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THE CUBAN EXPLDITJO.V
I ,
From tho Now Orle.vnj‘'Tru ' 1) Ita” jjj|jteikbetP3.
We have devoted considerable space in
our columns this morning to the detailed
narrative of Lieut. Van- ViciiTjsx',.nnd a lot-,
ter from Mr. 0. N. IIouweli,', lately -attach-'
ed to our office, in relation lit the °x-
pcdilion, of .which they funned n pint.
It will he seen that, those accounts agtec
in all their impQ^nnrtlcul&r.s With-nil those
which.o»tb' heretofore-appeared from the un-
r-ftfTInnate advonturors, and corroborate all
that we wrote, before llie sailing of the Fnm-
peto, dissuasivp fi-omjqiibar.kalqm in the nf-
fairj.and.jf Hie untrutlifuliteas of tho stute-
inents.oflialtlpa won, defeats of lira royal
troops, capture ofari.ilery, prisoners taken*
and other monstrous .aifrid.it ions that were
dailv
We by. the soi ; disint Cut an
organs Jo delude the young,.-inflame the cx .....
citable, and deceive the public, niQrely ■ that tinned stfenm of bullets. "We soon felt con-
a eaht ofheartless dealers in scrim nihrht viiiced that the yard was no place for us;
.[gang of heart less dealers in script might
get rich by n traffic in the blood of an enlltu-
siastic. but deluded lipdy of yuung men.
We have before us it letter from a young
mtin of the third municipality, dated in the
prison at Havana, yvliich, if the,editors ofpa-
S ers like the New York Sun, .Savannah
r ewa, and kindred concerns here, have souls
in their bodies, ought., to make them weep
many hitler tears. Jlc is but sixteen or
seventeen years of age, n mere hoy, and was
deluded otrfrom the fumily where his fulltor
had pfuced him for the summer, until ho re
turnedfrom the North, by promises that if
he went to Cuba he would loan return with
fine thousand tlolluis 11 is min e is Josai’tt
B. GuNsr,,lhc son of a very w orthy man,
whose distress at this terrible valiunity par
ents can easily picture Jo il-cniscRes.
Other letters from prisoners are also in our
possession, but, ns we hare. made it a role
to exclude those implicating parties hero ivhu
cannot ho confronted with, tho persons pre
ferring the charge we omit them.
One fea'urc in all tl\e correspondence of
tlie unforluuatq dupes of the script-dealers
and their miserable newspaper uliies is
worthy of particular no-.ice ; that is, their
Uniform ’recognition of the justice of their
punishment by tho Spanish authorities ;• in
t|lis respect differing gioatly in their opinion
from a portion of the press, of this country,
wlilcli la but a (u m«»vo dial a lerj*ib!p. WTOD#
has been done them, to wipe out remetn-
branco of which n war with Spain appears to
be their only icsourco. To us it looks very
ranch as if the intention of these nowspuper
statesmen is to prolung .indefinitely, for sumo
base or factious propose, the detention of our
unfortunate countrymen ; apparently deter
mined rather on a course that wifi create
obstacles in tho way of oar enlargement than
to facilitate tlioir delivery, which eyei)’ good
citjzon whatever may he Ins opinion of their
original error, cannot but anxiously desire.
We have no doubt of the correctness and
anxiety,of llie President to otlect the roturu
of the prisoners, now on.lheii why to Spurn ;
and wo aro.very sure his solicitude to accom
plish the humane and gonemus object will
be greatly onhuiiced by the hew proofs overy
day furnishod uf the wicked .deceptions prac
tised upon those too confiding and over-en
thusiastic men. All our endoiivors should
now be employed in accomplishing, their re
turn to lhnr homes.
Havana, Sept. 4, 1851.
Having promisod to favor you for if• may
be to trouble you) with nnorlior letter, ac
quainting yf>u with Ike wliembouls, particu
lars, fkc. in t-ipnrd to the bile furry upon one,
of the possessions'ot her Spanish' Majesty; T
will proceed to particularize ns 'laconically
ns possible tlje facts as they occurred from
the moment wo landed until ottr delivery in
to'the hands of the Cuban authorities.
Our point of debarkation was at Murillo
We Inndcd (near four hundred of ns) about
bpdnight, and Without ' 'opposition, save the
firing of a single musket upon the first boat
which landed her troops. At’ .\|nrillo three
companies wore left for tivo. days, number
ing about one hundred, or oiio Itundrqd and
ten mon; they' formed the rear guard to pro
tect the bnggiigc train. About two .hundred
and eighty or ninety map proceeded the same
night oflanding to Los Posas, tinder the com
mand of Gen. Lopez. Thislullcr party reached
Los Posas, and remained, there noirr two
days," The morning of iljo second day they
lyero attacked by a Spanish force of icgutnr
troops,which tho Americans resisted with
§ reat vigor, Tho fighting, continued with
oublfui issue for several hours; dm number
of killed and wounded was considerable uii
both sides; the expel number I cannot slate.
