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rvof tbe carolixi watchhm '" ' ., per year.ttto doi-lars-paynble in r i u t if noi paid in advance two dollars 9 will be charged lertedatllforthefirsl.ondoocu \ i subsequent insertion courtorders . „ higher than these rales a lib , u " clion to those who advenise by the year kdiioi must be posi paid seldom wc feel a disposition to fa . election of a democrat fo any of ffr butifwehadn vole in pennsylvania pproaching gubernatorial election a would certainly vote against ibe pre sent incumbent he is a regular woolly head see ho f°l,ow-n 77 reason 117 7 gov johns/on did not o-et out of the car at christiana prom the manner in which gov john ston treated the whole question of slave ... the danger to ibe union ; the fugi .,• law and the murder in lan guilty in bis speech at hollidays jurf lie evidently considered himself ad dressing an audience whose sympathies with the abolitionists while we ffere somewhat astonished at the fight ness with which he treated a matter of suc h vital interest we were utterly as tounded by tbe beartlessness indicated in i(j e reasons assigned in justification ofthe want of interest manifested by him at the time and place ofthe murder he did n0 t have the cars he said because he . . , iv jv no coroner ; no committing magis ;; .,,/, ; it could do nolhing far a di ad man nol have done any thing for a dead man if he had got out of the cars and staid a week these were bis words and a heartless avowal of an utter want of interest in tbe murder of a fellow man under cir cumstances of such peculiar public inter t t made by the chief magistrate of a jtate whose soil had been stained by the blood of a citizen shot down in the as sertion ol a right guaranteed by the con gtitution which he bad sworn to support whs received wilh yells of applause by tbe creatures by whom he was surround ed in the stand and responded to by the crowd below — harrisburg key stone flit christiana murder and governor j j oh us to 11 the daily american edited by gov nston's brother in some comments up hi the resolutions of the recent demo cratic meeting in this place and their j author uses the following language such riots as occurred in lancaster county are calculated almost entirely to lestroy the profits of mr jyt a mister's ap j ointment because they intimidate per i ions from pursuing and attempting to re capture runaway blacks they also op . crate as an in teriorem to kidnappers | who do not exactly like to attempt to kid | pap blacks who will light we ask the reader to mark well the lone of this paragraph such riots in imidate peisons from pursuing runaway laves — they also operate as an in ter to persons in pursuit of slaves be { ause ihey show that the blacks " will 1 sght says the organ we appeal to ! tverj candid man to say whether this j mguage does not give direct encourage \ acnt lo the blacks and their abolition ; bettors to commit such treason and 1 order as was committed at christi na whether it is not openly counsel i jg encouraging and approving such leinoos offences against the constitution adlawsofthe nation ? this comes too rom a brother of the governor through lis especial confidential organ — the key we find the following in the editorial ; wrespondence from genoa to the new ! ft daily advertiser : 1 notice an account from hungary of tie actual movement of a mountain ! — a tat which the mahometan prophet tried in vain the hungarian ttzette tells us that on the 13th ultimo — j»eof the very days on which naples wsshaken — the mountain geleztas in kcounty of clausenburg transylvania toved towards the mountain ' venj ikes both mountains being irom sod to 1000 ef t 111 height the town of - monyoro i which was before the movement p hours walk from the last named moun ■^, is now scarcely twenty paces distant om it having been removed from the f"ene movement — and is threatened mo jeiilarinlly with burial this movement ted from the afternoon of the 13th to m noon of the 15th lt occasioned in ulahle losses all the plains at the pand round the moved mountain with t®t ongathered harvests being ruined toeir place now appear rocks of great it and the features ofthe landscape w entirely unchanged ■- 0 one of tlie old owners can recog ■ze ; -''■■- ids waters have broken out w whole vicinity which is converted l 0a -|[ ocky ma -" sn - tne population of i 1 age some four or live hundred p w their next neighbors tbe account je phenomena is given with all the prance of truth and i transfer it to r u a s it conies to us here ijbe north carolina block a 6 a,ei gh standard says we learn ■be governor has forwarded to washing e j be block of marble contributed hy the ■, ( '" iul lincoln to be placed in the wash ktheh nu '" 1 or nor * h carolina and ■§ iho h c lls0 m " le arran g eme »> , 8 for hav b \; ' roperly prepared for ils place in h . , :, : : """ ! - according lo he directions of ■• unde n j ,, - y ' uy s """ : ar,isl '" i,:u cil >'' bitese m rstan ?! llr,her,hal -- c governor would i'-'h ti '''° c k s " mp ''" u s ' ncp « but e i .'."; , , m s c '' '" ho hope that he would ou u d 1 ° lno nor,h c^t-lma ariwt ivho iii/;t ' " ie lli cul i s::i "'"* anna and ilie ft 1 ',;;;,- 11 ": ni '' having failed j ihis he v,,i,c : ln 2 forwarded the bled as above 1 the carolina watchman j j bruner i / " kf.ep a check t-po all your editor df proprietor ) rulers do t „, i . s new series uo this and lir.er.tv is safe ' < gen'l harrison ( volume vtii number 24 salisbury n c thursday october 16 1851 the lhan expedition krom the new obleans tht'e delta we have devoted considerable space in our columns this morning to the detailed narrative of lieut van vecblen and a letter from mr c n harwell lately attached lo our ofiice in relation to the lopez expedition of which ihey foimed a pari il will lie seen that these accounts agree in all iheir main particulars wilh all those which have heretofore appeared bora lhe unfortunate adventurers and corroborate all lhal we wrote before the sailing of the pampero dissuasive irom embarkation in the affair and ofthe un truthfulness ol the statements of battles won defeats ofthe royal troops capture of artillery prisoners taken and other monstrous fabrica tions thai were daily published here by the soi disant cuban organs lo delude the young in flame the excitable and deceive the public merely lhal a gang of heartless dealers in scrip might get rich by a traffic in the blood of an enthusiastic but deluded body of young men we have before us a letter from a young man ofthe third municipality dated in lhe prison at havana which il the editors of papers like lhe new york sun savannah news and kindred concerns here have souls in their bodies ouohl lo make lliem weep many bitter tears he is but sixteen or seventeen years of age a mere boy and was deluded off from the family where his father had placed him for lhe summer until he returned from the north by promises lhal if he went to cuba he would soon return with jire thousand dollars his name is joseph b cunst the son of a very worthy man whose distress al this terrible calamity parents can ea sily picture lo themselves oiher letters from prisoners are also in our possession bul as we have made it a rule to 1 exclude those implicating parlies here who can { nol be confronted with the peisons preferring ' lhe charges we omit ihem one feature in all lhe correspondence of the unlorlunaie dupes of lhe scrip dealers and their miserable new-paper allies is worthy ofparlic ! ular notice ; that is iheir uniform recognition ol lhe justice ol their punishment by the span ; ish authorities in this respect differing greatly in iheir opinion from a portion of t he press of j this country which labors to prove lhat a terri ! ble wrong has been done them to wipe out re i membrance ol which a war with spain appears i to be their only lesuuree to us it looks very ' much as il the intention of these newspaper ! statesmen is lo prolong indefinitely foi some ' base or factious purpose lhe detention of our unfortunate countiymen apparently determin ed rather on a course lhal will create obstacles iu the way ol their enlargement than lo facili tate their delivery which every good citizen whatever may be his opinion of iheir original j error cannot but anxiously desire we have no doubt of the earnestness and anxiety of the president to effect the return of lhe prisoners now on their way to spain ; and j we are very sure his solicitude to accomplish