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ANDERSON, GRIMES COUNTY, TE^S, SEPTEMBER 12, 1856.
NO. 16.
The Fas* of Death.
Ik wu a narrow pass,
Watered with human tears, •
Far Death had kept the outer gate
Almost six thousand years;
And the ceaseless tread of a wor.a s feet
Wu ever in my ears—
Thf np"g, jostling, hurrying by.
As if they were only horn to die.
A stately king drew near,
This narrow pass to tread, *
«aiound him hong a gorgeous robe,
v x crown was on his head;
* But Death, with a look of withering scorn,
Arrested him and said,
* In humbler dress must the King appear ;
the crown and |jie purple are useless here.
ajnan of
onhiahanda le«g"thy scroll,
sums untald;
Sat ©eath, who carefch not for rank,
Caaeth as little for gold—
u k t scroll 1 cannot allow,
Por fta^óldofthe richest is powerless now"
Another followed fast, _
And a bpek was in bis hand,
Filled with the flashes cf burning thought
That'are known in many a laud,
But the child of genius quailed to hear
Death's pittiiess demand— #
u jjgjj book cannot outer with thee
For the bright flash of genius is nothing to jne."
Next casne a maiden fair,
With xhat eye so deeply bright,
That stirs within you strange sweet care,
Should you meet on a summer night;
But Death, ere the gentle maid passed through,
Saatchedaway its light—
u Beau-.y is power, in the world," he with.
- But what can it do in the Pass of Death!"
A youth of sickly mien
Followed in thoughtfiil mood.
Whose heart was filled with love to God
And the earthly brotherhood;
Deaih felt he could not quench the heart
That lived for others' good—
" I own. said he" the power of love,
I must let it pass to the realms above."
A Short Story with a pretty good Moral.
We must work. Many who have been
fortunate in business, and having early
acquired wealth, have retired from the
active pursuits of life, to find what they
call ease, have found instead, an accumula-
tion of cares and evil, real and imaginary,
which they never supposed tobe connected
with a life of idleness. There, for instance,
is our friend Coffee, for many years one of
the firm of Coffee, Rice & Co., wholesale
grocers in South street. Coffee commenc-
ed business early in life, and being enter-
prising and eneregtic. and " as busy as a
bee," the business prospered and the firm
became widely known for successful trading.
After Coffee had bafgun business for about
twenty years, be cowÉided that he would
retire from active life, and spend the re-
mainder of his days (he was only forty-
five) in some secluded spot, where the fluct-
uations of the flower market, or tbe rise
and fall of pork and molasses, would dis-
turb his quiet soul no longer. He would
not be an anchorite, no, not he. He loved
good living and good society too well for
that. He would build him a mansion in
the country, far away from the uoisome
sounds and noxious smells of South street.
He would provide ample accommodations
for friends who might come to partake of
his good cheer, and he would lead a pleas-
ant, easy life. Such were his plans. But
alas, poor Coffee ! while thou wast acquaint-
ed with all the ins and outs of trade, thou
wast ignorant of thine own self.
The partnership was dissolved, the site
for a house selected, and in due time a
splendid mansion was built. It was the
mo3t elegant mansion in all those parts.
The honest rustics gazed with astonishment
upon the evidences of wealth it displayed.
