The New York Herald Newspaper, July 22, 1852, Page 3

HIGHLY IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE. is ne N Pierce an ME re ong ed on the ject from New the House of ntatives, LETTEK FROM MK. B. F. AYER TO THE HON. H, ASHINGTON. ESTER, July 15, 1352. Doar Sir--I have just noticed in a late number of bthe Republic two communications, taken from the hester Democrut, published hore, and the gendent Democrat, published at Concord, purport- ing to give a report of a speech mado by General Pieree, last December, at New Boston. Nothing could he more false and calumnious than tho account there given of General Piorce’s remarks. I was present at the meeting, with several others from this city, and remember very distinctly tho drift and substance of his speech. This was the first popu- jar meeting of tho last political Pra oy and was held at the home of John Atwood, then the abolition candidate for Governor. General Pierce’s speech was mainly devoted to a justification of the course Pl by himself and the democratic party the ear before, in rescinding Mir. Atwood’s nomination for Governor, in consequence of his opposition to the where the lotter was written, tho jury did not appear to bolievo him, for they returned @ vordict in favor of tho defendant. Suoh is tho in- dividual with whom W. ©. Robingon has boon closeted. What is in the wind? Perhaps your correspondent ** Viator’ could ferret it out. The recent article in the Washington Republic, merging. General Pierce with having stated in a speech delivered in New Boston, in February last, | that ‘‘he hated and loathed tho Fugitive Slave Jaw, and that ‘it was against the common law, and ought pot to be obeyed,” excites infinite merri- ment here with some, and extreme disgust with others. Just like the charge of intemperance, and the charge of cowardice, it is the very reverse of the fact. The report of this spesch was first pub- lished in the (independent Democrat, of Concord, and the Manchester Democrat, two abolition papers of tho strongest character. They boited when At- wood was set up the first time for Governor, and they have been rabid for abolition evor since. Tho report was donounced at ths time by the regular democratic prpers as maliciously and intention- ally fulse. Wheir object in making this state- ment was that their candidate tor Governor, Rev. Mr. Atwood might take a few votes from tho denveratic candidate at the coming election. Yet Compromise measures. In the course of his speech General Pierce alluded to the Fugitive Slayo law, and made a strong argument in support of it. It is wholly untrue that he pronounced it contrary to “moral right;” but, on the contrary, in reply toa question proposed by an abolitionist present, he said the present law was the same in principle and substance as that which had received the approval of Washington, and many ethers of the wisest and purest among the founders of this republic. He thought that these men were to be considered as moral, as conscientious, and as patriotic, 23 those of the presont day, who were, for political effect, con- stantly storming about slavery, without being ablo to suggest any practical plan for its abolition. — The speech was, throughout, a Ws) national Speech, and produced a powerful effect. No full re- of it was published, though a brief sbstract of : Sepeared shortly after in the Union Democrat, of Ahbis city. {remember seeing the reports copied by the Re- public, when they first appeared, and conversing in regard to them with several persons who hoard Gen, Pierce’s speech. Ail agreed in toss perversion, andalmost entire fabrication, from beginning to end. Both reports wore evidently itten by the same individual, which ascounts for their close similarity. Both of the papers from which these communica- tions are taken, are, as you well know, violent abo- lition journals, and have been unsparing in their hostility to Gen. Pierce, and, indeed, all the promi- nent members of the democratic party in the State. One of them was started by the abolitionists, some years since, as the organ of John P, Haleand his as- sociates; and the other was repudiated by the demo- -eratic party andturned over to the abolitionists, on ac- count of its cpposition to the Compromise. When it is known how bitter and how frequent have been the at~ tacks mada by these two journals upon Gen. Pierce, ~on account of his epen national course on the slave- juestion, every one will see, it seems to me, how little confidence can be placed in any such reports as the Repudlic has scen fit to extract trom their columns. It is well known to you that, on account -of his course upon this question, he has, for a long time, been a constant mark for their denunciation and abuse. Isend you a few extracts, to show the epirit they have both manifested towards him. The first is from the Independent Democrat, of February 20, 1851 : It is obvious to every intelligent man that for one effence—opposition te slavery and the fugitive slave act— the decres of outlawry against Mr. Atwood haa gone forth, For this he has beon denounced. harrassed, and brought to the bieek. For nothing else has Franklin Pierce pursued him with the cruel heartlessaes3 of a tamished tiger, and tho cunning malice of a demon. che next extrac: ‘s from the same paper, of June pronouncing them a Gex. Pisnce ox te Riau or Petirion—The last National Era containe a carefully collated history of Gen, Pieroe’s Congressiorai cureer, showing that through the ‘whole nine years he served in the House and Senate, the right of petition—e right older than Magna Charta—had no Or more unrelenting opponent than the pre- sent hunker demozratic candidate for President of the United States. This is not news to us—it is not news to the serene New Hampshire, in whose memories the history of degradation, a2 che hands of such men as Atherton, Pierce ank Burke, is still fresh. They have not forgotten that those men earned for the State they misrepresented the insulting aud trocsonable appellative of “the South Carolina of the North,” than which it were difficult to find name more si; icant of disgrace ani shame. * * * In this exta:-gue stands Gen. Pierce, In all the nine years he apent ‘x Congress, not a thought, word, or ‘not can be found which savors of the slightest regard for eivil, religious, or pezoual liberty, On all questions and was one of enti nd unjwalified subserviency to the Seuth and to sla been Such it has wards en and his friends expect to see him elected, if elected hy eball be, which is very doubtfal.” The Manchester Democrat, of June Vth, 1352, in an article entitled “the Hunker Pemocracy and their Candidate,” s “* The convention, in its numerous ballottings, exhibited the same determina- tion of the South, =< allow of the nomination of no man, unles3 a notorious doughface of the most devot ed uestionadle stripe, und an advocate 0° their most ultra pretensions Ron hg SE oe “Thus the South o.ung to Buchanan, until, finding his nomination imyessible, and wearied by unsuc- cessful efforts, they led the way, ina body, for Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire, whom they well knew to be proforndty loyal to Southern interests— from whom no word or vote in behalfof human rights has ever beex recorded ; who had avowed his entire devotion to the Compromise, but who, in the accurately reflect the senti- ments entertained by the