The New York Herald Newspaper, January 5, 1854, Page 3

e = a 5 ? rf i E B Fi itl aE TP Hl : I Fis ili ! i i! | il igf it dt E ; i i i a give them to you as they are. eight and « half inches was ees, a chia company | rndhreperrenrisporveymsuncherte dh ret in ee TPepyled by and cbuaeed fost 1 wes at Erie; bat, | & , | for good reasons, it went into Dankisk—45 miles cast of henge ear tee? pitt, pecmleson 9 lay a i: 15 i Exle, ons aix foot gauge, The people of Erie and others ith the ganted. | obtained a charter from the Pennsylvania Legislature for | _ It is also well huown Fur Eecelloncy, that said road te whatever may be reqi ’ Erie | # im connection with the Western road, éxtending from ‘the ele and Northeast Railroad, running east from Erle to Cincinnati, and with the sastern r our alsd Bebredente, tn sudstance, to the New York State line, » distance of 19 miles, ex- | from the State ‘to Bre prepreg pe aelanpal niptaet ot ate ae fos | pooting to meet the New York and Erle Railroad at that | oupled in that “1 s4icn fog than wo years—that o exeaption of two, of ah most t | place, with the same six foot geuge; bat the Krieand New Tey mane i the guage of the ronds thas ing ons wil somperg roraily with ogual comm J | York Railzond wont into Dunkirk, apd made 20 qtinegting ths Klght aad ousngur sus, bola Hi and te Stata bar fa the Union, Tbs hardly fair - Alite, ales, bat ‘by the saalooat ing Poemonyh on 94 rae Oh Seen eee td have some know- Previsiad to this, or about the saiine the New York apaesene Se ap ~end beat ee ven have eee: Central Railroad, running fi0ii Albany to Buffalo, built iting Serevghiay between ihe Mstrn anda Sronsunced a sertainty as judicial LavectignAion shall from Battal + te tat ‘hncee’: Daskitt: Btatess that so ‘mischief resull . wt tbe Evo ont Nortbeest allvad at that pace, with | Puble em the More wld logultion tn favor of a inte Peet, Se emacs £0 Cn. sitisoes of Bie boners Tost merely Toeal, 20 much st varianee vas tt felt to be that the com whose conduct they ‘a four foot ten inch gauge. At the same time, the people wen ie shee aa of other Staten, that at the session ates, haze sehen " ae manper—have pa ape ec 1b yp rotons | maket guage confers: to the. Ohio tne law of | proceeding, by atvice of sounsal, as wall a in conform Cleveland, built from Gleveland, on 1861 was fepested, with the approval of your Kxeellency, y with .clty ordinances, sald authorities merely deter- foot ten inch gauge, (the Ohio State gauge), making the | after you had been fully informed of the object of such to remove the ae bridges, &o.— railroad from Baffalo west te Cleveland, thus: from Bufialo and the company was authorised by such repeal- | that had been placed in the streets in the improper man- to New York State line west sixty-nine miles on «four | img statute to change the track, already laid down, toany | ner described. In this connection we iavite attention to ee the Gauge law, and to the act authorizing its repea!, as feot ten gauge, under the name of the Buffalo and State And tnd the sold come, i alow vate reneeb ete , has led to all Une Railroad; from State west Erie, nine- the reasons w. #0 properly influenced trouble, and this, ae the Harrisburg affirms, ¢ eu ne bee nar sorting the ras lalaturedic thes repeal" the ‘was sogomplished through the agency of ibery i— teen miles, on the six feet guage, under thename of the Loy, convinesd observation and experieace the ‘Exie and Northeast Railroad; from Erie west to Cleveland, | true interests of city and county of Erie, as well as 96 miles, on the 4:10 gauge, under the name of the Cleve- | the more important interests of the country at de land and Erle Railroad; thus making a break of gauge at | MADded ® uniformity, of ier so, New York State line, snd another at Erie, at which points all freight and passengers bad to be changed. ‘The object in buflding the road west from Erie om the 4:10 gavge, and frem Buffalo west to State line, was to correspond with the gauge through the State of Ohio and \ the West. For « long time it was the object of the Eastern owners of the Brie and Northeast Railroad to en- Geavor to change the gauggef their 19 mile road to the | #30 gauge; 20 that the entire route west from Baflalo | commenced on tne Taveuts Gayof the, preseat mouth a | | imight have one unifors gauge, and thus save agreatex- | the end east of the road, and the track pensecn freight and trouble to passengers, But tothisthe | 8nd sbout four hundred fee: witbin theeity of Erie; z, ek sup) Noment I and void; provided, that ‘contained 'be construed to soply to the New York amd Bele . Th a railroad, te Lackawans and West ly constructed and im opersti to people of the city of Erie would net listen; they insisting | Sunil’ authorities and, sitireas 3 ie mimesosd ages of relizoads in the’ Sounty