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INTERESTING FROM TEXAS, } ~ | Our Brownsville Correspondence. | BaowssviLus, ON THe Kio GaaNne, | Texas, Oot. 23,1354. § The Recent Failure of the Meciean Reaolutionists— Preparations for Another Attack an the Dictator—- Causes of the Late Disappomtment—Cowardice of General Ampudia—Progress of Alvarez, and his Hopes of Aid— Action of General Woll in Mata moras— Revolutions on the Rio Bravo— Arriva of Colonel Wheat, and his Interviews with the Lileroc ing Chiets—Trade and Heutith Reports, ke. Tho fortunes of the insurgenis, or revolutiouists, in the adjoinmg Mexican territory, have uudergone a serious change’since my last to the Aunarp, aad wo have now on this side of the river all the leaders unsuccessful revolutionery movement in Tamauli- | Tamaulipas, New Leon, Of the recent outbreaks, aguin preparing, uader brighter hopes and better auspices, to renew the at- tack and again make a desperate effort to drive the Dictator’s troops out of the country between the | Sierra Madre and the Gulf of Mexico. ‘The whole secret of the failure of the recent un- dertaking seems to have been the want of sufficieat law-ioving cry was raised by Santa Anns’sreputed stand funds asd munitions of war. Victoria was ouly abandoned by the besiegers when they had ina maaner fired thei: last ball against their savage as- sallante. For three days and nights less than 400 of the galiant natives of the frontier nobly repulsed the attacks and sasaulte of more than eighteen perpetually hundred of the tyrant’s minions, who bad cleven Garcia, sud some fifty-others, some of whom had not | oivilized region governed pieooa of artillery incessantly playing upom the devoted place. Unmolested, they abandoned “the mags of ruins at night; and this was done when @uly about one-fourth of their whole number could be considered as fully armed. In vain the devoted rebels, after uniting with their friends who routed the government forces under Cruz, im the neighborhood of Matamoras, | offered them an open,éeld fight, with far inferior gumbers and withont artillery. In vain they ad- waaced boldly on Monterey, and remained there over twenty-four houre defying Santa Anna’s Pasha, General Ampudia, and dating him to come out of bis fortifications and give them battle; and im vaio their undiso'plined cavalry entered the city in hopes that the enemy would sally out of their entrench- ments to attack them. When satisfied that Ampu- dia would not abandon his fortifi ations, from which for over twelve hours he fired on them with all his artillery, they determined to retreat leisurely at night, a3, when they advanced on the city, it had only been in hopes of deciding its fate by a field fight. Whea they considered that Ampudia had all the ad- vantages of numbers, and as he well knew that the revviusionists bad no artillery, they reasonably be- tiovea that on their approach to Monterey he would have come out to attack and disperse them. Far from this having been the case, not even an attempt to barra ss them was made after they commenced to retreat quietiy from the very suburbs of tho city it- self, In detatcbed parties they croseed over to this aiie of the river, when only about one half could pro- perly be considered as tully armed, 30 completely had their ammunition given out. { am intimate with the leaders who are now here, knowing as I do, thsir plaus and object, I ave reason to believe that they will short- dy organize on the other side of the river a force which, if necessary, will advance on the city of Mexico, and in the natonal palace shake hands with che “ Panther of the South,” Don Juan Alva. ws. This iron-hearted veteran of the Victoria aud Gaerrero school advances steadily, bnt slowly, on the coyitel of the tyrant’s dominions, fully resolved to make Lim account for the atrockies committea by himself and lieutenant when, ia June last, heinvadod the land of the Pintos, and by bribery and corruption attempted to capture Acapulco. If the fate of arma should cast the petty Mexican Nero iito the hands of Alvarez, he will scarcely be able to wheedle himeelf out of the couatry with his ill-gotten booty, and the chief of the Piatos will make a terrible example of him. So coon as His Serene Highness’s officer in Mata moras, General Don Adrian Woll, was made awire of the fact that the rebela bad temporarily abandontd the field, he commenced coxti« cating the property of those who ha‘ ' arms agairst bis master and himself. S ore sent to the rancbos or stock farms of th art thus offending. Drovesof every desoriptioa of mais were brought into the ‘loyal and heroic city,” where they were offered at public auction; but as no one would purchase, the mules and horses were distributed among the officers and soldiery; atthe same time thet the gvats, the\esttle, and the sheep are being oons' by the military, who receive them as rations. Whatever animals proved too re- fractory to be driven out of the range were either killed or run through with their lances, and in that maaser left cut in the woods to They have thus most wantonly destroy much property, which rot only the real owners themselves, but the country at , Will seriously feel; and it is the more nm it is borne in mind that the most of thia very rope Cane er bale Cte de ne) destroyed, is separate and priva‘e property o! the wivts'snd mothers ot those who took » par’ in the recent revolutionary movement. As I hed predicted in letters written mouths ago, the result of Santa Anza’s madly despotic measures has been to drive out of the country a great many of that class of the population which in fact constitutes the real bone and sinew of what, in his dominions, ia called the “frontier of the north.” Ifto carry out his doubtlessly settled policy of Piooiges| that fron- tier, he bad searched the world over wit a cope, he could not have found one more appropriate for the purpose than he has in the person of General Don Adrian Woll. This mercenary, like his mis Greapt master, has had for year's past many good reasoes for hating toe people on the margias of the Bravo. They both know fall well at least that their love is warmly reciprocated on that froutier. Persacutions, coufiscations, banisiments and im- prisoaments are the order of the day on she Mexican wide of the line, snd the charge or bare suspicion of having uttered but one word against the“ povers that Be.” will eecure you accommodations a foatnsome prison, or you: passage free to the O»sile of San Juae de Ulloa. Gome days ago, thiee soldiers deserted from Mat i having been arrested and brought place, ia less