We lost a largo number of our best and bra
vest men. Among ibe number I may men
tion Col. Downmun killed;.Cnpt. .Gonfi mor
tally wouodoJ; Capt, Briglumi wounded and
believed since dead; Lieut. Labuzan . killed,
and several of Lopez’: aids wounded and not
since been beard of. Having no transporta
tion, it became imperious on Lopez to leave
the wounded who could not follow behind ;
this accounts (or my ignorance of the fate of
the men rcndeied useless. 1 might here re
mark, was such a thing ever heard of in the
panels of any thing pretending to generalship
as to leave the disabled of an army to take
care of themselves ? You must judge what
the thoughts ol the men must have been at
seeing their brother companions left neglect
ed behind, and the same fate probably await
ed them The Spanish iroopx finally retired
In good order, and Lopez, hetwoeq 11 ami
12 o’clock at nigiit, evacuated tho place, mid
retired through the pass up.o tlie bosom of
the mountains.
Euidy on the morning of the day Lopez
wus attacked tho men left at Murillo started
with the baggage train, consisting of two
wagons, drawn by four oxen each", for Los
Posas. The escort was uuiler the command
of Crittenden—the companies respectively
under the command of Capts Kelly, Sauii-
ilersi and Victor Ker. We (ravelled at the
iraiedf about a mile.au hour—every hundred
yards tfieoxeu rufudug to draiv, am! the
Americans expending' a great many oaths
and-.ueejess blows from the huts of.thair tnus-
Jcols'ypon their stupid backs. Well, by d nl
of a good*deal of sweating and many hard
blowaj'aud'the’lliiowing froui (lie wagons a
large quantity of dead weight, in .the shape
attacked. The men,' one and all, immediate-1 ted on the back pf a mule, and several valleys
ly jumped to their nriqs, and ran whooping of muskotry. ' JN
nato tho assistance of To the mountains yvo Still clung; wearied
and broken down the men commenced throw
ing tljvir guns-and hmmunlliim away; .they
wanted Lopez to leave the ishmd.- lie still
pampered them,tip" with the idea that' there
was no deceit in him; no,.what ho promised
lie .mule them believe would actually come
to'pass. Alas! too lute they perceived the
error of confiding in his promise,! About
four days after this defeat all of us canieijear
being destroyed. Wo were toiling out* ivay.
late in -the evenjng along a most irksome
road, when the advance uf the party sudden
ly perceived two sentinels, one on each 'side
of tho rond. Wo immediately retraced our
steps, hut the sentinels gave tho alarm, and
b large party oi Spanish troops attacked our
tear. We ro'lrouttd quickly down each side
o| tho road, behind the thick undergrowth
which is so luxuriant around the mountains
oflhis island. Some of our men wore killed,
and a few taken prisoners. From this defeat
tho men became separated; some wont ono
why, some another. Not over six moil were
tugollicrin any one party, nnd in ninny cases
lira mon singly trudged their way ovir tho
mountains. Fur my part I tramped ninny rt
long mid weary day, beneath a brpilllw sun,
with nought but guavas mid mangoes for my
daily food, Tho day of this defeat was tho
last that Lopez and his men over saw- each
other, lie was captured shortly after,
mg up the road to tho assistance of
v The cotnjinny under tldslatler captain'
were attacked whilst lelVeshiiigV.themsolycs
in tho tavern, but quickly jumpjed to v here
tlieir nuiskotS ivero slacked and returned'the'
fire from tho chaparral. The Tiring train
both sides ivns very animated; from'every
hush there appeared to pour out a blazo of
lire. The Spaniards held their position well,
though charged by the whole of our force
several successive times. They finally, how
ever, gave up the chaparral, to reinforce- a
parly on utt eiilinenro about one quurlcr of a
mile from us. Tho parly which attacked us
/Voio H;q chaparral was believed to have
been the Hanking parly of tho detachment on
Hie hill, flaying formed themselves upon
the,hill, they poured into!the tavern yard, in
winch |IV0 liuii,draivn-up ourselves, n con
as Crittenden ordered two companies to fol
low him—the remaining one to stay behind
the pickets and keep his rear open. For one
hour tlint company remained in the pickets,
its men l>c : ng struck down hero and there by
the bullets which poured in upon them. At
the expiration of this time—noi seeing any
thing effected by Crittenden’s liiovomohl to
wards tho enomy, and fearful of being sur
rounded ever$- moment—the men concluded
to retreat to n body ot woods six or seven
miles distant. Alter marching all tho evening
in. the woods, wo procured n guido and
reached Los I’osns about II o’clock, joined
Lopez, and immediately took up tho line of
innich over tho mountains.. Crittenden must
have encounto'od tlie force on tho lull, mid
coming hack, not finding us, continued his
nirjicb buck to Murillo, where, I have since
nsoeriniubd, he seized one of four vessels
which were lying there, nnd put to son, evi
dently with the intention of reaching Ameri
ca again ; hut was captured by a Spanish
nian-ol-war and brought into the port of
Havana, -wBore himself and men, us you
Imvo heard, paid the penalty of death
Lopez consumed the most of the lime he
reomfood iu the mountains in traversing those
the least travelled, exhausting thestrchgtli of
hid men in tho endeavor of loachfu.g the pa
Hints, whom lie said numbered four thousand
strong. Neurl)' every day lie would assure
the men that ere nightfiill we would join the
patriots. Poor, misguided men! how plainly
you who nro alive now perceive tho delusion!
