The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-25 00:00:00

Jose Bergas (called Vargus)—l am first sergeant
of the 34th troop. Thursday was my Saint's day.
I did not go on shore that day. I had only one
gallon bottle of rum. Olive was not given into my
custody. I was aroused by a great noise, and I then
went to the spot whence it proceeded, and found the
men up and armed. Before I got there the soldiers
had possessed themselves of the arms from the
armoury. 1 was not tipsy. I was sober.
Coroner—Did you try to keep the mutineers
down ?

Witness—Yes, I tried to keep them quiet. I was
not allowed to come on deck. The soldiers pre-
vented me, I was armed, but that was because I
was on duty. I did not hear Santiago tell the
men to go to bed, because Olive was keeping me
confined below.

Jose Messa, sworn, said—l am a drummer and
corporal on board. I was not playing at cards on
Thursday evening. I was on board all day. I first
heard the disturbance after I went to bed. Ser-
geant Gurra called me up between 11 and 12 o'clock
the same night. Callejas carried Iladoy away. It
was on the main deck. There were only four per-
sons there besides Iladoy. I heard Callejas say,
" You must kill me before you kill the officer." The
sergeant ordered me to attack Iladoy with a view to
frighten him. I did not intend to carry the order
out.

Coroner—When Callejas placed himself between
you and Iladoy did you see who bayoneted
Callejas?
Witness—lt was Oliva. He stabbed him with
his bayonet. _

Oliva was here brought into the room by direc-
tion of the coroner, and he was identified by Messa
as the same man who bayoneted Callejas.
The Coroner informed him that he had been
identified as the person who had stabbed Callejas,
and, after the usual caution, which was communi-
cated to him by an interpreter, he asked him
whether he had any thing to say_
Oliva said, " I never killed Callejas."
The Coroner said that where a revolt took place
on board ship the officer in charge was justified in
using proper and reasonable force towards suppress-
ing it, and if death ensued to any of the persons
who so revolted and resisted it would be justifiable
homicide. That view of the law applied to the cases
of Garcia and Vasquez; they were engaged in an
unlawful act, and in endeavouring to resist the pro-
perly constituted officers they lost their lives. But in
the case of the soldier Callejas the law was different.
Seeing' that the life of the midshipman, Iladoy, was
threatened, he apparently from kindness of heart
placed himself before the youth, and said that they
should kill him before they killed the officer. It
was then sworn that Oliva made a thrust at the
deceased and inflicted the injury which had resulted
in bis death. The learned Coroner then pointed
out the difference between wilful murder and man-
slaughter, and left it to the jury to say which of
those offences they would charge against the pri-
soner.

The jury, after being in consultation some time,
returned a verdict of Manslaughter against Emanuel
Oliva in the case of the death of Cellejas : and of
Justifiable homicide in those of Garcia and Vasquez.
Oliva was then committed to Newgate.

The Question of Subsistence in the Southern
States.

(From the Charleston Courier, Feb, 28.)

The scarcity of food, which in another year is not
likely to become most serious, is not owing to the
incapacity of the South to subsist itself ; for it is a
fact that, in those very regions of the Confederacy
which have heretofore been chiefly grain-growing
the scarcity is greatest. It is owing to two facts,
says the Richmond Examiner—first, that the armies
of the Confederacy are continually recruited from
the farming class, instead of preserving in the ranks
the men already enlisted ; and second, that these
armies, operating as they have been chiefly in the
grain-producing portions of the country, have by
wholesale. impressments, in many cases wanton,
unnecessary, and with needless rudeness and
tyranny, discouraged the farmers from putting in
further crops. On the latter branch of the subject
it is unnecessary to remark. Congress is maturing
a bill which promises to meet the evil, if faithfully
executed, and to restore large wastes of fertile land
to cultivation. History is full of admonition against
robbing industry of its hard-earned fruits. Nothing
so rapidly overspeads a country with the evidences
of dilapidation and decay as these wholesale rob-
beries of the farmer, by insolent minions of govern-
ment.

" Let every man, woman, and child at home,"
says our cotemporary of the Mobile Register,
" with a yard square of ground scratch it and
put in corn. Every grain carefully intrusted to
the fruitful earth, is a mite of contribution
to the nation's liberty. Every acre of cotton
planted is a comfort to our enemies, and a nail in
the coffin of Confederate independence."
The Chattanooga Rebel says—" We cannot too
strongly urge upon our friends the propriety of
planting no more cotton than is necessary to raise
seed for another year. We repeat what we said on
a former occasion—' Let every effort be made in
every state to secure the greatest amount of food.
Let the people go to work now to make clothing.
Do not put these things off. Let those learn to spin
and weave now who never knew before. The
highest compliment that can be paid any young
lady, after this war, will be that she spun and wove
clothes for her brothers and friends in the army.
Let the wealthiest and most accomplished set the
example of plain dressing and hard work."

THE ALABAMA.—The following letter has been
received from a Rochdale youth, now servin g on board
the Alabama :—" Confederate screw steamer Alabama,
February 25.—Dear Cousin—l am now in the vessel
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but we fired a shot from the gun I was at, and it nearly
knocked the foremast down. A man of war steamer,
including
which we had to take by force, we sunk its 17 minutes.
some odd craft to fight us. There were in this place a
We were going to the coast of Galveston to pick out
good many vessels, but by Providence we escaped with
one man wounded in the mouth; he is now all right. We
are now out at sea, and there is one man leaving the ship,
and I thought I would send you this bit of a note to let you
know where I am. I must now conclude, as there is a full-
rigged brig in sight. We can't say exactly what she is, but
if she be a Yankee she will be on fire directly.—l am," &c.
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