The New York Herald Newspaper, January 19, 1853, Page 6

ARRIVAL OF THE-BLACK WARRIOR. HIGHLY INTERESTING FROM CUBA. nee IMPORTANT FROM ST. DOMINGO. The British Cruisers and the Slave Trade. WHAT IS TO GROW OUT OF IT? Approaching Crisis in the Affairs of the Queen of the Antilles. ARRIVAL OF DR. GARDINER. SPECIAL WISSION TO SANTA ANSA, ke, ke, ke. ‘The steamer Black Warrior, &. W Shufeldt, U.S..N., commander, arrived yesterday noon from Mobile and Havana. She left Mobile bar on the 10th inst, at 3 P. M., and Havana at meridian on the 13th. ‘There was nothing of apparent importance trans- piring at Havana, but under the surface there is auf- ficient to reflect upon. The smal! pox, which had prevailed to some extent, was fast disappearing, and but few new cases were reported. ‘The English steamer Trent, trom Vera Cruz, ar- rived at Havana on the 10th inst., having on board the commissioners sent to Mexico to investigate the Gardiner claim. They left, as before stated in the Hzxaxp, on the 11th, for Charieston, in the | steamer Isabel. Dr. Gardiner came on with them, | and has arrived here in the Black Warrior. Two Mexican gentlemen also arrived at Havana in the Trent, on their way to Jamaica, with the in- tention, it is said, of endeavoring to prevail on Cen. Santa Anna to return to Mexico. Santa Anna, how | ever, is, we believe, at Curthagena, and oot at Ja- maica. The Diario dela Marina, of the Sth of January | informs us that her Catholic Majesty's steamship Isa bella Il. had returned to Havana from St. Domingo, whither she had gone on public business. The effect produced among the inhabitants of that ancient Spanish possession at the sight of the Castilian flag is said to have been very greut, since the inhabitants reckoned upon that circumstance as a proof of the sin- cerity with which political relations were to be estab- lished with Spain. The Diario reproduces an article from the Dominican organ, in which it is stated that the steamship had come to that port by the special | directions of the authorities of Cubs, to manifest to Senor Baez, President of the republic, the sentiments | ofesteem which they preserved towards true Span- iards, and which they could do no lesa than revive, on seeing the spontaneity with which the govern- ment of the republic had assisted the shipwrecked unfortunates of the brig Molinero. The Diario then proceeds to give a brief idea of the situation of that interesting country, from which we translate: — The most complete tranquillity reigns in it, without | any sign, as yet, of hostilities on the part of its | neighbors, and the past elections have terminated | quietly by the unanimous election to the Presidency of Gen. Santanna, the candidate supported by the existing government, and in whose energy is reposed | | into effect, at the instance i h | frighten others, British snd American citizens, from iolent broke into the honse of 2 Mr. Wren, the a Captain of the Cobre copper mines, breaking everything they found in iter way, they seized Mr. Wren, who had, or, rather was, only recovering from a severe attack of fever, and still very weak. ‘They dragged him a considerable ‘distance from his house, inflicting 30 many wounds of 4 severe nature that hislife is despaired of,and the phy- sicians who were called in have given certificates to that effect. So unprovoked and murderous an assault, perpetrated in the middle of the night on a highly respectable British sub!ect, and one of the most in- offensive men in the employ of the Mining Company, could only have been planned, and purposely carried the place, and deserves the severest censure, Such an outrage will doubtless be the cause of a eg =H inquiry on the part of the British cae jut this a not the first instance the lives of British and American citizens have been placed in jeopardy from similar causes, during the short ad- ministration of the present authorities, nor need we expect justice at their hands until other governments adopt such measures a8 will indicate to these petty t its that the livea and properties of the foreign Saree ate eeene trifled with by them, with in- punity. ig ship, gate aS, cl not moved her anchorage for the lest eight months, has lately been sent to cruise off the Moro, to prevent the English frigate Vestal from capturing any more Spanish slavers. ha Havana, Jan. 12, 1853, Full Particuiars. With regard to the large cargo of negroes which I reported in my last letter, a3 having just landed near to Cabaiias, to the house of His Excellency Don Joa- quin Gomez, who is the most intimate friend and ad- viser of our present Captain General Cafiedo, it was determined that H. and myself shotld proceed to the scene of operations and endeavor te ferret out all the circumstances of this audaciously barefaced violation of the treaties for the suppression of the slave trade, and which cannot otherwise but have been effected with the full knowledge and consent of the authorities, whose letters, indeed, between each question, have been seen and read. of the following statement, inasmuch as the cir cumstances are all of public notoriety, and even the parties themselves, who were immediately interested in the venture, did not attempt to disguise their satis- faction at the good fortune which had befallen them, in that such a@ large cargo (800) ing, as they did, that they had nothing to fear from who would venture to inquire into a matter in which his Excellency, Don Antonio Parejo, Queen Chris- | tina’s agent, Was s0 largely interested? ! It appears that the sluver vessel, a large bark, | fitted out and sailed directly from a port in pain to | the coast of Africa, where she took on board 813 slaves; that from the over crowded state of the | hold sickness broke out among the poor creatures, this vessel was in sight of the Moro Castle the same day that the British war vessels Vestal and Geyser, were maki the port with the prize brig Ar- rogante Emi in charge; that the moment the great confidence in every contingency. {t is acarcely necessary to mention the absolute falsity of the ru- mors which have circulated in the United States, respecting the occupation of Samana by the French naval forces—although, asto the cession of this little territory, that would be nothingstrange, accomplished as it would be, with the voluntary consent of the Do- minicans, and for mutua} advantage. Still, it is very pleasing to be able to deyounce a falsebood invented a Spanish ensign, and a flag denoting belonged to the port of Havana, steer- ing direct for the port, in order not to attract the attention of the British cruisers by a cuange in her course; but as soon as the latter vessels entered the harbor, the slaver hauled her courses, Tan that she afterwards the burk was scuttled, and is now sunk in a convenient place, for future use, if necessary. | by some persons