Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1847-11-24

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ducenflhis season. Two hundred anc
furtyahgusand hogsheAds is an estimate
whichano one regard as extravagant
". o. Delta, Wov 5.
Froasths N. O. Picayune, 1lM inst.
LATER FROM VERA CRUZ.
Thesteamsi'ip James L. Day, Capt.
WocdsSrri2ed last evening from Vera
Cruz,shaying left there the evening OF
the 5thsiast. She stopped a, the Brazos.
but didsSot communicate with the shore
Amoag the passengers on the Day-a
list of@alom will be found in the app1o-
rialeSsolumn-wcrc Major Iturbide,
pIisonegof war, and Lieut.. Sears, Cd
Artillery, bearer Of dispatches TO WASH
ington.
The7lews brought by the Canton is
entirelytconfrmed. Gen. Scou's des-
patchesasft Mexico between the 12lll
and 15h of October, escorted by spy
command of Mexican lanccrs, 100
strong, Under the command Of Col. Do
minguez The company left Puebla
the evening the 18th and we're attack
ed thessanie night by a strong force un-
der GsasgT otrejon. Shortly after they
we're attacked by Col. Vamos. In the
two engagements they lost fifteen Of
their number. They returned 10 Pue.
bla andSen. Lane placed the despatch
es in tiieglandseo his adjuant general,
Lieut. Sears, who came down with his
NlexicahEescort to Vera Cruz, but ac.
companisd as far as Plan del Rio BY the
Isl Pennsylvania Regiment, under Col.
Wynkoop, Captain Loyall's Georgia
mounted men, and three companies of
artillery. The American portion urlhe
escort !mited al Plan del Rio and were
to returB:Rilh Gen. Patterson. Lieut..
Srars taached Vera Cruz ilrdhe nigh, Of
4.l.sinsls, coornphnicd by Capt. Geo.
SsEayloe Artillery, Lieut.. Lear. Alb
lIl4Ssl Il, 81 rErA Hs!lw4a Ny RsAt iii
furIough. Lieut.. Henderson, Louisiana
Volunteers, came down to join his COM
pany. Abou, eighty discharged soldiers
also came down.
The Mexican spy company is des-
crihed as rough-!ooking set of men.
They fight with ropes round their nccks,
as the saying is, and therefore fight gal
lanlly. Col. Dominguez is thought to
know the road intimately, from long
experience upon the line in different
capacity. We understand that we have
altogether about 100 of this description
of force in our pay. or the detachment
which came down with them, told Our
correspondent that they fought most
gaI'anly.
Gen. Lane remains at Prnbla, ie-
tanning all the command he took up with
him. A circular order from General
Scot; directs garrison Of $50 men to
nc stationed at the National Bridge,
l, 200 at Jalapa and 1000 D, PuebIa-
the last two points under command Of
general officers. Gen. Gushing has
been assigned by Gen. Patterson 10 the
command at Jaapa. Gen. Patterson
had reached the National Bridge on the
morning of the 4th inst, with all his
force, have been entirely unnolested
upon the roule.
Gen. Lanes command is quartered in
The heart of Puebla, the General occu-
pying the PaIace.
Santa Anna was at Tepaucan on the
Goth ult. He had given up The idea oI
going to Orizaba as tie had proposed.
We have the Genius OF Liberty oi
the 9Th inst, and regret 10 see by it that
one Of The editors, Dr.. Quinn, is serious
y indisposed.
The guerrillas arc quarreling among
themselves. The Ralnbow says: Ii
appears that Jarauta's band have de-
clared Col. Cenobio to be traitor tc
his country; that he is Ieagurd with the
Americans, and even supplied by them
with arms and ammunllons for the pur'
pose of destroying his brother bandits
After much hard talking they have a
length proceeded TO blows; and in ont
epgagement,'tis said that Jarauta wa
victorious, aud that thirty OF Ccnobo''
men wes Killed.
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Late; accounts confirm the above
but say that twenty were killed ant
that Jarauta WAS shot through the leg
Papers of Jalapa of prior date ha'
said that Jarauta had withdrawn from
the field to attend to his religious du
ties.
The Arco iris OF the 5tIn inst. speak
of an expedition of 1,50O mrn as abou
TO start from the camp at Vcrgara d
painst Orizaba. Our iesponden
makes no mention Of it,.
Tho same paper says on the Engls