Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-09-22

buGuc, whose principal Employment waiting up
on the gentlemen the town and whose wife low
ed the business of washing. They both were consi-
dered useful in their occupation A day or two pre-
vous TO the commission of the outrage.it was rumo-
red that quantity of clothing was missing from a
young man. whose character is represented to be of
doubtful kind. The negro suspected and &C.
cused of the theft, and drunken rabble from the
| surrounding grog shops soon collected The
victim was dragged from his house amid the shouts
Of the drunken multitude-the infclions of torture
! and brutal violence that followed, would focm
frghtf tale for the dark and is revolving
be told. Suffice it say that death finally released
the sufferer from the savage cruelty Of tie mob Ha-
wing despatched their victim, the mob placed him
upon two poles and carried him 10 his house a cold
lnahmate corpse with his back broken, and his ribs
stove inl
The general impression at Dubuque is that the
negro was innocent cf the crime of Which he was ac-
cusod. But whether innocent guilty it furnishes
no justification of the laWless villains who trampIed
upon the supremacy of the law. 4 writer at Du-
buqnc who speaks in Just terms of the condemnaticn
due the rioters, conCatulates his fellow citizens by
saying that persons Of CHI ractcr, took any par
in the infamous transaction. Whether persons Of
character, or those of no reputation participated in
the outrage il matters not, so far The responsible
ty of the citizens of that place is concerned, - ferret
out the murdercrs and bring them 10 that mered pu-
ni4hment which the law requires.
From subsequent accounts we learn, that four Of
the principal ring!elders of the mob have been ar
rested and await the justice dGe their crimes.
CiUH Wa IN Ncco-Civil war in Mexico or in
any of the South american republics, has become a
matter of 50 common occurrence that il has ceased
to excite much interest in the public mind 1t is true
that Mexico as we'll as most of the South American
provinces succeeded some few years ago in throw
ing off the yoke Of foreign oppression and establish
ing for Themselves governments nominally repub-
can nevertheless anarchy and confusion have cha
racterzed their internal order-rcvoluton acr rovo-
luton have followed in continued succession show
ing the instability of republican Institutions where
the people unenlightened. 1t is not because their
theory of government is less perfect than ours, but
because the people are incapacitatod from want of
| intelligence TO govern themselves.
BY recent accounts from Mexico, it appears tle
city has agoin been the of civil war. Gene
raj Urea, an nsurgent aspran for power and COM
mander Of some of the government forces recently
made an onset on the city and obtained possession
of the government house and property. After thir
teen days hard fighting and skirmishng, he for
ced to capitulate and Bustamene, the present Pre-
sdent of the Mexican republic permitted To re-
tain the reins of government Gen. Urea suisse
quentiy fed and his troops dispersed in variors d.
rections. Tins tranquility again reIgns in Mexico,
until some new demagoguc collects rabbIe force
| and makes an onset for power; VIII ch event may be
looked for with almost as much certainty as a change
of the moon. ~