at ele, ‘that the road should end at thetr elty, or at any rate that down te bridges of the company over State and ee Sor mane ee age cS the break of gauge there should compel the railroad to streets, and removing the at ite crossings | An act repealing the acts regulating the guage of the track . tl of th relate: doing ‘unload all freigh'—tneiating that it would be of more bene- | Mi'tntit the nek nud bdeoc at tae teres eae Oe | ete Ss enacted the Senate and of fit to the city than it would be if the road run directly destroyed; that in the 20n and @ ‘of the 8th | Feseatatives of the Commonwealth of Pi vania, ‘through, fn Ass only ® wey station of their oity. All athe citizens of Harboe Orevk, instigated aad aided of same. that every pone fee rh name f compromise between the railroad and the cit, fatlod—nor | Parsed bridge in seid tomcat, sod iorahie meat ae, | mich may hers Siuie genase plngee'ed tes te could the railroad move in the matter,as the law of | track atJa point about seven miles from Erie, where | width as of sacl valitoed company tar Pennsylvania ordained only the six feet gauge. To | 1t cromed the highroad to Buffalo, and though the | sxprdient, and all laws inccnslstent with this pro obviate this ditlculty the allroad petitioned the Legis- | that the cars could pass Seat ie thy okies Cae 07 Me Neh, PCT BK vs meso! ed phoma oh a bo vei of ow ne thes and these prt 4 reall Se oh ad i rat thousand a. Bear! acts reves 1@ eleven lay .D., one Spied v et rman a neta ne | Taam mmc oretrorn se | Satieangane imp, WHat araLa ! a was we have received the Erie ey a sr ad inn, onant A lly ard ie AMM! | ee ee ebange the Traces they ‘woold relies by all means z Bd your memenieees Deen aie that it being - ROS OUTRAGE AND ATTEMPTED MURDER—THE STATE IN- ‘the gauge, and on mo ‘the for Erie signal o a e ‘to remove them. oes yar era lause: ‘three or four bi tracks | Served by the United States Marrhal, and the company railroad tracted sare (aim up, cada levy Wotan of oben Boo tent ‘was cut | Hevivg $ it bed mow encased the peobeosine’ et od pet ee ire perp ght ai Gown, and shout 60 foot of tt removed. Still the railroad | curt, and that its authority would be respected, sgain | lene or bridge now laid out, opened or bulls, nor to interfere ‘went cn changing the gauge, until they arrived at the or (oe ge and to relay the track at ea ee & house of building, without anita. Creek—| attempt was stead 4 (“Toons six miles east of Helo is the village of Harbor | Teslstance of the people of Harbor Oreok and of Rie, and | quitersnect omPlzing with the, provision tn, thitr charter f through whica the road ; and when the road | for several days in succession the track was torn up as tock possession of about sighty rode of the then stage { oe pence phegeer glen sg pny ben public higt often oat waa relald,, ‘The company atill trusting to the | road feading fe mi Re to Buffalo, and ‘built tuee rallraed distance ‘another \w, them commenced saits courts against: mmissioners )., higheg seas. seat byreanns’ot tae nes ae to | the'porsons thus interforing with ita roed, bat they have | Witt netifeation upow the. dirgotors ob the time. shat it py the Container, bat finally suffered pipes ed riekte, sprceacing | the Fg ore og thelr charter, and they must not take the public road for tattnibtacte Gee Medes aire ee jected ond are still exposed, "To saan & helghtof tojue | “tke disvetors keeever, paid no attention te the remon- old matter was called up, and they determined to do like- | tice have these proceedings been carrie’, that the work- Moe tee tae anes ete eee & wise. Feores tne mw and the rails removed Peed piee gr Si diane track Rove. hore semeaed, most wae end danreroes, nuisance, which the comma for the distance of that the raiiroad | fine¢ and shut up in prison, by the authorities wee Dlocked up the padiic . The Erie and Northeast ee ee eee Common Pleas yoed imusediataly petiticued the Uni'ed ‘States Court for | county declared the imprisonment to be illegal, the western district of Pennsylvania for am injanction to ang Riocherged, Shams nese habeas esteas, F ; i He ti ad a ith various sesnalted and Grove of the fiee for theie lives; and three weeks, the at- ‘& peaceable manner been ‘re | lew, depose'h . that om ‘27th day of read ‘were ériven from their work, | sisted community, ‘violation of instant, he wae engeg'd in the employ and under the diree oad i ihe “encounter one of the mob was shot, | and in oatenpt of the bigest j teibusal ia th Sheccoanred ie wit toners of ah tale twenty le “his was the signal for war.” The sows few to Erie that Ae Sher of Kile somaty to pomet eet workmen whee tersfog st seid Sey, linesliy om whas suid” Gvminionis © man was 0) de. Desscaslon of the Toad, am now holds it agaiaat’ all wo ee Fee oe eee res ives: ‘ten ‘The Marshal is