i lhe humane and generous object will be great ly enhanced hy the new proofs every day furn ished of the wicked deceptions practised upon ihose oo-confiding and over-enthusiastic men all our endeavors should now be employed in accomplishing iheir return to iheir homes i havana september 4 1851 having promised to lavor you or il may be to trouble you wilh another letter acquainting you with our whereabouts particulars &<■. in regard to the lale foray upon oue of ihe posses sinus of her spanish majesty 1 will proceed lo particularize as laconically as possible lhe facts as ihey occurred liom the moment we landed until our delivery info the hands of lhe cuban authorities our point of debarkation was at murillo — we landed near lour hundred of us about midnight and without opposition save the firing of a single musket upon the first boat which landed her troops at murillo three compa nies were lell for two days numbering about one hundred or one hundred and ten men ; they foimed ihe rear guard lo protect the baggage train about two hundred and eighty or nine ty men proceeded the same night of landing to l'»s posas under the command ol gen lopez this latter parly reached los posas and re mained there near two days tbe morning of ihe second day ihey were attacked by a span ish force of regular hoops which lhe ameri cans resisted wiih great vigor the fighting continued wilh doubtful issue lor several hours the number of killed and wounded was consid erable on both sides ; lhe exact number i can not stale we lost a large number of our best and bravest men among the number i may mention col downman killed capt gouti mortally wounded capt brigham wounded and believed since dead lieut labuzan killed and several of lopez's aids wounded and not ; since been heard of having no transportation il became imperious on lopez lo leave the ! wounded who could not follow behind ; ihis ac counts for my ignorance ol lhe late of lhe men rendered useless i might here remark was such a thing ever heard of in lhe annals of any thing pretending lo generalship as to leave the disabled of an army intake care of themselves ? you must judge what the thoughts ol lhe men must have been al seeinglheir brother compan ions lefl neglected behind and the same fate probably awaiting ihem the spanish hoops finally retired in good older and lopez be tween 11 and 12 o'clock al night evacuated the place and retired through the pass into lhe bo som of lhe mountains early on ibe morning of lhe day lopoz was attacked the men left at murillo started with the baggage train consisting of two wagons drawn by four oxen each for los posas 1 he escort was under the command ol criltenden lhe companies respectively under the com mand of capt s kelly saunders and victor kerr we t ravelled al lhe rate ol about a mile an hour every hundred yards the oxen refusing •„ draw aud ihe americans expend ing a great many oaths and useless blows irom their muskets upon their stupid backs well by dint ol a good deal of sweating and many hard blows aud lhe th owing irom the wagons a la.--e quantity of dead weight in lhe shape of carpet bags trunks belonging to those who expected lo dress iu patent leather boots and i the latesl french style clothing — we reached about half our journey and deicimined logo : no further until more oxen could be procured with ihis determination we halted wiih ibe ex ception of ken's company which proceeded about ball a mile lo an inn where we sent a j detachment lo get more callle in about an bout the men were aroused from i iheir short repose by ihe rapid firing of musket ry ahead of us and ihe conviction at once set ' lied upon all thai kerr had been attacked — tbe met one and all immediately jump ed to their aims and ran whooping and veiling up the road lo the assistance ol kerr the ; company under this laiter captain were attack ed whilst refreshing themselves in lhe lavein but quickly jumped to where their muskets j : were slacked and returned t lie fire from the chaparral the firing from both sides was very animated ; from every bush ihere appeared lo pour oul a blaze of fire the spaniards held iheirposilion well though barged by the whole of our force several successive limes they finally however gave up the chapparral to re i inforce a party on an eminence about onequar j ter of a mile from us the parly which at j tacked us from the chapparral was believed to have been the flanking parly of ihe detachment on the hill having formed themselves upon lhe hill ihey poured in ihe tavern ard in which we had drawn up ourselves a contin ued stream of bullets we soon felt convinced that the yard was no place for us ; so critlen | den ordered two companies to follow him — the remaining one to stay behind the pickets aud keep his rear open for one hour that com j pany remained in lhe pickets ils men being j struck down here and ihere by the bullets ! which poured in upon them at lhe expira lion of this time — the seeing any thing effected j by crittenden's movement towards the enemy and fearful of being surrounded every moment — lhe men concluded to retreat to a body of woods six or seven miles distant after march i in all lhe evening in lhe woods we procured a guide and reached los posas about 11 o'clock j joined lopez and immediately took up the line ; of march over the mountains crittenden must i have encountered the force on the hill and coming back not finding us continued his ; ci ' r ' match back to murillo where i have since as cerlianed lie seized one ol four vessels which were iving there and put lo sea evidently wilh the intention of reaching america again ; but was captured by a spanish man of war and j brought into the poit of havana where himself j and men as you have heard paid the penalty | of death lopez consumed ihe most of the lime he re mained in lhe mountains in traversing those the least travelled exhausting the strength of j his men in the endeavor of reaching the pa j triots whom he said numbered four thousand strong nearly every day he would assure the men that ere nighilul would join the pa triots poor misguided men ! bow plainly you are alive now perceive the delusion ! lhe j cheat ! the base fraud ! patriots lis true there are in cuba as it now exists where are all i those towns that revolutionized in favor of a j government more republican ? i do noi be lieve a single town in cuba ever attempted a | revolution il is my conviction lhat the petty clique in new orleans whose existence de pended upon the exaltation of cuban bonds felt that the precipice over which they must short > ly fail must be avoided by some desparale | scheme and hence the second abortive attempt ! to create sympathy in favor of cuban patriots struggling for liberty when i reflect on the j proceedings of lhe arcade ivieeling where ihe l declaration of independence of the island of cuba was read beloie a large multitude and gulped down by about half of ihem as having actually come irom lhe patriots ofthe island of cuba ; when i turn back and think of lhe pro minence of lhe men in this expedition who ac led lhe same deceitful pari in the other and then look and see tilings as ihey actually are — peace plenty and quiet throughout lhe isl and lhe masses devoted lo the government and individually contented with iheir sacred homes where plenlitude is heaped up around ihem and want is a stranger — 1 bite my lips wilh anger to think thai these men cannot be made to suffer as ihose deluded young men have who lefl their homes from the purest mo tives to find themselves lhe followers of a trai tor deceived by their own countrymen lo re trieve his desperate fortunes it there is any one who wishes lobe convinced of lhe hap py and contented stale of the island let him but come and see for himself in all his trav els his purse-string will rarely have lo be un drawn ; ihe cuban whose heart is as liberal as his store-house will meet his every neces sity — he has nothing to do but come and he hold to continue my narrative which i will now shortly bring to a close we had been in lhe mountains about three days when on the morn ing ol the third day we made the lopez estate the farm itself is a most maguificenljme it once belonged to the lopez family but was confiscated by reason of his treachery to the queen of spain we were preparing our selves to dine when we were suddenly charged down upon by a body of about filiy or sixty horsemen whom we repulsed with a slight loss on iheir side bul iheir object it was