The New York Herald Newspaper, May 19, 1854, Page 2

\I Revo- Sant ‘Anna’s Condition D at Vera Intionary AX’ Picayune, May 12] ies Ml Capt. Piace, reached her wharf From th&R Vora Cruz on the 8th inst., to ‘The ste brings intelligence from that port. yosterd8 Le of Mexico we have papers to the 4th inst. whicbeface reports that up to the time of the depar- (eet the Texas from Vera Cruz, the British brig Two s, then forty-five days ont from New York, had not arrived. ‘The Texas brings forty-four passengers, $134,400 in Apecie, and fourteen cases on freight. = ‘A severe shock of earthyuake was felt in Vera Cruz at about twelve minutes past nine o’clock on the morning of the Sth inst , which, according to the Eco del Comercio, lasted at least fifty seconds. Fortunately, notwithstand. ing ils severity and its extended duration, it did not conse any damoge. Mr. DaCosta, the purser of the Texas, inforrus us that it was not felt in the harbor. The Eco des Comercio mays its direction was quite peroeptibly { 1 0 west. authentic and definite intelligence that we d from the city of Mexico. as to the state of South, seems fully to confirm the most un- ports previously brought from Acapuleo by ima, as to Santa Anna's prospects, A private ication, dated Mexico, May 3, which we have be ind in the integrity and impartiality of the wri- | which we are assured the most implicit reliance may be placed, has the following statement :-— At the prosemt moment roports are in circulation here, little in favor of the existing ordef of affairs, but I do not know if they wi'l prove correct. It is rui d that the Pr)- aidont is entirely surrounded by the fore d that tho appointment of an Executiv: that the Commandant General dves not obey of the Ministors. Ithink that much of this is mere conjec- ture, but what is certain is, that we have uo intelligence whatever from the South. In direct connection with this, however, we may state that we are politely informed by Mr. Da Costa, the pur- aer of the Texas, that just as the vessel was leaving Vera Cruz, news reached there of a battle having been fought between the forces of Santa Anna and those of Alvarez, in which the former were completely victorious. We have been unable to ascertain any particulars as to where the alleged encounter was said to have takea place; though the presumption was that it was at or ear Acopulco, Independent of the consideration as to the amount of credibility to be attached toa report so yguely tromsunftted, it would seem to bear internal evi- ci commu: lence of being fictitious. To show this, our readers, we think, will have only to + tof the previous condition of affuirs ven by the Mexican papers. We give these in a con- fectea . from the period embraced by our last kecounts taken from the same source. ) vit. Santa Anaa's army arrived at Cajones, avers forces lind abandoned. On the night anced guard passed the night at Tierra ince belonging to Alvarez. On the 13th the reared before Puerto del Coquillo, which 4 by 1,200 men under Villareal. The ‘plan of laid down by Santa Anna was executed by | 00; the action commenced by the bombardment rarer's camp, which.was followed up by a bayonet charge Aer thrce hours fighting Villareal abandoned his position, and fled up adjacent raviaes. A report was circulatéi at night that Alvarez had evacuated the Cerro del Percgring, and fallen back upon Acapulco. Santa Anna reviewed bis troops on the field of battle. This, however, would seem not to have been particularly bloody, for the army is said to have lost but four men— three’ privates, and ‘a sub-lieutenant of chasseurs named Gonvales, The afair, which commenced at daybreak, was all over ly noon On the Uist of March, Capt. Diaz Miron left Mazatlan with two vessels, to blockade the port of Acapulco. tmme jiately after the Coquillo affair Santa Anna’s ca- valry is raid so have come up with Arvarez’s forces at the Cerro de loa dos Arroyas, intercepted their retreat, and to have charged and dispersed them. One of the prisoners gaye the information that Alvarez bad fled dur- ing the night for Acapulco. The Universal remarks in reference to this, that the capture of the ‘bandit’? would be now #o much the easier, seeing that their es- cape by sea would be impossible, as the port was block- aded. Our readers have already heard it stated, how- | ever, that Alvarez had retreated, only for the purpose of leading on Santa Anna, s0 asto be enabled to surround him, . We next hear that a lieutenant of auxiliary troops, who bad been charged with the pursuit of Villareal’s band, encountered a guerilla band commanded by Yligi- nio Reboliedo. in the vicinity of the hacienda of Tepoza- nalcp routed them, and took Ignacio Sanchez, Paz Yezca and Gabricl Rebolledo prisoners. We are told that one José Abarea, chief of another of Alvaree’s guerilla banda, not having been able to seduce the inhabitants of Chilapa, ret fire to two important haciendas, the inhabitants of which, to the number of two hundred on foot and eighty mounted, fell on him and Lis band aad accomplished « murderous defeat of them. ‘The Cabinet is next represented to have received intel- Lgence from the Gayernor-General of Guerrero to the 2uA ult. ‘The Diario Oficial says this affirms in the most poriiive manner that Santa \nna’s army hadencountered | no obstacles whatever; but that a halt took place at Dos | Arreyos, in order to refresh the troops, so that they | might reach Acapulco by the 20th. . or readers, however, wili, we thipk, see some incon- nistency ‘e, with the account given above, of the state of affairs at Dos Arroyas; and in what. follows we think ‘hey will find presumptive confirmation of the report that Alvarez bad surrounded Santa Anna. For the Diario Yficial referring to this same period, says that some foliated bands of rebels, the remaina of Alvarez’s army fispersed at Coquillo, beat about the country, and that though they flee at the approach of Santa Anns’s army, ey intercept correspondence. On the 224, it suys, they Intercopted two couriers on foot, who, however, suc- ceeded in saving their despatches by hiding them in the ‘wood. aud entrusting them afterwards to the command- ant of an escort of a convoy, who remitted ther to the | Goverror Gencral. The officer was said, at the saine time, to announce that, with the exception of these small banda, the country was quiet. ‘The same paper, in its issue of the firs! instant, pub- lishes a despatch from General Palacios, dated Brivos, April 27, in which he says that he has transmitted it t calm any anxiety that may have arisen in the capiti from th ney of communications of late, and to communicate an account of the tri ate of affairs, Our troops, he eas. victorious on all sides, have penetrated to Aeapuleo, and at last accounts were bombarding the fortress at that place, the last resort of the insurgents. This information, he alleges, he bas from persons who have come from that quarter, and he has no doubt the foriress had already been taken, He then pleads the great occupation of Santa Anna and the Minister of War, in addition to the unsafe condition of the roads, asa reason for not having sent despatches. He believes the whole oumber of insurgents left does not amount to four hundred, and alleges that some have been terrified into Hight, and that most of them are inclined to throw them velves on the clemency of the supreme government, as Manuel Aviles had done. The Heraldo of the 14th instant, quotes from the Uni- vertal of the 3d, which has not reached us, a statement that, from communications which the Supreme govern- ment had received on the previous day, from the chief commandant at Tabasco, it was known that Alvarez, int ing it imporaible to go into @ formal action wit Anna's troops. had been contented to take up a position with some of lis followers at Las Cruces, to intercept correspondence, and that Santa Anna had sent a respect- able force to dislodge him. It was also known, according to the same authority, that the