Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-12-31

| AT last the assembly in the month of Sep
tember, utterly despairing of Success resortcd
to an expedient which no extremity could JUS
tify; they determined to send to Cuba for
bloodhouds. The employment, according to
Edwards, TO which these dogs are generally put
by the Spaniards, is the pursuit of wild bull
locks, which they slaughter for their hides and
the great use OF the dogs is to drive the cattle
from such heights and recesses in the noun
famous parts of the country as are least access
sible to hunters. Much opposition was made to
the plan, as cruel and dastardly, reyiving the
worst atrocities of the Spaniards, and dis
graceful to the British troops but at length,
on the l4th of December, a commissioner land
ed at Montego Bay with forty chasseurs, or
| Spanish hunters, and about hundred dogs.
When these new allies were landed, the wild
and formidable appearance of the men and
dogs spread terror through the place. The
streets were cleared, the doors were shut, not
Il negro ventured to stir forth, as the muzzed
dogs, ferociously making at every object, and
dragging forward the chasseurs, who with
heavy rattling chains hardly held them in, pro-
ceeded onwards.
Dallas, in his history, gives the following
account of their first appearance before the
commander-in- chief" Anxious to review the
chasseurs, General Walpole left headquarters,
the morning after they were landed, before
daybreak, and arrived in post chaise at Seven
Rivers, accompanied by Colonel Skinner, whom
he appointed to conduct the intended attack.
Notice of his coming having preceded him, q
parade of the chasseurs was ordered, and they
were taken to Il distance from the house, in or
der to be advanced when the general alighted.
The Spaniards soon appeared at the end of
gentle activity drawn out in line containing
upwards of forty men, with their dogs in front,
and muzzled, and held by cotton ropes On
receiving the command "fre," they discharged
their guns and advanced as upo i a real attack.
This was intended to ascertain what effect
would be produced on the dogs if engaged un-
der the FIRE OF the BIaroons. The volley was
no sooner discharged, than the dogs rushed
forward with the greatestfury, amid the shouts
of the Spaniards, who were dragged on by them
Win lrfesistlple lury' oonie oi the uoBs, mau-
dened by the shouts of attack, while held back
by the ropes, seized on the stocks of the guns
in the hands of their keepers, and tore pieces
out Of them Their impetuosity was so great
that they were with difficulty stopped before
they reached the general, who found it neces-
sary to get expcditiously into the chaise from
which he had alightcd and if the most strenu-
ons exertions had not been made to stop them
they would most certainly have seized upon his
horses"
This scene was well got up, and it had its
effect General Walpole was ordered to ad-
vance on the 18th of January following with
his Spanish dogs in the rear. Their fame, how
ever, had reached the Maroons, and the gene
raj had penetrated but q short way into the
woods, when a supplication for mercy was
brought from the enemy, and 260 of them soon
after surrendered, on no other condition than
promise Of their lives. 1t is pleasing to OBJ
serve" adds Edwards, "tlat not drop of
blood was split after the dogs arrived in the
island.n Those who had actually borne arms
were soon after transported to Halifax in North
America, and ultimately to Sierra Leone, where
it is believed their descendants are still to be
found. A portion has sided throughout with
the English, These have continued separate
people, employed by the authorities as local
police, for which their perfect acquaintance
with the woods, and capacity of endurance,
completely fitted them but partially civilized,
and few in numbers, they differ in little from
the rest of the free black population. In the
British West Indies, the Maroons may be con-
sdered extinct.
France, which assumes to herself the leader
ship of European civilization, still upholds sla-
very in her colonies but these are too few and
scanty to have much effect upon the progress
of the emancipation struggle The largest of
the French West Indian islands (Guadeloupe)
consists, in fact of two islands, respectively
called Grandeterre and Guadeloupe, separated
by a salt water channel, some thirty yards
broad. Grandeterre is fiat, cultivated, and
thickly peopled, almost clear of wood, and
without cover. Guadelope is one mass of rug
red volcanic mountains, rising steeply from the
sea, and rent by subterranean fires. In the
midst towers tho Souffrere or Sulphur Noun
tain. to n beight of $500 feet above the sea-
which is constantly smoking. There are raw
ines and caves enough to hide dozen armies.
The whole island is maze of thickets, in
which Columbus with his sailors were bewil-
dered three centuries ago, and which remain in
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