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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 8: brigands. (search)
in carrying on his trade. A brigand is always welcome to the people in an old Free Town. Capitan Soto led a rattling life. One day he fled to Mexico, where the customers for his stolen horses lived; another day he smoked his cigarette in San Quentin, the Newgate of California. Once he broke that prison; a daring and successful feat, one of the many legends of that place of demons. But the White man's justice followed him to his lair. Morse rode him down and shot him in the road. Aftly for the rangers, a dozen of whom were quickly on the spot. Moreno had no chance of an escape. On being convicted of the burglary, he told the truth about his murder of the two brigands near Greek George's ranch. He got fourteen years in San Quentin for stealing the watch, but no notice has yet been taken of his more atrocious crimes. Yet none of these brigands have acquired the fame of Capitan Vasquez, the young companion of Procopio in his flight to Mexico. Vasquez is a greater id
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 9: Capitan Vasquez. (search)
soon a master of his craft, a favourite of his chief. With Capitan Soto, he was taken prisoner, and got five years in San Quentin. With Capitan Soto, he broke prison, but in three weeks he was again in jail. Six years of San Quentin failed to cooSan Quentin failed to cool his blood. When he came out of jail, his cousin Leiva, and some other lads about Los Felix, preferring theft to labour, gathered at his heels and made him captain of their gang. Hating the whites as only the sons of white men and dark women do, ngth he fell into a snare; the charge was stealing horses; a third time he was sentenced to four years imprisonment in San Quentin. At the end of three years, a legislature, not too hard on robbers, passed an act of clemency which set him free oncef, and her attachment helped to keep him in the field. He wished to please her eye and gratify her pride. On leaving San Quentin with a pardon, given to him on a promise of good behaviour, his jailers believed that he intended to redeem his pledge
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 26: Yellow Agony. (search)
to which, through our cupidity and folly, they are now transporting their vagabonds, criminals, and harlots. They are mighty smart, those mandarins, for they not only rid themselves of social filth, but make these outcasts bear the cost of their removal from the interior to Hong Kong. With all your cleverness, you English have not yet been able to persuade an Australian colony to receive your malefactors. We, too, are clever fellows; but we Californians have found no means of emptying San Quentin and the Mexican quarter of San Francisco into the suburbs of Pekin. These heathens beat us from the field. What is the President's remedy for these enormous evils? The Chinese come under head-men, who own them almost absolutely; the women come as slaves, for shameful practices. If these evils can be legislated against, he will try to help us to administer the law! Your President is busy in the South. The South! I tell you, Sir, that Negro trouble in the South will pale ere l
The Daily Dispatch: January 20, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
la Graviere. frigate La GuerriereCaptain de Selva. frigate L' AstreeCaptain Duval. frigate L' ArdenteCaptain Guizoime. all propellers. The land force on board the fleet numbers 2,828 men or all arms. The French war steamer Montezuma, which arrived on the 31st ult., sailed from here yesterday, and we have still in port the steamer L'aube, which arrived on the 1st inst., with six hundred troops on board. the steamers which accompanied General Prim were the Ulloa and San Quentin. on the same day (the 2d) the British steam frigate Ariadne and the Spiteful arrived here — the former from Vera Cruz and the latter from Cape San Antonio, where she met the English fleet for Vera Cruz, composed of the following vessels: guns. Ship-of-the-line St. George86 Ship-of-the-line Sans Parrel70 Frigate Mersey40 Frigate Challenger21 Gun boat Barracenta6 Gun-boat Plover5 Total228 A transport, laden with coal, accompanied them. At Vera Cruz things a