fortress of San Diego could offer but little resistance, in consequence of the small number defending it, especially dispesed as they are by the reverses which they have suffered in their previous encounters, Don Ignacio Comonfort is in command of this fortress, and has some five hun- | dred men under him, exclusive of some he is alleged to have been induce’ to disarm in consequence to of doubting their Adelity. We are now brought down the latest moment to which we have any authenti telligence, withont calling in question the authenticity ef the latter portions of it. And still we think it is quite clear from ft that we are justified in saying it all goes to strengthen the reports of Santa Anna’s having been surrounded and thrown into a very difficult position by Alvarez. Even according to the latest and most favora- ble accounts there were numerous bands in his rear, cw ‘ting off sli communication with him; the fortress of San Wiego was holding out against him with a force of more than 500, and Alvarez himself, so far from boing shut up and reduced to straits, was harrassing him and émtercepting his communications in another direction. Not # few of our readers, howerer, will incline to the Wa the despatebes from ( Palacios and from the Governor-General of Tabasco are mere conjectures, if not fabrications: Alvares's «fair is not the only one, however, with which Santa Anna has to contend. ‘A Capt. Vicence Vers ratsed the standard of the rebellion on the 17th ult., at ‘the hacienda of Santa Teresa, in Queretaro. He attempted acoup-de-main against the village of Albercas, but was repulsed.and fled into the Sierra Gordo, whither he was wrsued. He also attacked San Ciro, but was repulsed. umerots forces had been sent against him. The Diaro Oficial, of Toluca; announces the arrest of Lois Pingon, a carrier of secret despatches from Alv: to the leaders of the disaffected in Michoacan, Senores Anacloto Tabares Ramon Palacios, of Coyuca, and Felipe Braco, Adwinistrator of Customs at Acapulco, who were all three likewise arrested. The DPrario Oficial, of Mexico, gives a programme of the objects of a democratic conspiracy, the chiefs of which had been errested. These are most liberal, and yet mo- derate. Civil bee an and above all, liberty of conscience, the ration of all civil power from the priesthood, and the blishment of an agrarian law, which regulates Tanded property and facilitates its acquirements,are their great points [From the New Orleans Delta, May 12.) arc in receipt of our regular fies of papers from the city of Mexico to the 4th and from Vera Cruz to the ‘Sth instant. The papers come to us dressed in mourning, which be- tokens the death of another great man, one of the fa thers of the republic, Gen. Nicolas Bravo. He was a hero of the war of Independence, and has been celebrat ed throughout his long military and civil career for his honesty le mk Sepa Virtues in Mexican generals. He left the chair of that ere years ago, ‘a8 poor ass clmroh mouse and deeply involved in per Bonal . Amore magnanimous enemy never lived. Daring the war of Inde command of the army, hi the lence, when Bravo was in father was captured by Spaniards and inhomanely put to death by order of a § general. When the sad occurrence was relate! to Bravo, instead of retaliating or showing any dispos'- tion to revenge the death of his parent, he releasedt ree hundred Spanish prisoners who had been taken by him a short time previous. It isa very singulat circu that om the same day. and buts few hours quent to the death of her husband, Mrs. Bravo, his wife. also died. Mexico has been peculiarly unfortunate in losing great men during the past year, no less than five major-generals having died, and ‘twice that number of beigadiers. W list of them, to wit— Major io Bustamente, Jose Maria Tor. if jorrera, Manuel Maria Lombardini Ventura Mora, Manuel Micheltorena, nto Franco, Manuel Maria Villada, cico, Jose Staboli, Pedro Maria Anaya, Nicome leo, Rafael Canalizo, Rafael Vasques, Jaan sno nows of any importance from the seat of ’ Mouth. A thousand rumors were afloat in a ceged W the operations of General Alvarez, | is the end sought, or rather a | ecast in the vicinity of Acapulco, and that his rear was w it ay }, hag well ia"fae aed the Septal rainy iV Acapulco, because he did not desire to to the that it was supposed im much longer, Raphael de Barrio, brother of the Minister of Guate- mala, died in Mexico on the 27th ult. The Tampico papers announce that a gold and silver mine had been discovered near the place by Don Salva- wie eit Intel a robbed by : A ce was lately stopped and robbed by a band of highwaymen, between Mexico and Guadalajara, and another between Mexico and Vera Cruz. ‘An order has been promulgated in Mexico to prohibit smoking in the theatres during the summer months, {What would be thought of an American theatre that permitted smoking at any time’) A large number of the States of Mexico have sent in officially their assurance of fidelity and adherence to the President. A democratic conspiracy has been discovered in Mexico, and the Diario officially publishes seven articlox of the plan,” or basis, of the government the conspi- rators propose to establish, ‘and religious liberty lc something on the plan of the British monarchy. 80 far as religion is con- cerned, they would make the Roman Catholic the estab Tahoe church, but allow all other denominations o fair charce, Sontag and the Italian opera troupe are creating a per- fect furore in Mexico. They are entertaining the Mex- one, wah the same operas they played at the St. aries. A battle of six hours duration was fought on the 13th ult. betwee the troops of the government and the rebels under Alvarez, in which four soldiers and an efficer of | the regular army were killed, ‘The mm question is being fully discussed by the papers. They generally take the side of the ke (From the N. 0. Teue Delta, May 12.] The Zrait d’ Union of the 29th ult. says that the Cabi- net have received news from the seat of war to the 22d ult. The Diario says that Santa Anna has encountered no obstacles whatever in his march, but that the enemy | are entirely dispersed, and only appear in guerrilla bands, which harass the rear of the army and intercept the cor: rerpondence. With the exception of these bands, the despatches say the country is entirely quiet, and its pa- cification may be looked upon as complete. The des- patches contemplated that Santa Anna would enter Aca- pulco on the 20th ult. | ‘The news received here a few days since by the Jobn L. | Stephens, that Santa Anna was encamped on the sea cut off by the occupation of the passes through which he had entered, is confirmed by these accounts. Up to tho | 24 instant, the date of our news, nothing had been heard | from him later than the 22d ult., and it may well be con. | cluded that all communication in the rear has been cut | off, and the suppos tion that he was hemmed in between two opposing forces appears well founded. ‘The reports contained in the official despatches, which we have given above, are not to_be entirely relied upon; most certainly not, as to the effect which is attempted to be given to the various actions mentioned; the defeat of a straggling band of guerillas is magnified into the rout of the whole of Alvarez’s forces. His policy appears to have been from the beginning, as we have stated here- tofore, it doubtless would be, to oppose but advance of Santa Anna, never bringing any large force, and slways avoiding a decisive action, by these means drawing him into the country by de. | grees, and removing him from the vicinity of supplies and reinforcements, so that rally he might be enabled entirely to cut off his rear, and hem him in between the *® sea coast and tho mountairs. This scems to have been the result. Of course it would be Santa Anna’s aim to bring on a decisive action, as delay to him would be de- struction, while Alvarez'a course would be to avoid a general batile, as by