ev ident was not to achieve any other advanlage lhan to cause us lo fall back where a large body of lancers awaited this movement on our part this we did not do ; bul immediately on the repulse of the horsemen we shouldered arms left our unfinished dinners and marched over into a large open field bordered on one side by a thick and busby wood before we had quite reached the margin of this wood a deslruciive fire was opened upon us we col lecled as rapidly as possible upon a utile knoll in lhe field and returned lhe fire with some spirit this engagement lasted but a short lime a number were killed and wounded on both sides and as if by mutual consent both parties reiiied fv«m the field we look lhe mountain road and commenced again ihe same old trudging up and down lhe mountains expec tin everyday from lopez's prestations to meet with lire patriots ou the seventh day of our tramp in ihe mountains we halted at a ranch about duik for ifre purpose of lakiag sup per and reeling for the night the ni^hl we j spent without molest tlion ; but in the mornitig ! whil-t preparing breakfast we were aliarkerj in front and on our right flank by a body of spanish troop finding ourselves iu a bad scrape we discharged our pieces and retreated up a mountain ihic-kly overgrown with lhe cof lee plant our retreat was covered hy one company which kept up a continual fire on the advancing enemy the hitter kepi up such a hoi fire on us lhat nolhing but the whizzittu of hullels could be heard we speedily aitied the top of the mountain and then such another tumbling down lhe other side never was seen before men horses and their riders all in one promiscuous mass went heller skeller down into the ravine beneath it was not tin lilyour humble servant could gather himself at lhe bottom lhal he could lell whether his feet formed the apex of his perpendi'-ular or his head the spanish iroops did nol pursue us to the bottom ; they contented themselves with plyin us with the contents ofa small howitzer ni"unl ed on lhe back of a mule and several volleys of musketry to the mountains we still clung : wearied and broken down the men commenced throw ing their guns and ammunition away ; ihey wanted lopez to leave ihe island he still pampered ih>*in up wilh lhe idea that there was ' no deceit in him no what he promised he made them believe would actually come lo pass alas ! loo lale they perceived the error of con fiding in his promises ! about four days after this defeat all of us came near being destroyed we were toiling our way lale in lhe evening along a most irksome road when the advance of lhe parly suddenly perceived two sentinels one on each side ofthe road we immediate ly retraced our steps but lhe sentinels gave the alarm and a large parly of spanish iroops at j lacked our rear we retreated quickly down each side ofthe road behind the thick under growth which is so luxuriant around lhe moun tains of this island some of our men were j killed and a few taken prisoners from ibis defeat lhe men became separated ; some went one way some another nol over sis men were together in any one parly and in many cases lhe men singly trudged their way over the mountains for my part 1 tramped many a long and weary day beneath a broiling sun with nought but guavas and mangoes for mv daily food the day of this defeat was the last thai lopez and his men ever saw each olh j er he was captured shortly after brought lo this city and nothing now remains bul the rec ollections of his notorious deeds not one virtue lo link wilh his thousand crimes there are now in the prison in this city one hundred and fifty-eight men belonging lo the late expedition all remaining of lhe four hun dred which lefl new orleans a little over a ' month ago they are treated well and are i generally in lhe enjoyment of very good health and are in good spirits it may be lhal a few more men are still left in lhe mountains though the number cannot exceed two or three i will write to you again if any thing of in ] teres transpires the lale spanish consul at new orleans yesterday paid a visit lo the pris oners i understand lhat he gave some words of encouragement to the piisoners i am sorry thai difficulties in new orleans were the cause ofhisariivai here and hope thai tbe entente cordiale has already been restored yours respectfully c n h or well monetary em b a ml ass m e x t . great efforts are being made by demo cratic and free trade journals to stave off from the public mind the suspicions and alarms which the present financial crisis is very naturally exciting their darling object is to screen the tariff a gainst implication in the matter and in order to do this with all the ingenuif and plausibility they can a variety of causes are assigned by them for the commercial difficulties which are beginning to cast their dark shadows over the general bu siness of the country when after a long period of activity and bouyancy trade becomes suddenly depressed and disturb ed at a great point like new york there must be some radical defect or error in the general system upon which it is con ducted it is not our purpose even if we had the ability to investigate the subject with a view to trace step by step to its source the panic which is prevailing and extending in the money market at the north we admit lhat she rage for gam bling in stocks and for speculating gener ally may have had some agency in pro ducing it but the true solution in our judgment will be mainly found in the workings of the present tariff by the rates of which the looms and forges of eu rope are enabled to come into triumphant and ruinous competition with our own manufactures there is difference in for eign exchange against us so great that nothing but coin can be shipped to meet our responsibilities across the water al ready upwards of thirty millions of gold has been exported and tbe process is still oing on without any abatement tbe free trade papers are evidently getting uneasy at tbe prospect and are striving with all their might to tranquilize the people and to uphold the tariff they bave been telling us for weeks back as they tell us now that our importations have reached their maximum and that they are gelling smaller that our ship ments of coin have also reached a point bevond which they will not go but from which they would"gradually lessen but all such assurances have been intended only for effect these journals have so mercilessly humbugged the people with their doctrines and their notions that we have no kind of faith in any of their repre sentations or arguments they are ex tremely adroit in tbe use of figures and statistics which they manage so to ar 1 range as to bewilder and perplex the minds of the uninitiated so that iheir ta bular exposition accompanied bv smooth ly worded and seemingly fair maxims and inferences look pretty well upon paper ; but we haverarelv seen any of these max ims practically verified to ihe public ad vantages one of these journals of which we speak the new york evening post in its restless anxiety to cover op be mis chiefs of the free trade system and to prevent its readers as far as possible com thinking properly upon the subject on which it discourses thus notices he im mense specie exportations from the uni led states : " that america is not greatly indebtted to england is confirmed by evidence from another source notwithstanding the large exportation of gold to liverpool it appears that the stock of bullion in the bank of england has not increased but is rather diminishing we have not said that america was heavily indebted lo england alone but that she was involved in heavy foreign responsibilities which in consequence of over-importations and the consequently unfavorable rate of exchange she had to meet with coin what signifies to us under the circumstances whether the gold stops in england or is sent thence imme diately to tbe continent ? it is gone clean out of our own hands and as we cannot keep it it is we think of no great impor tance who gets if provided it pays pro unto the debts to which it is appropriated we are wholly unable to see any conso lation in the circumstances mentioned by the post relative to the bank of england on tbe contrary we see cause for addi tional disquietude ; for if tbe vaults of that institution are weakened trouble in the english money maiket must come '■and if so its effects will be additionally injurious to the united states — pit int the cub ax bonds the intelligencer publishes