The country storekeeper congratulated
himself upon the probable acquisition of a
new customer, the village doctor calculated
on an additional patient, while the poor
parson rejoiced in his heart that there was
some probability of having his small salary
increased by the liberality of a retired
merchant. For the first few months every-
thing west on admirably. Coffee had
enough to keep him at work in arranging
matters around the new place, and getting
everything in proper order for permanent
use. But when all this was accomplished,
time hung heavily on his hand9. There
was nothing to keep him employed—for
all the work on his place wns done by
hired hands, and as he was determined to
be free from all care he even employed a
man as overseer over the whole. The sum
total of Coffee's daily occupation was eat-
ing, drinking, and sleeping, with a little
reading and an occasional ride. It was not
long before symptoms of dyspepsia and of
gout appeared, and after suffering months
of untold agony he left his splendid man-
sion for 44 the narrow house appointed for
all living;" Poor fellow ! He died because
he had nothing else to do /
Then there was his neighbor Lapstone,
who tried hard to keep souls into the
bodies of himself and wife and eight child-
ren, by daily plying his honest trade of
shoe-making. Laps tone's humble house
was almost under the shadow of the great
mansion, and be often sigbed as he looked
up from his leather seat and saw the rich
Coffee whirl rapidly by in his splendid coach,
and was often tempted to break the tenth
commandment, and wish himself away from
his wax-ends and awls, and in possession of
some of his neighbor's riches. True, Lap-
stone was in comfortable circumstances
though he was a poor man. He had a
little garden patch where he could labor
for an hour or two every day, and while
preparing for his tabic he prepared himself
by out-door exercise, for the in-door con-
finement of his trade. Then his wife was
a perfect model of a woman, frugal and
industrious, while the eight young Lapstones
were hearty and robust, and some of them
old enough to help in the shop. But Lap-
stone had fancied, as he saw the wealth and
show of his neighbor, that it was a fine
thing to he rich and to take the world easy.
Therefore be had sighed when his neigh-
bor rode lazily along in a carriage, w"<ile
he sat for ten hours a day hammering sole-
leather. But when at length he saw the
funeral train which carried the rich idler to
his long home, he came to the conclusion
that health was better than wealth, and con-
tentment more to be desired than great riches.
And that is the moral of the story.
* How to meet a Duelist.
A few years since, as a New England
gentleman, whose name we shall oallBfowti,
was passing a few days at a hotel in one of
our Western cities, he had the misfortune
to unintentionally offend the susceptible
honor of a tall Indiana Colonel who was
one of his fellow-boarders. His apologies
not being satisfactory, a challenge was sent
him, which, however, he declined upon the
ground of conscientious Bcruples. 'The
Colonel, who, by the way, had won, in two
or three encounters, quite a reputation as a
duelist—at once conceived the idea that
his opponent was a coward, and resolved to
disgrace him by flogging him in the face
of all the assembled inmates of the house.
Accordingly, the next day at dinner time,
in marched the duelist, armed with a for-
midable cowhide, and, advancing to Brown's
chair, proceeded to dust his jacket for him
in tbe most approved style. Brown was
astonished. Luckily he had been a lieu-
tenant of militia in his native State, and
knew the importance of incommoding his
enemy by a diversion. So, seizing a gravy
tureen, he tossed the contents into the face
of the belligerent Colonel, and before the
hero could recover from the drowning sens-
ation thus occasioned, he sprang upon the
table and began to shower upon him, with
a liberal hand, the contents of the dishes
around.
"You are an infernal"—
" Coward," the Colonel was about to say,
but at that moment a plate of greens struck
full upon his mouth, and the word was
blockaded and lost forever!
44 Ha !" cried the little New Englander,
whose blood was now up, " fond of greens
are you ? Take a potato, too!" and he
burled a telling volley of hard potatoes at
him; 44 excellenflbggs here; capital things
with calves' heads," and crash came a plate
of soft-boiled eggs against the sido of his
cranium.
The blows of the cowhide, which had
hitherto descended upon the Yankee's head
and shoulders, ndw began to fall more
weakly and wildly, and it became evident
that the assailant, half stunned, choked, and
partially blinded, was getting the worst of
it. His courage was rapidly oozing out.
14 Take a turkey ?" shouted Brown, as a
noble old gobbler descended fairly upon the
Colonel's head, and bursting, filled his hair
and eyes with delicious-iuoking stuffing;
14 and here's the fixings," he continued, as
the squash and jelly followed after.
By this time the Colonel was irretrievably
defeated, and, as his merciless opponent
seized a huge plum-pudding, steaming hot,
and holding it above his head with both
hands, seemed about to bury him beneath
it, he quailed in terror, and, throwing down
his cowhide, turned about and made a rush
for the door.
44 Stop for the pudding. Colonel! stop for
the pudding!" shouted Brown. 44 Pudding,
Colonel I pudding I" screamed his fellow-
boarders, amid convulsions of laughter.
But the Colonel was too terrified to listen
to their kind invitations, and did not cease
running until he had locked himself in his
room.