procrastination he would be tho better enabled to harass and wear out his opporent. ‘The Texas brings the news that on the morning of her leaving Vera Crus, it was reported that a battle had taken place [n or near mein pest and that Santa Anna was victorious. We give this report for what it is worth. | So many of a similar character having preceded it, wo cannet offer any opinion. | Senor Antonio Mordas has been appointed agent for Sonora, for the prosecution of claims againat the United States arising out of depredations on the frontiers of that State. News trom Utah Territory. We notice by the Deseret News, of February 16, that the great wall which is to surround the Mormon Great Sult Lake City, is about five-sixths completed. By a letter from a missionary Mormon in the Sandwich Islands, written to the Deseret News, it seems that on | the island of Honolulu four hundred persons have been converted to Mormonism ; a like number on Kanwai, and | two hundred in Hawaii in the space of two months. ' The writer of the letter says :-— In the island of Maui and Molokai there has been a large increase in all the branches, the work of the Lord scems to rcll on with increasing rapidity. Since the last conference there have been two thonsand added to the church, and many more inquiring what they shall do to be raved. ‘The Lord is at work with his servants on these lands, and if they are faithful, I believe he will continue to work till the honest in heart are gathered out from among the wicked, and the wicked prepared for the judg- ments that are coming on the face of the whole earth We have sent elders to every island in the entire groap, an to every portion of them, from this conference. ‘The News, of March 16, comes to us in mourping fo: the death of its editor, Willard Richards, Mr, R. was als> the Post Master at Salt Lake, and has been one of t most influential among the Mormons. The News says : On the Slat of December, 1836, at the setting of tl sun, Dr. Willard Richards was baptized at Kirtland, un- Cer the bands of President Brigham Young, in presence Kimball, and others, who had age ved of Heber afternoon in cutting ice to prepare for the baptism. toy Richards was born at Hopkintown, Middlesex coui Moseachusetts, June 24, 1804. One feature in the prayer offered up at the funeral “r. Richards will sound strange to those who look wi horror and disgust upon poly ges ‘The officiating Elde prayed as follows Bless the widows of thy servant Willard, who are called to part with a dear and beloved companion. Inspire them with the power of the Holy Ghost, and wisdom to bear with patience and resignation, the trials they were called to encounter, and to live in such a manner as to prepare them to enjoy his society in the possession of thrones, privcipalities and powers in the celestial world. The News also published an address of President Brigham Young, in which occurs this revolting ani dis- graceful passage, viz.:— “‘yhe expression that Old Zachary Taylor was dead and in hell, and I am glad of it, which the returning of- ficers in their report alleged was said by me, I do not know that I ever thought of it until I heard Brocchu: himself mention it on the stand in the old Brewery. When he made the statement there I simply bore testi- But until then, I do n>t know that it ever came into mind whether Taylor was in hell any more than it did that any other wicked man was there. J suppose he is where all the ignorant wicked are gone, and where they will continue to go. The Bible declares that the Lord Almighty turns the wicked into hell, with all the nations that forget God. But I did not suppose that Zachary Taylor could be classed with those that forget God, for he never knew anything about him. Tam confident that such a thing was never men- tioned by me. When Zachary Taylor or any other wicked man dies, they go to hell.” Young seems to think that at least under the present administration he is secure, for he says:— Thave no fears whatever of Frankiin Pierce excusing me from office, and say that another man shall be the governor of this Territory. We have got a territorial government, and I am and will be the governor, and no power can hinder it, until the Lord Almighty says, “Brigham you need not be Go- yernor any longer,’’ and then Iam willing to yield to another. I have told you the truth about that. Itcame intomy mind when brother Bernhisel was speaking, and the same thing strikes me now, viz.: inas- much as he does first rate as our delegate in Washingt 1 was going to move that we send him again next se: ed though it is the Sabbath day. lunderstand these things, and say as other people say, ** We are Mormons. do things that are neces y to be done when the time comes for us to do them. If we wish to make political speeches, and it is necessary for the best interest of the cause and kingdom of God, to make them on the Sabbath, we do it. Brother Kimball has seconded the motion that Dr, Bernhirel be sent back to Washington as our delegate; all who are in favor of it raise your right hands. (More than two thousand hands were at once seen above the heads of the congregation. } This bas turned into a caucus mecting. It is all right I would call for an opposite vote, I will try it, however. (Not a single hand was raised in opposition. } 1 will now say, not only to our delegate to Congress, but to the elders that leave the body of the church, he (our delegate) thought that all the cats and kittens were let out of the bag. When brether Pra‘t went back last fall and published the revelation concerning the | plurality of wives, it was thought there was no other cat to let out; but allow me to tell you, elders of Isracl and delegates to Congress, you may expect an eternity of cats that have not yet escaped from the bag. Blese your souls, there is no end of them: for if there is not , ove thing, there will always be another. } We extract from the Neiws a portion of » letter from a | Mormon at Parowan, giving an account of the sufferings of Col. Fremont and party. The letter aa: On the 7th of Febroary, the man on the lookout at Parowan reported a company, suppored to be Indians, coming into the north of the valley, twenty miles distant from Parowan, about 11 o'clock, on the morning of the ith. Col. John C. Fremont, with nine white men and tweive Delaware Indians, arrived in Parowan in a state of starvation ; one of men hed fallen dead from his horse the day previous, and several more must inevitably 1 shared bis fate had they not had succor that day. h ic mony to the truth of it, reported that they 1 eaten twenty-seven m cown animals; that when a horse or mule go no further, it was killed and divided out, giving one-half to the Delawares, and the other to the Colonel and his men; the hide was cut in pieces and enst lots for. After the bones had been made into soup, they were burned, and carried along by the men for luncheon, The entrails were shaken and then made into soup, together with the feet and eyes, thus using up the whole mole. They stated they had travelled forty-five days living on this kind of fare. Although Colonel Fremont was considered by the peo- | ple an enemy to the saints, and had no money he was Eindls tr ond supplied on credit with provisions for himeelf and men, while at Parowan, and fitted ont with animals and provisions to pursue his journey, and went on his way rejoicing on the 20th of February ‘The Colonel was sanguine, in his opinion, that he had the best route for the great national railway A Puvnarist.