Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-09-29
The San Juan Difficulty.

The San Francisco papers are confident
that predatory and mischievous hog was
the cause Of the whole of tue San Juan diff
Guilty. Mr.. Griffin, of the Hudson's Bay
Company and Justice Of the Peace, turned
i'll some Sandwich Island hogs, a long-nosed
variety. equal to the representative Illinois
''railtencer," in its capacities for roofing
around and working throug h fences. Some
of these swine INDUCED themselves in deyas-
tatins the garden OF Mr.. Cutler, IN Ameri-
can settler, whercupon the settler there be-
/ ing no pound notified the owner of his inten-
ton TO shoot the first intruder il caught
| damaye .jcaSan. Result, a boar was shot
the lratc j. i. declined, and mysteriously in
timated settlement OF a different nature
The San Francisco Bulletin says:
The next step was the arrival of two
members Vi the Executive Council of Van
courer on the island, lMesSrs. Fraser and
Dallas, who called on Mr.. Cutler and in
formed him that he had committed a heinous
offence; for which he was liable to transpor-
tation but, after some talk offered to COM
promise the matter for 500. This Cutler
declined. subsequently, u man-oi-war was
sent to the island, with orders to arrest Cut
Ter, and bring him to Victoria for trial. but
he evadcd seizure by keeping out of the way.
lie then drew up a petition TO Gen. Harvey,
which, being signed by other residents on
the Island, caused the occupation. Ii is dis
putcd at Victoria that Il vessel of war to
seize Mr. Cutler was sent but not denied
that the lludson's Bay Compauys vessel
was. Ii this story is true, and we do not
doubt it. it places the Bellevue matter in a
new light, by making British authorities the
/, first to violate the neutrality of the island
The Bulletin adds that to Admiral Baines
is due the fact that hostilites have not been
prcci pitatcd.
1T is currently reported, and generally
believed in Victoria, that on the day when
the Governor presented his address to the
Assembly, in which he declared that the
British troops should be landed upon San
Juan Island, he had already given orders
for this warlike demonstration. Fortunately
Admiral Baines arrived the next day III the
Gauges with 700 men. Upon being made
acquainted with the facts of the case, he
proceeded to inform the Governor that his
title of Vice Admiral was honorary merely,
aud gave him no right nor power to direct
the movements OF Her Britannia Maesty's
fleet in Il case Of such character and impor-
tanrc Is this.
The Admiral further held that San Juan
was not british territory, but territory IN
dispute, and that the settlement of the ques-
ton must be left to the two Governments in
VOWED. He, therefore, refused 10 interfere
until he received orders, and rumor also At
tributes 10 him the declaration that 4 single
broadsiie from his ship. directed against the
United STATES force on the island would cost
more thar the whol" country is worth.
Another version of this hog affair states
that Fra .cr ard Dallas did not call on Cutler
officially, but that they attempted totrishten
Cutler into paying for the porkcr, thinking
that blustcr was II suitable means to over
comea Yankee squatter. Cutler intimated
that if John Bull wanted him, he could
come and take him. The letter Of Governor
Douglas to Gen. Harvey, published to-day,
gives Il fat denial 10 the statements made by
the latter in his official communications.
1t seems from the tenor of the last news
that there was little or no danger Of h0still-
tics. and probably matters will remain rs
they a"e unit! the arrival of Gen. Scott, now
on his way TO the seat Of war; /.
COmmcrriui.