to thought that | #0 his to take charge of it of a cotlet il ake eae betes ho autertey Sad Sat mob—the author, adviser ar absttor of every eat ns et of the sberiff of county, backed by the people of sare anes hese pevpemmaceinainss the Som aged ald j ‘The result you will receive by telegraph before foonse and disorder which ‘beve vrough {1.. aatee this, and'you can use this as tiny euityoursit, "| éiabonar upom the people of Sle and the Btate at Whee ‘felt that the security of all the railroad propert: Bead GiMiculties at Erie — eg ted ocloeie B favelvel ir tis Conteovecs At the date of my last annual Leaner ‘That not merely the eredit of the State, but the success were im the Supreme Court of ofciier compenios waza renin wore sateieesd, ond woe ‘test the right of the Franklin Canal eompany to construct | relied for completion upon being sable ‘to obtain eceeed hase weeny of Erie to the Onio State line. | capita! from abroad, were in a measure staked upon the éecision of the was the on the | issue of this confict between law on the one hend, ond owt Coarly that the fonetrostion of tocirreed econitae | met, Tandon foto fer" all gal pectestion bos bee A al sorry —_ — sasanlted, and SBapeviege claised:by the sompeny within the coceen’ | zisned-ite directors and agents reat of Legislature. 4 to be practicable, without tae exercise principle, miestion bet garvient to vee mis. blog dis ila lest sient the iY fon to ie ee ec lature, © mamber of proporitions were submitted, indi | YOR! Excellency will respond to tne eating the willingness of the company to pay certain pst ged wale gic! Poked me ates of taxation for the unrestrained wie of the road | S7pPany # cresies | Fem, de pany iatil after the coming session of the Lagilature, or a sear eene lovokes ‘The leader , {il that branch of the goverament ast on the sub- 7h aac a which you are ini ver once before Ne'son was Joot. Ballevirg that I had no right to make condi.ions | {2 {he Soscyment of ite ehertered rights, against ile deponeat’s « ‘ ‘with the 19, OF even to receive the money which saults of popular vio; manifestir g itself in every form \ gut onling ve , 1deelined to eatertain the pro- moo ing at will over the law of the The of the compasy towara thereiore, bave no change since the The company does not demand the execstive interpost- of the last exeopt that the At- bel Mee peat rounds. The facts stated in the General has recently taken measures to obtain « | memoriel have unfortanately become a part of the annals | {°" “ decree im the plea ftr an injunction, and by writ of po ponerse ope telpg wn oy CBr se @) a case cont \! = Sein oamearcruen ced Hy sera laae fo uwal authority iat ha no patel | Srvtin sf the aend na'a"ded soon rods ad Oeeurrences evince an intensity x ardeon the same, entirely destroy: . of fling 5 haphetn e omapineoprpee 4. TRACY, Prew't E & N.E RR. Co There's wotbine ts prea the rlivoad tran ton of indicating not Eom gen At Barrisburg, Deo. 31, 1863. epee pode oe eens OS eure we a \d teak is shout seven the Ene of the railrond briige Semell run, which bridge bad bees burned, or destroy- elear ienpartia! ] observer, that THE ERIE TROUBLES AND THE GAUGE LAW—TAE Lie yaaver inteneed, by any previous act, to oa CASE STATED. (at doporent understood.) by, the men of Harbor Creek ter lee the construction of a rallnad between the city of [From the Philadelphia loquirer, Jen. 4) Sometime defo'e, and rebuilt Bald b idge is alee om Erie and tse Ohio line Indeed, the highest judicial iri- | We have already given an authentic acount of the | o# public highway, and cbetructs it, PINKN AY. anal in the [State has expressed the opinion that no | Sigin of the raiizcad troubles at Erie. The citizens of | sworn and subscribed betor f December, such authority can be found in the charter of the Frank- | thet place are onwilling to be made mere tools and in- | 1683. Pe Canal Company; anc, ia my optaion, the grant shoull | stromente im the heeds of cert»ia railroad eompenies and ———— pap nat (aogtececl ommoy ea will pro | speculators of New York aod Ohio, and to the injary, rot TELEGRAPBIC, toot and edvance the imerests of the } of Peansy - | only of Erie, but of the eatire trade of Pennsylranis; and Bam, Pa, Jon. 4, 1854, vanis, 20 far aa they msy be inv. lved subject. henee they are dencunced and abured by the parties im- au ‘i “ It #0 bappens that Pesneylvania holde the key to this | ™¢<iately interested The Warren Mail, of = late date, is now quiet here, and nothing further will be done tmportent of consection between the east and the | thus recapitulates the factsof the case:— Until the deci+ion is given upon the injunstion now pend- endl un heai te tis g); % ai the > settled, wh Saurusee Lo Gy eget tone te po pavelle bist inver as gee been gut ra tare FoF pros oy Aneffort will be made to get