The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-06-16

Col. Hunt, and 1t is understood that the
steamer New Orleans, to sail on the 3lst,
would bring the principle mails. She is
looked for every hour.
Verbally we learn the Mcxicans were
busy fortifying the Pass at Rio F'rio, be-
tween Pucbla and the city Of Mexico.
General Scott, with the rear of the army,
was to have left Jalapa on the 29,h ult.,
and would arrive at Pucbla on the 4th inst.
where it Is presumed he will await the
arrival Of the rciniorcemcnts being for
wardcd to him, before he advnces farther.
We have heard IL rumor that Herrera
has been elected President but cannot trace
it TO Il reliable source, and we think the re-
suit of the election could scarcely be known
at the capital SO soon.
From the American Eagle VIC learn that
the diligence which left Vera Cruz for Jala
pa on the 22,l ult. without passengers, but
with three trunks filled with very fine dry
goods was stopped two miles beyond the
National Bridge and robbed, and then burnt
and destroyed The driver and postillion
who accompanied it were released and
made their way to Jalapa. The diligence
which should have come into Vera Cruz
on the 24!h ult., only came down to where
the other had been destroyed and at once
returned This, it is feared, will be an end
TO the use Of diiigemcies on the road The
robbery was no doubt the work Of Mexican
banditli. We now come to Il more afro
cious act by the same ruflians. We copy
the facts from the Eagle of the goth uIt
HloRHlD.-It is with pain mingled with
desire for vengeance that VIC undertake
to relate another massacre of our coontry-
men in the most cruel and brutal manner.
In our paper OF last Saturday. only one
week ago, VIC announced the fact that Col
Sewers was in this city as bearer of de-
spaches to Gen. Scott, and to-day we are
called upon to inform the public Of his hor-
rid death--not with his enemy in front to
oppose him, but cowardly shot by those who
dared not show themselves.
1t appears that he left this city on Satur-
day last with an escolt Of five men and
Lieut. M'Donnc!l Of Captain Whea,'s COM
pany, expecting to find the captain at Santa
Fe: or at most a very short distance the
other side They arrived at Santa Fe and
lodged there during the night, finding that
Captain Wheat had left, in the morning,
anxious to push forward although it was
asccrtaincd that w. was some thirty miles
ahead) with an addition Of two more to the
escort Col Sewers set out for Jalapa. The
next that we know Of this little party is by
the arrival of one Of the men, who returned
and reported its surprise and destruction.
In consequence Of the f;llsity Of the great
number Of similar stories, Col. Wilson, our
Governor, had the man arrested as deser-
ter. Thus matters stood until yesterday,
| when devclopements were made by an ar
rival from Jaapa-the first that has reached
us for a wcck-tendng to confirm our
worst fears
We convcrsed yesterday with gentleman
who arrived in the morning, and he Informs
Us that at a point about two miles on the
other side of Pucntc NacionaL, he saw the
ruins of the diligence, uderneath which was
a human body stripped, with the exception
of a pair of drawers, and mutilated in the
most beaslly manner This is supposed 10
be the body of Col. Sewers. Near him lay
another perfectly naked and likewise
drcadfully manglcd. Our informant was
assured that five other bodies lay in some
thick chaparral short distance from the
road Now the number Of killed, with the
man who escaped, exactly corresponds with
that of the party which accompanied the un
fortunate COl, OOWSIs, anu leaNeS llO uouI'
in our mind of its destruction.
Our readers will recoIlccta party Of Mex,
ican robbers recently captured near Vera
Cruz by party Of amateurs under Colonel
Banks. Ten of them have been tried fol
robbing, secre1ng arms and,ammuntion &c
Five have been acquitted and five convicted
The latter were sentenced to four and a hal
months work upon the public streets and
thoroughfares in chains. Two more yet re-
main to be tried. We hope this example
may be salutary.
The Eagle informs us that on the 2sth
party Of six Mcxicans, coming into Vera
Cruz from Santa Fe, were attacked by
some Of their own countrymen and robbed
of all they had about them.
The Eagle gives some details of Com
Perry's expedition to the south, but nothing
particularly new. The Commodore arrived
at Vera Cruz on the Oath ult
The StOrming Of the CerrO GOrdO.