Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1847-04-07
Important from Mexico.
Vera CRUZ surrendered at the
ftrt summons from GEN. Scott!
From The Pittsburgh Post.
Tuesday, March 30. ls47

From The Pittsburgh Post.
Tuesday, March 80, ls47.
We have received two dispatches from
our Philadelphia Correspondent by Tele-
graph, this aliernoon,-the one at 81 o..
clock, and the other at A o'clock, announ-
cling the important information communi-
Gated above.
In the first despatch the information
communicated was that reports had Just
reached tho city from Washington, that
Mr.. Buchanan had received dispatches at
the State Department, that the Castle of
San Juan de Ulloa had surrendered 10 the
Army OF the United States.
This despatch informed us that the sur
render was mado without firing even gun.
We felt so doubtful Of the authority ofthis
report, that we did not feel authorized to
publish il in an extra. M s
second despatch dated half past four,
and received at fifteen minutes to FIVE.
states that a second despatch had been le.
ceiyed from Washington, where assertions
were confidently made that Vera Cruz had
surrendered at the first summons of Gen.
Scott.
The Baltimore Sun communicated the
same despatch to Philadelphia, and adds
that the Surrender was made to Gen Scott,
in command Of the Army, and Commodore
Perry, in command Of the fleet.
The same despatch adds that the Mexi.
cans finding themselves unable to de-
lend, the Castle, successfully BLEW 1T
up, and with great loss of property and
some lives.
One Of the fruits Of this disaster of the
blowing up Of the Castle at Vera Cruz,
was the destruction Of The steamer Missis-
sippi.
This information, it is said in the sec.
ond despatch, comes to Mr.. Buchanan, Sec
retary of State, from Havana. Mr.. Camp
bell, our Consul at Havana, is named in
our second despatch as, furnishing the in
formation Of the surrender of the Castle,
directly to the Department Of State.
The event was expected and we think
the report will prove true.
In our second despatch it is also said,
that there will be an extra session of Con.
gress at an early day. Congress cannot,
however, meet before the expiration of six
ty days, the President being required to
give that time in his Proclamation.
LATER.
An additional telegraphic despatch,
which we subjoin, casts doubts upon, in
some respects, and contradicts in part, the
details furnished in the preceding para
graphs, which were already sufficiently
confused and conflicting.
PHILADELPHIA, March 80, ls47, Z
Tuesday, 9 o'clock, P. Nj.
More definite and authentic information
contradicts the report Of the steamship Mis-.
sippi having been st,-she took the place
of the Tweed, which was withdrawn, and
this probably gave rise 10 the report.
Tho Washington Union processes to have
received reliable information that by Or
dor Of Gen. Santa Anna all the Mexican
troops had been withdrawn from Vera
Cruz, leaving the Castle to defend itself;
and that the Mexican army were ordered
to fall back upon Puerto Naconal. and
would there make stand against the Amer
lean forces.
A counter revolution had taken place in
Yucatan, and the Mexican or cenlralist
party had triumphed over the Independents,
and abolished all the regulars and changes
in the government that had becn previously
effected by them.
sEPThc late news from Gen. Taylor's
Army contained in the telegraphc despatch
Published on Monday, has not been con-
firmcd by any subsequent arrival; and the
real state Of affairs in that quarter is in
volved in as muchuncertainty as before.