The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1847-07-14
FROM MEXICO.
From the N. .. Picayuue, June 80, ls47
Important from Vera Cruz.


and in few hours afterwards the steamship,
New Orleans, Captain Auld, came in
The latter left Vera Cruz on the 25lh inst,
and brings US letters of the 25th and papers
of the oath.
Our dates from the army of General Scott,
at Puebla, are 10 the 18th inst The i'm.
mediate advance of our army upon the city
of Mexico had been postponed until the ar
rival of rcinlorcements. The rumor which
has been SO generally circulated through
the city that he had arrived within twenty
mics of the city of Mexico, is without
foundation.
A rumor reached Vera Cruz on the night
OF the Gath inst, that Gen. Cadwallader's
command had fallen in with guerrilla par
ty a few miles beyond Jalapa, and by
movement unperceived by the gueriAeros,
succeeded in surprising them and killing
about thirty Of them, without losing man
Other letters have been received in town
as to this affair ofGen. Cadwallader, which
represents it to have occurred near La Hoya,
about eleven miles beyond Jalapa. The
surprise Of the Mexicans was so complete,
and one letter says that fifty of them were
killed. Gen. Cadwalladcr suffered no loss,
all agree.
BY another letter, dated the 24,h inst,
lom our Vera Cruz correspondent, we learn
that the train which went up under the
command of Gen. Pillow was attacked at
CaIera, said to be nine miles beyond the
Puente NacionaL The guerriNeros were
dispersed with the loss Of thirty men. Yer
bal accounts say we had some eight or ten
wounded, but none killed.
The force under the command Of Gen.
Pillow on the 18th, escorting a train of
about l25 wagons. The force amounted
to nearly 1900 men, and consisted of the
4th Infantry, and portion of the 18th,
three companies ofthe Voitigcurs, deach-
ment of the Sd Dragons and six howitzers.
That such train would meet with serious
resistance from guerrilla parties, was not
&c be expected; but we regret that our ac-
counts induce the belief that it suffered ex-
; cessively in the first and second days march
from the heat Of the weather. The march
on the second day is represented as having
been particularly severe, the time chosen
for it being during the heat of the day,
through heavy sand and when eleven
miles were TO be made without water. One
hundred and fifty men are said to have been
completely knocked up on this march six
or seven died upon the road, and the rest
were sent back and were arriving in Vera
| Cruz in small parties at our last accounts
Both our private advices and the papers of
Vera Cruz imputc this trifing with life
entirely to the change introduced by Gen.
Pillow of marching during the heat of the
day, instead of selecting early mornings or
the after part of the day for such service.
The course pursued by Captain Walker
towards these desperadoes who fell into his
hands is said to have been highly approved
by Gen. Scott. We have been asked if
General Cadwalladcr adopted Walkers
! plan and shot those who fell into his hands,
but we are unable to answer.
The news by this arrival from the city of
Mexico is important. We have received
our accounts of it through an express de-
spatchcd by Mr.. Kendall from Puebla ex-
pressly for this office. His letter come
down to the 18th inst. Though we see it
noted in one of the Vera Cruz papers that
advices to the 18th had been received vet it
gives none of the news; the sole statement
made relates to Gen. Sco,t's departure from
Puebla, and is erroneous. Other papers of
Vera Cruz give the news copied from the
press of this city as being the latest from the
interior Of Mexico.
The Arco-Iris of the 22d has letters from
the capital which appear to be late, though
the dates are not given. The purport of
them is: that the work of fortifying the envi-
rons of the city is going on rapidly, and that
seventy pieces of artillery had arrived from
Acapulco and other points which they were
mounting as fast as possible. They men,
ton the arrival of Alvarez at the head of
5000 men, and they set down the entire
force in the city as 10000 armed militia
and 10000 troops of the line These let
ters further say that the clergy are taking an
active part in the business; that arms Of all
kinds were pouring into the capital and
considerable sums of money.
10 show how hazardous thing is ex-
press riding in Mexico at present, we annex
the following brief note from our correspon-
dent at Vera Cruz
VERA Cruz, June "a, lS47
Your express man from Puebla arrived
safe here this evening, with the letters
| which enclosed after havinp been twice :,