The Sierra citizen., 1854-02-11
LATE FROM LOWER CALIFORNIA.
BREAKING UP OF THE FILIBU STEERS.

inst, bringing the following important
news, which we extract from the San
Francisco Sun, extra:
We have been put in possession of the
| followiog interesting items of news from
the headquarters of the ilibusters at En-
senada, which have been communicated to
us by some OF the returned party.
1t appears that Captain Davidson's
Company had been selected as foraging
party, and were almost constantly on the 90,
ananding cattle, corn, &C.. for the use of
camp at Ensenada. On these excursions
they manage to fasten on to sufficient
number OF horses to mount their Company,
which they consequently did On the fact
! becoming known to the President. he at
once ordered them to be dismounted. His
command was, however, disregarded, and
about 40 of the men refused to obey the
order, which had the effect to cause a gene
raj murmur in the camp, while the officers
were divided in their support of the President
The disaffection becoming greater and
greater every hour, the President became
alarmed and ATTEMPTED to force the men to
take an oath of allegiance, pledging them
selves to stand by him until he had planted
the flag Of the 1.-TWO Star Republic in So
nora. All the officer subscribed to the oath.
Some fifty of the men refused to do so. and
declared their intention of leaving the camp,
whereupOn detacement of men from Capt.
Douglas company we're ordered out to
prevent their departure and deprive them
of their arms and ammunition. The party.
however, refused to give them up, when an
order was given to fire upon them. The
an nd ~ Ohio l. IL,
men, who on the country came to an order
arms. AT this crisisa parley was had and
the disaffected gave up their rif1es-about
ten or twelve in number, but retained their
revolvers and ammunition. A detachment
of artillery was also ordered our to intimi-
date them and bring them back to their
duty, but with nc effect as the men in
charge of the gus abandoned them and
joined the party which was leaving.
The President is said to have then given up
the idea of preventing their departure as
every attempt to DO so only tended to ex-
hibt his own weakness and give additional
strength to the disaffected whose numbers
were steadily increasing. They were then
allowed to depart to the number of 4S or
80, nearly all of whom have arrived here
this morning, either on the Thomas Hunt or
Golden Gate.
We also learn from the same source that
the camp is destitute of all kinds of provi-
slOns except beef and corn, upon which they
have been subsisting for some time The
promise of immediate relief is held out to
the party and the arrival of the Anita with
fresh stores and rations is anxiously looked
for. Our readers can Judge of the prospect
OF their hopes being gratified, when they are
made aware Of the fact that vessel is still
in our harbOr.
In addition to the party which came up
IN the Hunt, large number of desertions
have taken place, the parties generally
leaving on mule or horseback, making their
way across the country to San Diego Many
OF these will doubtless fall into the hands
OF the Callfornians, who will avenge them
selves for the loss of their cattle &C., ON
these stragglers.
The revolt, as stated above, took place on
Tuesday, January 24th, the revolters
marching out in the face of the entire COM
mand at O'Clock in the afternoon.
We have only to add that. although the
friends OF President Walker have given
another color to the action as detailed
above, we are convinced that our version
is quite as reliable as theirs. But. as we
prefer to let them speak for themselves we
append theirs as contained in the follow
ing communication published in the San
Diego Herald:
Notice to the Citizens of San Diego.
Fort McKibben, (Ensenada,) L. c.,
January 25th, 1854
Editor of the Herald:-By this time YOU
have doubtless heard of an eneut which
took place in our camp yesterday, which
resulted in the withdrawal of the dscon-
tented men of our command, and the infiic-
ton of their delectable company upon your,
citizens
President Walker had heard the murInur-
ings of these fellows for several days past.
until, being fully satiied that they would
never be contented to stand guard and the
others incidents of soldering, he called the
battalion together yesterday and Addressed
them plainly and eloquently, declaring his
determination to have none but soldiers in
his command and concluded by exacting
promise from the % men " of the forces, to
put an end to the unsoldier-like practice of
growing whenever called upon to ..face the
music" He then ordered every man who
would not pledge himself to the expedition
to leave our lines, after giving them time
to prepare for their Journey 1t was
deemed necessary that these men should
leave certain firearms, some of which be-
longed to the government and few others
to individuals; but the order was resisted,
and they attempted to get Off with arms and
munitions of which they could not possibly
have need. A party of ten men was sent
after them, and after some insolence on their
part and one bloody head, (superinduced
by dubbed rifle in the hands of one of
our men, we recovered the arms and let
them go on their way. They had started
in such haste as to have forgotten to take
provisions, and when followed and compel
led by our small detachment to give up their
arms, they were distinctly told by Col
Walker that they could have rations suffi-
cient to take them to San Diego if they
would send committee of their own men
back in the camp for them; but as they de-
clined doing this and are generally very
poor hands in any department of either
soldering or enduring hardship, the pre-
sumption is that by the time they reached
San Diego they were used up, hard look
ing party, and viii be in fine humor to
complain of the treatment they met with
here. But you may rest assured. and a