Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-07-20
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TmPoRTAN FHOM vENExOELA.

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rnsurrection Of she Negroess---Dreadful
Butchery---ConFIfct with the Govern.
ment Troops. ~
An arrival al PHILADELPHIA brings important news
from Venezuela. The negroes in the villages
in the vicinity Of Puerto Cabello haverisen and
committed horrible outrages requiring the employ
ment of Troops 10 put them down and restore Or
der. letter 70 the Bulletin Puerto Caoello' June
2sth, furnishes the subjOined particulars
On the 18th of 4his month, the negro population
Of the surrounding villages rose sgains' snis
assassinatipg the Judge Of the village, named IA,
guel Msyo most atTociously, cntlng ms oeoy "a
80, - 1;eces They proceeded thence t. the othtF
,;iIaoss Moron, Bsr6urala aud Palanenc, 10 m
1900 their force Having collected their friends,
thew nassed through the outer part OF tals Guy 40
the nieht. proclaimiDg assassination and plunder:
In Borburata and Pat ,Demo they srutshy murdered
four pesceable aud honest citizens
Or me night Of the 17ih they advanced, IN hunter
hu 95O 10 attack this city. Fortunate y the event
~ the 18Th had given warning to tae population 20
nreuare for such attack. ~ the sid Of lWo small
gune loaded With grape shot, the Esssli&bts we're
Snnlsed with tae 20 S Of four killed and twenty
wounded As he night was rainy and very dark,
and as our force in r gul sold was very small,
v,oqt IF cur mea being volunteers from the youth
of he CITY. il vas not DEFINED prudent u pursue
Them. Moreover, could not tell how great their
numbers we're. So they we're suffered TO escape,
carrying eff their wounded some Of whom have
s;noe died in the villages. Our LOSE was one sol
der and our superior officer wounded, the horse OF
the latter being killed, as was also that of our
commander in chief, the poor beast receiving three
shots.
Since that night they have not desstea from their
outrages A citizen and SpaRisrd, both WoItay
men have been murdered by them. Many Of Inc
Inhabitants had led II the woods for safety OF there
vould have been more murders committed A good
many of the fugitiFes TO the WOODS nave since ar
rivaS here in safety In consequence OF these DIS
orders. business here is almost suspended. Inc
slores are nearly all closed, and everybody goes
abo1t armed as there constant threats to ettaeK
ms again with the object of committing murder, ana
plundering our property. Our intercourse WIN tne
interior is altogether Interrupted NO one comes In
and no goes out We have free communication oy
most from Valencia, but it is by the mountain road
The telegraph from here to Caracas has been cut
down more than thirty times since The lotn INIT.
As fast as Is is repaired it is cut down. as II passes
through one of the insurgeLt villages, which Is VS.
lied by outside column Of troops, whenever 1t Is
possible.
since the 18th Of June there have been several
arrangements between the troops and the negroes /;
but the latter always retreat in among the bushes,
from whence they fire on our men safely WITHIN
three days we have had one officer killed and Two
wounded and several soldiers killed and wounded.
We live in constant uneasiness being menaced con-
tinually with the attacks Watch Is kept day ana
night at the barricades erected opposite the NUM-
oipality at the place called +" La Estacads, which
from the narrowness of the slip of land, is easy OF
defense from the sea side 10 the inside hsrbor.
This part Of our city, extending down towards the
Wharves is called Puente Deutro, and is occupied
mostly by foreigners engaged in the wholesale bust
ness The outer town, extending from the Munich
pality in the opposite direction, is called Puente
Fuera and terminates at tse beginning of the rural
region, forming town much larger than PUente
Dentro But il is all open in every direction, and
WJuld require 900 TO defend it from attach
ing force So all its population has rushed to Puente
Dentro and all our houses crowded with people,
Whilethose of the,outer towns are abandoned The
owners 90 cut to their homes the morning but re-
turn TO Sleep in Puente DentrO, for fear of being
massacreed in the night by the negroes who come
in small bands from all the outer villages.
How long this state of things will last I cannot
tsl Several columns of troops in pursuit of the
insurgents but they fly to the woods as they
approach, and resume their rsvages when they dis
appear 1t is feared that il we relax vigilance
they will surprise the town, murder all they can,
plumber the houses and afterwards burn them. Dur
ing the first days Of alarm all the women and chill
dren in town took refuge board the vessels in
port; but they have since returned to shore. The
rising is not political movement. 1t is simply q
question of blacks and whites. The leader of the
insurgents is Antonio Ruiz native Of st. Domingo
under the assumed name of Thomas Falcon.