The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1848-01-12

cnemy's balls, he is in a fair way OF reco-
very.
The officers stationed at Puebla have re-
solved to present Il medal TO Gen Lame
On one side OF it is to be the the Generals
likeness, and on the other side he will be
represented entering the city of PuebIa.-
the medal Is to cost one thousand dollars.
Ihe Free American ofthc Goth saws:
We had the pleasure Of speaking to l..
HAWKINS yesterday. 1t was rumorcd few
days agothat he had been killed by the gu
crlllaS, and VIC arc happy to announce that
he can yet kill few before he dies.
The brig Wi;lgcon, Stanwood. from this
port, had been on shore at Anton Lizar,lo.
and hove overheard part ofhc cargo. The
steamboat Secretary Walker, shin Texas,
and schooner Ferdinand, from this port. had
arrived at Vera Cruz
Gen. Twiggs, we learn, commenced his
duties us Governor Of Vera Cruz on tho
21th inst. Col. BankLcad was to leave iiu-
mediatey fer the city Of Mexico, 10 Join
Gen. Scott Col Wilson, late Governor Of
Vera Cruz, was to leave on the Goth inst.
on the U. S. ship Germantown, for the
North. The New Orleans brought over
large number ofpaSscngcrs
Special Corrcspou1enreof the " O Picayuae.
CITY OF N'ENiCo, Dec. 9, lSI7.
General Patterson arrived here day be-
fore yesterday, and the last of his command
reached here TO day IIc has brought with
him about $500 men. A S soon as General
Butler arrives, he or General Patterson will
be sent TO San Luis Po,osi to open the COM
munlca,lon between there and Tampico,
and the other OF the above named Generals
will be sent to Zacatecas, to take possession
of the country around. Qucrctaro will not
bc disturbed just now.
VERA CRrZ Dec. %, 1S47.
The steamer New Orleans will leave in
tho morning for your city, with very large
number OF those wounded at the late battles
in the valley of Mexico; and although they
present Il melancholy picture, with what
JOY will they place their feet upon Free,
dom's soil once more, and what a happy re-
turn to their friends
Although the road from this to Mexico
is now lined with troops, and every advan.
tagcous point permanently garrisoncd,
gucrrlicros Continue to make their appear
ancc occasionally, and yesterday they not
only wounded Lieut.. Gordon, Of the Rifle
Regiment, in two places, but captured about
hundred pack mules, which were short
distance behind the command, and were
the property of Mcxicans.
1t has now become pretty certain, as
learn from many who came with the train,
that Lieut.. O'Sullivan, who was promoted
for his gallantry at Palo Alto, and distin-
guishcd himself by his gallantry in the last
battles before Mexico. after throwing mp his
commission, joined the Mcxicans, and has
received an appointment Of Colonel in The
Mexican army although as gallant and
brave a man as ever lived, he dlsgraccd
himselfon many occasions, by which he
lost the respect OF all his associates, and may
now fight as hard against the American
flag as he has Tough, for it.
TIE Now Orleans Delta, in an article on
Mexico, says:
Col. Butler, the commander Of the third
dragons, who is stationed near Saltillo, un-
der Gen. Wool, is large sugar planter,
and having, like most Of our other planters,
made very large crop this year, and being
short of hands, struck upon the idea Of hr-
ing Mexican poems to help 10 cut his cane.
He readily procured fifteen or twenty hands
and could have got as many more as he de-
sired, and sent them over to Louisiana, and
are now on his plantation working as ci-
fcienty and regularly as our slaves, at the
rate, we understand, Of IL dollars per
month.
SELECTIONS FOR NEwspApERs.-Mo
people think the selection of suitable matter
for newspaper the easiest part of the busi-
ness. How great an error! 1t is by all
means the most difficult. 10 look over and
over hundreds of exchange papers every
week from which 10 select enough for one,
especially when the question is, not what
shall but what shall mol be selected, is &C no
easy task" If every person who takes
newspaper could have edited it, we should
hear less complaints. Not unGequently is
it the case that an editor looks over all his
exchange papers for something interesting,
and can absolutely find nothing. Every
paper IS dryer than a contribution box and
yet something must be had-his paper must
come out with something in it, and he does