New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-04
ST. THOMAS.
REVOLT luton IN vENEZUELA-RUsS1AN Pki
VATEERS AGAIN-CHOLERA IN BANDA
DOS AND GRENADA.
From Our Own Correspondence.


ST. THOMAS. ". l., Monday, July II, 1854.
BY the arrival Of the Laguayra packet day OF TWO
since intelligence is brought OF serious rising or
revolution in Venezuela OF which you may not nave
heard IL is movement Of a Formidable character In
opposition 10 the existing Government and is in the
interests of Cen Paez. The first demonstrations
made on the LIST inst 1T Coro, town the Gulf of
VepezuOla come hundred or two miles to the west OF
Iaeuayra. Subsequently similar movements took
place at Valencia and in it's neighbOrhood. The move
ment promises 10 become general and successful. Ny
informant, who reliable says that doubtless by this
time the whole country Las risen. Things have been
rpenng to this ssuc for months back and an un-
success sfu sttcirpt was made some weeks since
conveIsed with Agent of the British Government IN
those regions few weeks since who informed me the
present Government was extremely corrupt ana Woud
certainly be Oy6ThrOwn as soon as the revoutl"ls's
Rad thoroughly natured their plans. The Govern
meIt Gent troops to suppress the rising at Coro out
could accomplish nothing, and il described as having
no means TO sustain itself against the movement, as
almost The entire population sympathze with the rev
Cluti,n. The Government has SUBSIDIZED item 80
freely tyWry OF eHorhtah' taxes 'ho' 'hc! sceh IT,
lief in change
Tie bugtear Of RUfsian pTivatecrs is still kept alive
is difficult 10 know what TO believe about the mat
ter If we may judge from the measures taken by the
BIitith and French Governments, we must suppose
they are sincere in their suspicious say British and
French, for since my last it las TRANSFERRED that
French brigOfwar s also in pursuit Of said pryateers
She was here last week. 1t also appears, recently
that the English vessels in this heghbOrhOOd are in
constant communication with the French Admiral at
Martinique and are under bis command. The first that
heard of the piratical vessels was that an Amer-
can schooner was off Chagres, with seventy men
on board armed to the teeth. and also with mounted
cannon. This was some two months ago. Two weeks
ago yesterday, as provincial schooner was coming
through the SOmbTco Passage sixty miles east OF this,
she was spoken BIS a schooner which the Captain took
to be American. She had he says, sails of American
cut and manufacture. She bore down upon him, aud
when she came near, ran up the Russian c0lOrs aud
wore away. week ago yesterday Saturday,
another English vesscl-a sloOp--was passing through
the Mona Iassage to the west of u.s. and brought
"to" and boarded By schooner with Russian colors
and robbed of coils of rope, about the only thing
she had The Captain reported to the English Consul
at Porto Rico, whittier she was bound the facts above
stated who Immediately communicated them to the
English and French COnsuls here, and the Devastation
and French brig dispatchedn the pursuit. The
Captain Of the slOOp gays there large number
of aimed men ON board the schooner, who all
white, and spoke English. There are strong marks of
imprObability about each of these stories. Why
the suspicious vessels should display Russian
colors, cannot understand; as, also, why
they should be maDCstng their practical nature TO no
purpose and for object TO little sloOps and schooners
and why the vessels that cruising for them,
nor the steamers plying in these waters in
no many directions any of the great number Of
merchant vessels why all these get glimpse of the
said prvateers, seems to me little singular. And
perhaps the yarns of these old salts must he taken with
some grains Of allowance. Yet the opinion prevails
that pirates are abroad. The Devastation sailed with
the Southampton packet this morning with the last
of which wrote you.
Every communication from Barbados swels the
dreadful statistics of the ravages of cholera in that
leland. The last steamer brings accounts that il had
subsidized somewhat in town. but was doing its work at
an awful rate in the other parts of the island; fifteen
thousand have already died; about two thousand also
have died in Grenada.