Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-02-27
HERE'S A GO.
Another KlibuStering Expedition on the
Tapis.
UKLESHIEG THE DOGS OF WAR.

NEW YORK, February 25.-The World
this morning says: The clarion tones of
the trumpet Of wa are at this moment, if
report is to be believed, awakening respon-
siye echoes in the martial breasts of at
least n hundred hitherto peaceful New
Workers and Of 4, 900 other American citi-
zens scattered through various parts of the
United States, noticeably in the South.
1t is from the window Of an Office on Broad
way that the bugle call to arms is being
sounded. and Col. Geo. W. Gibbons is said
to be at the little end of the trumpet. He
has not yet, however, begun to make the
noise which will be made when at the con-
clusion of a great commercial conference,
which is to be held in New York within the
next sixty days, it is found (as no doubt it
will be- that the American Government re-
fuses to take up the war trumpet and
blow it
ON ITS OWN ACCOUNT.
It means that American industries in Ven-
ezuela must be protected by British inter
ference whether President Cleveland and
his Cabinet say so or not. 1t may not per-
haps be generally known that an American
syndicate representing at least $40, 600, 900
and headed by the well-to-do Californian
backing firm of Mackay, Flood & O'Brien,
having lad its eye for many years on the
trail running between the OrinOco river and
the absurdly rich mining district of Caratal,
Venezuela, just as Jacob Sharp used to
have his eye on Broadway, attempted come
time ago to establish a steamship line be-
tween New York and the mouth of the
Orinoco river, with a rail connection Of
400 miles thence to Caratal.
THE DIFFICULTY
about the railroad and the semi.monthly
steamer scheme arose, so says Colonel Glib
bons, through the objections Of the British
Government, whose policy of aggraudizs-
ment is clearly and plainly labeled i'll Ven
zuelan affairs. Associated with Messrs.
Mackay, Flood and O'Brien. in the above
mentioned proposed enterprise were such
comfortably fixed landlords as r. w. Tay-
lor, Of California; George W. Roche, Of
Savannah, Ga; S. B. Whitman, Peter c.
Doremus, Henry Ssifke and Peter Ashton,
of New York City; Charles Bull, Of
Charleston, S. c., and several Others. In
connection with the steamship and railroad
these gentlemen also organized a Land and
Emigration Company. Also those inter-
ested in the scheme were Americans and
the Venznlean Government made the syn
LARGE CONCESSIONS.
There are now 1000 Americans in the
district OF Venezuela, many Of
them from New York, who were sent
by this syndicate. They think
that the United States ought to protect
them and their interests, and if it does not
they propose to fight. There is about $10,-
600, 900 of New York capital invested in
Venezuela, and it sin jeopardy if England
in her scheme of territorial az
grandizement. That Col. Gibbons is sat
isfied with the warlike outlook is abund-
antly proved by
HIS OWN STATEMENTS.
'If it were necessary" said he, II
would raise an army of 100, 600 Irishmen
in this country to resist Great Britain.
They are ready at all times to strike 4
blow at the English Government and are
heartily in sympathy with US in this
Vene zuelean movement" He says he has
recruited 5000 Americans Of undoubted
courage who will proceed TO Venezuela
under his leadership and take positions as
commissioned and non-commissioned
officers in the inevitable conflict with Great
Britain, and when they get there, they
will not, according to his statements, be in
a defenseless condition, for within the past
month sixty thousand stand of arms
IMPROVED FIREARMS
have been purchased BY the California syn
dictate and shipped to Venezuela, to be
used IN the war. The syndicate, by the
way, will guarantee, SO the Colonel says,
all soldiers who go from this country $40 a
month during their term Of service. t
evade the neutrality laws the army (big or
small, as the case may be- will be shipped
south labelled, every mothers son of them.
as emigrants, but their kits will consist OF
Colt revolvers and other like peaceful agri-
cultural implements.
1t lnust not by any means be supposed
that the Venezuelans are sitting idly by,
waiting fer Col. Gibbons and his warlike
companions to arrive. If THE government
refuses to interfere, an army Of Venes"
u%elans, 60, 900 strong, which was organ
ICED and has been drilled for the past year
under the leadership Of Gen. Mullen, an
old soldier of fortune and a former New
York journalist, and Gen. Carbon, a South
Carolinian, late of the Confederate army,
will be put in the field to resist Great
Britain's contemplated encroachment.