The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-17

party may rob the dwellings and stores Of
foreigners with impunity, or go board 70
them Of their cargoes, and even appropriate the
vessel to their and the OF venexuela are
to be held liable the sufferers for depredations
committed by her citizens Every government il
bound to suppress mobs rising of the citizens aud
If it does not, 1t must be bound by the consequences
where the rights of foreigners tramped upon. This
seems to be wholly new doctrine, promulgated by the
Monagas dynasty, in the face Of solemn treaties
which the protection Of foreigners and their
properties and Venezuela is not capable Of granting
the necessary protection to foreigners who are residing
within her territory trading with her ports Is time
for other nations 10 take the matter into their
hands Will President Pierce submit to this act OF the
Venezuelan Congress- in the face Of his inaugural ad
win the Earl Of Clarendon submit to it Venezuela
should remember the famous law of Esperar 1S47 sus-
pending the payment Of all debts for nine years. with
out interest and which Lord Palmerston hurled
back with merted Indignation, and obliged Vene-
zuela through the British Charge d'Aiairs, Colo
which were suspended by that law, and the same
Congress which passed the law obliged to repeal it,
and make appropriations for the payment Of all losses
by British subjects which amounted to many hundred
thousand dollars. The President is called upon by the
American citizens residing in Venezuela to instruct the
he shall have arrived and have been officially received
to enter his solemn protest against this extraordinary
act with notice that the United States win hold venezu
ella responsible for all losses damages sustained by
American citizens which may be hereafter sustained
in consequence Of any revolution or internal commotion
by citizens of Venezuela the law Of the 9th of March,
1854 to the contrary notwithstanding.
Holy week has ended the professions have ceased the
wooden Saviour has crucied-carred funeral ar
ray with the Holy Virgin in full mourning the body has
been raised to-day Saturday instead Of sundayD and
the next object is to put the Jews to death for
manded by God, to save mankind from everlasting
perdition. The dresses Of men are stuffed with
straw, with mask for the face the head and heart fill
ed with fire crackers the suspended by the neck BY
rope in the air. and torch applied to the feet The
door Jew is enveloped in 6amesthe FIRE reaches
the heart-the fire crackers explodethe body is blown
to atoms and all is over and the good Catholics with
all their superstition, are appeased.
While on this subject viii inform the shipping mer
chants of New York, Philadelphia, &C., of the made
of the immense quantity Of gunpowder exported to
Venezuela. is nearly all consumed at the doors Of the
sibe object of attracting attention to the churches
Sixty seventy discharges OF small cannon take place
frequently during one service, with innumerable mum
bers of sky rockets, which let off by day well
night, from the church doors, and may be heard
stanly whzng in the air. besides fire crackers pistols
&c, with the maddening ringing Of bells during the SER
vice OF the church.
What Padre Gavazzi declared to his Italian brethren in
his lecture the 18th June last reported in the HER
ally have to seek refuge in Ireland. New Granada has
taken the lead in throwing off the Papal yoke thereby
showing much wisdom. Her last Congress passed law
forbddng any contribution either by the Central
ment provincial municipal authorities in support Of
the church clergy, thus separating enirely the
church and State, and withdrawing from all official
Nuncio at Bogota has placed the loving subjects of his
Holiness under the French Charge dAaairs. It is be-
example of New Granada, and the Bible viii superse ie
the bulls Of the Pope long, and the people will say
The smallpox is prevailing and has been for some me
in Caracas to alarming extent Hundreds of people
who have been affected with the disease hardly known
from the poxmarks on their faces. The deaths have
oblging parents to have their children vaccnated and
prohibiting the clergy from baptsng infants until after
HAs those who presume to write letters from Venezuela
are marked, / will subscribe myself FRANKLIN.