—The Troy Daily Budget, speaking In reference to the recent smash on the Troy and Groen bush railway, says:—"Mr. French, besides having these Tplexing and onerous duties (Superintendent of the Tindeon Hiver Railroad,) to attend to, at salary of $5,000 per annum, has also the Superintendency of the Troy Union Railroad, at a salary of $3,500; and the super- intendence of the construction of a railway in the South, salary of nome $2,000 or $5,000 or more." i | visits, and on Saturday last T fad the hover of dining a, “himself, so that | usto attempt the capture of them, 4 | grasp upon his slave than he has ever held before, and | master to tighten it upen his neck.” [From the In the Charlestown (Va.) fersom we find a letter from ae La Bedin- OUT e =e ESthacte from a 5 is curious in several par- iculars:— = a For a week or two the fleet was anchored within twenty of this and many persons from here availed themselves of opportunity to see it, Admiral Sir Charles Napier ‘made us two or three with ‘him at Mr. Emglish 4 ‘don’t cofound him with our Mr. Buchanan at London. ) the commander of the British Baltic fleet is a gentleman in the sixty-ninth year of his age, but, to all rr? as stout and hearty as need be. He is about the size of our exeellent friend, Win Grove, Bag. and it pet eatin unlike in appearance, except » in e the benevolent countenance of the latier entloman, the Admiral has rather hard features and a stern expression of face. The place assigned me at the dinner table, (your place in this part of the world 1s assigned you, ups all occa ens, and you must be careful not to take any place that is not assigned you,) was onthe left hand of the ‘lion’ ¢T had'a good opportunity of conversing with, and listening to him during the two hours and a lasted. in. half eo = bees “a ot per him telligent, affable, agreeable, quite to talk, particularly about our country and He spoke much, and me many quest about the United States; he was in the fleet at the taking of Alexandria during the war, wit- nessed the capture of Washington city, and the famous | battle of the ‘White House,”’ &c. He gave me some amusing and interesting incidents of those days; and, | among other things, he described certain marvellous | achievements performed by the Baltimore clippers, Whi he said, he never yet seen equalled by any other vessels, ‘Why, sir,” he gaid, ‘those fellows were the | most daring rascals I ever saw in my life; I assure you they seemed to care no more for us than if they had been | wild ducks, and could dive as wellas fly. They would | sail near us, and past us, and around us, as if taunting | which, indeed, we | often did, but we might just as well have undertaken to capture sea gulls. However,we did catch one of them; she wasa little too daring, yy unde mancuyre (which Sir CI described at lengt! which I am ‘not sailor enough to give to you), aground, end we got her. She was a splendid model, tlendidctaft; Lassure you she was a perfect beauty," ho. ‘After a while, as Thad anticipated, our conversation turned upon the subject of slavery. The English like to talk upon that subject. The Admiral asked me if I did not believe it would soon be abolished in the Southern States of our Union, I replied that I hoped and believed not; that I thought its abolition much less probable now than it had ever been; that the slaveholder had a firmé that I regarded that fact asa subject of congratulation, not to the South alone, but to the whole world, inas- much as I regarded the institution of slavery, as it exists with us, as most conservative in its tendencies and most beneficial in its results, not only to the whites but to the negroes also, le seemed komewhat astonished, and said he bad always supposed that everybody admitted it to be a curse, and that the only obstacle to its abolition was the danger and difficulty of liberating so many negroes in our midst. 1 told him I was aware that such was the nerally received opinion, but that it was erroneous; fhat the frequent discussions of the mubject had display: od it in its true light to the majority of sensible persons with us, and had demonstrated the tact that, so far from being a curse, it was a peculiar blessing, vouchsafed by a beneficent Providence, as well to the doomed inhabit- ants of unbappy Africa’ as to their masters, the more fortunate whites, &c.. “Ah, but,” he replied, “it mast be attended with’many evils, with great suffering, and much brutality;” and here he repeated many of the thrice-refuted slanders and falsehoods upon the subject, which every Englishman has pat at his finger’s ends. I ieplied that I know of scarcely anything good in this world that was not liable to abuse and attended with a certain portion of evil. Am k of the “brutality” exercised towards the slaves, I said, “I think it very | jes, that in ‘the course of your long ex- | witnessed as much brutality in the | itish avy as you would have witnessed had you spent | ‘our life in the midst of the slaveholders of Virginia.’’ | je enid, “‘Idare say, I dare say; God knows I have seen enough; there wasn time when sailors had to be treated almost like brutes; but that time is past, and one can got along now by treating them differently, till all that, is tint Itke slavery; slavery cannot be Justihed or detend- od.”” “But,” enid I, “like the condition of the British sailor, the condition of the slave is becoming amelio- | rated and improved every day of the world, and if his oke is at this day galling in the least, it is only because is ruthless enemies, the abolitionists, have forced his le returned to the attack, and quoted ‘Uncle Tem’s Cabin.” “But that, you know,”” said I, ‘is a huge collection of falsehoods.”” “J will admit,” ssid he, “that it may contain exag- gerations, but there must be some foundat on in tru lor the story it tells.’” ‘Yer,’ said I, ‘such foundations 98 I could easily find for writing a book condemning the institution of mazriage as it exists in England at present. For the last six or eight months past there seems to have existed among your people a perfect monomania for beating, maiming and murdering their wives. never glance at your police reports, that Iam not sickened by the recital of some fresh instances of this peculiar spe- cies of barbarism Women with their noses knocked from their faces, or their eyes bunged up, their teeth d out, their arms broken or their skulls cut open, appear before your m: ates, suing for the pro- ¢ ‘on of their miserable lives, against the fury of their by astis bexbenés, whcee barbatiam you push by aod six mnths bird labor “nothing more; And bat the over cay Iraw thet a certain English farmer ‘in easy | cl cumstances’ accomplished the death of his old mother by along process of freezing, starvation, and frequent | beatings with the ‘stalk of a cg whip.’” Here, certainly, | Waa ‘some foundation’ fora book that might be written azainst marrioge in England, and against the having of s:ns, too. cor that matter. Still, I precame, asa general | thing, it is proper to marry, even in Engla believe our abolitionists wWoull a! ish marr’ as slavery if they could. What Sir C t wife beating, women maiming, and mother Rever take place among slaves, or in those com- m_ nities where slaves are held. ihe Admiral was far from yielding, and as he met every argument! adyanced with the oli exclamation, ‘Oh, slavery cennot be justilied; it cannot be defented; the lized world condemns and revolts at it,” &c., &e., Lexciaimed, somewhat warmly at length, ‘ But how ean you say ao, Sir Charles, why the ——can it not be justi- fied? I have justified it, and you have not attempted to refute what I have said; I have defended it, and you cannot say that my defence is not a good one, a just one; the civilized world does not condemn it; for the Unite States, Spain, Brazil, Russie end Turkey, (as civilized as some Christian countries I could matey form a con- siderable part of the civilized world, yet they do not con- demn it. It can be sustained, it is sustained, and it will be sustaine-) as long as this world continues what God made it, "? &e., &e. Sir Charles ‘looked at me a moment, smiled at my en- thusiasm, and then said, “Oh, slavery is a very bad thing, and ought to be put down all wy talk! Thad shaken the pre; Admiral about as much as if I had entertained him by » sip) 1d Dan Tucker. ’? Learn from this the folly of striving with men resolyed to hold their own opinions, You may convince them; but if you do, it is “against their will, ” ag, know the effect of that. However, Sir Charles made me very ample eompensa- tion by speaking in flattering terms of our country and our people. After making us many compliments, he said, ++I begin to belive in the description, which some one of your orators gave of the American eagle, when he said, ‘he sits on the top the Alleghany, dips his beak in the Atlantic, and his tailin the Pacific, stretehes one wing over Canada, and the other over Mexico, and grasps the continent in his claws!’ ’’ Well, thinks I, that jen’t a bad eagle either: so got him to repeat it, remem- ber it, and am resolved to import it and produce it in the next stump speech that I shall hove the bléssed privilege 1g On the soil of the Old Dominion. Behold the result of ices of the English pressly for himself and his friends, and if we could eee: o'clock next morning, he would be happy, &e., &e. We were ready, and on repairing to the wharf we found many others ready also. Al the , except the Russians, and many citi- The morning was bright and clear, and calm and beautiful, and every one seemed buoyant with the pros- pect of acharming day. But, alas for our luck! after waiting afew minutes Mr. Buchanan made his appear- ance with a very sad face, and told us a despatch had that moment arrived informing him that certain Russian intelligence had reached the admiral which had com- pelled him to weigh anchor and sail at once. Probably | you never saw 20 many bright faces so suddenly clouded | with sorrow. Some of the ladies actually wept. For my part, I ex- claimed mentally, ‘ ‘tis the first Russian vietory; I won- | der if it will be the last.’’ I received yesterday official | information from Mr. Buchanan, that the fleet had de- | parted for the purpose of placing in a state of blockade all the Rus rts in the Baltic, and in the gulfs of T inland and Bothnia. Aprarrs IN Soxora.--We have intelligence from Sonora to the 15th of February. ‘The people are repre. das being ina most wretche! condition from fear he Apaches, who continue their depredations and utreges more than ever, and are every day becoming ‘er, as the terrors of the people increase, entering the towns, and killing men, women and childrem, or car- rying them off as prisoners, without fear of pursuit or rescue. The ranchos are nearly all deserted. ttle and: horses are running wild, and linble to be driven of any who will take the trouble. An orier has been i by the government prohibiting emigration to Californi and about Sve hundred troops, inclading one handred ai Altaz, are stationed along the frontier to enforee the de- | cree. The tobreco monopoly, which Gov. Gandara asked of Santa Anna, for the purpose of for military operations, bas been gran’ has levied an additional tax of twenty-five per ceat on tobaceo, for the same ohject. Mr. Raines travelled far into the country, and eonvers- ed freely with many of the chief men. He says there is uniform desire among them to become citizens of the United States, Americans are well received, and treated with consideration. They are well aware of Walker's in- ‘a; they look upon him and his ders, and will treat them as such. They have kand kill the whole band when tentions towards Sone band as city October 15th, travelled hence miles, and returned with five hun- to Warner's rancho. The prices of stock, In consequence of purchases for the California market, have advanced about 100 per cent within a year. | Cattle are now worth, in Mexican money, $15 to $16; | horses $95 to $40; mulos $40 to $58; sheep, nono in the puntry. The discount on American coin is 10 per cont. ‘This, with the customs duties of 22}¢ per cent, andthe ferriage st the Colorado, increases the Grst cost more than 83 per eent.—Los Anyrles Star, March 18. Paciric Rat.Roay.—The vote in St. Louis county on the proposition to subscribe $1,200,000 to the stock of the Pacific Railroad, stood as follows — Vor tax .....+ Against tax .... Majority GOT taXs046 seceereecserrrrgierenneey QM9T | | such ries as © Don't drown me.” a Shia Aubawy, May 17, 1854. The Mexican War and the Difficulties with Spain. © The of the card in the Hiamaxpof the 16th inst., issued by Captain Addison Farnsworth, proposing to raise t of volunteer soldiers whose services are to be to the President in case an outbreak with Spain occur, brings to mind a reminiscence in rela- tion to the late Mexican war. For months previous to the commencement of hostilities on the Rio Grande, the | opinion became general, on account of the wanton viola- tion of the rights of persons and property of American citizens committed by Mexico, the repeated acts of bad faith by fants Anna through a series of years, and his dis regard of solemn treaties stipulating for indemnity to our injured citizens, constituted ample cause of war on the part of the United States. During this state of things two young gentlemen, Ward B, Burnett and Charles Baxter, called upon Governor Silas Wright and informed him that they were engaged in raising two regiments for ser- vice against the Mexicans, and they desired him to issue commissions for themselves and the persons designated as subaltern officers. The Governor very properly in- formed them that he possessed no authority from the eral government, nor under the laws of the ory to raise a anilifary sore Sc meee service, as it ‘was a prerogative belong: ext ly the President, under the instructions and authority of Cor his duty extended only to repel invaders from without and suppress insurrections, &c., within the State. Mossrs. Burnett and Baxter felt aesured that an outbreak must very soon occur, and expressed a vel anxious desire to gs apo earliest in the fiel with each @ regiment under his command. Whether they possessed any reliable information from the admin- is ) Was revealed, but they left the Governor in the fullest faith that volunteers would be called for by at the commencement of the session. This in- 8 sometime in the midsummer of 1845, and wiousto the meeting of Con; ber, hos- Eiltties had actually commenced. The general govern. ment then authorized the President to call for volun- teers, and Governor Wright was required to #e- yen regiments to be held in readiness to pi to Mexi- co atan hour's notice. Immediately Burnett and Baxter informed the Governor that both full. Commissions were issued to of the first regiment of New York Volunteers, and to the latter as ces eaten: of the ‘ate koa lnc ap seven regiments were specdi one though only one, Col. Stevenson’s, was to wer and was despatched to the Pacific coast. Several months ensued, but po further call was made. All who had enlist- ed became impatient—none more so than the officers of the first second regiments. , after a delay, an order wan ived from the Department War calling upon the Governor te detail one regiment. Every commandant of each of the six regiments was anxious to be detailed, and the Governor, taking a sur- vey of the matter, considering the early application of Col. Burnett and also on account of being the first regi- ment organized, selected him. Colonel Texter was then a member of the Legislature, resigned his seat, and fear- ing that his own regiment would not be required, re- signed his commission as cclonel of No.2, and ‘was elected Lieut.