New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-10-30
NUMBER 1859.
Murder Of Six Americans on the Amaz5n

| correspondent Of the New York TRIBUNE
furnishes the following account Of the massacr,
oi q number Of Americans at the Fort Of Taba
tinga, ON the frontiers of Brazil, taken from tht
Dario, published at Para:
,t On the "a OF the current month (September)
there arrived here from Tabatjpga n & Corraio
| Extraordnario,' with intelligence that six fill
pnsteros, whose nationality could not be wholly
| distinguished, although aii appearances indi-
Gated that they we're North Americans. had
forced the authorities Of Loreto lin pernl tn
give them the pass, with which they entered the
| territory OF Brazil, robbing and DESTROYING
Whatever they found, without any regard to
whom it belonged or to the directions that had
been given them by the authorities Of Perm
The authorities of Loreto, from whom they had
extorted the pass, hastened to give inforIna ton
OF the same to the commander of the fort of Ia
batinga, Capt. Gareez, who, putting himself On
the alert, saw the flibusters coming into nort
in canoe, and ordering them to halt, they an.
swered by discharge Of their guns end passed
down the river. Without loss of time they were
pursued by canoe with troops, sent by the
said Capt. Garcez, which, arriving within gun
shot, the soldiers were saluted by a second dis
charge from the .ssaid eight, who then, jump
ing on shore, proposed to strengthen them
selves, taking for a wall the trunks of trees.
behind which they made, over the top of a
canoe, very lively FIRE, from which one soldier
was kiiled and Tapuio Indian grayely
wounded.
"1n these critical circumstances the comnan-s
der OF the expedition. judged it prudent to let
the canoe be taken down the current. and then
making small Decentralization under cover of
a high bank of earth he ordered that small di.
vision TO cut way through the matted under
growth to the rear Of the enemy, while he
turned to take him in front and divert his atteu-
ton. for which end here turned up the river, ex-
pending some shots for diversion of the ensmy,
until the hllibusters, finding themselves sur
rounded, redoubied their energy, and exposed
themselves 70 everything to which q General
subjects himself when he has no place for re-
treating IN good order. Now throwing into the
water Whatever they had brought with them,
they struggled and fought boldly, and as If
they were sixty because, having arms Of ten
barrels, the number that they represented an
peared thus large but the low, steady aim of
the Brazilian soldiers succeeded id sending be-
low and ordering within little time from this
for better world, five of the resistants The
sixth, the only one that escaped an ounce of
lead, took to his heels with the nimblest activi-
ty; but encountering a lake, end thrusting
himself into it head foremost to pass it by
swimming, be was made a prey of by the alli-
gators that called him bait
The Tribune correspondent says that as to
the robbing, there must be a wide mistake, for
there is nothing in the whole country that can
be taken, unless it be the forest, the rivers, the
monkeys, alligators, mosquitoes, sand flies, and
occasionally a few bananas at an Indian ohacra.
He also says: ia
"Mr. Dewey, the United States Consul here,
has just received letter from our enterprising
fellow citizen of New Jersey, Marcus Williams,
who resides at the Barra, and who, besides be-
ing general favorite and knowing everything
that occurs in the country, is discriminating
and reliable. He is of opinion that the party
were robbed and murdered, and that he will
never be able to obtain any reliable informa-
tion concerning the massacre, as they have pro-
baby taken good care to let no one escape Our
Consul is about forwarding the facts to our
Minister at Rio, although for all practical pur-
poses he might as we'll send them to sthe man in
the moon'-not because our Minister is inefi.
cient-he is quite otherwise because we
have no treaty with Brazil that does not mean
any one thing quite as well as another, or
whose few and faulty stipulations cannot be in
every respect reasoned into moonshne by the
astute French diplomacy of the professional min
listers at Brazil As delay is the great instru-
ment of Brazilian diplomacy, it would doubtless
take TWO successive administrations . in our
country, with the most energetic representa-
tion in Brazil, to arrive at the outskirts Of the
real facts affecting this massacre on the ANA
zon.