The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-11-20
FFom he Nav Orleans Rioayvne.
Later from vera Cruz.

Later from Vera Cruzs
The steamship James L. Day, Capt. Wood,
arrived last evening from Vera Cruz, having
left there the evening Of the 9Th inst. She
stopped at the Brazos but did not communi-
cate with the shores. sa .sF n
Among the passengers on the Day, were
Major I~turbide, prisoner Of war, and Lieut..
Sears, I'd, Artillery, bearer Of dispatches to
Washington. E9ayu
The news brought by the Canton is entire
ly confirmed. Gen. Sc1tt's dispatches left
Mexico between the 18th AMI 18th Of October,
escorted by a spy company Of Mexican l%ancers'
100 strong, under command Of Col. Dominguez
The company left Puebla the evening of the 10,
and were attacked the same night by a strong
force under Gen. TOrrejon. Shottly after they
were attacked by Col. Vamos. In the two en-
gugemen,s they lost fifteen of their numbef,
but suppose they killed at least ten times that
number. They returned to Puebla,a nd Gen.
Lane placed the dispatches in the hands OF his
%adjutant general, Lieut., Sears, who. came down
with his Mexican escort to Vera Cruz, but &C.
companied as far as Plan del Rio by the lst
Pennsylvania Regiment, under Col Wynkoop,
Capt. Loyall's Georgia mounted men, and three
companies Of artillery. The American por.
ton Of the escort halted at Plan del Rio, and
were TO return with Gen. Patterson. Lieut..
Sears reached Vera Cruz in the night Of the
9TH inst. accompanied by Capt. George Tay-
Tor, Cd ARTILLERY, Lieut. Lear, 9TH Infantry, and
Lieut.. Hills, let Pennsylvania Regiment, on
their way home on fnrlough. Lieut. Hender-
son, louisiana Volunteers, came down to Join
his company. About eighty discharged sol
diers also cam down.
The Mexican spy company is described as
a rough looking set Of men, They fight with
ropes round their neck, as the saying is, aut
therefore fight CALAMITY. Col. Dominguez il
} thought to know the road intimately from long
experience upon the line in different capacity
|. We understand that we have altogether abouI
$50 of this description Of force in our pay
E OF the detachment which came down with Ii
' Sears, one Of the officers lost an arm by the
way and two others were severely wounded -
An American discharged soldier, who came
with them, toldO ~ correspondent that they
y fought most calamity.
9 Gen Lane remains at Puebla, retaining all
9 the command he took up with him. A circular
8 order from Gen. Scott directs a garrison
of $50 men to be stationed at the National
Bridge, 1900 ~atJalapa and 1000 at Puebla-the
last two points under command of general off.
] GERS. Gen. Gushing has been assigned by Gen
Patterson to the command of Jalapu General
. Patterson had reached the National Bridg,
onthe morning ofthe 4th inst. with all his force
having been entirely unmOlested upon tn,
! route, y
Gen. Lane's command is quartered in tn
heart of Puebla, the Gen. occupying the Pal
] ace. 3t
Santa Anna was at Tehuacan on the 26t
: ult, He had given up the idea Of going t
Orzaba, as he had proposed.
, The guerrillus are quarrelling among then
: selves. The Rainbow says:' 1T appears tbs
Jarauta's band have declared Col. Cenobio
d be a traitor to them and to his country; Thu
he is leagued with the Americans and eve
d supplied by them with arms and ammunitic
for the purpose of destroying his brother bal
dlts. After much hard talking they have
N length proceeded to blows; and in one engag
ment, 'tis said that Jarauta was victorious, an
that thirty Of Cenobio's men we're killed.p
ID Later accounts confirm the above, but So
U that only twenty were killed and that Jarau
n was shot through the leg. Papers Of JaIaI
Of a prior date have said that Jarauta had Wi
n drawn from the field to attend to his relipio
ne duties. 4p4 has
ID, The Arco Iris Of the 9Th inst. speaks Of
ng expedition Of 1900 men as about to start fro
ne the campat Vergara against Orizaba. Our &C
respondent makes no mention of it.
10 The same paper says on the English sic
q that the unburied body the late lamented Ca
So Walker, remained on the field W days AFT
lg, his death.