Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-01-16
MISCELLANY,
Tho PaImettOes in MexioO.
y oNn oF gnE rwo nuNpnED.
NEW sEnIrs-yo. rIrrnEN.


TWAS the evening ofthc 25th day of March
and the 3rd day of tho bombordmcnt of the
city. For sevorty-two hours the hissiug shells
and the booming shot had riccochctted along
the streets of v era Cruz, desolating its affairs
and its tiresides, and heaping ia one common
hecatomb, the soldier and the citizen. the old
and the young, tho strong and the weak. 1t
was one vast charnel house, rocking with the
fumes of putrefacton and death Ueroism
was unavailipg. Every soldier might fall at
his post fighting to the death, but it was fixed
as tule, unaltcrable as necessity that Vera
Cruz was won and lost
The Commander General Morales we'll
know it'sineyitoble fate but he was brave,
proud, and naughty, and would not surrnu-
der, lie knew we'll, too, the character ofhis
unreasonable countryman, and tllaS, to sur
render the city would bring their oondcmna-
tion upon him The citizens with their wives
and children implorod him to surrender, and
save them from death, and thor houses from
dcsolation. lie cmust have been stern man
to resist such appeals.
Finally, sickened by the scenes of havoc
and distress, and wearied by their impnrtu-
l!ities he fcigned sickness, and gIoomify re-
tired to thn en- stie, lowing tlse oitJ III conn
mand Of Gen. Landlord. BY this 'ingenims
artitice be sought to save his own honor and
avert from his own head the diserace nndthc
punishment which he feared from his own
scountrymcn. Gen. La,ilero good, EASY
kind-hcartod man and from his correspon-
dcnce infer a weak minded one. yielded to
the prayers ofthe citizens and at five o'clock
on the evening Of the 25th, he ran IN the
white flag of cdpitulatioh But few min
utes bcforea gallantoiiiccr Of the army had
fallen ath;s gun; Miashipman Shubriek, Of
South carolina, was the last yictim of the
siege of Vera Cruz.
The first officer who fell at Vera Cruz was
1t. Col. Dickerson, of the Palmettoes the
lastinan-who fell in the siege was .Midship-
man Shubsick, of South Carolina. The first
victim and the last victim was fprnished by
south Carolina in the persons of her brayest
sons And thusitwas always in battle, in
sufcring, and in death the Palmettoes were
the Alpha and the 0mcga.
b Twodayswere consumedin correspondence
and arranging the terms of the oapitulation
The capitulation was finally madc
( 30 felt Ycra Cruz and hecastle of Ulloa
onoarp part twas a brilliant feato Of arms
and nsplendid triumph of military science
lthad exercisod tho highest siFtics Of the
soldier ontliirnnce, pationce passive cour-
agc. II might have been rendered more
tragic,and in the view of some, more bril-
lant by tho quicker but vastly more sanga-
mary plan an assault by storm. Some per-
: sons 500 in war nothing but the shock phys.
ieqlforccs, and recognize no laurels oxc6pt
2 those crinsoped 10 the blood of hccatolnbs of
tho fallen brave. In their Wow q victory is
estimated only by tho quantity of blood which
purchased It,
yesa Crug was worth the loss of Ave thou
snnd iaen-Ain was won with the loss Of only
s9ycntY iaon. Molino Del Roy Was not worth
. fhe sacrifice of d do8en mon, and II was won
py the sacrifice Of ZIG &c the howor Of the d.