-Colonel in No. 1, under Burnett, and thus both proceeded to Mexico in’ the same regiment. The official reports contain ample testimony that no officers ormenin the whole army acted more nobly, fought more bravely, or honored their respective Stales more courageously, than the New York Volunteers. Captain Farnsworth, ‘Whose case is referred to in this article, fought under Burnett and Baxter from Vera Cruz to Che- puliepec, where in the moment of victory, as the colors of the regiment were hoisted on the citadel, Baxter fell, amid a halo of glory. May it not easily be that the predictions of Farns- worth, with regard to Cuba and Spain, will be as spcedily verified as were those of the officers named above ia re- gard to the Mexican wart There are, at present, stronger prounds than mere indications, that Spain must grant indemnity for the Black Warrior and numerous other outrages, otherwise others than mere filibusters will take poséestion of Cuba. Canal Tolls. {From the Albany Argus, May ny We are again enabled to record a large weckly increase in the receipts of tolls on the State canals, The tolls, during the second week of May, this year, exceed thowe received during the samé period last Pe by at least $14,000. The first and second weeks of this year show the handsome increase of nearly $56,000 over the receipts for the same period last year. In the absence of complete returns for the second week this year, bu! assuming that the receipts at the offices to be heard from stand as last year, the following is the comparative result : 1854—For fourteen days... + $240,877 93 1852—For sixteen days...... +e» 135,002 57 TROPOARO. 60. 2 s'e'sees esse cee ++ $55,875 36 The period embraced in the weeks of 1853, it ‘will be ‘We have St. |. B.,, papers to 16th inst New Brunswicker says Pi big on that of = cae the / a treaty bet Great relative to the fisheries and the been drawn up by at ‘Washington agg the American of for the final settlement of these questions; but that the imperial | mode of nibling saw teeth. observed, covers two more days than the two weeks of | 1854. Thia is the result of the manner in which the canal weeks are divided. The first week, commencing this yearon the Ist of May, embraces the period from the Ist to the 7th; and the second week, from the 8th to the 14th. The remainder of the month is divided into two weeks, whether the month has 30 or 31 days, thus giving an advantage in point of time to last yeat over the present. The increase, as shown by the returns from New York ond Buffel, is truly gratifying. Tne figures for the two werks stand as follows — oA York, two weeks + $51,184 86 tn “ “ Tncreose............. 1834—Duffalo, two weeks. 15300 “ Increase We « e ig and capable assistant in t) ¢, for our figures and estimates, * (From the Albany Argas, May 18.) The folowing statement from the Auditor's office fully cenfirms ovr representations of the large weekly increase of canal tolls thus far this year, compared with 1852 and The "mount received for tolls on all the New York State Canals during the second week of navigation in May, $133,172 16 116,416 27 TS06;I8..... .siibls dacweeae Vhawhs if Same period in 1853, fourth week in April Increase in 1854 The aggregate amount rece mencement of navigation to the 14th M: fourteen days, is... To the same period in 18) 58, twenty-five da: Excess of twenty-five days last year over four- tecn days thi coaresidl coneiera exes OlEAl ved on all the New Yor! Amount of tolls’ recei Canals, in each of the following years, during the Fecond week of navigation, and the totals up to the 14th day of May inclusive — Canal Cpened. — Week Days. 1862—April 20.999,468 28 4 Total. Reed $318,92 ? 1852—Aprii 20,116,416 82 1854—Moy “1,188,172 K? ‘These ore gratifying regults, indicating, as the Tewarkable aggiegate inzrease of tolls t those of either of the two previous years. ‘These results are obviously not io the taste, as they are known to be the reverse of the hopes of the anti- corel clique, for whom the free soil and administration Atlcspraities. That sheet has not yet had space or in- Clination to allude to them. CANAL TRADE AT ALBANY. The following statement from Deputy Collector Coriell shows the eemparative results, up to the clos cond week in May, th office: — of the se- year and last, at the Albany $46,208 98 22,745 72 the following articles shipped:— 1863. 5,448,600 3,071,200 Coffee . 1521/4009 Nails whd spikes’: 1,697,100 Iron and steel, 2'496,800 ery » 1,888,000 Merchandise not enumerated 15,297,000 Railroad iron ..... » 12,046,800 9,600,409 ‘This exhibit also speaks well for the up trade of the caxel-, which promises to exceed previous years by a Iwi ge figure. Canav Business ar Weat Troy.—The amount of tolls received at the collector’s office, West Troy, du- ring the second week in May, was $206 41 less than in the seme period last year—this year $8,121 10; last year $8,527 61. The total amount in pounds of mer. chendise cleared from that office on the Frie canal, A smovnts to 79,780 ;—on the Champlain canal, 14,13 total, 9S 86) Inds. Of the property left at thay dy both canals, there were 708 bbis. of flour, bush: ls of wheat, 28,411 bushels of corn, 11,990 bisshe Dusley, and 13,600 bushels of oats Parat Resvct or A Cask or Hyproraosta IN PuLaveLriia —A few weeks since a Jad named George Riehl, residing with his parents, in Fourth street, near George, N. L., was bitten by a rabid dog at a tan yard where he was employed. He immediately visited a phy- sician, who burned the bitten port with caustic. and without any other medical aid the wound healed up. The lad continued at_ his work as before the occurrence, until early on Monday morning, when he went to the yard, but became sick at the stomach and returned ome, apparently suffering great pain. The bite of the dog recurred to the ern! pposed the boy was afflicted with hydrophobia. 5 summoned, and as soon as he fobserved the sympte was convinced the fears of the family were well ground- ed. The usual remedies were given the unfortunate youth, whose convulsions and sufferings were terrible to Witness. At the sight or sound of water he would go into convulsions. The youthtul suiferer continued in this dreadful condition ‘until one o'clock this morning, when death put an end to his agony. Por some time be fore bis death he would become frightfally convulsed at quired the uni 1 strength of several men to restrain him. Durin is paroxysms he would give utterance to “Take away the wa- ¢ fearful evidence of the operations ladelphia Bulletin, May 1%. ter,” &e., which of the disease.—. Tennivory or Tun Hvpsox Bay anp Rvsstay AMenica.—We learn by a Toronto journal that a special convention of neutrality was concladed, some time since, at Sitka, chicf town of the Rassian settlomonts in America, between the Russian Governor and Sir George Simpson, Governor of the British ions of the Hw son bay Tene . bf = ion — made toavert the calami a oceur in a savage cou! inhabited by un- It however, the insure their re- the tro it ; it only cade thew seats be ee « 85,798 64 | | formers. . Taylor was | said that the Hon. J. Ross and Col. Tach represent, | Canada; the Hon. Messrs. Chendler and Hazen go from this Province, and the Hon. Messrs. Young and ge will appear on bebalf of Nova Scotia. ’” The News learns that Mr. Black, of Rhode Island, has contracted with the contractors to build forty-five miles government will not act without first consulting the colo- nies inte Apemnliatiy Se tes are to be sent from Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Ed. ward Island, and, we believe, from Newfor ‘who are to niect and decide upon’ the Proposed d treaty, It is q towarde St. John, and that he will bring on his staff and laborers from the United States, to commence operations forthwith. New Patents Issued. List of patents issued from the United States Patent = for the week ending May 16, 1854, each bearing j Vig Baker, of Utica, N. Y.—For improved clapboard joint Cyrus Roberts, of Bellsville, 11.—For improvement in harvest rakes. bine Frisbie, of Olmstead, Ohio.—For improved bath machine. ‘Wm. Stoddard, of Lowell, Mass.—For improved-rotary shingle machine. Chas. A. Read, of Waterloo, N. Y.—For improvement in self-heating smoothing irons. ‘Wm. L. Bass, of Cam! dgeport, Mass.—For improve- ment in tables for ships’ cabins. Smith A. Skinner, of Brownington, Va.—For improve- aon carpe) alin, ae BR. L—For im it israel M. ins, i provement inknitting machines, ‘ Fer Mea phe Salem, Mass.—For improvement in mou! couplings. Thos f Sload, of New York, N. Y.—For improvement in water indicators for steam boilers. Chas. G. voy hep of Lowell, Mass.