Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-12-30

WASHINGTON. Dec. 29.-rhe Indian Blu.
reau have received official information, deny
ing the truth of the reports that the disaffec-
tion of the Indians in Utah Territory, created
by the Mormons, had extended to the Indians
on the borders of California, and especially
those In the southern portion of that State.
All remained quiet,and SO far as appearances
are concerned, there is no reason to anticipate
different state of things.
Private letters from California state that
two regiments of volunteers were ready, at
the tap of the drum, to advance against the
Mormons, and that ten regiments could be
mustered in less than sixty days. for the same.
The following is Commodore Paulding's
letter to the Secretary of the Navy, detailing
the circumstances under which he arrested
Gen. Walker:
SIR My letter of the 18th INST. informed
the Department that l had broken up the
camp of Gen. Walker at Punta Arenas-dis-
armed his lawless followers, and sent them
to Norfolk in the Saratoga. The General
came here with me, and will take passage in
one of the steamers for New Y ork, where he
will present himself to the Marshal of that
District. The Department being in possession
OF all the facts 10 relation to Gen. Walkers
escape, with his followers, from the Uni
ted States, the letters of Captain Chatard
and General Walker to me, after he
landed at Punta Arenas. will, l presume,
be fully comprehended. l could not regard
Gen. Walker and his followers in any other
light than as outlaws, who had escaped from
the vigilance of the government, and left our
shores for the purpose of rapine and murder,
and l saw no other way to vindicate the law
and redeem the honor of our country, than BY
0IeeTn1iru and ca,Iinrr fhap, II do;
so, am sensible of the responsibility l have
incurred, sud confidently look to the govern
ment for my justification. Regarded in its
true light, the case appears to me clear one,
and the points few and strong. Walker came
to Punta Arenas. from the United States, hav-
ing, in violation of law, set on foot military
organization to make war upon a people with
whom we are at peace. He landed there with
armed men and munitions of war, in defiance
of the ship of-war placed there to prevent his
landing, with nothing to show that he acted
by authority. He formed camp, holsted the
Nicaragua flag, called it the headquarters of
the army of Nicaragua, and signed himself
the commander in. chief With this preten-
sion he claimed the right of lawful govern
ment over all persons and things within sight
of his flag. Without right or authority, he
landed fifty men at the mouth of the river
Colorado, seized the fort of Costello, on the
San Juan river, captured steamers and the
goods of merchants in transitu to the interior,
killed men, and made prisoners of the peace
full inhabitants, sending to the harbor of San
Juan del Norte some thirty or forty men,
women, and children, in the steamer Morgan.
In doing these things, without the show of
authority. they were guilty of rapine and
murder, and must be regarded as outlaws
and pirates. They can have no claim to
be regarded in any other light. HUI
manity as well as law, justice. and ma
tional honor, demanded the suspension of
those lawless men. The remnant Of the mis-
cradle beings who surrendered at Rivas, were
conveyed in this ship last summer to New
York, and their sufFerings are yet fresh in the
memory of all on board;-besides the suffer-
lngs that must necessarily be inflicted upon
an innocent and unofending people-these
lawlessf ollowers of Gen. Walker. misguided
and deceived into course of crime, would
doubtless have persisted in Central America,
or their mutilated and festered bodies would
have been brought back to their friends at the
expense of their country. For the above rea-
sons, which appear to my mind to be suffi-
cient, have disarmed and sent to the United
States Gen. Walker and his outlawed and pi-
ratical followers, for trial, or for whatever
action the government in its wisdom may
think proper to pursue. Capt. Osmanny, Of
II. B. M. ship Brunswick, offered to cooper
ate with me in removing the party from Pun
ia Arenas, but as they were my countrymen,
| deemed ii proper to decline the participation
of foreign flag.
In letter, dated December 18th, Commo-
dore Paulding gives the particulars of the
landing of marines and seamen at Punta Are
mas under circumstances of great dificnltu