the cheut! ibe base fraud/ Patriots, ’tin true,
there are in Cuba, hut they are patriots to the
cause of Cuba us it now exists. Where are
all411080 towns that revolutionized in favor
of a government more republican ? 1 do not
holieVe- a single town in Cuba ever attemp
ted a revolution. It is my conviction that
the petty clique in New Orleans, whoso ex
istence dopended upon the exallalior of Cu
ban bonds, felt that tlie precipice oror which
they must shortly fall must he avoided by
some desperate scliemo, and henco thesecond
nburtivo attempt to create sympathy in favor
of Cuban patriots struggling for liberty!—
When I reflect on the proceeding of the Ar
cade. Meeting, wlieio the Declaration of
Independence of the Island of Cuba wns road
before a largo multitude, and gulped down
by about half of them as having actually
come from the patriots of Ilia Island of Cuba;
when I turn hack nnd think of tho prominenuu
of (lie men in this expedition, who noted tho
some deceitful part in tho other, nnd then
look mid see things as thoy nctunlly are—
peace, plenty, nnd quiet througnout tlie is
land, the iiiusse. devoted to the Government,
and individually contented with their sucred
homes, where ploiititude is heaped up uruund
thom uiid want is a stranger—1 bile my lips
with anger to think that these men cannot
ho mode to soOer as those deluded young
mon have, who left their homes from the
purest .motives, to find themselves the fol
lowers of a traitor, deceived by their own
countrymen to retrieve his desperate fortunes,
if there is any ono who wishes to he convinc
ed of the happy and contonted state of tho
island, let him hut come and see for himself;
in all his travels his purse-string will rarely
have to be undrawn; the Cobnn, .whose heart
is as libera! ns l.is store-house, will meet his
overy necessity—he has nothing to do hut
come and behold.
To continue my narrative, which I will
now shortly bring to a close. We had been
in the mountains about three days, when, on
tho morning of tho third day, ive made the
Lopez estate. The farm itself is a most
magnificent onp. It once Jbelonged to the
Lopez family, but was confiscated by reason
of his treachery to the Queen of Spain.—
We were preparing ourselvos to dine, when
we were suddenly charged down upon by a
body of ahoiit fifty or sixty horsemen,Whom
iVe repulsed, with a slight loss on their side.
But their object, it was evident, wus not to
nebiove aiiy other advantago than to cause Us
to full back, where a largo body of lancers
awaited this moycniet on our part. This we
did not do; hut, iniinedintely on the repulse
fit the horsemen, we shouldered arms, left
our unfinished dinners, and march over iitjo
a large open field, bordered on one-side by a
thick aim bushy wood. Before we had
quite rcaclicJ the margin of this wood
a destructive fire was opened upon us. We
collected ns rapidly ns possible upon a little
knoll in the field, niftl returned the firo with
-some spirit. This engagement lasted but a
short time. A number were killed and
wounded on hotlvsides: and, ns if by mutual
consent, both parties retired from the field.—
Wc took (lie muunlnin road, a id commenced
again the same old trudging up and down the
mountains, expecting every day, I'tom Lopez'
protestations, to meet with the patriots. On
the seventh day of our tramp in the moun
tains we halted at a ranch about durk,fortlie
purpose ot taking supper and resting for the
■light. The night wo spent without molesta
tion; li'ut in tho morning, whilst preparing
breakfast, we were attacked in front and on
our right flank by a body of,'Spanish troops
Finding oursehesitin had scrape, we dis
charged onr pieces nnd retreated up a moun
tain thickly overgrown with the ci flee plant
One retreat was covered by one company
which kept Up a continual lire on thp advanc-
_ mg enemy. The latter kept up such a hot
of carpet'bags n«d trunks—belonging m those ' ibe on us that nothing but the whizzing of
who expected lq dre<i in patent leather boots bullets could be heard. We speedily gained
and the. Jaiesl Frenpir sivie clojliing—we the top of the mountain, and then such a-
reaehed about ha IT «ur journey, and deter- notlior tumbling down the other side never
mined lo go noTurtl'.tf.’until more oxen could ; was seen before. Men, horses and their
be -proctiled. Willi this determination wp riders, oil in one promiscuous mass, went
halted. wilbfihe.excepjUra o/Kpr’scompany.; "eker-skdler down into the ravine beneath.