But, although the Colonel escaped from
the plum-pudding, he could not escape from
the ridicule which the affair occasioned.
He subsequently challenged four persons,
against whom his ire was particularly di-
rected, and they all consented to fight, but'
availing themselves of the privilege of the
challenged party, appointed pudding-bags
as the weapons. At length the unhappy
duelist, finding no one who was willing to
shoot or be shot at, was obliged to quit the
State.
How to be Miserable.
Sit at the window and look over the
way to your neighbor's excellent mansion,
which he has recently built and paid for,
and sigh out. " O, that I was % rich man !"
Get angry with your neighbor, and think
you have not a friend in the world. Shed
a tear or two, take a walk in the burial
ground, continually saying to yourself,
" When 6hall I be buried here 1" Sign a
note for your friend, and never forget your
kindness; and every hour in the day
whisper to yourself, •• I wonder if he will
pay that note 1" Think everybody means
to choat you. Closely examine every bill
you take, and doubt its being genuine, till
you have put the owner to a great deal of
trouble. Believe every shilling passed to
you is but a sixpence crossed, if you shou!d
take it. Put confidence in nobody, aud
believe every man you trade with to be a
rogue. Never accommodate if you can
possibly help it. Never visit the sick or
afflicted, and never give a farthing to the
poor. Buy as cheap as you can, and screw
down the lowest mill. Grind the faces and
the hearts of tbe uufortunate. Brood ovei
your misfortunes, your lack of talents, and
believe at no distant day you will come to
want. Let the workhouse be ever iu your
mind, with all the horrors of distress and
poverty. Then you will bo miserable to
yetar heart's content, (if we may so speak,)
sick at heart, and at variance with 411 the
world. Nothing will cheer or encourage
you; nothing will throw a gleam of sun-
shine or a ray of warmth into your heart.
All will be as dark aud cheerless as tfie<
grave. 1
Later from California.
Tbe steamship Granada, which arrived at
one o'clock this morning, brings us dates
from California to the^fith^lt.
The news from California is highly im-
portant. The following summary of the
fortnight's news from tlie Alta California,
embraces the leading items:
* STATE.
Since the sailing of the last steamer, July
21, Afa have to report, a condition of cofi-
tinued prosperity ! a^ tbe great leading
interests of California. Trade during this
period has been steadily improving, larger
quantities of goods having gone forward to
the interior than during any tvro weeks for
months previous. Both steamers and sail-
ing vessels running on our rivers have been
freighted to their utmost capacity; mer-
chandise, in many instances, having accu-
mulated upon the wharves beyond the
facilities offering to ship them away. From
all parts of the mines the accounts are en-
couraging.
Our crops, generally, have been good;
cereals perhaps never better. Enough has
been produced for our own consumption,
and something to spare. Owing to the
long continued drouth during the early
spring, the grain in some sections, especially
wheat, has turned out poorly. In the more
Southern districts, this is generally the case;
yet even here, the yield will be ample for
the wants of the inhabitants. The whole
crop of the country is likely to prove much
better than was expected a month or two
ago; the grain being more plump and heavy
tnan indicated by tbe short and tender
straw. Of fruits, we are enjoying a plenti-
ful and varied supply; such, perhaps, as is
vouchsafed to no other land under the sun,
varying dl the way from the hardy apple
and plum to the fig and the orange.
This summer has turned out to be one of
more than ordinary dryness. The wells in
some places having given out, stock have
perished lor want of water. •
New towns and cities are springing up
throughout all our widely extended borders,
while those which were lately destroyed by
our ever active foe, are being rapidly built,
in a manner more substantial and commo-
dious than before. It is now our painful
duty to add that the flourishing mining
which have so deeply damned
in tbe estimation of the whole
world. On the afternoon of
Jujy 2$, Joseph Hetlierington, having wan-
tonly provoked a difficulty with Dr. Randall,
in the Nicholas Hotel, drew his pistol
ani shot him through the head, causing a
mortal wound. Tbe assassin was immedi-
ately wrested from the police who had him
in fharge, and taken to the room of the
Coémittee, where he was tried, found guilty
of niurder, and condemned to be hung—
ntence was carried into effect "five
the killing—Hetheripgton being
ifcd, together with another culprit
Brace, also in chargejpf the Corn-
have we seen such a commotion,
i* excitable com^unil^ajjm Jhe
u of tbe execution :of theseimai
tors. 'The entire force of the Commit .,
was assembled, over three thousand of whom
were under arms. Between fifteen and
twenty thousand spectators witnessed the
event; gathered upon the tops of the build-
ings, and filling the streets for many squares
around. Exciting as was the scene, and
anxious ss all were to behold it, the utmost
quiet and decorum prevailed; nothing but
a solemr and subdued murmur of approval
was to be heard throughout the vast and
promiscuous multitude as the doomed men
made tie fearful passage of death. Saluta-
ry, beyond all other examples,, upon the
despendoes in our midst, will be the fate
of He.herington and Brace. Terrible to
them B retribution when it follows speedy
and sire upon the commiss'on of crime.
