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ssoiitson that on the invasion of Lopez , the Creoles showed \ *> ooo « ioo « ition to assist the Americans , but rather where the . Jjwe ^ W any Revest at all m the matter , desired to seethe aaeriueric an invaders drrven hack . From this it has lQen eon-Ludedtded that the Creoles are quite satisfied with their present [ elevens . There could he no greater mistake . In spite of the kk ( k of the Americans about treedom and independence , th » aaiidauders know full well that to exchange the barbarous nride itbetlie Spaniards for the cruel greed of the slave-holders of the . imthutliern states of the American Union , would be somewhat i u nivalent to haying from the fryingpan into the fire . The ; ; T edv p irates of our southern states , instead of freeinc- Cuba
e 33 in sin its Spanish masters , arc , of all others , the verv men who »» iiu most towards the conservation of that rule ; inasmuch as by vvnUrni ; the authorities in a continual tear of invasion , a lar < i - ' . iie . ied force is continually upon the alert . If it were not s ° o ih < the Spaniards were allowed to give way to their natural in [) t ) lei 7 lenc . 2 , the islanders themselves would have a good chance of irerrer powering them , and establishing their indenendence . Let ne < ie central government keep off the greedy men of the South , -itMth their p irate knights of the ' * order of the Lone Star , " and vab'uba may , hay will , gam her independence of Spanish onpresso' -s nuhul southern slave-holders .
E During the last few days , various parts of the country have iisctecn visited hy fearfull y destructive storms . A tremendous itoitorm occurred at Mobile on Wednesday and Thursday ^ by ; stahieh many lives were lost , and an immense amount of pro-• Mjwjrty destroyed . The dwellingliouse of the lighthouse keepers In in Choctaw Point was carried away hy the flood , and five n ) e » er sons who were in it at the time were drowned . From many kbther places accounts have reached here of very destructive I stestorais . Nor did this city escape . On Saturday night wc were virisited bya terrible storm of wind and rain . ' The rain came dodown in perfect torrents . The greater part of th- > city was MoocM , but no fatalities , to my knowledge , have occurred . A lalarsre amount of property has , however , been destroyed .
The report of the massacre of Captain Marey and his comiminions has , fortunately , turned out to be unfounded . The ' '• Fort Smith Herald' of August 14 th , says : "We had the p leasure on Wednesday morning of taking by the hand our r respected friend , Capt . Marey , and also his companions , Cant . 2 31 'Ctelland , Engineer , and Dr . G . G . Shumard , Snrseon / of i this place , and Mr . Suydavn , of Kew York . We have seldom < seen healthier and better looking men , and were it not for their 1 1 on * : beards and sunburnt countenances , we should not suspect
them for the last three montns living upon the plains , eating nnd sleeping in the open air . ^ We learn from conversation with these gentlemen , that there has not been the loss of a man , horse , mule , or ox since the expedition left . All the . men are well , and the animals all fat , and in far better condition than when they left . They met with no Camanehes in their travels , aud hut lew Indians of any other tribe . Capt . Marey has explored the whole region of country to the head waters of Red raver . "
About ten o ' clock on Sunday morning a fierce battle with kicks and stones , & c \ , took place heiween two engine companies who had been called out on a false alarm of fire . The fight continued for a long time , a large crowd taking part in the disgraceful scene . The police at length succeeded in quelling the disturbance hy etrresting a number of the principal belligerents .
1 have received the San Francesco journals to July Gist . On the oOtk the Sheriff of Contra Costa County was shot by a man named Hardy , whom , he had proceeded to eject from a piece of property to winch it had been decided he was not legally entitled . It is reported that the Indians , to the lumber of two thousand , are to hold a grand council shortly , at the head waters of the & in Joacpiin , with a view , it is feared , to unite against the white settlers .