a copy of one of the bonds which were issued to as sist in carrying into effect tbe late cuban expedition here it is says that paper word and letter : 82.000 xo . be it known to all men that i gen eral narciso loi'ez chief of the -* patri otic junta for the promotion of the politi cal interests of cuba established in the united states of xorth america and the contemplated head of provisional gov ernment and commander-in-chief of the revolutionary movement about to be now undertaken through my agency and per missive authority for the liberation of the people of cuba from the tyranny and op pression to which they are now subject by the power of spain and to be prose cuted by me till superseded by a superior executive officer or such form of gov ernment and authority as the people by their free will and choice shall prescribe do by these presents to subserve the cause and object aforesaid make and execute this obligation on behalf of the people of cuba by whatever designation of nation ality or form of body politic they shall hereafter assume to wit : i do by these presents for and on be half of the said people ot cuba and their succesors in government favor and for value received promise to pay to . or bearer in equal annual instalments at one two three four and five years the sum of two thousand dollars with six per cent interest from date payalde rateably on each annual instalment and both prin cipal and interest be fully paid and dis charged and i the said general nar ciso lopez in virtue of the authority and for tbe promotion of the object aforesaid do by these presents pledge to the said . or bearer the public lands and public property of cuba of whatever kind and the fiscal resources ofthe people and government of culm in perpetuity for the faithful and complete discharge of this obligation in testimony whereof i the said gen eral xarciso lopez do here affix mv sig nature and seal ol the said provisional government which is further witnessed bv ambrosio gonzales and jose mnria sanchez yznaga members of said " pat riotic junta and the hon cotesworth picknev smith judge of the supr.-me court of errors and appeals ol the state of mississippi this done and executed in the city of x*-w orleans and state of louisiana one of the united states of xorih america on this 30tb day of april a d 1s50 narciso lopez j sakchez v/.v g \. ambrozio jijhi goxzales s2.0u0 c p smith at the head of this bond says the in telligencer is a handsome cut of a >'•...' id or coat of arms in one division ot ibe field of which by tbe way is a palmetto and stars signify ing we know not what surmounted by a liberty cap and garnish ed on both sides with hags of different kinds cannon trumpets drum swords c ; and at the bottom is an impression of a seal with he legend " gobierno pro visional the syracuse km>t and fugi tive rescue we published in our last a telegraphic announcement of a serious riot at syra cuse x y resulting in the rescue of a fugitive slave named jerry from the cus tody of the united slates commission er after he bad been remanded to the possession of bis master p j layer of missouri the syracuse star of the 3d instant however contains additional facts in relation fo the outrage from which we m ike the following extracts : — ral reg that the city of syracuse was disgrac ed on wednesday by the occurrence of a rior during which the authorises were paralysed or n fused to per far in tin ir duty is by ibis time a matter of notoriety in every state and every city in the union i'iie lact no one but a traitor or knave will have the hardihood to deny for the outlines of tbe affair we must refer to our paper of thursday in that report we find nothing requires alteration these outlines we now propose t-j till up lo render the picture of their infamy more complete who occupying a respectable station in society incitedsby the basest means a horde of ruffians to desecrate the temple of justice and to violate a law of the u states the riot commenced in the commission er's office in tbe second story of the town send block lhe principal instigators of ir were two pbysians and a clergyman of this city the fugitive was seized by a negro carman of this city the fugitive was recaptured and con signed to the police ofiice then flic ab olitionists renewed ihe excitement and their orators by inflammatory appeals to the crowd which collected in front ofthe olfice strove by every means in their pow er fo incite them lo m assault upon the marshal and his assistants this disgraceful state ot affairs contin ued from 3 p m tiil fhe rescue of the fu gitive at 8 a m.and all ihis while the mayor made no attempt to disperse the mob or to restore oub-r and obedience to the laws further than to ask the rioters individually to go home ! he never ad dressed the mob never read the riot act — never i.i a word exercised so much authority as an efficient magistrate would have done in the case of aft ordinary af fray among two or ibree persons the sheriff being called upon for as sistance by the marshal very promptly requested the commanders of the citi zen's corps the national guards and the washington artillery to order out their companies tbe order was as promptly complied with and tbe companies were assembled at their armories ready for du ty each man being supplied with three rounds of ball cartridge before march ing to the sheriff's ofiice however col o j yandenburgh the commander of the regiment issued his order to the captains of three companies forbidding them to turn out ! he did this at the solicitation of charles a wheaton and other leading abolitionists and in accordance with bis own personal prejudices — since he was heard to express a desire that the law should not be executed and bis own de termination to do ill in his power to pre vent its execution having received an order from their colonel to disband the commanders of the companies had no alternative but to obey and the troops were accordingly dismissed when it became known lo the mob that the troops were dismissed they renewed their menaces against the officers and the black and white scoundrels who address ed ihem redoubled their exertions to in flame them to the point requisite for the accomplishment of their infernal purpose the police office in which the commis sioner was then holding his examination of the case was assailed with stones and the windows broken until it became im possible to proceed with tbe case all hour and a half after the adjournment tbe doors were forced in and the fugitive rescued col vandenburgh's conduct in this af fair is aggravated by the lact that after the final escape of the fugitive he issued an order for the citizen's corps to turn out immediately — thus virtually acknow ledging by his own hand w hen too late that he hnd been guilt ot an unjustifia ble act in previously countermanding the order of the sheriff several prominent citizens of syracuse were engaged in the riot and have there lore rendered themselves amenable to the law the mob was compose 1 chiefly of white men and was swelled by tbe strai gi ra in ihecity.it being the day of the county fair and an abolition convention the lat ter of which was on band lor a lull dele gation of law breakers the plan r.il — the tor put of thi we.-k we ii i n the plank road fa iwo mi lea tin r-ii ol ashboro . the messrs vvorib — who il i recollected no der look lhe c ntracl from < . _ ■. in moore county in jonnsonville in randolph — bare been pushing lhe enterprise with great rapidi ty ti planks •'• w un der si i i '" within seven miles to iiboro ; a skip i i mi ••- then occurs which is unioish ed : agi.!i -. t'l.i 1 1 the - ijajd dawn with piank ii'im i ;■. ■' one mile beiow sh boro ••■. • nding - • - this - . i ensuing grtcn pa i was - g since ihil an rnor mons lump of ami weighing 211 - fell it dorer new hamp?l vi-iv extensively circul ued hi the t 1 ... ie b lo i 1 - . appe irs ihai s hale was ed to — alabama h a s'-rn /'• . /'//•• /•;. ' — a i itc • oticeable item in the b ok trade of tbilad iphia x york a nl boston rorks on military tactics h • v - r v freely to the : 5 ot sou 111
Object Description
Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1851-10-16 |
Month | 10 |
Day | 16 |
Year | 1851 |
Volume | 8 |
Issue | 24 |
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Creator | J. J. Bruner Editor and Proprietor |
Date Digital | 2008-10-30 |
Publisher | J. J. Bruner |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
