The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1852-05-11

possible from white to jet black-negroes, In
dians Guachos, cavalry asleep on their horses,
artillery asleep under their guns, with white
flags from the muzzles, all had bivouacked to-
gether in the open square.
I counted the carcasses of ten beeves at one
glance and the swslterng crowd stripping off
cooking, and eating without cooking, the last
ounce of their bones. The fendish yells, the
vivas, vivas, made the very earth tremble. II
was whispered about, and soon confirmed, that
Rosas had escaped, and had taken refuge on
board the English war Steamer Locust. I was
at the doors Of the police Office In the square,
with some others, when we saw the swaying
and singing of the masses before US and to-
ward US "Viva, viva" To the prisons, as In
France to the Bastile--they made one rush up
on the main door, il gave way to the first shock.
In poured the mass, and went with the cur.
rent. "Viva Urquiza, viva, viva, muer an a
Rosasp
In few minutes one or two hundred prs-
oners, for political doctrines, among whom
were many women, even with irons upon their
limbs, were released with the most, horrid yells
mprecations and vivas. We passed through
the apartment. Hundreds had been shot by
Rosas, by day and by night, In these rooms,
and some of these had been immured for years
and would never have lived 10 come out If Ro-
sas had been the victor. The Azoetas, or
roofs of tho houses, meantime, are crowded
with armed men, ready to pour their fire into
the streets, as they were yesterday.
Today robbers and plunderers first made thoir
appearance openly, and the American Consul,
Mr.. Graham, with five or six marines of the
Jamestown, had the hoho- Of giving the first
check to their operations. Five or six of them
mounted, came down near Mr.. G.'s door, and
attacked a store to p!under it. Mr.. G.. order
cd them away; they left,and in few moments
returned with ten or fifteen more, put their
guns to the door and blew it in.
Mr.. G. again ordered them away-they
fired on him, doing no harm. They ordered
the marines standing by to fire. They killed
three on the spot, and one horse. The fourth
man fell in twenty yards. Some forty or fifty
men were shot in the suburbs during tho day
and night. In the morning Rosas was joined
by his family and some thirty-fve or forty of
his bloody followers, and transferred to the
English Admiral's ship, the Centaur, a ships
length from us.
The battle was fought Feb. 3, from to 8
o'clock in the morning. and until ton o'clock
it was believed that Rosas was still fghting.-
Now that the smoke has cleared away, we can
perhaps get nearer the truth. There were
over forty thousand men on and near the field.
Urquiza held ten or twelve thousand in re-
serve, and did not bring them into fight at all.
Rosas himself had ninety pieces Of artillery.
| Urquiza the best cavalry. Rosas commanded
in person his whole line. as he himself, three
miles long, having no Generals to aid him.
| The killed, at first said to be three thousand
has dwindled down to eight hundred. Some
five hundred wounded have been brought in
to the hospitals in the city, and all the foreign
| surgeons, our own among them, have been
closely engaged in amputations, &c.
There has beefi a discovery made at the
Quinta, which has produced some excitement,
even here viz: some barrels of picked human
heads believe they were carefully put each
in cask, fifteen or twenty by themselves
Two explanations were given of it-one is that
Rosas intended them to grace triumphal en-
try into the city, and the other that they were
to be sent into the interior as scare-crows at
the crossroads as is the custom in Spain to
this day. Neither would scarcely satisfy q
Massachusetts community.
Some startling revolutions occur daily. A
man has appeared in the city who has lived in
his own cellar for IL years; most of the time
the police were after him, but he escaped them
and now astotiishes his next door neighbors.
Whether the people will gain by the change
is not yet so certain. Urquiza is scarcely less
of the tyrant and tiger than Rosas. He
shoots without mercy. Eighty men and women
|
last, and yesterday he issued a proclamation
which will compromise five or six thousand,
requiring all magistrates to arrest them where
ever found, and every man will be shot.
His first proclamation was that all who were
found stealing or plundering should be shot in
fifteen minutes after sentence. 1t was only
necessary to accuse--proof was scarcely nee
essary or asked for. II was estimated that four
hundred were shot in three or four days; the
last was the fusidale Of eighty. An English
eficer was killed on the way out to the Quint
an hour after and my friends had passed.
Refugees are plenty; we have two on board
one Major and one an adjutant of Rosas -
The Major was in Rosas' army of Oribe, before
Monte, ideo-was taken prisoner by Urquiza,
and parolled. add came up here. Rosas gave
him his choice to be shot or fight; he chose to
fight. Miss Mauuelita, the most extraordinary
female living. presented him with beautiful
lance, which he lost in the fight, having speared
a fellow N the back, he could not withdraw il
and had to leave il.
The Cen,aur took Rosas and suite to Monte.
vide, and put them on board the steamer Con-
fct for Pernambuco, 10 meet there or overtake
there the mail steamer for England. Strange
as it may be, Rosas has saved nothing All
the money he took, and all he had was scarcely
a change of dress. The Centaur returned
here, and has now in his possession, eight more
! refugees.
: Urquiza is to have grand triumphant entry
into the city day after tomorrow. Balls and
fireworks and rejoicing will now be the order
, of the day, and fusilate at sunset. For TWEEN
ty years, Rosas has been the supreme unques.
tionable Dictator. He had no idea he could
, fall. But there was disaffection, treachery
and undoubtedly every possible appliance BY
the Brazilans, Montevedeans, and even Eng
, lish and French in some measure. Urquiz'
f never could have conquered but by the mora
r force of foreign influence the Brazilians espe
cially. They had three war steamers and :
, large sloops Of war before the city and som,
{ thousands of troops in the army of Urquiza.
: Rosas is now half way to England He i
D about feet inches. thick stout frame, inclin
. cd to corpulency: near sixty years Of age, hi
r hair still black and thick: scarcely showing hi
0 age: in his language vulgar sensual and bruta