seeking to gloss over by a foreign | example other plans of a more wicked The | conservative action of Europe on the destinies of | America—that action to which all demagogues have | to humble themselves—shows it-elf more pure and salutary, whilst, at the same time. it keeps itself most | disinterested in simple appearances, 4 But the most interesting part of the ceived to-day from St. Domingo i plete disappointment with whic jillibustero annexation have be: Spanish inhabitants of that d—perhaps too little cautions of the repeated deceptions y@acticed upon them by foreiguers—had even consented willingly to the admission of colonists, becanse they looked on them as friends, their general ingratitude would have awakened and made to rule in al! breasts the knowl- | edge of the true tendencies of Mr. his followers; neither wonld the adv masked If the ans of them. ‘The Dominican government, on ifs part, gives as- | surance that, recognizing already the true spirit of their situation, and strengthened by the moral snp- | port of foreign powers, it is occu in dictating | measures suited to the requirements of the case. | Among these measures figures, it is said, an abo- | lition of the decree for admitting Anglo-American | , or such a modification of its conditions as ient to dispel every danger; whilst at the ¢ it is certain that a Dominican ship of war ing to vail for the United States, which will | e. is pr be the official bearer of sach a proper dec Our Havana @orrespondence. Havana, Jan. 12,1859. | Expected Arrival of Vice-President King—Envon to | Gen. Santa Anna—Rumored Recall of Gen. Ca medo—The Governor of Santiago, and the E pelled English Resident—Violent Conduct of Spn- | nish Soldiers—Gorernment Preparing to Resist the English Cruisers in thetr Arrest of Savers. Mr. King, the Vice-President elect, is daily expect- ed to arrive here in the United States steamer Fulton. | Apartments have, I understand, been prepared for | him at the “Cubano Hotel,” kept by Mrs. Brewer, where our excellent Consul, Judge Sharkey, aud his lady, also have apartments. ay El Sefior de Escovar, is the name of the chief Commissioner, who passed through here on the 9th instant, en route for Carthagena, to invite General | Senta Anna to retarn to Mexico, and place himself | at the head of affairs, General Adrisa Woll, who | has been some time exiled to this city, has also re | ceived an invitation to return and dake command of the revolutionary forces at Vera Cruz. : Letters have been received here from Spain, to the | effect that the government of Madrid had decided opon re-calling General Canedo, and that the Count ot Mirasol or General Pavia would probably be named as his successor. AU classes here will be glad | of the removal of Canedo, ond the set of men who | accompanied him from Spain. The only object which appears to have engrosemd all their attention from the day they landed on these { shores, seems to have been how they could most | speedily make money. , | General Medinilla, the eommander-in-chiel of the ' Eastern province of the Island, residing at the city of Santiago de Cuba, and has placed himself entire- ly in the bands of @ certain clique who have terror of the respectable portion of the po Nine Np that anfortunate city. The names of his advisers are execrated,even in Havana, who have made theumelves rich out of the spoils of their vic- tims. {t would appear to he the authorities 2 oe to drive ta ee annoyance, i ible, all | HA ees now settle d in it. Their spite | everything British and American amounts | es frenzy. The interference of the former in | their slave-trading speculations, and the recent cap- | tures of their own vessels, in their own waters, under } their very noses, snfficiently explain their present | feelings towards the English, whilst the firmness and conduct of Mr. George Law and the American | fo in the case of the Crescent City, in not ac- ceding to the hty demand of Mr. Cafedo in the distaisal fronf his employment, and consequent ruin to his reputation and family, of an in- nocent American citizen, has been a pill s0 hitter for Mr. Cafiedo to swallow, thatgall the remedies on earth will not be sufficient to work it oY his stomach. In carrying out their propo-ed system of annoyance to American | vad Betiao citizens, they have already commenced action at Sh Jaga de Owhs, in the despotic and ua | licy of the present | Pout of the Fisland, | well | nor, as fa come to either a peaceful or satisfactory termination. | When the slaves were ali landed they were taken to an estate belonging to Don Joaquin Gomez, called | the “San Ygnacio.” At this place his Excellen Don Juan Antonio Parejo, Queen Chrigtina’s agent, purchased two hundred of the poor victims, and had ; San Autoniotobe | conveyed to a coffee estate ne ated. One hundred and ninety others, purchased | Bustamente, were taken to the Capetal, | jroa," near the town of Guanajay; these ‘oes from Africa, in being moved were duly provided with fi apers, and the documents with h, these pt od by Mess. Parejo and Bus- tamente, were furnished, set forth that they were | negroes belonging to Dou) but un- happily for the veracity of } asserti or ne: it the country, | the poor negroes were too unmistakably“ Bozales” in their every action, and moreover did not speak nor | understand a single word of Spanish, besides which, we had an interesting conversation with the captain of the slaver, who was so elated with the suc- cessfol termination of his voyage as to be unable to hide his sa and so he told us all about it | at the esta . near M el, where we had the opportunity of ma’ night of the ultimo. i) kinds and descriptions have been lavishly expedited by the authorities here, warranting the transfer of the remainder of the negroes to an art of the excellent friend, Don Francise upwards of 200 of the unhappy « ote, near Guanabay, with whom he is about it is the opinion of many lous and repeated violations of the which Spain had entered into wi the suppression of the horrible not much longer be submitted to—indeed, that ters are fast coming to a crisis. The conduct of the actual authorities in this island has been di ceful in the extrem nd it will be 7 Spain and ber colonies that if in future, when recalling iu such indecent haste from the government of her distant dependencies, such honest. upright men | as General Concha, she would at least, if unable to | find a man snperior, at any rate endeavor to discover one equally worthy to succeed him, and who would have at heart, like Concha, the welfare and interests of the people committed to his cure, and less of that disgraceful hurry to replenish, attall hazards and by all means, the wide mouthed pockets which distin guish Mr. Cafiedo, and ull those who lave since fol- lowed him from Spain. Us Amico. Havana, Jan. 11, Trial of ihe