• • • ’ l ...•■> n I- ... __ ...... wms.not until yaur humble servant could
gather himself at the bottom that ho could
tpij whether bis leet formed the apex of his
pii wore-iarmistd .tMrMpdicu'tfc or his head. The Spanish
1 •■amis dnj qo(. pursue us to the bottom;
-'--‘’-••.-id Jliemselves . with plying - ; -
lirouglit to this city, nnd nothing now reinnins
but tlie recollection or lift notorious'dihds,
not ono virtue to link with his thousand
crimos.
There are nnw in tho prison in this city
one hundred nnd fifty-eight ulon bolungmg'to
(ho Into expedition, nil remaining bf the four
hundred KvbiMiJeft New Orleans aliitlriover
it month ago They nr.o treated well, and
nro generuolly th the enjoyment of very'good
health, and are in good spirits. It tntiy lie
that a few more men nro still left' in the
mountains, thcugli the number cannot exceed
two or three.
I will Write you ngnin if any thing of in
terest transpires. The Into Spanish Consul
lit New Orleans yesterday paid a visit to the
prisoners. I am sorry that difficulties in
Now Orlcnns were the cause of his arrival
here, and hope that tlie entente cordiale has
utci&dy been restored.—Yours, respectfully,
C. N, HOUWELL.’
From llip Nniioanl Iiilciltgcncor. '
GIVE US EIGHT-
It is \vith a joy too sober for exultation
that we recognise in the state of tho public
mind of this country, sinco the failure uf the
lute criminal enterprise against Cuba, tlie tri
umph of moral principles of reverence for
low, Divine and human; nnd of n just regard
fur the good opinion of the world. Whilst
these elements ura in tno ascendant in the
national character and policy, wo have noth
ing to fear for tho Hopublic A People that
cun muster its own dangerous sympathies,
and even control its good ones, ns this peo
ple has done on the Into occasion oners a no
ble spectacle to the world of a sound inte
grity not incompatible with the freest insti
tutions.
Of ibe prime movers of tho dosperato'en
terprise against Cuba, the greater' nail had
probably no higher aim tlinn their own per-
sunat advancement nnd interest. Some'of
them, doubtless, young nnd inexperienced
persons, w ore seduced and deluded by the
false idea of lending aid to a people strug
gling fur liliorty; hut, after weighing the evi
dence already before the public, ol tempta
tion's held out to tho grosser senses of (lie
adventurers, it cannot now be doubted that
iio'shnill number of them were enticed into
the service more by the prospect of plunder
tlinii by tlie love of liberty.
By wli'nl deceptions the honest hearted nnd
real liberly-lovmg men in the expedition
were induced to abandon their henies, and,
in many instances, their helpless and desti
tute families, to follow the fortunes of mi out
law leader with the view of wresting from
the Government of Spain a great territory—
by (he spoils of which he nt least was to bo
enriched—We have already shown to our
readers, in tlie proclamations and false iniel-
ligence manufactured, for tlie purpose of de
ception, at different and distant places in our
country. The evidence on that subject is
conclusive. But, in regard to the induce
ments held out, our infoiiuntioii has not hith
erto been so particular. We know, howev
er, Trom llio evidence of parties concerned,
that the humblest individuals w)io engaged
in tlie expedition were promised' large sums
in tho event of its success—as mach ns a
thousand dollars each—whilst those of high
er pretensions, who held nominal rank iu tho
invyading force, were, in the sume event, to
become possessors of untold wealth. We
known, also, that much of tho money for tho
actual expenses of both expont—was raised
upon bonds ’('prdffiises ■ tfl pay) issued by
somebody or other; that these bonds have
been bought and sold; that, in oiie case, a
thousand dollars was ndvanced by ah officer
oftlio Expedition, for which lie was to re
ceive ten ihosand, making the piiee of the
bonds to bo ten cents on theploliar; that much
money has been let out upon this gambling
of security ; nnd we have even heard'that nt
the snine'r.ite crops of cotton have hedn ex
changed in Louisiiuih for these bonds; whilst
elsewhere .they hnve been passed ofl'for cash
at ns low riilo as two'uf tlireo centi on tlie
dollar. But vVe have as yet had no definite
information of tlie form of these bonds, the
nature of their stipulations, or the amount nnd
character ol the fund or funds out of which
they nro or were to tie paid.
(Satisfied of tho existence of these bonds
by an accidental publication in the New
Orleans nowspapers of the sale of a small a-
nniupl of them, wc expressed a wish tube en
lightened by tlie publication of 'he form in
which they were issued, that trie I’ublic might
ho enabled to determine,from their face wheth
er they bore the impress of a guilty or an
iqpocent transaction,
Oqr wish has been accomplished. Wc
/flue <jot acoj y of one nf these bonds. Hero
it fs, word am) letter':
.32,0 00
Wo.
