Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1847-08-26
ARRIVAL OF THE
TEAMsHIP NEW ORLEANS,
LATER FROM VERA CRUZ AND ThMpIc0.

' Via Ntul tbc [stAibS VI thS Va iish, ~"-
from Tampico the evening ofthe 10th.
DR.. Hawkins. Of Baltimore. died ofyellow
fever at Tampico on me 7tb inst. Ills corpse
was brought 10 New Orleans on board the New
Orleans
The New Orleans brings mails from Vera
Cruz and TampIeo. We regret to learn that
the Tampico mail was stolen at an early hour
yesterday morning and riled Of a portion Of
its contents. Some Of the letters were subse-
quently recovered, though the rogue snppos-
ed he had disposed Of them BY casting them
into a water closet. In the mail was a letter
addressed 10 William Swift, Esq, from the
contents OF which il would appear that three
U. 5. treasury notes, numbered 32i, 1922 and
323, for $500 each, have been absiraeted.-
They were dated Oct 81, 1876. II is suppo-
SEQ that other valuable letters have been stolen.
Capt. Whites company Of the Sd Louisi-
ana battalion received orders at Vera Cruz 20
embark on board the New Orleans and pro-
coed to Tanpieo. They did so at once, and
reached their destination on the 4th inst. The
Tampco Sentinel says they mustered one
hundred men rank and file.
A train left the evening of the 9th inst. for
the army above under the command Of Col.
Wilson, of the 9Th Infantry. The train was
escorted by about 1000 men. Some aeeonEis
set down the number of troops in this train at
from 1910 TO 2UUO; our own correspondent
says one thousand. Verbal reports say that
Col. Wilson was taken suddenly III and could
not proceed, and that the command devolved
upon another officer whose name is not recol-
lec,ed. Our letters say nothing of this. [Tbe
Bulletin says Major LELEY.
Nothing later has been received by this arri-
val from the army at Pueba Various ru-
mors had reached Vera Cruz, purpor,ing to be
from Mexico. One OF these is 10 the effect
that Commissioners had actually been ap-
pointed by Santa Anna 10 meet Mr.. Trst.-
Our correspondent at Vera Cruz, writing on
The 9TH nst., attaches Importance to this ru-
NOR. We may recur TO il.
A courier from Jalapa arrived at Vera Cruz
on the 9Th instant, and by this we have receiv-
ed the Bullet n Ga Mexican paper published at
Jalapa) Of Inc lst and Sd Of August. The let
ters received by this mail give no later news
from Mexico or Puebla, but some further de-
tails.
We have received by this arrival copy oil
the Tampico Sentinel Of the 9Th inst. That
paper sums up the state OF affairs in that city
thus:
We have not been attacked, we are not all
prisoners, nor is the yellow fever carving
death and destruction into the dwelling place
OF our inhabitants; but, on the contrary, we
are in the enjoyment of reasonable share OF
that precious boon, health; there being no ep-
ldemic amongst US, and wha. few cases of
sickness really do exist, are of mild charac-
ter and readily give way TO medical treatment.
AS TO our beng attacked, we hope we may be,
but the prospect looks dull at the present wri-
ting
We have received no letters from Tamplco
by this arrival.
The New Orleans Bulletin of the 18th inst,
says:
A postscript 10 letter received from an Of
fcer Of the army at Vera Cruz, says: 1--WE
have indirect news from Gen ScoTT-the as
peci is pacific" No further details or ex-
PLANTATION as to The channel by which it was
received, or the exact tenor ofthe news.
Various reports Were in circulation in Vera
Cruz, but little credence attached to any of
them.
One of the reports, to which some faith was
given, was that the enemy had blown up the
w tSt Gnu Vi tue lNdllOUdl DTluIP.
4 Vera Cruz letter in the New Orleans
Times, written on the evening of the 9TH in.
slant, says
The steamer Mississippi will sail for Pensa-
cola in few days, and probably from that
place for the North. There is much sickness
on board, and many cases of Yellow Fever.
The vomito in this city seems to have taken
a lull, very few cases having occurred for the
past seven days. During the fifteen DAYS pre-
vious TO the LIST instant 81 Americans died, a.
bout half with the vomito. | think the first
half Of this month will give smaller number,
but the first rain will probably make up the
amount TO an average.
An officer has Just come in from the train
of Maj. Leley, and reports the greater part of
the wagons broke down, the end Of the train
only one mile from camp.
The receipts at the Custom House at Tam
pico, foy the months of May and June, were
$4,000, the cost of collection being only a few
hundred dollars.
We find the following letter in the New Or
leans Delta, lated
TAMPico, Aug Q, lS47.
Eds. Delta--Dr. Hawkins, Senior Surgeon
and Medical Director of this post. died on the
evening Of the 9TH inst. after an illness of sew
eral days. For two or three DAYS before his
death he was supposed to be entirely out of
danger, and on the morning Of the 7th he was
so far recovered that he left his room, and
breakiasted quite heartily with Judge Capers.
On the afternoon of the same day he suffered
a severe relapse, and died in few minutes
after.
Asst Surgeon Weir, who attended DR..
Hawkins, assures me that his case was moth.
ing more than ordinary inflammation Of the
brain, together with general debility of the
system, and | am positively assured that not a
single case of Yellow Fever has occurred in
this city since it has been occupied by our
troops. DIR. Hawkins body has been put in
to eaden coffin, and will be sent to his fami-
ly in Baltimore.
1t is now ascertaned that Lieut.. Taneyhill
is alive and fast recovering. He yet at Tan
tayuca, in charge of the Acalde's brother. and
received every kindness which the warmest
hospitality can afford
Yesterday another of Maj, Gaines party ar.
rived here. He escaped from the MexcanS
somewhere near the city of Mexico, and has
been several weeks in reaching this place
He was one Of the first escaped. AS have
not seen him, can give you no particulars.
FROM THE BRAzos.
The U. S. transport schooner Belle, Capt.
Morgan, arrived at New Orleans on the 18th
INST from BraZos Santiaoo havinc, sailed