the Hight and the duty of the State to turn her natural af. | {orirer depriving Rorecit, of the Denese acoreing from the | MX feel albitie a Secte ter nn ee ne | OB alae Bat Lease MAINS | cryin be saiegoe misoews & punetomnes It may be sald that © aire u ; vident fact thet cs: -s = weet ween retirees Sat goals soauion 0. | neces pereenre so Seer; sister tice, Dataset thet | CHARGE OF AMCRMBLING TOGETBER TO ATTACK THE the use of an Teemu that the | ¢ntertain euch feelings towards her ‘as have been showa nob | NUXCIO OF POPE PIUS THS NINTH—THE PROSE mane Frame oy ris ee ana | oly 4 ihe prevent dificulty, bat a ail ether time. when CUTION ABAXDONED—THRIR DIFMIESAL. the seaboora a5 & consequence of @ difteronce im | the cose why was not the Buifslo and Site Lins toed batt [From the Cinieneti Kequirer, Dee. 31 ] the width of the Now YorR and Odio roads. The onl; oe ote bY + Thie exciting case, that bas occupied the attention of to settle, theretore, re'ates to the polat at which the Ni ia Buffalo, tnat do not. ‘with equal force in favor of » Ter sage and pasentbees cae traashipped Ot the latter, as at tbe former city. oost built the the hour of the court tee tesshipmen', weie in maworthy of tans bak | graven f toe en ary ot es he our’ room, Its capertty ores o Ci Sooners teak of gusge, and i Fd Fr ot Bre wichowt aly. jo hold those whom Ngee shipment cast of Arie, upon the basiness of that harbor, | 2°f must be pars: Mf mot fatal 1+ would virtaaliyre: | men at ten o’e! Mr. Dieksou, in ree made either at Cleveland or Bat: is for the State, Bearcely less embarrassing would this we ‘went be the imterests of tue x ea can cher avenue that the with the city of Fhiladel, ‘It may be that Be bet] he ve not former pol.ey to yourcoton vii a MEMORIAL FROM THE RAILROAD COMPANY TO THE fiassand re are GOVERNOR. 5 fo Be Excrumcy Wnuan Govmanor ov THe Stars fob S RE th signed, President of the Rite and mpeeieect on, Radroed irection ‘had on bebalt of said | gwitted’ by that Joureni eats oom PABy, invokes of your tleman, sed © resident of i : i i i i i ii BE and rang et lar ee peed | AA ry . worn: ig the sidewalk; don’t John N, Tut Curtis, reeol my ry irene Deere? us » iaaeiele Tass; aoe ‘Theodore Marsh, Thomas Hanis, “a ' Freeman Mundy, Dr, N. Hall up to Freemen’ Jobn Wickham, John Carr, a when they started Robert Handy, Albany Packham. = So . ‘Mz, Diekson then stated the case to,the jury. The 7 ition expected to prove that assem! pk. with the intent to commit violence on the person of one Cardine! Bedini, s guest of Archbishop 1, and that bay ape en dangyrerne pidge Sn syed Sixth Chan! denied the intentions stated, and de- | ph, manded of the fact from the ution. Mr. ck stated, on of his two clients, ag Re rerates to shor, ah Seer bee a neither partaee Procession “arg neg Cross exami: The case having been thos sul the prosecu- | men’s He'l; tion commenced. the F ¥ in sel alot Capt, Toe Lakens, Chief of Folloe, twors—Lam Chief Ninth and Vine, and went down to Sixth street; of Police, appointed by the Mayor. On last Sunday night fair BF ae, Pahang ony a! ymin pretty I sent some of m: ‘mea to Frocmen’s, Hall to asvortuin ai ed _ to refuse im cases of riot; I if information had received was correct; about 11 | iid not epprise ‘Freeman that the pellce were watah fait om cash MS of the stat thane tno alaane “ne fred waa to notaly the Os hed they starved; Thad i J atreet; this time the proseasion had got down to Ninth pe apie eer rer getel ki coe ot ee eae een Patt fr ape alates ode ey had trenspa- | clubs, and some bad maces and pistols, 1 suppose; when rences; they were shout and I saw no women started out there were some women on the side- ‘smong them; did not see what was on 85 procession, could not fell how many were in the . Sleight, sworn— Was at Freemen’s Hall on the trans; were here exbibited snd titel | When night; I understood that the crowd was to go down to wees Within twenty f10t of the corner procession | the church and have a serenade, and perhaps go further; was turn! own the m; ; | saw the procersion. i HAY, sovarated and spread ont; | "0 oes tzamined-—They were halloing aad yelling in the procession; did net see any fight. Lieut. W. ip", sworn—I am an officer; saw Spreogle im the procession; heard him shouting; witness reoog- nized Jobn Wellner in the Crost-examinec—Saw about twenty or thirty women in the rear of the procession; there was somewhat of a crowd following on the sidewalks: heard 8; ory, “Down mit bim;”’ he appeared tight; the men were chat- ting ard talking going along; saw a man draw @ pistol; he was about ove hundred feet behind the procession; grabbed him and the pistol fell; the crowd rarhed around; did got see the first pistol fred; I could not tell if the police had rushed whea the pistols were fired. I ‘went up to the Freewen’s Hall