Bs rr Known ro Al.t. Men, That I, Gener
al Narciso Lordz, Chief of the “.patriotic
Junta far tlie promotion of the political inter
ests ol Cuba,” established in the United
Stales ot North America, and the cpinem-
plnled head of Provisional' GovernmOtit' and
CiHcnatider-jn-UlneT of the nevoluth'tiar).
’movement, about to be now undertaken
through iny agency ilnd permissive au
thority, tor the liberation of the people
of.Cuba from Ihp'tyrnnny and oppression<tn
whiph’they are now, subject by.tho pp'yer Of
" lain .-'and ihJin-i irnsnr.nted by me lifl suptf-
sucti form of Government and authority as
the people-by their free wifl' and choice shall
prescribe, do,,'6y these ptesents, to subserve
the cause and object afofesnid, make nad
execute this obligation , on behalf of the peo
ple of Cuba, by whatever designation of na
tionality or form of body politic they shall
hereafter assume; to wit :
l db,by these presents, for and on behalf
of the said people ol Cuba, and their suc
cessors in Government forever, and for value
leccivcd, promise to pay to— MV or
bearer, in equal annual instalments at one,
two, tlireo, four, and five .years, tho sum of
Two Thousand Dollars, with six per cent,
ieterest from date, payable ratedbly an each
annual instalment, until both principal and
interest be fully paid and discharged. And
I, the said General Narciso Lopez, in virtue
of the authority and for the promotion of the
object nfore-tuid, do b} these presents (pledge
to tlie said—: , or benrer.'the public
lands nnd public properly of Cuba, ol what
ever kind, nnd the fiscal resources of the
people and Government of Cuba, Irom what
ever source to be derived ; and further
pledge tho good faith of the'people nnd Gov
ernment of Cuba, in perpetuity, for the faith
ful and complete discharge of this obliga
tion.. ■ . - ■
In testimony whereof, I, tho said General
Narciso Lopez, do hereto affix my signature
and sonl ol the said Brovisional Government,
which is further witnessed by Ambrosio Jose
Gonzales nnd Jose Maris Sanchez Yznngn,
inombers of said “ Patriotic Junta,’’ and the
Hon. Coleswortli Pihekney Smith, Judge of
the Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals of
the Slate of Mississippi.
This done and executed in the City of
New Orleans and State of Louisiana,
one of the United States ofNorth Amer
ica,on this30th davof April, A. D. 1850.
NARCISO LOPEZ.
J. Sanciiz Yznaqa,'
Amuiiosio Josh Gonzai.es,
$2,000 C. P. Smith.
At the bend of this Bond is a handsome
cut of a shield or cout-of-arms, (In onn di
vision of the field uf which, by tho way, is a
Palmetto and Stars, signifiing wo know not
\vhu',,> surmounted by a Liberty Cap, nnd
garnished on both sides with flags of differ
ent kinds, cannons, trumpets, drums, swotds,
&c. And nt the bottom is mi impression of
a seal, with tho legend “ Gobicrno Provison-
0/.”
Our readers nnd our contemporaries who
are yot incredulous, or doubling, as t) tho
character of tho Lopez Expeditions, first nnd
last, will ut once porcoivo that this now testi
mony ieives no room for any remaining dis
belief or uncertainty. Ail is now made
clear.
Wo submit this pieco of evidence, without
argument, to tho verdict uf our renders ;
contenting ourselves wdh staling the materi
al points which it appears to us to establish,
iz :
First. That the whole scheme of the Re
volution of Culm originated, und wns execut
ed, so Ihr ns it was carried out before its
sailing, within the United States.
Secondly. That tho 11 Cuban Junta ” with
in tho United States v as not, as we suppos
ed, a fancy term applied to certain Now
York loaders in the conspiracy against the
territory of Spain, hut a fixed fact, and that
Lopez claimed to be acting by their nuthori-
iy-,
Thirdly. That so fnr from any revolution
existing or in progress in Cuba, this docu
ment peremptorily excludessuch conclusion,
by dec.'aring; jn express terms, that “the
revolutionary movement" was “ about to
be now undertaken by his [Lopez’s] agency,"
&c.
Fourthly. That the rcsouuccsout of which
the amount of tins and of all similurbonds
was to lie paid, in the first place, weie the
public lauds and public property in Cuba, of
whatever kind : and ,
Fifthly. That these bonds were to be fur
ther paid in the second place, out of “ the
fiscal resources pf^HE People avd G or em
inent of Cuba, front lyhatever resources de
rived.”
Sixthly That a high Judicial functionary
of one of tlje States of this Union wns, with
Lopez nnd two Members of the “ Patriotic
Junta,party to this bond.
