Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1859-11-25
From the Richmond Dispatch.


When the members OF the Inflated EXPEDITION
persisted by martial the hands of the Cuban auhor
ties Northern press with but little exception expressed
its appreciation of their DOOM But the Black Republican
did than their apprObatiOn They
ubant with delight they roted i'll the of slaughter
voice of commseration not tear of sympathy
in all their ranks but from every beams of delight from
every voice shouts of triumph.
The victims of this flbusering effort to overthrow the
government of Cuba sixty seventy number mostly
young men, conspicuous among whom young CrItten-
den phe Of the distinguished Senator frtm Kentucky
They had been entced from their homes by representations
that the people Of Cuba eager to strike blow for
Dependence We do not justify have JUS
titled that foray into the territory Of peaceful neighbour
We have always believed and believe more than
ever that the South ought to make friend and not
nv of SPAIN and draw The bonds of entente cordiae
ourselves and Ingenious gallant and hospt BILE
ope who possess institutions and characteristics in
resembling those people of sunny cline. But
these thoughess and adventurous young men, sgaed and
assisted by the agents of Northern capitalists. whose
merce is more interested than the South can possibly
the acquisition Cuba all expated their bold mid day
With their blood, and the press which sympa
hizes with the midnight ncendiary Brown made the wei
kin ring with a shout of satisfaction Crittenden ard his
companions had trial by jury, opportunity of Defence
one was shot down under atial law. Brown,
according his showing has had fair trial he
has been permitted to have counsel of his own from the
Northern States, he has been allowed make ncendary
speeches in his Defence and having been tried and
deserved but his execution deferred for thirty days
during the interval he is treated according to his dec
araons with humanity and tenderness that render IN
necessary for his wife be his side Yet the
that looked with stony glare the pool of youthful
blood in Cuba are now dropping floods OF hypocrtca tears
this fate and the voices that then heard
only in expatiaon are now bowling like wild animals that
have lost their mates Finally the character and bear
ing the ibusers have elected the sympa-
thy of those who approved their DOOM Crtenden,
mere boy, full of manly and ingenious impulses leaving
behind him fond hearts at his resde allied
by blood with of the most national of American
men and eloquent of American orators, wi long life of
usefulness and distinction before him. shot down the
morning of his fe and dying like hero without word
Of complaint prayer for human mercyah, that
sweet smelling sacrifice to the Demon of Abolition. But
this Old Brown this horse thief murderer this
plote of the horrible crimes and boodshed among
unoendng people, this veteran sinner who has nothing
offer justice but the wreck of ispent lfe-e hero
he is martyr he is dying apostle nay in The language
of that disgusting pedan and disappearing infdel Ralph
Waldo Emerson he converts the gallows into cross "
A NIGHT IN PIGEON RoosT-Just now the wild
pigeons roost in nnumerabe numbers In the Chenango
Swamp, Crawford county, Pennsylvania, about two
miles East of the Ohio line. The swamp about ten
miles long, by two three wide, grown up with tanner
ack or larch trees and alder bushes The editor of the
Ashtabula Sentinel has been among the pigeons. he
says:
when within two miles of the roostng place. we began to
the of the wings of the millions of birds there
gregaed which literally equaed the of Niagara. But
s svv berSars descrntion' There were nrohabv
hundred hunters assembled and at work These d
vded into parties OF not more than two or threesome
the tameracks, and in the alders At shot in the
bushes the birds in aud settled in the trees
when fired upon there they flew to the bushes This chang
ing continued all night At single shot, the flock always
rose and few short distance to settle be fred upon
again This lasted all night The usual mode of
gun and the other with bag and lantern and matches
the shot is fred the bag strikes light and
wounded ones will hide and be lost Six dozen is quite
heavy load for any We gin eou under five dozen
bushes and with the other at the " bile up The boil
up is very natural one for every shot the flock will
rise straight upward and after circulating few
make swoopng course, and then aght, perhaps within
yards of where they The number killed al
most incredible. One killed four dozen at single
shot, and nine hundred in the night.