The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-08-11
The Costa ATair.
Conduct Of Commodore Hlgrahaha-C Correspond
eqce sctth Lhe AUSTRIAN Minister.

time since tnat locality has been SO thorough '
walked up as 1t has been by the energy of Capt
, lngraham, OF the st. Louis The most straioht.
, forward statement to hand saws that Martin
koosta, or Costa, had been but a few davs in
Smyrna, although another account saws he had
been eight months concealed in the citv Atau
events, on the evening of the 22d June he wos
quietly smoking IN Greek coffee house on the
Whari, mot private dwelling of a Sandman. as
was at trst reported when band of ten men
came TO the spot and arrested him as . Hunga
rlan, who was in banishment with Kossntb q,
kutayah, and was permitted to 90 10 Ameri
ca, on pledging his word never to return 10 Trr-
kIsh territory Costa struggled with his assail-
ants, and knocked one or two of them int tbo
water, and at length leaped into the strear, opd
SWAN towards ship. He was soon oyertalen
dragged into a boat, and taken on hoard tho
Austrian brig of war Huzzar where he was
heavily Ironed 1t was observed that six of his
captors remained on board the BRIG and the res,
returned ashore The affair would appear ia
have blown over for that night but tho next
morning 1t was generally talked of and the most
intense excitement arose. Mr. Brown the II
5. Consul, learning that Costa was last fron
America, waited on the Consul General Of Ans
trla, saying that he understood that a native of
Hungary, who had become an American citiza,,
bad been taken by force on board the Austrian
! brig of war, and he wished to see the man ord
ask him for explanations
The Austrian Consul denied all KNOWLEDGE OF
the fact Mr. Brown then proceeded to the
( brig and requested an interview with the nr;s
oner, which was refused, and meantime the YES
sci was preparing TO depart. Just at that mo-
ment, the corvette St. Louis, Capt Iaorsbar,
commanding, sailed into the iiarbor and tho
Consul lost no time in Communicating the cir
leumstances. Our accounts clash here: it would
seem mat Capt. Ingraham, having gone on
board the Austrian brig, was told BY the Lieu
tenant that ne had no prisoner in the ship Re-
turning board second time, and accompa-
MED by Alr. Brown they found Commodore
Schartz, captain of the brig, whom Capt Ingra-
ham thus addressed
''Your Lieutenant, sir, has lied Tie mean
est cabin boy in the American service would not
be guilty of such cowardice.'
Demanding then to see the prisoner, Costa
was brought on deck in irons. Capt Ingraham
asked, ''Are you an American ." NO [ am
Hungarian. ''Have you American pass
port ~ To which like blockhead) he replied
'AO, 1 am a Hungarian, and acikI die d Hun0ari-
an" The American could do no more and left
the brig Learning, however. soon after, that
Costa had taken the oath of citizenship and
seeing the Austrian brig preparing to depart
/ Capt ingraham sent a message that ''as from
a foreign independent territory and who had
sworn allegiance TO the Government of the Uni
ted States, he should feel it his duty to insist
upon the brig remaining under his guns until he
received instructions from Constantinople, and
If any attempt were made to depart he would
! at once fire into the Brig
While this was passing in the harbor the er-
citement no less on shore All the EuroDe-
an merchants went in body to Ali Pacha the
Turkish Governor of the city and begrea him
not to suffer this violation of the Ottoman terri
tory. The Pacha, IN great trepidation said he
could not help it, but would write to Constanti-
nople for instructions. The merchants then re-
pared to the Casino, which is their reading
room. ballroom and club, and there passed a
re solution TO expunge the name Of every Aus
trian from their rolls. Toward evening while
the city was yet in ferment, three officers from
the Austrian brig had the imprudence to 90 on
shore and sit smoKing in a cafe They we're
speedily surrounded by excited crowd of
Italians, who began by brandishing their knives.
and ended by stabbing of the officers, Mid
shipman the Baron Huckelberg aged eighteen,
and throwing him into the sea-
Another of the officers Lieutenant. was had
ly beaten and the third, the physician of the
brig, being in plain clothes, escaped unhurt-l
This cowardly assassination universally re- /
probated by the respectable inhabitants. On |
the 25th the funeral ofthe young man took place,
and all the Consulates with the exception Of the
English and American, hoisted black fl ags The
Austrian and Prussian Consuls accompanied the
body TO the grave, but the other Consuates were
not represented. On hearing of the affray
Baron Bruck, the Austrian Plenipotentiary at
Constantinople, demanded ample satisfaction
from the Porte within twenty -four hours, which
the Porte instantly granted by dismissing Ali
Pacha and appointing the Governor Of Rhodes
in his place. Several Of the refugees were also
arrested, but the guilty ones were said TO have
effected their escape. 1t even said that
the Porte had pledged itself TO put IL out of the
power of tie refugees, four hundred in number,
to do further mischief.
Meantime Mr.. Brown addressed note to Mr.
de Bruck, demanding the release of Costa. De
Bruck replied, in warm manner, that he could
not take such claim into consideration for a
moment, since Costa Hungarian, conse-
quently Austrian subject, and thai the En-
peror of Austria had full power over all his sub
iects in the Ottoman territory. Mr.. Brown, IN
return, reiterates his demand, and sends Bruck
a copy of the oath sworn TO by Costa, in New
York, promising adherence to the Government
of the United States, stating his intention of be-
coming American citizen, and discaTdiEg all
other allegiance whatever, especially that to the
Emperor of Austria.
/ A dispatch from Constantinople, July f. states
that Costa had been Professionally handed over
to the keeping of the Austrian Consul at Smyr
na.
1t was stated in Paris that Lord Redcliffe, the
British Ambassador at Constantinople had also
iuterposed Sin the name of humanity" TO have
Costa returned to the United States. dis
patch from Turin, llth, states that the Sardini-
an Government denies having had anything TO
do with Costa's arrest; the Sandman Consul in
| Smyrna had no communication with the Austri-
an Consul on the subject Another letter from
Vienna states that the particular crime laid to
Costa's charge is having assisted to hide the
regalia of Hungary.
There three American ships (names not
stated) at Constantinople. 1t was reported that
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