Seventhly. Shat this document establish
es theprecise accuracy oftlio language em
ployed Ity the Prooident of the United Slates,
in the Proclamation of 25th April last, warn
ing all persons ngaiusl connecting themselves
with the unlawful and desperate enterprise
against Culm, wherein he expressed his
belief that this expedition wns “instigated
“ und set on foot by foreigners who dure to
make our shores the scene of their guilty
“ nnd hostile preparations against a friendly
“ Power, and seek by. falsehood and niisre-
“ presentation to seduce our own citizens,
“ especially Hie young and inconsiderate, in
to their wicked schemes ;” and when lie de
nounced such expeditious “ ns ndveutures
for plunder hud rubbery, which must meet
tlie condemnation of the civilized world.”
VVImt mure stupendous scheme of “ plun
der and robbery” wns ever presented to the
eye of the world tlinn tliut wlijch is suetched
out on.the “ bond.” of which the above is an
accurate copy ?
“I'll call Around and Fay,”
What a world of woe is contained in these
few svords to the poor artiznn and mechunic?
" J ’ll cull around nnd pay,” says the rich
many to avoid the trouble oi going to his desk
to got tho necessary funds, and the poor me
chanic is oblige to go home to disappoint bis
workmen nnd all who depend upon him for
their dues. It is an easy matter to work
—tlie only glory in this life is an indepen
dent idea of being able to sustnin yourself by
labor of your own hands, end it inay easily lie
imagined what n crushing force there is in
“I’ll call around nnd pay,’’ to the laboring
maii AVlio.depends upon ihnt pay for subsis
tence, If those who could pay would pay
at once, i t Would place hundreds und Uious
and- in a condition to do likewise, and pie
vent much misery and distress;
Every child at school should be taught
that individual hnppines and uatur..i prosper
ity, depend upon quick payments and rapid
circulation of money. They wxiuld then un
derstand the real virtue.
THE COURIER,
noto the signs of tho times, and triwafa stand ready
to do Ids Whole duty in nrnintalrillfg and defending
our liberal institutions.
J0M1NG,0C1V 17,1851
K N O YVLETsTe D1T 0 K .
“ Should Conqrcss at anq tune exhibit Us
purpose to war upon our property, or withhold
oUrjust constitutional rights, we standrcadylo
vindicate those rights, in the Union as long
as possible, and out of the Union when we are
eft no other alternative.”
A«ENTS roll , £ttB~COVUMEK.
Dan’l Hix, Summerville.
Judge Wooten, Dirt Town.
J. T. Finley, Chattoogaville.
E. R. Sasseen, LaFayette.
(jr^-The suggestion, in the President’s
Proclamation oflast'April, that “ the young
and inconsiderate ‘were especially in danger
‘ of being seduced into the schemes of the
Cgban conspirators,” turned out to be liter
ally true. Of the hundred and sixteen vic
tims, sent prisoners to Spain, fifty-one are as
certained to be Of the age of 22 years and
under; down' to the age of 16 ; and of the
whole number only eighteen'are about, (he
e Of " A *' '
OURSELVES-
Tlie cdllor of this paper will beabsent from hia poat
for a few weeks, on a visit to the lower part of the
Stale.’ Should he see any thing worthy of noting down
the KsdcrB of the Courier Wilt get It.
. Change
In order to give our readers in Cherpkce
Georgia, nnd the adjoining counties ofNorth
Alnlmmn, the very latest news by telegraph,
we purposo hereafter to issue our paper on
Friday, instead of Thursdaymorning as here
tofore. Should this produce any derange
ment ordelny in the reception of the Courier,
our subscribers will please let us know.
Advertisers will <ds° notice this cliungo
“ and govern themselves accordingly.”
Errors and Omissions.
In tho hurry of going to press, several er
rors and omissions occurred in our last issue.
The fact is, everything about our office, in
cluding the types, were so oxhilerated by the
election news, that we ore not at all surpris
ed here and there on. aberration occured.—
Wo also omitted tho necessary credit 1o two
or threo nrticles. '
A ckno wlotgiiiciits.
Those who wero kind enough to send us
election returns.by Telegraph nnd otherwise,
will please receive our thunks. Also, those
who have sent us new subscribers.
Vile Lndiet Fair.
Wo omitted last week to notice tho Fair
of our Baptist Iriends. Wo now tnke plea
sure in saying, that under many disadvanta
geous circumstances, it was very handsomely
gotten up abo quire liberally patronised. AVe
trust it fully mot the designs of its fair pro
jectors.
That Teat,
With n duo regard to the wants of the fra
ternity, it sepins a spacious tent for the es
pecial accommodation of editors hns been el
ected ot Macon by the cornmitteeof arrange
ments. Now were it not. that we hnd so re
cently resumed the tripod, wo would suggest
that our brethren of the quill then and there
hold mi editorial convention. The campaign
is notv ended, and the hatchet ought lorn
season to be buried, and counsel held for the
better promotion of the interests of the Geor
gia Press and the cultivation of a more re-
spectlul and kindly feeling in the corps edi.
torinl- With this hint, tye leave the matter
in the keeping of the quill.
NEW STQBE.
