THE BOER REBELLION.

Evening Star, Issue 5610, 2 March 1881, Page 4

THE BOER REBELLION.

The following oolleotion of news Is from the ' Friend of the Free S»te,' whick la published at Bloerafonteln, the capital of the Orattge Free State j

There haa kaeei a leottag of stores and private dwelling* In P-tohefistroom. Twenty British soldiers, prisecers in the haads of the Beers a* Potokehiroom. seat oat and* escort to the Free State en OkrisiaßM D*y—net heard of np t» 7* *»**. An BugUamaaaa killed by »ii B«er« while in a sftat* ol ftttoqd«*iU«, kctiafi aH been driakibg tafatker hi tka Beer aataa. Que Tan dor Igadceu ajoaog Af» Colotjf Boer, skot kv aader £1 MSave) of tt)» raad, PetoaelakieaWi ai a »j>y tm *e B«ti%fii camp. Tkto o«se oagkt to be ia4w, Taa der aartog »*J4hi» aycnadlifas were wfA tke lUflfish, aufl ke (U« not oa» if tkey akot kfas, M ke toww kfi death wenli ke aTeßgedi Maj'«r Clarice, o#«m«Qd*afc Bacff, Landdreat Graefe, aad ChA, ate., tMB. frlaonert ia Boer eaaa. Tke repart is tk*t on the adraaoe ci tke traojpi uey will oo and all be skot.

An BagUth owaer el property ia the Free State (or till lately) aetfag u an effioir in the Beer eavia, Pet&efttoeea. Captak BlliotVs k*dy foaad aad bnrled by Littddraft, Staya, aad Dr Toweii. WaVjh chain, geld fanoil oasa, L3O, and enodry papere faaad on tke body; also Victoria Craw, kwlonfbg to Private Fift;patrick of tka 04 A lt-*at«*. pwkabiy taken from Ida dead body by him (Captain Elliott) after kit bdag »kot ky tke Boers oa the road to Preterla from Leydenkurg. The Free State Beers are implicated in looting stores in Petokefstroom. General uneasiaeai wnwig Eaglish inhabitants in korder towns ef the Free Slate.

Refugee ladies and children and some faint-hearted B»ers from Patohefhtroom and Heidelberg peuriag iato F»ee State border towns.

The followiag is an extoofc from a letter written in Utrecht and puelieked ia Natal: —*' Without a doubt matters as they staad at preeent are Tery aerieus to all aerseos engaged in buriaess up here, and to all E«glish reeicleata generally k be& States; aad we trust tbal tke faaaatial GeT«r»«*«nt, holding aa still as Btttlak aakjeets, will not allow tka rnthleaa destraetiea of life aad property to ceatanae, but put dawn this senseless reke&ioa as soea aa possible by secarieg a*d .haagiatg ike principal rla#leaders aad agitattrs, sueh as Erager, Joabort, Jorisen, B»k, aad ssreral mere in the TraosTaal; togetker with a pom, semewhore about tke faari (Ope Celoay) wko remaia at a cUsta»ee aad poke the fire. The whole affair, in ray opinion, is simply tho result of a leag-fautrated policy of the old Datck (Hollander) party to eatablisk a Republican Slate, suksetTient to the Gorerament of Heilaad, whick has been trltd on e<ooe the firet immigration of Beers from the Western Proriao*; and the oaiy way of annihilating it is at the present tknt, and not to punish the misguided rebel Beers so much as to show ne mercy to those who aro wilfully misleading them." Subjoined is another extraot from a letter from Utreoht, in the Transvaal:—" In haute I drop yea *his, as Captain Lambart has just been broogkt in, se as to be able to proceed to Natal by pesfc-oart. He says th*t the report of the massacre of the detachment on thtir march from Leydmburg to Pretoria is quite true, aad that he was the only cflieer who escaped uawou*ded or «»kilJed. Id was one •! the mnt dastardly acts I hare ever heard of, and cms only be cetneared to the massacre of the British Cavagnaii and staff at Cabal; aad Uitte be kapW that Eaglaad will do ker daty ky »Te»g*Dg snok another cowardly act. Tke foot is tke Boers, both of tke Transvaal aad of the F»*e State (as the latter are keart aad soul witk the former ia fe*liegs as yek) tUak that England kas her kaads sa fall that ska eamet send aay troops to tills seaatry; and if tke affair is net settled very promptly, the wh«4e country—Ttaaivaal aad Free State—will be a veritable hotbed far anyone BagHsh or of English deecvcit." Aaother aocount says :—" Tke distreseiag news from the Transvaal has caused intense excitement asaoag the trooae at Tklotsl. Maty of Forreira's officers and men are Dutch, or of Dutch descent, and, thougst perfectly loyal, will aot fight against frieads or relations ia tke erect of Ferreira b*iag ordered to retura to the Traasraal. The Eoglishaaen, on the ceakrary, would be only too glad to engage the Boers, and tho outbreak has revived here and in the Fro* State all that bitter kostaiiity between Eagliah a*d Dutch wkick has been no loag smoalderug and apparently dying on it. Tec of the Freo StaW farsuers &re nakurftlly enough with tkeir Traaaraal brethroei, bai it is to be hojml tiaat P/etideut Braati may be able to k»p his G*v«ament from parweipaking in the quarrel. Saoald he not be able to de so, the remit weald be frigkkful to coatemplate. Alr«ady tke effect of tha rebellloa aad the les»es vkioh thu Issum-ial GovM-aaieafc kave suktaiwed, magaified by report, are skowiag tkeir iaflaeao* on the Native mlad, and will not imprebably prolong the Batafco strangle. Siaistor maw*, too, aro afloat an to the attitudo of 'tho Zulus."