Thii work being finished, the Committee
will, h all probability, soon disband. Tbe
only lusiness now on hand seems to be the
case fTerry; rendered the more embar-
rassing, now that Hopkins has recovered
from bis wounds. Had they proved fatal,
Terry would have been hung; as it is, we
presume they are a little perplexed as to
the disposition best to be made of him. He
will, t is generally thought, be sent from
the Sate.
Bulger, one of the exiles, who had been
sent io the Sandwich Islands, not to return
under penalty of death, came back about
two veeks ago, and fell into the hands of
the Committee before he left the Island.
In consideration that the sentence was not
read to him previous to his departure, his
capttrs have concluded to suffer him to
leave again; an opportunity the culprit was
but too glad to embrace. He will probably
leave on the steamer to-day.
,XT , , ... , w „ McGowan, implicated with Casey in the
♦«WTii -n haS'i r6 mountain assassination. of Kin¿, has not yet been
ter 1 lacerville, utterly disappeared from the taken. There was a rumor that he had
earth—a fire having broken out on the af-
ternoon of July 19th, and in the space of
two hours, laid the entire place in ashes.
Over two millions of property, and still
worse, eight or ten human lives were de-
stroyed. Every hotel, church, printing of-
fice, and almost every place of business were
swept away. Out of twenty-six supposed
fire-proof buildings, but six escaped. The
courthouse, just completed at a cost of $50,-
000, was consumed, with all the public re-
cords of the county. Over eight hundred
buildings were burned up. Never, even in
California, was the work of destruction so
complete. Liberal subscriptions have been
made in aid of the houseless inhabitants, but
they can do little more than preserve them
from actual suffering for the most cemmon
wants of life.
While such fires as these have been
sweeping off whole cities, others of less ex-
tent have occurred in various localities
throughout the country, making this one of
the most unfortunate seasons, in this respect,
that we have experienced sinoe 1852. Ad-
monished by sad experience, the people are
now, everywhere, employing iron, stone and
brick, as far as practicable, in the erection
of buildings. In Placerville, a majority of
tbe new structures are composed of these
material; and henceforth, owing to these
and other precautions that are being taken
to guard against fire, we shall expect these
destructive conflagrations to occur much
less frequently.
The failure of Palmer, Cook & Co., to
pay the coupons on the State and city bonds
falling due in New York, has created a feel-
ing of very general indignation throughout
the State. Parties here are secured against
lofs; but it is the wound inflicted upon our
public credit that has caused such a deep
feeling of dissatisfaction. In the meantime,
payment of the interest will speedily be
provided for. The money was, in due sea-
son, deposited by the State Treasurer with
this firm; but they failed to remit it, sup-
posing, as they say, there were sufficient
funds in New York already for the purpose
of making the payment in question.
In politics, parties are beginning to get
to work in earnest.
CITY.
The Vigilance Committee, formed for the
extirpation of criminals, and the suppression
of crime, which had so obtained the mastery
over an entire people as to set every other
mode of redress at defiance, still remain or-
ganized, and in active operation. Public
opinion, having everywhere recognized the
necessity for their existence, has determined
they shall be suflered to accomplish their
work; and calmly, but firmly resolved, that
no earthly power shall be permitted to in-
terfere to defeat it. Right or wrong, en-
trenched in the confidence of the masses,
the Committee will perform the work they
have proposed to do; and having done it,
will resign their power into the hands of
the people.
