Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1847-08-05
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ARRIVAL OF THE
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The steamship New Orleans, Capt Aud,
arrived at an early hour on the 22d uli., from
Vera Cruz rio lamp ico aud the Brazos. Her
latest dates from Vera Cruz are 10 the 9Th
inst Her news is very important. First Of
all we give Capt Auld's report, by which it
will be seen thal he left Vera Cruz for this
port as early as the 18th, and then returned
thther, going no further than Tampico:
Report Of the u s. Steamship New Orleans,
Edward Aud, commander, from Vera Cruz.
via Tampleo and the Brazos:
On her departure from Vera Cruz on the
morning ofthe 18th inst, Gen. Pierce, with
his command Of detachmenls from the 3D.
Dragons, 4th Artillery, Sd Infantry and the
eth, 9Th, 9th, and 18th Infantry, detachment
ofvoltiguers and large detachment Of ma
rines, amounting 10 $500 men and $50 wag-
ons, had taken up their lin4 o. march towards
Puebia
We arrived IN Tampco on the morning oi
the 18th inst, al 8 O'Clock Col Gates IN
formed us the two hundred American prison.
cTs who had been released from the city oil
Mexico had been ordered down to Tampco
and recaptured by Gen, Garay al or near Hue.
lutla, about ninety or oGe hundred miles up
the river. and Col Del}ussy, with deiach-
ments of Louisiana volunteers, parts of Capt.
Wyse's company ofartlery and Capt. Boyd's
(fonnerly OF the Baltimore Battalion ).compa-
NV Of infantry, amounting TO 10 or l2O men
and officers, had left there BY the way of the
river ON the steamers Undine and Mary Sum
nerS, on the morning Of the 9Th inst, for the
purpose OF releasing the American prisoners.
They had landed sixty miles above unmolest
ed, and the two steamer had returned to the
city. At z O'Clock p. NJ an express arrived
from Col DeRussy, stating that they had been
permitted to march up unmoested until they
got narrow pass near Huejutla, where they
were surrounded by twelve or fourteen hun
dred Mexicans under Gen. GaTay. They had
suffered considerable loss, bu: by the assis-
lance of Capt. Wyse's artillery they had cut
their way out and returned towards the river
and wanted assistance.
Col Gates despatched the steamship New
Orleans back to Vera Cruz with requistlon
on Col. Wilson for four companies of infantry
and also the steamers Undne and Mary sum
iners up the river with $50 men to the relief Of
Col DeRussy. The N. Orleans arrived at
Vera Cruz on the 10th al 2 O'Clock r. NJ,
when we found the city in great excitement.
Gen Pierce had marched out as above stat
ed, and encamped about ten miles from the CT
y, when the scouts or safeguards came IN and
reported large force of Mexicans Ill the Ma
ional Bridge and marching towards the city
Everything was got ready for an attack. The
shipping was removed from between the city
and the castle. Gen. Pierce came in and took
reinforcement of seven hundred men. max
ing in all thirly-two hundred. In consequence
of the late difficulty the requlstion Of Col
Gates on Coy. Wilson could not be complied
with
We received on board twenty Eve marines
from the U. S. Sloop Saratoga, and on the
morning Of the 18th at O'Clock sailed Tor
Tampico, al which time Gen. Pierce had
marched out 10 meet the enemy. All O'Clock
90 the 18th inst, we arrived al Tampco, and
heard that the two delachments had returned
and the result, as near as we could ascertain,
was as follows:
The detachmeuts had marched up towards
their place of destination, unmo)esled, until
they came in narrow psss--several miles
from Hueiula. when they We're surrounded
by 1900 or l4O0 MeXlcans, who commenced
heavy IRE on them from all drectons.-
Capt, Wyse got his piece Of artillery TO bear
on them. After giving them six or eight
rounds of grape, which cot lanes through their
lines, they gave way and fled through the
chaparrei, in each side of the road. This was
on the morning Of the 18th,
They continued lighting their way back to.
wards the river, at intervals, until the morning
of the 10Th inst, when they were released by
the reinforcement OF 100 men sent by Col, Go
Ia. They returned To the city late on the night
Of the 10th inst, with a loss Of twenty killed.
Ten wounded and two missing, and fifteen or
twenty horses and sixty pack mules. lregret
TO stale tina, Capt Boyd was the first who TEL.
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LIST lieutenant fell MORALLY wounded and was
Jeff dying on the field.
Col DeRussy had several balls through his
clothes. Capt. Wyse had three horses shot
from under hun. The Mexican loss, by re-
port OF a Mexican, was / so killed and wound
ed. Their General fed and Jeff the charge 10
the second in command The names of the
officers who accompanied Col. DeRussy are
not recolecled.
Lieut. Whpple, acting adjuiant Of the 9th
Infantry. was Iassoed by a small party Of gu
crrilIas on the l0th inst, when retiring from
the cemetery, within four hundred yards OF
the walls OF the city Of Vera Cruz. They
Were pursued by the Americans who could
not overtake them. The chaparral has been
searched for miles around, but bis body could
not he found.
Capt William Daft, Of the 81 Dragons
uled OF NOmltO al ' era CIuI On tht uleiuOOi
of the 10th inst.
The New Orleans sailed from Vera Cruz
on the 18TH instant. arrived at Tampco on
the morning OF thy 18th, took in 100 barrels
of coal, 1000 gallons Of water, and sailed on
the same day at s, p. NJ, arrived at the Bra
zos at ?. p. NJ, on the 18Th sailed for thls
port at 6, r. NJ, and arrived in the South
WAIST Pass al 5, p. NJ, on the Dist, making
the passage from Brazos in as hours.
The New Orleans Pcayune says;
From Vera Cruz our news is less satisiac-
tory than we could wish. On the 18th oul
correspondent writes that two expresses had
arrived FROM puebla. The news had not full
" trauspired, but the report had got into cir
culalion that the Mexican Government had
sent three commissioners 10 San Martin les
melucan. about nine leagues from Pueba, tC
meet Mr Trist, and hear through him tie
terms offered by the President This was bu
rumor, in which we place little confidence.
Our correspondent writes on the 10th from
Vera Cruz that an express from Gen. Scot
"a Mexican) while on his way from Puebla 10
Vera Cruz was murdered near Jalapa. The
guerriIlas report that he fought desperately
anil before he fell killed two of their number
Our own express rider arrived in Vera Cruz
on the morning of the 10th inst, without his