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ii the Ncto York Herald, 9th inst.
*AHTIT/1/N ?
intt i^v/iiiirtuu and THE CABINET.
iBTwo months ngo, we announced that a
jjHiet mission to Faustin I., Emperor,
of Hayti, had been sent from Wasli^EHon
three months previous, by Mr.
*0Pyton. The secret commissary was
l|g| Hon. Dcnj E. Green, a diplomatist and
^uist, and fully competent to discharge
Iiuiics oi tnat, or even a higher mis*
y a telegraphic despatch received
mlay, from Washington, wo learn
the Hon. Commissioner, Mr Greene,
returned in a government vessel, from
.-nu-Prinoe, which vessel arrived at
folk on the 6th, when Mr Greene
ed and proceeded at once to Washon,
and presented himself to Mr ClayIhose
cumbersome, slow-moving
ises that have doubted the correctness
10 IJorald's sources of information in
particular, will bo fully awake, not
' to tho truthfulness of our statements
Lthsnjjro, but to the great importance
his mission viownrt iri r>?".
..w.ivu (II ?T U
I nil wait with grant anxiety to receive
b report which Mr Green will make to
e Secretary of State. We have strong
irs that Mr Clayton lias made a bltui- I
r in this business. j
This government, constituted ?s it is,
n never lccognise any empire, kingdom, |
republic of ulacks, directly or indirect,
without insulting fifteen States of tho
mfedcracy, and pvoduoing an excitement
I.??ulQ w,uo11 could only be allayed
? instantly abandoning such a principle
'recognition. We notice tlmt Mr Green
i<\ procured the acknowledgment of
ir consuls sent to the ports of /Tayti,
}d that hereafter they shall be treated |
te same as English, or the consuls of i
Iher nations. Tl?e reason that the variUs
negro governments of thoi island in
rmer years have refused the privileges
> our consuls sent tliitV.er? has been that
'o would not recognise their negro go"inment
under any form, or reoeive any j
iplomatio agent or consul from it.
ve hope Mr Clayton, under the advice
f an abolition set of colleague?, has not
Jiven up the principle in order to get a
I_ Ior our consuls. Wc have our
louhts; and should not be supriscd to
Jear shortly that a black Duke of Faustin
i. it" Washington, astonishing the good
people by the ?lire ebony of his complexon,
the brilliancy of hu d^'ooiatic uniorm,
and magnificence of uio legation
md attaches. This would l>e followed by
i negro consul at all the Northern and
the principal Southern porta, "We have
some important intelligence in regard to ]
rill t])ACft moHnno* 1\?# WA wiol* a r?'iun Hi/.
Ir'.i ?i?v~v MiuvbviKi, uuu HV nwu IV v?iv?
Cabinet the full glory of oil thoy have
done; apd if the result of Mr 0 recti's mission
is laid before the public at an early
day, the Secretory of State may do it in
jiis cwn way:
The Southern members who havo re*
yarded tho former articles of the Herald
;in regard to this mission as imaginary, believing
it impossible that so important a
mission connected with the negro question
could bo ma 'e by the Cabinet without
their knowing something about it, will
jiow find that tho Herald was right, as it
always is; and we doubt not that 0 ongroas
will soon call for all the facts connected
with fhis negro mission.
Ip mr editorial article whioh appeared
I jn tho //ernld |n the early part of April,
we used tho following language:
Tlicro are 10,000 men in this oity who
would volunteer to oolonize St. Domingo
(.hp instant the administration gives a hint
that it is desirable to do so, and will furm
ish any reasonable excuse, based on Mr,
Green s report, that it is desirable they
should go and abolish the negro butchery
business. St. Domingo will be ft State
III ttyear4 Qiy 9atync^ will b?t a^or^o
white volunteers to make slaves of every I
negro they can catch when Jthey reach J
7/ayti. Give us the facts, and let our
citizens move at once.