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Description | The Thursday, October 16, 1851 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
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Title | Carolina Watchman |
Masthead | The Carolina Watchman |
Date | 1851-10-16 |
Month | 10 |
Day | 16 |
Year | 1851 |
Volume | 8 |
Issue | 24 |
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Creator | J. J. Bruner Editor and Proprietor |
Date Digital | 2008-10-30 |
Publisher | J. J. Bruner |
Place | United States, North Carolina, Rowan County, Salisbury |
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Digital Format | JP2 |
Project Subject | State Archives of North Carolina Historic Newspaper Archive |
Description | The Thursday, October 16, 1851 issue of the Carolina Watchman a weekly and semi weekly newspaper from Salisbury, North Carolina |
Rights | Public |
Language | eng |
FullText | rvof tbe carolixi watchhm '" ' ., per year.ttto doi-lars-paynble in r i u t if noi paid in advance two dollars 9 will be charged lertedatllforthefirsl.ondoocu \ i subsequent insertion courtorders . „ higher than these rales a lib , u " clion to those who advenise by the year kdiioi must be posi paid seldom wc feel a disposition to fa . election of a democrat fo any of ffr butifwehadn vole in pennsylvania pproaching gubernatorial election a would certainly vote against ibe pre sent incumbent he is a regular woolly head see ho f°l,ow-n 77 reason 117 7 gov johns/on did not o-et out of the car at christiana prom the manner in which gov john ston treated the whole question of slave ... the danger to ibe union ; the fugi .,• law and the murder in lan guilty in bis speech at hollidays jurf lie evidently considered himself ad dressing an audience whose sympathies with the abolitionists while we ffere somewhat astonished at the fight ness with which he treated a matter of suc h vital interest we were utterly as tounded by tbe beartlessness indicated in i(j e reasons assigned in justification ofthe want of interest manifested by him at the time and place ofthe murder he did n0 t have the cars he said because he . . , iv jv no coroner ; no committing magis ;; .,,/, ; it could do nolhing far a di ad man nol have done any thing for a dead man if he had got out of the cars and staid a week these were bis words and a heartless avowal of an utter want of interest in tbe murder of a fellow man under cir cumstances of such peculiar public inter t t made by the chief magistrate of a jtate whose soil had been stained by the blood of a citizen shot down in the as sertion ol a right guaranteed by the con gtitution which he bad sworn to support whs received wilh yells of applause by tbe creatures by whom he was surround ed in the stand and responded to by the crowd below — harrisburg key stone flit christiana murder and governor j j oh us to 11 the daily american edited by gov nston's brother in some comments up hi the resolutions of the recent demo cratic meeting in this place and their j author uses the following language such riots as occurred in lancaster county are calculated almost entirely to lestroy the profits of mr jyt a mister's ap j ointment because they intimidate per i ions from pursuing and attempting to re capture runaway blacks they also op . crate as an in teriorem to kidnappers | who do not exactly like to attempt to kid | pap blacks who will light we ask the reader to mark well the lone of this paragraph such riots in imidate peisons from pursuing runaway laves — they also operate as an in ter to persons in pursuit of slaves be { ause ihey show that the blacks " will 1 sght says the organ we appeal to ! tverj candid man to say whether this j mguage does not give direct encourage \ acnt lo the blacks and their abolition ; bettors to commit such treason and 1 order as was committed at christi na whether it is not openly counsel i jg encouraging and approving such leinoos offences against the constitution adlawsofthe nation ? this comes too rom a brother of the governor through lis especial confidential organ — the key we find the following in the editorial ; wrespondence from genoa to the new ! ft daily advertiser : 1 notice an account from hungary of tie actual movement of a mountain ! — a tat which the mahometan prophet tried in vain the hungarian ttzette tells us that on the 13th ultimo — j»eof the very days on which naples wsshaken — the mountain geleztas in kcounty of clausenburg transylvania toved towards the mountain ' venj ikes both mountains being irom sod to 1000 ef t 111 height the town of - monyoro i which was before the movement p hours walk from the last named moun ■^, is now scarcely twenty paces distant om it having been removed from the f"ene movement — and is threatened mo jeiilarinlly with burial this movement ted from the afternoon of the 13th to m noon of the 15th lt occasioned in ulahle losses all the plains at the pand round the moved mountain with t®t ongathered harvests being ruined toeir place now appear rocks of great it and the features ofthe landscape w entirely unchanged ■- 0 one of tlie old owners can recog ■ze ; -''■■- ids waters have broken out w whole vicinity which is converted l 0a -|[ ocky ma -" sn - tne population of i 1 age some four or live hundred p w their next neighbors tbe account je phenomena is given with all the prance of truth and i transfer it to r u a s it conies to us here ijbe north carolina block a 6 a,ei gh standard says we learn ■be governor has forwarded to washing e j be block of marble contributed hy the ■, ( '" iul lincoln to be placed in the wash ktheh nu '" 1 or nor * h carolina and ■§ iho h c lls0 m " le arran g eme »> , 8 for hav b \; ' roperly prepared for ils place in h . , :, : : """ ! - according lo he directions of ■• unde n j ,, - y ' uy s """ : ar,isl '" i,:u cil >'' bitese m rstan ?! llr,her,hal -- c governor would i'-'h ti '''° c k s " mp ''" u s ' ncp « but e i .'."; , , m s c '' '" ho hope that he would ou u d 1 ° lno nor,h c^t-lma ariwt ivho iii/;t ' " ie lli cul i s::i "'"* anna and ilie ft 1 ',;;;,- 11 ": ni '' having failed j ihis he v,,i,c : ln 2 forwarded the bled as above 1 the carolina watchman j j bruner i / " kf.ep a check t-po all your editor df proprietor ) rulers do t „, i . s new series uo this and lir.er.tv is safe ' < gen'l harrison ( volume vtii number 24 salisbury n c thursday october 16 1851 the lhan expedition krom the new obleans tht'e delta we have devoted considerable space in our columns this morning to the detailed narrative of lieut van vecblen and a letter from mr c n harwell lately attached lo our ofiice in relation to the lopez expedition of which ihey foimed a pari il will lie seen that these accounts agree in all iheir main particulars wilh all those which have heretofore appeared bora lhe unfortunate adventurers and corroborate all lhal we wrote before the sailing of the pampero dissuasive irom embarkation in the affair and ofthe un truthfulness ol the statements of battles won defeats ofthe royal troops capture of artillery prisoners taken and other monstrous fabrica tions thai were daily published here by the soi disant cuban organs lo delude the young in flame the excitable and deceive the public merely lhal a gang of heartless dealers in scrip might get rich by a traffic in the blood of an enthusiastic but deluded body of young men we have before us a letter from a young man ofthe third municipality dated in lhe prison at havana which il the editors of papers like lhe new york sun savannah news and kindred concerns here have souls in their bodies ouohl lo make lliem weep many bitter tears he is but sixteen or seventeen years of age a mere boy and was deluded off from the family where his father had placed him for lhe summer until he returned from the north by promises lhal if he went to cuba he would soon return with jire thousand dollars his name is joseph b cunst the son of a very worthy man whose distress al this terrible calamity parents can ea sily picture lo themselves oiher letters from prisoners are also in our possession bul as we have made it a rule to 1 exclude those implicating parlies here who can { nol be confronted with the peisons preferring ' lhe charges we omit ihem one feature in all lhe correspondence of the unlorlunaie dupes of lhe scrip dealers and their miserable new-paper allies is worthy ofparlic ! ular notice ; that is iheir uniform recognition ol lhe justice ol their punishment by the span ; ish authorities in this