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Show j A SOUTH AMERICAN OUTRAGE j New York, 13. A Panama letter , of the 3rd instant gives an account of a horrible outrage perpetrated by i Colonel Gonzalez, commandant of the i port of San Juan, De Guatemala, on British; Vice-Consul John Maee, I with whom lie had a personal difficulty diffi-culty with reference to the clearance (of a vessel. They had a rencounter on i the street, exchanging blows, on April i " Itli. Gon.:dez summoned Magec to appear at his office, the latter declining declin-ing to eome,tnmzalez had him brought by soldiers. The brave Colonel then i abused him in everv wav. beat him 'over the head with a pistol, decluml i he should fimt receive 400 lashes and then be shot. Magee vainly invoked .the protection ofhi.- flag, and remon-m remon-m trances were mado by the United' States Consular Agent, James, which j were a No disregarded. The Pacific 1 I Mail steamer Arizona arrived at1 .noon, but Goiizdiz, seizing the telegraph tele-graph ollice, and planting two can- nons to cover the Arhi-n-t, had his victim brought n.it, stripped, and -MO bl'ws with a r.ULm wvre inflicted.; M.tgee fiinltd and was returned to prison, with the promise that tiie rest of tlic sentence at. nuld l-e carried out iu the inorninir. .Meantime news hud reached Salvador, and a detachment uf soldiers were sent to San Ju:ui, ar- I , riving just as M.igce vv.ts stripped for j the torture. Gui.zdcz ordertd hh, 'soldiers to shoot Mugee. They rc-j rc-j fused, and he tied to the A ri ;;oho, but1 an unseen hand among the pa&cn-i gers fired a numl cr of shots at tho (villian, three of which entemt his1 Ixxly, and bo felt kick in his boat) .and was taken ;ishore and ditd soon (afterwards. J I Tho United Staled Minil.-i nl Sal-1 vml.tr scot n di.-p.ilch ordi-rintr the de-1 j tculion of the steamer, but the Captain, Cap-tain, considering thai the order was designed to keep the ship until the safelv of the foreign residents was as-1 sured, declined to disregard it, and' sailed for Panama on the iVjth. I |