than tweaty-four after their ariival they were tried, convicted, « fined in a aolitary cell, confessed bya priest and shot! Inother parts‘of the country, otuers have suffered the same alty,for the crime of havisg beon the fathers of youd men who were k: have been in arms against the preseat governime However improbable acd shocking to humanity t way seem, it is nevertheless true to the very letter. Among other late arrivals among us, I » that of the chivalrous filibnster Colonel C What wind may have blown bim out just at this time of revolutions in embryo, is a even kcown to that prying portion of our good ratioual community who knows more of other people's business than they do about theirown. [ will simply mention t at be had several interviews with some of tie lesders of the insurgents; and, shoeld tiey, as 1 suppose, jes him into the gome the7 ore abou: to play, be assured that the Colonel will render a good account of himself. He is cue of your “ fast men,” ond real grit; so that, as the stakes to be played for by the libo-atorm agatast ¢ diotater and hi: tgorirress are to be laman heads, the Colena! would doubtless take a mos: lively inte rest in keeping ihe run of the game. “mre The trade and comme-ce cn the lower Rio Grane re in 9 languishing condition, and will continue so ‘until a radical change takes place in ‘ Greasedom Over the way. Aa yet we have not bean visited by the cholera or yollow fever, slthovgh the late freqaent rains have caused considerable tickness here and along the river. The prevailing fevers, however, eaally yield to medio | treatment. Reliabic information seceived here and in Mata- mores, confixms the romor we had bad for some days pest about the cholery’s ravages ia the adjoia- Ff xican territory, and large nucabers of the in- habitancs in Victorls, Sote in Marian and other places in Tamaulipas, have fa'len victims to this acourge of humanity. The evidemic is now in San Fe , Oly disiant some nuecty miles from Ma’ . By the Noutilus, which will be cue here next Sunday from New Orleans, { willsend you a briet acoouns of the arrest of the leaders of the tats revo lw movement, and of their examination aud ae beforeone of the Ucived Stator Commnis- gioners io thie a3 also whatever other cittle items of nows be able to communicate ‘We have no news fran the upper Rio Grange, and ously looking for asadden change of m0 Prof the nelghbor in ‘he unnatural sate of tuings on toe otcer aide of the river cannot cou ‘igne mano longer, and the present bunglers in the science of government in Mexics widl have to ava on the helm w abler pilots. T have nnintentionsily writtene longer letter than T Lid ludonded, and faring thet your patience may give out in reading it, I will hastily sign the name of Baownsyriie, on THE Rio Granns,) Texas, Nov. 1, 1854. { | Arvest, Trial and Acguittal of the Tamaulipas Re volutionists—Newtraliy Laws of the United States—Their Mexican Defender—Action of the United States Commissioner—A Group of Wit- nesses~-Death of a Deserter—Merican Refugees in Brownsville— Reported Movement at Tampico and Zocatecas—The Execution of Count Rousset de Boulbon— Wer Appointment of Santa Anna— The Weather—Brownsville Gossip, Complying with the promise made in my last, I will in this send you a brief account of the arrest, examination and acquittal of the leaders of the late pas and Nuevo Leon, sgainst Santa Anna and his agents or overseers in that portion of his do- mizions. No sooner was it known that many of the officers aud leaders of the “insurgents” had arrived here, than, instead of giving them ‘‘aid and comfort,” a agects in this place, shout the impunity with which the neutrality laws of the United States had been, and were being, violated. The requisite effidavit against them was necessary, and at last, by the most vigilant search, an old, half civilized Mexican woman was found to sign it, charging Gautier, Capistran, been for years on this side of the Rio Grande, with having violated the neutrality laws of the United States, by organizing, arming, and equipping a mi- litery expedition on this side ot the Rio Grande, on or about the 12th day of August, A. D., 1854, and with the same having invaded the territory of Mexico, a power with which the government of the United States was then, and is now, at peace. Procees was accordingly issued by one of our United States Commissioners, and the Deputy Mar- shal arrested the parties accused, who A aigcin ioe themselves on the 7th ult.-to answer tha charge made. Forty-two subpcenas for witnoases ip behalf of the prosecution were issued, and the first called to the stand was the Mexican Coa- sul, the representative of Santa Anna’s dig- nity in Brownsville. Then followed for ten daja the examisation of the other witnesses, and all the depositions were brought to a close by tak- ing that of no levsa personage than Major Giles Porter, coramaz ding Fort Brown. Among the numerous witaesaes present, could be seen lawyers, doctors, officers inthe United States Army, postmasters, druggists, wholesale merchants, retail do., justices of the peace, sheriff's, constables, interpreters, count ng house clerks, ex-citizsns of Mexico who had bers of the Cabinet and of Congress in that coun- try, sportemen, borve taieves, Joators and'others who with tue insurgents when, in Augnst las}, they defeated the government forcesunder General C uz, and drove him into the “loyal and hereic Matamo- ras.” The evidence of all waa most patiently taken down, aud the only tact conclusively proved to the satisfaction of the court and sll parties con- cermed, was that we have in _ Browasviile a@ greater nomber of Know Nothings, in its population, than can be fo ieee to found in New Orleans, New York, or any other city in the ocean bound republic. The decision of the United States Commissioner was, that, as no root of the defendants’ guilt had been addaeed, ie would discharge them from custedy. They were accordingly liberated, and are now as free as the mountatu air, In our veiybboring sister city of Matamoras, ano- ther unbappy being wae shot by tae military on the 27th ult, for the onme of desertion. Torn by the rude hand of violence trom their obscure and huw- ble homes, and preseed against their will and feel- ings into a service they despise, the wretched crea- tures avail themselves of every opportunity that presents iteelf for regaining by desertion their lost liberty, althcugh in case of capture they are aware that a violent death is fa store forthem. The day may not be far distant when their unfeeling execu- toners will themselvee hopclessly invoke the sacred