The Sun. — 1854-08-15 (London, England)

COL. 1' REMON'T'S ACCOUNT. The whole of the proceedings were under the direction A Washington cor I isspetir wit of the Arm York Daily of the London Tenipsrance League. i Times makes the following statement : GAROTTE ROBBERlES.—Robberies of this description ; " Col. J. C. Fremont was one American •• of the citizens have of late been of frequent occurrence inthe neigh- ' present at Greytown at the Occurrence of the ' outrage ' bourhood of Eckington, and the thieves Live, in every . upon Mr. Borland, fur which such fearful retribution instance, escaped detection. About a week since a per- ' has been visited bys upon Captain Hollins the town. As 1 son named Hall, employed at Itenishaw Works, was he is well known to the world as a cool, clearattacked and plundered of a sum of moneyoiviieer, white walk- headed, and truthful gentleman, statement of that ing between Eekhigton and the railway station. On the transaction, and the facts connected with it, cannot be previous Saturday nightanother man had a quaritvy of otherwise than highly interesting at the present time. is prov ions stolen from his basket in the same locality ; Upon questioning him on the subject this mottling, .11e the thieves, in this instance also, preventing resistance very communicated his d rataucling cheerfully to me un e Other by strangulation.cases have occurred with the i of the affair, which is substantially as follows : , like result.-15Actlicid Boantincr.n or other, 1 "it was quite evident that, for some realm  - a very strong prejudice existed at Greytown against all Americans ; a prejudice amounting almost to positive hostility, and to conceal which no pains whatever were taken. The immediate origin of the difficulty in which Borland participated, was the homicide of the negro captain of a bungo, or river boat, committed by Captain Smith, ofa steamer plying on the river. Notwithstanding published statements directly the reverse, this homicide was considere I by theAmerotans, almost without exception, as a deliberate and cold-blooded murder, without a shadow of palliation. There had been some previous difficulty between Smith and the negro. On the day of the homicide Smith's steamer ran into the negro's bongo, when the latter threatened to shoot Smith if he broke his boat. The bungo, however, was uninjured. Subsequently the steamer started down the river, and after it had proceeded some distance, put back again, apparently for ao other purpose than to run into the bungo, which it did, crushing it like an eggshell. At this time' the negro was sitting in his boat with his gun across his knees. The weight of testimony is, that he made no hostile demonstration against Smith, having neither risen from hii seat nor raised his gun, when Smith deliberately shot him. Immediately upon being shot the poor fellow got up, and while attempting to step from the wreck of the bungo, into the boat alongside of it, his strength failed him, and he fell into the river. Andyestt persons who esteem it their duty to defend the victory, right or wrong, tell us it was universally admitted that the negro was shot by Smith in self-defenoe. "A warrant was issued by the Mayor of Greytown for Smith's arrest, and an officer went onboard the steamer, as everybody knows, but was prevented from getting his prisoner by the forcible resistance of the passengers, headed by Borland. In aiding the minister thus to resist the officers, the passengers did not intend to endorse the murder of the negro, or absolve the murderer. Oa the contrary, it would have been a very easy matter to have had him hung on brief notice by a Committee of Vigilance,' had either of the acknowledged leaders proposed it. But Mr. Borland, in a speech he made to the crowd, as well as in private conversation, told them he *WI instructed not in any way to recognise the authority of Greytown (deriving its authority from the Mosquito Klee) as separate and distinct from Nicaragua. "To permit the Greytown officers to arrest an American citizen and try him for crime, would be to recognise the authority of the town government in the fullest sense ; and so Mr. Borland urged them to aid him in crushing nut' this scion of the Mosquitos. If the government of Greytown was illegal, deriving its powers from incompetent authority, the act of the officers who attempted to arrest Smith could only be looked upon as the act of a mob, proper to be resisted by mob force. In this opinion the whole steamer's party concurred. And of course the arrest and imprisonment of Mr. Boland that night was also looked upon as the act of an irresponsible mob, without law or an. thority of any kind.