A movement is on foot to make Lower California an independent state . The * San Diego Herald of the 22 d has it from reliable authority , that active preparations arc on foot to proclaim the independence of the peninsula territory , and hoist the '' Bear flag / ' Don Manuel Castro , a native of Monterey , and late an officer in the Mexican army , it is said , has been silently engaged of late in enlisting men in this and the County of Los AngeJos , to proceed ito Lower California and proclaim the
independence of that territory Rumour has it , that he has been quite successful , and that his followers are now daily making their way over the line in small parties , intending to unite at some given point , and march upon St . Thomas and La Paz . Segrete , the head of the Mexican authorities in that country , is represented as a timid man , incapable of resisting a well organized effort . His family have taken refuge in our city from the impending storm . Castro is of the opinion that the few Mexican troops in garrison at Santo Thomas , and La Paz , will join
"is standard as soon as he unfurls it . By ihe last accounts from South America , I learn that praiza has assumed absolute power , and dissolved the Legislative Chambers . Some resistance was made , but it was soon gelled . It seems the fate of the people of Buenos Ayres to he uie prev of one bandit after another .
CUBA . % the arrival of the United States mail steam-ship Atlantic , tfe hare advices . from Havannah to the 29 th ult . The Government authorities had succeeded in seizing the If sss of the paper called the Voice of the People , ' and arrested Tae publishers and sent them to prison . X * n « , l _<•_ ... _ . _ _•» M _ JL „ , 7 7 ,-. ^ Ml-, n -i -. l-f 7 lAVl fl . lG A ambers of dailarrested the authorities
persons were y by ami sent to prison , which caused great excitement . i pon ^ information of the French Creole the authorities d espatched a force of 50 cavalry to a cafe , and surprised a party « -U 0 persons engaged in making ammunition and bail carlI 1 { i 3 Ps . On the 23 d the police surmised a number of persons W 1 ? aged in printing the fourth number of the ' Voz del Pueblo ;' JM it was rcDorted that thev were to he srarotfed on the 1 st of ^ pteuuW
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^ ELKiiors Equality is Ireland—At a meeting of Irish £ ) *« sentative s and others , held on the 10 th insfc . at the ^ ""nb erland Hotel , to consider what steps should be taken , ^ J « ms to the meeting of parliament , on the questions , l >;> ous equality and " the established church , the following
Ra tion was adopted : " That a committee be now appointed Cn £° S ?* , ith t ] ie friends of reHgioas cqnnliry in Ireland and C ( Jd . ntai » « in order to come to a safe and well-considered 4 i : < m as * ° ^ c manner in which the question affecting thi s Ser prmei le shall be treated in the next session of parliasiiebV aiUl tQ 1 - P ° rt thereon to a conference , to be summoned at u "me and place as the committee shall determine . " The
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committee was accordingly appointed , embracing a Ions- list of larne . ^ and its first meetin g was held next day , when it was aetermmetl that the conference should be held in Dublin on the . " . J 11 oi 7 October and that in the meantime a report should be piepareci by the committee , and a circular sent to the leadinomends oi religious equality throughout the kingdom , to elicit opinion on the subject . ' ' ' 11
Proclamation ' ov Tivei : agh . —A proclamation lias been x boclamatiox ' of Tivei : agh . —A proclamation lias been j s & ued by the Lord Lieutenant in council , niacin «• the barony of Th "eragh , in the county of Sligo , under the mvvisions of the Crhi * e and Outrage Act . This has been done in compliance with . a request signed hy sixteen of the local magistracy , who met tc ' take steps for putting down the spirit of ajrrarian outrage w hich prevailed among the peasantry .
Mb . i ^ ELiiEGE .- —The statement that Mr . Delmege , of Sixmile-bric -go notoriety , had heen obliged to seek for labourers in another c ounty to do his harvest work , has been contradicted . Wreck ? f an Ukksows- Vessel . —A large ship , waterlogged , was recenti ' y observed off the island of Inniskea , near the coast of Erris , co > ' -nty Mayo , and was towed in by the islanders . Her masts were gone by the board j she was timber laden , and had been so long . at sea that all trace of her name was gone ; she has , therefore '» been taken possession of on behalf of the Admiralty , ant I the timber , consisting of black birch and deals , is now being la nded at the quay of Westport .