abolitionists, or free soilers, of this State, towards General Pierce, and furnish 2 complete refutation of all the absurd charges of abolitionism, which the ‘ Republic,” or any of its abolition allies, can manufacture or bring against | shim. Lam. very respeetfully, Your ob’t. cyte Hon. H. Hisnann, M. C., Washington. LETTER PROM J. M. CAMPRELL.. Mancrveter, N. H., July 15, 1352. Jon. M. Norris :-~ Dear Sir—I_ observe, in the Republic of Tucsday last, an article copied from the abolition Demorra/, of this city, purporting to give an account of the “speech of General Pierce at New Boston, ia Decem- ber last. I need net tell you that the account is a tissue of falsehoode from beginning to end; but as others lees familiar than yourself with New Hamp- shire politics and politicians, cannot be presumed to have the same assurance, I enclose two or three copies of the late emiseions from the abolition press here, to show the estimation in which (teneral Pierce is held by that faction at home. [Those are omitted, aa unneces ury.J You will hear from us again, and speedily hrence to the Now Boston meeting. Very truly. yours, J. M. Caner * in re- Our New Hampshire Correspondence. Conconp, N. H., July 1s IWhat is in the Wind now ?—Visit of WE. Robin son—Plotting—-The Washington Republw—- Danie Webstr—Burning of the Plain near Concord. Tho renowned Richelisn Robinson, who made such a pereonal attack on General Pierce, at the whig ratification meeting at New York, lias been here for several days, closeted with * +a broken down politician, who is generally belie to be the author of the slander in the Zyydune, aharging General Pierce with being intemperate in his habits—which even (Creeley, dirty, and mean, and scurrilous as he is, was compelled to abandon, from its being so notoriously false, that ail the ro- spectable whigs of our city ‘were uttorly disgusted with it. Everybody here asks what is in the wind now? 1s Robinson hunting up__materials for another onslaught in the New York abolition papers, or fora stump speech ? No doubt ho wants to retain his situation in (he Custom House, or to thing better from General Scott. Don't J get it! Mr. ———— was formerly , and was Secretary of State here, but self out ef the party, or asthe party soy, was turned out by them for cevtain tricks well known to himself, “He became a whig and an aho- litionist. and a follower of every ism and ‘Ww ind of doctrine.” He rm into the ground two or three abolition and temperance papers, of which ho was editor. He bas been long the veracious corrospon- dent of tho Tribune, and Greeley, who is a New Hampshire man, and knows the antecedents of ——, would nover permit him to correspon’ for his paper, if ho wanted to do what was upright ond honornble. But he i a man exactly after his own heart, ond though, under the influeneo of fear, reo- lately pretended that the lotter was inserted without his knowledge, nobody hore that { have acon believes him; on the contrary, thero is good reagon to believe that his correspondent has beon employed by Greeley to do such dirty work. He has no visible means of @pport. and no vocation by which he can | earn a living. He isthe mortal enemy of General Pieroc,who does not speak to him, and he isset down by every democrat here, as the author of those at- tacks that appoar at a distance in tho whig journals. Some few yoars ago, a lotter appeared in ono of the apers hore, "signed with the name ofa Senator, and mtended to produce a temporary political offect. The letter turned out to be a forgery, and the Con- cord Potriot denounced some one a8 the author. He drought a suit against the sion of the paper, and though he sworo that he was not the writer, the republic has the audacity to say that the papers from which it copies are regular democratic papers, and cordial supporters of Genorai Pierce; whereas they are both votoriously known to be opposed to him, and are filled overy weok with the most vio- lent and scurrilous abuse of him, both asa atates- man anda private citizen. Tho public hero would as soon rely upon the testimony of Arnold, the trai- tor, against the character ci General Washington, as to give any crodence to what is said in theso journals against Genoral Pieres. Tho utter absurd- ity of the charge is made apparent by the fact that General Piorce wont to Now Boston during the campaign immediately preceding the last State election, for tho express posnose of suae taining the Fugitive Slave law, which was the only material issue at the time before the people of Now Hampshire. And when it is recollected that al Frank Pierce’s great contests have been on tha! side—that he overthrew John P. Hale, as candi- date for Senator, and drove him out of the party for having written a leiter against the annexation of Texas, and that ho donounced Atwood as candidate for Governor, a month before the election—called another convention and defeated him, because he in- timated in a letter to some of his abolition friends, who bonsted of it, that he did not exactly like somo of tho provisions of the Fugitive Slave law, and thought they ought to be amendod—we must come to the conelusion that the Republic must be either extremely ignorant of the politics of the country and ought to take some lessons from you, or, for party urposes, it has wilfully and shamelessly falsified Tae Cato. P. 8.—Daniel Webster med through Conoord this morning, from Franklin, en route to Boston. About a mile east of Concord, the plain has been on fire since Sunday morning, and has been burned to an extent of several milos,and the fire is still in progress and creates much alarm, on account of the great dryness of the surface of the ground, and the rapidity with which the dames are spreading. The farmers were at first talking of digging trenches around it; but it has now become go extensive that this would be impracticable, and rain is anxiously looked forward to as the only moans of extinguish- ing it. Indeed rain is much desired for the erops. The drought is.very great. It is acurious fact that in the second season after such a fire the blue ber- ries become so numerous that they are obtained in immense quantities. A single person can gathor a bushel in the day, and they are sold from a shilling to eighteen cents per quart. Forelgn BIusic and the Drama. LONDON. Royar Transas Orsna,—Sphor's magnificent opera of “Faust has been put in rehearsal, and will be shortly produced at this house, Herr Vormes will appear in tho charaster of Mephistophiles. and, judging from his wonderful performances of Bertram. in “Roberto,” he will make an extraordinary sensution as the diallical ad- viser of Faust. Haymarxer. A new petite comedy, entitled “A Novel Expedient,” in which alrs Stirling, Mr. Leigh Murray, and Mr. Howe, will perform. is in rehearsal. Princxss’s,—The gorgeously mounted historical trage- dy of “King John’? will be represented to morrow evening. at thistheatre. On the remaining nights of the week Mr. Lovell’s successful play. “The Trial of Love,”? with “The Vampire.” and The Corsican Brothers,” will be performed. The house is crowded every evening. Lyceum.—Miss Laura Keene has left this theatre. The parts of Therese, in “The Chain of Events,” and Lady Emily. in “Very Suspicious.” in which she ‘played, were sustained last week by Miss Oliver. Owing to the indis- sition of Madame Vestris, the theatre was closed on Friday night. Sranpanp Turarne.