—For improvement ig reheninay for bps wool. ‘eorge Rogers, " in baths for coating metals with other metals. Henry Burt, of Newark, N. J., assignor to the ‘‘ New- ark Patent Hosiery Company,’’ of same place.—For im- provement in iting machises, as Abel Greenleaf, of Kingston township, Pa.—For im- EAT he eB, Mae_ fr ingeormet a ni % ‘or machines or Lge and shoes. ctor { Heman Bristolville, ©.—For improve- ment in ox-yokes. i Daniel P. Baldwin, of San Francisco, Cal. ment in shower-bath. , Levi Dederick, of Albany, N. Y.—For improvement in hay and cotton presses. George I:. Higgins, of Syracuse, N. Y.—For improved fastening for ear-rings. Frank Baker, of Pepperell, Mass.—For improved lathe for irregular forms. Bernard Hughes, of Rochester, N. Y.—For improve- ment in oe hammers. Charles M. Daboll, of New London, Conn., assignor to himself and Austin P. Daboll, of the same place.—For im- proved eateh for holding the bit in brace stocks. Ward Faton, of Carbondale, Pa.—For improvement in machines for cutting glazier’s point: Charles H. Dana, of West Le nd.—For improvement —For improve- non, N. I.—For improve- ment in potato di rR. James Hults, of Berlin township, Ohio.—For improve- ment in gun leeks, N. W. Gilley, of Nottingham township, N. ¥.—For im- Proved imethod of hanging gates, 6 ‘Wa. H. Mitchel, of Brooklyn, N. Y.—For improvement in machinery for com} Jeremiah Peck, of os he! New en) Conn.—For improve- ment in fire arms. Lyman Scott, of St. Louis, Mo.—For improyed portable grinding mill f Linus Stewart, of Washington, D. C.—For improved saw. Horace 8. Taylor, of Springfield, Mass.—For improved machiae iapaging toe, is Way Hy Towers, of Philadelphia, Pa.—For improve- frent eee Wm. H. Street, of New York, N. ¥.—For improved mode of attaching blankets to cylinders for printing presen. Matthew Spear, of Bowdoinham, Me.—For improved mitre box. Isaac W. Little, of Newbury, Mass.—For improvement in ox yokes. é Peter 8. Howes, of Beston, Mass.—For improvement in self-heating emoothing irons. ious M. Smith, of ‘ingfield, Vt.—For improved e dog. Philos *B. Tyler, of Springfield, Mass.—For improved Jos. Edmondson, of Salvord, England, and Caleb Ha- worth, of Marsden, England, executors of Thomas Ea- mondfon, deceased, late of Salford, aforesaid.—For im. Proved ease for holding railway and other tickets. Lewis W. Leeds, and B. Morris Smith, of Philadelphia, Pa.—For improvements in hydraulic heaters. Edward Brown, of Waterbury Conn., assignor to the Scoville Manufacturing Company, of same place.—For improvements in machine for making hinges. Edmond H. Graham, now or late of Biddeford, Me., assignor to himself and Artemus Wheeler, of Low.li. Yass —I or improvement in megeztuc Kus’. Lesicn—Charles Chinnock, of New York, N. ¥.—For Cesign for clock case fronts. Execrion Riors 1s New ee the election for Aldermen in New Orleans on the Sth inst., there was a repetition of those disgraceful riotous scenes which were enacted during the previous contest, as will be geen by the following, which we copy from the Delta of the 6 There was a good deal of excitement at some of the yells in the evening, especially at the Third precinct, where pistols were fired indiseriminately into the crowd from the third story windows of surrounding houses, where the armed assailants had enaconced themsely. and although ramor was rife with her thousand ye pay speeading farand near alarming tales of bloodshed an murder, when we came to inquire closely into the fa ts, we found that nobody had been killed, at least nobody had seen any one killed, though two or three were sey wounded. It seems strange, too, that no one was killed, for there were some twenty or thirty shots discharged during this melée. As soon as the shots were discharged from the house, Recorder Summers, who hapyened to be on the spot, accompanied by two or thiee of the policemen, entere1 the verona and took Prisoners several armed men whom they found there! About the same time a few shots were discharged from a coffee house at the corner of Tchoupitoulas and St. Jo- seph streets, near the polls. A demonstration was made towards the house by a portion of the crowd; but the owner had the good sense to close up his doors, and keep them closed until evening. Considerable disorder continued to prevail at the polls wotil they were closed and the votes counted. About eight o'clock in the even- ing a large crowd visited the precinct for the purpose of cheeringand making cther demonstrations of joy, and as they passed Murphy's house, a pistol shot was dis- | chargee from the house into their ranks, doing no inju- | ry, however. Enraged at this, we understand a charge was made upon the bouse; some fifiy ora hundred shots were dischorged; the har room was considerably injured, but no one was killed or wounded. j Two men were severely stabbed about eight o’clock ; last night, near the Third preeinct polls, and it appears they were mere spectators or lookers-on of the dis- turbances. It generally happens that peaceably dis- po and innocent persons are the first victims ia such cares. A young man named Martin Mahon, who had just arrived from New York, and happened to be passing along Tchoupitoulas street, was itaea J but not mor- tally, stabbed under the right arm, the knife penetrati towards the back. The wound was immediately dres: by a physician, and the young man was conveyed to the hospital, where, we learn, he is doing well, and is in a fair way to recover. The other individual wag a laborer, named Michael Trachon, who was standing on the corser of Tchoupitoulas and St. Joseph streets, ing no part in the eedings; he received a severe stab in the neck. jis wound was also dressed, the unfortunate man sent to the hospital, and we also learn that he is doing well. These are the be persons, so far as we have been able to ascertain, that were seriously injured erd: Seventh precint there were a couple of slight in the morning; but nothing else occurred to mar the unusual tranquillity and unexpected good or- der that reigned throughout the day at this classic pre- cinct, whieh gave an unlooked for majority to the re- Ax Inpiaya Storm.—The Postmaster at Bryants- , Ind., writes to the editor of the Bedford Standard: vicinity of Beaver creek was visited with a dread- | ful hurricane on Wednesday. It destroyed a vastamount of property, tore up orchards, carried away houses, barns and stalls, tore down fences and crippled and killed several persons. The fact is, there is no telling the amount of damage done. Friend Shipman, out south here about five miles, as Iam told, had hie house blown off, and bimeelf and wife barely escaped by catching to a grepe vine and holding on. In Orange county the storm was partioularly destruc- tive. The Gosport Chronotype learned from two passen- gers who had just returned from Mt. Pleasant, that the Toad was for miles blocked up by fallen timber so as to be impaseable for the stage. The ruins of four or Ove houses which had been blown down er unroofed and shattered by the storm were visible from that road. One young Woman was killed and many persons, it is said, were bad- ly injured. Beds, clothing, houschol furniture, &c., were widely strewn in the |] wreck, and to the ap- palling terrors of the wild tempest a heavy fall of hail, of extraordinary sire, was added. Tax Arzantic Scsmantye Triecrari. Thesday evening last, the associates of the On ‘York, | Newfoundlond and London Electric Telegraph Company, entertained « party, consisting of several members of this community, who had taken 1n exrnes* interest in the advancement of the great underteking in which the company have.embarked. The entertainment was weil provided, and the evening was passed most pleasantly, | particulars of which we sball endeavor to give in out \ times, and although but fourteen years of age, it re. | BCXt, member. We avail ourscives, however, of the prevent opportunity, to state, that inthe course of his observations, the gontleman presiding over the festive scene, remarked that their steamer Vicioria would pro- bally