Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1847-06-12
fscm the N. n. rieayuns. June 9Th.
LATER from Yern Crnx

Later from Vera Cruz.
Tho steamship Fashion, Capt. Ivy arrived at this POT,
| noon, the Both ut
Ga Tuesday, the met the Fashion saw tho steamer
Mary kinssand running to the southwark and westward
under q crowd CT canvass and steam.
| Tho u s. BRIG Porposo sailed fom Vera Cruz on the
2Sth uli for this port where sho Is undergo some
pairs The Fashion her Wednesday forty mos 10
| tho souihwes, OF the Southwest Pass.
following officers came passengers the Fashion
Llent w Mury, Company 4, ID Regiment rcnnsy ,anis
Volunteers; Lieut. l. II Kane, Company ID, LIST Regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteers; Lieut. Gregg. Iih Regiment
Regulars; Lieut. fcllnase, LIST Regiment Pennsylvania Vol
un'eers; James Johnson. auaermascts sergeant I'd Re
gment Pennsylvania Volunteers, aud about forty dschag
| cd volunteers. many OF them wounded and very sick
The Fashion brought small mail TO Col. Hunt, and Il
Is understood that tho New Orleans to sail on the
Slsi Monday last would bring the principal mails. She
/ is looked for even hour.
Verbally Ne learn that tho Mexicsns were busy terrifying
the pass a. Mo Pro- between fueba aud the City o Mex
Gen Scott with the rear of the army wss to have I,lt
Japao ON the 18th ulo and would at Pueba ON the
'th inst where Is presumed he will await the ARRIVAL of
the ie'norccmens being forwarded To him. before he adj.
Sanees farther.
We have heard rumot tina, Herrera has been elected
,tesdent out cannot trace IL To reliable source. aud
think the result OF tho election could scarcely be known at
the capital soon.
From tho American Eagle we learn that the diir,ns,
which left Vera Cruz Tor Jalsps 22d uL without
pssssnecrs but with three trunks filed with very fine good,
IVES stopped two miles beyond the National Bridge aud
robbed aud then burnt and destroyed Tho driver and
postlon who accompanied released and made th,i
TO Jslapa. The diligence which should bay, com,
INTO vera Itut on the Slth u only down where
the other had been destroyed and once returned This
ieaied, will put end TO the diligence on the
road The robbery was doubt the work OF Mexican
oand'. we come now TO morn airoeous act by the
same fuhans We copy the facts from the Eagle Of the
9th.
HoRRlp-t IS with pain mingled with de.it, for re-.
Ncngc that we undertake relate another massacre of our
counyman IA the most cruel aud brutal nanner In our
paper u las, Saturday (only week ago) ",
the tact that Col Sewers this city rs bearer o %
mattel heat S.,NN a l.
form the public ct his houid deaihnot with his enemy IN
front to oppose him. but coward shot by those who dared
not show themselves
appears he left this city on Saturday I.s, with nm
escort OF live men and Lieut. Mcdonnell OF Capt Wh.,-
company expecting TO mud the captain Santa Ee or at
very snort distance the other side. They arrived
at Santa lie aud lodged there during the nsht 6ndny b.
Capt Wheat had left in the morning TO push for
ward alhough It was ascettaned that Capt W was some
thirty miles ahead) with addition Of two more To the es
eott Cot Sewers Get out for Jaapa The know
OF this little party by the arrival one of the men who
returned and reported surprise and destruction I'm COM
sequence OF the iasy vi the greater number Of similar s
nes Col Wilson, our Governor. had the man arrested s
oeserter Thus matters stood until Yesterday when de-
Ne!epmens were made by arrival Jalaps-he first
that has reached us for n week-tcndin to ron6r, an,
fears.
we conversed Yesterday with gentleman who arrived
IN me morning, anu he Informs that point about two
miles on the OF PueRia Naeiona he the minis
Of the diligence, underneath which was human b,dv
stripped, with the exception of pair of drawers an, uu
mated IN the most beastly This supposed to be
naked aud likewise dFeadfuly mangled. Our informant
was assured that i've other bodies IN some thick
raj short distance from the road Now the number Of
Killed, with ihe man who escaped, exactly corresponds
with that OF the party which accompanied the unfortunate
Col Sewers, and leaves doubt our minds OF us de-
siruction."
Our readers will recollect party Of Mexican robbers
centy captured near Vera CruI by parry of amateurs
under Col Banks Ten OF them been tried Tor rob
oing, secretng arms and Ammunition &c Five have been
acquitted and live convicted Tho latter were fentenced
10 Tour and hall months work upon the publc ses nd
moroughiaos IN chains. Two more yet remained 10 be
Hed We hope this example may be salulary
The Eagle Informs us that the 2sth Marty of siA
MeIcans, coming into Vera Cruz from SANTA Fe were Al
lacked by some oi their countymen robbed OF all they
had about them
The ship Zenoba arrived Vera Cruz from New York
on The 2eih ut having board 1873 troops principally of
we lIh and oh Infantry, under command of Cant ] II
"hppo, OF the 9Th, LIST Lieut. Price at the lth Infantry
ahd I'd Lieut. w Bendun VI the IL Infantry. Fourteen
Of the men were recruits for several regiments.
We note the proceedings of the Board of Health in Vera
Cnz They have published instructions To the unscelms
ted full of good
The Esgle mentions the arrival there OF copy OF the
" Journal OF Commerce twelve days aer date which
IL hnks The quickest passage record between the two
ports 1t was taken from this city by tho steamship New
Orleans. ~
Inc Eagle gives details of Com Perry4 expedition
10 the south, but nothing particularly new The cummo
doFe arrived Of Vera Cruz the 2ith ult.