work' we say. SENTENCED TO BE ]U.G.. The Palmetto State Banneaer,'f the 6t'h, mentions that '"the negro, who murdered Dr. Augustis W. Burt, of EdAeietd, on the25th uit., has been con victed and me ntenced to be hung on Phe 9th inst." WILMINGTONMAND MANCHESTER RAIL ROAD. We receivcd the lollowting letter, which we publish entire, just before the issue cif ur lst. number, for insertion in which it came too late. 'WILMINGTON. N. C., Mrch 20. 1647. Editor of "The Sumter Banner":. DEAR sin: As a friend itn the Wilihing ton and Manchester Rail Road, I am truly rejoicedthat the esiterprize has fsundin yot so steady and important an .advocate. . It the imp-ortance and feasibility of the "Con necting Link" were as throughly appre clated by all the gentlemen of'Sumter as by yourselfi there would indeed be no likeli. hood of its failure. If too, we Were sails fled, that the mode and manner in .which all its vast advantages might' be obtained, were as property and eenterally understgod, we might fely calculate on wittessing its comnltetion,. at farthest, in two years. The friends of the road have much rea. son to congratulate themselves upon tle favorale. sympto wlich have arisen since the Mtrion n9ventian. At that time, yetu wvill rememberwith what-anxie ty. the capitalists of your diitricts. favora ble toa connexion with this town. observ edthe effurts made in another quarter for effecting the eam elpo Notwithstand in4the- repesenta tions, which. the dele gates from Wilmington '.wre, charged to make, concerning tili inabilitv fthe friends oft.te Metropolitan Roid to mpcceed with their plan. the gieit delay auid enormous cost of thtu work if effectel. with the a perior advantages oaf tue WVilmington and MnI~,chester Rail 'Road, it could( not but be observede that a state of painful tuncertainty and suspense, concerning the success of hnth, wvould. ultimnately endanger the comn pletieon of either line. I am ngt informnede wthat success the agent of the M~etreop-ditamn Road has nmet in .the No.rthe-rn cities, if inudeed hie has gone thith er; but I believe theat the chief part of the means requisite for its succssfutl comn mencemenat was expected to come'fromn Pe tersburg ini Virnit undI it Is now under-. st.ncad that the. A ct, passed at the last ses sion of the lemgislatuare of North Carolina, to authorize the Priershnraz Coampanty to subscribe toa a connuexion with South Carna linns, was iniendted rm:ainly fear the benefit aft the Italeigh and Fayetteville- connhxion. Yo~eu muicst hmave noaticedl in the Virginia ;aa pers, that, since then, a new notion has takent 'str respectable friends in Virginia. The R..ad from Petersburg to Daniville, promising, as it does, a source of profit and r. venhue so much more abundant, and its erectiaon heinig already, by tihe old of the state. placed beyond any reasonable doubt, the Virgini a friends of the Ml.-tropolitan scheme will psroblably he fouanl,.whseresme other nouns are occasionaaly,-in the voca five. Bust our main dependence is upon the enargy, thme udetermirnation and the enter, p'rise, of the people of WYilnmingtons. Yotn are awvare wvith wvhat spirit, a 'id under what distressing circumstances, they came for. ward antd built thme Road from this ptlace to the Roonokte. They have since irrimeasut rutbly in-.proved and extended all the sprinhis of wve alth. and will act in the present crisis writh tha t liberality and snerificing devotion wihich is expected from them, and whicht zinane will s'ctre-the success of a measure', in which they are dee-ply anal vitally inter estedl. I am positively assured, by gendle inen who knaow these things, that the seni if one hundred and fifty thousand ddllars $150,000..). ahready dhown otn the Book,is >Ut one half of what they are prepared -, ubscribe, before the close of the t9 lays. it So large an amount, frn this smanli nwvu. could not howvever bQ raised withont recnt exertion and the express understanud ng, tat thec second and allfnture ins fat zents are notj to be calledfor beforc *700,. 00., in oll, are subscribed, and the furthecr rovisiongth/at thes subscribersq mayj pay up n money, or labor, or materials, in their Ilimb ng 4giveu nore ideslre r deser iec ei, att idedenation or theo~ VIlchi ton and promi ,ne to dnpo a'nce and ip the in t furptIr District fegitv It inlportant aichas een and 'is~entst~an We egree tiht our #e cunlatf ie'otloin reder-s iteimhs aIm ada sile forj s.i ai measure bi'op scit scriptins.We propose th peer.* to do what we can, bolh.editoaly a d pecurn - Eb PEME 'ook out or iiziadscM !-H says he is The fo Owig hae.bsen -rOtihtto notice, by Mrs,-:3~iry Hagans,i of~ umter District, wife of- the Richard B Higans mentit6ned, Il order that the' pblic nrnaybe 1 cautioned a d I h . of againia amning. ddcu f the. . fund couple to.any other.. than their present disgraceful connexiion. On the-night of the-22d;af aftehl,-icha ard B lagans went off. ani'lefthisivifs and two children: to suffer, and tok ~wh him a woman of loose character pam Pd Ma. ry Johnson. AThl said Hagins is of Mum. ter District, S. C. 