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SCENES IN THE PACIFIC. 
At this time the Padres lose one of their number—Padre 
Julian de Mayorga, founder of the mission San Josef de Com- 
mondo. He has ruled his mission ever since its origin, 1707, 
greatly to the improvement and happiness of his Indians, 
and in such manner as to win the respect and love of all who 
knew him. His death, therefore, is a cause of deep grief to 
his brethren and the Indians of his mission. But while they 
lament for themselves that he is gone, they rejoice for him 
that he rests from the turbulence and anxiety which have 
been the portion of all for the last three years. 
The governor becoming convinced that he can accomplish 
nothing on his present plan of proceeding, resolves to adopt 
the Padres’ advice, and take some steps which shall make 
him a terror to the Indians. Accordingly he sets out with his 
troops in earnest pursuit of them, and has the good fortune to 
compel them to an action in which they are utterly vanquish¬ 
ed. They have, however, been too long successful to be sub¬ 
dued by one defeat. Instead, therefore, of making any 
overtures of peace, they defy the governor and provoke his 
wrath in a series of most annoying skirmishes. He accord¬ 
ingly forces them to a second engagement, in which they are 
again put to rout. Soon after, they submit and implore his 
pardon. But he rejects all their advances until they deliver 
up the leaders of the rebellion, especially those who have mur¬ 
dered the Padres. It will be supposed that a severe punish¬ 
ment was inflicted on these men. But the policy of the 
governor and Padres in California is singularly unlike that 
which prevails in the parent countiy. Here blood is never 
shed by way of revenge or punishment. These rebels, there¬ 
fore, who have perpetrated two of the most revolting murders 
on record, beside the more common butcheries of their coun¬ 
trymen and the crew of the galleon’s pinnace, are tried and 
banished to the coast of Mexico. On their way over, they rise 
and attempt to take the bark. This compels the mariners to fire 
on them and kill more than half their number. Among the 
few that escape, are the two whose hands shed the blood of the 