--The lessee of this theatre has made arrangements for the introduction of opera to the east end of the metropolis, and has engaged an excellent operatic company. consisting of Mr. aud Mrs. Donald hing, Mr. Leiter, Miss Julia ine, Mr, IL, Horncastle, M. St. Aubin. and other artists of musical reputation rformances will commence to-morrow evening “The Sonnambula.’* Ovyvric.——Mr. F% pens this elegant entitled new furee eallod “Buteher kyr Pnonr.—Thi have been engthening their c wont of the Man.wonkey. Signe fw Walker throure fiom Drury-lane New Exeuisu Orera —A new opera by Mr. Baife, upon the subject of the popular fareu of “The Devil to Pay, has been put in rehearsal at the Surrey Will Le produced with as litle deley as poss BERLIN. helmetadt theatre, the revival of the opera “Ie Macon.” by Auber, lias afforded the gre est pleasure, A commemorative fe 1 has taken pk at the Vocai Academy, in honor of the deceased Licute ant-General de Unruh, on which occasion there were exe- cuted « chorale by Sebastian Bach. the “Requiem of Jemelli.”’ and severul compositions forming part of works by the deceased. ‘This solemnity, which produced great eficet, terminated with a chorale by Graun. GENOA. Signor Angelo Mariani will decidedly take the manage- ment of the Teatro Carlo Felice. He hes made his début in “Robert le Diable.”” in a manner which leads us to hope that we may be indebted to the new director for the restoration of the musical art in Italy. PESTH. Mile Leibhart has eung twice at ow he has greatly distinguished he principal parts of *Martha” and of Herr “Hurgady Laszlo.” At the Frederick W' fonal thea t in the two Erkel's opera of MUNICH. Madame Sontag gave. on the Gch instant, her last eon- cert, which was for the benefit of the poor. At the mo- ment of her taking hor farewell of the Bavarian republic, the artistesand amateurs wished to pay her a compli- | ment worthy of ler merit; they encircled her and sang in chorus an ode. composed several years go, in ber honor. Madame Sontag was greatly alfected, more par- ticularly from the unusual circumstance that the verses of this Ode were composed for her by the pretent King ot | Bavaria, Maximillan IT, when he wes oniy Prince Royal. | and studying at the batver Berlin. at the earliest | poried of the young srtist nt career. \ G } , the celebrated violinist, gave two concert j theatre, and was received with enthusiasm. $i has given some soirce musivales: in the latter he wae assist- ed by a young pianist, highly distinguished at Posth, M. | Adler. procecds to Lausanne. and afver- | wards returns to I . 2 i Terry pe Trerrz—This young and charming singer | has accepted an engagement in America, at a silary of | $00 000 per annum, tour e Panis. Hector Berlios has returned here from London. The half-yearly examination at] the Conservatoire finiehes on Thursday. The singing class this year is more numerous | than ever. particularly amongst ile mele sin There x | are not less than twenty-four males and twenty males--in all fifty papils. Last year there were fb thirteen males and twenty-fow females, in ali thirty | seven pupils, The supplementary or provincial echoois are chortly to be inspected; government has gi extra pecuniary grant to the to the Conservaccire at Tow! 3 Mets. The receipts of the various (heat other places of amusement, cwing the amounted to a sum t € 1.018.58!fr. 46 preceding month wa y ed at the tly nd month civen by their Peer, "La Batse to be produc of which is new opera is said t death of the prince m yeas of ago, At the “1 Opera au Camp," musi ed ina fewdays. Charle baths of Toplitz, where he i months; the talented pianist in September, and wiil pass t Post Once Neglect. H Mr. Bexnerr :--I sond your daily paper and the | i? fnew operetta, | ney, is to be produc: as just left us for the | ing a couple of | turns to ug | Home Journal to my friends in tho ceun Lo | secure their eafo delivery I have es tho postage, which amounts to nearly double the eub- seription for the two papers. My daughter has to | walk over two miles to the Post Office, Canterbury, Cornwall, Orange county, to get the pa About three-fifths of the numbers reach their de | nation and the others are eithor lost or nover reach | their destination. Whose fault is this? The Post | Office here, the office at Newburg, or at Cornwall? | Perhaps the question might be answered through | the columns of the Heraty, Mytfriend, Mr. Walcot, yesterday, informed mo that he was bearer of letters from Cornwall to. he posied in Now York, for Poughkeepsio, as thoy would be more likely to reach their destination eome threo weeks sooner, it not later. My object is to raw attention to the inconvenience our country ends are thus put to, and the pleasure denied to read the daily news, whon reg lorly mailed to them A.C. Caste, M. 1), 518 Brondaray, The Crops. The Galveston New { the Gth inat., says the cote ton crop will open w ally cariy this year. A good number of planters will commence picking by the middie or 20th of this month, and should our rivers be navigable, wo may look for some of the gnd that at tho time he was not in tho plagg now crop in oar market before the Ist of Sop- tember. | which she groans, we do not appreciate the mighty | be £0 bold as to cry out, | the islun | their troasonable acts—threaton them with a prison } enlled w ‘Thrasher Ditanor in Now Orleans, of taking an activa part in politics, he ooul ¥rom the New Orleans Delta July 13.) Brewet th pam resistance Fe eae tat aad The dinner tendered to Mr. Tbrashor, by the citi | ns ovi in hia private optniona and preferences. zeus of Now Orleans, came off Last ovening at tho | Thia wasobnoxious to ment. An officer Cit Hotel. The soripany sat down at about t | at dead of night co: him to rise and follow o’clook, and partook of an excellent repast, sol him to the - There ho was reovived by the Oap- and served up in Bartell & Cullum’s best style, A very good band of musicians waa in attendance, and | Conchs—who, enlivened the dinnor with ita discoursings. Col. 8S. W. Oakey presided, assisted by Col. Wm. Hi. Garland, Col. Josiah Cole, and W. W. 28 Vice Presidents. Thrashor, sat on tho right of Col. Oakey. There were about one hundred persons prosent. After a choice and sumptuous repast, tho cloth was removed and the toasting began. Tho regular toasts, road by Col. Garland, were as foliows:— “Our Gueat—American ia thought, American in act— Lis recent course iu Cuba bas abundantly proved his Dirtoright.”” Muslo—Yankes Doodle.” Atr—Hlail “The Presiden: of the United States,” “ The Star Spanzied Bannee—Let ita glories sever be Columbia dimmed by neglect of our countrymen adroad,” star Spangled Banner, “ The Presi—Frvedom's beat friend—ths tyrant’s worwt foc." Buy a Broont “Republican Peeoelplee~- Tiles the sun. mey thay illu. mina‘e the whole earth.’ Home, sweat Home “Martyrs for Strugyling Freedom—Kvory age and evory clime have seen thomeevery teue heart venerstes them” Marvoilles Hyma “dhe Ladicea— Auid nature swears the lovely deans Her noblaat work rite classes 0: Ker 'prentice hand shs tried on max, And then she made tho lasses Oh!" {Coming Through the Rye ‘To the first toast Mr. Thrasher answered in tho following eloquent remarks. We publish them in full, bocause wo think thom well worth perusal:— Mr. President and Gentlemon :—In rising to re- turn thanks for the oxcooding kind and flatter- ing reception which you hava accorded to me, and for tho eloquont salutatory to which you have just listened, my heart’ is oppress ed with the meas of its honest gratitude. Perhaps, did I feo! loss dooply, 1 might be more fluent—and should the warmth of my oxpressions fall short of what you have a just right to expact, I beg you will attribute it, not to any coldness on my part, but to that depth of feeling which sur- passos all expression. I feel how inadequate is um tongue to give uttoranco to the emotions whic now swell in my bosom. I cannot look around me and contemplate the kind faces which you now turn upon me, without a conviction that language cannot Field a due return for such friondly greeting. Let me then cut the Gordian knot, and in words not more simple than they are sincere, let me say from the bottom of my heart, I thank you-—I thank you a thousand times over—and through you my fellow- citizens of Now Orleans and of all Louisiana, for their unbounded sympathy in ny sufferings, and for this warm and generous reception. If I have be- fore to-day folt that there was between us a feeling akin to that of brotherhood—a tie more closely knit than that which binds man to his broth- er man—how much deeper, how much more intense- ly must this sentiment now, burn within mo. Yes, gentlemen, it has always seemed to mo that the feel- ings which reign in my bosom found most sympathy in the warm, impulsivo, true-hearted citizens of Louisiana, and for somo time past, I have felt that this seeming has become a fixed fact. It did not need the kind enthusiasm of the present hour; ithad already become indelibly engraved upon my heart, whence it can never be erased. The gentleman who has so eloquently addressed you, has been pleased to allude, in terms honorable to himself, and most flattering to me, to the poor exertions I was able to make in behalf of those of our unfor- tunaie countrymen who have but lately returned from chains and prison ina foreign land. I did ho more, gentlomen, than what 1 conceived to be my duty—my duty to my fellow-countrymen—my duty to men who had perilled fortune and life, as they fully believe, in the sacred cause of liberty. 1 did no more than what every true hearted Ame- rican, no more than each and all of you who now hear me, would have done under like cireumstances. 1 take to myself no credit for it. It was the impul- sive act of that American character which we in- herit from our fathers, which we draw from every zephyr that funs our boyhood’s cheek, whic strevgtheng within us, under every association of our youth, and which reaches its full'‘and perfoct matu- rity with the intercourse of our manhood and the study of our country’s proud and glorious history. if from any act of mine there has accrued one single shred of honor to our,Ainetican name—if through me there has been saved a single blot upon our national character, my reward has exceeded my utmost desires. I would embrace the ial opportunity to say to you, under your kind indulgence, a few words in regard to myself. 1 do not wish to be misunder- stood. I come among you not as an agitator nor as a firebrand es lee I come not to attack nor, to defend—I have no expi —nor have 1 any appeal to make to you. Whi to thank you, as 1 willingly do, | and sincere manner, for the effeetua have so lately expressed in my belis simply relate to you a few pl a 1 3 facts, have found them, in regard to that country with whore aspirations T am supposed to be connect ed—in regard to Cuba PRIN WO MUDUStEL, IM tite yetagere oo word. Iam no advocate, and ne the fitting out of petty and unlawful expeditio do not wish to see our ardent youth, stimulated by 2 noble enthu: Li minolated to appease the rage of ty Neither do I wish to geo a country subjugated by the brute force of arms to laws not instituted by them, or to a sway not their own. It has been the misfortune of Cuba that her situation, her aspirations, and her capabilities have been misunderstood. We lave measured her by our own standard of nationai enterprise and pa- triotic duty, and we have expected of her too much. Born in the land of freedom—nurtured in the cradie of liberty—fondled in her very lap—we are not qualified to judge of a people over whom long years of despotism has cast its baneful influence, sowing amoral terror in every man’s bosom, and rooting out every high and noble incentive to duty. When we talk of Cuba, and the efforts ef her sons to free her from that rotienal degradation under and her vit difieulties with which they have to conten@, nor the few and weak means which are at their disposal. Among us, if the smallest of our rights is assailed, a free press sounds the clarion notes of alanm. and the majesty of the law stops boldly in to shield ns. Ip Cuba, fav other is the case. A venal press lauds every act of the goverument; and should any one the Jaw is omnipotent, and aprison or a scaffold await<the wretch. fan oppo- sition is carried on by secret and covert means, a slavish press holds ali who urge it up to the public view as traitors and thicy a3 men who would sisting order of things for selfish mo- tives--ns anarchist Kk. in the general itlains in society, Not a sentiment is permitted—not a truth can be uttered. All that is scx 1. or, as itis mildly term ed, conservi nto the ears of the } people, Men grow pale Loat their own judgments should become too bright, And thelr free thoughts and earth have toc much l'ght. } Under such circumstan. 8 of tho pa- } triotie Cubans to free their country from the igno- | minious chains that bind her, will always have, in | appearance of a want o } want of moral | } | of chtest jew panial His allegation that any ve committed was necessary for the pea isadefence behind which no accusationcen | go. Nor ishe cary in the use of thi, te power. | It has ever boen a favorite policy with those whom I haye known there, to send at dead of night | for Cubans who possessed either weaill, station or influence among their countrymen, and a ig them with the most opprobrious epithets, accuse them of designe inimical to the government—tell them that their practices aro well known to hita—parade | before them papers alloged to contain full reports of } bri may lia ucdiate exeention—and then, putting imous, allow ther to retwn tot agonized families, with a, warning that if aga . their treatment will be loss cousiderat: The unfortunate Cuban, well knowing that arre ig synonimous with conviction and confiscat that tho will of his tyrant is law, and the coart;butja | tool—that no defence can be made against a denun- | clation, whether true or falzo—returns, if such be his | ood fortune, to bis home, to find the partner of his | hogom and bis children terrified and in tears as to | the probable fate of their only protector, and their | own defenceless and unhappy situation. Not always | is it their good fortune to seo him again-not seldom | does he leave the palace for a prison. One single in- | stance—I will not detain you long, though I could | cite many from my own personal knowledge— | or perhaps ims on the magn: ono single fact which lately occurred, will speal | moro eloquently than © thousand assertions. A young gentleman—a lawyor—young, talen | and onergetic—-who had succeeded to iis fath practio and not only retained all the old clients, put by his own industry and genius had acquired many now ones, was looked upon by his country- men as an honor to thom—asn he for his cow —na a beacen for hor sons. Deeply engaged in the * labors of bis profession, and well Knowing tho daa: rs | Vaught The invited guest, Mr. rach tl ) and suecor. | Cuba | saon country: ) impulse—with tain Generai!