We ho 3 read, in various Amorican
joutna's, containing letters nnd accounts
from Port au Prince, that when the 7/er?
aid containing this nrticle, reachcd Port
au Prince, the black Emperor, Faustin
the First, got terribly frightened, and I
j wns a very good looking white man?all i
but the wool?for nearly twenty-four
hours. Ifc culled his Dukos, ministers,
and army officers, about him at the palace,
had the Herald's article translated
and read to them, and several private
councils were called. One curious result
j followed. Three days afterwards, ho
granted the full privileges of consuls to
all Americans sent to the ports of his empire,
as such, by this government.
) This St. Domingo business comes just
... viuiq iu nuu new iuei 10 ino negro exI
citcmcnt at Washington. Couldn't vre
have something more? Why won't Se|
wnrd or Qiddings introduce a bill admitting
Liberia as a State, and authorizing
her, as such to send two negro Senators,
and a nigger representative to Congress?
Pray do.
FROM HAVANA.
The Charleston Mercury has the following
intelligence, brought by the Isabel,
respecting the trial ot the American
' prisoners at Havmnnr
The officers, crews, nnd passengers of
the American vessels still remain in close
confinement. Efforts havo been made by
torture to ex.ort confessions f^Dm the
captains of the Goorgiana anc Susan
Loud, but in vain. They declared repeatedly
that they regularly cleared from
Ne-.v Orleans for Chngres, as was confirmed
by their papers, that they had no
knowledge of the character or objects of
their passengers until the steamer Creole
came alongside, when a number of them
went on boiud of that vessel, and that
they were proceeding on their way to
Clmgies when they were captured by the
Spanish steamer.
in,. ? *' ... i
AiiouapinuiH were men suspended in
the air by cords attached to their thumbs;
but, despite the torture, ih'jy persisted
in their statement,
Among the prisoners was a young lawyer
from ono of the Western States,
whoso symptoms of trepidation gave expectation
that by Working on his fears confessions
might be obtained that would
tend to criminatrt a
halter was accordingly placed round his
neck, and cannon balls attached to his
feet, and with the threat of immediate
death hanging over him, under promhe
of pardon for himself nrtd for some of his
"ompaniona whom he named, he made
certain disclosures upon which the authorities
based their further proceedings,
j The Amorican C onsul was perempto!
rily refused all access to or communicaI
tion with the prisoners, To give a color,
; however, to tne proceedings of the court,
j the presence of the British Consul was
invited. A strong disposition was manifested
to dispose of the two American
captains by a summary execution ; but
against this course tho British consul remonstrated
warmly, and warned th<*m
that such a step would inevitably involve
tfintvi in <,/>?/...? '1
>UVU1 1U DCIIllUn UIIIIUUIIICO Willi [lie |
American Government. In consequence j
of these remonstrances the decision of
the court upon their case was postponed;
The chief engineer of the Matanzas
ami Savanilla Railroad died suddenly at
Jjfavam, and it was supposed by poison;
but there is no doubt thnt hid death was
occasioned by over excitement and perplexity
consequent upon the invasion at
I Cardenas.
I We have been informed by highly inI
tclligent gentlemen that the excitement
ana terror at A!atanzas liavann, and |
throughout tho island, upon tho spread
of the intelligence of the landing at Cardenas,
was extreme, and in many instances
the authorities seemed perfectly
paialyzetl. It is thoir opinion that if a
thousand brave men, welf-appointed and
well officered, had pushed on promptly
from 0 nrdenas, they could have placed
themselves in the centre of the city of
7/avana without serious resistance.
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vw/ t xjj iu v.'twry,
Havana, June 6,1850.
Gentlemen; A few days sinc?? I begged
admission to your column#, and would
now agair trespass upon you. The preoarioua
condition of our situation here, impels
me to it. One hundred of our fellow
oitixena manaoled and ip prison, awaiting
trial for their live*, without advocate
without defence, and subject to the tender
mercies of a hordo of Irritated and
vain-fflorious officials. Two Amftrican
J ships (captured on tho high seas?our flajjr
1 trampled upon; our nationality insulted
and outraged; our ships of war sent hero
to maintain tho permanency of Spanish
power, and then, finding that frco from
menace, abandoning our port, and oven
when bearing despatches to the Government,
lagging on their way, lingering at
Key West, giving and receiving balls. |
Americans openly insulted and menaced
in the streets, cafes, and places of public
resort* The Consul denied access to his |
imprisoned fellow citizens, and his communications
to the authorities sent back
unopened, with the insulting message
that he has no diplomatic authority?and
the press of the United Slates, instead of
maintaining the immunity of our llag upon
the seas, defending the sacrcd character
of our soil, and advocating the rights
of our unfortunate citizens oppressed in
the very teeth of tieaty stipulations, hounded
on by defeat, and running and barking
like a pack of cowardly dogs at the
heels of a few (lying marauders.
