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We are indebted' to tlie N. Y Tribune for
the following account of the awful massacre
ami plunder of Americans at Panama.
One of the most frightful butcheries and
robberies of Americans took place at Pana
ma on the night of the 13th of April. On
the afternoon of that day the. passengers per
steamer Illinois arrived at the railroad de
pot at Panama on their way to the steamer
J. L. Stevens, but owing to the low tide,
they we n( detained on shore. A portion ol
the passengers by the Cortez from San Fran
sisco, were al.-o slopping at the several ho
tels in the vicinity ol the depot. There
could iiiit have ben les than 1,000 or 1,
J00 Americans congregated about the rail
road terminus. About sunset a difficulty
occurred between on" of the. Illinois passen
gers and one of the negroes, which was free
ly joined by friends on both sides, and a gen-
eral row now commenced. Pistols, bowie-l
swords, muskets, clubs and rocks
were freely used, and w ith deadly t fleet. !
Americans were generally unarmed, hav-
ing only a few small revolvers, and, conse-1
.piently, after a short struggle, had to yield
the ground. The natives were re-enforced j
by large numbers. They now made an at-
tack upon the different hotels and drove all
inmates out, many of whom sought safe
ty, as thy supposed, in the depot building.
About this time ihe police (God save the
I'iueen !) was called in requisition; but in
stead of attempting to restore order, it is
nositively known that a portion of them
j )ind l'r n' groes and made on assault upon
tb" depot. Tin police fired upon the crowd,
anl drove every man, woman, and child,
from tin building, who in their fright, ran
in every direction some to the boats, and
others to the thick brush and woods, wrnrt
th v remained during th
niMit and with ''
i
ex p.
eta: ion of b mg murdeW when day-jcd
i t t t i
;:it appeared. A larg" uumoer were lortll-j
nale enougli to gd on board of the small
steamer, nu i w-re conveyed to me J . Ij. te-;state
veus. A.ter tin natives had accomplished!
wor.v ! d-aih, and dispersed all from
un ground, uny commenced plundering tn-i
lug-age, ;,, dstrowi-g every Hang to
loutid in fie Hotels. i in passengers in tlieir
. - -. ,
bidden flight, left and lost everything. Alter
plun l. riMg all to be found in the hotels, the'
black mob attacked the depot building.
- Midi rMiii'i n, :i 1-irirn imnmif n f iiT.niro
v.! .1,11 n ,....!! . d ,i la.ge Amount Ot luggage
ami treasure, ail of which the rascals obtain-(
el. dhey then commenced to tear up the
!. i i-nir t i"i r nib t t 1 n i mittmi ttirt ti1!'-
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graph pole.-;, and destroyed both railroad ami
ndegraph oHices. They were a ware that the
vnress goods would be brought over from
Aspinwall t hi t night, and had laid their plon
to seize th 'in Thev tore nn the track in the1
vtcil.itv of the depot in order thai the en-
vuiuiiy ui u; .. in poi , in null i.uu nu. hi
-ine mi-bt run off; but through the exertions,
of Mr. Williams, (a conductor on the road,)i
the express tram was stooped m- ms signals
b"f'oi" r-'achi'i'Mh" fatal point and the lives
of tbo on board and the oo.V; wo-e aved'
it remained at the tim i the PhiULd nhia-belligerants
sailed.
1 have
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around the
whom wen:
this numbe
murder".!.
rim
depot in the morning, most of
passengers from the Cortez, but
is probably not half that were
Of the natives killed but little
no niffin of knowin" tin number
, . . n
uid wounded, mere, were twenty-.
five Americans fmnd dead immediately
... . . . - .
ould be ascertained ; but few, comparative-;
1 think were slam.
.. f i r t
Soon after the commencement of hostiU-'
,;, c (I,,, rnvorimr nf 1'inimi ami tlw mur
t ns, tne go eruor Ot 1 , namd an. the Amer-
ican consul were m, the ground but their
exeitionsto quiet the riot proved abortive.
Utah. As the Mormons expect some dif-1
ficulty in winking tlieir way into the Union,
on account of their doctrine of polygamy,
t hey mean to be right on the slavery question.
Some of the principal men there, Judge
Drummond, Judge Kinney, and some others.
have lately, made an ostentatious display of
the sale and purchase of nrgrocs.
,A Valuable Peice of Paper. Rodgers,!
the poet, who recently died in London at the
age of 93, had one of the only five notes of
the Bank of England that were ever issued
for a million of pounds sterling (five million
dollars. He kept it in a frame hanging in
his drawing-room, directly beneath a similar
frame containing the receipt that Milton
gave his bookseller for the proceeds of Par
adise Lost, which were only $115.
