The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-06-09
LETTER FROM DR.. HOWE.

LETTER FROM In. hOWE.
To the Ladies' Greek Committee of the U. States.
LADIES' address you for the last time, with
very different feelings from those which prompt
ed me on former occasions.
Greece is no longer in a state to demand
charity as one nation from another she owes
heavy debt Of gratitude TO the Christian world,
for its generous succors in her hours of peril
and agony, but to none more than the females
OF America nor do | believe there is, on the
page OF history, nober or more disinterested
act of charity, than theirs to Greece it is an
honor to our country, TO your sex, and to human
nature and every one who was employed in it,
deserves her share of that honor-from the af..
fluent city lady. to the poorest serving girl,
whose means were smaller, but whose motives
were as pure f'w
Other agents have distributed many gar
ments. | myself have given out about $4,000
pieces to women and children it would be easy
tor me to procure hundreds of letters of thanks
to you, from females in Greece but it seems to
me superhuous and little too like show; most
OF the poor creatures whO have received the
| garments, cannot read or write, and it would
never enter into their simple minds to get up.a
letter but | have read their thanks in .heir
gushing eyes-heard their blessings on Amer-
cans, and Heaven has recorded their prayers
( for their benefactors. Go where you will in
| Greece, you the blue checked gowns and
J cotton frocks made by you ask the poor widow
where she got her gown, and she will answer,
I "The Americans gave it me = demand Of any
man, woman or child in Greece, what nation
has been the kindest and most charitable to
their country in the bitter hour of trial. and the
answer ever is g America
| have the honor to be, Ladies, respectfully
yours, SAMUEL G. HOWE.
Isthmus of Cornth, Feb. g. 1880.
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Extract from Letter of highly respectable
gentleman, dated BogOtG, Apra Is, 1880.
All is here anarchy and confusion. We knew
a few days ago that the Commission sent to
Venezuela by Congress, and composed of Gen.
Sucre, Bishop Esteves, and DR.. Amanda, had
not been admitted TO approach the territory Of
Venezuela and that they remained at Cucuta,
where the deputies from Caracas would meet
them.
Congress mad no idea of adopting federal
constitution, but the declaration Of Venezuela
had forced that system upon it, as the only
means to preserve the union and tranquility.
The opinion of several of the members, howev.
er, was that a separation was desirable. Popa-
yam had sent in representation to Congress
20 that effect, and urging that body to establish
q provisional government, and to convoke
Constituent Congress for New Grenada.
The ministry has beer changed That ex-
cellent patriot, Don Domingo Cajcedo, is Pres
ldent of the Council, and at the head of the ex-
ecutive. The Liberator is at Fucha, apparently
for the restoration of his health, but chiefly to
avoid the abuse with which he is overwhelmed
from the Venezuelan press.
1t appears that Urdaneta is at variance with
him, and the former, deserving his post as men,
Der of Congress, retires to-day to TUNA. He
does well to leave Bogota. whose inhabitants
hold him and his king in adherence. We are
J on the eve of u revolution which will probably
overthrow that dictatorial power which has dur.
ing four years, carried us to the brink of misery
and ruin.
Whatever the change be, it must be for the
better, as nothing worss can be imagined than
our hitherto lawless condition.
2Ist .AprI, o'clock. We continue in f.
verish state, and tho crisis draws to its close.
Don Domingo, supported by the two ministers,
Marquee and OsOro, has sent a message to
Congress recommending its dissolution, as the
deliberations Of that body would prove worse
than useless. The liberty ofthe press has been
re-estabshed, and Bogota is inundated with
pamphlets of the most violent description Con.
gress has adjourned this afternoon, after having
sanctioned constitution which will be without
effect, but wisely abstaining from nominating
! the chief magistrate, which most improperly
r was one of its attributes
1t is impossible TO say what, under the actual
circumstances, will be the fate of the Liberator
he must be aware that the effervescence Of the
people from all the corners Of the republic. il
increasing against him.
4 INDIAN HosTILITIEs. Extract of a letter
from an Officer of the Army, dated
Praire du Chen, May 6, 1880. When COM
ing down the Mississippi on the raft of timber,
wa! party of Sioux came to me, and landed on
the raft, but did not offer any violence They
were seventy strong, and we'll armed and
when they arrived at the Prairie, they were
Joined by thirty Menominies, and then proceed
ed down the river in pursuit of the Sacks and
Foxes, who lay below. This morning thew all
returned, and reported that they had killed 10
4 of the Foxes, and two squaws saw all the
sea Ps, and other trophies which they had taken:
such as canoes, tomahawks, knives, guns. war
clubs, spears. &c. A paddle was raised bv
them in the air, on which was strung the hand
of squaw, and the scalps They killed the
head Chief of the Fox nation, and took from
them all the treaties which the nation had made
since 1915. | saw them, and read such an |
wished. One Sioux killed, and three wounded.
was all the loss of the northern party. The
Winnebagoes have joined with the Sioux and
Menominies, and the Potawatomes have Joined
with the Sacks and Foxes. We shall have a
great battle in day or two"
! ANNIVER SARIES