The Nevada journal., 1854-04-21

De@ The San Francisco EUealng J0a,r7aa
contains a letter from Mr.. Bickam, giving
full particulars of the attack made upon
him, and Mrs. Andrews of Sacramento,
while crossing the Isthmus. The Mr.. E
referred to is Mr. Earl:-
Rio OBIspo, R. R. Depot Isthmus Darien,
Thursday, March 10th, 1854
Bless God, Pm living man !. F.! con-
slider myself singularly fortunate in not be-
ing stark and cold piece of clay lying in
one Of the gullies CT this Internal Isthmus.
To make long story short, will SIM
! ply state that was yesterday robbed of
every dime, except $40, and also of my
steamer ticket. The circumstances were
as follows:
In the morning when / left Panama, Mr..
Corwin-cashier of the p. M S. S. Co..
at thai place, told me to be cautious, mas
much as the route was infested by murder
ing bands of robbers He stated that an
escort of some twenty citizens, designed to
accompany the specie train through to the
Railroad Depot, as they expected an attack
from robbers. started with three or four
gentlemen, carrying one of Mrs. -s chill
dren before me, leaving her with two other
children to follow in charge of Mr.. E..
At the | l mile house they came up with
our party, and soon after Mr.. E. took
the child | had been carrying from the arms
of Mr. Richardson, (Wells, Fargo s. Co.'S
messenger) who had few moments before
relieved me Of the 'little responsibility
Mrs. then old Mr.. E. to go ahead with
the children, and that Mr.. B. (myself)
would take care of her. We were in the
rear, and her mule was crazy and stubborn
and, therefore we slowly fell behind. FL
nally, in accordance withs her suggestion
| dismounted, procured a stick, and mount
ing again, struck the lady's mule, which
sprung and threw her backwards Icaught
her in my arms, and would have saved her
a heavy fall, had not her foot, unfortunate
ly, clung in the stirrup. At this moment
her dress flew over the eyes of my mule
which sprung aside and threw Us BOTH
however, held on the reins, when the in
fernal animal kicked me on one of my **"
*** legs, the right one, and deprived me
of all my strength. The lady's mule went
ahead mine stopped, and I read djustinc
the saddle, which had turned with me. II
placed her upon it, and started ahead, walk
ing beside her About one hundred yards
ahead we discovered her mule browsing IN
a thicket, and catching him again, proceed
ed, she complaing Of violent pain in the
head and back, and [ SO weak | could
scarcely keep my seat.
In few minutes more we were progress
ing slowly through one Of those deep and
narrow gullies, about ten miles from here,
and while listening to some remark of my
companion, l suddenly heard a fierce
voice distinctly behind me exclaiming "Gib
me de monies Glib me de monies !"
Glib me de monies !" Turning in my sad
die, as quick as thought I whipped ont
the only weapon in my possession-a little
one barrelled pisto, and pulled the trigger,
at the same moment felt the blaze of pow
der in my face, heard the woman scream,
and simultaneously went over the mules
head shooting as fell, and thinking for
the moment, from pain that shot through
my back, that Il was done for" exclaimed,
8 for Gods sake don't kill the woman"
Before could recover my feet, the rascals,
numbering SIX or seven, surrounded me,
one of whom-the fellow who had fire.
grappled, when another of the internal
scoundrels whipped out his long knife and
struck ct me, | caught the blow, however,
upon my arm. Meanwhile Mrs. -, think
ing me murdered, fled up the de6le, the ras-
Gals yelling, "Catch de woman's catch de
woman's!' Well, l delivered my purse
SANS ceremony, rather than be killed for re-
fusing. Three of the Williams were armed
with muskets, or shot guns. Two Of them
One of which | Judged to be an Ameri-
can from his blue eyes-were masked with
handkerchiefs cut for the eyes and mouth.
They spoke very good English, while some
oil them muttered fierce gibberish,
l doubtless owe my life to the scoundrel
who, although he kept his own blunderbqs
in painful proximity to my body, seemed
to prevent the others from shooting.
All this occurred in a very space Of time,
certainly not more than from three to five
minutes were consumed.
The robbers left me as suddenly as they
pounced upon me, running up little ra,
vine into some very thick under brush L
My mule had vamosed. Mrs. -'s fdl-
lowed the robbers. but catching him, |
mounted and plunged up the de6le in search
ofner. Suddenly she shrieked four or fYe
time apparently in the forest ahead of m le
To describe my horror as the thought fash
ed through my mind that was alone IN
hurt, and lady, UNDER MY CHARGE, car
ried off by band of ruffians into the d.
most impenetrable thickets and jungles of
this mountainous country, would be utter
ly impossible. dashed through the thick
cts at the topmost speed my spurs cou I'D
give the mule, and suddenly came to hut
into which rushed and was overjoyed to
ind the lady, but much alarmed to witness
the state she was in. She despaired of ever
seeing me again; she said ''She thought |
had been murdered" and then tainted
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