The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-29

soon be heard by the two governments-c us await the
action in the premises and let not peoploy any acts
either with British residents with those usurpnr a
complicated.
Consistently with national honor there can bc but on
decision OF this arrogant pretence Of Great Britain an
we are confident that government Will never peace
ably yield an inch of soil to this shallow absurd and pre-
posterous claim Of Power who for hundreds of year
has pursued fhe policy Of claiming strong and importan
military and naval stations, grdlng the earth with he
strongholds as witness Gibraltar Malta Singapore the
Falkland Isles, the Bahamas, and lately the Island
OF Perrin n the Persian Gulf and the Island OF san
Juan which the London Times calls the Cronsadt OF IN,
North Pacific With weak and second Powers these
jewels Of their have ravished by dipomacy
or force 1t remains to be seen the government OF th
Snea sa.es are oI the same compeXon or If we the
rights, and knowing dared maintain them.''
THE ORIGIN OF THE PRESENT DISCUSSION.
The San Francisco Home Journal publishes the|
following story of the com nencement of the diff
Guilty, showing that il originated about the hogs of
an English squire, though it has 'since grown to
somewhat formidable dimensions =
sThe Island of San Juan or Bellevue is considered n
be disputed point between American md English terrific
ry 1t Is between fifteen and eighteen miles long by seven
at me widest part 1t y populated chiefly by few Amer
squatters English Squire IAN empoye of the Hnd
son Bay Company, and number Of unruiy hogs some
of whom belong to the Squire The quarrel is ali abaut
these hogs Said hogs persisted in breaking throneb tho
hedges and digging and eating the potatoes of Mr. Cnt
ter, an American settler He gave them, that is their
masters fair warning and then shot one of them which
turned out to be boar belonging the Squire Mr. Cnt
ter sorry, offered to pay but the Squire had
vengeance he attempted to have Cutter arrested apd
brought to Victoria, there be tried and ransnortaJ
Nowhere happened to be United States troo,s nm
der Gen Harney, at hand, and when a British war
steamer arrived from Victoria to carry off Mr. Cutter Gen
Harpey refused deliver him up It was then that the
question arose as to whose jurisdiction the Island OF San
Juan beongs.n " 1
HISTORY OF SAN JUAN.
correspondent Of the Victoria Gazette give the
in ri fo
Juan island -
Somewhere in December, 1858, or the early nar, os
1S54about the time of the meeting Of the Legislature or
Washington Territory, which, in apportioning conntu
b,undares described San Juan and other islands o M
Archipelago as part and parcel OF the county of what
comthe Hudson Bay Company sent hither ner s.aanar
Beaver flock Of sheep, some 300 in number in charcc
OF Mr. Y J. Griffin, then clerk and now a chief trader
in the Hudson Bay Companys service who has s;naa M
sided upon the island in charge of the Company,s nro
y For three preceding years during the proner SEASONS
salmon fisheries, for which this locality offers s;
ducements, had been pursued by employees of H. 10 n ~
pany who returned to the fort at Victoria SO soon nc each
season ended; and no permanent occupat;on NJ t,a %
was Effected until the landing of the sheen n. tho ,
above mentioned, or nearly seven wears aftnr tho
n Fnsob suhes s1e ea Up to the present time
except the representative of the company alnded IN IN
the foregoing, nor do the colonization laws which bear
upon the northwest possessions az her Maiesv re
cognsc the existence G either possessorv rrht ar claim
to property in ths island or feay in anv inbabtants
VINO subsequent, period might erect houses hcreupon
SuPeIIorny vi sou or pasturage facilities the
sderatons inducing the transportation hhcr OF Hudson
BAY company stock, their influence the Indians
opvatcd those difficulties which less fortunate individuals
mad to overcome or submissvey bear in the onslaught
q savage maraudors. 1t is hardly reasonable TO suppose
that had the Company doubt TO the Crowns rights
in the island, so much superior and eligible soil
where white oak cedar, fir and pine abound where
broad acres of unobstructci grass covered plain invt
ngly promise abundant and almost spontaneous crops
would have been neglected, and a comparative Eden
turned INTO sheep pasture, at time when such strenu
Gus efforts were at least supposed TO hayo been
made to populate the neighbcring northern Indians
Such is the history of the difficulty with great
Britain respecting the right to the Arroo islands
7 nd the SNthWsst boundary os tla -l.tes States.