Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-12-17
"THE AGE OF BRASS ILLUSTRATED"

Under this expressive head we find the following
article in the New York Express Of Tuesday:
One of the most barefaced and impudent farces we
have heard of in the manifest destiny line OF
busness-now that we know the detailsis that which
some forty fifty American citizens" (San Francisco
llibusteres) have been playing off upon the vanous
Mexcans" in Lower California, under the name of De-
claration of independence there.
In our compilation Of California yesterday 1t
stated that the steamer John L. Stephens her way down
to Panama. boarded the barque Cdron bearing the flag Of
the Sonora fbusters and assuming to represent the en-
tire naval force of the Republic of Lower Califor-
MA" correspondent board the ]. L. Stephens at
the time says 'fthey put board ship procama-
tion," which is given below.
Gen. SuAnEz L. NAVARRO also one of the passengers
board the Stephens formerly strong friend OF Santa
Anna but who has recently been banished by him,
informed quite interested in the proceeding said he
knew the prisoners that they rich men, and able
pay good should the party be in need of funds
1t will be noted that the "grand army of the fbus-
tiers don't foot up fifty men! Their marauding
PLOTS are heraded the world with all the pomp and
cyAxacter of war" as the Battle of La Paz.'
PROCLAMATION OF THE SONORA FILLIBUsTERs
Headquarters cfhe Republic Of Locr California,
Nocen6er Z, 1853.
REPORT OF TIE INDEPENDENCE OF LOWER CALIFORNIA.
morning sailed with
St Lucas We
on a sss osS o o serS s some mo- N H
ynber anchor opposite the town party ordered
person party In
We hauled down the flag the Governors
proclaimed the of Lower California and orr flag oaed
rumphan where but few moments before that OF Mexico had
fortified and Col Walker entered upon his duties as President of the
Republic Lower California issuing such DEGREES
remained until Sunday November when the President determined
embarked taking Espruo,
port having board Col Reboro who the
Of Mexico to upese Tx aprnos
TINS order was promptly executed.
wood While returning they
5 s aen wha rne s
der heavy fire muketry without losing Meantime fire
Col Walker landed with thirty when the fight became
Of m was anu an and 1s Sfs b % e h los a
six or killed and several wounded Our did not much
receives wound except from the cactus while pursuing the enemy
pug the in rear # the Thus ended the battle Of
from the yoke Mexico and securing the establishment of
the mineral agricultural
othe republic Lower California compare vorab with those Of her
Our all in fine health and spirits noble and de-
e% RIM ea.r BODY as were ever ere collected together o
William Walker President of the Republic of Lower California;
;o s ''n's1
MTAHrJohn Chapman, Major of battalion; Charles H. Gilman,
Captain o John Mckbber first eutenan Timothy Croker
| second lieutenant.
NAyALWiam Mann, Captain of Navy A. Williams first leu
| tenant; John Grandall, second lieutenant.
Our Government has formed upon firm basis The
civil code and practice Louisiana adopted for the
rule of decision in and the civil law Of the land We
rived Cape Thursday November On the morning
the 9th the Mexican cutter Geneva uie of the Cape Our
formidable that she deemed prudence the better
heee to- and the slip In the evening again
embarked Magana the President conmplates
| tabishng the seat Of government for the present
Thus ends the account of the expedition given in the
document. The officer of the John L. Stephens, however
in recording the incident of their having spoken the
Caroline, afixes the following significant comment:
81 should judge from their number that their whole
battalion, as they term it, board the barque, and
had left ST. Lucas 10 their heads. The vessel was
apparently beating up the coast evidently bound to San
Diego, their document, handed unseaed directed
| to the editor of the San Diego Herald"
From this it is not improbable that the expedition met
with repulse, and in full retreat to avoid the
sequences of the outrage it had committed upon people
against whom it had cause of complaint