by ‘of the Captain; m not to go out; did not inform them that the police were watching them; I leat my pis tol to Capt. Lukens and borrowed another; did not see amy officers kad their pistols {a « gonsmith’s on Weet- Uo ; fro. putol, Bred at him; Gou'€ hnow whether the pir * . re a ; at him; now wi 0 pis: Hall about half-past nine; he returned before the proces to) went mor mae rent conuon, ni Cross-exam! Chambers—Se\ rooeasio! oer Bepjam! attack, sworn—Saw several seers py ena Sar rind fendants ia the watchhouse éfter the arrest ‘were divided on each side of the lcer George Williams, sworn—Se walk json, no wamven; think there was aosee gerwas oa asion; I arrested him; he resisted all the way along; ; heard the | De said he belonged to the freemen. abouts before I Leip-gprel ‘cross-examined Didn't strike anybody, nor did not cmeietce Ma erally From the | sect; the encetiog euaxmended shouts uviante after the on ‘the tush; I had got my man the other side of Plum street, when the first pistol I heard was fired; did not see it Sprengle was bloody he was not hurt by me: did not see hay 4 bit him; did not see any blows struck that night. of defiance; flicer George Carc, eworn—Identified Sprengle. men were pe: fectly silent until I gave the order to arrest; | Cross examined—Did not strike Sprengle; did not see T said, “arrest these men:” I did not hear the words | ®2y one strike him; did not see he was ing when [ “piteh in;” don’t know if the first shot was from my men | S@Usht bim;I brought him te the watcbhouse door; ctrn tas soe my impression is, hewerer that | Have been a policeman two months; the first shot eame it came from the procession; some of my men were | from the opposite party, just aa we came up, before we Flown to xy men what I had trees | rushed: Twas on the Upoor side of the stieet, in the them out for; I sent for Jud; elock; | front rank; did not ree officer Solomon as I know of;'I . was very much excited; I was struck on the eye; | ar. rested the man who carried the banner, “Down with Bedini;’ don’t know who the man was; can’t identify him; don’t know if Gee one was strack in the watoh- house; I was so excited I did not know what I did do; when the first pistol was fired I think the procession fn Aa pi * oer Thomas Mears, sworn—As we got to the crowd Heay” Carrell ‘wea rahe | the plstola were fred” et +I saw a Cross-examined—When the pistol was fired I rushed in, in the | nd I grabbed » man; took him to the watchhouse; went his thumb broke; | back to get another; don’t know any of the men here don’t bnew ifthe watchmen had slung sho's; heard | 20W: when I came back the third time to the watchhouse about or twenty shots fred al! wr; I said in | the men were all locked up; did not see any one struck; the station houre I wanted no man to shirk—each man | the crlls are about fit for six or eight; some of them wore » Bhat - “oer, os ania mage Fae tate rested, es five minutes was here taken, and after court two fi-tols that night; thought I would have to we Tesumed businese— thea; didnot think it waa ‘nesessary to coomcit Mr, Rut. | ME. Dicksow rose and briefy reviewed the charges al- fin; Ju¢ge Spooner advised me, as far as possible, to leged in the information of intent to commit personal veut a breach of the peace; I reo0 Mr. Wott as Violence upon Bedint, in connection, with the testimony being in the watehuouse; Laaw one man struck in the | élicited. fe rae oo hing yet odsinced, (anid the pro. watobhoure by officer Frank Houseman; be did not hurt | ¢cutor,) thet exhibited such intent. The indicated him: saw no one dragged into the cells ;, they | to the con! she cumpenstons ‘haus Rotts ie ‘al resisted in into the cells; they were pushed into 5 coud a8 Seg Belli the bate sacatientacse cee ct, Fe got; the | nested with the idea of the effigy as well as to the indi- pistols are all loaded but one; after the arrest a great | Vidval. Oxly four or five of the defendants had as yet many persons came in to see their ‘saw no one | deen identified as being in the procession. He had con- maleated who came for that purpose; bail was offered | Vereed with all the watchmen, and fousd that but seven Gad refased: don’t bnow the custom of taking bail in | of the men coald be recoguised by them as tating par. ¢ane of riot; have been on the police only since the 16th | im the procession; ree thy ith,the exception of the arrest mo order inat ; did nov intend to arrest or gave to arrest | 824 connection wish nothing else could any one onteice of the proce.sioa; there was a colsred | be proven upon them, Had it been the inten-ion of the Wan arrested outside, but he was discharged; all who | cfowd to molest Bedini, the police were time)y in the pre. spoke to me denied being in the procession. ventivn of it. Examining Se eae ‘Mrs. McHenry sworn—Saw some