respect differing greatly in iheir opinion from a portion of t he press of j this country which labors to prove lhat a terri ! ble wrong has been done them to wipe out re i membrance ol which a war with spain appears i to be their only lesuuree to us it looks very ' much as il the intention of these newspaper ! statesmen is lo prolong indefinitely foi some ' base or factious purpose lhe detention of our unfortunate countiymen apparently determin ed rather on a course lhal will create obstacles iu the way ol their enlargement than lo facili tate their delivery which every good citizen whatever may be his opinion of iheir original j error cannot but anxiously desire we have no doubt of the earnestness and anxiety of the president to effect the return of lhe prisoners now on their way to spain ; and j we are very sure his solicitude to accomplish i lhe humane and generous object will be great ly enhanced hy the new proofs every day furn ished of the wicked deceptions practised upon ihose oo-confiding and over-enthusiastic men all our endeavors should now be employed in accomplishing iheir return to iheir homes i havana september 4 1851 having promised to lavor you or il may be to trouble you wilh another letter acquainting you with our whereabouts particulars &<■. in regard to the lale foray upon oue of ihe posses sinus of her spanish majesty 1 will proceed lo particularize as laconically as possible lhe facts as ihey occurred liom the moment we landed until our delivery info the hands of lhe cuban authorities our point of debarkation was at murillo — we landed near lour hundred of us about midnight and without opposition save the firing of a single musket upon the first boat which landed her troops at murillo three compa nies were lell for two days numbering about one hundred or one hundred and ten men ; they foimed ihe rear guard lo protect the baggage train about two hundred and eighty or nine ty men proceeded the same night of landing to l'»s posas under the command ol gen lopez this latter parly reached los posas and re mained there near two days tbe morning of ihe second day ihey were attacked by a span ish force of regular hoops which lhe ameri cans resisted wiih great vigor the fighting continued wilh doubtful issue lor several hours the number of killed and wounded was consid erable on both sides ; lhe exact number i can not stale we lost a large number of our best and bravest men among the number i may mention col downman killed capt gouti mortally wounded capt brigham wounded and believed since dead lieut labuzan killed and several of lopez's aids wounded and not ; since been heard of having no transportation il became imperious on lopez lo leave the ! wounded who could not follow behind ; ihis ac counts for my ignorance ol lhe late of lhe men rendered useless i might here remark was such a thing ever heard of in lhe annals of any thing pretending lo generalship as to leave the disabled of an army intake care of themselves ? you must judge what the thoughts ol lhe men must have been al seeinglheir brother compan ions lefl neglected behind and the same fate probably awaiting ihem the spanish hoops finally retired in good older and lopez be tween 11 and 12 o'clock al night evacuated the place and retired through the pass into lhe bo som of lhe mountains early on ibe morning of lhe day lopoz was attacked the men left at murillo started with the baggage train consisting of two wagons drawn by four oxen each for los posas 1 he escort was under the command ol criltenden lhe companies respectively under the com mand of capt s kelly saunders and victor kerr we t ravelled al lhe rate ol about a mile an hour every hundred yards the oxen refusing •„ draw aud ihe americans expend ing a great many oaths and useless blows irom their muskets upon their stupid backs well by dint ol a good deal of sweating and many hard blows aud lhe th owing irom the wagons a la.--e quantity of dead weight in lhe shape of carpet bags trunks belonging to those who expected lo dress iu patent leather boots and i the latesl french style clothing — we reached about half our journey and deicimined logo : no further until more oxen could be procured with ihis determination we halted wiih ibe ex ception of ken's company which proceeded about ball a mile lo an inn where we sent a j detachment lo get more callle in about an bout the men were aroused from i iheir short repose by ihe rapid firing of musket ry ahead of us and ihe conviction at once set ' lied upon all thai kerr had been attacked — tbe met one and all immediately jump ed to their aims and ran whooping and veiling up the road lo the assistance ol kerr the ; company under this laiter captain were attack ed whilst refreshing themselves in lhe lavein but quickly jumped to where their muskets j : were slacked and returned t lie fire from the chaparral the firing from both sides was very animated ; from every bush ihere appeared lo pour oul a blaze of fire the spaniards held iheirposilion well though barged by the whole of our force several successive limes they finally however gave up the chapparral to re i inforce a party on an eminence about onequar j ter of a mile from us the parly which at j tacked us from the chapparral was believed to have been the flanking parly of ihe detachment on the hill having formed themselves upon lhe hill ihey poured in ihe tavern ard in which we had drawn up ourselves a contin ued stream of bullets we soon felt convinced that the yard was no place for us ; so critlen | den ordered two companies to follow him — the remaining one to stay behind the pickets aud keep his rear open for one hour that com j pany remained in lhe pickets ils men being j struck down here and ihere by the bullets ! which poured in upon them at lhe expira lion of this time — the seeing any thing effected j by crittenden's movement towards the enemy and fearful of being surrounded every moment — lhe men concluded to retreat to a body of woods six or seven miles distant after march i in all lhe evening in lhe woods we procured a guide and reached los posas about 11 o'clock j joined lopez and immediately took up the line ; of march over the mountains crittenden must i have encountered the force on the hill and coming back not finding us continued his ; ci ' r ' match back to murillo where i have since as cerlianed lie seized one ol four vessels which were iving there and put lo sea evidently wilh the intention of reaching america again ; but was captured by a spanish man of war and j brought into the poit of havana where himself j and men as you have heard paid the penalty | of death lopez consumed ihe most of the lime he re mained in lhe mountains in traversing those the least travelled exhausting the strength of j his men in the endeavor of reaching the pa j triots whom he said numbered four thousand strong nearly every day he would assure the men that ere nighilul would join the pa triots poor misguided men ! bow plainly you are alive now perceive the delusion ! lhe j cheat ! the base fraud ! patriots lis true there are in cuba as it now exists where are all i those towns that revolutionized in favor of a j government more republican ? i do noi be lieve a single town in cuba ever attempted a | revolution il is my conviction lhat the petty clique in new orleans whose existence de pended upon the exaltation of cuban bonds felt that the precipice over which they must short > ly fail must be avoided by some desparale | scheme and hence the second abortive attempt ! to create sympathy in favor of cuban patriots struggling for liberty when i reflect on the j proceedings of lhe arcade ivieeling where ihe l declaration of independence of the island of cuba was read beloie a large multitude and gulped down by about half of ihem as having actually come irom lhe patriots ofthe island of cuba ; when i turn back and think of lhe pro minence of lhe men in this expedition who ac led lhe same deceitful pari in the other and then look and see tilings as ihey actually are — peace plenty and quiet throughout lhe isl and lhe masses devoted lo the government and individually contented with iheir sacred homes where plenlitude is heaped up around ihem and want is a stranger — 1 bite my lips wilh anger to think thai these men cannot be made to suffer as ihose deluded young men have who lefl their homes from the purest mo tives to find themselves lhe followers of a trai tor deceived by their own countrymen lo re trieve his desperate