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captured by the reactionists ; but it was again retaken
by the former, and a strong, force of good troops were
stationed at that point to defend it from further
assaults."

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Advices from St. Louis, of Dec. 29, report advices
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it. Much excitement had prevailed, being
-many Missourians present, some, of whom voted
after swearing in their votes. The form of o sth
admini,tered is said to have been, "Are- you at
this instant an inhabitant of the territory ?" Some
of the Missourians had been arrested, apd judge
Lecompte ha I i-sued writs of habeas corpus for
their release. General Calhoun had been burnt in
and Eli Moore shot in the leg. it.. was
rutuoured that General Dmverhad signed an °Filer
for the arrest of General Lute. The Lecompton
people had adopted that Constitution, including
the slavery clause, at the election on the 21st ult.,
by a reported majority of 69. The returns received
were but meagre. At Shawnee the pro-slavery vote
765, at Alathe 200, and at Lexington about the
same. It was reported at Lawrence that a body
of Free State men had gone to Lecompton to seize
the territorial arras. A letter from Lawrence,
under date of the 21st inst., states that General
Lane had gone to Fort Scott with the avowed de-
termination to destroy the place, exterminate the
pro-slavery settlers, and carry the war into Mis-
souri. General Denver had assumed the governor-
ship of the territory, and issued an address exhort-
ing the citizens to appeal to the ballot-box for the
settlement of their difficulties. He had announced
his policy, and stated that General Calboue had
invited himself and the presiding officers of both
Houses of the Territorial Legislature to be present
at the counting of the election returns on the 21st.
No votes had been received in Lawrence, and the
poll-books were not opened at Topeka. A letter
to the Republican, S. Louis, states that the Law-
rence Convention of the 23d ult. will decide whe-
ther or not to go into the January election for
Stati officers. 1114ny, it is said, favour such a course
with the view of crushing the State government.
Ex-Secretary Stanton's name was mentioned for
Governor.

men in a manner more highly to command his ad-
miration and respect.
Walker's own account of his expedition given to
the New York papers is as follows :
" We left Mobile on the 4th of September and had
quite a long trip on the Fashion—over 10 days. We
made Punta Arenas about midday, on the 24th, and put
for the month of the Colorado river. We landed there
Gdonel Frank Anderson and 40 or 45 men in small
boats, with orders to preceed up the river as far as Leefe'a
Lland and station outposts by Pi:WM, in order to pre
vent communication beticeen San Juan and the point,
above, on the river, We ley off and on there all night,
and ran into the harbour of San Juan, On the morning
of the 25:1), about 7 o'clock, we landed on the hulks at
Punta Arenas, the men being ashore about five minutes
after the boats were tied to the hulks. The Captain
of the Saratoga sent an officer to examine the papers of
the Fashion, and, finding that she was properly cleared,
stated that he did not see any cause to interfere with
her or her passengers. Soon afterward Mr Scott went
eff to the Saratoga, and asked protection for the vessel
and the property on the point, formerly belonging to
the Accessory Transit Company, which he bad under
purchase from me for Morgan, Garrison, and Co. He
also asked for protection for property belonging to him,
and transferred to him by me before the United States'
Commissioner at,Greytown. We left the property with
him and hired quarters above for the remainder of the
command. The military and other stores were landed
on the point. The commander of the Saratoga sent me
a message show,ngno desire to interfere with me. The
first message was a letter under the seal of the British
Consul, to the effect that he understood that I contem-
plate t seizing the Costa Rican mail, which was then
expected on a British steamer at San Juan, and that if
I did so he. would treat me as a hostile force, and fire at
me with shot and shell. No answer was sent. The
next day several officers name off the Saratoga, and,
regardless of the hail of the setrtinel, landed within my'
camp. I sent word to them through the officer of the
day, that if they undertook to land within my camp
again without answering the hail of the sentry he would
have orders to fire on them. The next morning I got a
letter from the commander of the Saratoga to the effect
that I hal insulted an officer of the United S ater' navy,
threatening to shoot me ; that they considered that a
national insult had been given. No answer was sent.