a r** *
iuu Bivuurai ounuuic, \jommanuer Tattnall,
left here on the 20th ult. with de
spatches for the Government at Washington,
informing it of tli e state of affairs,
forsooth we hear of him at Key West on
tho 2d inst. giving a ball, and reciprocating
the attentions of tho citizens there.
Meanwhile his countrymen, immured in
ft Spanish prison, denied all communication
with their friends, shut out from the
light of Heaven, may await the appearance
of the delivering angel borne on the
wings of ft Spanish bullet- And we, who
for ft little while aro allowed an intercourse
with our fellow beings, are cooly
comforted by Judge Marvin and Dotiglas,
of the aforesaid Key West, with the assu
ranee that (lie Spanish Government has
not only perfect right to confiscate our
property captured on the great highway
of nations, but that it can, at its sovereign
pleasure, capture, imprison, try. condemn,
and execute, American citizens
who hover thought of, or intended, coming
to the Island of Cuba; and oven that
it would have been perfectly justified in
landing an armed force on nmcricnn soil,
and capturing and executing on the spot
the pirates of the Creole. Not T alone,
but every one of my fellow-countrymen
here, has with bursting heart, exclaimed
"Would to God, I were an Englishman!"
While I am writing these lines tho
Erize bark Georgiana and brig Susan
oud are boldly runing into port; showing
no colors, even while under the guns
of 'lie sloops of war Albany and Germ mtown,
which have this morning re-appeared
oft*our harbor; How their doughty
commar icrs could brook this hrrnrh nf
Naval etiquotte, I cannot conceive. The
stcavcr Surnnnc has also come in, nnd
takes no notico whatever of the prizes.
It is to be hoped the Government at
Washington will lake other views of thepo
captures than thosu hold by the Koy West
Cabinet.
Respectfully yours,
AMERICAN.
FIVE DAYS LATER FROM CUBA.
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jluuuilk, junc V.
The Excitement in Havana?Four of
the Invadeks Shot?Movements ok
General Lofez, dtc.
The British steamer Thames, arrived
at Mobile from Havana, with dates to tho
27th ult.
Our Consul at Havana, Mr Campbell,
states tlmt the Spaniards are nnlch embittered
against the American authorities,
find refused to furnish any information ns
to the number, names and probable fate
of tho prisoners, who were closely confined.
./vo vices trom Havana state that four
members of the expedition, left behind at
Cardenas, have been shot;
General Lopez addressed the citizens
of A/obile yesterday, explaining the caus'cs
of the defeat of the expedition. The
subordinate officers mado public state-1
ments vindicating Oen Lopez. They I
epeak In the highest terms of his bravery i
and military skill.
Charleston, Juno 4.
Latkk krom Cuba?A Rkvoi.t Antioi
patrd, <fcc.
The brig Havana arrived at Savannah,
brings dates from //avana to the 23d,
confirming the report that all the troops
had loft that placo for Oardenas. The
oity was greatly excited. It waa the
impression of A well informed oitizon that
,?l.. 1.1 i l i ii. - r_ I
n lOTUiuuuii nuuiu uiun& UUU uil I/I1U AO*
land without the aid of Qon Lopez.
Senatorial Difficulty.?A. despatch to
the Baltimore Sun on Sunday says:
"I learn that Messrs. Benton and King
had a personal difficulty ycstorday, whilo
in committee on the Senatorial fracas between
Messrs Foote and Benton. Mr.
Kin^ wis to-day. therefore, excused from
serving further 9a said SWSiSittoV'
I INTERESTING LETTER.
