Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-03-18

try, any difference whatever we claimed the usual
twelve hours to correct the manifest The collector re-
piled that no addition correction could be made to the
manifest; that having asked for the clearance visit we
not take advantage Of that rule to correct the mani
fest But said We asked for the clearance visit last
Saturday, before the ship here and we could not
know what entry the captain would make. He said
No matter in making that petition you lose your right
to make the correction" Mr. Tying took out his watch
and said, request you, gentlemen for the Commandant
de Resguardo was also present having in af
the conversation commenced to take notice that on
this day. at half past three o'clock, it being within the
twelve hours allowed by law, | requested permission to
correct the manifest of the ship Black Warrior The
collector replied, Every good, and request you also
to take notice that on this day and at the hour
refuse your request because having asked for the clear
ance visit (vsta de soda) you have lost the right to
make any corrections" We asked what he should do,
and he said that he should discharge the ship. We
piled that protested against the whole proceeding
that the first bale of cotton other goods that came
out of her should be taken by him under his
sponsibty that should abandon vessel and cargo,
and hold him and his Government responsible for the
consequences.
At about o'clock an officer of the customs came to
notify that the chief Of the carabnos nspectors)
board the steamer and they should begin discharge
her once and requested to send some board
attend to the dschargng Of the cargo We replied that
memorial had been handed to the Captain General on
the subject that should not discharge the ship that
for any thing the chief of the carabineros might do
should hold him and his Government responsible He left
and went board the steamer to report to his
chief
About five o'clock another officer, saying that the
Collector had sent him that they about to
mence the discharge Of the ship We replied, to the
officer that we should not send any one to attend to
the dscharging that protested against the whole pro-
ceedngs that when the first bale of cotton out
should abandon the ship and hold him and the Government
responsible We heard more from them last night
This morning the Collector mutual friend of his
and say that it, after dischargng the cotton
captain would agree to present himself whenever the
Government should call for him. they would then let the
,I;
had opened the matches and began take cargo Not
Of the ship allowed to lend the least aid
sistance as Capt Bullock by advice of the Consul
well of ourselves, had given such orders When they
commenced to break cargo Capt Bullock hauled down
his ag abandoned the ship to them, and went with his
crew and officers on board the United States steamer
Fulton.
The Consul has written statement of the whole affair
to the Government Washington, and dispatches the
Corwin, coast survey steamer with the dispatches and
letters intended for the Black Warrior this afternoon for
Charleston.
We are supported in the course we have taken as also
the Captain by the opinions and advice of the Amer
Consul; by that Of Judge Wright former Comptrol-
Ter of New York. by several eminent lawyers now here
from the States, and by the merchants generally We
regret much these circumstances but have done the
best in power and have taken the best advice with
regard to every step we have taken in the matter.
When we recoect the thirtysix different times this
vessel has entered the harbor and always in the
way and that the steamers Of the George Law and other
lines have probably entered at least three hundred times
in the same way; than this that steamers Of the
Law line actually transferred full from steam
to another under the eye of the officers of the Govern
ment and both vessels entered and cleared in ballast
that Government will protect your inter-
they ought and the Spanish Government be made
to pay dearly for the work Of yesterday and to-day We
continue to use our efforts and those Of our friends
to bring this matter to satisfactory settlement.
/ Respectfully, your obedient servants,
| CHAS. TYING & co.
| The New Orleans q Courier states the nature of
the revenue laws of Cuba, as follows:
| "Under the old regulations of the Havana customs
ships arriving at that port obliged to make true
and manifest Of all cargo they have board whether
intended for Havana not When the steam navigation
grew up this regulation found inconvenient they
desired stay port only for such short time
to land passengers and mails and receive board
those intended for the United States and all of the
ships in the trade gave up entirely the practice Of taking
for Havana except SPECIE in order to avoid the de-
lay there which it caused Since that has been
adopted the Collector Of Havana has acceded the
tom of entering and clearing the ships without declaring
the quantity of cargo board for New York. To acli
the business Of the steamships still further regua
ton adopted that in they took cargo from Ha-
vana cigars other goods tonnage duties exact
cd only the quantity of cargo taken board at that
For two years has this been the custom in the port
Of Havana and the steamships under its practice have
deemed it necessary to declare the cargo intended
for that market" 1....#
The New Orleans " Bulletin" says, on the same
subject ....
"That the Black Warrior had been allowed heretofore,
although loaded deep she could be, enter and
clear in ballast, without the authorities Havana exact
ing the per cent duty for transit cargoes The
Captain General having appointed another set Of custom
house officers, the law construed differently than
der the old regime and Capt B. entering in ballast hav-
ing full cargo, by the Spanish law conscates the entire
cargo The vessel offered to him after the cotton
was discharged but not accepted"
] The Boston "Courier" remarks, in speaking of
the same affair
That the Spanish Government have passed law that
vessels which call their ports shall all their
the customhouse and the and captain Of the
Black Warrior well of this--we have heard
she has entered the harbor Of Havana three times
since the order promugated-but they fit to dis
regard it, the vessel seized for violation Of the law
the captain refused to enter into bonds to contest
validity Of the SEIZURE but abandoned her the officers
LEGAL OPINION ON THE I" LIQUOR LAw' OF
i MASSACHUSETTS.
The Boston Daily Advertiser publishes the opinions of
the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, delivered
on Monday last by Chief Justice SHAW in several