The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-05-15

ATROCITIES IN sYUCATAN. The Washington
Union gives the following sketch of some of the
atrocities perpetraed in Yucatan. If true, it is, in
Decd horrible 1t is furnished by Don Justo Sierra,
the Commissioner of Yucatan, now in Washington:
gentlemen says the Union, of education, and
nephew of distinguished Mexican, who for
merly driven from his country account Of his
liberal principles, took refuge in Texas, whose des
tiny he shared, and whose revolution he promoted
Horrible Atrocities Committed by the Sduages IN
Iucatan.-Durng the siege of Valadolid, the sa-
wage Indians proposed that commissioners should be
sent out to them to treat for peace. The parish
priest of that city, young ecclesiastic of unblem-
ished conduct and well known pety, CDR Manuel
Sierra de O'Rielly, brother of Don Justo Sierra,
the present Commissioner of Yucatan, at Washing
ton,) nominated for that purpose, together with
the chief of police, and two other respectable cti-
zens. Dr. Sierra had acquired, by his charity and
benevolence. widespread popularity with the
Indians of the city and its vicinity; and the most
happy results were anticipated from the mission.
Two days were passed in pacific conference with
the savages, after which they committed the I'M
heard of brutality of assassnating him and his COL
leagues in the church. Their lives were feloniously
taken in reward for their (perhaps) ndscreet conf
dence in the integrity and honor of race, who,
alas are too well known for their peridy.
Alter the city of Valadolid fell into the hands of
THESE barbarans, there We're found within its sub
urDs one hundred and seventy-seyen women and
chiidren Who had been left without the means of
escape. They We're all brought into an enclosure
or fenced lot, where, TO the sound of music and OBJ
scene songs, the women We're publicly violated
and after prolonged tornlents which lasted thirteen
hours, they were all murdered
The venerable curate of Guiana who had been
fifty-three years among the Indians-during The
whole of which period his life had been devoted to
their service-was forced from his bed, where he
was Frustrated by disease, and was dragged to the
befry of the church in which he had for many wears
ministered to their spiritual Wants, where he was
ignominiously hung to the bell-rope.
More than 30. 900 men, women and children who
were without any means of defence, have been as
sassinated in the frontier settlements and villages
The most horrd acts of atrocity have been commit
ted by the relentless savages-acts more trlghfu in
their character than those which attracted the
wrath of a just and offended God against the &C.
cursed cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
ONO RIVER.-Ihe river opposite here is rising
rapidly, large quantities of drift wood oated down
all day yesterday, and the first boat for some time
passed over the falls last evening. At dark there
We're feet inches in the channel, and sufficient
on the falls in the Indiana chute for small class
steamers to pass over with safety.-L0uisuiNe Cour
9Th INST.
o. The Philadelphia Spirit is vastly witty, no
doubt, on the Model Artists at Mobile-but as
part OF the wit consists in assuming that there is
ievee at the last named city, it is not quite SO
overpowering after all.