Fatercepted Slavers by the Mixed Con- mission—Collusive Conduct of the Goverameni— Their Creature Presiding in the Cowrt, ete. The trials of the slavers Venus, Carlota, and Arrogante, Eimillo, have not yet been concluded; as Teau onderstand, are they likely to My excellent old friend the Marquis de Hsteva de las Delicias y Conde de Palantino, President of the Court of Justice at Havana, is entirely guided is chief, Gen. Canedo, who, it is said, is doing everything in his power to frustrate and throw ob- stacles in the way of the Court. Thave just learned that a week ago a number of soldiers were sent on board the Arrogante Emilio, who took and have since retained possession of that vessel, notwithstanding the remonstrance of the captors, whose right it was to retain possession of the captured vessel, until, at any rate, the trial was con- cluded, and her tate decided by the rlixed tribunal established here by treaty for this purpose; instead, | however, soldiers have been put on board by order of the Captain General, and her crew, who are supposed to be in custody, are fitting ber out again for sea, and doubtless have so destroyed or transformed hi slave deck and other things, which too truly inc | cated her profession, #0 that it would be almost im- possible now to make out that she had been intended for the coast of Africa. Opservy, Our Santiago Correspondence, Santraco pe Ovea, Dec. 29, 1852. Politival Misyrde—The Slove Trade Supported ly Government—Ingustice to, and Expulsion of, a British Resident, &c., § e+ Vor some years past, with the exception of the short interval during which the excellent and upright Gen. Manzano, who came from Spain with Captain-General | Concha, was Governor of this district, the people of | St. Jago de Cuba have been compelled to submit to the despotic rule of a certain clique, whose atrocities and shameful abuee of the power confided to them bave made them feared and bated by all classes of this commonity. In 1849 and 1850, while General McCrohon was Governor, this clique exercised such influence over him, by indacing bim to accept heavy bribes for the admission of slayes from the coast of Africa, that these parties, who are Span- jards from old Spain, not only carried on # loin. z flourikhing trade with the coast, bat were romp the | real governors of this province of the island whatever they pleased, and wielding the pe held to their own advantage, oud to the detriment of all. others. Upon the recall of McCrohoo, General Manzano wassent here in his stead. Like General Coucha, he hod the welfare of Lie couatey at heart, aad, wits of the authorities, to | {had almost forgotten to tell you that it iscur- | More About the Landing of Cargoes of Slaves— } other, upon the subject of the arrival of the slaver in | You may place the fullest reliance on the trath | L é had escaped, by a ; miracle, the vigilance of the British cruisers, know- | the Spanish authorities; “moréoyer, once on shore, | many of whom died on the passage toCuba; that | slaver bark discovered the vessels of war, she | and bore up for Cabanas, where she landed her cargo | of slaves on the following morning. A day or two | ‘ which they ing his acquaintance on the | J | will prevent our planters from grinding, as they they , d ‘to leave them, to retun to Spain. we have now Gen. Don Joaquin de Medinillg it it to that he came out would almost be sufficient te with General Caned for by their compny | shall ye know them.” The clique J allude to | the Cumarila of government, and sre again at-he ! head of ona ‘The alg gen had ben iz altogether in that distri uring thead- aneeteation of General Manzano, has commemed | with renewed vigor under General Medinilla—he | temptation of three ounces a head being too grat for his honesty. 7 But General Medinilla has got himself into a dffi- culty which he will find it rather hard to extriate ; himself from. A wealthy British merchant, of he i bine reapectability, who has been upwards of fifteen years ished in this city, had ‘he firmness to insist upon payment of a debt due to lim one of the clique, and fell under the displeasan of | these worthies, who induced their tool, Gen. Madi- nilla,to issue a decree ordering the English gentlemin, | Mr. Bhilip Boylan, to leave Santiago de Cubain two { hours. No reason way assigned for this arbitraryact of despotism, nor would General Medinilla grant aim an audience, or explain why he had resorted to a measure 80 little calculated to cultivate the good will of the British government, who, there is no doubt, | will take the case up most warmly. Mr. Boylan’s interests in Cuba are of immense germ indeed, they are of such a nature, that at this cri | moment of gencral ruin here, the merchants md planters would scarcely be able to get om | without him; and yet, without any chawe against him, without any reason whatever assigned for such an extraordinary act, Mr. Philip Boylan was ordered to quit the city In two hours, and [eave sll his valuable property, probably to the rapacity of above Sams tires ede Geperat | | | their excellencies—-for they are all titled people-- ; General Medinilla, (Peauela, Vinent & Co. . | Boylan has pi led to Hayana, to represent his case at Deatruarrers, He takes with him lettersof introduction from all the ‘table people of this | city—-from the chief magistrates and all the local | Constituted authorities, who have represented his | case to the authorities of Huvans as one of the most unjust aad capricious acts of high-handed despotisn, { unparalicied in the history of Cuba, teeming as itis with events of an arbitrary nature. ’ It is all very well for people sitting very comfat- ably im their armchairs at home, to say, a3 many do, that the Captain-General of Cuba was perfec'ly right in demanding that Mr. Smith, the purser of the Crescent City, should be turned out of his en- writing from New York, thought proper to accuwe him of certain acts, which, all the world now knows, posing that Mr. Smith of any of those charitable in 1s who were # ready to uphold the despotic will of the authorities | | in Cuba, and knowing that that brother was entirely innocent of the charges brought against him, but that, nevertheless, at the request, or rather demand, of the Spaniards, he had been dismissed from hig employment, and his poor wife and children made te sufler the consequences of such tyranny, then those very individuals would be the first to clamor for jus | tice for their relative, and cry shame on the despotic wretches who expected their demand to be complie¢ with, innocent or guilty. Mr. Geo. Law is an indé vidual entirely unknown to me, but his firm and | manly conduct throughout the whole business of the | | Crescent City and Purser Smith affair, deserves the highest praise and the gratitude of every American | abroad, and especially those whose