Regarding the e*pre«io» of public opinion by the Cape Pre*s, the N*»»l ' Mercury' saya:—"The most hopeful sign that wo perceive reflected from the utter*»ces of Cape writers la this—Hurt a iwiae of bitter hostility has been engendered against the foreign adventurers wh» have led on tha Boora *• a course of inlufcnaked Belf-dc-akarue-tion. Our Cape aelghbors are as fully persuaded as we art that had Preterms, Kramer, and even Jouberfc been left wholly fro themselves things would nt»i ksv const to their present pw«, Joru*»* and B»k, wiik others who cfcoeae to remain ctwatdwis* in the b#ck ground—with Cape Town intriguers and with home zealota—are the true authors of the present imbroglio.'' Tk-e "foreign adventurers," two of whom oaly are named, are gentlemen from Hollamd, brought over by the late President Burgara to join the Civil Service in the Tra»bva*l, of which they eventually became oifei«»na and public servants.

Tho following is one of tke manifest** iaiued by the Triumvirate which has assumi d control of the TraMvaal Gover»m«nt:—" To Sir Owen L*nyo», etc., etc.—l. We have bee» favored with several rumors from Pretoria. 2. We therefore think it oar duty to bring to your notice tome v&ry serious remarks, in order to relievo ourselves as much aa poiuble from fcke high reapwssibilifcy, in regard te a war without end, which, by your measures, threatens to become a uii«t terrible one. 3. We had the heaor to send you a copy of our first proclamation on the 17i-h December, and, to our great suprise, it seems that ytu did not publish the eame to the inhabitants of Pretoria. If thia is so, you behaved very ungenerously towards them, for it ii to their intere»i as well as youra ; they are burghers of the country, and ought to be acquainted witk everything published by tie legal Gevernmeat of that country. 4. On the 24th December, 1880, we had the honor, by means of Mr Gatonby, to send you cur seo*nd proclamation, aid neither has this beea oenmusioated. We cannot believe i*, aa by -wiUiHoldiDg tK» said documents, a»d by refaiing to make the public acquainted with tkeir contents, an net has been committed which fully deserves the name of treason to the iahabitaais of Pretoria, mA. may be treason to the galla»t treopa of Her Majesty the Q«een wko are now employed in the defence of an uejust cause without hiring aware of its injustice. This b*w been the case with all the mUguided volusieers, amongßt which, we learn, are eercr, I Afrika»dero, who, if they been duly aoqiainted with our proclamations, would undoubtedly cease drawing the sword against their country and compatriots. 5, If our second proclamation had been duly published it would have been impossible to spread ths slander In Pretoria, by which the fair fight between our burghers and tke British troopa on the road to Middleburg has been misrepresented as being a massacre

in oold blood on our part. We were deeply indignant when the Rev. Botmau told U9 that each had been communioited to him by high authorities in Pretoria. G You know better, and it is your duy to silanoe iha slander; our Biond prucbmati'Mi li:vd airrs-;df given you .-.a invp •.•''.''■! ) >j x > .■ __ oi particulars Oi c the engagement*. \o:i can Learn everything from beginning to end concorning tho fight from the wounded noldiera which wo teat you, from that cne cffi.er who fled to Pretoria, and, prrhape, from CUonei Anetrathw, if this noble warrior 1b still alire, which we hepe with all our heart. He will tell yom the same as he told oar baigkrw, that Gad's blessing cannot real upen the BdllA ams in tfefc eyefast war. 7. Wo deem it beeeabh us to enlarge more on this aibjtct; ball we warn you. Has not the time come to put aa end to a system of falsehood aad deception whioh k»c be«n followed fot tiie last tkree years by the English Government ail Pretoria, and which is the cages of all the calamities which w« hare wlta*s»«3 ? I' yoa intend oarryieg on the war agpflMfe as, we aro of opiaion that yoa «m do bo, at ?wwt, keaestty mil ■!■• ettek/. ft. By en yo«r part in Ibis tjyetam oi deesft Mid oeSnetbe;, yom will be tho (»» of tke war besoming nitre kovgfe sift fek><*ttV> by tho day. 0. At tke smm fßfec, *shes» y<>4 oMijht fee Users aad kef* tfecsn h»wrla**jed is Freaerk, we j»t* fee Brig* etfesM md sol Jers th«ir fbeaay b«& a*d shewed tiw« fes lssvrs the Umtacy <tf fee B»p«iHo oa eoodiWoet tier patted teeir word •* hawse; not to raw* etams agafoat Am Rsjablio dm l*i tkls war.-We hare, efce,, Tjui TatwmsAra. W. EaMrd B«k, Gareraanea* Secretary."