—gensrous, human, considerate, hout addressing him one word, said to an officer ** you will conduct this gentleman to the Moro.” Ho was thers thrown into a dun- on, tncomumicado—doniad all conversation wi jo World—his family, notwithatanding the gre exertion aad in for days could not as whothor he was ordsad. On th was permitted to have a short interviow with bis wife—on ths sixth his fathor was allowed to say him—and on tae morning of tas seventh day after his ar ho was omborked, 4 prisoner, on bourd « for Spain, without trial, without aa accusation even, and wish strict pro- hibition to louva & power of attornoy in Cubs, Thore ho was ordered to resido, under aurvoiliance in a miserable, interior, couatry town. During my reoeut visit to tho peninaula, I met him. I agsiates him to fly; and ho is cow underourown star-span- glod banner, ready to do good service im the cause ‘afroadom. Dut lot ug roturnto Cuba. atom of govoroment—with 9 spy ia and bayonets at e eorner— & fiction, and juatice a mockery— ignature of more then three namos jon to tho govornmens is 4 treason. ney, and indictable as such—whore roigns paramount in every boym— tain ifth day hy every house, where law ii where the terror what man would doclars himself patriot? What man could hops, by 49 doing, to aervohis country, or attain her freedom? Yet, my word forit, every Cubsa—young cr oid, rich or poor, educated or ignorant--burns with a deep and lasting fogling of hatred for his country’s tyrants, and longs for tha day when they shal! ba swept away before the firs of hiswrath. But these are the acta andtho policy of tho heads ofthe governmont, of men high in social and litical station, of menovor whom their moral and s0- cial rozponsibility is supposed to exercise some influ- ence. You will thoneasily imagine what will be tho courso of the thousand myrmidong-—the sub-govern- ors and officers, whoso inducement to brave tho tor- rors that a tropical climate presenta to a Muropean imagination, isa thirst for gold—tha minions to whom through a thousand channels doegconds tho sume unlimited power—men restrained by no moral considerations, no social ties—respon- sible only to a wilitary chief, whose avowed policy is that it i+ derogatory of the dignity and power of governraent to punish an admin- istrative officer—-can you wonder that oppression andrapino are rife in the land? Can you wonder that every Cuban should hate Spain and Spaniards? Cuba, in ‘her industrial and intellectual developo- mont, is for ia advance of Spain. With her million and a quarter of iuhabitants, she exports far more in value than docs Spain with her fourteen millions. Her domestic commerce is thrice greater than that of Spain. Her railroads are counted by hundreds of miles, while those of Spain are counted by tons. On Ag, side, in Cuba, you see the application of ma- CMinery to productive labor. In Spain, you can hardly find a machine-shop or a machine, out of the government arsenals; and, in ono instance, at least, which I have seen, a portion of the fixed machinery there was sent from Cuba, and all the rest from England. Her press, though under tho most severe and mbitrary consorship, is far higher in intellectual vigor, for better in typographicul Laer and far more universal’ in its cir- culation than that of Spain. The natural con- sequence of all this is, that every now Gover- nor who comes from Spain to Cuba is literall astenisked. Imagining that he comes from civil- ized Rurope to govern a set of semi-savages, ho finds he is sent by a nation of hoors to govera an enlightened people. Gentlemen may think this on exaggeration; but whoever, with a knowledge of the language, has travelled in both countries, will not fail to recognise the truth of the picture. Let me detain you a few minutes longer with some brief remarks on the principles and policy of the Spanish rule in Cuba. Several times, in the politi- cul changos in Spain, Cuba has held the position of an integral portion of the Spanish empire, with re- presentation in the Cortes. She was, lastly, deprived of this, in 18835, by the execrable Tacon--an infamous tyrant--whose petty services in the cause of social order can never compensate for the civil, political, and moral degradation of a whole people. A public robber, who, when the true story of Cuba shall be written, and so long as her annals shall endure, will be handed down to posterity as one of the most execrable of Maikia Some of you may think 1 am falsifying history; but, gentlemen, you have far higher authority than toy poor word for saying that ‘history we know to be a lie.” It was Tacon who instituted the present iniquitous and unholy policy of the government—that Cubans shall be excluded from all places of honor or trust—that the } shall be muzzled, and, if possible, entirely i--that ednention shall not be extend the people, not even to the teaching of cad and write, if possible, silently to pre ‘Y people must annually ob ', to ® stranger sent to govera side in the home of thei nt of their owa birthright. ‘oncha has added 8d OPAC LF ANMT iter until he has paid th anie shall ever carry wit vd present at stated periods to the govern ount current of his own servitude; thu f im to a system of slavery precisely sim + inr to the peonage or Indian slavery in Mexico. i Spain and Cuba owe the thrice in- tin order to preserve Cu i n violation of treaty sti yund policy, in vio ban, in violation of the sa i avy to protect an int ed traffic in hu thein te amous = neeogsnny lation of all flesh, that the to the white, and the unpwralleled wro Il_restrain all exertions by the Cubans to attain the freedom of their countr Tom often asied if it is true that in Cuba the fee ing of discontent is general—if the Cubans do real- ly bate their oppressors—lut I can truly say that this « jon hus never been asked of me by any | one W 5 has been, even for a single day, in any part | of the island. Whoever bas been there—whoever | has been among Cubans—bas heard their deep and ever-continued imprecations of their eppres- | sors, has seen tho ning eye, and heard the | burning words ef the daughters of Cuba, as they spoke of the degradation of their fathers and brothers, and their own deep and fiery scorn and ha- | red of the tyrants of their country ; has felt himself i by their noble enthusiasm while they spoke of the lay when their country’s chains shall be broken—when their much loved hall be free. I will only relate one instance, gentlemen—I will not much longer detain you—one instance of their | ready and effectual sympathy with all those who havg done aught for Cuba. When the late ill-fated expedition had melted away—when the wen who composed it had been bronglit in chains to Hevana —lcame forward to render them such assistance as was in my power. These men necded clothes, food, | For this money was necessary. I told a few friends that such w: nd in less than forty-eight hours more than $2,000 was placed in my hands, and this under circumstances of the greatest pene danger—the gi ‘han rendered and he knew it night—| hi There is one ge whom I y his Luma: bis nnfortn’ 1 . id it come to me. <nt—one to ite for If of when tired square, ran