Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1857-05-09

We ked = in either Of these documents for any
iable facts. In the report of the Secretary
of RI Affairs we read with feelings of surprise a
ridic of certain Jack Oliver in the hearsay
evidd getting into difficulty with native, and Of
his H. hg fred revolver, without hitting mjuring
any T. Bon whatever. If there any such person.
whet he was an American not, all depends upon
hea testimony; but the facts are that the murders de.
and berries committed some hours after the diff
cultj lot Jack Oliver with the native about water
TheGoyernment of the United States has taken an
immeHe of testimony not only of American gem
tlemeI officers of the Government, officers OF the rail-
road put the evidence of persons OF almost every nation
EngiAmen, Frenchmen, Irishmen Germans, and New
Gra9fians, who present and saw and heard what
theUtated under the sancty of OATH and their tes
tmdy leads to the irresistible conclusion that the attack
murtr and plumber of the passengers on the railroad
wash preconcerted movement; that the Governor of
Panaia and the police, whose duty it was, under the
treaand the charter of the railroad to protect and de-
fend be lives and the property of the travellers
both PARTICIPANTS in the disgraceful attack upon not only
unar fed men, but women and children. In using the
worahnarmed the undersigned justified by the evil
dentHn saying that many of the Americans had revolv
ers, lt that they had discharged them at Aspnwal,
whcl alone account for the astonishing fact that
wheeighteen Americans certainly killed and forty
or fifty wounded but two natives at most
riouS injured. This evidence the undersigned have,
and has been offered to be exhibited the Secretary
of F9eign Affairs, and and will be exhibited here in
Bosda any desiring learn the real state of facts
V1h these facts before them language would fail them
to press their surprise at the examination of the test
MOT which accompanies the report of the Secretary of
FoTgn Affairs the most important of which would seem
to HI that of Count de Nolent, the French Consul at
In the second paragraph of his letter are these
YoHf: I'll Consul de Franca ha sido testigo pre-
4aal de ninguno de los hechos que tuveron ugar en-
frreno de la lucha ssThe Consul of France was not
witness of any of the facts which took place
thgcene of difficulty witness who in any civilized
coIry should begin to give his evidence with these
w9ls, would be ordered to leave the stand by any JUS
dfof the peace who had opened single law book
15at the opinions of man on hearsay evidence, III
Nch he himself admits that there other and con-
tricory accounts should be permitted to outweigh the
vofmes Of testimony of persons of many nations the
MD of them equal in every respect in standing to Mr.
hoent, is strange, is passing strange" The under
sged do not profess to know the rules of evidence in
NeAGranada, but they do know that in every other
couy in the world such evidence is utterly worthless
and ould not be received in any court of justice
~ can the undersigned attach any more weight to
the sarsay evidence and opinions of Mr.. Perry, the
Engsh Consul however respectable he may be thought
whe he seeks to justify the murderous assault
upoIwomen and children most complacently saying
g D allowance should be made from the state of excite
mention the part of the populace from the constant acts
Of brutality they have received from the low of
California passengers"
No, can they the slightest bearing the case in
the y remarkable and only fact which he relates that
his daughter the Chancellor of the French Consulate and
himself met the same Jack Oliver drunk on the same
NAAeaAy oSA-N
out OF his way.
we nave also seen mot ofnclally the report OF the
dovernor OF Panama. and he comedies with these Two
gentlemen However respectable ne may be eonsidered,
When IL is SHOWN by gentlemen as Respectable as MN
self that heis deeply implicated in these rioous scenes,
which it was his duty to prevent, neither his statement,
his report, nor his oath be received in matter In
which he is personally interested
Qfsuch testimony the party concerned it is pre-
suIifSd any number may be had
Assuming them that this constitutes the strongest test
mony to make out case for the Congress OF New
Granada, whatever weight may be attached to 1t here,
We Apprehend that an impartial public will pronounce
Sutterly worthless of ITSELF even if it was not directly
~ sadicted by the testimonyW large number of inn
sia Witnesses Of different nations, taken under the
Yemnisy q an oath but we are not disposed1 argue
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