The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-11

these advantages, the United States guaranteed.
by the same treaty. I" the perfect neutrality Of
the before mentioned Isthmus, with the
view that the free transit from the one
to the other sea may not be interrupt
ed or embarrassed in any future time
while this treaty exists; and, in consequence,
| he United States also guarantee, in the same
man. ,er the rights of sovereignty and property
which New Granada has and possesses over the
said territory.
| The disturbed States of Cauca and Bolivar.
treating them with, as much earnestness and
consideration as they demand, hold to-day-re-
speeding tive national Granadian government
exactly the same position held by South Caro-
! lima towards the government OF the United
States BY de- cree Of the 9Th OF May last, Gen.
Mosouera, Gov ernor of Cauca, proclaimed
that " the fedora compact has been broken.
and the sovereign y of the States troddcn down.
and therefore, IN accordance Win
the declarations of the Legislature of Cauca,
this State res umes, from to-day hence,
the fitness of its severe gnty and shall not con-
tinue in any connectiop whatever with the ma
tional powers" &c. Ger :. Mosquera has since
tAcA uiSpluyeu MS SOVer 0iSu SoP"Sius', "A
dressing himself directly t the foreign Minis
tiers residing in New Granao a, our own includ-
ed. The revolutionists of Il 'e Atlantic States
operate in perfect unison wit q Mosquera, ana
it is known that his Excellency President Nieto,
Governor of Bolivar, has ada ressed himself
also to Lord John Russell, compl aiming against
some British residents and officers who had be-
haved unexpectedly towards hi sovereign
character, and warning the British F, oreign Sec
rotary upon that subject
We took due notice at that tim OF Mr..
Nieto's note, as showing that the Britt 81, with
their usual farsight and practical W Jews Of
things, were not slow in taking stand against
such greedy farceurs and their negro ia nissa-
ries. With full appreciation of their oN IN in
terests, they have been lending to the fe, leral
chiefs and to those unhappy and terror stri ken
populations all the occasional aid that was
compatible with their duties, and lately we
have heard that the Commander of the Ca d.
mus, British ship -ofwar after assisting the ga r
rison of Santa Marta in their escape, impera =
lively forbade the revolutionists to ransack the
Custom House, upon which they fell like hum
cry birds Of prey. Still, it seems that they
could not be prevented from massacreing and.
plundering, in which, at last dates, they were
engaged in the city.
STILL the British have not had their Consuls.
and flag outrageously insulted, as was the case
with our Consul in Rio Hache, on the 18th Of
July last, by party of soldiers belonging to
these very same revolutionary forces of Mag
dalena. They compelled him to escape and
take refuge on board of vessel; and, indeed
had he remained he would have met the same
fate as one of the clerks of the Dutch Consul
late there, who, on that day, was taken from
boat carried to prison, and there murdered.
under the most atrocious circumstances, while
fifty more persons were murdered afterwards
near Rio Hache, with equal cruelty, by the
same parties. In Bolivar those negro
revolutionists have acted in like man
ner. The town of Mompos was sack
ed, deluged in blood and half burnt
after being occupied, and we have been assured
that at some other place one gentleman Of the
name of Patron had his head cut off and sent
to his widow, who, being pregnant at the time,
died in consequence while his sister became
demented at the sight of such incredible bru-
tality.
Such is the fate which awaits our citizens
and interests in Panama if the negro hordes of
Mosquera and Nieto are permitted to make
ilibustering descent upon it, in the name Of the
sovereign States of Cauca and Bolivar. We
hope that the government Of the United States
will not lose moment in instructing our naval
commanders on those stations to treat those
gentlemen as they deserve. Vast American in
terests, as well as our good faith pledged to
the national government Of New Granada for
the guarantee of its sovereignty and rights Of
property over the Isthmus are at take; and
we hope, also, that the time may never arrive
when our citizens in Rio Hache, Santa Marta.
Carthagena and Buenaventura will be obliged
to ask from British men-of-war the protection
due to them from their own government.
DECLINE AND FALL OF HELPER-About . year
ago Helper was great man. His "Impending
Crisis" was the topic of the day. Helper was
discussed in the journals, in private eoteries,
in the national Legislature and the Cabinet
councils of the Executive. Helpers book had
been endorsed by the leading republican mem