The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-06-11
pnorrerros TO THE PANAMA ROUTE i'm

| PpoTEcT1oS TO THE PANAMA RoUTE.-An I'M
nression very generally prevails, that our gov.
eminent has not acted with the promptness and
immediate action, the merits of the case de-
manded, in obtaining summary and satisfactory
redress from the government of Granada fol
the brutal outrages committed by the misera.
ble savage wretches of Panama, with the con
niyance and under the order Of the governor
and other local authorities. 1t is but simple
Justice, that the apparent apathy or delay IN
| the course which our government Is pursuing
! in regard to those dreadful riots at Panama,
where the lives and properties of unotfendlng
women and children were brutally sacrificed,
should be properly understood. Whatever de-
| liberation, caution and delay may have been
exercised in this business, have been in strict
conformity with the provisions ofthe treaty con-
cluded in 1916, between the United States and
! the government of New Granada. The thirty
! fifth article of this treaty distinctly defines the
relations of the two countries with regard to
the isthmus route, and points out the manner
in which redress for injury should be sought
and obtained. The fourth and fifth sections of
the article provide for a case similar to that
which has Just occurred. The fourth declares
that if the citizens of either nation violate the
articles of the treaty, such offending citizens
shall be personally responsible for their mis-
deeds without any interruption of the friendly
relations between the two governments; and
the fifth section provides that should the arti-
cles of the treaty be violated, neither of the
contracting parties shall declare war or sanction
acts of reprisal against the other, on complaints
RI fha bo
siders himsef aggrieved shall have submitted a
statement of his injuries to the other, properly
authenticated, demanding satisfaction, nor I'M
til such satisfaction shall have been refused. In
strict compliance with the terms Of this treaty,
the United States government has despatched a
commissioner to Panama to investigate the
facts, and report accordingly.
We must wait patiently the result of this off
cial investigation, when the character and de-
gree of the PREPARATION demanded, will be mea-
sured by the nature and extent of the injury
inflicted. Com. Bulletin
U. s. CIRCUIT CoURT.-Judges j. A. Camp
bell and Theodore McCaleb presiding-Great
Texas land case decided. The case of John W.
Lapsley vs.. Eliphas Spencer, was decided by a
jury in this court yesterday. There were ele-
ven cases, all precisely alike in principle, in
which John W. Lapsley is plaintiff. and vari-
Gus persons defendants. 1t is a claim for land
founded upon a grant made by the Mexican
government on the 14th of june 1880, to JAS
de la Vega and covered some forty or fifty
thousand acres, which land is now said to be
worth some forty or fifty dollars per acre. Del
la Vega on the 9Th May, 1882, gave power
of attorney to one S. NJ. Williams to sell the
land, and the plaintiff in this suit derives his
title from this power of attorney, and the sale
which it authorised Williams to make. The
detendants-all the other defendants being in
precisely the same situation-c ontended that
the grant of the Mexican government to James
de la Vega had certain conditions attached to
it, non-fulfillment of which on his part would
render his title in the land in question null and
void; and that he did fail to comply with said
conditions; that the land therefore reverted to
the Mexican government, and by the Texas
revoIutlonit became the property of the Texas
government, and that they hold it by preemp-
ton right. Another ground of defence was that
the power Of attorney granted to Williams by
lie Ia Vega was signed Jena Vega and not James
lie "a Vega. The case decided Yesterday was
he leading and test case, the others being in
he same category. 1t was ably argued for the
plaintiff by Judge Hughes, of Texas and for the
H eI by Mr.. Singleton, of this city, Mr..
y alker OF Texas, and another gentleman from
-e2as, whose name we did not learn. The
curt having charged the jury upon the laws {
to the case, the jurors retired, and .
a few minutes returned verdict for the
lalntltt Tor the land described in his petition.
nd one dollar damages. The case has been t
litigation several years. 1t was transferred =
rom the United States circuit court for eastern +
'exas, because judge Watrous is personally T
lterested IN It's issue. 1t was tried here some '
'eeks since, and the jury failed to agree. The :,
'ha' II IL is worth what it is said to be, NAV :
put down at ABOUT two millions of dollars- g
ms includes, OF course, the whole amount of Is
land claimed IN all the cases. [Picayune K
A CORRUPT BID.-The Richmond ENQUIRER Ia
'ys: "Whlie whlg, the man of genius, is in
Re ehrysalls state: when his energies are fully a.
'Veioped, and he expands into the respectable
menslons OF democrat, he bursts from his al
ison, scars into higher and purer regions b
'ily hutters In the sun, and sucks nectar from 6,
cry blushing fower'' O. g,
In plain prose he means that all wbias are
ere 'grub-worms'' in their normal state. but pr
zen FULLY developed and transformed into y, y.
mocrats they become glorious insects and IN
OK the nectar of corruption and bribery from of
e cup of official patronage. me-
The Baltimore Patriot, commenting on the Of
owe, says: These "springe to catch wood tel oe,
ok are displayed with such an open, bare tic
led assurance in the fall of the birds thew are tn
signed to ensnare, that we can only account Ell
the undisguised manner in which thew are ba
posed on the supposition that those whose pl
slness 1t is to set them, have frequently caught
tore IN this manner birds of nondescrint lei
tner' whose eagerness to gather up the MI
DIS with which they were tenn pied, rendered Nj
I'm lnsensible 10 the lure until they found -.
firmly grasped by the Strengthening OF o.
op. 1t marks an era in republican Journal lee
!, when honest argument is boldly thrust sol
de- and open bribery substituted in its stead thu
there be any, calling themselves wings who o o'
Wiling to desert their principles in the hope tai
sucking democratic nectar from every blush car
Hower,' let them make the experiment,
ose wings. however, who regard consistency, no