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"i." Important from Cuba. '
Ceding the Island to Soulouguc.-Hu'mor 0f a Traaly leluichx
V'Svain and Ilayti in Relation to Cula Propositions made
".' 'to Eiiglandjind Franc Eaoape of Suspected Conspirators
The Arrests at Jfava)ia(&c. t
' 'jVc havo given lately accpunts ofUuother alleged conspiracy
lin.Cnba against Spanish rule .there and now find rumors of a
.proposed cession oi' Cuba to the negro Government of Hayti
or the giving it up'to tho negroes themselves now in thelslaid.
TElio New York Oourior and' Enquirer of Saturday tho 21sin-
8tantpublishes tho annexed particulars of tho conspiracy and
'cession which wo givo; without protending to say what degree
of credence they aro entitled to. Bis stated that many well-
informcil persons in New York consider tho rumors mentioned
by the Courier as mere fabrications put forth to excite sympa-
thy in' tho "United States. The following aro tho rumors; as
given by tho Courier and Enquirer:
Since the arrival of tho Crescent City wo have conversed
with some of tho passengers and have been permitted to peruse
$01110 private correspondence which furnishes us .with further
details of tho oxciting news in regnru to uio. state oi auairs m
Cuba. Among other letters wo have scon two from Madrid
one of 'Which Btates on tho authority of Senor Vasquez Queipcy
Director-General-of tho Council of Ultraniio that tho Govern-
ment is convinced that tho Island of Cuba will eventually be
16'st to tho Crown of Spain butthatPdpner than that the Creoles
oVthe United States should possess the Island it will bo given
up to the negroes. "
' This letter ailirms' that a treaty is in progress 6f negotiation
betweou Spain and the EinperorSoulouque by which it is pro-
vided that the Spanish Navy now om the Cuban Station snail
be employed to transport the army of tho black Emperor to
C.ba when tho negro slaves on the Island will bo emancipated
and Cuba will ibe given up to them on condition! of a certain
tribute to be paid to the Spanish Government yearly.
'Another letter states that a secret commissioner has boon ap-
pointed by the Government of Her Catholic Majesty to pro-
ceed to the Court of England and tho Presidency of France
and lav certain propositions before tho powers to co-operate
with Spain in vigorous measures for the defence of Cuba from
tho' rapacity of tho United States pirates. Tins commissioner
lias already had communication with tho British Government
and is now said to be in France. Neither power has as yet
replied definitely to his proposals. In caso this negotiation
fails then tho treaty with Soulouquo is to ho consummated. .
-tSe'nor Estampiz made his escape from Havana in rather a
singular manner. After tho OresentOity loft the harbor of Ha-
vana Senor Estampiz was ifound concealed in the baggage
room. When asked what he' was doing secreted there ho anx-
iously inquired if the vessel had cleared tho harbor and being
answered in the affirmative) he made his appearance clothed
in a priest's dress avowed himself a fugitive from Havana
declared that he had escaped from the garote paid liis passage
and is now in this city.
Tho 1st of September tho anniversary of the execution of
Lopez was fixed upon tho day of rising wheu the Govern-
ment discovered tho conspirancy and promptly suppressed it.
The police are very rigid in their searches. In ouo house
the police arrived just as a funeral was leaving tho door a
son in the family had died and his relations were taking him
to1 tho grave. They wore stopped the gate was locked and all
oven to the corpse in the coffin" searched 1 Another house tho
policb-entered in search of some papers and camo unexpected
upon 'four young ladies bearing the names of Yaldcz tho witb
and dii-mters of JJon Travisco U aldez who were engaged in
makingball cartridges. They wcro taken in the act of filling the
cartridges.
Tho Police seized them by the arms and asked who told
you to do that?" . Astounded and surprised by tho sudden .ar-
rest the young women unguardedly replied that they were
-world ii by order ot Senor Estampiz. The Police on further
Hcarch found 15000 ball cartridges ready made somo arms
bullets bullet-moulds cartridge papers. fcc and a large quan-
tity of powder. The ladies with their father were arrested and
consigned to the dungeons of Bartolinn.
'iTn'anothers house ten individuals were taken and imprison-
ed as suspicions persons. Fivo thousand pounds of cartridges
were taken from tho premises.
All these discoveries aro supposed to have been made by tho
rovelation of a spy an officer of the regiment of Biiilen who
dpeaks English very well and who was sent to New York where
hd has been for two months protending to sympathise withtho
Fillibusters. Ho returned lately and the arrests immediately
' followed his arrival.
' Mr. J. A. Quintero was arested with letters trom Mr. lhrash-
er in his possession which ho was in the very act of answering.
..rFour persons havo been brought from Yuelta Abajo said to
boJuan Gonzalez Alvorez planter; his brother-in-law a Mr.