men going over Wal- | slesrly evident that the State hed failed to make out But street o night, about nine or ten | °##e, and he would therefore ask for the discharge of the o'clock, toward Ninth street; pa aot tell who they | “@’endants. Were; saw some lacies among them heard some ‘The Court replied—That os the case had been aban fixed after they came back. panne ig the prosecution, the defendants were ail dis Labens recalled— aror—Who | ebsre- the first blow? Rapetion, Wa 9. ‘This ter mivation of the case was received quietly, and I can’t say; I supposed the two men who need | the court adjouroed. \Lelrmeoes were watchmen; that was the first blow I foe struck. The Cla Bulk toniresd Pures II am brother of the Archbishop; lire cn prisoner pirmous cons in that aight and wolusteared to detead the | , 72, fellowes ls the letter of ‘the Hon. Heverdy Jobn- ith the "i we . Pens theremin cae a See reece, 3,198 persone w! unt arrest ABET NGTON, 3 Gross examised—I heard from Mr. Walsh and Caief of | My DxamFin—I cannot hesitate to o»mply with your om’, ve you my on the ition of the negotiations of this eet S geetiomen beride myself and another Capt. Rosencraots, Drs Bonner, by you for the consideration of the President, the con- iD, is Darr; I believe there was one | tracting par-iea were obligated not ‘to oooupy, oF for- mong them; don’t know ifthe o'her men | tity, or colonize, o assume, or exercise any deminion a a, about RH twelve pes B Costa — on eoast, aid tknow if ap wae outside it Central America.” I thoughi as dag! nai 3 that there words were sufficient to ealeae aad eee Lukens recalled—Saw an effigy that night; it | dispesed to observe the faith of treaties, from oocu pet the stuffed, with a mitre onits | ing. fortifying, colonizing, or Cg Me carried any dominion, un‘er apy pret or aay par; 1 still think so, but I-remember well that other mea who were consulted at the time, sbongent caution, that Great Britain should herself not to wake use of any protection whic affor( ed, or might afford, or any allisece which she had or might have, to cr with any state or people, for the purpose of occupying, fortitying, or colonizing or of a:- suming or exerc'sing ion over that country. And in consequence, the provision to that effect was introduced ses pert of that article. The object of this was still nore explicitly to disarm the Mosquito prot ctorate of Great Britain in Central America. 5 My own opinion bas been, and it now is, that this pro- three or four shots; at that time the os Vision was not at all necessary. You thought as I did. rushing to the centre of the crowd; we | But as it could not possibly weaken the force or effect of made arres's; there was one pistol fired at | the precedisg words, ard if effective at all, could only by don’t think there was « bullet in i fterve to rencer them more forcible snd operative, we did is ef naw @ gevera! 4, an express stipulas t such Petermi not be done ‘or ler cover of protec did not exs mine the man whom I arrested; I went torates or alliances. could only operate stil more effec tebbor tually and absclarely to prohibit them Freeman's Bally’ te ‘As one of the advisers of the Presi¢eat, I umhesttatingly plated we went along Ninth street; on the corner there | gave him my opinion that the treaty did effectually, to were some men talking aloud ; we then arrested Mr. | %// intents and purposes, disarm the British protectorate poe dha on sespiaien of beieg im the crowd; [ am | im Central America and the Mosquito coast, althouga it tinee he was no; in the ; he was telk- | did rot sb lsh the protec:orate in terms, nor wan it ing dirty ai out the police when he was arrested; I have na advisable to do no ‘' in tprisrimis verbis.” All that a +'poe from different yersons that Wolfe was not in comgaiin X, sae ange cot Beitish domiaion erowd A Crovs examtned—I ‘advanced ahead of the polios; about | whether c’aimed by Great Britain ia her own right, or in thirty feet shead when the procession came up; the pistol | right of the Indians. fired wes directed across to the body of the pol t our goveroment had n> notice, and mo denire to ‘was before the order for arrest; I retarved to - | prevent Grest Britsin from Lg toageges eg of the daties Ddeyon: Plam street; as soon as | gt to the si which charity or com parsion for @ f race might dic he crder was given to arrest; just when two or threes | tate to her, or to de -rive curse ves of the power to inter hot 3 the pelice were within ten or tweoty | fore to the seme satentin the cause of. humacity. We tet; can’t sey which party fired the pistols; there was a | Bever designed to do anything which could enable the en- al loud whooping; there were on the side | emen of this mi creble remnant of Indians to butcher or bere were some women amon¢ crowd on the | *tarve them, ani