business or other | circumstances has led them to sojourn under the | rule and tender mercies of the Spaniards in Cuba | and Porto Rico. ployment, because a mongrel 'rench-Spaniaml, | he never had had anything to do with. But, sup- | Hepeeee to be a brother | vidual same information indicates with certainty that the tonnage of the former will eqnal that of the latter. But we repeat that, for want of positive data, we cannot affirm anything in the matter, nor extend our article a8 we should desire, limiting ourselves simply to giving a ies. sketch of the state of commerce and production, the increase of which is undeniable in the past ycar, under circnmstances certainly not the most propitious for ita developement and protection, if we tuke into consideration the unsettled state of public opinion which the menaces of the fillibusteros of neighboring nations must necessarily have pro- duced. We would wish much to conclude this picture without the gloomy tints which are supplied by the epidemics and earthquakes which have rigorously scourged the isiand, constituting in themselves alone the calamities of the year 1832. Yet, while it is not possible for us to pass them iff silence, the satisfaction remains to us of recording, that on our entry into the new period the accumulation of evils which reigned t hout the past summer has disappeared, and, thongh it is true that even at present that of the small pox afflicts ua, it is also very certain that in Pragerroa to the increased number of its attacks, neither its victims have been 80 numerous nor its in- tensily #0 great a3 is supposed. Interesting from Mext co. OUR VERA CRUZ CORRESPONDENCE. Vera Cav, Jan. 5, 1853. Movements of the Revolutionary Parties—Condition of the Republic— What is to be Done ?—Santa Ana sent for. ‘This note will come to you by way of Havana, in the British steamer, which leaves here this morning. We have letters and papers from the capital as late asthe Ist, The official bulletin of that date con- tains on}y a single notice:— AT THE LAST MOMENT, ‘Tax Gicvwnat Minos, ‘The Lieutenant Colonel Angel Bravo, aid to Minon, has arrived at this capital, who states that the wound receiy- ed by the General is very slight, being uo more than a rcrutch on the nose. Colonel Bravo left on the evening of the 28th ult., when Minon, lready recovered, was about mounting his horse, to continue hostilities. ‘This shows all the rumors set afloat to be false. At the time this was published ithad been full a week since Minon had been expected to re-engage the pronunciados at Guadalajara. It is evident he has gained no ground, as the positions he holds are out of the city—the hospicio of San Diego and San Felipe. Uraga was in person at the convent of San Francisco, the then object of attack. That a Lieu- tenant Colonel should have been sent at such amo- } ment to announce the purpose of the Cieneral, in- stead of waiting # few hours later for the event, seems to indicate something more—the want of money, the failure of resources, neither of which the executive has it in its power to supply. Yor the government, everything looks dark. The people, the laboring classes of every kind, desire peace; but not so with a large number of politicians, and sharpers of every sort, who have become poor in a long season of rey The liberal views which brought Arista to the chief magistracy with great It was not the government of the United States | that General Catiedo feared when he so disgracefully | acceded to admit Purser Smith’s affidavit, for he | | had twice declared that the man should not re- | turn under any circumstances ; but he was well | | ted up as to the determined character of Mr. | .aw, whose firmness of disposition he had re- ceived too convincing proofs ; and it was he and the people, whom he saw were determined | to support him, that induced Gen. Cafedo topause in hia course, and declare himself satisfied with an affidavit which he well knew existed weeks prior to his last ‘‘ manifesto.” But he thought to browbeat | the Mail Company out of their legitimate rights, aud found himself mistaken. To return to Mr. Boylan's case—it is in good hands. The British government hasth erests of itssubjects, wherever they may be, always at heart; and so scan- dalous anoutrage upon a gentleman, whose character and reputation stands so immeasurably high above those whose deadly calumnies and unscrupwous ma- chinations have him sent out of the country, in order that they may put their rapaci hands upon and enjoy th i will, a8 sure as there i, of the man eavy reparation. de id hi the impu vid himself 0) anes, but instead of the inviolability of their ion and the good treatment t, and whieh it is powers ¢ tor their lives, property, and the prote have a ri id to them hey find th pretended is guarant of 2ist October, IS17 of a secret aspy,or the de places, deemed suffi ruin the fortune ¢ peatedly the case under this ty No wonder it is that ihe poor ¢ ay of reckoning will come, lowever, and Ui be the result thereof, py to inform you that the cholera is fast rom this island. dts Our Porto Rico Correspe Sv. Jonas, Porro Rico, De State of the Weather. Since the date of our last advices (the 1th in- | stant) we wet weather, whi have had extrem tended, about the comme: as there now appears very litle prospect of its clear: ing up, we think it doubtful if there will be much Shipped during next month. It is only @ fe day nce that we had brilliant prospect eaily commencement, but the great cha weather has al appear ent of Janvary The Istand of AND. MERCANTILE S—TOBACLU POLITICAL COMME BOE Jan. Not lishing ¢ is we ps, Since we are prevented by iftrol, not having oll the data and which we } cht, for the an exactit i caus which we purpose 0 the work. amined, the y pects this prov cantile tarns of fortune of so @ portance a8 would oblige us on suc make partic i Up to a certain ye t, island, though under a more | appertains to the future, is, with s sume as that with which the J H Its administration, founded on tlie strictest equity and justice, and having as its basis the unity of pow- er, has seen and sees, with the deepest asion which cen aspect than contempt, not only the iadications of in on several occasions the ing the past ye s of the Nor tain 5) jes in favor of thes | ances, and demonstrations by some of our o in the interior—by people who ar a dianizing expedit ungrateful, inquiet, and desirous of dis- i themselves | should be the victims of the sword which they were | sharpening for their own hands. With respect to | foreign relations, (meaning those of the United States,) we will only say that, haughty to # high degree, co | yetous of gold, ereedy for wealth, and accustom | to look only to the end, regardless ofthe means, with- | out respect to justice or law—everything is hy them made buceanec cron.) total considered