Hernandez and one other whoso name is not mentioned.
A number of persons suspected of being conspirators have
escaped to the United States; " '
Tho following extracts aro taken irom tho latest Havana lot-
';Moro than ono hundred houses have already been searched
at midnight and upwards of sixty arrests aro known to havo
iin tnnfFn Voluntas and all kinds of carages have been and
aro being searched without warning at all hours both day and
dit. Even the ladies aro not oxempiuu. xa yuiouu mm
and most indecorous
A dispatch which we have from New York says:
The Spanish Consul in this city yesterday demanded of Don
Domingo do Gojcnira now residing here that lie return forth-
with to Cuba in compliance with a requisition fim the Cap-
tain General. Gojenira had been exiled to Spain 'irom whence
he ospaped to this country.
Sorior Estampiz in whoso house in Havana the powdor aid
bullets wcro found and who escaped as a friar in tjw. Crescent
City and is now in New York states that tho conspiracy recent-
ly discovered at Havana was the conception of a few hothead-
ed youths and has no connection with the leaders of tho main
enterprise which was to- take place in various places simulta-
neously on tho'lstof September.
A Grand Mass was to take place on.tholst of September in
this city by thd native Cubans for the repose of the souls of
of Gencral'Lopez and his fbllpvers. ' '
Last Evening Dr. Wren of .Louisiana tho founder Of tbol
'Order of the Lone Stat' was presented by the Empire Division
with a superb badgo of tho order.
v The Texas Debt - .
We copy tho following' tiivtliho of a recent report Of the Sen-
ate'fl'Finance Committee; from tho Picayune. It is quito'as fa-
vorable to our creditors as we expected though wo have always
expressed tho opinion that those creditors -having a special line
on our revenues Irom imports would eventually i get tno re-'
served five millions without refei;erico to oiu; scaling system.
Wo havo never believed that Texas would got control of .these
five millions. .Tho final action of Congress is still a matter of
pinch doubt. .. :
"The Committee on Finance of the United States. Sonato
has made its reports on tho memorial of the creditors of Texas
asking for a direct payment from tho Treasury of tho United
States for the reason that the Government of the United States
has appropriated to itself under the articles of annexation the
revenues of Texas arising from custom-lionSo duties' which
were as the memorialists Bay" solemnly mortgaged to them for
the payment of their respective securities ; and that the Obli-
gation of tho United States'to pay these claims is virtually ad-
mitted by tho provisions of 'the act of September lSSOcpni-
monly called tho Texas boundary law.
"The report argues at some length that the peaceful annex-
ation by legislative compact of ono nation to another by which
the pledged revonues of the one havo been transferred to tho
other creates an obligation to discharge all the lawful burdous
upon such rovenues. The fund is taken cum onere. Originally
it was provided in the articles of annexation that Texas should
retain her vacant unappropriated lands to be applied to the
payment of her debts which in no event were to become a
charge upon tho Government of the United States. Under
this provision as the committee agree 'Texas bound herself to
the United States to pay her liabilities from the proceeds of her
public lands and would be stopped from asking the United
States. to assume the liabilities. Put to those articles of annex-
ation the creditors of Tpxas were no parties; and while they
may demand Texas tho payment of their securities according
to their tenor and form they aro not estopped from saying to
the Government of the United States that as Texas does not
pay theso securities: and as the United States have possessed
themselves of a portion of the resources which were pledged
to give value and credit to them the United States is bound to
make them equitable compensation for the division of theso re-
sources from the purposes to 'which they were so pledged.
And tho boundary act of 1850 is cited as formal acknowledge-
ment by Congress of1 this obligation. .
" No part of tho debt has however beonpaid.by Texas. Nei-
ther tho proceeds of her public lands according-to the articles
of annexation nor the duties from imports havo been in any
manner anulied to the purpose. Nor has Texas effected any
settlement with theso creditors whereby the United States have
Somo of our
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i of our cotbmporarics havo armied as if tho neglect of
the last session of 0m1 Legislature to pass an apportionment law
is of small consequeiicoTbecaUso it does not .necessarily suspend
tho functions of. our Govprnment and thoy seem to think there-
fore that no great harn? can result. NoYcrtbolcss tho Consti- "
tution expressly rcquircsta now apportionment to bo made by
tho present Legislatureaud a neglect to do Boboforo a now Leg-
islative body comes into power will bo as palpablo a vidlation
ot the Constitution as can bo named. It iB a dangerous precp-
dont to justify such violations by arguing that no serious evils
can result and that tho Avlieels of .Government will roll o'rFas
smoothly as ever. Wo do not know that this county is partic-
ularly intcrcsted'bn the subject of an apportionment but wb
think it tho duty 6F a public 'journal torCquiro that all thp.mxh
visions of tho Constitutipn.shpuld bo complied with. Wo copy
tho follpwing from tho Tyler Telegraph : Galveston JVews'.l'
t "A neglect tp dp this (to make an apportiomnpixt) at thepp-
riod defined in tho Constitution cpuktnpt bo amended by "ma-
king an apportionment at a regular succeeding session for tho
Constitution explicitly requires that 'tho whole numbers of
Representatives shall (bo lixed) at tho soveral periods of!'such .