we thought that botn G eat Pritata and Calm; 1 took the crowd for # drunken one, who woula | the United States owed it to their bigh ¢hardoter for eivil- not care what they did; I bad no J; I hed a mace | isetion aed bumsntty to interfere so far in their behalf as ‘tior of :he race, or the expulsion of |, without extinguwh- witb me, or leaded colt; night wa'cbmen cerry weodea | maces; they are generally armed preity well. when the rel) was calle £ cight O’clsek the Captain to:d us to re- | waip in the watchhouse; be raid he wanted 2s in the crowd Igots pistol after the arrest I exges’e 8 aid ¢ ‘they would attack us; I believe they attacked us inthe | treet; ceateins even for that purpose that could be fret place; the order was given to arrest just at thetime | derired,) to prevent the British government from usieg Seoond firing commenced; seme sald “take them,” | sy armed force, without our copeent, Recap eet» panel and some raid “ pitch in;” this was a very few seconds | ited r under pretext or cover of her pret pro. softer the pistol was fred naw Mr. Evaes | tectorate, Ant when now 1 whet was done laying dowm on the street policeman; fre Fay UpOR my responeibility as @ law) er, and as the legal cr tix cf these men were around him; there was a , adviser of the Presi at the time, thet, im my peral ebarge; sme of the men bad hold of Evans; | judgment, human language could not be more Properly can’t identi 00 tr selected mace; Dim te the evil; bis body was her party Out; be scruck bim om the head, ]The person strusc the frotectorate over 1 Frederick Winble.} Schaeffer that was the way to | knowledges our proted’orate over the ame Indians, do {t; I remonstented with him, | over Nicer at the time of the ares’; the po! Siripg was; caw no one struck ;' ‘Meat; if the man who fired heave sbot me very easily; | Op my erm; heard no toy trum ‘Be inetruments of muric; C oo, sworn—I am the 26th Capt, Lukens told ‘we went out io the strest; Cow: the Hi y, 7 elem by justice, the right to | and Niearagua But, in my juigueat, the ag ine vas weent for pesceful purposes, denies both | Britain and the United Sinton the Bedint, : te vord we jom: them fellows,” I tule «f comstruction, she may fortify ‘Amer.cs, OF introdace & | Pre xt Amy a verse _ tre) Ameries wi buut our or cccupetion ia Violetion ef ber national faith. eon traction which w 0ld siloe ber to place am armed solitery on the terri- 4 *y for the rorpose of protegting the Indians, woul} play i i i i He fe i id i Hy : H if i [ | é fi i i i i i 5; fs sE g if Hl ii cf i 2 Tay piabet ete dell Fifteafe at Hou Helitil i Hi HH it b E A : 3 z f A sk A 8 E ag i ee Ht Z a i righ af bie eeu E tee! iit but when Sir Henry consented to receive you! declaration of the 4th of July, in which you Hmited the term ‘Her Mojesty’s settlement duras”’ to that country ‘which is known as Honduras, a6 contradistinguished or distiact from tne Btate of Honduras, and also confined the word “de. mpg tn bis declaration, to those ‘' small isisnds ’” in at the time to be such; in which, also, whils e4- mittivg Belize, or Britieh Honduras, not to be included in the treaty, you disavowed all prrpose of Lp | sny British title, even the: whi thatthe oats a tpelae 2 States, wit eir just limits and proper dependencies, ’ and in’ whieb ‘you exprersly stated to spa tion could be made in the treaty without the consent of , the Senate, and that he was understood as net even posing any such alieratiens—you, then, comented to exchange upos that counter deciaratiow, which, in your opinion, and miue, too, cempletely asnulled every pre- text for asserting thst the negotiation of the negotiators hadaitered the convention, or fixed an noenion aod hold it to be perfectly clear that the exchange of the ratifications on that counter declaration was, om the part of the British minister, a complete waiver of ‘tn 4 5 mea that could be taken to any statement eont In of law, the declarations of the negotiators not subuttted to the Senate, were of no validity, and eould not affect the treaty. Both understoed that. This gov- ernment had decided that question im the case of the Mexican protocol, and the Bi itish government was official- ly informed of their decision. The very power te exc! ratifications gave them tae same information, aad it is a! solutely impossible that the British Minister could have been deceived on that subject. I remember well that you steadily refused effort en the part of Sir Henry to induce you to the’ Morquito title. The treaty left us at liberty to recognise the title of Myerg rbd any other Centrat American Btate, and left th ih government the right to recog- nise the titie of the Mosquito King. Oa these polats the ee ee Bat the right to ise is & very different affair from the right to compel to ise. The British prctectorate was, I