Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1846-09-22
Brom Tern CFnz.

BY the arrival ofihc cutter Legare at
New Orleans, the Picayune publishes an
extract of a letter, dated Very Cruz,
Aug. %:
''Santa Anna arrived here on the 10Th
inst, from Havana, in the English mer-
chant steamer Arab, accompanied by his
lady and friend Gen. Almonte. He was
well received on his landing at Vera Cruz,
but our accounts sayaot very enthusias
tically. He has gone to Mexico.
"Througa the English sqladron sta
toned here, we were informed some time.
sieneethat Commodore Sloat, commando
ing the United States naval forces in the
Pacific, had taken possession of Califor.
MIA. This is what might have been ex-
Pected.
81 regret TO inform you of the loss of
the beautiful U. s. brig Truxton, byeall
accounts the best vessel Of her class in
our service, Capt. e. w. Carpenter
The Truxton sailed from here in the.
early part Of this mouth, for Tampico.
On the I4th, while standing into The llar.
Dor Of Tuspan, 100 miles north Of Vera
Cruz, small Mexican coasting vessel
was discovered, and soon after made a
prize Of Carpenter engaged the Captain
Of this vessel to pilot him INFO safe an
chorage, but ia doing so, ran the 1'ruxton
on a reef, where she was soon In a very.
pepilous situation. Capt Carpenter then
despatched Lieut.. Berrymen TO the sqnad,
rom, for the assistance Of steamer. The
boat in which this officer left, was. after
four days hard polling, picked up by the
st. Mary's, off Vera Cruz. As soon sa
our Commodore was informed of the fact,
he sent the Princeton to Tuspan
"While the brig was on the reef, after
the departure ofMr. Bergman, two Mex
lean coas:ing vessels appeared in the
ofing, these were captured by boats
crew, in charge of Bushrod Hunter, but
this gentleman was unable from the VIC.
lence of the gale blowing at the lime to
reach the wreck with his prizes, and was
therefore compelled to make for this place,
where he arrived several days ago. On
the arrival of the Princeton at the wreck
ofthe Truxton, she was Abandoned, and
she had been stripped of all light ar.
ticles by the Mexicans. A flag of truce
was sent on shore from the Princeton, by
whom il WAS ascertained that Capt. Car.
pender, his officers and crew were with
him, landed at Tuspan on the 18th, and
were very Hospitality received by the in.
hObi.ants.
"On the 19th they started on foot Cor
Tampico, intending to offer themselves as
prisoners of war. Since then we have
no further accounts of them. On the
return of the flag oftruce to the Princeton,
the commander ofthe vessel, fading there
was no possibility of saving the Truxton,
set her on Ere, and she Ind burnt TO the
waters edge when the Princeton took her
departure.
MELANCHOLY DIsAsTER.--Ennlan
finds as much difficulty in slowing away
her ''food for the cannon's mouth, in their
transportation from one slaughter. ground
TO another, as the slave-t traders do in
bringing theirvictims to the slave. mar
ket. The Maria Sornes recently left
Ceylon with cargo Of troops, and en-
countering a gale in her passage, the.
officers were obliged, "for the safety of
the men and their families, 70 order them
below" where they were kept under
matches, it was discovered that seven
men, one woman and five children had
died from sufocdtion. Had such dis.
aster occurred on board an American
ship, Il would hare been regarded as a
most brutal affair Western Co,,t;ne,,g