fortunes it there is any one who wishes lobe convinced of lhe hap py and contented stale of the island let him but come and see for himself in all his trav els his purse-string will rarely have lo be un drawn ; ihe cuban whose heart is as liberal as his store-house will meet his every neces sity — he has nothing to do but come and he hold to continue my narrative which i will now shortly bring to a close we had been in lhe mountains about three days when on the morn ing ol the third day we made the lopez estate the farm itself is a most maguificenljme it once belonged to the lopez family but was confiscated by reason of his treachery to the queen of spain we were preparing our selves to dine when we were suddenly charged down upon by a body of about filiy or sixty horsemen whom we repulsed with a slight loss on iheir side bul iheir object it was ev ident was not to achieve any other advanlage lhan to cause us lo fall back where a large body of lancers awaited this movement on our part this we did not do ; bul immediately on the repulse of the horsemen we shouldered arms left our unfinished dinners and marched over into a large open field bordered on one side by a thick and busby wood before we had quite reached the margin of this wood a deslruciive fire was opened upon us we col lecled as rapidly as possible upon a utile knoll in lhe field and returned lhe fire with some spirit this engagement lasted but a short lime a number were killed and wounded on both sides and as if by mutual consent both parties reiiied fv«m the field we look lhe mountain road and commenced again ihe same old trudging up and down lhe mountains expec tin everyday from lopez's prestations to meet with lire patriots ou the seventh day of our tramp in ihe mountains we halted at a ranch about duik for ifre purpose of lakiag sup per and reeling for the night the ni^hl we j spent without molest tlion ; but in the mornitig ! whil-t preparing breakfast we were aliarkerj in front and on our right flank by a body of spanish troop finding ourselves iu a bad scrape we discharged our pieces and retreated up a mountain ihic-kly overgrown with lhe cof lee plant our retreat was covered hy one company which kept up a continual fire on the advancing enemy the hitter kepi up such a hoi fire on us lhat nolhing but the whizzittu of hullels could be heard we speedily aitied the top of the mountain and then such another tumbling down lhe other side never was seen before men horses and their riders all in one promiscuous mass went heller skeller down into the ravine beneath it was not tin lilyour humble servant could gather himself at lhe bottom lhal he could lell whether his feet formed the apex of his perpendi'-ular or his head the spanish iroops did nol pursue us to the bottom ; they contented themselves with plyin us with the contents ofa small howitzer ni"unl ed on lhe back of a mule and several volleys of musketry to the mountains we still clung : wearied and broken down the men commenced throw ing their guns and ammunition away ; ihey wanted lopez to leave ihe island he still pampered ih>*in up wilh lhe idea that there was ' no deceit in him no what he promised he made them believe would actually come lo pass alas ! loo lale they perceived the error of con fiding in his promises ! about four days after this defeat all of us came near being destroyed we were toiling our way lale in lhe evening along a most irksome road when the advance of lhe parly suddenly perceived two sentinels one on each side ofthe road we immediate ly retraced our steps but lhe sentinels gave the alarm and a large parly of spanish iroops at j lacked our rear we retreated quickly down each side ofthe road behind the thick under growth which is so luxuriant around lhe moun tains of this island some of our men were j killed and a few taken prisoners from ibis defeat lhe men became separated ; some went one way some another nol over sis men were together in any one parly and in many cases lhe men singly trudged their way over the mountains for my part 1 tramped many a long and weary day beneath a broiling sun with nought but guavas and mangoes for mv daily food the day of this defeat was the last thai lopez and his men ever saw each olh j er he was captured shortly after brought lo this city and nothing now remains bul the rec ollections of his notorious deeds not one virtue lo link wilh his thousand crimes there are now in the prison in this city one hundred and fifty-eight men belonging lo the late expedition all remaining of lhe four hun dred which lefl new orleans a little over a ' month ago they are treated well and are i generally in lhe enjoyment of very good health and are in good spirits it may be lhal a few more men are still left in lhe mountains though the number cannot exceed two or three i will write to you again if any thing of in ] teres transpires the lale spanish consul at new orleans yesterday paid a visit lo the pris oners i understand lhat he gave some words of encouragement to the piisoners i am sorry thai difficulties in new orleans were the cause ofhisariivai here and hope thai tbe entente cordiale has already been restored yours respectfully c n h or well monetary em b a ml ass m e x t . great efforts are being made by demo cratic and free trade journals to stave off from the public mind the suspicions and alarms which the present financial crisis is very naturally exciting their darling object is to screen the tariff a gainst implication in the matter and in order to do this with all the ingenuif and plausibility they can a variety of causes are assigned by them for the commercial difficulties which are beginning to cast their dark shadows over the general bu siness of the country when after a long period of activity and bouyancy trade becomes suddenly depressed and disturb ed at a great point like new york there must be some radical defect or error in the general system upon which it is con ducted it is not our purpose even if we had the ability to investigate the subject with a view to trace step by step to its source the panic which is prevailing and extending in the money market at the north we admit lhat she rage for gam bling in stocks and for speculating gener ally may have had some agency in pro ducing it but the true solution in our judgment will be mainly found in the workings of the present tariff by the rates of which the looms and forges of eu rope are enabled to come into triumphant and ruinous competition with our own manufactures there is difference in for eign exchange against us so great that nothing but coin can be shipped to meet our responsibilities across the water al ready upwards of thirty millions of gold has been exported and tbe process is still oing on without any abatement tbe free trade papers are evidently getting uneasy at tbe prospect and are striving with all their might to tranquilize the people and to uphold the tariff they bave been telling us for weeks back as they tell us now that our importations have reached their maximum and that they are gelling smaller that our ship ments of coin have also reached a point bevond which they will not go but from which they would"gradually lessen but all such assurances have been intended only for effect these journals have so mercilessly humbugged the people with their doctrines and their notions that we have no kind of faith in any of their repre sentations or arguments they are ex tremely adroit in tbe use of figures and statistics which they manage so to ar 1 range as to bewilder and perplex the minds of the uninitiated so that iheir ta bular exposition accompanied bv smooth ly worded and seemingly fair maxims and inferences look pretty well upon paper ; but we haverarelv seen any of these max ims practically verified to ihe public ad vantages one of these journals of which we speak the new york evening post in its restless anxiety to cover op be mis chiefs of the free trade system and to prevent its readers as far as possible com thinking properly upon the subject on which it discourses thus notices he im mense specie exportations from the uni led states : " that america is not greatly indebtted to england is confirmed by evidence from another source notwithstanding the large exportation of gold to liverpool it appears that the stock of bullion in the bank of england has not increased but is rather diminishing we have not said that america was heavily indebted lo england alone but that she was involved in