up to the + With fachi and me the fruit of h of gold—more than $¢ ich enabled me to give te y just pride in honoring: No one more than my: q whole country bas felt a - William Sidney Smith, knows Low much he did—how great and how me was his sympathy and aid to our unfortu- e countrymen: and the greater honor is his that his exertions w the emanations of a true and noble soul, He was bound by no ties ofa com: posed to have any rests called | Yet, with a noble enlarged humanity that recognizes | mypathy with suffering man, | da, the sanction of his noble and high-souled chief, Joseph Tucker Crayford, British | Consul at Havana—to whom also be all praise—he contributed all that was in his power, morally and , physically, of both Ye he litical syinpathy oul with them im loudly to a contrary course. equal to the hope and joy thoy gay.c Thave detained you too long, gentlemen, and [ will | have said to | now bring my remarks to a cloge. you Lam no filibus: its vulgar senso. Lamnot. Yet do | sympathize with the Cubans in their ar- dont desire for liberty. for joy to ee Cuba free. The love of freedom is ine , in every man’: vom. 1 thize | ‘A nate in every man’s botom. You all sympathize | tion before the Coroner—but, without being con with a people who struggle for it. I can, with yerfect truth, sny to you what the judge who sentenced mo to the galleys said to mo: You cannot help it--it is in your oducation—it is in your blood—you aie republican.” Cuba will be freofreo through herself. The great idea of a people's oxodus from thraldom nover ro- codes. orward is ever the word, like a mighty river its first beginning may bo small and unpor- goived; but it will ever gather strongth in ibswarch. ed to have to their alleviation. May the reward | Should obstacies interposo to detaia its onward Our Valparaiso Corresponde courre, it stroogth day by day, continually, r ¥ Vaurar Ty re until lo in its might, all bofore it ia awopt ; epee nee pdagongl away. but ita forse and ite | 2% simess In Valpararso—Proceedings of the Plover onteinins and tho voyager shall surely 100 its Expedition—Probable Succesi—Seizure by the uaion th tho great ocean of human 289 5 Chile Government of American Ships and Pro- Daldntienten bieding uate ee, porty—Ships Arrived at Valparaiso—-The Ammi- Tha baffled oft, is ever won.” cams tm the City. Pree Cubs, ry a bright and glorious dosting. f way of the commerce of Bituated on tho groat hi tho world—with a most fertile soil, capable of boar- ing millions of population—having immense agri- cultural and mineral resourcee—abundaatly aup- vied with coast ani harbors ta give her poopls mari- Unis tendoncies~ a gonial ciimate~herself the garden of the world—every avecuo to enterpriag, acquiai- Liou or cejoyment 14 open to ber obil . Her un- rivalled acne pce position will confer upon her @ commanding ti fluence, aad bor iamense produc- tiou will give her weight among tho nations. Lot Da thea hope that the day of ber liberation is not distant; that soon within bor tas bright fires of Liberty may blago upon every hill-top, and ma every valloy ring forth the gtad peans of freedom. The aeoond tonat was ansvared by Gonoral Palic Huston, and the third by Judge Perkins of Madison. It would be useloss to attempt an epitome of the witty sayings and to that followed. Tho com- pany broke up at alate hour, The Eastern Archipelago, By tho Bingapere, Free Press, o€ the Lath March, we observa that native roports assert that thore is some chance of hostilities breaking out between the Rajaha of Tripgene aad Pasaang, the former inati- gated, itis said, Py the Bultan of Linga, and tho witer, backed by H. H. the Tomungong of Singa- ore. MK From Labdan, intolligonce to tae 6th March haa een received. The fire in tho lovel of the coal ming at Tanjong Kubong was still unextinguished. A aale of country lots had taken place, which had goue of well. A further sale is to take place in April next. Fevers still prevailed on the plain, but not of so cerious a charactor as in former years Ti. M. steamer Sphinx left Singapore on tho 8th January, for the northern ports, in consequence of intelligence which had been recoived of the existe ence of a darge Pecetee fleet in the neighborhood of Ningpo. TheSphinx was noarly wrecked in Suei- poo harbor. Sbeipoo is admirably sesgion by nature for pi- ratical purposes, and is th quent head-quarters of the eyil-disposed. Besides a back entrance for vessela of light draught, there are threo entrances from the seaward, ail narrow and difficult of access for sailing vessels. The Chinese doubtless consider the placo almost inaccessible; and, notwithstanding the accident which befell the Sphinx and Contest, perhaps the fact ofthe place having been visited, under the peculiar circumstances, may have a bene- ficial effect. The greater part of tho late pirates had returned to their allegianco, and given over their vessels and guns to the authorities; but a few still held out. The chief of the pirates, Pooking-yew, instead of being shot, is buttoned and liberally bribed. His followers, according to their degreo, are treated in a similar fashion, they promising to be better boys in future, ‘and not to go and do so no more—until next time.” : pal the 3d February, the Sphinx sailed for Loo Shoo. During the month of February eighteen whalers have arrived at Singapore, of which there are sey- enteen American—the place is all alive with the crews. The anticipations of this becoming a great whaling station seoms likely to be fulfilled, in which case the colony, it is most probable, will realize some of the hopes entertained of it. By the Singapore Bree Press of tho 13th Feb., wo gather an account ofthe recent Chinese disturb- ances in Malacca: Information having been received that illicit dis- tillation of arrack was being carried on at the mines, a constable and thirty-eight armed peons were sent with a warrant to apprehend tho parties. One man was taken into custody, on which the alarm was immediately given, and in the course of a few minutes upwards of one thousand miners turned out to the rescue. ‘hey manned a fort or battery mounted with two brass guns which com- manded tho only way by which the police could leave the place, and the constable seeing that resistance was hopeless, was obliged to give up his prisoner. At another bangksal were four iron guns mounted on carriages, with which the Lead man threatened to fire upon the constable and his party if they dared to go near his mine. The constable having reported these proceedings to the magistrate, Mr. Braddell, that gentleman immedi- ately started for the scene of action with a party of 70 sepoys, under Lieut. Stansfield, and 30 peons and men from the gun boats, making, with the police already at the mines, a force of 140 men. They marched into the mines and were fired upon by the Chinese, the first shot narrowly missing the consta- ble. The fire was returned, and the Chinese driven hack, having one man wounded. The magistrate then went through the mi disarming some of the principal ringieaders, breaking Gown their de- fences, w king their guns and lellas. Their F spears were broken, and the party urned to Malacca, taking with them several ‘The Chinese were very indignant at the cis have come to Singapore tor “tnl spme pose of procuring legal advice on the subject. ‘This is not the first time that the miners at Kas- sung lave shown an unwillingness