over his opportunity of revenge, and of brutish import respecting the powerless victim, Casey had been foreman of Crescent Engine Company, No. 10, located on Pacific street, below Front.  Cora’s remains were given quiet interment.  The Sunday following the execution Casey was buried.  A very large procession followed his remains to the Mission Dolores Cemetery, in which a monument was in due time erected to his memory.  Upon it is inscribed the manner of his death.

Governor Johnson had at first played into the hands of the Committee.  He had come down from Sacramento to San Francisco, in the middle of May, and virtually caused the surrender of the county jail to the Vigilantes, for the capture of Casey and Cora.  At the instance of the leading men of the Law and Order organization, he subsequently changed his course, and endeavored to undo that which he had done.  It was too late.  The Committee had already become the master of the situation.  It was the supreme power in San Francisco, and it had erected such harmony of spirit with it in Sacramento, Marysville, Stockton, San Jose and other interior cities and towns, that it was the paramount local authority and formidable generally throughout the State.  General Wool was at that time in command of this Federal military department.  The Federal Arsenal was at Benicia.  For the want of authority from the Federal government at Washington, neither the military nor the naval forces could interfere, and the hands of General Wool, the same of Commodore Farragut, were practically tied, The only way in which the Federal authority could be invoked was by due process of constitutional law.  This required that the Governor should convene the Legislature, that that body should call out the State militia to quell the insurgent or rebellious Vigilantes; and, these being insufficient for that purpose, then the call for the aid of the Federal forces would be in order.  It would take months to do all this.  Prompt action was the imperative necessity.  Governor Johnson did not act with promptitude.  He sent on a committee of citizens to Washington.  President Pierce could do nothing under the circumstances.  He must first be satisfied that the Powers of the State had been inadequate to overcome the trouble.  This had not been done; and it was of first importance before the strong arm of the Federal authority could be ordered.

Meantime an incident occurred which helped to fortify the Committee and to impair the power of the State, in the popular estimation.  Upon order of Governor Johnson, six cases of muskets were delivered to Jas. R. Maloney, at Benicia arsenal, put aboard the schooner Julia, to be delivered at San Francisco, to the Law and Order organization.  The Vigilance Committee Executive had been apprised of the transaction, and adopted means to get possession of the arms.  Accordingly, on June 21st, as the Julia was on her way down from Benicia, she was boarded in San Francisco Bay by C.