The Late \ iuiideks . —A correspondent of the Evening Mail , writing froj m Cloniuel on Sunday evening , Hays : "I am happy to inform y 0 l 1 that the police here and iii the county of Waterford have si icpeeded in arresting eight persons for the atrocious murder o f ourjesteemed townsman , the late O'Callaghan ityan , Esq ., ai , id have lodged them safely in our county gaol . An investiga tion will take place to-morrow in our Courthouse . It has been rumoured that some of these fellows were arrested on the Garth ? mountains , and that they left their homes the evening the murcler was committed . " A man named Mullooly has been arrested in Soscommon , charged with participation in the last murdei in that county . The evidence against
him is that he prevent * id a servant boy of the murdered man from rendering assistance to his master when the attack upon him was made . Mullooly was about sailing for America when he was arrested .
The Cork Exhibition . —This Exhibition was brought to a close on Saturday with a grand musical festival and promenade . Suicide o ? a Chows "Witness . —A man named James Fluiiegan , who was commit ed to I ) undalk gaol charged with a participation in the conspiracy to murder Mr . Eastwood and who subsequently turned crown witness , and continued for ' some time to give information to the police respecting the ribbon con spiracy , committed suicide on Monday last in averv determined
manner , having first cut his throat , and then precipitated himself from a top window of the police barrack into the street . An inquest was held , and a verdict recording the manner of the death v » as returned . The occurrence has created a great sensation iii Dundalk and its neighbourhood , and , as might be expected , has been attributed by the people- to renioivc on the part of the unfortunate man for the evidence he had $ vcn against his former associates .
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Gas Explosion akd Loss op Life . —On Sunday afternoon , about 20 minutes to 2 o ' clock , a most destructive lire , caused by an ignition and explosion of gas , and attended with loss oi life , took place at the house of Mr . White , linendrapei * and hosier , 05 , Midlesex-street , Somer ' s town . It appears that about the
time m question the servant girl went into the shop with a candle , and the gas , which is believed had been improperly turned off on Saturday night , and filled the place , at once ignited and exploded setting fire to the combustible stock and premises . So rapid were the flames , that the up-stair lodgers , who were seated at dinner at the time , had great clrinculty in effecting their escape from the windows . On the second floor lived a man named Balhain , with his wife and four children . Some of them were thrown from the windows , and caught by the police . The
poor man Balham having lowered his wife , clung for some time to the window-sil with , as he thought , the last child in his arms , while arrangements were making below to catch him safely , the floor by this time of his apartment being in flames . It was subsequently discovered that Henry Balham , a child three years and half old , was missing , and the remains of the poor little fellow , frightfully charred , were subsequently found in the ruins . The entire of the house , No . 65 , was destroyed , but , by the exertions of the firemen and police , it was prevented from extending further . Mr . White , who is stated to he insured , had with his wife
gone , it is said , on an excursion to Tunbridge Wells . Destruction of a Woollek Factouy . —A most calamitous and destructive fire took place on Sunday morning last , by which the extensive and valuable woollen factory , at Weenslaiid , near Ilowick . belonging to Mr . George Wilson , ' was totally destiwed . The most determined and persevering e ^ oi ' la were made by " the firemen and spectators , but so rapid and destructive was the progress of the flames , that within two hours nothing remained but the bare and blackened walls and the iron portions of the machinery , which lay on the ground in confused and smouldering hearts .- —Border Adceviissr .