to permit the in- terference of the police in their community. The evil consequences of the British government allow- ing tkese large communities to grow up in their ter- ritories, exempt from all control, have been fre- quently puinted out. Secret societies have been allowed to extend their operations everywhere, and it is only when some daring outrage has been per- petrated, that the authorities take cognizance of their jungle population. By the government allow- ing the Chinese to settle on their lands without any control, and no cognizance being taken of their oc- cupation, extensive tracts of land have been ex- hausted of their fertility and abandoned, so that a great part of the island is now covered with low brushwood and lallang, the appropriate retreat of tigers. They institute their own system of goverament by me of the ¢ one’s interference. But suddenly, some day when one of their number is amusing Limeelt in experi- ments in the distillation of arrack or the preparation of chandoo, he is pounced upon by a gang of reve- nue officers, and not feeling inclined to submit to the measures which they wish to adopt towards him, appenls to his comrades for help, and receives it most etlectually. Most Foul and Atrocious Marder, (From the Richmond Enquirer, 20th inst | Jn our city, on Sunday night, or early yesterday | moining, was enacted one ot the most distressing, and outrageous tragedies that the | cold-blooded. country bas ever witnessed. Mr. Joseph Wins: ef the’ firm of Nace & Winston, commission me nts, residing at the northern extremity of th street, near the City Spring, togethor with his wife, and anonly child, about eight months old, were the victims of the butchery. The two latter were found dead in bed carly yesterday morning; an while we write, Mr. Winston is thought to be beyond hope of recovery, though still alive. His head las a terrific wound upon it, immediately be- tween the eyes, opening the forehead, and there are three other wounds on the back of his head. Mrs. W. also received thice or wounds—one about hree-quarters of an inch wide, and two inches long, on the forehead, immediately above the nose, appa- rently made with some blunt instrument: algo, two deep cuts on the side of her head. The child seom- Leen smothered, t leath ¢ I ay Liting severe Anim and coi On being ae three menand throe wi xnegroe ing to Mr. V ported that two of veld, but nee their disen their too fatal Mr. Winston had uade preparation to leave the city, with his wife, who was in delicate health, y: terday morning, forthe North, and bad in his po session $100 in cash, and drafts for large amounts— which was found safe; so it appears that plun- cer was not the object of the murderers. The house Lad not been forcibly entered—the locks, windows and doors, were all secured : and the inference is ir- resistible that the horrid butchery was the work of those who were acquainted with, and had access to, the premi One of the negro women, who is sns- m (man and w desired to Winston ed to sell them— faction, and hence, itis thought, pected, kept the key of the outer door, in rea ofthe premises, and whe was, as vaual, the first to enter the house, yet was not first to give the alarm, On returuing to the kitchen, after opening the house yesterday morning, this woman said that “the white felks must be dead—she cowldn’t wake ’em.” A hatchet was found in the room occupied by the wo- man and hor husband, whe isa carpenter, and a man of malignant temper. It had traces of blood on the handle, and appeared to have been recently Yet would my heart leap | washed. Marks of blood, we learn, wore found on me negro Woman, sterday wnderwent an oxamina- the pereon of th The negroes ded, it was continued until this morning. Mr, Winston has ve | sympathy for them pervades our entire commu Fvery effort, we are satisfied, will be made to bring the oilenders to justice; and cirowmstances already » r¢ 80 strong as te induce many to brought to My * boligve that the wretches are now in gustedy, ns of their societies or Hoes, they adminis | | ter their own laws, and experience no need for any ue extensive family connee- tions in this city, and the shock is so sudden and | Whiting, Assistant Surgeon; | astounding, that, as may be supposed, the rene Pu ty. Business in V aipara very slack. hundred vessels, whereas la been three timos tho auuaber Las improved. I received a lotter from an Amécionn friend of mine (dated Punar, April 21) connected with the Ho anys Flores has ono brig of four guns, one stoamor of four guna, and a bark of Flores expedition. twenty-four gums, and fifteen hundred men, and was waiting reinforcements. I understand from tho best authority, that Flores had purchased the A moricas steamer Quickatop, and that sho was to have joined tho expedition, with two hundred Americans from California, by the bth Mayor Juma. My friond alse writes ma that he has vary littl» doubt of the aus- coaa of Flores. Isee by the New Yor Hznaip of the 5th of April, Mr. (now Captain) Jackson ce- coives the credit of carrying despatches through the government eamp during the political revolution ia Chilo. It was a Mr. Champ, young Amertoam from California, who executed successfully this hazardous pisco of business, and not Mr. Jacksem, now @ captain under Gonoral Flores. The Paruviaa Government advanced Flores $500,000 for tho pur- poses of this expedition, and will no doubt sea him well out of the scrape as far aa mom and money go, and perhaps an open doolara- tion of war will do so. They are inoreaaing their army, for ome branch of w! alone wae chipped from this port upwards of ong taousand horees. A portion of Flores’ expedition was fitted out here, and no doubt with tho approbation or kuowledge of the Chile governm Piiese things being apparently countenanced by the Peruvian and uit governments, may lead us to infer taat Flores is somewhat justified by force of arms to re- ae himself of the powers unfairly and by under- anded means taken from him, by those now avid- gh the reins of the Ecuadorian government. the Chile government haying 50 far refused te ae- knowledge the cloims made upon them for tie im- juries outrages committed by thoir ocitizess upon the bark Florida, of New Orleans, at Sam Bay, Straits of Magellan, it rests with tho govera- ment at Washington to say, whether the proporty ofcitizens of the United States, under ciroumstances most aggravated, is to be treated as citizens of another government, and also the goverm- ment itself, may think proper, without indemnity. The least our government in this case can will be reparation to the fullest extent from the Chile government, without one iota of abatement To make any other compromise of this master, would be to expose our commerce on this coast, which is already extensive, and daily inc! to the more frequent seizure of American vi 5 as the least experienced, for the purposes of the pe- litical revolutionists in all the Seuth American republics of the Pacific. he ship Rece Hound, from New York, with two hundred and fifty passengers for California, ar- rived on the 2th ult. Emigration to California round Cape Horn appears to have begun agaim. Tho steamer S. S. Lewis has upwards of forty pas- sengers. Recently, a Irench ship, with three hum- dred and fifty passengers, for California, touched here, and one with one hundred and twenty-five, for the same destination. The