lawful when it subserves their ambitions | aims. Fortunately for one side, the dignity and decoram which have heen exercised on certain questions—as, for example, that of the Crescent City—-and for the other, the view of the temperate and determined re- pression so efficacious and salutary for the existence of all well constituted society, have formed, and do | form, one of the principal and most vuluable ies of the present government, and have be cause, doubtless, why neithe any effect, nor the petty ¢ to we forced confess, correspond to equa | pass to a rapid glance at its mercantile and agri- at finding the province in a sufficiently satis. | factory condition of: production and progress. ‘The ! harvests of sugar and tobacco, the principal produc | tions of our fi if they have not corresponded to the hopes conceived at commencement of the have not been inferior to the ordinary har- nd if the exportation bas dimit Ly 200,000 boxes from that of the prec we must keep in mind that the Cxportat’ year 1851 exceeded those of 180 in th quantity of 500,000 boxes, or 60,000 tons, je for this a! the advices Crom the producipg lo | If the heads of the fu ‘be done; but if they do not, still all is not lost. ou.) | ter from Capt. Slocum, who went out with Dr stom of pub- | - | some former obnoxions aca’ ~ | ridin} wn occasion to | nition of the | ht difference, the ; de 5 and comiuenced a running fire. i | ernment have assisted in obtaining evidence to his | E iE | | | | If, from the political state of the country, we shonld we shull be able no less to flatter our- | hed by | unanimity, have, through a variety of legislation, been rejected by the Congress. The cry of the revolu- tionists is for the taking off of prohibitions on foreign | goods, and the lowering of the rate of duties. For this all the points of importance have pronounced, excepting Mexico and Puebla. Queretaro and San Luis Potosi will go with Jalapa and Guanajuato so soon as a small military force shall appear to intimi- date them. Congress refuses to the President the grant of extraordinary powers, because of the uncon- stitutionality of the act—a reason sound enough to him, whose pride has been to restrain himself within the pale of the law, but for it a stripped bare pre- text, the nembersof which have regarded nothing so much as their private interests, and whose scan- dalons legislation has given some ground for the re- volt. One instance of its utter yileness can never be torgotten—the pardon granted to the convicted mur- derers of Dr. Bestigni, because of the well known ob- ject of the President, rapidly to try and punish for an atrocious act—a gentleman stoned to death by Righweyer in the presence of his wife, for * man- ful and hopeless defence. It will occasion no surprise to hear that the recall of Santa Anna is contemplated by a party, or that he has been sent for to return; but it is not to be believed that the younger and more ambitious Uraga will deliver over his soldiers’ fortunes, with the port of th atold man. It is something tat the mil of distinction, with this one e tion, have adhered to their ouths, and that the citi sets, saving only those of Vera Croz, are true to th vonstitution and an established government. The shiefs are retiring to the capital, with many gentle- | men who haye been driven from their civil offices. tions which unite upon Arista could unite among themselves, something might yet if dent may | cording Minon should carry Guadalyj the Pre not have occasion for that horse, whic to a despatch of Mr. Letcher, he ke dled and bridled at his palace for precipitate flight from the Congress. The people will drive out the soldiery from the towns. Puebla can send a heavy force upon | Vera Cruz, and a few military es tions will follow, | and_ all will be over. The question whether Mexico shall ad now sink foreve' to be s l There is no middle ground f ; either the | triumph of law and constitutional authority, or total anarchy, the breaking of the States into sc parat or groups of ge inents. It is e ked that the f ent meets the i nd the » 2 23 5 er sintercepted, the rider before his ‘ival at Puebla. rraption the F xX- press has re: » it commenced running, which dates back more than a quarter of a century. ADDITIONAL. AUTEMPT TO MURDER DE. GARDINER AND 11s PARTY. One of the Providence papers has an interesting let- ner, to visit the mines claimed by him in Mex’ | for being dispossessed of which i Mexican indemnity a lar; the government. illas, Nov. 27, ler the party Captain Slocum says : the deep ravine which div ond of ains whic r occurred which disagre mountain passes. the third from in our peth, a inded me of | by both | We re of us in this country in the pring of | 2 $s 5 < g g 3 3 so unfriendly a saluta! fon of course we were not i Instead of waiting another, and | perhaps @ more fatal greeting, we put spurs to our horses and rushed ahead, at the sume time drawing our reyolyers. The guerillas, for sach they proved | to be, ten or twelve in number, thinking we would es- cape them, did notstop to reload, but rushed out on their horses and gave chase. We wentatfall speed some bondred yards, when we suddenly turned upon them, ‘Their volley killed two of our three servants and all three of our mules, | but fortunately did not bit Abbott, Dr. Gardiner, 0 j We took them by surprise, and ont of the | shots we threw ut them, six told with fatal | } eflect, and the balance, thinking, undoubtedly, from the qnantity of lead we sent, that there were more of us, left us as unceremoniously as their horses could curry them. Our remaining servant, with his lasso, caught four of the borses whose saddles we emptied, and pressed them into our service, thus gaining four he and saddles for the lose of our three ‘The writer, it appears from his letter, has ascer- tained, to his own satistaction, that the silver mines claimed by Dr. Gardiner, and tor being dispossessed of which he received an indemnity out of the three and a quarter millions appropriated by Congress under the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ‘actually exist. He saya the first ix within @ rifle shot of the village whence his letter is dated, and two others are within two days ride. Captain Slocum thinks Dr. Gardiner has been hardly used, and says that the Mexican goy- ge. placing, at the same time, obst; ‘s path, depriving him of the ri; ¢ into the public records which show the title tof his property, and even ordering riends away, if they came again for a like pirpose. wegne Liquor Law ty Massacne: ‘The following order was offered in the Hou: ntatives, on the (7th iust., by Mr. Brewer, Reve NTS. Repre of Cambrie Ondere at the Committee on the Judiciary be ; netod to inquire into the expediency of repealing ng the Manufactare and Sale of jons or Intoxicating Liquors,” passed May ned in the snpplement tothe Rev pter 32%, as arbitrary and vindictive in repugnant to the genius of our republi- ms, inconsistent with the mild and peace- rit of Christianity, and in conflict with the con- nol of the United States ayd of this Cou ii | the one [have described; it | the ; we | deal of wind that day; we were three-q | hour behind time that day; there was no other boat ‘The Heimdsor Steamboat Calamity, ¥. 