arrive here in the eourse of a day or two, bringin, an agent of F. K. Collins & Co., to ascertain if the harbo: of St. Johns is a rafe aud nocessible place for steamers and that, if the report should pr , four of the Collins’ line of steamers, of visit this port weekly, ns soon i tion, which will, most probably Joking (N. F.) Post, Aprit 20. be in Octobea next The Toronto Globe learns that the reserve battalions of the 71st Highland Infantry, under Lieutenant Colonel Stack, now in garrison at Quebec, ix actually under or- gro fee Regiens, ont a aan soon as be Deere conveyance are he Quebec ther Mater that the 26th Regiment, now at Kiomtesat, wil swoon proceed to | served that there isa slight | the English accounts. | punciaran Renae. i MEROHANTS IN THE BXOHANGH| A large meeting of our principal merchants was yesterday afternoon in the Merchants’ Exchange, to M ‘the measures proper to take toward A » the gallant commander of the ington, for his meritorious conduct in rescuing t) officers and crew of the packet ship Winchester, sunk #ea on her passage from Liverpool to Boston. The meeting was called to order by Walter R. J who nominated P. Porit chairman. Mr. Perit apeiron ty Matt That the following gentlemen. . to act ah comumhttees “te ate and faery out measures they may deem ex) it, by which the grat ful Copa posts ‘this community shall openly and strongly towards Capt. Fitch, sailors of steamer W; and said committee be avthorized to add to their number: COMMITTEE, Ww. H, wall Phin Thos. a, we were Jamen Lee, Shopard Knapp, R. Bel ‘Stenard Brown, JH. a David Moses Taylor, EK. 7 ae A Moves it Grinnell, al Phelps, Denning Wisheman Pree G. Griswold, = B. Minturn, ‘W.8. Wetmore, ’ Thee De Hon.” ‘The above resolution was adopted, when the P introduced to the audience Capt. ‘Fitch, of the Wi was received with loud ¢ but made no speec ee ee too meett then adjourned, when friends of os around him toshake him b ‘The Bombardment of Odessa. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. When the news of the battle of Sinope reached Eng. land the press uttered a howl of rage and indignat accusing the Russians of the most atrocious bar! for attacking and destroying a fleet of men of war some land batteries. The English boasted, on theo hand, of the desperate valor of the Turks, who in 40 cases preferred death to capture, and fought their shij until they were blown up or were sunk, while on other hand the Russians are accused of savage cruelty for thus sinking and destroying their enemies, as if if were not one of the clearest rights of war to destroy enemy while he resists. They also charge the Russ with the destruction of a town, as if the recollec¥on o the burning villages and private residences of rich poor, along the shores of the Chesapeake, had p from the minds of men. It was only last week that bill passed the Senate of the United States indemnify’ a private citizen for the wanton destruction of hia pro- perty by the English bucaneers under Lord Cockbura, 1814. It would be well for Lord Cockburn and his fore if the blood of murdered women and children, and er of violated virgins, ld. be aa easily appeased. * The Cestruction of Copenhagen might: be poterced. to, eon int, and as it is familia: to © one, it only ra-| dre a reference. But the bomoardsncat of Odcess hoa ‘urnished a most Heeger of the story—tho| gored bull. It makes the difference in the world eee is oe ys ‘e have as no accounts ex bombardment of Odersa, but even from these accounts we agree with you it to bea failure. As to} Siok according to the on it about hae! 0 event, there has , a8 usmal, much ialsteprecéa: ten. eat is a literal translation—as to facts, and iil as to style—of a letter from a non-combat- cartridge was fired from one of the which caused the Furious to send a ul bred ome DMs #: Hee) eth boat . ng © ive, P turned to the steamer, after which the steamer con. tinued running into the harbor—of course to make servations and take soundings, as it is the custom fc —— of war to keep the jena soun wishes, mand why the Furious was fired u to that was because she came wit! Shiee meets the ‘Rutrian cient et he ae mi 3 fase cor at tl time inti- Sr oar, (the oop 2 would be happy 42 ex. which would honor them with a cal, “ to re- ‘the quest, the explanation was sent off to the allied force next day in writing, when they sailed, capturing, soon d Toaded with corn, the other Sree vilbbe: ot after, two small traders—one with wine.” gs tween it and Perhaps the same corres; will send some a ak cr of the bombardment; This is the account by a wt oe case, Mr. Editer, they are entirely at your ‘The Mesilla Valley. TO THE EDITOR OF Tre HERALD. In your paper of the 15th of May, there is a letter from El Paso, stating that the persongaid to be in the employment of the Pacific Railroad Company, ‘had ex- plored Lake Guzman, which figures in the ‘thaty, and of which very littleis known. He reports a, 6%emigrant route, being several hundred miles nearer thanthe old route travelled."* In the spring of 1852, a party was sent by Maye sion, who explored Lake Guzman and determined if bo a ee ope hs before the Senate during the discussion of tho Gadeden treaty. It is to be hoped for the sake of the com; that no route euch as that referred to will be ado) but that attention will be turned in a direction where nature has not op] such impediments as the mass of mountains by which the explorer will find himself surrounded im pursuing the route mentioned by your correspondent. Cuban Celebration. ANNIVERSARY OF THE LOPEZ EXPEDITION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Tenclose an invitation for the fourth anniversary of “ the landing of the first Liberating Cuban Expedition, under command of General Lopez, at Cardenas, on the Toth of May, 1850, to be held at the A 410 Broadway, on Friday evening, the 19th instant, after the turning out of the procession. Several societies of poli- tical refugees wil foin the regen. ELS am, sir, Very res} tf our 0! serv’ ae eee MT TOLEN, P.C. De A. May 17, 1854. ATENEO DEMOCRATICO CUBANO. ptt yh iisoombaren Sate petene®) a anive: lidertadora en. jas de Cuba, al mando de lustre Lopes; ise la fier ings vg emnethgtgend Un pnw Broadway, ernas os eran Cmrg al salon de A> , numero 410 way, varios oradores Cubanos i discursos ee Luz union i libertad—Nueva York, 15 de Mayo, 1854. MIGUEL T. TOLON, Presidente. Axprrs POrY, Mr. Maxwelt’s Specch in Athens. Naw Yorx, May 16, 1854. Jamas Gorven Bexyert, Esq -— man Sin—My attention has been called to a letter pub- lished in your paper on the 17th inst., purporting to be from your correspondent at Constantinople. The writer, speaking of the oration of Mr. Hi st Athens, says: ‘The oration Payee » government and people the of to the Areazreotian of the Gresks again tie Porte.” Ihave read or of the oration in (a ~, and there nota sentence in SP i charges of your correspondent, against. well, the ea comments which he a — the writer bas never seen the oration, Rete teapesed ‘= upon by some enemy of Mr. M., or he has intentionally wisreprerented that 5 i herewith send you the published at Athens, in which you will fad « Co ag 2 ga or ey San wa pen woe roof of what I have stated. I wish you Pow, in py wublish the oration, that your readers may know how in- arose and unjust are the charges and comments of your 0 dent. Coahelwiiter las stated os fact what is not truc, and then preceeds to comment on his owm invention, intend ing to create an unfavorable impression as to the motive, tifecte and sentiments of Mr. Maxwell. Brery pertom who hos read the oration in question, must discover at once that the charge made by the letter writor is not true. All disereet men who have not read Mr. Maxwell'« eration, in common fairness and justice will suspead their opinion till they have, Your ob't serv’t, WM. HW. MAXWELI, Saut St. Marm Canar—The Detroit Advertiser that, thi some it of the conductor of work, timbers, lumber and othee upon the ground pave been seized by the