About ten days ago, they contemplated
disbanding; and, it was generally under-
stood, were disposing their affairs to that
end, when their officers were again brought
into requisition by another of those aslound-
been seen at Santa Barbara, and a strong
force was despatched for his arrest, but thus
fal he has eluded all his pursuers. The
chances are that he is out of the country
before this.
An Account ef a Recent Trial at the Old Baily
in Lcndon.
George Hammond, a portrait painter, was
placed at the bar, to be tried on an indict-
ment found against him by the grand jury
for the willful murder, with malice afore-
thought, of George Baldvviu, a rope dancer
and mountebank. The prisoner was a man
of medium height, but slender form. His
eyes were ¿lúe and mild. His whole bear-
ing gave evidence of subdued sadness and
melancholy resignation. He was forty-one
years of age, had a soft voice, and his
appearance aud manner bore evidence to his
being a man of distinguished education, iu
sj.ite of the poverty of his dress.
On being called out to plead, the prisoner
admitted that he did kill Baldwin, and he
deplored the act, adding, however, that on
his soul and conscience he did not believe
himself guilty. Thereupon a jury was
empanelled to try the prisoner. The
indictment was then read to the jury, and
the act of killing being admitted the govern-
ment rested their case, and the prisoner was
called upon for his defeuse.
The prisoner tlieu addressed himself to
the court and iury.
" My lord," said he, " my justification
is to be found in a recital of the facts. Three
years ago 1 lost a daughter, then four years
of age, the sole memorial of my beloved
wife, whom it had pleased God to recall to
himself. I lost her, but did not see her die.
She disappeared—she was stolen from me.
She was a charming child, aud but her I
had nobody in the world to love me. Gen-
tlemen, what I have suffered cannot.be
described ; you cannot comprehend it. I
nave expended in advertising and fruitless
searches everything I possessed—furniture,
pictures, even to my clothes. All have been
sold;
4' For three years on foot, I had been
seeking my child in all the cities and in all
the villages in the three kingdoms. As soon
as by painting portraits I had succeeded in
gaining a little money I returned to London
to commence my advertisements in the
newspapers. At length, on Friday, the
14 th of April last, I crossed the Smithfield
cattle market. Iu the centre of tbe market
a troupe of montebanks were performing
their feats. Among them a child was turn-
ing on its head, supported on a halbred. A
ray from the soul of its mother must have
penetrated my own, for me to have re-
coguized my child in that position. It was
my poor child. Her mother would perhaps
have precipitated herself towards her, and
locked herself in her arms. As for me a
vail passed over my eyes. I know not
how it was—I, habitually gentle, even to
weakness, seized him by the clothes—I
raised him in the air, then dashed him to the
ground—then again; he was dead. After-
wards I repented what I had done. At the
moment I regretted that Í was able to kill
but one."
Lord Chief Justice Tindale—"These are
not Christian sentiments. How can you
expect the court and jury to look with favor
ou your defense, or God to pardon you, if
you cannot forgive ?"
Prisoner—"I know, my lord, what will
be your judgment, and that of the jury ; but
God has already pardoned me; I feel it in
my heart. When some compassionate
people brought me my daughter in prison,
she was uo longer my child ; she was no
longei pure and angelic as formerly; she
was corrupt, body and soul—her manner,
her language, infamous like those with
whom she had been living. I did not
recognize her myself. Do you comprehend
me now ? That man had robbed me of the
love and soul of my child. And I—I havfe
" lied hup hnt
Srem
the verdict."
Chief Justice—" I understand you, gen-
tlemen, but the law must take its course.
I must sum up the case, and then you will
retire to deliberate."
The Chief Justice having summed up
the case the jury retired, aud in an instant
returned into court with a verdict of " Not
Guilty."
On the discharge of Hammond, the
Sheriff was obliged to surround him with an
escort. The women were determined to
carry him off in triumph. The crowd
followed him all the way to his lodgings
with deafening shouts of huzzas.
A Scene of Horror!
KEARLY THREE THOUSAND LIVES LOST !