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The Eruption of Moukt Btxa . —A letter from Catania of the 30 th ult . says : " Oil the 20 th and 21 st of this month Etna began to give signs of unusual activity , which was Mowed hy the opening of two new crater , ? , helow the original cup and toward the east , near a spot known by the name of PictraMussora . The mountain commenced its labuors on this occasion by throwing up clouds of small stones and fishes , which curled about in
the air and assumed a variety of forms , owing to eccentric curtents of wind , which appeared to proceed from the chasms of the mountain . Molten lava followed this eruption of ashes and atones , and i ' rom the newly opened fiery mouths oi the moimtnhi a burning stream of liquid stone lit up ihe masses of smoke , which now extend more than a thousand feet upwards , while the country around is frequently veiled . The lava Sows in two
distinct streams : one m the direction of Milo , and the other towards Zanarana , burning up every tree and shurh within sixty yards on either side . The lew dwelling scattered near cither of the streams are deserted , nnd the direction of the destructive , element is anxiously watched , as one stream threatens a valley rich with vegetation and the vine . As I now vriro , a sort of booming thunder rumbles in the 'bowels of the earth ' * —a ficry vanour qui vers about the clouds of smoke , from which a shower of ashes Mh like rain , and is carried as tar as the sea . The effect at night is very grand . The sk y is illuminated by a red o-lare , and the immediate vicinity of the mountain gives one an fdea of the infernal regions .
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justiciary Mum > Eit by a Motiiei\—At the Circuit Court 0 ! 1 st ?" ^ held at Jedburgh , on Wednesday week , Jane Join . ' i , ' Smith
, of Galashiels , was charged with having , on the lu , July , murdered Kobcrt Smith , her son , a child aged 10 mom ^ —James Sutherland , dyer , residing in Galashiels , deposed —© a the Sundaymormngi saw a son of Mrs . Smith ' scoming outatthe door , and giving an unearthly-like scream . This was about a quarter past seyen . "When 1 went in . I met a man between the doors , who said the woman had killed her child . When I went into the room , I saw the prisoner lying in bed in an excited state . At the foot of the bed one ' of her children was sitting with the youngest child between hislegs with its throat
cut . The boy was repeating , " Mother , mother , whyhave you killed Bobby ? " The dying child was in the arms of its brother , and gave a struggle after I went in . His brother said to me , " Give Bobby something and ho will live yet , " After this struggle the head of the child fell forward , and it immediately expired . The boy spoke again to his mother , but she did not reply . I saw that she was bleeding , and went lor the doctor . She was lying in tlie bed much excited , and I thought she had killed the child accidentally . The husband told me it had been
done with a razor . —George M'Dotigall , a surgeon , who was called in , said—When I went into the house 1 found the prisoner in bed , covered with blood , and a child lying dead beside her . She was unable to speak from a wound in the throat , on the left side of the larynx . The body of the child was lying on her right side , quite dead . I proceeded to examine Mrs . Smith , and sewed up the wound . The officer showed me a razor . Eemamed with her fully half an hour . She was not able to sneak during this period . She was extremely excited . Made no
resistance at nrst to my bandaging her wounds . That night she tried to tear off the bandages , but was prevented . I thought it necessary to keep people to watch her , lest she should do herself more injury . Iter bodily health , independently of the wound , seemed very indifferent indeed . She was emaciated and delicate , and weakly looking . I believe she was quite insane at the time of the murder . —The jury , after two or three minutes consultation , without leaving the
jurybox , found that the prisoner had killed the deceased in the way and manner mentioned in the indictment , but that at the time when the act was committed she was insane , and deprived of reason . —Their lordships then adjudged that the prisoner was not a fit object for punishment ; but , in respect of her insanity , decerned that she should be confined in the prison of Selkirk during ail the days of her life , or until her Majesty ' s . pleasure should bo otherwise known regarding her .