word of mercy. Our city is at prerent crowded with ex-citizens of what is now irovicaliy 2 tae republic of Mexico, seekicg in foreign lands that. safety and protection Genied them in the country that gave ihem birth. Avoug these refugees can be noticed highly polish- ed men, who, heretofure in slexico, have been mem- bers of the Cabinet, of Congress, Governors of some of the ex-States. Jndges onthe.bench, editors of lead- ing jouynais, officers in the army, and many otucrs of evs note. If you speak to them of their country's present situation, they smile in bitterasss, and tell 3ou that a brighter future awaits the land of tae Aztecs, His Serene Higbness’s satrap in Matamonas, Gen. Woil, has offered the leaders of the insurgents now here a free pardon if they will return to shcir homes and live there peacesbly. His generous offor has been treated with contempt, and they only wonder at the brazen impudence and unblushing effrontery of those ho ii they could have the least con- fidence in Santa Anna’s promises, ag a man or asa ruler. To urge that Santa Anna is capable of act- ing in gocd faith, is only te expose one’s self to be suspected of being a knave or a tit subject for a Mmeghouse. To suppose that he is ever actaated b patriotic and disinterested motives, is to “chuc! away your time.” For a day or two emi romor, that has received some credit, is in circulation over in Matamoras that Tampico and Zacatecas had both revolted against the Dictator. I give the ramor for what it is worth. It és further asserted that Yanez, who captured snd shot the Count Raouaset de Boulbon, had been recalled to Mexico, but that haviog reach- ed the city of Guadulsjara, he had there je a halt and refused to obey further ordera from Santa Anna. ‘This city, which is the seat of government of the werful State of Jalisco, is famous in the history of Mexican civil commotions, for the snccessfal issue ot all tho revolntions ii has ever initiated against the general government. It ia now sffirmed that General Woll has been called to Mexico to take charge of tae po:tfolio of the two divisions that are being organized by Santa Arna to send against Alvarez, who, with his forces, is so operating as to throw open to commerce all the ports cn the Pacific, and by wh'ch means he can cox msnd men ard money with which to coatinue making bis ground good agains’ the despot, in the very heart of the country itself, No Mexicaa, among the more enlightened and unprejadiced eibong them, seems to doubt fora moment alva- rez's firal triemph «ver Santa Anna. They look Upon it a8 a mere question of tims. Our city cor tinues to improve gradually, and the number of churches of different denominations, as also our schools for the young of both sexes, are proof sufficient of cur moral and religious progress. Tbe weather, for the season of the year, is re- ly wart, and a good norther now would be ble, as it would pel the fevara thatin i fder state yet prevail on the river. Ficm above we have not word of news, and our speculators ,and tradiog meu are patiently on the look cat for a cuange of affairs on the other size e line. will endeavor to keep t f affairs ont here, what js trans- Rio Bravo. MEXICO ON THE RIO GRANDE. letters from Brazos Santiago to November 4th, sate thet the Mexican revolution'sts, on tne Ine of ihe Urande,are ina bad way. A correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune writes : ice revolution under the guidance of Govemor Man de la Garza and Car-istran hv been brongat . Gov. Garza, with a few determined men, } ja until their povder was exhausted, when they retreated to this country aud are no¢ ia Browssvile. Pardon has been offered to all who will sy down the r arms, I think auctner demonstration will soon be mide, and by men who willsee that nothing is wanting. A few Awericans will joiu the present movemest avd throw life igor tato the campaiga. Carva- jal did not participate in this late movement, bat y possibly in the contemplated ove. He is farm: the Kio Grande, aad is decidedly the ablest b He speaks and writes our uage tivently. He is moh pleased with the nd endorses it. Lt, In commeed of Matamoras, has fifty soldiers, who refaeed to fight ir \ellow citizens. I witnessed from the k of the stesmer G-ampus an execntion tivo or cays ago. The poor fellows were at first folied and then led to a large wooden cross, to which they were tied. An officer then proclaimed ig a loud voice that if any one would ask for their hould be sbot with them. with loaded muskets then advanced ce paces of each prisoner, w the top of the dram, fired, tearing the heeds of their viotima to pieces. A lively alr was they straok up na the breve mth wert bick to their breaklass. ation. Scarce a day passes with AWaote Paminy e stated at the time of the grent aecitcat on the Rook T4and Rail 10nd that the wife ard two children of Willtem C, Laug!: in, of Gettysharg, Pa, were among the kill ed. Within a few days ve va has been received of the th of MreLeughlin bimeelf acd his mother, Laugblia, H's neice, Mary, the only one patty right little girl of some aix or seven years of oge, is aleo badly aceléed, ard at last countA Waa HOt expected to aurvive. Mr 1 Lm waa on way to lowa, where bo hed ti to purcdaee @ property and commence basin the stream called by geographers Rio Bravo. | been heretofore governors, mem- | {From ‘There is little im the Dubliehod no happy country te indicate its real ovadition. Pub- ications adverse to the govercmeat are wate ved, | and in every pos-ibie way eu ; and of course fovesbie, Bat private adeigen of aliabe char favorable. we acter, rej ‘hat the host “co the centr verninent is where 5; an ~ { strex: pe ae consistency” The ‘tate of Guer. after bitlliog and | xero, which first rose in arma, | nearly destroping the powerful force which Santa \ pine, pele, led aguinst it, has ever since main- twin | attempt. Micnoa’an, joining Guerrero. fuliowed in in woke and in Poa encounters with the government troope it has almost elwaye had the ad vantage, and its porition of hostility to Santa Anna is re; nted as daily ‘h. In the | northern d ta, (States ‘tua once,) of cg pred pry | bordering on our ewn territory, it is known that and increasing hostility to the It is especially worthy of note, that all these re- movements voluti \te sore: the | of aesuring to themselves a responsible and safe ita incependence, unmolested by say serions | aim at the re- | | vernment. Their leading men seem well to under. | | that he would not allow friendly intercourse with the | Americans, also threatening this republic that if they | did sign such @ treaty they would withdraw the media- the nature and remedy | They seek to restore life to thus to the public malady. extremities of | power, | Of the frontier | thas. | larly contracting in | of hie rule. in Atty woult tion. Alvarez, the Guerrero chief, who first unfurled this banser of State sorerelgmey knows weli what is meant by it, and is #! im the history of our own controversies on that subject. A South Caro- Tinian gentleman, retarnipg from California through Mexico lest summer, passed within the military lines of Alvarez. In the interview that ensued, the Guerrero chief remarked, “ You certainly ought to be ep ye friends, for I am fighting for Stata nights and free trade.” The repiy was, of course, satisfactory. The central government, though it tries hard to wear a confident look, is soarieanlly betraying its uneasiness, and ita want ot faith in the issne of this struggle. Santa Auna is believed to have carefully laid uptreasures in England, as a caution for the future. Bat a still more curious proof of distrust in the firmness of his tenure of power, is afforded by a | recent appeal to the Mexican e, Woy ing {T | that a popular vote shall be taken on ist De- cember, to decide whether Santa Anna shall remain in office, or retire to thay privacy which he ee | fesses especially to desire. This ap) to bea mere coutrivance to break the fall of the Dictator. But perhaps he is really tired of @ position ia which he has signally failed either to restore the abased national pride of bis country, or to advance its pros- perity—in which his bistory is written in the decay of commerce aud agriculture, the encros:hments of the savage tribes, the increasing insecurity of lite and property, acd, finally, in the desolation of civil war through a large portion of the republic. AN AMERICAN ARRESTED IN MEXICO. {From the Brownsville (Texas) Flag, Oct. 7.) Last week Capt. Armstrong, an officer on the steamer Camanche, was arrested by the military authorities of Mexico and detained in a manner that can only be acccunted for by a desire to harrass and annoy cur citizens. The facts relating.to this ar- rest, aa we heard them related by an eye witness, are 4s follows : Tce stcamer was on her upward trip from this place, and when a short distance below Rio Grande city, the boat run out of wood. Taere being none on the American, Capt. King ordered some of his men to take the yaw], oross on to the Mexican bank and toere purchase sufficient to take them to where wood could be procured. Capt. Armstrong, who was clerk of the boat, with her commander, Capt. King, accompanied the party after the wood; Capt. Armstrong takicg a gun with him with which to amuse hiruself while the hands were at work. He bad strayed but a short distance from his party when he was beset by a band of soldiers, who pur- sued him to the river and there arrested him and ce:tied him prisoner to Camargo, Now, the mere fact of this arrest might be excu- sable had it ended there, as a recently issued order commacding the arrest ef all sons crossing armed usto thet bank a argue justificatio jo. But such was notthe case. Immediately after the arri- vai of the boat at Rio Grande City, Captain King stated the facts to the commandant of the American pest cf Fort Belknap, and together they related th» occurence to the commandant of the Mexican forces at Comargo, becring: Be entire ignorance on tle psit of Captain Armstrong of the pr: hibitory decree, and hia utter iasocence of aay criminal in- tent. and asked hia discharge. No sound reason ccud be urged for bis detention—his innocence ccnid have beem proved by almost every inhabitant of Camargo, if not by the Mexican commanding offi- cer bimeeit, baving been running the river for the last seven ycare, and favorably known to every one oneither bank. All this would no‘ suffice for those who aie “clothed with a little brief authority,” however. They have their prisoner, and must need ancoy Lim awhile. An excuse was urged that Gen. Woll, at Matamoras, mua be consulted, and in the meantime an American citizen, for no offence in fact, mast be incarcerated in a loathsome prison, perbaps with the vilest of felons, until the modern posta of this frontier, hundreds of miles distant, tball be conculted as to his liberty. INTELLIGENCE FROM BuaNOS AyRES.—The bark Prescott, arrived at this port on Saturday, brin: Buenos Ayres dates to September 20. General Ur- quize, who, at last accounts, was seriously ill, has resumed bis station as the President ot the Confed- erated Provinces. The richest province, however, (Buenos Ayers) still holds aloof, and has organize: a separate and independant ment. Tne Bue- nos Ayres Packet is of opi that Urquiza still bas a decign to invade acd conquer that province. The Packet says :— “ Oar live of frontier, beginning with the Arroyo ha mioros- war, and others say to take the command of one of de! Medio, must be put in a state of security and defence, without any nive cvwillations on the amount it may cost, or the sacrifices it may entail. 1¢ is there, on the open field, that the expectant invaders Must be met, and toe threatened ae bags conjured; not in the lanes and alleys of the suburbs of the capi- tal, It is in the rural districts of the State, ic oar ficcks and herds, and nascent agricultural estab- Lshments, that our intciosi: and reprodactive wealth is situated; and the rural ee tors and town cousume:s are omally ed in leaving no means unesssyed to provide for their eafety and tranguillity. Let the mili tary police be forthwith organized, and ever; pag peers measure and precaution be resorte: to that prudence can suggest; for whether the an- nual cost may be five or ten millions, we hold to be secondary considerations, unworthy of a moment's Tefiection or deliberation. What was the cost of the late invasion, and what might it not have been, but for a corsnmmate statesmanship? “In the remembrance of that fearful conflict, we have a cogent argumeut in favor of a decided union eud harmonious cooperation, and against the un- eccmiy personal squabbles, and the ill timed fac- tious opposition, tbat invite a renewal of simular Gavgers. What! is the holocaust of victims still incomplete? We appeal to the common sense of the comm unity.” The p!an of a vational currency for the confede- rated provinces (sind’ar to the United States Bank) is like to mect with much opposition. The British Consul as Baecos Ayres informs the British subjects settled ia that country, that if they leod any movey to Russia, they will be deemed | gwity ot bigh treason. On ihe l6ta of September there were 125 vessels in the port of Bacsos Ayres, of which 15 were American, 24 British, parish, 7 French, and the remaizder of other Earopean uations and Brazilian. ~bosten Tiaveller, Nov. 20, A Jusy Avnnesrep ror Ivorring a Rrot.