American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-08-26

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of them have perished rather than submit with
out struggle, had they possessed the means Of
fighting orNfying? Ike truth will be, perhaps.
forever concealed by the blood bothered heroes,
their executioners; q but the circumstances
clearly show that these poor fugitives were--as
the first rumur had it-unarmed, and that they
were also, as a second story reported, wounded
lie It remembered that they were fugitives from
q battle-a desperate battle-ih which they
were overcome by numbers and Dispersed mot
perhaps until their ammunition was oil ex-
pended and tngitives, moreover, usually throw
away the arms that impede their fight. We
mny-or, rather, we must-beleve that many
Of them carried with them wounds, severe
wounds. And v ounded, accordingly, and with
out arins--without food and water, too, twho
would think ot such things ut such momento
confusion and distress ?)-these fifty Americans,
reaching the1coast at ten o'clock ut right, and
finding four boats there, pushed right out TO
| sea,, as well as they could,,--pot expectinglto
| reach the tar-distnnt New Orleansl but to mike
their way to the keys and rocks which fringe
the entire coast OF the island from Bahia Honda
westward to Cape San Antonio--there hoping
TO be pickedup by the first passing vessel The
purpose was effected, bat ii doubtless required
the labor OF the whole nighf, and they were
capable of no further exerton. Thus General
:uture history AS the jackal Of the lion, or-not
10 disgrace the king of beasts-the tiger Con-
cha, must claim the honor OF having picked up
fifty poor unarmcd, wounded, exhausted, starv-
ing, utterly helpless men, VINO could not fight,
and could not fly; and therefore sat down tran
gully to be taken, as soon as they saw Span
sh force approaching 1t was precisely hfty
such men, wounded, worn, famished, dying,
whom Captain General Concha- his name
be infamous put to death like dogs, for the
honor and glory Of Spain.
Ii has been what we may now call the mis-
fortune of the Government OF the United States
to act towards MI other governments, and espe-
cially the weak and minor ones, with gentle
courtesy and forbearance very seldom practised
by other powerful states; aud the result has
been that il has had TO bear-and always has
been too willing to put up with-slights and
grievances from such weak and minor goyern-
nents as never, perhaps, would have been
offered 40 other states. We have particularly
| erred in treating as u government the Captain
| Generally of Cuba--which is no government at
all, but n co lonial satrapate which ought never
i'll any instance, TO be allowed to exercise. it
does the powe OF life or death the citizens
of n foreign state. Our courtesy is rewarded
by the culd blooa'ed massacre OF fifty of our cit
izens. Does any one believe that General Con-
cha, or any other island governor would ever
have dared to shoot fifty Englishmen, or fifty
Frenchmen, under sin liar circumstances
..a sFg .s4E.
A HoT SPkiEG.--Ont Of the members OF the
Mexican Boundary Coklmission, writing from
Santa Rita, New Mexico, 70 the Providence
Joarzui, thus describes spring discovered on
| the I'd May: g.,Itra 81
Having heard of q remarkable shot spring
few miles from our road, ali that were mounted
determined to visit, and on leaving camp struck
off into the plain, in a straight direction for it,
| A ride of about five miles brought us to the
| spot, which wns indicated by hill about six
! nundred feet III circumference at its base, and
| about thirty or forty feet high, which was
| formed entirely by the deposites made by the
| waters of the spring On the summit Of this
hill was basin twenty feet in diameter, con-
taining the hot water, the surface of which was
| SIX or eight ieet below the top of the basin.
The temperature Of the water found to
! be l25 degrees, aud of course SO hot that the
| lriud couIu hot be borne III il. Dr. Webb col
| ected the gas which bubbled up from the bot
ium, ana found it to be neither hydrogen nor
| carIuuIc acid gas. His conclusion, therefore,
that 1t was purely atmospheric air., The
water was pleasant to the taste, and would be
palatablc il cooled AT one side OF the hin a
su1uli spring burst out, and ut u short distance
| where ii collected in pool the water was cool
enough To bathe in, but even then 1t was liter
ally hot bath. 4. ... NJ.