We take the following extracts from a
letter written by a gentleman of Mississippi,
now in Cnhfonia, to Governor
Quitman. It shows tho political chicanery
used to defraud the &outh out of
her rights in that territory, and the value
l of our species of labor in tho mining
[ operations:
I "At tho time when the recent elections
I took place, the voting population of the
State could not have been less than 50,000;
whereas only ten or 1 '2,000 were
polled. These of courso were cast by
the inbabitnnfa r>f ?1 -!*5 -
~ v.iv. tiiici{>va mill "lllUS;
I while tho miners, who constitute fourI
fifths of the inhabitants of California,
were debarred the privilege of voting.
Here arises a question in the scienco of
government. A Stato is on the eve of
budding into sovereignty. She contains
a number of freemen who were entitled
to an equal privilege in framing t'.io organic
law of their country. A few 1
demagogues of influence, over anxious
in the mat'er, and impatient to see tlmmselves
elevated to the high plnces of hon
ur, press me ining m sucii a manner that
only one-fifth succeed in getting ft voice
in the councils of their country. Is the
constitution thus formed over tho heads
of the majority binding on them? Or, 1
in other words, is it a constitution at all?
In my humble opinion it is not; otherwise
minorities may rule: and if this doctrine
is ever acknowledged and permitted
in our country, I pronounce the Republic
at an end. It may be said, that in such
cases it is the duty of the majority to
protest against the action of the minorifv
. ?*
v, u.uuiniou uy men llWJUIUSCenCC nicy
ratify all that the minority has done. Hut
in answer to this, it may bo objected that
a majority of the people of California
have not, nor do they now consider themselves
permanent citizens of California;
consequently are not sufficiently interest- ;
ed to care much what minorities do, or I
what kind of government they institute,
so they are permitted to gather their gold
unmolested and retire from the country.
Let it be remembered also, that a majority
of the minority who voted not only
for the convention, but afterwards for the
constitution adopted by it, did not at the
time, nor do they now, intend to remain
permanently in the country. What a
fraud on the elective franchise ! Nine
tenths of our present population hither
expecting to amass ft fortune in a few
weeks or months fit most, and then return
home to enjoy their latter days in
ponce and plenty. While tut few com
paratively come "animo manendi." Thus
tilings huvo been done in California.?
you pcrceivo who have given caste to the
political complexion of this country.?
Thus you pcrceivo how and by whom
has been settled tho ominous question of
slavery in the territories?a question with
dark and lowering aspect, threatening almost
a dissolution of the Union?and is
it thus to be lightly treated and disposed
of? Will tho&outh, with folded arms,
stand silent and endure this fraud and
outrage not only upon her and her interests,
but this mockery upon all Republican
institutions? Will Congress, with
full knowledge of th; facts, (as sho
ought to have beforo acting on the promises)
permit their fraud to bo carried
out? Will fihe permit the present mem-*
hereof Congressolcct, now knocking at
the door for admission into tho Union, to
enter and faiUn flioir c^nfu na ln/flilmotn
representatives of a sovereign State ? If
so, a fearful calamity is about to dawn
upon us
Nearly all the Southerners in Califor*
nia are and have been engaged in mining
?numbers of whom have negroes working
for them. These (that is the mining
population) were tho ones debarred their
voico in tho rdccnt elections. From time
to time, business requires their attention
in the cities, who, on their arrival, and
neanng now things nave Dcen managed,
expresses their decided dissatisfaction,
und declare in most emphatic langucgc,
that things arc wrong and ought to be
remedied, This sentiment of indignation,
I am quite sure, pervades at leant onethird
tho bosoms of Galifornians?for
tho South is not so much in the minority
OS many are lead to believe. To the
(South I would say, conio in hosts! with
nil your negroes?'tis not yet toolatoto
effect a mighty revolution in tho present
aspcct ol uiiuiid.
I see that my nativo Stato, Mississippi,
has been the first to be aroused to a senso
of hor duty in tho coming political storm.
I have read with great pleasure the proceedings
of tho convention at Jackson,
which took this ominous topic into consideration.
The opening remarks of tho
President, Judge Sharkoy on taking his
seat, should meet with a nea^ty response
from every Southern breast, breathing
I the true spirit of State rights, as advoI
catcd ana maintained by the South.?
