The Hillsborough Recorder

In Jalisco, San Luis and Zacatecas, etc.

We extract the following from the New Orleans Picayune of the 8th inst., which was brought by the steamship Galveston, arrived at New Orleans on the 7th.

No later news from the city of Mexico had been received.

Major Gen. Patterson and staff, escorted by a few mounted men, left yesterday morning to join the column at Santa Fe and put in motion this morning for the great city of the Montezumas.

The New Jersey battalion arrived yesterday. Gen. Marshall has been left behind in consequence of ill health, but as he is not seriously indisposed he will no doubt be well enough to take command of the next detachment that leaves here, unless Gen. Butler should arrive in the mean time.

The health of the city is about the same as usual. For the last month the cases of yellow fever have been very few, considering the number of subjects; though I am sorry to inform you that one of the most promising young officers of the navy, Midshipman Colley, fell a victim to that disease yesterday.

One of the passengers by the Galveston is a soldier who was marched to the gallows this morning to the tune of the rogue's march a few feet before the points of some half dozen bayonets, in execution of the sentence of a court martial.

Letters from Jalapa of the 1st inst. have been received, and say that Santa Anna is at Orizaba, on his way to the coast with cords of money, but I can hardly credit it. There is a big proclamation from him in town, but as yet I have not got hold of it.

Subsequently our correspondent obtained the address referred to, and we also find in it the Arco Iris.

The Genius of Liberty has accounts a little later from Puebla. Santa Anna had gone to Tehuacan, but was expected at Orizaba. We put no credit in the rumor of his attempted evasion from the country.

The 'Genius' now says that Capt. Walker was shot, not lanced. One shot is said to have struck his head and another his breast, but the account is rendered apocryphal by its adding that he addressed his men after he was struck in the head.

The same paper says that Gen. Lane will remain at Puebla and Col. Childs proceed to join his regiment.

Capt. Hearn, of the Pennsylvania regiment, is said to have made a sortie from San Jose, our position commanding Puebla, to attack some point in the city, when he was assaulted by a large force of Lancers and fifteen of his men captured.

In the Arco Iris of the 1st inst., we find a despatch of Pena y Pena to the ex-minister of Foreign Affairs, Pacheco, the chief purpose of which is to show on what ground he assumes executive power for himself alone. We need not enter into this, for his authority is acquiesced in; but he claims power, not under Santa Anna's resignation and assignment of his office, but by virtue of the constitution which provides for the case of a vacancy in the Presidential office. He therefore refuses to recognise the authority of the associates which Santa Anna gave him, (Gen. Herrera and Sr. Almonte,) though he mentions them with all courtesy.