The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-05
A TERRIBLE CIVIL WAR.

private letter gives the following terrible story
of the awful atrocities committed in the Banda
Oriental country. The letter is dated Monteviden
February 6
"We still in State of civil war in this unor-
tunate province. This time there has been much
bloodshed, some seven hundred lives having already
been sacrificed to the cause of Libcrfy How that
word is abusedD
"Gen. Dias was defeated, about week since some
$50 miles in the interior, and over three hundred
prisoners surrendered to the Government troops
After sending to this place, to the Government, to
know what disposition should be made of the pris-
oners, the President sent orders an hour afterwards
to shoot twentyeght officers and cut the throats of
nearly two hundred of the soldiers. Among the oti
GERS were General Caesar Dias, who has been serving
his country all his lifetime, and in command of
the forces from this province when ROsas fell and
man who bore an excellent character; Gen. Frare,
one Of the veterans of thirtythree, and his son,
Colonel: with other officers of not much lower grade
''This has been Of the most brutal butcheres
that stained the annals of this country. 1t
outstrips ROsas and Oribe altogether. When it
was known that the order had been sent out for
this wholesale slaughter the English and French
Ministers and both Admirals, the Spanish Minister
American Commodore and American Consul all
went to the President to supplicate mercy for
these poor fellows, but in vain.
''The consequence, will, ] fear be dreadful, and
we begin to see it already. The cavalry escaped at
the surrender of Dias and have been making dread
ful work. They have already visited several villa
ges and cut the throat of every blanca they
their property to great extent possible.
This vengeance does not fall upon the guilty only
but on any Of the adherents Of the party that did
the awful deed above mentioned"
THE PURCHASE OF MorNr VERNoy-The Leoisla
ture of Virginia, by unanimous vote have passed
an act amending the act Incorporating the Mount
Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union II nro
vides that shall be lawful for the Association to
purch ase, hold and improve two hundred acres of
Mount Vernon, including the late mansion as well
as the tomb of Washington, together with the garden
grounds, and wharf and landing now constructed
on the Potomac river; and to this end they NAV
receive from the owner and PROPRIETOR of the
said land, deed in fee simple and shall have
and exercise full power over the use and man
agGment OF the same, they may bv bylaws
ana . rules declare; provided, however, that the
Association shall not have the power to alien
the sald land or any yart thereof, or to create a
charge thereon, or to lease the same, without the
consent of the General Assembly of Virginia first had
and obtained that the capital stock of the Association
shall not, including the two hundred acres of land
aforesaid, exceed of five hundred thousand dol
lars; that the Association in contracting with the pro
prietor of Mount Vernon for the purchase of the
same, NAV covenant with him, to reserve to
him the right to inter the remains of such persons
whose remains are in the vault at Mount Vernon
as are not inferred, and to place the said vault
in such a secure and permanent condition as he
shall see fit, and to inclose the same so as not to in
clude more than halfacre of land and the said
vauIt the remains in and around it. and tba
ipclosure shall never be removed nor Disturbed.
nor shall any other person hereafter ever no in,
TERED or entombed within the said vault or inclo
sure: that the property authorized to be purchased
bv the Association shall be eforever held by it. sacred
to the Father of his Country; and if from any cause
the Association shall cease to exist, the propertv
owned by the Association shall revert to the Com
of Virginia. sacred to the purnose for
which it was originally purchased.
1t is stated that the House of Representatives of