entire- y by the treaty, How is it possible for Great itain 2 if she cannot ‘‘oocupy, fortify, or as- ion whatever,”’ in amy part of the terri- tory? She is equally prohibited, in my opinion, from oc- gupring, lowdioy) Ld brrs Lo gerrrp hod Laagegre for je purpose of occupation she observes the treaty, her protectorate ida (aa you ouce well said of it ina diplomatic note,) the shadow of a name”? ith regard to the British colony said to have been established om 17th July, 1862, in the Islands of Raataa, Bonacos, Utilla, Barbarat, Helesa and Morat, and desig- nated asthe Colony of the Bay of Islands, the question whether, by estab! hing sucha colony, Great Britain has violated the treaty of 1850, depends entirely upon facts, in regard to which there are different o; only islands known to this gov rament on the 4th of Jaly, 1860, to be dens ies of Britieh Honduras, or Beli were thore referred to in the fourth or fifth article the treaty of London, of the 14th July, 1786. fourth article provider that ‘the Koghsh shall be permitied to occupy the rmall islards knows by the names of Casina, St. George’s Key, and by the Gfth a:ticle 2 ii thers les included between the it of Gayo Casiza and the claster of small islands, are situated opposite that part of the coast ocoupied by the cutters, at a distance of eight from the river Walles, seven frcm Cayo Casina, and three from ihe rit Sibuns. a place which has alwayn brea fouad wall a iapt- ed = Poel For wh'ch pre the edifices and storehoures lately necessary that services, shal be allowed to be built ” These artic'es (a the treaty of 1786 give as the keowledge of any ‘small irlands’’ which were on the 4 suly, 1860, “cepeméencies’’ of British Honduras. 1 re- that the counter declaratim acknowledges no other jenc es of British Honduras bat those small islands ff! € oF He Ff Eat vt ift z tj 4 | i re Ht rE if i Hi i = i i i 25 i it i H|! asese F pearciene again to obtain dominios over the am sure that, wha'ever msy be contained to the con- trary in any despatches emanati: reign offce, of which ramor s: (ee pea angry one halt) of the claia of the lon re ettivens, with the conctrrence aad approbstion of the om) perenne that “eo areon “4 with @ fair prospect of success, for the purchase feme persons of the residue of that c'asim. ‘ Before eloring this letter I would congratalste you aad our country on the brightening prospect of a speedy con- struction of the great work to promete whieh you bave devoted yourself n0 long amd so faithfally. American sotlemen of high character have, it seems, interested themselves in the explo ation of a canal toate, indiested by Hombol¢t, seross the Istbmas of Darien, Thetr engineers have reported the roate from the Savan- nab river, emptying into the harbor of Darien and Gulf of St. Biguel, on the Pacific, to Caledonia Bay, the Atlantic, as being certainly practicable for lees thas 8,000,000, and that the harbors on each side are admit rably formed by natare for the purpose, being sufficient to contain the navies of the world. The deepest eut oF this route, which extends but fora very small distance in represented to be enly about one hunired and fifty feet and the whole distance from « pols t op the Sevan. nah river, seven miles fiom the harbor of Darien, re the depth of water is thirty six feet, to the je Bay of Caledonie is oniy dhirty-three miles. comseq cence of your negotiation, the Sth artisie of the tresty of }9:b Apri), 1850, bied- both Great Sritais ond the United States t> protect thin route, all other caeals, and ever rat'road seross the 0 | whetber io er cut of Central America I unders' thet, pursuing the rpirit of the treaty. engineers, ander sanction of the governments of Great Britain sud the United t tater, are now actually engag-d im surveying snd: ¢xpl rirg the Derien canal route, and that we nay ¢ur- ing the next seer expect their official reports. Ameri- can citizens and British subj cts are to be equally com- corned im the mas: ent of the canal. The British ex- plerationr, pirruant to the understanding between the two goverrments ix pooredivg on the Pagific, aod the g permed pon pee Delieved this enter- ine—by far greet most ima; ever under- ae by man— “ppeberewe dy feds, may ong By pestabiy 1,000 sien, aed. the danger of the Cape 000 wm Of the tecateu! teeacnres of the Aware, pd al wig fog hg comnected with this enter , You cannot but rejoice in the belief that the rubject to which you have devoted so much labor, and br hopes. Tam, dear sir, sincerely your friend aad obedieat Desrioy be hg nett bap pnd mage we ave ped to arrest some of the parties, ba’ off, Use of tle party Th pistol. w! i¢h he di charged ia bis face. severely injuring Aman by the same of Abraham Pitteley, was frovem to death on the Ist imet., im Freetown woous, Be wes about isty ; ears of oge,