Demoine courier., 1854-08-10

tlHe oil tne OOm0ardmeni, aGQ from o.
sengers by The Prometheus. We eair fur
ther facts relative 10 the town aHl It's de.
struction. H@
Greytown consisted of about eighty
houses, nearly all Of them bull, Of wood,
and by far the greater proportion of tFsm
constructed in the United States asd IA.
ken there on shipboard One OF these,
Lyons hotel, cost 81 $1,000. Ne, more
than one fourth of the houses in tie new
part Of the town. which has been bulls
since 1850, were occupied. They have
heretofore been occupied, bu, were 6e.
serted from business considerations como
time previous to this affair. The poyu.
ulation Of Greyiown consisted Of abous
500 persons altogether; of this nun ber.
ten or twelve were from the Un..cd
States, about twenty five were English.
men, and twelve Frenchmen and Ger
mans. The remainder of The popu,a-
ton were Jamaica negroes ard natives.
The Americans. English, French and
Dutch were engaged in hotel keeping
and tade.
The houses occupied by the natives
and negroes were principally frame
buildings with roofs of ,ha,ched palmleaf.
When the Cyane appeared before
Greyiown, and demanded satisfaction
to the amount Of $4,000, threatening
bombardment if no, complied with at
given hour, it was not believed by the
inhabitants that the town would be Go
molished, pilaged and burned. They
expected that few shots would be fred
into the town, ,ha, few houses would
be perforated, and then hos,ili,ies would
cease. Most Of The English. however.
went for protection, on board the BRUSH
war schooner Besmundas. Capt Jolly.
lying in The harbor. Mr.. Fabens, u. S.
Agent, together with six or seven other
Americans. left the place during the
nigh. and morning preceding its des,ruc-
,ion. They all encamped together on
the shore about mile distant. Not an
licipaiirg the entire demolition Of the
town by bomb shells and torches. they
took but little of their effects with them.
All tho property was destroyed. Con-
sequen.ly the houseless inhabitants were
in great suffering for the war, of food. and
of clothing and protection from The
weather. when our informan. left. They
had stretched up sheets for tents, and
many were obliged to sleep in the open
air, without, the least shelter, and were
half famished for the wan, OF food. A
brig laden with provisions. which had
just arrived as the bombardmens CON-
menced. has probably supplied them.
The terms of Capt. Hollins no, being
complied with he opened his fire prompt
ly a, the appointed sine-nearly every.
shot doing execution. He fired about
two hundred shots, but not burning up
the town as he desired, he sent ashore a
launch with lie ltenant and about ,wen-
~ Ave Gsn, who proceeded to sci on
fire all that remained of Greytown.-
While doing so, they are said to have
inspected the interior of the buildings
rather closely, and pilaged as much as
they pleased. Before finishing this work
they were pretty thoroughly intoxicated
with wines and liquors, and were con.
s,antly cheering. The amount of prop
erly destroyed ty this bomba'dment is
stated TO be half million of dollars.
The day before The bombardmsn.
Capt. Hollns took possession OF The
guns which were for the protection of
the town, and took them 10 Punta Are
mas. and placed them i'll the keeping OF
the Transit Company. During .he bonn
bardment two shots were aimed at the
flagstaff from which floateG .he Musqui-
10 flag. The frs, ball severed the hal
yards, and the second ball cut the staff
half oil, from which twas suspended.
When the Cyane was cannonading.
a note was received by Capt. Hollins
from the Captain of the British schoon-
or Bermuda, stating that he regretted
that he had not British vessel of war
there of the size Of the Cyane-
he would compel him to desis..--
Capt. Hollins. in reply to the note, re-
GREETED tha, Capt. Jolly had no, two Jus,
such, as he believed that the United
States could get possession of them on
The same terms as they got the Cyane.
There was good deal of anxious look
ing for the British mail steamer Dee,
then hourly expected, and remarks were
made that when she arrived hosiilities
would Immediately oe suspended. Just
as the town was TO be fred the expected
mail steamer arrived. but much to tho
surprise of all The Englishmen, the work
Of plllaging and setting Gre to the town
went forward. When j. was all over,
the British mail steamer left for some
other port. having the Bermuda in tow.
The burning aud pillaging party were
on shore nearly half the day, and pass.
ed the time in great glee. Many Of them
were so much intoxicated that it wi
not an easy matter to get them on boar -
again.
A number Of the residents Of Grey
town came to New York on board Of
the Prometheus. being provided with
free passages by the agent.
Two persons were said TO be missing,
and there were apprehensions that they
had been burned IN the confagra.ion.
DECIDEDLY RlcH.-.The following
incident. which occurred in neighboring
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