'he says he is a.Poirta jede a'e is ofk aomplexionso dark, that I he wouli paRs'for a'slavc; he is aotit 30 or.37 -yeras of-age.- of. stout make, and somn.e wat.-lame t from tihe white swelling; Ars. Johnson is'stout, and orshort stature, with a large mould on her eliek. They have wiLh them a snul girl-about 6 or 7 years of age. Shotild Hagins'and his coni panlou locate within -the circulation of.this paper, this nqtice may be'df sonic use to the public. THE TwENTY .,itiUSAND DoLLaUs. The question has of fate been repe ted ly-asked through the public-printe..**Whit hus becmne of ie twenty shoaiaiaid dollaes approprinted by the State f1r th'e use ofthe Palmetto. Regiment?" The Edg'efiPld Ad. vertiser publishes a letter l'roin one pf th!se olunteers, which give* a deitite answer to the question, and exilherates lho1fiudd, officers;oflihe Regiment from any lame in the prenises-We quote from it so thuch as relates to th'is 69phjet. 1i have otl a word -wida regard to the twenty thousanddollars, given us bgy the Slate. I called on Pt I gentleian this morning. who is acjing ,a .te State Pay. master for that fund,-and who has disiribt ted eve.ry cett of it that i not in his hand at ihi4 tine. H ehd ti kinness to shitIw mne his books and hi* vouchers, so my in. formatino is obliged tob corpecg. Aiotit ten thousAnd frv hIu 1lred were giten. fir our unifor ms, four thiouandu lattvc been del pomsitedl withi A..TI. Butrpl i uson & Co. New Orleanus,: for the benieit of the regi. ment, when needed, more tan seven hun dired are no w ini the possessimn of the Pay mtster, amnd 'the .baan~ has ,been cxpen. dedi for the uscicothe ranimet. 1 am peir naittedl to say by Majo)r Es res. the gentle man with, whsom ther mouney hans. beent en tra)stedi, that if he fails to glde a satisfacto. ry acco.utof any imounit of ithe is able to umanke tcn time. us mouch goodl to tlhe State of Southa Caroliia.'- Chacr. Ee, Nctos. Trhe uni formns foar the Pu~metto Re'giment were manufactcured in New-York. and .des pat~ chied foir Charlestmion c board thle ship Newo-York, whichi vessel havinag lieen wvreaked, they~ bud to be brought in here by other conveyance. I'They swere receiv. ed, howewver, in go~od'condition by Lisacc & AsuE, to witoam they were ccnisigne'd, and by themntrinplipped to New Orleans about the 3d aor 4th cof Marcha on board 'if the schar. Adelaide; and if tlheyiaave not akain been interrauptedh in their. progress, have, in all probability biy-this time reach ed the R~egiment.-Char. Cour. Faonu CaaptonRna.--The New York Sun gives accounats from California to the 18th Januiary. Geni .Kearney hrad arrived withi.200-me~n fromx New Mexico, Uni-j ling other forces with his own, he Immedi. .tely attacked the -toawn of Los Angel'os, and retook it after a stout resistance.,U per alifrni is nowin our, mnidispited posesin.Chr.Eve. Mcwe. - -buena Vista-a good 9.npect--a bau. tiful prospiect-Ye,, ses5 the Onited States Gazettc, a b.:auitiful prospeer, a god prospect, indaee'.', of the Paesidemley, from the plains consecratedm by histk il anii va lor, anad ti.5 bloodu anal life if. t he Pflicirs and me.1 undler hais conmarit.--CkqrCour. Rcire sport.-Our Camade -friends have lada some rare sport. Major'Daniel Baily. and iasse Lanig. Esq.,recently shot a bison anear Dr. Deharoche's phantatilortin Camden County. Hie. was shaot fontr timnea.viih~a rifle at the:edistanen of I50 yurds, andl after considerable trouble,- a'nd,-after- the doga hadi hayed him bat a. swamp, M~jor Bailyy' erept uap withain abiout thirty yardsaf. himt and laid himni utandl the htunteraibote- theIr: trophy in cart totMrs. Nancy Lang'a plani. taition. We. re ret that we have nc4 beena furnuished with ilo weighut of dhis wild or. - . r Rav. 0ho, io~mb w it l he, i DI .'- Wg6l SnTi R'hn -S A Waih alrlteed niil m'icc~jh . liijd ,b myi dinse se as etjee ll py (o Wsantno l iatbbbn oen bu'!*flte hh jjiij#u DR. WIBTRS BASAiLOW~4 We iftIL l ac reglprnatrd' bonmted-po omast bettr nteplsuer 0'-aun a ,urd jjej onn egtnine,.h ilalse intil I BUT -- Iaipn je borles I cn honetlby dtr.' isy bTleft'D-t Wta rugStm 1 almnd Wy'i k-, -Cherry I, -iii 5emi Ware esoalyaquite wihMr bvcl teeo nd k ii th a. v 1 t11 em0. td 411 i Al A IT .,: P t~ Pr 8O4 EsNo.al of thisra - Diste Iotn, Mass., Sepr. j4! 68f..~ Nonel" genielf. iE -fgned 'M. Bti~n~ Caoina." -04 1hi RMv W.l~ II I$nlh M.GU ulot Esq, allof his Distrc:t. 9 .. A . 9- q 1w RO . W ---s-aa. .~; -r" Bi -k * thinurict. 0 - P13ONOMM Ane litrr oti ~ o next ' 1 r.e~ Irllan In .thre721 e-aarr age"'d - 7011Cte Thre t' -.9'i~11 a dwlae tit Anly;at,l iteonit Lie if rp to M;4 cctlnn" n