Weekly Trinity journal., 1857-04-11


A SONORA ExPEDITIoN.-Scting aside the ru-
NOR as uncertain, that Comonfort has agreed to
sell TO the United States the provinces of Sonora,
Lower California, chihuahua and Simloa. or
parts of them ii is pretty well settled that those
States are dissatisfied with the relation which
they have borne to the central government for q
good many years past and desire, in some way
or other, to change their condition. They claim
that the compact of 1924, by which they entered
into the Mexican Confederacy has been violated
by the Central Government. and that they are
therefore released from all obligations under it.
They became part and parcel of that confcderacy,
with distinct understanding that they reserved
certain rights to themselves which were always
TO be recognized and observed by the central
government. Those rights have been tramplcd
upon or diSregarded. In fact in the contests of
successive revolutions, the whole letter and spirit
OF the Mexican constitution and system of gov
crHment have been almost entirely lost sight Of
so that the States of the Mexican COnfrderacy
arc under no obligations whatever TO remain in
it, any longer than of ther own free Will they
choose 10 do so. They have very similar grounds
of complaint 10 those urged 10y the Province of
Texas when she asserted her Independence.
The States above named are now making pre-
parations to throw off all conneXion with the
Central Government and some of them have
emigrants, inviting them to come in and settle
upon their otherwise inappropriate lands. Their
determination is to arm their populations Tor any
emergency that may happen, proceed 10 estab-
lsh an independent constitution, and afterwards
go on with Il regular system of governmental
operations without in any manner recognizing
any other authority. Should the Central Gov
ernment undertake to interfere with them, they
will resist, and the responsibility of bloodshed
will rest upon her and not them.
The State of Sonora has been particularly lib
eral in her offers to American emigrants. ard it
is likely that those offers will be accepted by a
large number OF our ciliZcns. We understand
that Gen. Cosby, at present a member of the up
per branch of oar Legislature from SiskiyOu
county, and well known to the people in conncc-
tion with his exploits among the northern In
dians, during the recent hostilties in that drcc-
tion, will start down to Sonora in ten or twelve
days, with about eight hundred men, mostly we
think from the mountains, who will settle in that
State and become its permanent citizens. Their
presence will iniuse confidence and strength into
the government of Sonora, and enable it the more
speedily TO compass its objects
The results in the future to flow from this and
similar movements, are easily disCrrncd. Day
begins TO dawn upon the long night Of anarchy
or revolution which has reigacd in Mexico. Civ
iiza,on and rrpublicanism ar advancing to her
center from two dir, ct0nS, from her ntrthern
borders on the one hand, and from Amcr.canizcd
Nicaragua ON the other. When they meet. her
destiny will be fulfilled, and, while lhe phan-
thropist Will have cause to weep over many a
bloody page oil her history, he may yet tnrn with
reliet to the proud tcmpulS of Liberty which the
Genius of Progr IS will have erected upon the
ruins OF her ancient Grc@tncss--Sac- Bee.
Discovery OF GoLD UroN ANACArA lsIANp,-
Capt. Peabody who arrived in port on the Sd
inst, furnishes The Santa Barbara gazette with
thc following account OF thc discovery of gold on
an island in the bay ol Santa barbara. On the
1t inst, som men who are Temporarily Solourn
ing on Auac9pa I-llud. observing what they
thought to be good ind cations of gold in one of
ruvin,s in the island brought down to the beach
a bucket fun Of the earth and prUspcctcd it, The
result verified their uutic,patiOns. yielding over
50 ia gold dust aud about four ounces oI copper
ore. There we're twelve Pic OF gold, one OF
thc specimens being quite large and supposed to
be worth about So Capt Peabody showed us
the spec mrn, AID it is the genuine 'oro' and no
mistake For tAe furth + information OF our
read, rs, We will state that the island of Anacapa
is composed definitely speaking, Of three Islands,
all in osc proximity t. each other. the IN d,llu
one being the largest. The gold WAS found on
the main or central island, about twelve feet
from the aca-bcnch. On t.osc islands there is
Iethor wood nor trc.h water, and they are only
frcqucnttd for seal oil and au!oae shells.
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Nova Scorl, LEGlsLArrRH.-A dispatch from
Uajtx dated February lS'h, states that in the
Nova Scotia Legislature on that dGy, Hon. Mr.
Johnston moved IA rcsou ion d, claIing want OF
confidence in the Government The House di-
yd d on it, and the Government were defeated
by majority of six. Two conservative mem
hcrs were absent There is great excitement.
SEyErAL articles ntO d, d Tor his issue are un-
ayo,dably crowded ont.