Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-06-05
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

contradictory stories concerning this affail
aoa ing In the newspapers, some of which ar.
monstrous indeed, we have t.ksu occasion tt
obtain reliable information upon it. 1t vii
be rscolIected that this Is the point at which
corrtc ct Information relative to all matters In
which agents of the United States government
abroad may be inyol, ed. is, alone lin the
United states) always to be obtained The
last version (which appeared in the New
York Heratl, and is attributed to Mr.. Squiers
who was elected from the Ni,araguan mission
by the Fillmore Administrai ion, with q flea in
his ear, it will be remembered) charged ou1
la'e minis er, Mr.. Borland, with int rferinp
| 'ufrageoasly to protect a murderer. &c, &c
Between the settled and never sleeping malice
OF the HeraM against the Administration and
Its appoint ees, and the so-far undying hos it>
of Mr.. squiers to all who are supposed to have
been ms rumental in bis recall, as matte
Of course, that papers sorry gives terrible
account Of the matter. Now, We have TO s1,
that satisfactory proof exists here, showing
that it is false from beg ming to end, and tn
the interference of MIR. Borland was but pru
dent, right, and emnently called for by the
real circumstances of the case.
1t seems that Captain Smith. of the Ameri-
can steamer Routh, navigating the San Juar,
liver, some months since dismissed one of his
| native pit OTIS, named Antonio, feI ocious fell
low, who subsequently, threatened to take hi.
| life on the st favorable occasion On tht
Is ,
was passenger on her, coming home, she lost
most of her rudder by an accident, and WI,
for the most part, steered with setting poles
" hen about eight miles above San Juan, she
| became unmanageble in q narrow channel of
deep and rapid water. To save her from
grounding" Captain Smith ordered her to
be made fast to a bungo" (native boat lying
near at hand. which proved to be the boat OF
Antonio. The latter had the rope of tn.
steamer cut or cast loose. and Selling a
double barrelled gun, levelled it to shoot
Captain smith, who was standing with the
steamers wheel in his hand. woman OIL
board tho bungo, however, jerked the gun
from his hand, and ere he could recover it.
the steamer being loOsened from the bungo.
was swept violently away by the current
grounding on the other side of the river
In their efforts to prevent this catastrophe, the
hands LOST two Of their setting poles, near the
oungo. and as soon as possible the steamer was
headed go as to recover them. On her second
approach towards the bungo for that purpose,
| The exploit again seized his gun, and ordered
Captain Smith not to approach nearer, or be
| would shoot him. He made this threat, aud
prepared to carry it into execution, though he
| saw that Capt. S. was at the wheel, surrounded
by male and female passengers, and tho bnat
was almost wholly unmanageable. Smith
finding it impossible to stop her Roadway, anC
fearing that he would shoot in the crowd o
passengers, stepped out of the wheeI-house i,i
stanty, when the IuAian squatted down anc
'aised his double barrelied gun to shoot Bu
s. was LOO quick for him, as be seized his rice
| and shot him as he was on he point fpullips
| trigger. These are the flcs of the shootinI
| affair, az testified to by Dr.. Smith, Of s.
Frarcisco, Adims Co Is Express messep er
and lady passenger, who, as we'll as the Hon
| ime
| When the steamboat reached her stoppin rs
| place at Punta Arenas and was poored al, n .
side of The steamship, two boats full of person
calling themseIysg authorities of 4 Greytown
| San Juan del NOrte-came to her TO ares
| Captain Smith for the murder of Antopio, thci
towuslnsn. These people. it will be recollect
ed, are the deadly enemies of the America,
company navigating the San Juan, having
| qua re!ed with them because they refused T.
land their passengers among their shantees, t'
be delayed, and then plundered in varou
ways They pretend to be sovereign com
munity, holding grant from the sO-ca'let
| Mosquito king, and in almost all espe,ts a.,
AS lawless and dangerous rs any other squat
Of buccaneers ever infes.ing the shores OF TIT
, Caribbean sea. Not long since, ia reveng
Tor the refusal of the company to submit thei
| passengers to their tender mercies they un
| dertOok to tear down The depots on Punti
| Arenas, but were estopped by Commando
Hollins, with the Cyane, who only brough
them to terms by preparing to batter ever.
| one Of their sbantees around their ears. The,
got a lesson On that occasion, which, up to thj
| time, kept them quiet and respectful to al
Americans in their vicinity. Nicaragua, upo
whose territory they are really located, di-
owns them for band of IawIess pirates, wien
she cannot control for they defy her author
ty, claiming under the Mosquito king. Wtel
they came over to arrest Capt. Smith, thei
boa's btistlins with cutlasses and bayonette,
muskets, our Nicaraguan minister prevented
the contamination Of their scheme, by seizi n,
Il rife and threa ;ening to shoot the first IL al
of them who made hostile demons ration al
ter having explained to them, first, that tn
man was killed eight miles beyond the line o
any pretended claim Of theirs to jurisdiction
and next that the point at which they were at
jempting to arrest Captain Smith was also ia
beyond any claim of theirs to Jurisdiction; AM
lastly, that the Government of the Unite
states did not recognize any jurisdiction il
them over any territory whatever, in tx:
quarter; to all OF. which they refused to lis
ten.
1t is well know here, that probably to b
prepared for laE less acts on their part MI
Borland, on being sent to Nicaragua, was Iii
rected to inform that Government that tn
: United States acknowledged her jurisdic,io
over and right to all the country between Cos