Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1847-03-24
Army Movement.
PLAN OF ATTACK UPON VERA CRUZ.


PLAN OF ATTACK UPON VERA CRUZ.
The Courier publishes the letter which will
be found below from the seat of war. Its inn
portance will be appreciated in view of the in
Introductory statements of the writer, viz:-
IL have the following information from Gene
raj SCOTS own lips, who being welltsatisfed
that Santa Anna is well advised of his intended
attack upon Vera Cruz, the amount of his dis.
possible force, &c. sc. no longer hesitates To
speak of his intentions. He has not received
the support from the government to which he
was entitled and which was promised him: but
crippled as he is in men and transportation, he
will unquestionebly give good account of HIM
self"
POINT ISABEL, FEB. IA, 1s47.
The General (Scott) is waiting most anxious
sly for transports and ordnance stores from
New Orleans to move at once down to the
Gulf coast. General Worth, with two thous-
and regulars, is also here, and the movement
is to take piece as follows:
AS soon as the transports gethere-and they
are hourly expected-the troops are to embark
for Tampico; they will be joined by Generals
Patterson, Twigs, Shields and Pillow, with a
bout 5000 more; all then sail for the Island OF
Labos, 60 miles south of Tampico, where they
will find part of volunteers lately called out.
The whole force will then number about $4,000
perhaps 1900 and there the Generals will or
ganize the command, and then sail for Antonio
Lizardo, where he will find our fleet 1t will escort
him to the Island of SACRIFICES, about five miles
from VeraCruz, and abouf{ three and half from
the main land. He win disembark the army
at this island, and under cover of the guns of
the Navy, will land the troops, or rather trans
port them IN surf boats to the main shore
Here he expects to meet Santa Anna with all
the troops he can muster, say 10000 to 10000
and with the well-appointed but small number
of $4,000 men, he means to ichip the 10000
Mexicansl then capture the city of Vera Cruz,
the Navy, of course, cooperating in the attack
upon the Castle.
The Courier intimates, what seems likely
emo Ugh to be true, that General Scott has been
urged forward in this responsible campaign by
promises of nearly double the number of troops
with which he has been furnished. 1t has been
whispered, says the same journal, in certain
circles at Washington and elsewhere, that the
Administration have been calculating upon
SCOTS being defeated, and that to insure such
a result, the ten Regiments have been design
edly withheld from him! Whether this accu-
sation be we'll founded or not, no one can doubt
that the enterprise undertaken by Gen. Scott
is one of great hazard. He may succeed with
a comparatively small force in taking the CITY
and the Castle, and he may De defeated for
want of the men whom the administration a.
greed to furnish. The result will be looked
for with deep anxiety.-Tribune.
An UnaccOumtable Phenomenon.
PENSACOLA, FEBRuARY, % Al
On Thursday last week, (the lSth) at half
A o'clock P. NJ, was distinctly heard by sc,e-
raj persons here violent explosion, like that
produced by the firing of large guns or the
blasting of rocks. This was instantly follow
ed by whizzing noise, like that of cannon ball
passing through the air, but much more pro-
longed; this was succeeded again by what might
have passed for the report of half a dozen OF
OF musket', fired in very quick succession.-
What made these unusual sounds seem the
more wonderful was. that they came from the
northeast, direction in which there is scarcely
cannon short of New York, or ledge of rocks
short of the Aleghanies. On Saturday intelli-
gencc was brought here that at the same time
above mentioned Thursday. AZ P. M. the
same sounds were heard in Mobile Bay, sixty
miles west of US; that the sounds were accom-
panied by the sight of a large meteor, and the
meteor were at the notheast from that point:-
thus showing that the phenomenon, whatever
it was, was hundreds of miles away. Where
and what was itl-Gasetfe.