The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-05-19
FURTHER BY THE GEORGE Law.

The Aspinwall papers have the correspondence
between Captain Bailey, of the United States ship
st. Mary's, and the government OF Panama, rela.
tive to the late massacre. The government, while
regrettng the circumstances of the riot, gives no
satisfactory evidence that any measures have been
taken 10 punish the rioters. The correspondence
ends with tart letter from Capt. Bailey, in which
he says:
to the causes of the frightful occurrences the
18th inst, that, apart from the immediate origin OF
the tumult you would have deemed il due to your.
self as the Chief Magistrate of this community, to
state why and wherefore you undertook the fearful
responsibility Of ordering your police to fire upon
my countrymen, women and children, and to state
what steps you had taken TO punish the guilty and
restore the plumber.
Ten days have elapsed since the catastrophe,
and have yet to learn that single criminal has
been arrested, or that any portion of the immense
amount Of valuablos taken from the passengers
and railroad company has been returned. have
yet to learn that your high "concendia de mis- de-
beres Ia intelgencia de los grandes interses que
liain la conservation de este Inca de transito
universal extended any further than to order an
indiscriminate massacre of the passengers over
the transit.
have yet to learn that when a riot or collision
shall take place between foreigners on the one
side, and natives on the other, you recognize any
higher obligation your part than to protect and
assist the latter, and to disarm, murder, maltreat
and plumber the former.
In directing my first communication to your Elk.
cellency had no desire to listen to apologies for
certain parties or certain acts but earnest wish
to know what you did toward Furnishing the par
ties concerned in the frightful atrocity. wanted
not sophistry, but action-the names of the crimi-
mails arrested-the officials dismissed-and some
Sllusion to plumber restored. That / have not
been thus gratifed, / have no reason to doubt,
arises from the fact that you deem the origin OF
the affair sufficient justification for the frightful
conclusion.
The Panama Herald states that the wounded in
the ARRAY are all getting on as well can be ex.
pected.
The same paper announces, on the authority OF
private letters, that severe shock of an earth.
quake has been felt at Kingston Jamaica, which
destroyed much property, and swallowed up one
half of the parish church
From Begota we have information that the Ma
tional Congress have passed decree declaring
Carthagena free port.
The Indian War in Oregon.
The lowing is list of the persons killed and
| wounded, and the houses burned by the Indian
| depradators, at Cascades, in Oregon:
| kILLED.-B. NJ. Brown and wife; James Wat
kins, "a boyD II. Hagan, IA Germany Geo. Girls.
| void; Jacob Kyle, "a German boy;) Jacob White,
| Germany Bourbon,t(a half breed0 James Sim
clair, of the Hudsons Bay Company; Dick Tur-
| pin, (colored)
| WoUNDED.-George Watkins, severely; Jacob
| Rouse, msrtally; Martin Bailey, James Lindsay,
John Chance, JESSE James Algin slightly; Jas.
Shocks, Mr. Moffat, Fletcher, Murphy, Henry
| Kyle, two soldiers, and Mr. Hendricks.
| HOUSES BURNED-Johnston's, Hamilton's, Will
lam's, Bishops, Chenoweth's, Palmer's, Bradfords
| new store, Sheppards house, Bush's, Watkins,
| Browns, Bradford's saw mill and clubhouse, Nc
/ Motifs and Vanderpoofs.