Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-06-30
The Reign Of Espionage.

Ola verify, says the New York Democratic
News. the infamous policy of European Govern
ments bids fair to be copied among US and TO
become-unless arrested by the thunders of a
| free press-part and parcel Of our institutions,
Espionage-the employment of the meanest of
the human race to watch, induce and report the
msdeeds of obnoxus individuals-would appear
to have become a usual and accepted engine Of
authority, both with our municipal and general
Governments While no man has dared rise up
IN this community and defend such outrages
upon grounds Of necessity or otherwise, it has.
nevertheless, become evident that n system of
obtaining information and legal eriaeace By the
employment Of spies and informers and by other
sHrreptstious and dishonest means, has grown up
in our midst and is sanctioned and made use of
by those "publc servants" to whom we have
in an evil hour granted Il temporary authority
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The prosecution of the late Postmaster at
New Orleans has shown US that the witnesses
and the Government in whose employ they
were, were infinitely more criminal than the
defendant was alleged to be; and their own
! testimony has proven it to be the custom
sanctioned by Postmaster General Campbell
and President Pierce-for mail agents, post
masters, &C., to open and read at their pleasure,
private letters passing through the mall
Nor is this all. A few months since, num-
Der of Cubans in this city, undertook, with
ample MEANS to get up an enterprise for free
ing their own country from European rule,
without violating the laws of the United States.
| They proposed to act as the British Govern
ment, with the permission of our President, has
| been actlng-recruit men--who should not be-
come an armed and organized force till after
leaving the jurisdiction of the United States.
| The President and Secretary Of State were Sat0
able to prosecute them; the espionage system
WAS adopted. 1t has lately TRANSFERRED that \
spy was sent and paid by the Administration
to learn the secrets of these Republican con-
spirators; that he deceived the leaders, and
/ obtained the information; that it was carried
1 to Washington and detailed by the Secretary of
] State and Attorney General to the Spanish
Minister; that through him it was commune
Gated to Cuba where those executions which
have shocked humanity and attested the des-
peration of Spanish tyranny. followed. The
murderers of-Estrampes and Felix are at Wash
ngton, and the spy who betrayed them to the
dungeon and garrote has been paid out of the
treasury of the American people,
OuR SENrIMENrs.-The Columbus (Ga. In
quirer, in commenting on the Notification Act
of Massachusetts and the measures of retaliation
proposed, says:
ssTo our mind how much soeyer might be
accomplished by the retaliatory action Of our
citizens or Legislatures, or both, our most atfec
tual remedy for existing evils, as well as
reliable guarantee against future aggressions,
lies in the Union Of the people on this vitality
| important subject of our Southern institutions
in all their bearings--not only upon the abstract
question of constitutional right but on the more
practical aspect in which it may be presented
! in the legislation either Of individual States or
of Congress. While our domestic divisions are
allowed to exist, III the face of the steadily adj
| vancing aggrcssions of our enemies, it may we'll
be doubted whether in truth the question of
| slavery is of paramount interest in the estima-
| ton of the South ; and so long considerable
portion of her people manifest preference for
! the incidents of party assendency over the
maintenance Of this great public interest, so
| long may we expect to meet with the distrust
Of those at the North who would be our friends,
and the Indifference if not contempt of our I'M
disguised foes The security of the rights Of
the South, then, and the integrity Of her in
situations, lie mainly in the union of her people
on this great question, and his great question
made paramount one. - Hs
Let all others be for the present subordinate ;
and upon this, let all who value and are deter
mined to maintain their constitutional privileges
manifest that determination by postponng,
| abjourning, and if need be, forever burying,
the differences which have too long divided the
people of the South and weakened their counsels.
| And in behalf Of the great controlling interest
which should occupy the energies of every true
Southern patriot let them proclaim to friend
and foe. that on the great and to them para
| mount question of their constitutional rights
| the people of the South are henceforth One
People and One Party. @
THE LEsIATHAN SrEAMsHIP-The London cor
respondent of the Philadelphia North American, in
his letter Of the It'll inst, says:
Ipaid visit few days since to Scott Russell's
establishment, to observe the progress towards
completion of the zleviathan steamer, building for
| the Northern and Eastern Steam Navigation Com
pany 1t is impossible to describe the feelings with
which one surveys this monster OF the deep. II
puts to fight all ideas OF marine vessels previously
entertained. lremenlber looking with marvel at
the Himalaya, which was absolutely as long as one
of the streets of Southampton, alongside Of which
she lays; but this vessel twice the length Of the
Hmalaya, for her length is nearly seven hundred
feet, and her depth seventy feet. Her tonnage is
$4,000.
1t is supposed she will be ready for her trial trip
garry HEAL springs WHICH, WIZ Uc W yUuE SuOTSs
She is expected to make the Journey from England
to the United States and back in fourteen days.
Her first chartered voyage win be to Australia,
from her port in Milford Haven, and it is calculated
that she will perform the distance, $4,000 miles, in
thirty-two days, just half the time taken by that
1 splendid clipper ship james Brines built BY Mr..
Mckay, Of Boston, T. S. She is expected to MAIN
| tain an average speed Of fifteen knots per hour.
She will hoist no canvas When launched, it will
be accomplished by hydraulic pressure, and broad
side on. IN @ atg5 @
| NEW STATUES BE HIRAM PgWERs.-A CORES
pondent Of the Springfield Republican writes
from Florence as follows: ~
+" FASTENED on my arrival to visit the studio Of
our countryman, Mr.. Powers, the sculptor He
was not in then, but was politely conducted
about it by one Of his workmen, who led me ut
once to the statues of America and California,
on which Mr.. Powers is at present engaged.
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