AVc observed the oilier day tliut 1i very rient nail
wett constructed brick store, with a pood rock foun
dation Inis beeif erected near tlie Rail Hand Depot,
by \V. K. Alexander At Co., nnd is now in full
blast ns n regular wbolcsnte estnblislimcut. It tins
indeed, externally nnd internally .quite it cily nnd
business aspect, being well supplied Willi'nhnosl
overy tiling hew und useful. See advertising col
umns.
The Prospect before u»
Never probably ih the history of our . Republic,
have so many great and trying events been pressed
into so brief a space its those which have trans
pired within the Inst short year. The passage of
tho Compromise, tho meeting of tho Georgia nnd
Naslivilto Conventions; tlie glorious decisions of
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and indeed; Willi
the exception of South Carolili a, of the whole South,
upon issues involving tho extinction of the Constp
tution and the Union ; and tho second Grand dem
onstration in our own noblo State, by which the
of her Oo'nveution lit December last, has
boon tmiihaticalhj ratified nnd endorsed ; all these
and oilier ovents have tended to keep tho public
mind, to an unusunl extent/excited. Add to this,
the belligerent attitude ot South Carolina, tlie two
invasions of Cuba, tho public outbreak?! duels, as
sassinations and homicides Ihro'outtho length’ and
breadth of the land, ami who does not see that our
political system lias rapidly passed though an ordeal
welt enleulu.cd to try its very fonhda'.ions. Thanks
to tho Providence cf God and the wisdom of qur
fathers,the American Hopublic still stands—itsbaso
firmly resting upon tlie affections of a groat and
patriotic people, who liuve the intelligence to know
nr.d appreciate; and the spirit to defend and nmin-
tnih their religions and political birth-right
Since the passage ol tho adjustment meusures,
fnhat oism at the North and ultruism nt tho South
liuve evidently been on tlie wuno Tlie groat ma
jority of die American people are willing lo adopt
those measures as u final settlement of our section
af.Smicuities. They are viewed in the light of n
sacred treaty, which cannot nrid should not he inter
rupted Without’pcrillng tlie Union. To consunnnnto
tills great scheme of adjustment, seoad in impor
tance only to the Coiistltiltion itself, old party lines
unit associations wero forgotten, and Clay and Cass,
Webster und Foote, Cobh and Stephons, und nlipst
ol others, north and south, cqimjly devoted to the
Union—men of enlarged views (Old patriotism, far.
getting pnstdifieronnes and struggles, banded to.
.geihcr lo save tlie Government. Without Stale
egotism or otfeusive tirrognnde, we can claim lor
Gcotgia the credit of having done more to save the
Constitution and the Union than any of her worthy
confederates. Amid taunts nnd ducats, and des
pite tlie most powerful appliances, eloquent appeals
artful strntegems, nnd luimbuggory, she has stood
firm and unshaken in her purposo ns tho Rock of
Glhralter.
Although tlie skies, therefore, are nat everywhere
entirely bright, and a few clouds occasionally flit
athwart the pojitjcnl firmnment, wc nevertheless
see much in the prosent manifestations of populn
feeling and sentiment, ut home nnd nbroad, to oonv
fort and encourage us. The prospect of perpetual
Union and harmony among the Statos wliioh 'now
-form ona glorious-and powerful natfpn, jt every day.
beooming more cheering.^ Let every" matt caiefully
MURRAY:
Oer L'nlen friends in Murray hat e Jons even tetter
than wc Inst week reported, Ihstend of two, she his;
as will be seen, given four hundred and thirty four ma
jority for Mr Cobb. Oar young friend of the Dalton
Times seems to have been quite as much astonished at
this result as we were, and indulges In the following
moarufal strain: ,
" She has fooled ns badly—disappointed us in every
thing. - We hnd even gone lo the expense of having
a chicken rooster manufactured—so natural that you
could almost hear him crow—which we intended to
place over a piece of editorial chronicling the defeat
of the Unloii party In this county. . Bat poor Rooster
cannot' appear before the public with very good
grace with four hundred and thirty foor majority for
Cobb, eliciting to his toil, so we hove jost put Up the'
Bird to roost hoping he may yet hate an opportunity'
to crow at some futnre day.”
We trust onr friend's yoang bird may never have'
an opportunity to leave its quiet rookt. Should it eveti'
oraw in *■ future," It will not be in the " day,” bat ltd
some dark and' tempestuous night, and prove the omsrf
of a nation's overthrow.
ANOTHER CONVENTION.
