The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1841-09-11

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III IN G?e hundred men ar- BOW It Y ork !
T., IoeisI III, tie old Ege:.'a logts are
yai@y placed in fgE,',r order Ihe
J journal Of G. Yuar,~ $50 t!oy learn ~
:, gentleman lrar Halifax, that the feeling
there concerning the detention Of Mcleod,
is active aud loyal Should he be con-
demned, they are really to sustain the
British G owe .nnant III any action they
sha,l deem it Just and polite to pursue. A
s "a captain in this city, recently from Hal
flax. SAYS that he has never known such
a formidable array Of battle ships and
munitions OF war in that port as at the
present hour. In case Mcleod Is con
.tlemncd and executed, and the worst
comes to the worst where are we, our
battle ships. our iorkesses. and our means
of national defence?
Unknomn CiIy.-S;ephe..s in his tray
els in Central Amc.ca. volume 2, page
1876 and 457, speaks of large portion OF
country, in the district Of Vera Paz, which
has never been sGbdued BY the S,anlards.
il is the north caStern section, bounded by
tho range of the Cordi leras and the State
Of ChiaRss. Here. lie ras2 descendants
of the ancient mhabitonts live as their
fathers did, rcta ming their old religion
and customs, and the government OF Cen
trail America does not pretend to exercise
.sRy.centrol over them. In this '.vast and
unknown region, untravcrsei by single
road,n there is said to he by the Span
iards and Indians, "a mysterious etv, seen
from the topme3t range olthe Cor'hlleraS'
of unconQuercd, unvsitcd, and unsought
aboriginal inhabitants"
An intelligent Spanish priest. long rest
dent amo,g the american Spanlards and
indians, told DIR. Stephens that his first
,cnracy was at Coban, in the province OF
Vera Paz lie was then young, and while
resident there, she with much labor elm
bed to the summit of the Sierra, from
which, at the height Of ten or twelve
thousand feet, he looked over an immense
plain, extending to ucatan and the Guli
of Mexico, and saw at IA great distance
large city, spread over great space, and
with turrets glltterng i'll the sun The
Evolutionary account Of the Indians Is, that
no white man has ever visited the city;
shat the inhabitants speak the Maya Ian
guage, are aware that a race OF strangers
has conquered the whole country around,
and they murder any white man who at
temps to enter their territory. They have
no coin or other circulating medium; no
horses, cattle, mules or other domestic an
!mals, except fowls;"-and it is added,
ahat "the cocks arc kept under ground,
to prevent their GROWING being hcardn'
In regard to this account, Mr.. Stephens
SAYS, .'Bcing now in my sober senses, !
do rerily bcHcrc there is much ground to
suppose that what the priest told us is
authentic" That the region has never
been explored, that no white man ever
pretends to enter it, is unque'tlonablc.
There may be, therefore, such strange
city. We hope our government will re-
new Mr. Stephens appointment of "min-
lister plcnipoten,iary" TO government he
was nnahla to End, und that 'hls eXcallen-
cy" will return, after visiting this mystic
rious region, and tells us about the Won
dcrful Indian city and its native inhabi-
tants.
RESCUE OF McLEoD.--A correspon
dent of the New York American, writing
from Whtcsboro, IN, " September lst,
says
"About week since, letters were re-
ceived from the Secretary OF State, address
sed to the Sheriff and First Judge of the
country, informing that he had received
information from persons entitled to be-
Lief, that an attempt would be made to
rescue Mcleod now confined in our Jail.
and subsequently, to dispose of him, nc
cording to the jud gment of his captors.
lie referred to the cannon recently taken
from several of the arscnals at the West,
and the powder collected at Syracuse,
(Which was the cause ofthc late lamenta-
Bile calamity as connected with this de-
sign. lie advised the sheriff to take pre-
cautions to guard against airy enterprise of
this kind, without exciting any necessary
solicitute in the public mind. Several
other letters were received from other
sources, to the same purport One was
from Washington, the information con-
famed in Which was derived from the
British Minister. Mcleod himself recciv-
ed several, warning him against secret and
open violence, and assuring him, in the
most confident manner, that he was a
doomed man, unless he conducted him
self with extraordinary circumspcction
Our Sheriff, Of course, needed limitations
from such high authority, assembled some
of the citizens, organized patrol, who
traverse our streets from night until morn
ing. But this is no. all. Yesterday, Co
vernon Seward himsli. was here, and au.
thorized more perfect and effective or
ganization. In conformity with his ad-
vice, we have now number of the Utica
military corps, who with some of our ci.