Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1846-12-04
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| 'ha' ne played us false. The pilot gave
warning of The danger in season, and The
vessel went ashore in going about.
hat we should have escaped from this
enterprise without, any loss appears almo,,
miraculous, so ,hickly few the shot. II
struck all around The boats. i, ricocheued
over them, and one sho, struck an oar
blade. Had grape-sho, been thrown, We
should undoubtedly have had a lamen,able
loss.
1he attack was a subject Of remark
among Me officers of the foreign vessels
on that station. So far as is known. thew
LOOK upon the issue as unfortunate, but as
IN no way disgraceful to our arms. They
fully appreciated the difficulties which we
had TO encounter. and were no, surprised
by the result. l, is idle to deny, howev-
er, that the resul! will disappoin, the coan-
Try and we might be ready TO join in LAM
eh'Stions over il, were we not assured tina,
The Commodore by no means despairs Of
succeeding in bis purpose, r,ul,iiarious as
are the difficulties he will have TO encour-
yer. we have reason to presume that
Commodore Conner would a, once have
proceeded to organize the plan of another
attack upon Alvarado had no. he deemed
II proper to despatch the expedition a.
gain's Tabasco on the day after his repulsc.
by which movemen, he has given another
opportunity to his officers, chafed and NOR
'lhed 10 wipe on, the remembrance of their
reccn! misfortune, at the same time being
generous enough 10 allow his second in
command (Com. Perry) to achieve some.
thing upon field where i, was no, noin,
OF honor with himself 10 take the command
IN person. Upon the rabasco expedition
Com, Perry has taken with him abou. 400
officers and men from the Cumberland and
Raritan as aux'iares. With this expedi-
ton have gone. too, Amos. all the marines
IN the squadron. The Commodore has
done everything TO insure lis success.
We are sorry for our friend Howard Of
the McLane. His vessel is quite too slow
Tor him, and is no. worth the powder j,
would take TO blow her TO pieces. In 90.
Ing down to Tabasco the Mississippi, with
three .chooners in tow, had to lay to, to
enable The McLane TO come up, and final.
Capt. Howard had opportunity TO show
his stomach for fight, and retired with
unspeahab!e reluctance agreeable TO OF
ders.
We have some notices Of the state of the
defences of San Juan de Ulloa. There is
nothing very new about them. but they
confirm all that we have before said Of the
almost impregnable strength of.hat second
GIbara.,er There are 204 guns mounted.
Of o,l.hro on1 e. oc
800 artlleris,s, principally French. has re-
Gently been added TO the garrison. Speak
ing Of the strength Of the fortress, the Eng
lish commanding officer on that station re-
| Gently remarked that England and the
United States together had not ships e.
nough anoa! 10 take it.
We have an anecdo,e 10 regard 10 the
bark Coosa not without interest. Az the
Coosa was lying off Anton Lizardo boat
from her, manned by sailors from the
squadron. was caugh! by sudden change
of wind and blown ashore. The sailors
succeeded in passing themselves off as tho
crew of the bark. and they communicated
with the consignee of the vessel.
He proceeded in consequence 10 write
a letter to be forwarded by them to tho
| captain of the bark, and was IN the &C! Of
delivering it to them when some one gave
him hint that they were men-of-war's
men. He sen, Immediately off for guard
to apprehend them threatening to have
their throa,s cut in six hours; bu! before
the I.ancers arrived, WHICH was quito
speedily, the wind lulled and another boat
was sen. off by the Commodore and took
the sailors on board The boat in which
they were cas-. ashore was burned by the
! Mexcans.