oniuheration whichis to bo made only on'cO in over ' cigMiJcars?
consequently as 'the whole number' of Representatives carPbo
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" Barredo and Lloras havo beep sent to tho interior. each
with a company of soldiers commissioned to arrest such porr
sons as they may think proper. Barredo has already returned'
but without prisoners. Lleras is still absent. At the moment
of writing arrests seem to havo ceased apparently because the
track of the conspirator has been lost. In consequence of this
mal-adrditness Sr. Zurita has been restored to tho command
of the police and from his known cunning tho arrests it may
be expected will be renewed vdth redoubled vigilance.
" At San Christobal Sr Chapotin (said to'bo moro than half
idiot) appeared before tho authorities for tho purpose ot botray-
ingto the Government some forty individuals ; but when palled
upon to sign a written statement respecting them he refused to
do so." . 11.
'.'The legal adviser against arresting tho suspected parties
and they hearing of tho tran8actipnmade.thoir escape. Mean-
time.tho.legal gentleman received what .you .would .call ! walking
ticketa.'-for thus protecting individual rights;'?.;. . -
ticketa' for thus protecting
been released from tho claims though nearly two years have
elapsed since the passage of tho act of Oongres of 1S50 and
mora than eighteen montlis since tne acceptance 01 mat act uy
Texas. The committee accordingly decide that it is tlio duty of
the United States to proceed and'effect a settlement for them-
selves retaining the five millions for their own security in a sub-
sequent settlement with Texas.
.'T(i aw t' lirmuliit.irsn of Texasdoes notr)ermitthereduced
rates at. which she has scaled these debts to bo paid until the
fivo million fund in the Treasury has been paid over to her or
sums equivalent to her payment to each creditor. Tho Senate
committee declares that it would not bo becoming for tho United
States to pass any law " to submit to the arbitrary reductions
of these claims which Texas purposes."
" The committee recommends the payment ot tno claims to
tho creditors in full by issuing a stock to tho amount of $S550-
000. at.fi vo per cent interest. taking from the creditors receipts
in lull and assignments of tho evidence of debt to .bo used by
the United States as a set-off against tho claim of Texas to the
reserved $5000000 ! ' '.
"No attention is paid in tho report to what has been consid-
ered an essential point m uiw wuuuvcidj v.o. n y""1 ""
bo excluded from all right of decision upon the amount and
lawful character of tho debt which she is liable for and her
means are taken to discharge."
"By tho bill which accompanies the report the Secretary of
the Treasury is directed to ascertain in such manner as tho
President of tho United States may prescribe what classes and
what amount of public debt of Texas aro entitled to tho bene-
fit or tho pledgo of tho duties on imposts ; and is then to pay
the same in full with interest up to the 1st January 1851 in-
this stock. All fractional sums under 100 to bo paid m cash.
Texas has already made her own decision of tho amount own
indebtedness which the United States ; aro called upon to pay
and thoudi we have not approved of tho principles upon which
she has made adjustment aud believe that to be just she ought
to havo treated heicreditors with moro liberality and paid them
out of her allowance in full we never havo been ablo to appre-
ciate tho duty or obligation of tho United States wero at its own
costexclusivoly and after tho creditors had been paid there
would bo no accountability thereafter with lexes. But it is
easily to bo foreseen that Texae will not patiently assent to the
appropriation of means which she claims and that a perplexing
question is soon to arriso between that State and tho United
States on hor reclaimation of that portion of tho reserved fund
of $5000000 the lawftiLappUcatipn of which she does not ac-
knowledge. sljo will.moMp.eremptprially deny. ...
