The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-08-16

rect account of the "insult" offered to Mr..
Borland, for which Greytown was destroyed.
Read It, and form your own opinion of the
justice and mightiness of the Pierce admin
istration-of the conquerors of Greytown.-
This insult to the Senatorial ruffian Borland,
aud the stealing of a yawl load of goods
from transit company, according to their
account, formed the origin of the Greytown
outrage-an outrage which never had a par
allel in the history of civilization, and which
has disgraced our country in the eyes of ev-
cry people, and may probably cost US mill
lions:
From the New York Evening Post.
The Murder Of Ant0nio-Anothcr wits
ness-CaPt' Smith not an A me rican.
We give below the statement of very in
teligent man who was on board the steam.
er Routh, with Borland and others, when
Capt. Smith shot Antonio. 1t is the clearest
and most intelligent statement of the &C cur.
renee that has been submitted to the public
and makes out case of as deliberate murder
against Captain Smith as ever was perpet.
rated. Mr.. Millar also states that so far from
Smith being an American, he was mixed
blood, part African and part Portuguese, and
no more an American than Antonio.
STATEMENT OF MR.. MILLER.
VIM. l.. Miller, residing at No. $50 Hous.
ton ST., in the City of New York, states:
was on board the steamer kouth when An
tonic the pilot was shot. took passage in
the Routh at Machcca Rapids. About tw o
o'clock in the fore noon, as was sitting in
my hammock below, heard loud talking on
d ok, and from some bungos which appeared
to be alongside. Presently two colored boy 6
came in and took out three pistols, two OF
which they concealed in their breasts. 7
asked them what was the excitement! They
told me Captain Smith was turning the boat
around to 60 back and shoot Antonio, the
pstrone of tire bungo we had just now passed.
asked the reasons Of his shooting him.
They said that Captain Smith and he quar-
relied every time they met, that he once
worked ON the boat with Captain Smith; that
they had quarrel, and quarreed every time
they met afterward. The boat went on back
up the river for about half an hour, when
she turned round and ran right down, bows
into the broadside of Antonio's bungo. I
had gone out on the guard.-There were two
bungos lying together, Antonio's outside. 1t
sounded as if the boat was smashing the burr
COS all to pieces. Antonio kept sitting on
the stern Of his boat-the chopa. He did
not rise until the steamer struck his bungo,
when he rose up, held up his left hand to Ca D.
tain Smith, and said. "Cuidado, captain, usted
rompe me bungo-"raks care, captain, YOU
break my bungo."
He was about to repeat the same express.
son, and 60 ont the word "cuiadado," when
ball entered the nipple of the left breast.
While standing in this position he had in
his hand single barreled gun on half-cock,
and left end OF it resting on the chops of the
qungo, his right hand grasping the barrel
about three or four inches from its mouth.
The instant the shot entered him he took
tw , steps forward, aud was in the act of tai &
ing the third when be tumbled head foremost
into the other bungo next the bank. The
| steamer then went OH. As far as saw i'm
looking back, he remained in the same posi-.
ton with his feet up.
There were apparently the crews of two
bungos on the bank, and some women who
ran out on the bank as soon as the steamer
ran into the bungo. The crews of the bun-
Cos appeared to have been taking their din
ner. There was ERE and cooking untensils
| about.
We proceeded down the river, getting
aground two or three times. Most of the
passengers disapproved of the act Of Capt.
Smith, and the talk was that Mr.. Borland
told him to shoot them. ! went up on the
hurricane deck, where Mr.. Borland, Captain
Smith, Mr.. Wiedemunn, the Hamburg con-
sui, and several others were standing Cap
tain Su it'll was in the pilot house. l asked
Mr.. Borland il he thought it wos right for
Captain Smith to shoot the captain of the
bungo. Mr.. b. answered that he thought it
very wrong TO shoot him; that he had said to
him, tina; were he in his place he would bring
Antonio on board and whip him, and that he
did not expect Captain Smith would shoot
him when he sent out his men to bring An.
tonic on board the steamer. Mr.. Wiede.
mann and others were present when this Ia TX
occurred.
Twas on board the Routh after her arrival
alongside the Northern Light, when the Of.
ficials of Greytown came OIL board to appre.
bend Captain Smith. Mr.. Borland came on
board also from the Northern Light, and pre-.
vented the officials from taking Smith. He
claimed him as an American citizen. Can't.
Smith has the appearance of being a mixed
breed of African and Portuguese. He is
about as dark as Antonio, and his hair is very
black and curly. should not take him to
be American-born any more than Antonio.
After the officers left, Dir. BorIand went
on shore. Sometime after he left, ] should
think about O'Clock at night, Mr.. Fabens,
the United States Commercial Agent, came
on board, and stated to me and others that the
natives ofGreytown had abused Dir. Bor.ond,
and that one of them had thrown a broken
bottle at him, and injured him very much on
the LETT side of his face. He also stated that
Mr. Borland was very much cut up, and that
when they left they had put Mr.. B. in the
stocks. l asked him if they had taken him
to the Greytown stocks! His answer was
they had. He said he had come over to the
ship on purpose to get Capt. Churchill of the
Northern Light to send his crew, and as many
of the California passengers as would go.