Maryland free press., 1862-10-31

/ rounding COD agrations. The Inhabitants oeirg
strengthened by q number of seamen from the
ships, and brought into some degree OF order ana
military subordiuation. were now desirous tnat
| detachment should be sent out to attack 'ne
strongest body of the reyolters. Orders were
given accordingly, and Mons. de Touzaro' an
officer who had distinguished himstf In tie
United States service, took the eomuand oil
party of militia and the troops of the line. Wtn
these tie marched to tae pants ion OF Aops. LA
tour, and attacked body Of sbout four thousand
| of the rebel negroes. Many were destioyea, oat
| TO little purposei for Touzird, anding the nun
| Der of revulters to increase 20 more than cen
! tuple proportion Of their losses, was at lenSth
| forced to retreat. The Governor, By the advice
of the Assembly, now detrr@;ned to act FOR some
time solely on the deiensisej aud, as 1t was every
moment to be apprehended that the reFolters
would pour down upon the town, all the raos
| and posse, leading into 1t were for tiHed At the
same time an embargo as laid ON all The shipping
| ia the harbor-a measure OF indispensable neces-
sity, calculated as we'll to o.tain the assistance
of the sealnen a. to secure retreat for the NV
habitaLts in the last extremity.
| To sach OF tLe distant parishes as were open
to Communication, either by land or by sea, no.
tee of the revolt had been transmitted within .
| few hours after advice Of 1t was received at the
Cape, ard the white Inhabitants or many of those
| parishes had therefore found time to establish
camps, and form chain OF posts. which, tor
short time, seemed TO prevent the reb llion from
syre aiding beyond the northern province. Two
of these camps were, however, attacked by the
negroes-who were here openly joined by the
mulattoes-an forced with great slaughter. Az
London the whites main tanned the contest for
seven hours, bat were overpowered by The ihhn-
| ite disparity of numbers, and compelled to give
way, with the loss of upwards of one hundred ol
their body. The survivors took refuge in the
| Spanish territory.
These two districts therefore " aoie OF the
rich and extensive plain Of the Cape-tcgethsr
with the contg uous mountains, were now wholly
abandoned to the ravages Of the enemy, and the
| crael les VIII ch they exercised on such Of the
miserable whites as fell into their hands cannot be
remembered without horror, ner reported III
terms strong enough to convey proper idea oi
their atrocity. " 't '..- .'.fR 9f''
THE HORRORS NcREArn-wnrTH MN tAwKp
They seiz Mr.. Blen, ctacer of the police.
| and having nailed hiu alive to one OF the gates
o his plantation, chopped of his Limbs, one by
! one, wits sx. "' 80 ..
A poor man named Roberts, a carpenter by
trade, endeavorsd to conceal h,mself from the no
| tice of the r. bells, was disrovered in tis hiding
place. The savsges declared that be should die in
the way of his occupation. Accordingly they
bound him between two boaI de, and deliberately
! sawed him asRnder.
Monsit pr Cardiueau, q planter OF Geand Ri
Were, bad two natural tons by black ~ man.
| Hu had mauumitted them in infancy, and bred
| them up with great tenderness. They both joined
| in the rsvolt-and when their father attempted
to divert them from their purpose by soothing
| language ard pecuniary consioeratioD, they took
| his money aud then stabbed hias "a the heart.
AL the white, and even the ulatts children
whose fathers bad not joined in thu revolt, were
wur dsred without exception, frequently before
the eyes or clinging TO tbs bssolns Of their IN O.
| thers. Young women oil all rauks were first vio.
lated DO a whole troop Of barbarians, and then
generally put to death. Some of them were il
deed reserved tor the further gratiication of the
lust of the savsges, and others bad their eve:
! scooped out With katie.
! DAUGHTERS RAyIsuED IN TuE PRESENCE CT ruEIR
at-. ..s a.. FATHERS. 81 -....
In the parish of Limbe, at place called the
Great Rsyine, a venerable pIsnter, the fat ather Of
two beautiful young ladies, was led down BY
savage rioglesder of a band, who ravished bis
eldest daughter in bis presence, and delivered
over the other to one Of his followers. Their
passions b.ing satisfied, they udered both the
father and the daughters a.. ..t.a
In the frt q aent, FINISHES between the foragirg
parties sent ut by the negroes Tho alter bsving
burned every hing, were 10 scarcity of p,osispns)
and the whites, the rebels seldom stood their
4 ground longer t5an to receive and return ore
SINGLE volley; but they app, ar,d again the Ne xt
day, and though they we're driven out o! Their
| intrenchments With ininite slaughter, yet theiI
| numbers seemed not 10 diminish. As sCon
body was cut 0T anoth. appeared, and thus thu y
succeeded in harrassing and destroy ing the
whites by perpetual fatigue, and reducing the
country to DESERT r.. ...:.su
| Two rHou:ANp rErs"Ss a.,sAcEEp.7
To detail the various conf cts, skitnishes mas
! sacr.s and scenes of slaughter which this ex .r
winatng war Produced, were ia ol.r disgust
ing aud irightful p,ctare-a c5n,onation OF hor.
lis, herein We should behold crueltes un xim
pied in the annals of mankindj human bio'
poured forth in torrent; the earth olaoSei go
with ashes, and the air tainted wi pesti enc !.
1t was computed that within two months after
the revolt FIRST began, upward of two thousand
white persons, of all conditions, had been mass
c eG; that one huudred aud Eighty sugar plantf-
inrs, and about nine hundred c fe, cotton, ard
ind 20 settiem, nts had been destroyed he bu.ld
gs thereon being consum d by fre-and twelve
har dIed Christisn families rrecuced from opu-
lence to such state OF misery as TO- depend alto
getber Ter their clothing and sustenauce pub
lie and private charityl o. the insurgents it YVES
reckoned that upward OF ten thousand had ! er!
lshed by the sword or BY famine, and some hu 4.
dreds by the hand of the ,xetutiOneI! .... g.
DEATH OF NotED D'SPEcuLAToR.-Tbe death Of
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