The grand jury did not find a bill against
Mr. Rust for his assault on Mr. Greeley. The
Washington Star says it is not customary
for the courts to notice these " little affairs,''
but leae people to settle them in their own
way. Mr. Greeley took no part in the com
plaint against his assailant.
Snow on the Mountains. There is a tol
erable niosnect that in the mountains of Vir-
j,;nja there'will remain snow enough to af
knives, ford good sleighing during the entire summer,
correspondent of the Hardy Whig, wri
The. tn from Pendleton County, says the snow
the Allesihanv Mountains, at this time.
averages 31 feet in depth ; and the writer is
informed that it is drifted in some places to
the rlenth of from ons hundred to one. bun.
the depth of from one hundred to one bun
dred and fifty feet; so that the top branches
of the tallest trees barely project above the
surface.
Mr. Moses Goodenough, of Gorham, New
Hampshire, while out hunting deer a week
or two since, was attacked by a bear. Find
ing that be had no chance to retreat, he
thrust his hand into bruin's mouth and seia
ed his tongue, to which In clung until he
could get out his knife, with which he suc
ceeded in cutting his four-footed enemy's
throat. Hut, in the meantime, his hand was
considerably " chawed up." The bear weigh-
about 200 pound?,
Kmu di'Tunm; .The " hnnlfr rnffinn?"
jhave commenced depradations on the free
m,M1 acajn. Mr. S. N. Wood, who
left tnis state a few weeks since, with a com
tlrir panv of emigrants, was arrested on his arri
Val at Lawrence, by the notorious Sheriff
be,jnnPi. He was immediately rescued by his
! A c,:.,,,! iom,.r ,oc , too,.
; 1111 11111, il Ci VUllU Ull.l.lllJl, WHO JIHUIt, IU Ul"
i rest him, with like success. The last report
is that subsequently, Jones was shot dead,
; alteitJllinJ the seizure of Wood and oth-!
i ! i , n i
, ers and th(J military had been called out by
Shannon, to aid the border ruffians in
j subjugation of the free State men. This Jones
. . i i
;it will be rememoe
: elected
i )V ,,e0
f"r,,
'
Teack in Euuope. The peace conference,
at Paris has broken up, definite terms of
i i ni i ti .
V levins been settled upon. Thisevent
nf) iouit, oe nanea wim pleasure on
Ted is a ii issou nan who
1-... u i, : i,,. i
by the bogus legislature and not
pie of the territory. iindlay
The war has been exceedingly dis-,
astrous to all parties, not only in the lin-j
men.se sacrifice of life, but in the enormous
claim that their prowess
has
ained them some special advantages not
: conceded in the outset, it has been very evi-!
.!..., .... nntil... )t..1 on,-.
" l" '"m.
: U? br?? .f' egociat.on has at length
eileeted, what it might have ellected at hrsti
had it not been for a superabundance of " na-1
tional conceit." Findlav Companion.
"-
) l lit: lllin llirtii m u kl.yuuu 111. ici
v y was on Sent 5 1810 The whole
!rv.w ;.,.,'., tn ti,., Oth ;.1ct
ii u m oer ot inteiments to tne Jtn nisi., a
oo
. ,
j Thi, Detroit Advertiser savs the forests
j Mich; an vie(1 an inrome of' $1,500,000 per
, a,imu- this year i t is liludy to reach 5.-j
000,000. Vast forests still remain untouched.
Swearing is a bad habit. Swearing is an
: imcaJtZhabit. Swearing is a wicked habit,
: Business men who swear constantly before
i their customers, drive away those who pos-
;sess a proper regard for the name of God;
name which should never be uttered by any
one but with reverence.
ANY QUANTITY of Cotton Wood and Oak
LLMBKR tan be bought cheap of the sub
scriber, at his steam sawmill, 5 miles east of town,
or by applying to F. 11. MILLEK & CO., Ferrvs
burg. " rOlTE WARNS.
April 10, 18JG.
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Legal Notice.
Henry Vantilburgh )
vs. Petition for Partition.