— Awong tie rioters in Newark, N,J.,on the 19th inst., an sccount of which has alreaty been publish- ed, Was ore of the Seventh ward justices of the peace, D. A. Cogan, Esq., who nadertook to becomes the champion of tae prisoners, and declared that the cfficers, or whoever struck the man, ought to be killed, and if they were all brougut before him he wonld discbarge the Irishmen and commit the officers; whereupon the multiinde immediately made ancnset upoa the officers. Stones, brickbats, ard other mi-siles, were thrown, one of which se- esse injured officer Hailin the heat. The mob, thus incited, sneceeded in rescuing the prisoners fram the policemen; but assistance soon after ar- tived trom the stetion house, and they were rear- rested and taken before Justice Hyde, who commit tedthent. Officer Hall subsequertly made an af fidavit before Justice Hyde fnily substantiating the above parloslors, aud expressing lis belief that the nob were instigated and ercouraged by David A. | Cogan. Other efficers and exo witnesses aso de- | care theraselves ready to make oata to the trath- faicess of Mr, Heil’s statement. On tue evidence of officer Fall, Justice Hyde early this morning is sued @ warrant forthe arrest of Justice Cogan, The officer at Giret eearoh<d hia house without being ablo to Gud his but soon alter he rolanterily surrencer- cd himself to Justice Hyde, and wns held to bak in the sum of $1,000. Sach condnet on the part of © public officer Fill receive the severe condemns tion of the public voice, as weil as the courts of Jastloe, unlers the subject of it can ahow @ better Tesson ‘or bia courte thaa UW tow apparent,—Ner- ok: Adverticer, Nav. 29. Sains casks arvertege Of Penten civiine: | Our Dominican Correspondonce. ACTION OF THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH CONSULS—IM- PERIAL MANDATR OF THE BMPEROR 50ULOUQUE— APPEARANOR OF THE UNITED STATHS NAVY—UNI* VERSALITY OF ENGLISH INTERPERENCEZ—FAUSTIN TRE FIRST, NEGRO RULE, AND AMERICAN FREEDOM, Crrr ov Sr. Dominao, Oct. 19, 1854. T arrived safely here, in this City of the Holy Sunday, about a week since. I find « great political commotion in regard to the American treaty, and as you know me to be a man ‘‘who would nothing extenuate or aught set down in malice,’’ T will give you an account of how affairs actually are here, a6 I have learned from the best authority. It ap- pears that*Genersl Cazencau, of Texas, a shrewd, iutelli- gent man, has arrived bere as Plenipotentiary of the United States, to make a treaty with this republic, and which treaty ought to have been made yearsago. Well, the treaty was drawn up to the complete satisfaction of all parties, when the French and English Consuls pro- tested against this government making a treaty with the United States different from theirs, at the same time presenting a letter from Emperor Soulouque, stating tion, and let loose the Haytiens upon them. Tell me, where is the boasted protection of our govern- ment to those who would be free, and their opposition to | European interference in the domestic affairs of the Ame- | rican family? I also understand that what has created | great excitement here, and great opposition to our in- | . The State library. the tended treaty,'ia s supposition that we want Samana, the finest bay, probably, on this side of the world. It appears that the frigate Columbia, Commodore Newton, avd the sloop-of-war Albany, visited this bay, and certainly took some observations—the same as English and French vessels of war heretofore have; but f such had been the intention of our government, Com- modore Newton would never have been so stupid as to go there; and, moreover, if we really wanted it, what or who can prevent us from taking it? Go where you will, you will always find British inter- erence and intrigue at work. “he Americans only wanted to make a treaty here to make slaves of these people, and really the ignorant portion of the community believe it. How preposterous and absurd !—how small and contemptible, are the means used by British emissaries to prevent us from enlighten- ing these people and teaching them true liberty ! ‘The English and French have clearly shown, from what Tlearn, that they wish this weak, little but valiant re- public under the dominion of that despotical negro Ihave heard it said that | Faustin the First, and I hope his title will shortly con- | clude with ‘the last.”” While these philanthropists as they call themselves, are cireulating the highly embel- lished and costly bound fiction of Madame Stowe (and all the harm I wish thas lady is, that she should be obliged to live in Hayti six months), they are actually protect- ing ond giving aid to a barbarous set of brute negroes, whose acts, from the time they began to govern, have been of the most barbarous, blood-thirsty and atrocious kind, against the whites, and particularly against the people of this republic, who never offended them. | My intention is to go to Santiago it few days, and A pate - Bee ane ends ngs | GE aTeE suspected you of having tra | cial or banking business whatever, aid much less tobaye | opened an office for that purpose. shall let you know the true sentiment of the people, as I understand they are a very intelligent class, very indus- trious, and free from bigotry, superstition and European influence, I will also endeavor to send you the country. Until then, adieu. PATRICK. The Capitol at Albany and the State Library. [From the Albany Register, Nov. 20.) The Capitol extension is nearly completed, and | the improvement is a substantial and timely one. The Assembly chamber is about finished, and it is truly # noble room now. The old shape is preserved. but a very beautiful ceiling has been substituted, k some description of other than the | | and the walls are elegantly painted. It will be hand- somely refurnished, and ready for its occupants be- | fore the lat of January. The rooms teers feed yupied by the State library are being converted into apartments for the use of committees of both houses. One or two new rooms have been constructed for the use of membors,ia the south end of the new | vlgin of the building. been entirely removed to splendid edifice erected for ita use, though the books have not yet been all arran; Phe work of shelving them is rapidly progre: , and the libra- ty will be thrown open to readers on the Ist of Jau- next. eu room of the is one of the most beantital in the United Bates Tt3_architectural proportions are remarkably perfect. The entire cdi- fice,even in the minutest details of its construction, is an admirable piece of work, an honor to the 3tate, and indicative of the fine taste and cultivated juig- | that any clerks were employed by me for such a pur- ment of ite designers, The Cspitol is immediately connected with the pl gen! at the south end, by ehort'galleries and flights of stairs. The extensive collection of coins that enrich the library ia to be srranged in elezaut cases in the ga!