iiLLicGED M . UKDER op a Boy by his Mo-THEi * . —On Friday evening last , says the Fortjiampton Mercury , the town oi Daventry was thrown into a state of great excitement , by a rumour that another murder had been committed there . " A woman named Gibbins lived near the Market-place with her unmarried sister , named Selina Hartwell . Gibbins has a husband living , but he had left her for the last fortni ght , in consequnece , it is said , of her profligate course of life . The only other person residing in the house was an illegitimate child , the son of Mrs . Gibbins before her marriage ; he was about eight years of age . It is this boy who is supposed to be murdered ,
and his mother and aunt were presumed to be the murderers . On Friday last the mother shut him up in the attic all day for having got & trifle in her name of her husband ' s mother , and she threatened to have him locked up in gaol . It was said that the boy had said he would hang himself if she did that . At five o ' clock in the afternoon a neighbour saw him at the attic window eating some bread and butter , and she spoke to him . He seemed then to be well and cheerful . Between six and seven the mother put the boy to bed and then went out , locking the door of the house after her . At eight she and her sister
returned home , and the latter having gone up stair with some supper for the boy , found him on the bed de : ul , with a handkerchief tied once tightly round the throat . Mr . Snell , . assistant to Mr . Sharman , the surgeon , was sent for , and Mr . Sharman himself saw the body shortly after , and both agreed that it was impossible that the poor lad could have destroyed his own life . Suspicion then fell upon the mother and aunt . Thp mother is said to have habitually ill-treated her child , and to . have often expressed a wish that he was dead . The aunt , on the
contrary , was said to have behaved very kindly to him , and to have received some severe blows from her sister when interposing to save him from her anger . Why she was included in tho suspicion which attached to the mother is not easy to see , Both mother and aunt , however , were taken into custody , and an inquest was held on the body on Saturday , and by ' adjournment on Tuesday , when the aunt was set at liberty , and a . vercu ct bt u Wilful Murder" returned against the mother , and she wjih forthwith committed to gaol under the coroner ' s warrant .
Masj-lal'GHTeb at LrvEnr-ooi ,. — -On Sunday morning last , about one o elock , a widow named Grace Jones , was killed by her son-in-law , Thomas Yates , under the following melancholy circumstances : —About midnight he went home , and found his wife in a state of intoxication ; being irritated , he commenced beating her , when her mother interfered , nnd Yates struck her on the throat , knocking her down the steps into the yard , and causing a compound fracture of the skull , from which the deceased immediately expired . Yates is in custody . MxjiiDEii by CmiAuiEX . —A little girl named Caroline Ferris , at Whitlockville , Westchester county , J , cw York , when returning from school , was beset by a couple of boys , one of whom named McNeil , aged about twelve years , knocked her down , filled her month and eyes with dust , and concluded his brutal
treatment by twisting a dead snake about her neck . She succeeded in reaching home , but died soon after . A coroner ' s jury investigated the case on Saturday , and rendered a verdict that the child came to her death by the injuries inflicted by the jboys , and the fright produced hy twisting the serpent about her . — Neic- YorhiSmi .
Hoijroiis of Ameejcak Slaveiiy . —Wc find the following in the Richmond ( United States ) Times : — " A gentleman named Ball , overseer for Edward T . Tayloe , finding it necessary to chastise , a field hand for insolence or idleness / attempted to do so in the field , when the negro resisted , made fight , and being the strongest of the two , gave the overseer a very , severe beating , and then betook himself to the woods . Mr / Ball , as soon as he could do so , mounted his horse , and proceeding to Mr . Tayloe ' s residence , informed him of what had occurred . Mr . Tayloe , in company with . Ball , repaired to the corn-field , to which the negro had returned , and demanded to know the cause of his conduct . The negro replied that Mr . Ball had attempted to whip him , but that lie would not submit to it . Mr . Tayloe
said he should , and ordering him to cross his hands , directed Mr . Ball to take hold of him . Mr . Ball did , but perceiving that the negro had drawn a knife , told Mr . Tayloe of it , who immediately sprang from his horse , and drawing a pistol from his pocket , shot the nesrro dead at his feet . "
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Sept. 18, 1852, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_18091852/page/3/
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