The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1847-01-07
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From HE ". q. PicGypne, Dec. %.
LATE FROM TIE SQUADRON.
Total wreck Of the Flrig soucrs.
Great loss Of Life

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Total wreck OF the Firig soners.
Great loss Of Lfet
+ BY the arrival yesterday morning, Of tho
bark Morgan Dix, Capt. Hamilton, se have
received dacs from tie squadron al Acton
L.zardo 10 The afternoon Of Sunday, the 10 h
inst. The full particulars Of the melancho.
y loss Of the L. 5. brig Slmefs will lie
found below.
/ Among the passengers on board tue Nor.
gan DIX were purser l.. Warrington, Jr,
OF the Mississippi steam lrigate, with his
clerk, l.. llu ch,usou-boih On their way
to the North.
By tins arrival we learn that three men,
saved from one Of the prize sehoopers re-
Gently wrecked, have been sent as prison.
ers to Pecoic, FIVE on, Of SIX persons,
who were on board the prize brig Furnanto
when she was wrecked, were lost. Il NAV
be recollectcd that three vessels went adrIft
al the time: the prize sleamer-we believe
II wns the Tabasquna- never been
heard Of, aud those ON board were doubtless
lost.
The recon, intelligence from Tabasco il
20 the effect that the inhabitants Of that
State are much disguised with the neclec,
Of the Supreme Government OF Mexico IN
10, aiding them.
From the CITY Of Mexico, not receiving
any papers by this arrival, our intelligence
is meagre aud unsatisfactory. An opinion
prevailed IN The squadron, however, found
ed probably upon flying reports and rumots,
that a quorum Of the new Mexican Con.
gress could not be got together al the lime
appointed for It's opening, the OH Decem.
ben
The Morgan DIX made her passage from
New York to Anton Lizardo in fourteen
dayf-eleyen from Cape Hate as. Whea
she sailed there we're lying at Anton LIZ.
ardothe following merchant vessels: Briggs
Ooecn, Chncmila and Garnet, loaded with
coal, bud the brig Abrasia, which had ar
rived 10 eight days from Pensacola, with
provisions aud stores for the squadron
C,p, Hamilton brought Up letter bag
from the squadron.
At IL O'Clock, on the l3h inst, Com.
Conner arrived at Anton Lizardo from
1nmpicu in the steamer Princeton. La the
afternoon his broad pennant was changed to
ihe Raritau, The Potomac frigate came
IN the same evening aud anchored under
Green lslaud-Md Verde, as il is called
by the Mcxlcans. When the Morgan Dix
sailed from Anton Llzardo, the following
T.. S. men of war were lying near that
place; Frigales Raritan and Potomac
steamers Mississippi. Princeton, Vixen and
PeIrlta store ship Relief; aud schooners
Bonita aud Petrol. The u. S. schooner
Morris formerly the Laura Virginia
had sailed Tor tabasco with provisions, &c,
lor the cutter McLane. The John Adams
was blockadrng Vera Ctuz in place Of the
Somers.
! The officers ofthe merchant vessels speak
10 warm terms of tho pronptness and vigi.
lance Of Com. Perry, who protected them
by rowing guard found their vessels at
night when attacks by Mexican boats were
anticipated. Dunng the night on which
the Creole was burned by the expedition
from the |. s. brig Somers, party of l6
/ Mexicans, under command oil Capt. Alsmea.
visited a small island called Salmesa, place
used as a deposit Of coal for the u. S. squad.
IOu, WNeIc AuSS louud Il thail udiiltu uu 70
ply, generally known as Gov. Murphy, who
has family in this city. The Mexcans
compelled him TO inform them of the pre-
else situation and condition of the Amer
can vessels, threatening him with DEATH
Murphy recognized among the party
Mexican named Flores, with whom he was
acquainted, and impIored him TO save his
HE, which he did. After being informed OF
the situation of the Morgan DIX, which was
loaded with coal, they started with the IN
,en,ion of attacking her, but we're prevented
by seeing light on deck. 1t afterwards
nnDeated that the cook had at that moment
cone out Of the cabin with light to per-
form some duty on deck, and the Mexicans
were fearful that they would be repulsed.
Passed MIdshipman Rogers, Of the Som.
ers, was taken prisoner while in most dar-
ing manner making a reconnaissance in the
no,ghborhood Of the magaz ne at Vera
Cruz, a few days before his vessel was lost.
We hasten to give the following full ac-
count OF the loss of the Somers, furnished
Us by one of our attentive correspondents,
together with other letters giving addition"
/ al details of the melancholy calamity
u. S. SauApRoN, anton Lizardo Dec 9, 1876.
Gentlemen-l have been requested to
make statement of the circumstances at
, tending the melancholy loss of the u. 8.
brig Somers, while maintaining the block