- leries of the upper room. The American medals, of | which there is a choice collection, are to be } freme, and in euch a man- in a circular revol ner as to conveniently seen and examined. We are glad tosee that much room is to be appropriated to these de; \. the State 300 medals, illustrative of the and telgns of that nation. A and besutifal chr>- nometer clock has been placed in the uppar room of the library. Murder in Canada. {From the Toronto Colonist, Nov. 15. We stated in the Colonist of Toes James |, & relative of Mr. of pga jurdered near the corner 1 , that orn of gston and Markbam roads, on the lise of the Grand Trunk railroad, on the night of Saturday last, or early on the following om f » An ivquest has been held on the body by Mr. Corozer Duggan of this city. The verdi returned, was one Gleeson and Timothy Ma; which the jury | wilfal murder against Mathew | The former aimi¢- | | | | to you at the Hague bas ever excited the remotest sus- { | | } | have béen such as become the ted his guilt. The most strange part ot the affiic is, | that Sheppard, who is an Englishman, was murder- ed on account of his religion, he beivg a Protestant, and the two murderers Roman Catho'ice. This was stated in effect by Gleeson, bu’ we should pe it is not correct. If true, it ia alarming to think that religi-us bigotry ssould lead to the com: | mission of such a horribl heing asked why he dad committed the deed, raid that he had noi) int Se deceased, as an acquaintance, but thst religion alone induced them to kill him. Eight men altogether were ar- rested on suspicion, by order of Mr. Wheeler, J. P., who displayed much ac‘ivity on hearing of the awful occurrence. Shepperd was brutally murdered, not having, as far as yet known, given slightest provocation on his part—bis only offense beiag, as one of the prisoners stated, that he wasa Protestant. He reems to have been heid in eateem by inis fellow workmen. Dvr1 sran Burirverox.—A report wae quite cur rent in our city on Saturday afternoon, that a dasl bad been fought besween two Philadelphiane, ia the beigbborbood cf Burlizgton. The parcies, a docto:. a8 was said, and a lawyer, left the city at an early le crime,—Gleeson, 00 | aftaics of the Czar Nicholas. We | greatest bankizg hense in ¢ | was put to death on the gallows, in a ravine a short hour, accomp nied by their friends, and proseeded | to a small piece of woods on the south of the town of Burlington, where, after the usual preliminaries, | shots were exchanged, both taking effect. Oxe of | them was wounded in the left arm, che other in the | right thigh. Neither wound was dangerous, as we learn. cngh both were eager for a second shot, the s« conda interfered and insiste i that their wound. ¢d henor bad been healed by the blood tat had been spilt, and they succeed: d in effecting a reco. ciliation of the combatarte. The company then proceeded to the hotel of Captain Agsew, at Bariington, where, after their wounds were dressed, an eateriainment wastetved np. The duel origirated about a female, an insult having been offered 49 the wife of one, by the other, a single man. Burke was wrong when he said that the age of chivalry hed gose. Sacely there is much chivalry in this leaving home at an early hour in the morning, aud going some twenty miles before breakfast, to be shor at. We made an effort to get the nemes of the principals in the affair, 3 a success. —Phifadelpma Pennsylvanian, Vow. 20, Tar Beriixeros Duet—A Foonisn TRicK.--We bave this morning learned the particulars of the cuel which was reported to have come off near Bur: lington oa Satarday. It appesrs that toree young gentlemen of this city, one of whom is a merchant, anotier a physician, avd tre third a member of the legs) profession, while at Burlington on Friday on a frolic, arranged a sham duel, to come off between two of their number on the following Lg ‘The plan was pnt in execution; biank shots were fired; the merchast pretended to be wounded in the orm; his areumed opponent sha nmed to have received a sbot im the Sin the faroe ended with a pretended reconcil ¥ The partice it the affair are annoyed at various rumors that have wn out of the transa tion, bat they have nebody to blame but themyeives, for fig- uring at all in 60 foolish a transaction. We have the names of shess concerned, but refrain from mahing them pubi These sarrenee waa considered a8 a jeet, and tt wes designed to restrict ail knowledge of it ena certein circle; but it has gone further thaa gas at first intended, andthe actors in it are reaging t fuivet tein own (ly --Phuadeiphin p.-ltoti Wow. 29, = | gellowe, that he had rot sufficient midd to compre i 1] Hysnaxp partially retracted eccrine ta quasi tcleration of a public long accustomed course of vita and ose a fF tamed round when as be , negotiate the ¢ Roselan foan | i a letters, Mr. Belmont en preferred against him by the New York Tribune and Heearp, and asks for » categorical an- Swers as to their truth or falsity. ‘These gentlemen Rorrerpam, Oot. 19, 1854. answer as follows :— My Dran Srr—I have seen the article in the Now York Tribune received by the last mail. At its malicious per- | sonalities 1 cannot wonder that you are justly annoyed. ‘These charges, with which you limye been recently dis- tinguished by the correspondents of some ofs the New York papers, from my own araple coportanity. of know- ing the contrary, I have only regarded as simple absurdi- ‘ties; but as void of truth and as absurd as they are, they are calculated to lessen the dignity of our country abroad by being directed against one of its representatives, and T'agree with you that they ought to be noticed and re- fated. To this end I bear cheerful and willing tosti- mony :-— ‘That since your residence in Holland, have notknown acted any commer- ‘That during my frequent visits at the office of the lega- tion, I have never. perceived anything that would war- rant even the suspicion that you were occupied with any itimate duties of your office, or the rea- sonable and usual attention to ordinary personal