The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-18 00:00:00

A VISIT TO NICARAGUA

The following letter, from the pen of a C'
farmer, who gives a description of a visit of ob
Nicaragua, has been published at New York :e:,,
New York, March 14, 18°'
" We arrived at last at the city of Granada,
sentinel of Walker's army, who told us to hurl
would get into the guard house. Having letter'
duction to the American consul, I proceeded Obis
and, without stopping to present them, I asked
knew where we could procure lodgings. He )
sent a servant with us, and after an hour's vac
offered the privilege of swinging a hammock in
one of the houses. Having no hammocks, our '
was to secure them, and after a long search wee'
buying a couple at $2 each. We returned, tied
got into them, and passed the remainder of Olt
gazing at the stars and fighting musquitoes. r
the next morning that we were fortunate in
good accommo,lations as we did, as menyof our
had slept in the government barracks, and sortie !j
about the Plaza. Mr. Squires, a carpenter, one
sengers who hail gone on with his family, slice
ting a house, and during the remainder of 1131
myself and Mr. Squires' friend, a Mr, Jacksoll,ei
Connecticut, a farmer, remained with them, 0,
supplied with the best living which the coati/
We stil hontinued, however, to sleep in hamel'
we hung high to avoid the lizards which eb0"„
My next two weeks were occupied in looking
country in the vicinity. My opportunities is:,
tion were abundant, and I will now proceed
succinctly the facts of importance which I deg"'
municate. First, I propose to show the inde
farmers to emigrate to the land which has A
the ' garden of the world.' The offer of fronv,
acres of land as a free gift is held out to the ,
mer ; and on the Northern Light going out I°
farmers on board who had been lured freed 4ji
in the United States by the golden promises l'
N icaragua. Mr. Jackson, who with myself "
Mr. Squires, had sold his farm in Connecticut t 0
gut discouraged, was taken sick, and died ill, ,
Four of the others went out from Granada, with
ties, to examine the country, and were gone '
days. They hired mules, and went to Messiah'
the number were taken sick with the fever 1 r
return and died. The other two returned °
where one died with the fever three days after. Otli
iug three left determined to get out of the cold i
as possible. Another party of farmers, sorae,„,
fornia, went down to examine a region of car,
be very fertile, situated between Rivas and ,
Two of the parties were taken sick with the
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absent, and the °then returned to Granada, an" '
claims to the land they had staked out ; after /1,
returned to the land to commence operations.
at Virgin Bay, on my way home, I saw 00,ep
gentlemen and talked with him. He was verb
the fever himself, and beyond the hopes °' 00
He toll me that soon after returning to cotton ty
ing their claims they were taken down withoM
and when he left his location, four of the 13,110
lying there too sick to be removed. I learned f 0
vernment officer that these claims were the l'ire'ild
been filed for farms, since Walker's goyernralto
established, and that up to that time not a sPs" 0
~ struck into the ground, on Government land, woiyil
rican. As regards the fertility of the soil st 0
the state are very fruitful ; but I do not thin"' p
can can make a living on any amount of landeei
that I can judge the Government land for agri?
poses is worthless. I believe that the labour
clear up sufficient land of the underbrush to 613,i
son to live from it (if he could live from sold'
land), if the labour were applied to five acxes,
rendering it fertile, anti devoting it to gardenins ,
re,
and fruit near here, it would make a man inde ei
think a person is fer better off aho is working !11,
50 cents a day and his board than he would be at i
with 1,000 acres of land. After they have rp.
in their possession, if they live long enoughea
house, they will find that the labour of el°,"-e
enough to raise an acre of corn will be more th'''
endure. The land is covered with an almost irides
under-brush, which forms the retreat of cout'l
and •corpiens. Numbers of farmers who have E 7
the purpose of taking up land were in Grenade
some dying, some sick, and others without the toe
ling away, discouraged and diehear tened. I took vo,
to test all the tropical fruits of the country, and
give our apple and peach for the whole catalogp
duceinents to mechanics are but little better, if
Squires, the carpenter, who went out in the North;
who had a good chest of tools, and was an esn'ie
man, was making from $3 to $5 per day • but
this could not last more than a few weeks, ss
melting in his line to do except repairing windy
jobbing, and making an occasional store.oeuate,
wan, also a carpenter, who went out with 1)1
was employed by the Government in making CO'l
is the most lucrative employment in the place{
taken sick at six o'clock in the evening, and
si,
next morning he was dead, and that day was fil.,,
coffin which he had made himself. He was eertoF
perate in his habits and in excellent health 111/All
merit when he w-s taken sick. His brother csis""ot
the Northern Light a fee, days since, sick with
and it was only by careful nursing on the velpd
was enabled to reach his home alive. Mr. R. del/
many years cutter and foreman in the tailoring
went of William T. Jennings and Co., of Bronsti
only man in Granada who is making money etlejne,
having the patronage of the Government as il bli,
all the private citizens Many mechanics, 1113 Y,
employment, get out of money, have no means °f
are thus forced to leave the country. There i 9 °I,
class of emigrants who are fired with military °o
and to them I have but little to say. GenerallY;
no honest employment here, and do not want
least six of this class, who left New York n,
January, died the next day after their arils's' bi
their way from Granada to Leon, where the,'
ordered to march, musket in hand, under a Wrecili
I did ° not learn how many more died before red
but was informed that thecaptain of the company'
on a mule, went on to Leon for a physician. The 4,4
leaves New York in high spirits, but when he S
nerd Walker's power he will be as tame and subso
a sick lamb. In walking around among the tre°,o
seen them in tears over their desolate situation,)
impossible for them to leave the army. Walksfro
:m an, however urgent the necessity may be. iaei
very worthy young man plead the sickness al
and her destitution, as a reason for his return, °veo,
answer he got was a peremptory order to go bacst ia'
piny. There are very worthy young men in the
among them all there is a general dissatisfaction,
appointment. Their food is very poor, and ti
;re
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barely enough for their washing expenses. IP,
receive only six dollars per week, and sickness r
the army to an alarming extent. For labouring
emigrate the iuducenientsare quiteasfew. Oeen3:P
Granada on the day I did, to return, was sEnzaei
fever on the way down the lake. At Virgil, ~..48
treated by a physician, who thought that he Idll'o '
to start for home. He did so, and on the 5ee,(13.0
from San Juan he died, and his body was Olio'
board. I understood that ho was formerly a P°„;01
New York. Two Irishmen, brothers, went :a
Northern Light, but one became discouraged ""14,
at San Juan and returned. His brother, eovisio
on with me to Granada. He got employment, °
and a half per day, at driving the government
was a healthy and strictly sober man, but, onew 11
his arrival, was seized with the fever and died. ,
possible for an American to work in that olitest'e;o,
larly those from the northern states, They beef, of
tated and weak, and those who are in the beln,
ing sufficiently to irritate the stomach almost !,f,
die. Granada is the great deadhouse of the coulP"A
miles from the city is a pond, which, in 01 7
son, becomes putrid, and the wind, wIP° DJ'
always blows from that direction, sends s ,
over the city; and this, with rumand dirt, is the ,0;!
the unhealthiness of the place. When I left ' ab.l
about 400 Americans in the place, and they Weloili
the rate of 5 per day on an average. It is said tO,
a place 10d miles above Granada, and reached b‘fr‘
much more healthy. Virgin Bay, Castillo, and
40'
are comparatively healthy.—l am, respectfully 9;190
" WILLIAM D. $ll ,