One of the items of news by the Canada
is of an awful earthquake in the Moluccas,
involving a loss of nearly three thonsand
lives. A spectator writes to an English
journal:
* * * * The glowing
lava streamed downwards with irresistible
force in different directions, bearing with it
whatever it encountered on its destructive
course, and causing the sea to boil whenever
they came in contact. The hot springs
opened up and cast forth a flood of boiling
water, which destroyed and carried away
what the fire had spared. The sea, obedient
toan unusual impulse, lashed the rocks with
frightful violence, dashed upon the shore
aud heaved itself with a wild haste against
the land as it strove to over-master the fire
stream.
This frightful picture of destruction, the
horror of which was increased by the shrieks
of men and beasts, the wild roaring of the
tempest, and the crashing of thousands of
trees torn up and carried away, war followed
an ndur later, by peals' of ihuuder which
shook tbe ground and deafened the ear. A
black column of stone and ashes then shot
upfrom the mountain to an immense height
and fell, illumined by the glare of the lava,
like a shower of fire upon the surrouuding
country below, producing a darkness that,
only now and then momentarily broken by
the flashes of lightning, was so intense that
people could not discern objects close at
hand, and which completed their confusion
and despair. Large stones were hurled
through the air, crushing whatever they fell
upon. Houses and crops which had not
been destroyed by fire, sunk and disappeared
beneath the ashes and stones, and the hill
streams stopped by these barriers, formed
lakes, which, breaking over their banks,
soon proved a new source of destruction.
This lasted some hours. About midnight
the raging elements 6ank to rest; but on
the following day, about noon, they agaiu
resumed their work ot destruction, with
renewed violence. In the meantime, the
fall of ashes continued without intermission,
and was so thick on this day that the rays
of the sun could not penetrate through it,
and an appalling darkness prevailed.
Scarcely recovered in some degree from
their fright, the inhabitants of this desolated
part of Sangir were again disturbed by an
eruption on tbe 17ch March, which destroyed
many fields and a great number of trees on
the Tabukan side.
Since then the volcano has remained
quiet; the ouly symptom of its working has
been the smoke rising up in all directions
from cracks and fissures iu the ground.
On the other side of Kar.dhar, on the
extreme north point of the Island, the
appearance of the devastation which has
been caused is, if possible, even more fright-
ful than what ha$ taken place at Taruua.
For here, where formerly there were seen
extensive fields bearing all kinds of crops,
and thickly planted and endless groves of
cocoa nuts, we now find nothing but lava,
stoues and ashes. The liquid fire seems, at
this point, to have flown from the mountain
with irresistible force and iu prodigious
quantity. Not only has this fearful flood,
as it were, buried the whole district and all
that was in it, but, after having caused this
destruction over an extent of several miles,
it was still powerful enough, on reaching
tbe shore, to form two long tanjongs (capes,)
at places where the depth of water formerly
consisted of many fathoms.
The loss of life has been great. It is
estimated as follows in the undermentioned
districts: Taruua, men, women and children,
722; Kandhar, men, women and childen,
45; Tabukan, men, women and children,
2,039; total, 2,806.
The greater number met their death in
the gardens. They fled in all directions,
but were overtaken and swallowed up by
the fatal fire stream. Some tried to save
themselves in the trees, but were either
carried away with them or killed by the
scorching heat. At Kaiangan and Tariang
the houses were filled with people who were
stopped in their flight by the lava gtreamiug
down on all sides and the boiling water,
and who met their death under the burning
ashes and the tumbling houses. Many who
had reached tbe shore and thought them-
selves safe, became a prey to the furiou*
waves, and many died through sheer despair
and agony.
Isthmus Hews.
A SLIGHT PROSPECT FOB A HOW.
We make up the following summary- of
Isthmus news from the Panama Star aud *
Herald of the 19th ult.:
We learn that instructions have been re-
ceived here from the General Government
at Bogota, ordering that all foreign mails
crossing this Isthmus from the Atlantic,
shall, on arrival at Aspinwall, be delivered
over to the Postmaster atthat place, by hini
to be transported to the Postmaster at
Pánama, and that those áfíiyipir from the
^ ML fn like mann^,' .be placed in
hUTHh of the P&ñama Bo#n aster, tobe
sent to Aspinwall, in order to enable them
to collect the tax.
