Tri-weekly journal., 1847-06-12
LATER FROM VERA CRUZ.


steamer Luna.for New Orleans papers of the 4th
We copy from the Picayttne of the 4th, the fol.
lowing intelligence from Vera Cruz There is
nothing important from that quarter, the dates
from Vera Cruz, brought to New Orleans, are
up to the 30th. -al-t
The Fashion brought a small mail to Col
Hunt and it is understood that the steamer
New Orleans, to sail on the 3lst, would bring
the principal mails. She was looked for every
hour.
Verbally we learn, says the Picayune,, that
the Mexicans were busy fortifying the pass at
Rio Frio, between Puebla and the city of Mex
leo.
Gen. Scott, with the rear Of the army, was to
have left Jalapa on the 29th ult, and would
arrive at Puebla on the 4th inst, where it is pre-
sumed he will await the arrival of the reinforce
ments being forwarded to him, before he ad-
vances farther.
We have heard rumor that Herrera has been
elected President, but cannot trace it to relia-
bic source, and we think the result of the cleo
ton should scarcely be known at the capital so
soon.
From the American Eagle we learn that the
diligence which left Vera Cruz for Jalapa on the
22d ult., without passengers, but with three
trunks filled with very fine dry goods, was
stopped two miles beyond the National Bridge
and robbed, and then burnt and destroyed. The
driver and postilian who accompanied it were
released and made their way to Jalapa. The
diligence which should have come into Vera
no nlf Or1lx TO- ,bo.o
the other had been destroyed and at once re-
turned. This, it is feared, will put an end to
the use of diligences on the road, The robbery
was no doubt the work of Mexican banditti
We come now to more atrociOus act by the
same ruffins. We copy the facts from the Ea-
gle of the 29th:
HoRRID.-lt is with pain mingled with de-
sire for vengence that we undertake to relate
another massacre of our countrymen in the
most cruel and brutal manner. In our paper
of last Saturday (only one week agoj we an
nounced the fact that Col. Sewers was in this
city as bearer of dispatches to Gen. Scott, and
to-day we are called upon to inform the public
OF his horrid death-not with his enemy in front
to oppose him, but cowardly shot by those who
dared not show themselves.
Itappears that he left this city on Saturday
last with an escort of five men and Lieut., Nc
Donpel of Capt. Wheats company, expecting
to find the captain at Santa Fe, or at most
very short distance the other side. They arri-
we'd at Santa Fe and lodged there during the
night, finding that Capt Wheat had left; in the
morning, anxious to push forward (although it
was ascertained that Capt, w. was some thirty
miles ahead) with an addition of two more 10
the escort Col. Sewers set out for Jalapa, The
next that we know of this little party is by the
arrival of one of them, who returned and re-
ported its surprise and deetructio1s. In consc-
quence of the falsity of the greater number of
similar Stories Col. Wilson, our Governor, had
the man arrested as deserter. Thus matters
stood until yesterday, when Developments were
made by an arrival from Jalapa-the first that
has reached us for week-tending to confirm
our worst fears.
We conversed yesterday with a gentleman
who arrived in the morning, and he informs us
that at point abont two miles on the other
side of Pi,enta Ndcional he saw the ruins of the
diligence, underneath which was human body
stripped, with the exception OF pair OF draw
ers, and mutilated in the most beastly manner.
This is supposed to be the body of Col Sow
ers. Near him lay another perfectly naked and
likewise dreadfully mangled. Our informant
was assured that five other bodies lay in some
thick chaparral short distance from the road.
Now the number of killed, with the man who
escaped, exactly corresponds with that of the
party which accompanied the unfortunate Col
Sewers, and leaves no doubt in our mind Of
| its destruction.
Our readers will recollect party of Mexican
robbers recently captured near Vera Cruz by a
party of amateurs under Col. Bankst. Ten of
the m have been tried for robbing, secreting
arms and ammunition, &c. Five have been ac-
quilted and five convicted. The latter was
sentenced to four and half months work up
on the public streets and throughfares in chains.
Two more yet remained to be tried. We hope
this example may be salutary.
| The Eagle informs us that on the 28th par
ty ofsix Mexicans coming into Vera Cruz from
Santa Fe, were attacked by some of their own
countrymen and robbed of all they had about
them.