From the Gulf

NEW YORK, March 26.

The steamer Columbia from, Havana 22d inst., arrived this afternoon.  She has Vera Cruz dates of the 14^th.

The English troops had arrived at Havana and sailed for Bermuda.

Some Mexican barracks, eight miles from Orizaba, accidentally blew up, and 300 (?) dead bodies found in the ruins.

It was reported at Havana that the steamer Wide Awake, with Yancey aboard, was captured while trying to run the blockade, and that Yancey is now a prisoner at Fort Jefferson, Key West.

It was reported that Porter’s mortar fleet had passed the South West Pass into the Mississippi river.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, March 28, 1862, p. 1