Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-11-19
From the Newo Orleans Daily True Delta, Nov. -
Further from Mexico.

Further from Mexico.
In addition to the intelligence published in
our edition OF yesterday afternoon, and which
appears on the outside Of this mornings issue,
We have CLEANED the following items from our
exchanges: ~
The barque Avalanche, which left this port
on the 9th ultimo, loaded with coal and cotton
for Vera Cruz, when two days out, sprung q
leak, which, Notwithstanding every effort, il
was found impossible TO check or stop. She
managed, however, in less than six days to
reach Vera Cruz. Owing TO severe northerly
winds she was unable to enter, and was driven
some sixty miles to the southwark, where she
foundered the 10th ultimo.
The Uhicersal states that the Supreme Gov
eminent has complied with the solicitations OF
Mr.. VIM. Foster, and that decree has been
promulgated, allowing the steamships of the
Nicaragua Line to touch at the port Of MANIA
milo, on the Pacific. ~. ,.
1t is stated that Santa Anna has given orders
for the construction, in New York, Of two more
steamships, precisely similar to the Santa
Anna.
A curious phenomenon has lately been wit
messed in the port of Vera Cruz. For several
days in the beginning of this month, the shores
OF the harbor and neighborhood were strewn
with dead fish, cast up from the sea. So great
was the quantity, that serious fears were enter
tanned lest disease should follow from such a
mass of putrefaction. Bodies of troops were
turned out each day who gathered the fish and
buried them on the spot. A general order was
issued commanding all those residing in the
vicinity to take the same steps for the proven
ton of disease. An order was also issued pro-
hibiting the sale of fish. This phenomenon
continued for several days, and at last gradu-
ally disappeared. 1t is interesting to natural
lists, and we therefore give the following expla-
nation of Mr.. Adolphus Hegewisch, q surgeon
in the military hospital, resulting from expert
ments made by order of the commandment. In
the appearance of all the fish, the first thing
that struck the attention was the infamed and
protruded state of the eyes, such as ordinarily
takes place in strangulation. This, the Doctor
says, was not, as might be supposed, the result
OF putrefaction, for the case was the same when
it had not commenced. On opening the fish,
the intestines were observed to be much dis.
tended with gas, which, on testing, proved to
be carbonic acid gas. A decomposition of the
contents of the intestines showed the presence
of no poison, either mineral or vegetable.
Asubmersion of the intestines and fish in
slaked lime caused the evolution of large guam
titles Of carbonic acid gas. He judges, there
fore, that the death OF these fish has arisen
from asphyxia, caused by this gas. he con.
cludes that the gas has been evolved during q
submarine volcanic eruption, and, in support
of his opinion, refers to Humboldt's Cosmos,
page 22l. He also refers to similar pheno-
menon which took place in the Mediterranean
in 1921, where large quantities of fish were
similarly thrown up on the shores of Corfu,
Cephalonia, and the coast Of Albania, and by
their decomposition caused q plague, which
carried off large number of the inhabitants.
General p. Ampudia has been ordered to
the capital and General Cordoya been ap.
pointed political and military governor of
Nueva Leon in his stead.
General Manuel Andrade has been appointed
president of the supreme tribunal of war, in
place of General Basadre, who has been ac-
commodated with circumscribed quarters in
Tepeaca, in the department of Puebla. 81
Z General Mariana Martinez has been named
governor of Coahuila.
The Trait d Union contains an account of
the loss, on the 10th of August, of the schooner
Santa Anna, Of the blockading squadron off
Acapulco. She foundered In severe gale
only one person escaping out of seventy. OF
the other two vessels composing the squadron,
the corvette Santa Anna put into Mazatlan,
after sustaining severe injury and losing sew.
eral OF her crew; and the schooner Guerrero
has not since been heard of.