Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1851-04-08
Fr ON Calf 4rnia, Oregon, Cape Of
Coed Hope, Cuba, Jamaica and
faealan.

AVRO' Ne0"j ouiHuis@ l''"u
! iaealan.
Shocking Murder on the Isshmus.
"a letter fl lnG hagres, dated March
II, IN the Herald, gives an account
iof some aw1u murders committed
on the Chag}es river, on the 10Th
lult.
4 Mr. Rum els Of Panama, found
I the dead bod y of man floating in
!, the river. Hurther on the bodies Of
four men and woman, and two new
made graves, from which the buzzards
had eAhamed the bodies. He also
found the gr,4 YES of two women; WHO
had been maIi dered. Several trunks,
a valise, and a money belt, all ined,
which probably belonged to some OF
the victims, We're found. The only
names found were that of Joseph
Brooks, Of DIZZY street, New York,
with men orandum that he Left
i home In the 3 impure City on the 18th
of February, and that OF IL. Rudus-
Chi nder. Twp D CdrJhagepa negroes
have been az rested on suspicion 81
, The murders. Iney have been sent
10 Panama Il b trial Dir. Corwine,
the American consul at Panama,s was
using every means 10 ascertain and
arr est the true authors OF the crimes.
| F$3,500 had been raised and offered
i as b reward for them.
/ The Sal letter mentions themur-
der Of Lyman q. AIarden, of Boston,
by a gambler named Mcclure at Pa
Hal ma, on the 23d ul5.'
Tie two Carthagena negroes were
see n with Considerable money, il
Ghagres, and no0 being able to give
an account where they got it, they
, were 4fr4sted, and the oldest con
iessed the murders His story is,
that there were tour natives III tie
boat, With himself, that they got Il
Dos Iennanos at l O'Clock, mid
night, but that they insisted on 50,
, ing OH, and one of the AmericanS
= drew a pistol, and said he would shoot
them ii they did not go. He says i
scJllfle ensued, and he struck The
man over the mead with AN oar, anc
killed him, and then commenced the
, work OF death, which ended in then
$ killing the whole party. This story
, is hot believed, as from the nature
, their wounds they were evidently
cruelly murdered willie asleep, and
, thenrobbed. These natives gave III.
, formation Of the whereabouts of the
: other two, and one has since been ar
rested in Gorgona.
| By passengers from Chagres, We
: learn that the party Of citizens vic
! Ista rted from that place IN search d
the murderers, had succeeded il
CO ptturiag four persons, against whom
there is said to be strong. proof 0.
: guilt
r The following is said to be a list
S Of the persons murdered: Thos. Me
Dsrmot, IA Greenwich street. New
Y ork; Joseph Brooks, fruitefer, cor
a n r Of Dey street and Broadway
J New York; man by the name O
t Moody; Fidele Pepin, a native Of
| E rance; LeomOre Landry, gold-beatel
: Iof Paris; John W. Steele, Waterloo
4 a I'D Catherine Cameron; a man BY
; the name of Patrick.
$ Companies Of volunteers, when the
4 steamer left, were known to be oui
5 securing the country il every direc.
ton, IN search Of the murder9rs.
!, We have IN the New York papers
1 the full details Of the news brought
by the Crescent City from California
! Oregon and the oa ndwich Islands
1t is of no particular interest," We
annex lew items not mentioned III
) the telegraphic dispatch.
The fare from San Francisco to
Sacramento and Stockton is now s.
) two years since twas so.
4 An immense draining of gold is
g said to have been made on a hill IL
: the vicinity Of AIokelume river,
. which had never previously been
e wrought A party Of four struck
. upon the very summit some three
: weeks since, and by digging down fif-
7 teen feet, have thus far extracted
q over $500.
The population Of San E francisco is
D now $4,000.
: The country was perfectly healthy
/ The deaths were few and the sickness
scarce.
q I he excitement about the gold
: bluff IS had not died out; but much
subsidized.
: There appears to be avery serious
4 n q t,,-