The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-08-07
From the New Orleans National
Highly Interesting from vera Cruz.
CAMP, THREE MILES from VERA CRUz,l
Mexico July 18th, l847.

CAMP, THREE MILES FROM VERA CRuz,(
Mexico July 18th, l847.
DEAR S1R:-The next train that goes out
caves here tomorrow, under command of
Brig. Gen. Pierce, and escorted by about $500
troops, and W companies Of artillery. The
Train of wagons have been already placed in
order along the road with their respective teams
attached to them. The freight they will car
ry out is principally-in fact l might say entire
ly ammunition-the soldiers not being allow
ed baggage wagons sufficient to carry out
their camp equipage.
There is much sickness in camp and eontin-
ues to be on the increase, filling the hospitals
both in camp and at Vera Cruz overlooking full.
In the New Orleans Company of Dragons
Capt. Duperu's) alone out Of 65 men rs be-
ing detailed to 60 out with the train under
Gen. PillowO there are 81 reported sick and
unable to 90 out with the train that leaves for
Gen. Scott's army tomorrow.
We anticipate much delay and trouble on
the road as the mules and mustangs, to be em-
ployed are utterly unfit for the use intended
to be made of %them-they are wild just caught
out of the p~rairies of the interior,-(but lit
tie larger than a than a good size sheep)-in-
tractable in their disposition, and numbers
of them literally skinned and horribly bruised
by the rough usage resorted to in training them
to submit to gear. Whilst on this subject ]
will inform you that were you here, you would
really admit, as l do, that the enormities OF
largo number Of teamsters towards these poo.
brutes, should be chastised severely for thel
unfeeling and .inhuman barbarities. Hun
dreds upon hundreds Of them have been actu
ally killed or horribly bruised up, that the
will never be of any use again, by these ba
barous T%ascals, when, if a more mild and hi
name course had been adopted these ANNA
| would have been of some value to government
They cost originally on an average, about S;
: a head, besides other expenses OF keeplni
feeding and training Of them would amour
: to something like $40 head. This is not q
: "a large class of these teamsters are total
t unfit for the employment they are egaged IN
: Of an abandoned character-lazy trAiing go'
o for. nothing, untrustworthy scamps, the ey
y Of the wagon masters have to be constant
on them to get them to attend to their dutl
and many Of thu. latter are as poor excuses
le as the teamsters, and should be discharged
they care not an iota for any thing under he'
a- ems but their pay from government, and to W.
'e as little as possible with the least inconve
g ence to their sluggish selves. To look at tn
n in their daily routine of service they positive
appear to be laboriag hard TO see hoU little II
le can do! The abuses in this branch of the 8
ID vice, are manifold, and call loudly for ameT
le ment and reform.
Nearly all the losses which the Governmt
h. has sustained in the recent train going out
is- the army from this place, have been occasl
IT. ed by the ineficiency Of the teams emplo.
he and the careIessncss, duplicity and ignora
en- Of MANY of the teamsters, who have in cha
di their management-for the truth, is they
RS adventurous foreigners-just from Europe
lld the interior of Mexico, not speaking or un'
Gle standing a word of our language, and ms
wv know nothing more of running a wagon t
trJ The man in the moon. 1t is not untrequeI
wi the case, that those fellows will, finding
xe- ewes of their superiors turned from them, a
the don their teams in any place they may
wn been halted,s sneak off to some shade, go to 81
the and let them become tangled and twl
as in their gear, when wagons are upset, toni
pre- broken, and damages otherwise are don't
that they are abandoned to be blundere'
the Mexicans and destroyed.
Dr.. Let an alarm be given, that Mexicans al
II Of be seen, there is no managing them-they
cent as FESTIVE as SO many scared turkeys-old
nty, en- himself could not keep them to their p
ex posts-let a gun be fred along the road,
ohm lump from their teams, and take to the
d on parel, where it is as hard to get them out,
inn il to smoke a hare from a hollow tree.
The these causes alone, the high way from
n OF Cruz, as far out as Jalapa is literally bal
state ded on both sides off with something OF
are thing that goes to make up the sum to'
OF an invading army.
ages Your establishment would be great, IN
back could you see the sad havoc that has been
been in Uncle Sans supplies-sugar, Coffee D
ened bread, -four, salt, corn, oats, medicine g
hospital stores, wagons, tents, tent-Poles'
the writing apparatus, in fact, something OF
Ontai everything, Reform and amendment II
ically needed and if something is not &c
reads remedy its recurrence, the old gent
bone will suffer in his pocket terribly, when
zones 10 foot the bill. Let me remark that
VS. not the case with all the teamsiers-oth
cross them are trustworthy, industrious men,
, are have seen them frequently perfOrmin
ch is double capacity Of teamster and soldier,
GEN. TAYLOR AND THE P~REss.-some
sit to democratic friends are in extacies abo'
o ex- @clawing Off of some Of the whlg
lie from the enthusiastic support Of Gen' l