MARCH OF THE TRAIN FROM VERA CRUZ TO PEROTE
From the correspondent of the Missouri Republican.JALAPA, Mexico, June 17, 1847.
This is the last letter I shall write you from this place, and I pen this without knowing how or when I shall be able to give it a direction that will insure its ever reaching even the Gulf Coast. On the morning of the 15th inst.,a train of about three hundred wagons, principally loaded with ammunition, succeeded in reaching this place. They were fourteen days coming from Vera Cruz, a distance of seventy miles, have been attacked by the guerrillas, twelve miles out from Vera Cruz, and skirmishing from that point to the hacienda Encerro, kept up during the whole way. The principal object of attack was the large amount of specie in the train—between three and four hundred thousand dollars—which had drawn together between fifteen hundred and two thousand guerrillas. They were principally commanded by three priests, Spanish Carlists, who had been banished from their own country for their ferocity, their fanaticism, and bigotry. They gave us a great deal of trouble, and succeeded, during the entire route, in killing and wounding between forty and fifty of our men. We lost, also, about thirty public wagons, number of a horses and mules, and a great deal of subsistence that was thrown from the wagons, with a view of lightning the loads. Our loss in property, trifling as it is—and especially which compared to the loss of men—is, of course, greatly magnified by the enemy, and the report is industriously circulated by them, throughout the entire country, that they have captured half of the train, and killed half of the escort.
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