8. OLROUTT COWRT. Jan. 18.—The of the United States vs. Sohn W. Farnham, Charged ‘with 7— The g sate a previously empannelled to try this cuse, were called. The District Attorney, Mr. J. Prescott Hall, then procecded to state the case for the prosecution. He commenced by saying that the jury had been brought there for the purpose of investigating @ very serious charge, made by the grand jury against two persons residing in this, district. One of them is Jobn Ww. Fambam, who commanded the steamboat, and John How'ett, the engineer. ‘They have demanded se- parate triala, and Captain Farnham is now placed fore them. The District Attorney then proceeded to state that, in consequence of the great number of disasters which occurred on board boats since the in- troduction of steam navigation, Congress had enact- ed a law, in 1838, providing for the better security of the lives of passengers on board steambouta, and this law extends itself everywhere under the flag of the United States The District Attorney read the act, which provide that any commander, or ,any other person haying authority on board a steamboat, who shall be found guilty of negligence or inattention, shall be subject \o an imprisonment not exceeding ten years, in the discretion of the Court, according to the circomstames of the case. To the persons in charge of the management of steamboats were entrusted the lives o? our wives and children, andall that were dear to us; and, in amine Haake may be better protected, Congress had enacted this law, an- other section of which compels captains of vessels to oper the safety valve at every wharf or landing place, pat v be negiegs 0 fa 20) 00 matter Wbsthee any accident urs OF not, is subject to a penal of two hundred dollars. Mr. Hall here read the ninth and forty-fourth- sections of the act. He alluded to the disaster whigh occurred on board the steam- boat Henry Clay, in July, 1852, and said that within a short month after that the community was aston- ished by the intelligence that no leas than thirty-four persons had their lives destroyed by another steam- boat calamity, and that boat was the Reindeer. It will appear in evidence that the Reindeer left New York g little after seven o'clock on the morning of the fourth of September, 1852, bound for Albany, with a number of passengers, many of whom were going te enjoy the cool regions of the north. She passed up on her accustomed route. [The District Attorney here produced a map of the State of New York, with the route on the Hudson river marked on it.) ‘The Reindeer, on this occasion, made six landings between New York and Bristol (or Malden, as it is sometimes called,) where she arrived about one o'clock, a distance of 112 or 114 miles. Deducting the stoppages, it would be found that the vessel went at a speed of about twenty miles an hour, and during the whole of that time she never, at any one point, complied with the act by using her safety valve to let off the steam. She defied this law, and it would appear in evidence that she always did defy it. He, Mr. Hall, believed that the steamboats on the North river never do comply with this act, bat that they habitually disobey it, in consequence of the expense of getting up the steam at each starting. ihew eflere another mode—they open the doors of the boilers, as.an evasion of the seventh section; the: say that Congresa should not ha ssed suc! a law; and gentlemen connected with the business say they will defy the law, that that act of Congress ought not to be obeyed, and that they will dismiss from their employment any captain or engineer who will obey it. Rivalry must be main- tained and human life sacrificed. “It would appear in evidence that some of the passengers inquired of the second engineer, who, unfortunately, been destroyed, if it was not the custom to blow off steam at the ftoppases, and that he said they never blew it off. Mr. Hall then stated that, on this melanchol, occasion, forty persons were killed or wounded, thirty-four of them having lost their lives. ‘The first witness called was Allen W. Seaman, | who, being examined by Mr. Hall, said—I reside at Hudson; | am a river pilot; [ was engaged in the business in Reptennhes, 1862, on board the Reindeer; I was the pilot of the Reindeer on 4th Sept. last; I had been her pilot over two years; she had been built about two years; I went on board of her in August, 1851; she ran six months in 1851, and ran the season of 1852, until 4th September; she left New York, bound for Albany, on 4th Sept., at a few minutes past 7 o'clock; she first stopped at Cozzens’ dock, about fifty-one miles from New York; I do not know the hour at which we landed; we next eae at Newburg, then Poughkeepsie, Kingston, Tivoli, and then Bristol, or Malden; we srrived there a few minutes past one o'clock; I was steering her part of the time; ] was on the upper deck; I think she blowed steam at West Point (Cozzens’); I suppose we were there about five minutes; the boilerexploded at Bristol; I should say we had not landed three minutes when the explosion took place. Nips! here described the position of the boilers to the Court and jury.] ‘The inside sheet of the boiler gave way, and the steam went dowu into thefurnace and passed into the after cabin; there was athin partition, which the steam tore down; some of the passengers were at dinner; some of the passengers were destroyed; I saw the bodies of the barkeeper, and one or two fire- men, and the cook; the name of the steward wood Barnaway; he died that night, about ck; I don’t recollect the exact number killed; it was between thirty and thirty- che were forty-one wounded and killed alto- tain J. W. Farnham commanded that he had commanded her since the begin- was the neer; the Abraham Beecher Cox; the steamboiler af- any other place but «i been bent up, and ; the Reindeer drove the fire out of the fi was burnt np; she lay at the wl Saturday, the 4th September, until succeeding Friday; | could not say from what canse she was burnt up; the steam was not blown off at Bristol; I don’t recollect her blowing it off anywhere that day bat at West Point; thaye known her to blow off her steam a dozen times while 1 was pilot. Cross-examined by Mr. W. C. Noyes—I have been engaged as a pilot on steamboats on the Hudson river for about twenty years; I have not ji 1 commenced deck-hand: teamers on the 1 burn’ ; then on board thi it Legislator, which ran from