The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-09-20

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pieces Of strategy Of modern times still when by the ad
vance Of Santa Anna the moment had rpened to gain
the grand results by egning precpate retreat that
retreat was but rapid movement back to the identical
spot you had chosen and to which the Mexican army
was hurriedly drawn with all its fatigue and dsarrsy
consequent upon forced march Of upwards Of forty
miles and where the 22d and 23d OF February Is47
was fought the battle Of Buens Vista The result of
that conflict afforded conclusive evidence of the cor
rectness Of your first remark there four thousand
six hundred and ten Americans contended successfully
This letter, general is but dry detail Of facts but
hope they are set forth with sufficient clearness to
prevent their being misunderstood.
have the honor to be- very respectfully your obedient
servant, JAMES HENRY CARLETON,
Capt u. s. LIST Dragons.
MILITARY MOVEMENTS
From tn. New Orleans Delta Sept. Ill
The United States steamer Telegraph Capt. Wilson,
started yesterday morning from this port Vera Cruz
via Brazos Island She took down the following passen
gers:-Capt. ID Nickes, Quarter Masters Department;
Lieut. Chris. Lilly, and belonging to Captain
Lewis Lewis company Of mounted volunteers Lieut. D. NJ.
win, Brazos Island and Mr. John La Forge clerk Of the
Suffers Department for Brazos Island The Telegraph
stores
-, From the New Orleans Picayune Sept II
The steamer James L. Day leaves the government
wharf at 10 O'Clock this morning for Brasos Santiago
With Quartermastsrs stores and wagons the army
lass of the Sd Infantry for Vera Cruz and Lieut. II
Diokerson of the 4th Infantry, for the Brazos.
AN.OwER TRUE TALE OF THE YELLOW FEVER,
How mysterious is that invisible chain, forged
by nature which in bonds of the purest and strongest
affections, binds parent to child and child to parent!
Distance cannot sever 1t time cannot destroy It's
sion with death only do its links dissolve their
ton OF all the streams through which the social afec-
tions flow, parental love Is the which more imme
diately gushes from the hearts centre-the conduit
through which al affection passes free from all the
truisms and without further indulgence in them we
shall proceed to narrate recent instance in which the
force Of parental love and al affection has been sadly
but strikngly illustrated.
When the last call for volunteers was made on Indiana
Edgar Derwin the first to enrol his among the
active uphoGers of his country's standard. He was
daring intrepid, athletic youth, knowing fear pa
riot by intuition endowed with all ennobing
feelings though manhoods threshold he had not vet
crossed His father fast verging towards fes winter
heard his purpose with silent approval for in truth he
felt secret satisfactory pride at the patriotism so
promptly evinced by his Not his mother. She
looked to him az the prop of her declining years. and
presenmsnt audby whispered to her that he about
to leave her to return She nterposed
to his resolve though the tears that down
furrowed cheeks she embraced blessed him when
leaving too plainly told how acutely painful to her
Young berwn had got no further than Matamoras
WIN his regiment, when he was seized with fit
osickness Being unable to proceed he placed in
the hospital. His regiment marched on. The captain
OF the company to which young Derwn belonged
time in informing his father OF his sons Illness telling
him at the same time he need entertain apprehen.
sons for his life as his recovery might be pronounced
certain. This notwithstan ding that letter
when 1t reached the quiet western home of the sick
young soldier, proved to his fond parents mssive
Derwin prompted by the quick instincts Of parental a
lection concluded that duty to his child lying sick
bed in foreign country-perhaps in grave made by
strange hands, required more of him than unavang
tears He brushed them away and the early rays
the next mornings glded the roof Of his humble log
cabin he departed to seek in Mexico the he much
loved-to succor him if alive and If dead to transport
his corpse where it would mnge with its native
Were he and his stricken wife might In death lay be-
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He speedsd on without mpsdiment till he reached
this city and while here, waiting down
to the Brazos it pleased Providence alict him with
| the yellow fever. From the boarding house where he
staying he sent to the Charity Hospital which
he entered the Wednesday of last week His case"
was severe one; 1t unsettled his reason All the
gnings Of his evered brain had reference to his son At
time he witnessed him in battle doing mighty
daring and he cheered him on. At another time he
saw him manacled captive In prison dungeon, and
he would offer large sum for his ransom Again he
would call on the Mexcans not to desecrate his grave
Skful medical aid and the watchful nursing of the
Sisters Of Charity, carried him through the most vo-
lent stage Of the disease II they did not snatch him
from deaths door, they at least prevented him from
stepping over It, Thus he his restored him
self lingering the confines Of eternity were when
about noon on Monday, emaciated youth carried
Into the same ward and placed in the bed beside him
His glazed eye gszed on the young emacated patient
with intense anxiety He trem bingy looked and
till it might be said that he had well nigh looked his
life away He sprang from his bed with convulsive
grasp he clutched the small paper label which the
had Just placed at the beds head of The rscenty ar
rived young patient, opening it in his tremulous hand
/ he read
Edgar Derwin, jun'r Indiana"
envy Son - he said, and more did he say for as he
uttered the phrase he fell and expired Young Derwin
who account Of his sickness had been discharged
his return home when he too was taken by the
epidemic and hence the painfully singular coincidence
Of this meeting between father and son. and its tragic
termination. Hesoon, though not Immediately, recog-
nized his father The much his already
shattered constitution, before the bell of the cathedral
though not at their homestead in Indiana, sleep where
the mournfu cypress and the death bu thened north
wind chant the last requiem DER the strangers grave
Nsw Orleans Delta, Sept IL.