The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-08-18

been tried and sentenced to be shot.
Yours, &c, G. W.. X.
PUEBLA, Mexico, June %, l947.
Arrests continue, and the way thew are
going on now every carcel will soon be full.
Duran, a Judge of one of the courts here,
was arrested yesterday for contumacious
conduct and neglect of duty. He will be
kept in prison until he has apologised for
what he has already done, and promises to
behave better in future. A noted captain
of gucrrillas, named Villas, has also been
captured, and is now safe under guard
He was caught acting the spy. On tho
roads the gucrriIlas harm their own people
infinitely more than they do ours, and the
entirely alone. | have previously stated
that some of the Mexican papers are loud
in their complaints against the system.
A foreigner arrived here last night with
dates from the capital up to the Goth inst.
tlereports verbally that there are fewtroops
Oil the road, and that although the fort6ca-
tions are still going on they have taken up
but one bridge on the main route. Santa
Anna was expecting from some point on the
Pacific no less than 10000 ;nuskets-a
most important thing if he obtains them.
PUEBLA, Mexico, June 27, 1847.
A court of inquiry, called by General
Worth, has been in session for day or two.
1t seems that General Scott has in some
way expressed himself dissatisfied with the
capitulation entered into with the Poblanos
by Gen. w. but also with some of the acts
ofthc latter while in command of the city.
General Worth promptly called for an in
vcstl9ation and | trust that all NAV be sat-
isfactorily settled.
Imust give you rumor. 1t is said that
Canulizo himself was in Puebla last night.
in disguise of course and that he went out
this morning in the direction of Amosoque
and Napalubo. 1t is further said that he
sent force Of some considerable amount
by road North of this place, which he is
to overtake, and then, after joining Alvarez
at some given point, is to attack the upward
train at the first favorable place that offers.
, This story is told with plausibility and
sincerity that would give it credit in anv
other country, but here one knows not what
10 believe.
p. S.-Mr. Thornton, the gentleman at
tached to the British legation at Mexico,
and who was here on Sunday, started back
on the same afternoon. believe he called
on Gen. Scott, as we'll as Mr.. Trist, but the
| result OF either interview is most profound
mystery to the mass Of nquisilive Yankees
now q',artered in Puebla. I would wager
a good dinner-a thing, by the way, YOU
cannot get herc-that his visits have some
thing TO do with peace, and that Santa Anna
is privy to the whole matter. That they
will amount to anything, is entirely dias-
rent matter. All accounts agree that tho
greatest discord exists at the capital, that a
pron~nciamento is daily expected, and that
there is no unanimity in the councils of the
nation. Any one who reflects can we'll
hazard the conjecture that Santa Anna,
while holding out war to the more bellige-
rent, may still be so working his cards as to
induce some one in Congress, or elsewhere,
to open the question of peace, and then 20
over himself if there is the least chance of
success. This is mere speculation, but it
would be like the :'Hero of Tampico,n ut
all events. By all this you must not un-
derstand that think the war is over.
PUEBLA, Mexico, July IA.
This morning I was enabled, through
the exertions ola Spanish priest, to obtain
look at file of Mexican papers up to the
l1th inst. hastily give you synopsis Of
such items as may be of the least moment,
promising that the papers contain little mat
ter Of interest.
Jose Ramon Pacheco has been appoin-
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