This, it would Bejm is the age of conventions, ond‘
what is also worthy of remark, Is the fuel, that same
half a score of them have concluded to bo either the
■invited or uninvited, gueats of the Slate Fair at MacDrt,
to be held the last of this month' And as if the wor
thy people of that hospitable city wero not already in
danger of too many of these good things at once, the
Journal Sr Messenger proposeseven another convoca
tion—a " Commercial Convention.”. Were it not
that we hove an eye to that splendid .editorial tent,
we should hardly dare make a descent upon Macon nt
such a time. < ■
But seriously, aside from the primary design of the-
occasion, ws know of no interest more important to be
considered nndfostered than that of commerce—Sou--
them Commerce. Thi* would do much to secure Sou
thern Independence, and by dlrvorslfylng the chsnttels-
ofcapitnl nnd labor, prevent any one branch of South
ern Industry ftom being so.hrgely and ruinously overt
taxed. Wo hove before remarked that we hive ni
objection to cotton conventions—but nil their reports
and resolutions, be .they ever so luminous and promis
ing,cun do nothing, absolutely nothing, to appreciate
permanently, tlie price of this great staple of the South,
or guard it against midden revulsions. The cotton
growth und cotton culture must not be viewed os an
Interest or pursuit, alien ,to,but interwoven with that
of commerce und donicstio manufactures' Cotton Is a
great demon! of. Southern prosperity and Inde
pendence, but it should not. be an Isdisted one. To
bacco, rice, sugnr, grains, and Indeed nil the produc
tions ;nf earth should be made to flil their appropriate
place in the fields of the South, andjtaur into hersunny
Inp tlie demeMs of,wealth and happiness. Her di
versified nmniilu jtorirs—her. flootlpg ships in every
clinic, should nt 6nce open tiew channels for the home
investment of iter cnpitnl and the home consumption
of her produeis. If instead of hoarding up her Cotton
on bqrruwed capital,, as some of our worthy Florida
friends propose, she would spin it tip at our own doors,
and then send her yarnsjo Europo In her own vessels,
nnd iu return bring bnck sucharlicresaswecouldnotpro
fifthly make ourselves,the South would at once by this
diversion of capital nnd employment, receive a health
ful impulse of a permanent character; Bet we have
Idea, that special conventions or speelal legislation
for the promotion of the cotton orsnyolher isolated in
terest will do much good.The world can live without oar-
cotton, and unless we are cautious in attempting by
artificial means to stimulate the prico too. much, ws
may drive Europe more largely to experiment in its.
growth In her own colonies and'ln Africa and eleo-
where: and also substitute for it, flax and wool. We
favor, therefore, the suggestion of our Mnooh cotempo-
rnry, fur a Commercial Convention.
Kail Rood Connection.
We observe.by th.e Macon pnpera that n junct
has been effected-between tho Central and South-*
tern Rail llonds, ami that.cars now pass through f
Savannah to Oglethorpe wilhoutdctcntlon.und I
without trpiispliipmem. This.is a very desir
arrangement. The Afessciiger nlsp thinks that a
ncetipo will be formed between the Central s'nd |l
Macon and Western Roads in time to meet tbs Cb
rokee, Alabntnn,and Tennessee Winter trade,and t
vel. This arrangement carried out in thVspirit of
ernlity, with n proper reduction uf freights,, promp
tudu ill transportation, nnd placed under tho dircetlosr ;
ofcareful and courteous ngentsand conductors, cam
foil to muke Sa vannah nnd Macon large provision <
poth; oml tidd greatly to their already growing'pf
perky. Indeed, wc hope aocn to ace cars- arrive at
Rome direct from Augusta, Savannah and Macon; ft
after a brief pause in our city for refreshments, dash
down to Jacksonville, thence to Selma,thence to."*
bile; there ipect passengers and freights ’direct i
China, via San Francisco, and get back in time to fur- I
nish outgRomnn matrons will: a drawing Ot black tea <
for early supper, fresh from celestial gardens. This'
will be the route. It will be several hundred miles '
nearer than the Memphis route, and wo doubt not bq 1
greatly preferred by both the ” celesliola,” and terres/
trials.
Wnebiitston Editor*, f
.'To (hose pf us who are merely ($1$
on in Vienna,” it is quite amusing to wits
the political quarrels of the Metrop
Press. “ The Washington Unfoh*’conti
warmly that the Compromise is the-1
sive property of the democracy of thp w
Uniou, and is tp form its platform in the i
Presidential canvass; whilst the '“’Rep
declares that it belongs to whigs, and .
democrats, especially Southern democr
are generally opposed to it. With dne respq |
we would inform those very reputa
that they are both in error upon I
Thero nro found in the secession ranks ([“
whigs nr.d democrats, with their presse
harmonize—whilst on the. other-hand j
have in the Union ranks almost an.
number of .leading men from thetwo olt
itical parties. Although there are undq|
edly some very able and clever dptr
who are secessionists, wo ncVcrtheles
wc have in the Union ranks the' ere
Southern democracy. The Repul
tnken in saying that no democratic
ported Mr. Cobb. Some .four or fitf
ported him, nqd about as many,old,
pers opposed him. Thenpproachiif
Inture will also lib composed of ne
equal uumber of old whigs and de
The truth’is, old names and ■tts'toj
ganizatioiis were lost sight of; and
democrats have united in spyif -
Vye feel rthttt ’this- stale ‘
parties ,in and out (