heavy foreign responsibilities which in consequence of over-importations and the consequently unfavorable rate of exchange she had to meet with coin what signifies to us under the circumstances whether the gold stops in england or is sent thence imme diately to tbe continent ? it is gone clean out of our own hands and as we cannot keep it it is we think of no great impor tance who gets if provided it pays pro unto the debts to which it is appropriated we are wholly unable to see any conso lation in the circumstances mentioned by the post relative to the bank of england on tbe contrary we see cause for addi tional disquietude ; for if tbe vaults of that institution are weakened trouble in the english money maiket must come '■and if so its effects will be additionally injurious to the united states — pit int the cub ax bonds the intelligencer publishes a copy of one of the bonds which were issued to as sist in carrying into effect tbe late cuban expedition here it is says that paper word and letter : 82.000 xo . be it known to all men that i gen eral narciso loi'ez chief of the -* patri otic junta for the promotion of the politi cal interests of cuba established in the united states of xorth america and the contemplated head of provisional gov ernment and commander-in-chief of the revolutionary movement about to be now undertaken through my agency and per missive authority for the liberation of the people of cuba from the tyranny and op pression to which they are now subject by the power of spain and to be prose cuted by me till superseded by a superior executive officer or such form of gov ernment and authority as the people by their free will and choice shall prescribe do by these presents to subserve the cause and object aforesaid make and execute this obligation on behalf of the people of cuba by whatever designation of nation ality or form of body politic they shall hereafter assume to wit : i do by these presents for and on be half of the said people ot cuba and their succesors in government favor and for value received promise to pay to . or bearer in equal annual instalments at one two three four and five years the sum of two thousand dollars with six per cent interest from date payalde rateably on each annual instalment and both prin cipal and interest be fully paid and dis charged and i the said general nar ciso lopez in virtue of the authority and for tbe promotion of the object aforesaid do by these presents pledge to the said . or bearer the public lands and public property of cuba of whatever kind and the fiscal resources ofthe people and government of culm in perpetuity for the faithful and complete discharge of this obligation in testimony whereof i the said gen eral xarciso lopez do here affix mv sig nature and seal ol the said provisional government which is further witnessed bv ambrosio gonzales and jose mnria sanchez yznaga members of said " pat riotic junta and the hon cotesworth picknev smith judge of the supr.-me court of errors and appeals ol the state of mississippi this done and executed in the city of x*-w orleans and state of louisiana one of the united states of xorih america on this 30tb day of april a d 1s50 narciso lopez j sakchez v/.v g \. ambrozio jijhi goxzales s2.0u0 c p smith at the head of this bond says the in telligencer is a handsome cut of a >'•...' id or coat of arms in one division ot ibe field of which by tbe way is a palmetto and stars signify ing we know not what surmounted by a liberty cap and garnish ed on both sides with hags of different kinds cannon trumpets drum swords c ; and at the bottom is an impression of a seal with he legend " gobierno pro visional the syracuse km>t and fugi tive rescue we published in our last a telegraphic announcement of a serious riot at syra cuse x y resulting in the rescue of a fugitive slave named jerry from the cus tody of the united slates commission er after he bad been remanded to the possession of bis master p j layer of missouri the syracuse star of the 3d instant however contains additional facts in relation fo the outrage from which we m ike the following extracts : — ral reg that the city of syracuse was disgrac ed on wednesday by the occurrence of a rior during which the authorises were paralysed or n fused to per far in tin ir duty is by ibis time a matter of notoriety in every state and every city in the union i'iie lact no one but a traitor or knave will have the hardihood to deny for the outlines of tbe affair we must refer to our paper of thursday in that report we find nothing requires alteration these outlines we now propose t-j till up lo render the picture of their infamy more complete who occupying a respectable station in society incitedsby the basest means a horde of ruffians to desecrate the temple of justice and to violate a law of the u states the riot commenced in the commission er's office in tbe second story of the town send block lhe principal instigators of ir were two pbysians and a clergyman of this city the fugitive was seized by a negro carman of this city the fugitive was recaptured and con signed to the police ofiice then flic ab olitionists renewed ihe excitement and their orators by inflammatory appeals to the crowd which collected in front ofthe olfice strove by every means in their pow er fo incite them lo m assault upon the marshal and his assistants this disgraceful state ot affairs contin ued from 3 p m tiil fhe rescue of the fu gitive at 8 a m.and all ihis while the mayor made no attempt to disperse the mob or to restore oub-r and obedience to the laws further than to ask the rioters individually to go home ! he never ad dressed the mob never read the riot act — never i.i a word exercised so much authority as an efficient magistrate would have done in the case of aft ordinary af fray among two or ibree persons the sheriff being called upon for as sistance by the marshal very promptly requested the commanders of the citi zen's corps the national guards and the washington artillery to order out their companies tbe order was as promptly complied with and tbe companies were assembled at their armories ready for du ty each man being supplied with three rounds of ball cartridge before march ing to the sheriff's ofiice however col o j yandenburgh the commander of the regiment issued his order to the captains of three companies forbidding them to turn out ! he did this at the solicitation of charles a wheaton and other leading abolitionists and in accordance with bis own personal prejudices — since he was heard to express a desire that the law should not be executed and bis own de termination to do ill in his power to pre vent its execution having received an order from their colonel to disband the commanders of the companies had no alternative but to obey and the troops were accordingly dismissed when it became known lo the mob that the troops were dismissed they renewed their menaces against the officers and the black and white scoundrels who address ed ihem redoubled their exertions to in flame them to the point requisite for the accomplishment of their infernal purpose the police office in which the commis sioner was then holding his examination of the case was assailed with stones and the windows broken until it became im possible to proceed with tbe case all hour and a half after the adjournment tbe doors were forced in and the fugitive rescued col vandenburgh's conduct in this af fair is aggravated by the lact that after the final escape of the fugitive he issued an order for the citizen's corps to turn out immediately — thus virtually acknow ledging by his own hand w hen too late that he hnd been guilt ot an unjustifia ble act in previously countermanding the order of the sheriff several prominent citizens of syracuse were engaged in the riot and have there lore rendered themselves amenable to the law the mob was compose 1 chiefly of white men and was swelled by tbe strai gi ra in ihecity.it being the day of the county fair and an abolition convention the lat ter of which was on band lor a lull dele gation of law breakers the plan r.il — the tor put of thi we.-k we ii i n the plank road fa iwo mi lea tin r-ii ol ashboro . the messrs vvorib — who il i recollected no der look lhe c ntracl from < . _ ■. in moore county in jonnsonville in randolph — bare been pushing lhe enterprise with great rapidi ty ti planks •'• w un der si i i '" within seven miles to iiboro ; 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