The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-21
From the NJ Y. Ersning Post
Important Intelligence from the North rA-
eifis Whaling Fleet.

Through the kindness Of Captain Griffin, OF
the schooner Curlew, which arrived yesterday
from ii ,nolula, we have been placed In posses
sion of important and affecting intelligence from
the whaling fleet Of the North Pacific.
The Curlew was boarded on the I3st of Au-
gust last, in lon. 1874 deg. l l min. w, LAT. 81
deg. N. by the whale ship John Wells, of New
Bedford, Captain Cross, who reports the follow
ing vessels as being totally lost this season:
Ajax, of Hayre Aramatta, af New London :;
Henry Thompson, of New London; Arabela,
New Bedford New Bedford, of New Bedford !;
America, Of New Bedford; Cosmopolite, OF
France; Mary Mitchell, of San Francisco.
1t appears that the whole whaling fleet had
wintered in the Gulf Of Anadir, in the northern
part of the sea OF Kamschatka, in Russia, in Asia,
and, on the coming on of spring. had set sail for
Behring's Straits but in attempting TO pass
through ito the Ar.tic ocelo, the fleet was en-
vironed by ice. and The above named vessels
troyed vessels are reported to have reached the
main land in safety but it is said that in some
disturbance afterwards with the natives, eleven
of the whalemen lost their lives.
The John Wells is stated to have borne evil
dence Of the severe navigation she had en-
countered. Her spars were nearly all gone, her
hull more or less damaged, and she had scarcely
sheet o. copper upon her.
1t was supposed that some sixty more vessels
had shared the fate of those mentioned above
and it was quite impossible to tell how many
more would be likely to be lost in their attempts
to escape from the ice.
The general result of this seasons whale fish
ing is set down as total failure. Tie follow.
ing vessels have done nothing;
Ship John Wells, clean this season; ship
Neptune, New London, clean this season, lst
August; ship Magnolia, New Bedford, clean this
season, LIST August; ship A. IL. Rowland, New
Bedford, clean this season, | st August; ship
Vineyard, Martha's Vineyard 45O sperm, clean
this season. The whole fleet is believed to
have done little, if any better.
1t is thought that the whole leet (some 600
sail, we believe) are now vending their way,
as rapidly as possible, to the Northwest coast,
retrieve their i'll fortunes.-Aha California
Sept 10Th.
LATER FROM PANAMA.
Riot in San Juan del Sud Revolution in NeU
Grenada Chile in Arms.
Our Panama papers are to the LIST instant,
and contain several important matters. The
Star of that date says:
About nine o'clock on Wednesday night, the
city was startled from its propriety" by the sud
den sound ofapparently every church bell in il
and they are something less than thousand
and the loud cries Of" Viva la Republca Nueva
Granada" from the throlts of the loyal demo-
cratic paisanos," who all at once thronged the
streets.
On inquiry into the cause of the joification,
we learned that the courier had just got into
town, with dispatches to Governor Diaz inform.
ing him that General Thomas Herrara, leader of
the government forces had subdued the remain
ing revolutionary forces in the republic. under
com nand Of General Borrera, in the province of
Antoqua. This is the main established fact
How it was brought about we are not clearly
as there are different stories ahoat -
But from the information we have been enabled
to gather, we are led TO believe that General
llerrara has accomplished his purpose on this,
as on previous occasions, more by his own skill
in using his powerful reasoning and persuasive
frcuties, than by the force of arms.
Doubtless, before our next publication we
shall have full and official accounts of the clos
ing scene in the late revolutionary movement in
New Granada. In the meantime, We can inform
our readers that law and order once more pre-
viii throughout the country.
ROBBERY CT A GOLD TRAIS-Ths gold train
which left Panama on the goth ult, was attacked
NJ buyhDal ny Il Odnu OF ruDDtTs, VINO were re-
pulsed, and afterward the leaders-a Dr. Berry,
an American, j. ]. Burch, an American lawyer
and DR.. Lobertson, an Englshman-were ar
rested as the ringleaders.
REVOLUTION IN CHILE.
BY the arrival of the French brig Mari
Louise, from Caoa, whence she sailed on the
Goth Septemb r, we learn that the steamer Chile
had just arrived in that harbor from Valparaiso,
bringing the important, but unpleasant informa- |
ton that revolution had broken out in Chile,
and that many Of the troops had declared in
favor Of General Santa Cruz, for President
that Coquimbo, and other cities, were in pos. !!
session of the new party-and that every thing |
throughout the republic was in dscrganized |
state.
We regret this news, because we had begun |
to look upon Chile as model" Southern re-
public-possessing more stability than any of
her neghbors-of more enlarged ideas of foreign |
trade and domestic industry-as a country, |
forward in the development aud en-
enlargement Of internal resources and improve
ment-and we had fostered the hope and nour
ished it, that she was very rapidly rising to pc |
sition that would soon reflect honor and glory |
upon republican institutions and principles, |
throughout the world.
But the petty intrigues Of political men, seem
to have as mech influence there rs elsewhere
in the South, among the unthinking, indolent,
and ignorant mass Of the people, as well as
among the no better educated, no higher prin
,ipled, and no more reliable soldiery.
The next arrival from the South, will give US
MI the particulars Of the revolution, and as soon
~ received, we shall lay them before our readers
RIOT BETWEEN THE SOLDIERS AND EMICRANTs
AT SAN JUAN DEL SUD
A letter in the Star, dated at San Juan del
Sud, September Dist, says:
1.-THE rowdies have complete possession Of
his place There is no order or law, and but
little prospect Of it from the government We
mad most unfortunate aflir yesterday, in the
shape Of a conf ct between the natives and the
Americans, in which two Of the latter were
killed and the soldiers had one killed, two NOR
ally wounded, and one slightly.
II arose through Col Mclean, who came
1ere in brig from Realyjo, was suspected to be, !
md believe was, an emissary from Gen. Munion
who is at the head of an army against the gov
eminent Of Senior Pi ieda, the president. Col
N,I I k,liaya an1aavprad N raiep a marty