mat- ters, and ‘that except Mr. Prime, your attaché, 1 have never seen or known of any other clerk at any time in your employment. That the charge of your connection or agency in the negotiation ofa Russian loan is, in my opinion, utterly unfounded in truth; and that, with ample opportuni- ties, and among the commercial and other circles here, I have never heard the rumor or the expression of a sus- picion of such a conneetion or agency of yours with any Russian or other European government loan... Yours, very truly, W. 8. CAMPBELL. fox. A. Brtwonr, Minister Resident of the United States of America at the Hague. AMSTERDAM, Oct. 19, 1854. Drar Sin—I have just now received yours of ‘the 18th instant, ‘informing me that certain charges, liad boon made against you la recent numbers of the New York Tribune and Herat, and requesting me, as the commer- cial agent of (ue United States, to answer the following queries :;— Ist,“ Have you, at any time, heard among the com- mercial and financial circles at’ Amsterdam, that I had negotiated a loan for the Russian army or any other go. vermment in Europe?” Tanswer—That I have never heard of anything ofthe kind. 2d. “In your several visits to the Hague, have you sven anything which would warrant even the most re- mote suspicion that I was personally engaged in any commercial or exchange business in this residence, or pose, in or out of the office of the legation Y” I answer—That aothing that I have seen in my visits picions in my mind, nor have I ever heard, that you were engaged personally in commercial business, or that you | had employed clerks for such purposes, either in or out of the office of the legation, T remain you , very truly, R.'G. BARNWELL. Hon. Avoust Betonr, &e., &e. Beexestyy, Oct. 19, 1854. Drar Sim—Your letter of yesterday reached us this morning, and I hasten to comply with your request of an carly reply. To the queries which you have proposed to me I have no hesitation in answering, that the charges ‘which you state are made by ete you are without@ny foundation. No one in the Hague, nor in Holland, suspects'you of transacting a banking business at the Hague, much less of having negotiated a Russian or any other loan while there; nor have I ny rumor whatever unfayora- ble to your private or official conduct in your relations with the authorities of this country, which I believe to dignitror the country you hie sine ed whilst I know your intercourse with the gene- re eee of the Hagne to have been of the most friend- ind. 7 regret you should have been annoyed by charges made so unjustly in some of our newspapers. Very re- spectfully, your most obedient servant, HENRY BOHLEN. Fon. Acoust Betxont, &c., &¢. In order to give an air of plausibility to this now- exploded charge about the Russian loan, a silly story ‘was put in circulation by one, if not bota the papers named, relative to the paternity of Mr. Belmont. [t was gravely asserted that Mr. B. was the natural son of | one of the Rothschilds; and, by aprocess of ressoniug peculiar to these , the alleged bar sinister on the escutcheon of our minister at the dabitable evidence of his complicity in 16 was in- financial | ave before us & letter from the elder Mr. Balmont to his son. In- stead of being a goenageti ee nd a member of the | world. the worthy old | gentleman is the owner of a emall estate in Ger- many, the cultivation of which appears to afford smple smusement and occupation for the declining | years of his life. A Negro Execution in Virginia. {Frem the Richmond Fnaquirer, Nov. 18 } Yesterday, between 11 and 12 o'clock, negro Weshirgton, the slave of Mr. Thomas 0. Burton, distance northeast of the Poor House, precisely on | the spot on which the two pirates, Cements and Reed, pad the penalty of their crimes about two Jeers since. Negro Washington, a few weeks ago, was found guilty, by the County Court of Henrico, of settiog fire to a bacn on the fara of Besjamin W. Greev, six miles west of this city; and for teis crime be was executed, He was taken to the gallows ina | furiture wagon; and after a conversation of about fifteen mivutes with Mr. Hutcbiason, 8 eriff of Hen- rico county, the rope was attached tothe crossbeam, the wagon moved off, and te wretched creature was | launched from time into eternity. No clergy attended bis Jast moments, ard the eo Jemn wflair was attended fwith but little ceremony. He went to the gallows in a laborer’s dress, of shirt, pantaloons, and a small old sharp-crowaed white hat; and iv these clothes, with the addition of a white handkerchief over his eyes, he was haaged. | To the very last mcment he persisted in declming | hia innecence of the crime for wiich bis life was to be tuken. Five or six hundred persons, chiefly ne- | groes, were present to witness the execution, Toe smslinces of the gathering we regard as an evidence that executions have lovt their tovelty in this city ‘The ctiminal was a young and stout man of cia- gerbread complexion, and strongly marked with ro features, having a large mouth, thick lips, a rhysiognomy indicative of great atupidity. It was evident, from his looks and demeanor at the hend and realice his avful sitvation. From the first to the jast he exbibited not the slightest sensibility, but yielded tothe awfol penalty with as much cool- bees and composwe as if assigned an ordinary duty of every day life. Tar Anctze's Boat.—The Advertiaerdewrns from a — who was at St. Johas, N. F., when the schooner Lilly Dale arrived there, that the boat she brought io wasone of tha Arotic’s lifeboats, and that the oars were marked “Arctic’’—all stories to the contrary notwitbatandiag. [t is si WO say the teaa?, that ro a definite account of this oat, and Of the condition ia which it was found, hes brea Paneatin itt noma tae ef tees usbep py Tate it in tt, nome Foul have retained. The bodice of tac hater. nates could harcly have beon swopt away, aad bre oars of the best been left. cer ae Ts pom sap ition is, thet the ocoopen' b vere token Be by eee outward bowed vena —Bostan Journal, Nie. 2; : | advancing. The streets of the town sie being graded tS : E § i gs ee E 3 te Z re 22 f 5 F i i Hg : A i fea g e iF i ‘ het Pd age Hp g 7 . i Zee Ha ei i i iz EE b: . R. Lathrop 5 in above st-~ $5,300; insurance $3,800. 1. 