The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-08-13
CENTRAL AMERICA.

THE CHIRIQUI GOLD DISCOVERIES.
By the North Star we have file of Panama pa
pers to the I'd inst. The local is of no i'm
portance.
The United States aoop-of-war st. Mary's sailed
from Panama on tn. 18th of July for Realeio
| The Chiriqui gold discoveries form the topic Of
discussion in the Panama papers. The Schooner
Carolina had sailed for the region with fifty pas
sengers on board, and another vessel was shortly
to leave The Panama Star and Herald SAYS:
"Letters received in this city from David, dated
July Ia, state that the people from all directions
continue to flock to the gold diggines and that the
yield of gold obtained from the shuacas' continues
| undiminished. The Project of the Department in
forms the Governor that the elections (for Precu-
RADIO, ETC. did not take place the day appointed
no electors appeared at the poll, all being too
busily engaged in the grave diggings.''
letter received at this Office yesterday from Sr.
Carlos Wegener, dated June "a, though rather out
OF date, contains few items worth transcribing:
can old hafcast Indian who lives in Dolega
(Roberto Dels, whom you probably know and
who has been in the habit of digging up Indian
graves for the sake of the earthenware and piedras
de moer generally found therein, took it into his
head to dig little deeper, which brought him to
the real grave where the body is deposited in a
coffin of rudely fixed stones and there he found the
skeleton of the deceased together with beautifully
worked bat in gold Since thenit has been ascer-
tanned that every 'huaca' contains gold images in
more or less number, the earthenware and other
articles having been hurled only half way down.
and this explains why up to the present time so few
VI Vi UOuleS ndu Deen 10unQ In the
graves. One man took out of one grave in one day.
$1,000 worth of things, among which were three
gold plates, Of the size of dessert plates and the
thickness OF stout tin plate, eagle of the size
OF a span, and many other animals and insects
beautifully manufactured
'EThs is the richest grave that has been found as
yet, but none have been opened that have not pro-
duced something. The old man who made the dis
covery kept his secret for some time, and it is re-
ported that he succeeded in accumulating about
" no fret
made is called Bugaba, situated the other side
of the river Piedra, the road toward the Costa
Rica frontier; but as the whole of the foot of the
Cordilleras in Chiriqui is full of huacas,' it will
take many thousand people during many years be-
fore the whole will be dug up. The finding of so
much worked-up gold in the 'huacas' is positive
proof that the country must be very rich in gold:
and have doubt that as soon as the above facts
| become known to the real mining public rich and
extensive deposits of the ore will be discovered
"The rivers are now very high, and most of them
impossible owing to the rain,; otherwise more per-
sons would have started for the diggings. People
who come to work here must expect to rough it,
live on tassajo (dried beef) and plantans, and
sleep in the open air. 1t is no easy matter to dig
holes eight to ten feet deep, and remove large
stones.
"All kinds of ghost stories are ahoat among the
natives, who report hearing uneartly noises and
tambores (drums) in the Cordilleras which they
attribute to his Sable Majesty, who does not wish
the graves to be moested."
ROBBERY GOLD DUsr.-Last evening the steam
''Star of the West from Panama while on her
way up the Bay, was boarded off Quarantine by
squad of the Harbor Police, to whom complaint was
made by Spanish gentleman, that he had been
robbed of s., 500 in gold dust during the voyage
The officers at once entered into an investigation
concerning the matter, and in course of conversa-
ton party learned that four of the passengers
were suspected of the robbery. The movements of
this party of four had been watched and though at
first they appeared to be very shy of each other
MI of ty haao
always III each others company. They occupied
cabin stateroom7, and thus afforded the priyi-
lege of going between decks, where the passengers
luggage was slowed 1t was here that the trunk of
the above amount
The police, being fully satisfied arrested the four
fellows, and locked them up in the steamers hold
until this morning, when they will be taken to the
Police Court
The stolen gold dust was, we believe, recovered
and upon the persons of the prisoners the baggage
man found several complete sets of burglar
tools.
This gang, it seems, from all accounts have been
doing good business on this and the other side
There has been recently four robberies-two in the
cabin and two in the steerage-the total amount
purloined being about Sl0,0 900.
WRIGHT County, MINNESOTA, IN INsURREcrroS.-
Gov. Sibley, of Minnesota, has issued proclama-
ton calling out the military to restore order in
Wright county, which is declared to be in a state
of Instruction. The Governor SAYS:
"Twice has armed mob in Wright county
outraged the public sentment-irst by the unlaw-
full hanging of Oscar F. jackson, after he had had
an impartial trial, and been acquitted by Jury of
that county; and subsequently, on the Sd instant,
by rescung an alleged participator in the crime
from the custody of the civil authorities To assert
the majesty of the law and to subdue the spirit of
rutanism which has thus manifested itselfby overt
acts prompt measures will be taken"
The Pioneer Guards of St. Paul, numbering AZ
men, proceeded to Wright County on Friday last
The Saltwater Guards, numbering As men, went to
the scene of lawlessness on Saturday The St.
Paul City Guards, numbering so men, went to the
war on the same day. Four other military compa-
MES are also under marching orders. The ST. Paul
Pioneer of Sunday says:
''The reports which come to us of the state of
feeling In Wright County, in view of this military
demonstration, are so conflicting, that it is almost
useless to conjecture the nature of the reception
which our soldiers will meet with on their arrival
in the locality ofthe recent disturbances
''One gentleman well acquainted with the coup-
try and the people, asserts that the soldiers will
hnd no foes there-that all hands will be busy
gathering their crops-and that their passive state
will be much more perplexing than open resistance
Another individual declares that our soldiery will
be met by five hundred armed men, and driven
back much quicker than they went up. At present
the whole subject is speculative as we have no re-
liable information of the state of affairo +baro