EXTB.A;SIVE SEIZURE OP FLOV
IVAKENIgLD.

The Court-house, Wakefield, was crowded eO.llO,
nesday last by persons anxious to hear the Pt /tV)
relative to the late extensive seizure of flour frolesi
Jackson and Son, corn dealers, Wakefield. 001,
s.-ven sacks had been seized by Joseph Johe'di
sanitary inspector of the borough, in FebOrd
from two shops of the defendants, in Westg;ooo 1
Wrengate, under the impression that they were " 2:)
hunihn foud. Owing to the result of the a-ki J,
Professor Taylor, of London, 82/ of these sorVii
ordered by the bench of magistrates to be reel
Messrs. Jackson. The cases before the bench 0"-ylit
nesday related to the 41 sacks still retained blioill
spector. The presiding magistrate on the occO'reo
Mr. Joseph Holdsworth. Mr. W. Shaw apP,l,,
the prosecution, and Mr. Digby Seymour, to'bi, '
specially retained for the defendant, assisted pt
Micklethwaice. The first charge preferred : $
Messrs. Jackson was for having flour for sale i;ot,
shop at Westgate-common on the 26th of Feb. lac
same being unfit fur human food, contrary to 'fief
tute. Mr. Seymour took objection that the pris°lo
no authority from the local board to proceed es'ijib
case to recover penalties, as required by the ' gifll
19th of Victoria, cap. 121, sec. 5. The bench c° pt
the information bad as regarded the penalties, eou dr
as regarded the seizure. The information fell te'd fri,
and the next case taken was for having flour 0-or
premises in Wrengate on the 25th of February 1106
food, which the inspector prayed might be de,l-no 7
The principal witness called for the prosecoV4
Dr. Letheby, of the London Hospital, who, "iii,'
examined a specimen of the flour, declared It, t-c) el
opinion, to be unfit for human food, owing 'i,
gluten of the flour being in a state of deconlr,-,P4
The Rev. W. R. Bowditch, Mr. Slatter, eurgef-Olv, '
Mr. Milne*, surgeon to the convict departmeo%-ini",.
House of Correction, all gave it as their °`°,4
that the flour was unfit for human food. gr;fo,".
moor made a long and able address for the °acit
and be then called a number of corn-factors, irieg'iniv
Mr. Thomas Smith, of the firm of Sandal.' and " Or
Liverpool and Manchester ; Mr. W. NelstroPgetd
Mayor of Stockport ; Mr. Harbridge, biscuit coett;oof,
uif
Liverpool ; and Mr. Thompson, Wakfield,—all ef,
gave it as their opinion that the flour was fit for b° DI
food. Mr. Huggon, chemical lecturer, Leede,', D 1
Atkinson, physician to the dispensary, Wakefield ifsi
Craven, of Rothwell ; and Professor John '1,.: ietl',
consulting chemist to the Royal Agricultural 0,°,-oire;
had all examined portions of the flour, and they tiesclivi'
it to be fit for human food. There was no trace °' 'of"
teration in the flour, and a slight taint which it obteolf O.:
might have been caused by the improper stowinga siiiii
during the six weeks since the seizure. The OtourlP
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dismissed after having occupied the Court eight `:, It;
The decision was received with a round of applat 4
the assembled audience. The case has excited o'ol3o
most interest among the corn-dealers in Yorkshire
Lancashire.

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LORD DALHOUSIE.—Our Malta corresponaen.fo
that Lord Dalhousie, late Governer-General of ',Pot
arrived at that port on the 10th inst. in the Gerraot
The Caradoc was to sail for Marseilles as soon as
damage she sustained in a gale on the 9th had been
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paired. His lordship had derived great benefit frois
voyage.