[XXVI-3] Goitia took the presidency on the 5th of July, and soon after received the congratulations of several foreign consuls. Pan., Boletin Ofic., July 17, 1863.
[XXVI-4] Correspond. with foreign consuls and others. Id., Aug. 30, 1863.
[XXVI-5] Correoso's Statemt, MS., 4.
[XXVI-6] By the battalion Tiradores, of national troops. Calancha had no popularity in the country. He has been accused of scandalous corruption and connivance at robbery. However, he seems to have confined his peculation to the public revenue, a practice which was not new since Guardia's fall. Some time after, Calancha together with Gabriel Neira invaded the state with a force from Cauca; but while crossing the river Santa María in the hacienda Las Cruces, they were met by the government troops under Col Vicente Olarte, and routed with the loss of many killed, wounded, and prisoners, Neira being one of the latter. Calancha was again defeated at San Francisco near Natá, and delivered by his men to the victors. His brother Francisco was also taken. It is recorded that Mrs Jane White Ball, an American, together with other women, provided a hospital and nursed the wounded of both bands. Pan., Boletin Ofic., Apr. 22, June 7, Sept. 18, Oct. 10, 1865; Correoso's Statem., MS., 4; Bidwell's Isth. Pan., 211.
[XXVI-7] A colored man of good political ability, as he proved in the high official positions filled under the national government. He has been accused, however, of immoral practices. His administration was peaceable, but left evils that were never eradicated. He inaugurated the corrupt system of extorting contributions from political opponents, whereby, as the latter averred, he materially improved his own financial condition, though he had decreed himself only the modest salary of $200 per month. Pan., Boletin Ofic., Apr. 1, 1865. Every citizen who had a competency was made to contribute. One day he had all the respectable citizens arrested to extort money, for which he never accounted. The majority of the public employés had to sell their salary warrants for one half or one fourth of their value. The country derived no other fruit from his administration than poverty.
[XXVI-8] The assembly met, and its first act was to confirm all that Colunje had done. A pardon was decreed to political offenders on the 28th of Nov. Pan., Boletin Ofic., Apr. 20, 22, July 20, 25, Dec. 6, 1865; Pan., Informe Sec. Est., 1866, 1-4.
[XXVI-9] An attempted outbreak in March at Panamá, and one in August at David, were quelled. Pan., Mensaje Presid. Est., 1866, 1-3; Gaceta Nic., Apr. 7, 1866; Pim and Seemann's Dottings, 1-11.
[XXVI-10] He belonged to the liberal party; a well-disposed man, and a friend of peace, which he endeavored to foster, by trying to heal dissensions. He made himself popular among the better class of the community by his just proceedings, and efforts to better the condition of the country, though not a native of the Isthmus. Maldonado, Asuntos Polít. Pan., MS., 20. It has been, however, said of him that he appropriated considerable amounts from the public treasury, and placed them in London through the agency of a Jamaican who lived in Colon.
[XXVI-11] 'Ante la imponente autoridad de su sable á la cabeza del batallon Tiradores.' Id.
[XXVI-12] They plotted an assault on the battalion in its barracks, but were detected by Olarte. The assault was made at midnight, and a fight ensued, in which the negroes lost heavily, including almost all their leaders, and among them Gregorio Sigurvia. Id., 20-1.