Hudson to } n engineer's duty is to attend to his engin he has the control of the engines; he hasan assistant engineer and firemen under him; there engineer on the Reindcer, and I believe six firemen; ssistant engineer was killed, and two firemen, and a young man named Brown, an oiler; there were from twelve to fifteen of the hands belonging to the bout killed; it is the dnty of either the engineer or assistant to be in the engine room; I never went | there that I did not find one or other of them there; 1 was in the engine room when we were near West | Point; I passed the door of the engine room when we were within four miles of Bristol; the engineer , and assistant were both there; Mr. Howlett had been at dinner, and came in to let Mr. Cox go to his din- ner; [saw the captain, between Red Hook and Bris- tol, walking the deck; he asked me what way we | were going to land, and I told him aft: the duty of the captain is to assist the passengers at landing, and receive their tickets, and give orders to the men; he stands on the gangway; the duty of the second pilot standing over the captain at the gangway, and he me the signals for landing by a bell, and I give nals to the engineer; the captain does not give £ th | any signs 1 at all; the second pilot was at his post, and gave the usual signals on that occasion; had not started from Bristol when the acci- dent took place; I found the captain on the alter deck, when I next saw him; [ also met Howlett; he was burnt and scalded, and his face was black with coal dust; our time of arriv- ing varied according to the tides and weather; we have arrived at Bristol at 12 o'clock; we had ebb tide all the way on the 4th Sept.; we had not a great juarters of an up that day; we did not go fast that day; the reason | was, | suppose, because we had nota great deal of | steam; we had an ordinary load of passengers, from ®0 to 100; there might have been more. Q.—Has the Raber any control over the engineer, in reference tot 1 ever knew of; the engineer is een by the ow- ners, and the engineer appoints the second engineer, and selects the fireman; do not know anything about the interior construction of the boilers; I saw that the furnace doors were open a few minutes after the accident; 1 got down as soon as the steam would per- mit me. Thomas B. Stillman deposed—I am one of the firm of Stillman, Allen & Co., of Novelty Works; my business is the construction of machinery of steam engines; | make boilers; boilers are generally con- structed with an outer shell; internal parts are flues, furnaces containing fuel; the fame passes throngh | one of the flues, sometimes above, sometimes below; there are two flues—one drop flue, one ascending; the flame passes through the chimney, sometimes through the second shell to chimney; the flues are round, and connected by a box; water surrounds the fines; when water is converted into steam it occupies the open part of the boilers; if water is in the outer theleande heat generated shout, Ln opening, it would burst the boiler; Mr. Perkins made his stronger than « cannon; the boilers of the Reindeer were semicircular; the fireplaces were in the end ; the man-hole is a place to get in to clean boilers; it as a double head, like ‘The defence objected. read from page nd witness said that the deserip- was portectly correct. Examination continued— The purpose of the safety valve is to relicve the boiler from any accumulation of steam; it is generally circular, with levelled edge; # lever sad a woight adjnsta it in ita place; it is not fastened down by anything excey District Attorne f at Bristol from | as only one assistant | practical movement of the boat? A.—Not that | passes through the exterior shell of the boilers; it | Ma drum, and connects the tlie | 150, question | & lever; | Kang! xb hovers generally baye weight inside; we use | condor chain to raise the valve; all boilers hare antitzem then dencetbed Wi @atintion between low pressure :— 3 in high preammre the steam cecapes; Tie pafety valve is ° ihe the puspowe of the boiler. [The witness deseril aafety It is kept in ita place by s guide passing ; steam nea ave this ely valve; what was for- merly called a high preasure engine is now elew pressure engine; in a high pressure the steam tessa the ole the high prea bolery re . i re generally cylindrical, asbest culated to resist the pressure; are made a little thicker, but mot much; 1 think if she had a proper safety valve, and he ces were open, the safety valve would relieve ie rT. Cross-examined—A good boiler on the Tudsom river would resist Sates seventy da; we limit our ocean steamers to twenty pounds; there are seme below that; some ciroumstances in ocean na render it necessary to have r ; in the boilers on the Hudson river 1 think thi pounds would be a safe pressure; I have been ia running an engine myself; I did not notice where the safety valves were in the Reindeer; the best lace for the safety valve would be the upper part ef ‘ho steam Cee zs To Mr. Hall—The ettect on opening the doora ia te cool the flue; if the safety valves were constructed, the steam could escape 90 a8 00 explo- sion could take place, r To Mr. Noyes It the doors are open it keepa the pressure as {t was before; it would perent any ma- terial increase; they are so managed on the Hudsem river as long as I know them, and that isfor. a five years; putting on coal would have the effect of damping the fire; 1 can't speak of the general practise on the North river; if the safety valve was at thirty pounds pressure, I should not think it safe to leave the safety valve, because it might not be in working order; fixed at thirty-five pounds, with the doors open, it would be safe.) Joseph M. Whitly |—I was on board the Reindeer at the time burst her boiler; I took pemage at New York for Albany; left New York om about ten to fifteen minutes past seven o'clock; witness de to the stoppages; the Reindeer did not blow off her steam at rs of those stoppages; I spoke of the fact that she did not blow off her steam to Mr. Cox, and asked him if it was not the custom to do so; he said it eyes on circumstances; my wife was on board; she was not wounded; she was rushed overboard; I saw several dead and wounded, but none that 1 knew. Cross-examined—I heard the evidence of the pilot; all I can say is, that I haye no recollection of the steam being blown off; it might have been blown off at West Point; my wife was saved by a young mam named Brown; the captain did not assist in saving her that I know. ‘ David A. Dunbar deposed—I reside at Boston ; Iwas on board the Reindeer when she burst her boiler; we left New York about a quarter past seven o'clock ; she stopped at West Point, bikers Poughkeepsie, &c.; stopped sbout five minutes each place ; 1 think she did not blow off her steam at any of the stoppages ; it was a subject