The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-10-04

IhEAsOHABLE CoNsFIRACY.-The Washington
Republic publishes the following letter, which, it
Eayss intended for the Union, though it missed
its destination, and got into the Republics Office:
Hull, ssDtsmbS a. 100
We find in a late number Of your heightened Jour
mad the following startling announcement:
ism vain to deny that We have in this country mo-
Veil - boea II yb s s tb S EtLss rsP9hlis ss
Amencap citizens, residing ID this couny and Breathing
publican government They dare not avow publicly that
s s gbS a ~ ebs S a I, Go91 osisst Their climate
and perhaps might endsEgsE theiF Des6ns safety
class Of American citizens" ~
l rejoice to perceive, gentlemen, that YOU have
been prompt to expose the nsfariOus plot against
our liberties which Is now brewing. A very wor-
thy young man, al present soiOuFnIhg in this place.
! (MF. K. Cod, JF.,) assures me that your rsnarks
are every syllable true /; and think it my duty to
communicate 10 you some additional facts, which
he Instances, and which am sure you. will rsgard
as confirming, in every particular, your statement,
and calling for the immediate action Of the people
| Skipper Nudge, who arrived az this port from
Honduras last week, in his smack Nancy, reports
that he had an interview, before sailing with his
Majesty, the King of the Mosquitoes. His Majesty
wore splendid cooked hat and red SASH and
had very large gilt spurs strapped about his ancles
hut fTegret 70 say that the remainder of his person
was, as the painters say, without drapery. We
must make allowance, for Differences Of customs
and Of climate, His majesty, who cannot be more
than twenty years old, was also slightly intoxicated.
His suite consisted Of a 0ne-eyed drummer bow
and two gentlemen with flies one of whom acted
as interpreter. The King of the Mosquitoes re-
eeived Skipper Nudge, seated on an empty whisky
cask. he m0tioned to the skipper to take seat
on the ground, or wherever he chose
After Inquiring whether the skipper had any rum
on board, his majesty eOndescended to ask through
the interpreter, whethsr they didn't talk about him
a good deal in the United States. The skipper,
who had never heard Of the king before thought il
TIA esaU ha
shook his head, and, cooking his eyes, said, IN
| broken English, " Me KiDg-yOu no King-rvhV
| you no hab King-King hab cooked hat-King
! noting to do but drink whisky" And then he
laughed, ill the cask rolling from under him. 10
/ fell to the ground. On being picked up the King
of all the Mosquitoes looked very dgnified and is.
sued some order TO the drummer boy, which he ac-
| eOmpanied with baek-handed blow in the face.
The boy Immediately started for a little mud hut
| in the neighborhoOd, from which he soon issued,
| bearing writing materials, and accompanied by an
| old mahogany eolOred bFuiser on clutches. This
old man, Il afterwards appeared was his maissty'a
chisf secretary, He squatted On the ground, and
wrcie at his maiesty'a dictation; then folded his
papeT into the letter FORM directed il, and handed
It 10 the king, who gave il 70 the skipper taking of
I bis cooked has ~ the same tims in very majestic
/ manner
This Important document, having been brought
TO Hull by Skipper Nudge, was submitted TO MF,
A II, Cod, j., who Is one Of the first scholars at
the Boston Latin school. On glancing 90 Il, Master
God became very much excitsd-dashing bis hat
upon the hoor-passing his hand in an agisatad
/ manner through his hair, and circulating a No
| Impossible! Can il be! Oh, the traitor " &c.
| On our begging him to informs as what was the
matter, he told us to read for ourselves We looked,
/ but the language being wholly uninteliuible we
begged him to interpret it to us. He replied that
it written in the Mosquito tongue, and thaa il
was literally 10 this effect; " FO Gen TayloF--The
plot is Iipening, old fellow. Soulouque is almost
ready his crown cana over in the last steamer, a
present from cOusin Vic. He will proclaim himself
| emperor, and no mistake, befofe tie month 4 ont
Clayton and Ewing, and the rest of the b'huys ara
all right 4supPose. Yours, 10 faith,
o." HocO-POCoAPETI'
You may Judge, my dear R., Of the sensation
which this document has produced in this place !.
and ! am sure you will agree with old Madame
GOokin, Of Crawfsh Cove, that its importance can
not Be over-esiimated. Il plainly refers to dia-
bolical plot for thesoVeEhrow of our liberties; and
as you intimate in the excellent remarks have
quoted above, the Cabinet of General Taylor are at
the bottom Of it. Yes, Ewing, Clayton, and the
rest are at this moment conniving with the mon
arch of the Mosquitoes for the overthrow of the
| American Republic Let the alarm be sounded '
Let the spirit of rs awake Hull will not be back
ward. public meeting is to be called on Mon
day evening We are all in a state of intense ex-
element. Yours, PETER PIKE.
| P.'S. It turns out worse than we Thought for. Ar
! first we didn't know who was meant by SoulOuoue
| Mr.. I. Cod, jr., on being appealed to, declared
] that he had never heard of him before. But now
the murder Is out The newspapers bring word
this afternoon that SoHl0uqus has proclaimed him
self Emperor of Hayti The news. lie but lust
received and here are his intentions shadowed
forth in the letter of the Mosquito king month
before the usurpation was attempted This de-
vel0pmsnt. will throw the country into a blaze
OF course the Cabinet at Washington, will at once
be arrested and hung. The Hull Rangers have
been summoned to meet tomorrow, although il il
Sunday, in the town hall. / cannot describe 10
you the excitement which yuur article, taken in
connection with the letter of the Mosquito king,
has produced. The town clerk has just been to
me to ask if he shall ring the bell. hardly know
what to tell him. Dom let the people attempt any
violence against General Taylor. He has prob
ably been misled in this affair by his tTaitorous adj
viserss, For the sake of Buena vista. we will be
/ contehted with his Incarceration for life. Please
t. send your weekly to Madame GOOkin, Crawiiah
} Cove, Hull. Several other respectable elderly,
ladies of this place anxious to subscribe. Thew
all say that Father r. hassaved the country. p p