Thursday, March 8, 2012

From Mexico

NEW YORK, Feb. 20. – the steamer Kavanack has arrived with Havana dates of the 15th, and Nassau of the 8th.

It is stated several vessels had arrived at Havana, having run the blockade.

The steamer Kate sailed on the 30th with part of the Gladiator’s cargo, probably for New Orleans.

The steamer Miramon saild for Matamoras on the 7th.

The war in Venezuela continues.

A frightful revolution is progressing in Honduras.  Gen. Guardiola had been assassinated at his door.  The troops had joined the insurgents, and excesses were being committed in Truxillo.

St. Thomas dates to the 2d, state that the British commander had attempted to take a seaman from an American vessel by force, but a Federal Gunboat protected the man.  The government of St. Thomas notified the British that the guns of the Fort would aid the Iroquois.

The British Admiral subsequently arrived and reprimanded the commander and apologized to Consul Edgar.

The bark, W. G. Anderson arrived on the 28th.

Ship Island dates of the 7th, state that five ships of Porter’s expedition had arrived and two more were spoken off Havana on the 11th.

Vera Cruz dates to the 8th, state that no advance had yet been made.

Over 1,000 sick soldiers are there besides on hundred at Ligera.  Yellow and typhoid fevers had broken out among them.

The Mexicans insist on the re-embarkation of the Spanish troops, but consent to 2,000 allied troops attending the negotiations at Orizaba.

The allies state that they shall advance during February to Orizaba, and would give battle at Cerro Gordo if opposed.

The Mexican papers express the greatest hatred for the Spaniards.

Four rebel schooners had arrived at Havana from New Orleans with cotton.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 22, 1862, p. 3

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