1.. Post; loss, dwell) house and contents, $3,700. insurance $ Isaac Post; lose, dwellin; building ozcupied by Kooler and shoe store, ach OnE, by wel pe by D. D. rance. B. Mooney; loss, to m shop, $200; no insurance. Koeler & Stoa 3 loss, and tools, $700; no insa- rance. I.N. Bullard; loge, store and goods, $2,000; a haa C. Cashman; loss, cabinst shop stock, F sadaler and stock, $1,200; no insurance. F. & L. B. Turrel; loss, and sal insorance. William Turrell’s estate; loss, ba: contents, $400; no insurance. E. W. Hawley, lows, dwelling house and contents, $1,600; insuran :¢, $800. David 3 loss, barp, , Store oocupied by M. Harrington and by rer & Warren, s'ore oc- cupied by C. D. Lathrop & Co., and store occupied : Sig ‘roods, $500; insured, ie Haringe “ ‘arren; loss, 5 . om; loss, goods, $2,000; ineurance, $1,500. ©. D. La throp%: Co.; loss, stoves, &c.; $3,000; insu $1,200. W. Singleton, jeweller; logs, stock; -&c., $500; no insurance. Dimock & Patrick; loss, libra- Wr geese herpesocwes ge $500; no serene hb . De , lose, household goods, carriage, &c., $600; no insurance, P. A. Locke; losa, household farpitars, &c., $200; insurance, $500. C. M. Sim- mons; loss, boots and shoes, stock, &c,, $300; no in- gvrance. Van Horn; loss, bousehdld goods, &e., $350; no insurance. Alferd Sayre; loss, yorely. watches, &c., $400; no insurance. A. L. Webster; gar secosily from New Jeray, ani nccop ing rooms | gar, recently from New. ’ over Hartington’s atore, lost all his household goods, valued at about $500; no insurance. The City of Knorville.. Daring a recent visit to this “city of ills,” we a “oi; availed ourselyes of a few hours’ foiaure to examine 1 $6, centre of trade jotted Wie of country known as East Tennessee. During the last two cr three years, the population of the city has. increased about 100 per cent, and now neimbers from five to six thousand. The trade of the city has ie- creased p! in all the depariments of dry by ayes &eo., ke., aud is still rapidly expanding. The advance in real estate is almoat in- credible, and large fortunes have been mate by ape- culators in town lots. In soma instances, the ad- varce has been as high as 800 cent, and is still | going on. Menof large capital, both from Northera and Southern cities, are making investments and empleying their money and energies iu different branches of business, Manufaotories have been opened within the last herded two; and shere ere | now in the city, a giass factory, two extensive foua- | deries, a railroad car shop, flooring mills, extensive tanneries, steam saw sash aad blind factory, Inrge machine shops, oil mill, marble nanufactories. and numerous other minor but important establiah- | ments of a similer nature. There are in the city two || free banke—the Bank of Knoxville and tie Farmers’ Bank of Tennessee; two Stock Bauka—tho Bavk of ‘Tennessee, and the Miners’ and Manufacturers’ Bank; i Pre ae of the Union Bank and Citizeasa’ || Ban! ; ‘Tne East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad, coa- | necting Knoxville with about 2,000 miles of rai! way in the South and West, will bo complete imo ne ee The East =o idles | Toad, connecting Knoxville Eastern: cities, is now near! , and toe track laying wil) be commenced in or April, the iron beta, a@ready purchased for thirty miles of the road osss- | ward. this road is completed Kaoxvilie wilt be Ae wt the great national from Ne ut to the Southwest. Situated only two | hundred and fifty miles from Cincinnati, by mea» of tbe Covington and Lexi Railroad, and s road from the ‘ater place, Knoxville will be con | nected with Cincinnati acd Louisville. From Knox: | ville to Charleston direct, the distance is about 400 miles, of which only 180 miles of road remains to be | built (which ts now iv process of construction,) to ace Kroxville in direct communicatioa with the uthern seaboard. Thia road to Lexington qill aleo place the town in the lice from the Ohio Va't to the Guifof Mexioo azd the eouthera seaboar ‘Thus it wi'l be seen that, in point of ascessibiitty, Knoxville will stand as eligibiy as any other city A the Souti.weet. ‘The improvements in building goiag on in the city have created a great demand for lsborers aud mechanics, tre former receiving $1 25 por day, aud | the latter from $2 to $3. No finer opportunity sold be offered tor the investment of capita! for builds houses, a3 the demand for residonces is grazter thaa the supply, and rents are very bigh and constant’: and paved, and they will soon be iilumiusted with gas, the works being already in process of coastior vicn. The facilities for waer at present are ih) | ferext, but arrangements are in progress to sce? an ataple supply trom some of the nuinerous soriags in the immediate vicinity. There are uow opeo in the city three larqs hotsia, | two of which ate entirely new. The “Bel: Hrase,” boiit and aa by Mr, James Bell, for mary years — landlord at Campbell's statiox, is @ well or | ued abd commodiows house, and under the super. | intenderce of Mr. Boli, whose expetienca emsbies him to cater £0 suc’essfully to the comfort of his guests, cannot fail to bo a popular resort for r.vely less. The “Coleman House,” built by Colopn ¥. M. Churchwell, acd kept by Mr. Colern ~ of New York one of that fem Gittins a aed in the busicess of hotel keeping, is witout question the fines house this {te neu tains, Large and commoedions,’ it ts fornishea | throughout in a style of idence superior te hing we have ever seem in toe Sonth or Weas. ry eh renee Sea ahead of the age ia Knox- ville, it will not, we believe, be 20. lo hope that sume of our city capitalists will be stimu! . >* by the example set in Knexviile, and may not much longer suffer ia comparison sister city im this respect. Fortunately for the Lat ter place, abe has among her citizens mon of capi- tal, whoare men of enterprise and enlarged views, and appreciating the natarsl advantages aud re. sources Which eurroued them, they aio detarminet to devevepe them. are other cities that we - could mention, that are [ess subject to congratala tion in this reepect. ‘We have alresdy oxtenged our notice of Kaox- | ville, far beyond the itmit which weintsaded t> 0a cn y, and even yet we have not apoken of nil the ke pte of interest which presenter thomecives te ur lex miveral wealth, surrounded aa she ia, withia range of twenty to thirty milas, with beds of oo leae, 2in0, irom and copper, are am, So age a notable feature. We tave written thuem rob, he ewer, with a feeling of State pride id witnessing + progress Of a sister city im all the elemente of wos! Qho proeperity, and with the firm belief tras he- progreas ig cavward to a position of enrisble ina ance. Ke exville is destined to becom. not an! piace of beavy trade, but may, indeed, become ' Gf the ;racipal manufactaring otues of tue Am | } Nuw Coowrr— It fa proposed to mek» Reohorver / A cour ty by tteelf, setting off all the ccwas of Mum: ree ceuity trom the city.