of remark among the passengers that she did not, blow off her ateam ; 1 saw seven or eight of the dead bodies. Cross-examined—I_ was near the engine reom when the explosion took place; 1 awear positively that I did not hear the steam blown offat any of the stoppages. George Livingston deposed—I reside at Briatol, about 110 miles from New York; I was on the wharf, about six feet from the vessel, when she ex- ploded ; she arrived there at about ten to twenty minutes past one ; she did not blow off her steam at Bristol; 1 heard the explosion ; I saw several per- sons that were scalded; I was acquainted with the was in his room when he died; there were Cre six killed; there were forty-one killed and we fe I saw many of them dead; the rent in the boiler was right above the furnace door; the rent was about the size of my hand; the Reindeer was burnt at the dock ; the cause of the fire is not known to the peopie there. Cross-examined—I was on the wharf for the par- pose of taking her line; that was my duty; my father was there at the time; the vessel had not started when the accident occurred; the captain was attend- ing 0 his Cae ens as he did every day, taking tickets, &c.; Mr. Mull, the second pilot, was in his usual place; he ive signals by pulling the bell rope; the pilot was in Ded the t was about halt” | an hour behind her time; she has been there as early | as twelve o'clock; the steward’s name was Garwood Barnaway; I have been at the dock, atten to that business, for the last five years, in the employ- ment of my father; there are two wharves at : it is ausual stopping place for day and night boats; it is not usual for the boats that land there to blow off steam; I do not know the reason why. To Mr. Hall—I never knew the Reindeer to blow om her steam at Bristol but once. i In answer to a question from the District Attorney, Mr. Noyes admitted that the ownership of the Reu- deer was properly named in the indictment. Henry Connelly depoved—I reside at Newburg; am a clergyman; I was on board the Reindeer on day of her explosion; 1 got on board at Kingston, and Janded at Bristol; I think she did not blow off steam at Kingston; | was on the wharf at Bristoi when the explosion took place; 1 do not think she blew off steam there; I saw several persons killed, and saw others dying that night, and administered such consolation to them as i could. Mr. Connelly asked if it would be objectionable to state a fact with regard to the deportment of the captain. This was assented to by the District At- torney and counsel for the defence, and the witness said there was a general favorable effect produced by the deportment of the captain towards the wounded and the dying. The District Attorney said he had more witnesses to the same fucts, but he did not deem it necessary to call them. Mr. Riggs, one of the counsel for the accused, sub- mitted to the Court whether there was sufficient evi- dence here to compel them to go to the jury. The Judge said, that under the laws of the United States the Court could not prevent the case from going to the jury. It would be for the Court to charge them on the law, but for the jury to decide upon the facts. Mr. Riggs then opened the case for the dafence, and said that they would show that the accident oc- curred from a defect in the construction of the boiler, and not from any neglect or carelessness of the cap- tain or engineer. He called upon the jury not to offer up the defendant in this case as a victim to the offended public, whose minds have been distressed. | by steamboat accidents, by which so many valuable citizens haye lost their lives. Cuptain Farnham was there before them to answer for negligence or care- lessness on board the Reindeer. . But he has no | control 01 the engineer. The engineer is not responsible to the captain. He can say, make such and such a landing, or stop half an hour at such a place; but he cannot direct the engineer im the regulation of his steam. When the evidence was all in, it would be for the jury to say whether Capt. Farniwm had been guilty of the negligence, care- lessness, or recklessness attributed to him. He, Mr. Riggs, was confident that it would be shown, to the satisfaction of the’ jury and the prosecuting officer, who, he was sure, would feel happy at such a result, that Capt. Farnham was far from being guilty of aay of the offences with which heis charged. At the conclasion of the learned counsel's opening, | the Court adjourned until Wednesday morning. The jury were allowed to separate, with an admonition to their mindsfree from any influences but such as he produced by the evidence. Domestic Miscellany. There were seventy-three deaths in Boston for the week ending the 17th instant, of which twenty-nine, ws nearly one-half, were of consumption and scarlet ever. The Connecticut river closed on the 16th instant, | ithaving kept open about three weeks later than im any previous season for the past twenty en and 80 far as we know during the present century. A committee, representing the various railroads ia | the Eastern States, have recommended the raising | of charges on freight twenty-five per eent, aud the abolishing of all free passes. Mr. J. D. Manlove gives the St. Louis rupee a description of a mountain of marble which, he says, exists in the Great Salt Lake Valley. The marble is of almost every color and shade, in slabs of very large area, and from an inch in thickness to blocks of an immense size. It is ot the best quality, and is inexhaustible. The pi ition to erect a Crystal Palace in Bos- ton is receiving favorable consideration in that city. ‘There were nine deaths from cholera in New Or- leans during the week ending on the sth inst. The city has notbeen entirely free from this disease since 1849, Mr. Smith Walker, who was grinding scythes im Warren, Masa., was instantly killed on the 13th inst. by the stone bursting upon which he was grinding. He has left a wife and one daughter to mourn his’ shocking death. He owned two farms in the State | Of Maine, on one of which his wife now resides. He is home on the morning of January 3d, and had been at work in the ecythe factory but four days | when he was killed, | One hundred and seventy-one deaths occurred im | Philadelphia last week. ‘The Legislature of Ehode island has paaged an act for the liberation of the persons sentenced to the | State prison tor stealing oysters, on condition of pay ment ot the costs, The Providence Journal sayn the Attorney General was directed to stop ings, on the same conditions, against all olleor persons charged with similar offences. The Le jure of Worida has passed an ack which requires all liquor dealers in the State to pay a license of $200. | About seventy-five more of the the Chartestown navy yard were 160) ips: whargod op Uae steward, he was scalded, and died that night; L)