New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-06

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FRosrs ON RED RIVER. --.Ndtchif0ehes, May
I've had a heavy white frost in this place
and the country around, on the morning OF the
LIST and I'd of May.
| FRoN HAyTI, Ne,c Fork, May 2 Intelligence
received here from Port-au Prince to the l4th
| nit confirms the report that Soulouque intend
| cd 70 invade ST. Domingo He is preparing to
| do 80 by both sea and land.
| RESIGNATION or Mr. BoRLAND. - Vashing toas
! NAV 2.-The resignation of Mr. Borland as U.
| s. Minister TO Central America has been re-
ceived in this city
Lafayette Foster has been elected Speaker of
the Connecticut House of Representatives.
Washingfon, April 20, ls54.-The Black
Warrior affair has completely fzzed out as l
intimated that it would from the beginning,
| How wise the committee on foreign relations in
| the House have acted, by not acting on the sub
| iact at ALL The House has of late become the
| conservative branch Of the Government. Bal
| timore Sun. ..*.
| Unfortunately the Black Warrior affair has
not fzzled out" and, in the existing condition
| Of things, it cannot fzzle out except by the Ad-
ministration's fizzling out The Administration,
upon the arrival of the first report from Havana.
made all haste to send q peremptory demand
upon the Spanish Government for redress, etc,
assuming that the report was in all Its partl-
culars strictly true.
But the report was not true. Messrs Tying
8 Co., the proprietors or agents OF the Black
Warrior, have addressed memorial to the queen
of Spain, praying for the remission of the hne OF
$4,000 imposed by the Cuban authorities upon
their vessel Their memorial is not an appeal
against injustice, but an humble prayer for mo-
new, a PRAYER unworthy of the American char
aeter. They do not pretend that they have suf-
tered injustice, but they say there was no inten-
ton of defrauding the royal revenue, and there
fore they beg exemption from the payment Of
the prescribed fine g as a grace which they hope
for from the august benignity Ct her Majesty y
When our minister in Madrid, in pursuance Of
hisinstructions from Washington, makes strong
representation of the injustice done to the pro
| prietors of the Black Warrior and presents
lemand for instant redress, Spain will ofcourss
| meet the demand with the memorial of those very
proprietors-with their confession of a violation
Of the Spanish revenue laws and their prayel
for gracious remission of punishment
Documents recently pt blished by the Cubar
authorities in defense Of their own action weak
| IN, if possible, still further the claim made OF
Spain for redress. The documents addressed
| nv Capt Bulloch the commanding officer of thu
| Black Warrior, the Messrs. Tying & So, anc
The U s. Consul at Havana, to the Spanish au
thorities, make up a representation of the cir
eumstances CT the seizure OF the Black Warrlo
very different indeed from that which the sam
parties made to the Adm nistration at Wash
ington, and upon which the Administration
.cted in such hot haste. To the Cuban au
; thorities those parties fully admit that thei
vessel was legally seized for the violation of es
ablished port regulations, but they conten
hat they are entitled to pardon because the
lid not know the law or understand the Ian
guage, because they had committed similar act
ipon previous occasions without being punished
md because they had no design to commit fraud
The Captain General replies that it was thei
business to understand the revenue laws of
i port at which they regularly traded; that, j
order that they might understand and eompl
With those laws, they had been furnished wit
! copies of them in the English language; that
b he laws had been previously violated by thel
" any body else, it had been done without th
knowledge of the authorities and, that the Brit
i sh steamers. though alleged by Messrs Tyn
{ & Co. to have habitually violated the laws
question, had habitually observed them. Lot
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