Nothing has been more gratifoing tomr?
than to SCO that democracy, for a whilwdriven
from the haunts of men, like ancient
Justice, is returning again, whip in
hand, visiting condign punishment on the
heads of the present administration and
its supporters.
Finally, taking into consideration the
lnboriousness of mining, the great heatof
the weather during the mining season,
the thermometer fi ?quently rising to lttO
deg, Fahrenheit in the shade, and the numerous
diseases thus brought on the
white laborers, it seems to mo afield is
opened lor slave labor exce eding tlic
most chimerical fancies of the imagination.
Indeed the slave owners of the
South would actually realize fortunes by
sending, as tlyj Northerners have done,
every person within their limits who ary
unable to get here for the want of means,
until a suflicicnt number be in the country
to remodel its institutions. 'Scd satis
tufficit? "
| Political Affaihs at wasninnrnv
Our informal ion from the scat of government
is by no moans of a satisfactory
character. From the most authentic
intelligence in respect to the prospects
I and probabilities in relation to the great
, question at issue between the North and
: South, we must confess that the political
| horiron seems to us covered with dark
: and threatning clouds. In a word, we do
' not venture to believe, at present, that
' anv satisfactory adjustment of the matter
I will take place in either houso during tho
| present session. Since the powerful
| 8pccch ot Judge Mason, of Virginia, on
; Monday, it becomes more and more evij
dent that tho South will reject all amend |
mcnts or comnrnmisnc ?? ?
vm.twvu ii iiivu uvi :iui um"*
sumo as a basis the extension of the Missouri
compromise lino, through to the Pacific.
As that gentleman remarked, and
j as our associate in Washington some days
since expressed himself, there can bo no
reason for offering the South, or expeo*
| ting her to accept, a plan of compromise
in 1850 which was not thought of preJ
senting to her in 1820. Thirty year? ,
have made no difference in rights and
principles; and what was justice then is
justice now.
Besides, the South complains, and with
great propriety, that the legislation pro
j>u?cu uy ixormern Senator is unfair, ns it
settles nothing, leaves nothing permanent
but thrown the whole rjuestion open for
continual discussion, broil, and discontent.
When the 3/lssouri compromise was proSosed
in 1820 it was urged upon tho
outh on tho ground that it would be a
permanent and final settlement of tho
ques. ion. Now, however, this settlement
is ti'.i broken up, and the whole gronnd
is to be gone over again; and again we aro
told tbat if the South will accept this new
compromise, it will be a "permanent" and
"final" settlement of the question. How
1 _ 1 *
long and now often, asks the South, is
this child's play to ho repeated? Let us
take the proposers and advocates of the
./Missouri compromise at their word?let
us fall back upon its provisions, let us
plant ourselves firmly there, and whilo
we lcfrain from advancing a single inch
beyond them, let us steadily refuse to fall
behind them.
jT*hl3 being the feeling which grows-,
and strengthens every day in Congress,
as well as all over the South, wo do not.
sec the ground for sympathizing with the
sanguine hopes of tho friends of the present
compromise that it will receive tho .
countenance of both.
Of course if such amendments were to*
he proposed ns would extend the Missouri
line to the Pacifit or protect slaveholder*emigrating
to the now territories, lur.ch
of the difhculty would bfj removed; but
even then it is doubtful whether California,
with her present boundaries, could
be forced through. Wo sco that Congress
adjourned over on Thursday morning
till Tuesday; and wo think it quite n*
well. Affairs would go on just at rapidly
and just as properly, in tho present stato
of feeling, if they did not set but ono dny
in tho week.?- Afenhani'a Day Book.
Five British soldiers deserted froirl
Kingston, on Friday night, in a boat, and
landed on the American shore of the rivor
St Lawrence, at French Creek, Jefferson
county, New York. Tbey were pursued
and arrested by Canadian officers on
a complaint of larceny in taking the boat.
Tho officers claimed that they could bo
immediately taken back to Kingston, under
tho Ashburton treaty, to stand trial
for larceny. The Watertown Union says
.1 - --1 -J V . . . ?
nicy were nut given up, oui are io do examined
there. The Union" thinks no
| jury will convict them of larceny in taking
a boat to escape from one country
to another without attempting to dispose
of the same.