The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1848-06-28

pie or foreigners WIN Huu toleIa'eu lHo h'pe''
leans at all in those places which had been e.
vacualed by our troops. Many Of the inhabi.
tants showed their regrets at parting with The
Americans.
Mr.. Devlier, editor the Free American,
came passenger In the Portland, having been
ordered to leave by Gen. Smith for an article
published in his paper of the 9Th inst, consid.
cred by all who know the facts Of the case to
be very incorrect to say the lcast-and doing
great injustice to q distinguished officer. We
do not choose to 90 into the details ofthis affair,
because we are satisfied that hadlhe editor ofthe
Free American been accurae informed as to
the facts of the case, he would never have M.
serted the article which called down upon him
the prompt action of General Smith.
Capt. Lee. engineers, and other distinguished
members ofGen. Scotts stats, also came pas
sengors on the Portland and VIM: Vandern.
den, former Surgeon General of the Mexican
army, who seeks America as an asylum.
Lieut.. Bedford, l4rh infantry, died on the
bassare and was buried at sea.
The Portland passed in The river about Fort
ST.. Phlip. a ship load of convalescents from
the Jalapa Hospitals which left Vera Cruz a.
bout ten days since.
Gen. ralterson's division was expected in
Vern Cruz on the l2h inst. and Gen. Mar.
shall's on the following day. A letter from
Mexico, dated the Sd inst. says that Gen. Kears
news division was ordered to leave Mexico on
Tuesday the 9Th inst, and Gen. Wor;h's on
Wednesday, the 7ih. The Michigan regimen,
was shortly expected at Vera Crnz from Cordo.
va.
The u. S. Commissioners, Messrs. Sewer
and Clifford, were expected in the city OF Mex.
leo on the Sd inst. Mr.. Sewer returns home
with Gen. Butler.
We add here letter with the latest news
and well informed source:
VERA CRUZ, June 9th, l648.
Sir:-By the French brig of war Pylade,
received letters from Campeachy, and other
parts of Yucatan, up to the 4,h inst. The dlS.
tressing accounts from those quarters, will deep.
ly engage The sympahies Of all persons who
fepl inclined to protect the cause of civilization
and humanity. In the present stage otIhIs war
of cases, il is useless to investigate thu causes
and the origin of it. let us only look to The fac,
that our white brethren are nassacred by over.
wlelming numbers of Indian savages, and that
even where no resistance is offered, those sa.
wages frnds destroy the lives Of women. chill
hren, of The sick and old, nor can the minister
of our SAVIOUR escape from the ruthless foe.
Still beg to assert, that the Commissioner OF
Yucatan, Mr.. Sierra stated but the full truth
when he published the fact that the Indians in
Yucatan held equal, social and political rights
with The white population, and that the govern.
ment had continuously endeavored to improve
their condition hy erecting schools, &c. Du.
ring my frequent stay there, and when travelling
amongst them, often compared the position OF
those Indians to that of our peasants and labor.
ers in Europe, and in most respects conclu
del that their lot in life by far all easier one
than that of our European brethren. When.
ever saw distress could clear y trace it to the
proverbial Indian improvdence, and to their
inlemperance andsuperstition. Still a traveller
in Yucatan would but year ago be struck by
the general features of the country, though fine,
we'll laid out villages, and the healthy and clean
appearancc of The inhabitants. The insurrec-
ton since August last has laid wastc the " vio!e
country, and towns and Villages are now but a
heap of ruins and embers.
The town of Yzamal, about fifteen leagues
from Merida, has lately been taken, and it is
surpassed that many hundred lives were lost.
In one day, about fortnight before the taking
of Yzamal, 1000 persons, mostly women and
children, entered, fugives from their dwellings
into the city Of Merida saving but their lives
for short time. All accounts and letters from;
highly respectable parties, which received
during these days, coincided in the opinion rhat
without prompt aid from the U. States, the
whites viii he obliged to abandon even the few
strong holds in consequence of the want of pro.
visions, which the poor people we're obliged to
leave behind. Ticu, another large place near
Merida, is likewise in the hands oflhc Indians,
and these will soon surround Merida, place
with neither natural nor artificial defence.
The prophecy Of Gillian Balaam, an Indian
sorcerer at the time ofthe conquest. that at the
regeneration Of the Indian race, they would
wade ancle deep in the blood OF their conquer.
ors al the plaza of Merida, may irighlfnlly be-
come true, if no earlier and immediate aid is
given to Merida. This aid, 500 to 1000 armed
men, with sorno few light guns ant ammuni.
tions should at once proceed to Sisal. and in
one and halfday's marching they will be able
to rescue the capital and hel our unfortunate
brethren in the conflict.
The latter heng reduced in numbers, scant
of arms, ammunition and money, are discour-
aged in the extreme. 4 small but timely aid,
will prove the only means Of salvation. Five
hundred 10 thousand well armed Americans
can over.run the country in spite Of the number.
less Indians, as these latter are imperfrclly
armed and under no discipline whatever.
Sumo cases have happened where fifty men
made good the fight against. six thousand Ind-
ans. The town of Campcachy lis going to be
rurrounded by Indians, who had appeared al.
ready in the aeighhorhond thereof Merida is
the point most exposed, containing, with iugi.