This arrangement contemplates^ of course,
placing the entire United States mails be-
yond the control both of the tránscientand
resident mail agents of that government,
during their transit across this Isthmus.—
The law is, we understand, to take effect on
the 1st proximo.
v The United States Government has al-
ready declared its intention to resist to the
utmost the imposition of this tax, as unjust
and in direct opposition to the treaties ex-
isting between the two countries; and, if
we are rightly informed, both the command-
er of the U. S. sloop-of-war St. Mary 's and
the U. S. resident mail agent here, have
been instructed by the Minister of the Uni-
ted States at Bogota, to resist any attempt
on the part of this Government to take
possession of the mai>s of the United States
crossing the Isthmus, or the enforcement of
the tax. We can scarcely believe that the
Government of New Granada will be so
fool-hardy as to attempt, in the slightest
degree, the committal of so palpaple an out-..
rage, notwithstanding the passage of the
law, as they must be lully satisfied thatsuch
a step would at once break up the existing
treaty, and lead to a most unfriendly feeling,
to say the least of it, between the two
countries.
Of one thing there can be no doubt, and
that is, that if the United States mail is mo-
lested in its transit across the Isthmus, for .
the purpose of enforcing the tax, the most
prompt and decisive action will be tab
by the United States to procure redress.
It is expected that two hundred troops
are now on their way here from the interior,
via Buenaventura.
The objeM of
are informed by the official papers, to op-
pose foreign invasion and auppressoutside
filibustering.
We heartily wish there existed as; little
fear from internal native filibusterism, which
at present exists, as there is to be appre-
hended from those abroad.
The Gaceta Official of Bogota' contains a
decree of the Executive, ordering tbe coir
lection of tonnage taxes in the ports of the
State of Panama, from the 1st of Septem-
ber, inst.
The Gaceta Official contains a decree of
the Governor of the State ordering that on
the arrival of passengers at the Playa Prieta^
to or from the steamer, a hpdy of geiu
d1 armes shall be placed there to maintain
order; and when this force is deemed in-
sufficient the Prefect or Alende is to call in
the aid of the military to assist them.
The Gaceta del Estado, of 7th ult pub-
lishes a resolution of this Government to
the effect that the new Peruvian dollar will
not be admitted or received in the fiscal
offices of either this State or the nation at
the rate of ten dimes, but only at their teal
value.
It appears these dollars are much inferior
in value to those of older date, and are be-
ing rejected by all the Governments along
the coast.
Later from Oregon.
The Indian war in Southern Oregon has
been brought to a close; most of the band*
having been subdued. The volunteers, ex-
cepting one company, had retured homo.
John's band, which stood out for a long
time, have come in under an agreement
that they are not to answer for any Crimea
or return any stolen property.
In the North the savages still remain
hostile, though they keep a proper distance.
Col. Wright, with a body of regulars, is in
the Yakima dietrict, but'has not been able
to subdue the Indians, nor to effect a treaty
with them, though there is a prospect of
On John Day's river, where they still
stand out to the number of six hundred,
they have expressed a willingness to treat.
Three white men were killed lately on
the Siskiyou mountains, and a large truja
taken. Two of the party, named Hall and
Spencer, belonged to Lane county.
A man named MeGonegal, shot his wifo,
an Indian woman, at Chinook, which came
near causing an outbreak anions the Indians.
He was taken to Vancouver for safe keep-
ing.
Gold has been found near the Dalles, and
the reports from the Pend D'Orille mines
are quite favorable.
The crops are represented to be fair
throughout the Territory, though considera-
bly injured by run in July; of which there
has been more than ever before known.
The election held in Washington Terri-
tory, on the 14th ult, for members of the
Territorial Legislature, reshlted iu the choice
of the Democratic candi ¡ates in six coun-
ties, and tbe opposition in twb.
Seven hundred IndiaaefrtmiPfef Orfotd
have reached the Reservation^ Oregan,
and the number there collectedia quite large
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Pittuck, Alfred A. The Central Texian. (Anderson, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, September 12, 1856, newspaper, September 12, 1856; Anderson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth181115/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.