Representatives
fixed (only at the several periods' Of making" shell enumera-
tion' it is clear deduction thatbight years' Wiil&gaiti Mp'
portibhment can be made by act of the legislature. . " "
" What is the consequence? t Whyjiho present basis o'fropj
r'eson tation' so radically defective so unequal in. aJUfs p.arts-
wjll continue to be thp representation to wliich wo wiUbo.cQuYj
polled to submit for the ensuing eight yearsk iFor illustratiori-
tho county of Harris with a-.v.oting population of but 800. haB
three Representatives and one-Senator ; the county of Smithv
with 1000 voters has but on&diepmeniutiw ahd one-halfwMx
floating 1 Senator. San Augustine county with but ' 300
voters has ono full Representative arid a floating' Serifitor:
Cherokee with 1650 voters' has but two representatives 'atul
one-half a Senator. The county of Ktisk with 1500 voters
the heaviest pecuniary interest and dpubtlPss the larges'tjfax
list in the State hus lut one fullltepreBenlatiye.afioapngeir-
ator and a. floating Representative. " ' J iVo
u Hero aro the figures for tlio people to .judge for thojin j
selyes. The question now is can wo submit to this unequal
apportionment for the ensuing eight years ? at. a porioditooj
when questions of tho utmo&t magnitude such as Eailrdau
improvements tho most judicious appropriation of th'o$3i000
000 tho propor distribution and appropriation of tho ono huff
dred millions of acres of land and other questions of vital 'im-"
portance to tho peOplej will command and receive the final ac-
tion of the Legislature? ' '"
" Wo ar'o disposed' to make no charges of unfairnes upon the
West for we believe that tho peqplo of tlio west are disposed
to do us justice j and wo believe that his Excellency Gov. Bejl'
hut discharged his duty in his action upon the Apportionment
Bill of tho last session. We believe the Zegisiatureshoiild !be
held accountable for its course. j Tho Apportionment as passed;
by them increased thp Senators and Representatives to thtf
highest number authorized by tho constitution ; tliis was a radi
cal defect. All that tho people wis7i' all that we are desiribflfiP.
that an extra session should be called tor is to equalkis the rep-
resentation according to the present free white inhabitants'?
the whole Stato. Wo demand .thife as one of tho peoplo'S. rigjlfs
guaranteed)) the Constitution ahd an oxtra session is the me-
dium by wliich we can obtain it. There is opposition in some
quarters but it almost invariably emanates from those sections
which havo an undue share of Representatives. They wijlpl-
ways be.oppased to it. But if Gov. Bell takes the responsibili?
ty ho will- be sustained by an overwhelming . majority of his
fellow-citizens tho rejection of whose rights will' do morofto
widen tho breach between the east and tho west and hasibri;tho
hour of separation than any other act." y ih
A JVeiu CotUnx.-
Meures (Ked River) is experimenting with a new spefcies 70f
-Our friend E. L. Hyams Esq; of Lac"des
fPnrl TUrni id nvnorimrllhin(r witlin nivar 6nUAa tivV'
cotton seed; which he obtained from Yucatan. Last-summer
wo saw a small patch of it that was fib ioiidiing iiVs'ictty dVyls
irom me time uio neeu weru piuiuuu. j.j.o uiuib it ine vncia
cotton and it requires dry. hot weather.' If it can bo naKirat-
ized to our soil it must prove invaluablo to planters from-'tne.
short time it takes to arrive at perfection. ' ' ' '! "'e
Mr. Ilyams has also planted a. small field with tbefa.mcd
S.ea-Island seed for the purpose of ascortaining how it- will
flourish on Red River. bhreveport South Westaii.
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t- Washington August 31..&
Adjournment of .Congress Senate Confirmations. Both
Houses of Congress adjourned to-day after filially passing tile
usual Appropriation bills for tho Army Navy Post Office btc.
In tho Senate Mr. Maspn of tho Committeo on EoreigiVRel
lations reported resolutions relatiye to tho Tehuantopec.granl.
Thoy lavor tho measure 01 tne uovernmont ot tho United
States taking forcible possession of the route in the oyonijol'
Mexico still persisting in ber refusal to yield itpeaceably.ci oj
The Seuate confirmed tho appointment of Mr. Hubbardjtas
Postmaster General and of John Ti Towns as Superintendent
of Printing. Tho nomination of Goneral Fuller as Chief Jus
tice of Minnesota was rejected. .Ma
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The African Slave Trade. A letter from Africa states that
two steamers havo lately taken 1000 slaves from tho Gallihatf
and anothor vessel 400. The English brig Crane had. beenlht
pursuit of a slaver having ten guns but was unable to over-
take her. The Governor of Sierra Leoho has received nforma;
tion of 2000 slaves being ready for onibarcation in tho Rio
Pongos. .. ..!
JglT Ex-Governor Yanco of Ohio a cotomporaiy and friendf
of Henry Clay died near Urbaua on tho 25th nit. . 't JJW
(ggT There has been a dreadful earthquake at '.tho'.pjtyfof
Santiago do Cuba destroying or injuring ovory.hqnsojinthjR
city. Largo numbers of tho pcopjo sought refuge on the ships
in port. Sixteen lives wero known to bo Jost. . jrfy
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fffiT Edward Gilbert editor of tho Alta Californinilato
member of Congress from California was. killedun ii; dnehra
San 'Francisco byGpn.' Denver.
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