emigration from Chile to California has, in a great measure, ceased at the present time. The steamer Pioneer, via Rio de Janeiro and Tal- eahuano, arrived last niet about half-past sight o’olock, from New York, bound to Panama and Sam Francisco, with upwards of 270 passengers; the ship Harriet Hoxie, from Now York, with 20 or 30 pas- sengers, arrived also yesterday; the bark Asa Packer, with 160 passengers, from Philadelphia, aad the ship Hamilton, trom Boston, arrived to-day, alll bound to California. The Grecian did not reacie Valparaiso. The Pioneer reported hor to have pat into Talcahuano in consequence of tho small quam- eT of water left—there being but one cask. he United States storeshlp ee arrived from San Francisco yesterday, after 69 days’ sage. The Vincennes and Vandalia have loft the lat- ter port, and are daily expected here—thoy are all bound home. : Coat is selling at $22 per ton; twe hip-loads arrived to-day, but one of them was cem- signed to the steam company’s agents. The Pioneer will leave to-morrow or next day for Coquimbe, te coal; the Harriet Hoxie left to-day. There are up- wards of five hundred Americans now in Valpareiso; they are perfectly at home, apparently, and appear to have come on shore with the full determination of enjoying themselves; they aro generally weil bebaved and very gentlemanly in their deportment. We have also in town to-day, a lot of Yankee women. Queen of the West. The following, taken from the New Bedford Mercury, contains some further particulars of the capture of the schooner Qucen of the West, of Dartmouth. Maas., amd massacre of her crew, on the coast of Madagascar, noticed, some time back, In the Hrnann, They ure derived frou eport addressed to Mr. 8. de Billigney, Consul of France, at Zanzibar, by Mr. Dauriace, captain of the French steam corvette Lachimidu, dated— Nas Bru, February 17, 1852 Tam at this moment very much occupied, as well as the Special Commandent, with an affair of some im | tance, We learned, about a week ago, that the 1 crew of the American schooner Queen of the West, which: sailed from Nas Beh in November last, for the purpose ef | locking for tortoise shell, on the eastern coast of Mada- | gascar. at Port Levro a few leagues from Cape Amber, was massacred by tortoise hunters, who afterwards laged and burnt the vessel. The men who commit this act of piracy belong to Nas Mitzien, whose chief, Isimiare, has frequent intercourse with the Special Com- mandant. As soon as we were apprised of this event, we | decided to ee Bigs Spesa a si ight fil oe guilty parties, and of such goods as they mi ve ieirbande, ‘It ts not always easy with ene people (whe are very nearly certain of impunity) to obtain tion for their misdeeds. They are, 50 to say, wandering tribes: are very little confined to their huts ; and at the least feor, they take refuge in the highlands, where it is impossible to pursue them with success, At last.Istmiare complied with a tolerably good grace, but not without | many strategems. He sent us from Nas Mitzien all the criminals but one. who had sueceeded in egeory besenert gascar; there were fifteen of them; each one brought his share of the Looty ; we collected a sum of 1400 franca, silver bracelets. some pieces of tortoise shell ; they only | took the silver and sueh objects a8 could be easily carriet sway. their pirocues not being large enough to carry off | the merchandise. ‘The schooner might be ata distance of 1,000 to 1,200 | metres from the shore of the island of Nas Mitzien, an- chored in five fathoms of water; these villains endeavored to sever the ebain by filing it, with the expectation of get- ting the vessel on the beach, but they did not succeed. ‘They might easily have effected this, had they noticed | the chain was divided into several pieces, joined her merely by alock. After about an hour's work of plun~ | der, they cut down the masts. and made use of them ta | fire the Vessel, which continued burning until the next morning. 1t seems that at low water she may be seenat the bottom, We have established a committee of inquiry, in order tocobtain a knowledge ot all the facts, and especially to make sure that all tne men who have been given up to wt are indeed the guilty parties, All the depositions agree together. Egger peg Gone interrogated, is quite a young man, who, through fear, and in the hope of saving his “life. has entirely. revealed the conspiraey, Confronted with the others, whose plam of defence had been perfectly concerted although void of probability, he obliged them to tell the truth, Con- founded by his appearance, they concealed nothing fur- ther, and explained to us how they had proceeded. We nm know who killed each individual of the crew. The captain and his brother were assassisatedin iheroom into which the villains had induced them to deseend, on pre~ tence of buying goods There were five persons on hoard. one of whom was & ship-bey, The latter wos not killed, he having bid him~ | self in the hold. snd perished there, either by fire or le consequence of t nking of the schooner. ed mor armet with « three or four barrelled pocket pistol, fire | cfreach barrel successively, but without hitting any o€ the pirates, five of whom threw themslves into the sea at, ) the first disebarge, Secing that he wns about to pe overs | come. he endeavored to do eorise ; She rotpen caught hin: near the pulwarks, and murdered | We could not find out the precise day on which this | crime was committed. We are nearly certain that ic } “ od between the 27th and 25th of December last, ; ‘as it phe times happens in these countries that the chiefs are the fret to organize a scheme of plunder, we compelied Jsimiare to “ppear, with all the at Nas Beh; we bave examined, interrogated and made alt inquiries, and nothing he« preved, or even led us to suspect. that this chieftain had any hand iu this mas~ sacre. We are convinced that the blow was dealt on the spur of the moment, after the return of a little pirogue from the schooner, and after they had noticed that there were but five men on board, and all of them unsuspect- ing. It would be difficult to conceive that Isimaire couit have delivered up to us within two days all bog bee parties and a portion of the stolen articles, if he had ordered the pillage. I bave all the criminals om board, and expect to take them to the United States. No law allows us to try and condemn thom; they wil?, probably, love nothing by waiting. In order to avoid all the repérte which the affair might give rise to, on the ar- rival of the American vessel at Zanzibar, | communicate the facts to you at once, ¢o that you may, if you think it expedient, inform the Consul of the United States of the cireumstances, Naval Intelligence. sloop of war Decaten whieh arrived at New ie 01 \ The v. Orleans on the 12th inst, from Per service. ‘The following compose her officers:— o ; William 7. Muse, James W. Cooke, Sieees accter Onacles.W tinyem Acting ictmnasts 3 Lieutenants; - W. B. Greenhow, Passed Assistant usgen; 2 Charior ; Henry C, Hunter, ‘aster: | Acts neal Midsitpman; William A; Abbott, Raware ‘otter, William Ul, Dana. Charies D. Sparks, Midahip~ ; Wm. W. Groen, Captain’s Clerk; James Walkee wi Act Lip a, Carpenter; Joka J Styoford, Sallngager, compared with laat yaar, if Thore is not in ths bay rising ome « there must bave coight to California ing Boatswain ; Willian Barniecs, Gunmec; Jam