William Vantilburgh et at. )
ILLIAM VAK'l ILLl'RGII, Samuel Van
tilburgh, Sarah Hales, William Vantilburgh
Jr., George Vantilburgh, Henry Vantilburgh, Jr.,
Samuel antilburgh, Jr., William Saltsmun and
Melvina Saltsrnan, bis wife, Maria Yuntilburgb,
Amanda Vulitilburgli, Samuel Vantilburgh, Jr.,
William Vantilburgh, Jr., Elizabeth Vantilburgh,
Erasmus Vantilburgh, Samilda Travers, Sarada
Travers, Melton Iraveis, Drusilla '1 ravers, Al
exander Cooper, Jennens Cooper, Henry Coop
er, William Cooper, Wooster Cooper, Maria
Jane Cooper, Nancy Ann Cooper, ' Daniel Van
tilburgh and Citirinda Vantilburgh, ' his wife,
George Myers, John Myers, and Henry Myers, will
take notice that a petition was filed against them,
on the yd day of April, 18J5(, in the court of com
mon pleas of Jefi'erson county, Ohio, by Henry
Vantilburgh, and is now pending, w herein the said
Henry Vantilburgh demands partion of the follow
ing real estate, situate in the county of Jefferson,
and stute of Ohio, to wit: Being part of sections
four (4) and five, (o) township eight, (8) range two,
(2) : Beginning for said tract of land at a post in
George Johnston's line, and corner to William Van
tilburgh's, from which a white oak tree, one foot in
diameter, bears north thirty-four degrees w est one
perch and five-tenths, and chesnut tree, ten inch.es
in diameter, bears north fifty degrees east eight
links ; thence north seventy-nine degrees east thirty
perches and three-tenths to a stone and corner of
George Johnston's ; thence north twenty -four de
grees eust one hundred and twenty-nine pciches to
a hickory and corner to George Rex ; thence north
twenty-four degrees west forty-five perches ; thence
north thirty-eight degrees west thirty-one and three
tenths perches to an alluni ; thence north forty-nine
degrees west forty-four perches to a stone, iiear a
large white oak tree ; thence south twenty degrees
west thirty-six perches to a stake and corner to Will
iam Vantilburgh, in Crawford's line, (at this corner
the course, as laid down in the plat, is reversed,)
thence south seventeen and one-half degrees east
fifty perches to a white walnut twelve inches in di
ameter, bears north fifty-nine degrees west one
perch and three-tenths ; thence south five degrees
west fifty perches to a stake in the section line ;
thence east forty-two links to a stake ; thence south
three and one-half degrees east fifty-three and four
tenths perches to the place of beginning, containing
fiftv-nine acres, be the same more or less. And
!
a10 ..n,,..;., rw.;t,,t
' llir', Lilt iviutl 1 ' Ut.UI HJLU 11 J V. L Ul IdUU, .111 UUlU
j and being in the county of AYood, and state of Ohio,
wit : -Being the south half of section number
7 Uu
ot 1 ange t el e, in the district ot lands euo ect to
,,ae ntliucrus, Ohio, containing three hundred and
thelnineteenacresandtwentyhundredthsofanccve.be
the same more or less ; and that at" the next term cf
j "VrOTlCE. The owners of the following lands
i 1 on Grassy Creek, set opposite their respective
, ams the ir gn, are hereby notified that an
application has been made to the trustees ot Per-
town?hi in Woo,icountvnndstnteof Ohi.,,
s to remove all the timber that obstructs the channel
1 ....lint nn,, nn .-;0 T.rt 1... TT
' 11
rv v anruourgii ior an order mat partition may be
: jmc( ()f sailfprei'niries. j. lL SJ TKAiNER,
April 12, lS.3fi.4SwC0..r0 Att'v for Petitioner.
of said creek and prevents the water from running
clear commencing at the mouth ot said creek, at
i Maumeo river and continuing to the west line of
, Ps anil laborof clearinir out said creek imr.n the
tollowin? doFcrilied lands; and that the trustees
" ill meet at the house of John Bates, on Friday.
: the 2M of Mav. 1850. to annortion the same, and
i .;n .v. "u,. ( ,;,, ,,iac, f
; John Soiuk.r-s htw ou'Mot No ,U rem-sburtr.
w hf n e or S 4 T 4 U S li
Jacob ITufford, seqr S 33 T .1 IT S R
; Benjamin P. Ilollister w hf sw- qrSfil T3 USR
Christopher Brnssey, Lucius Hinkel, n w qr S o4
.. x.. ...... . .., ........... ,L ... . . ,
1 J"lni Ei1tcs w hf n e qr S 04 T 3 TJ S 11
i Conrad lrassey, swse S 2i '1 I! I, Mi
: ,.. ir,,,..- i.;,.0 .,.i, n-;..on'v --
: t hristmn llanns heirs, south part river tract o. ,.
J Miranda, Crane. Augustus Broakey, river tract No.74
of; Henrv Kenafuther, river tract So. 73. north part,
Henry Stouphcr, v, vv qr s c qr S 27 T 3 U S 11
'r' i,'jel undivided bfYl.f n w qr S20 T 3 V S It
; David LmUeial. river tracts No.TC, 80, 81 & 82
j G- Hgle and others, liver tract No. 77
, p'Jrprej!1' " " " 8'i
j Qabriel Crane, w'half " " 84
a j Henry Girkins' s hf s e qr S 53 T 3 IT S R
Betse"y Jenison. n hf a e qr S 23 T 3-U S R
April 12, 1856. 4Sw6