Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1857-08-07

LATEST FROM CALIFORNIA AND CENTRAL
AMERICA The steamship Illinois left As
inwell on the 10Th n,t.,and arrived Nrw
York ON 27th,- bringing ABOUT ! 800 600
and 4jJ passengers.
Business it is said continues to be unusu-
ally depressed in San Francisco, and seyc-
raj OF the heaviest houses have been forced
to suspend. In these times Of difficulty,
the outrageous features OF the attachment
lnsolyent, and Homestead Laws, have been
prominently brought into notice, and II
general determination to have them RENE
died has been awakened. At present they
but offer opportunities and premiums for
the perpetration Of rascality and fraud.
The news from Oregon Territory is to the
Goth of June. The vote in favor Of a
State government is fully confirmed. The
policy Of making Oregon d slave State is
now zealousy urged by party in that Ter
ritOrv, and the prospectus for u prO-slaycry
papcr has been issued. Some little fears
were entertained of further Indian dilcul
ties at the Dalles, but nothing definite had
transpired.
The steamer Panama ari living at Panama
on the | lth had brought news from Central
America.
COSTA RlcA,-There were about three
hundred and fifty of Walkers descrters still
at San jose, and forty or iorty-fye in Punta
Arenas. In San Jose the men were receis
ing two reals (25 cents) a day from the
| Government, on which they manage to live
and get drunk. In Punta Arenas only the
| sick received government relief, The
steamer Tennessee had been charted by the
| Costa Rica government to come out to San
Juan del Norte to take these men home
1t was expected that they would leave San
Jose in Il few days
In Costa Rica business was beginning to
revive alter the war.
Nlw GRENApA.-The Panama question
still engages both the attention Of Congress
and of the press. The Tcmpo of BoIutl
of the 9th ult devotes nearly five long col
umns to the subject, and we are glad 10 no
tice that its tone is more moderate than
heretofore.
The Cabinet at Bogota have received nc
further information from w Washington, re
latiye to the progress Ot the negotiation
but (absurd and untuunded) rumOrs OF fill
clustering expeditions to the lsthmus hat
caused some alarm, and even the military
occupation Of Panama and Aspinwall wa!
looked upon by some as certain to TAX
place.
The Gdccta OGciai, Of June 9th, pub
fishes the following decree to facilitate TN
settlement Of a question with the Unite
States.
The Senate and the Chamber of Repre-
scntatiycs of New Granada, assembled i
Congress, considering the message IN Mmc
the Executive power makes manifest Il
actual state of the relations between TIN
Republic and that of the United States, an
the possibility o: re-opcnlng the interrupt
ed negotiations, upon indemnity BEN
made Tor the disasters which took place /
, Panama on the 18th of April, 1886,
, HAVE DECREED In case that, by pre-
yious reciprocal examination OF the doc'
ments made by both parties, the Coz
, ernments Of New Granada and the Unit,
States cannot resolve in common the tXi>
ing question relative to the respOnslmllt
of the events of the 10Th Of April, lSl6,
I Panama, the Executive power OF New CIR
NADIA is fully authorized, without the su
r sequent appreciation of Congress, to pr
n cure a settlement, and to settle In fact 81
. question, by means of II convention,
which it be stipulated that each OF the tv
interested parties shall submit Il circuI
stantiated statement of the case to
, friendly government, to be chosen "a art
= TRAITOR, whose decision shall be binding
n both
e Given, &c.
r Signed by j &, de Mosquera, Manuel
It J. Rullano, +, Fernandez Madrid, lgnal
70 GutieGre, NenanciQ Restrepo,