The Washington Union, of the 27th ult., pub-
lishea a letter from J. Williams, Chief Justice of
Kansas, which it characterises as a plain unvar-
nished statement of ascertained facts, and expresses
an opinion that the only remedy for the lawless-
ness and rebellion it exhibits is the admission of
Kansas to the Union.
Secretary Cass's reply to Governor Walker's
clinmunication, tendering his resignation as go-
vernor of Kansas, and which was accepted, has
been published.
The policy which it was expected Governor
Walker would have carried out is thus stated :
" Tf,e quesiori of slavery was the all-absorbing clues.
Lion, and you were sent to Kansas, with . the full
conflence of the Pi taident, to carry out the principles
of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. With the question of
whether Kansas was to be a free or slave state, you
were not to interefere. You were to secure to the
people of Kansas a fair and free election, to decide the
question for themselves. The President was therefore
barmy to learn from your despatches to this departments
of July 15. h last, that in all your speeches you had
refrained from expressing any opinion as to whether it
e'aould be a slave or free State."

Trio same day, a little after this, a letter was sent. A
party of men were sent with small boats from the
Saratoga to practise with howitzers on the point where
one of my cninpanies were stationed. The officer of my
compa•'y when 11,3 siw the bats approaching, drew out
the men to arrest the encroactimen,s on the company.
The beats proceeded without notice to tho neighbour-
hood of the company. As soon as I saw this I supposed
it was a disposition to bring about a co!lision between
the comm idore's forces and mine. I therefore moved
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my company on the point up into the immediate vicinity
of the camp, in order to prevent any probability of col-
lision from any accident. The morning after Captain
Chatard sent another note to me, saying that the men
on tee point were in hi 4 way (t,he men, by the way, had
been removed at this time) : he wanted to practise
there, and to fire over the point to bring veisels
:o, and required me to bring my men from that
pAnt. No answer was sent. After that, how-
ever, there r: as no further interference from
C ipt. Ceatird. Soon after Innding at the point, getting
information of the stare of ;:ff ,irs in Nicaragua, and of

the pr,ibabie force at Ca till ), and becoming aware of
the feet that the native Nicaraguans were in p.,sse,sion
of Fort San Carlos, and t bat ac oat hostil ties existed
between them and the Costa It can for:3es, I sent up a
com,nand to Col. Anderson at Leele's i,land, so that his
whole f ,rce amounted to 50 men, with orders to proceed
to Castillo, and, if possible, cut out the steamers at that
point ; that i no resistauca, or slight resistance, were
made to take posses-ion of Fort Castillo. On the 4th
Dec., early to the morning, C.,1. Anderson arrived at
Castillo, cut rut and took p.)ssession of the Bulger,
Morgan, and Ogden (the river boats), and in the after-
noon of the same day took possession of the fort, the
enemy having only fired one volley. A single gun, a 6-
pout.der, struck the Ogden. flu captured six guns, one
18-pounder, one 6-pounder (ron), one 6-pounder (•,mit),
one 4-pounder (brass), one 12-pounder, about 150 tnu,-
kets, with corr,siyinding ammunition, small arms, and
a cowiderahle quantity of quartermasters' and commis.
sariat stores.

vie-s had been received at Washington from
the he rd-quarters of the army of Utah, dated Black
Fork, Nov. 5 :—The detachments under Colonel
Johnston and Colonel Smith, together with the
supply trains, bad united with the main body under
Colonel Alex older, and the entire force had ad-
vanced to within 16 miles of Fort Bridger, en route
for Salt Lake city. The troops were in high spirits,
being plentifully supplied with provisions, While
the snow had fallen sufficiently to protect the grass
from fire. The march was slow and tedious, ave-
raging 11 miles a-day. Although the .road was
exc,-11ent and the weather fine, it was not possible
to make more rapid progress on account of the
broken-down condition of the draught animals.
The trim ns, including the traders and merchants
destined to Salt Lake, which he would not allow
to go on, occupied, in as close order as they could
be made to travel, the space of from five to six
miles. No mol-station whatever was attempted
by the Mormons, which may be attributable to the
'presence of the cavalry.

"Oa the morning of the SAI Col. Anderson sent a
party of 15 men up with the Ogden to take p Issession of
the Virgin, a lake steamer. Among the persons Lund

on board the boats at Castillo and on the Virgin were
about 40 C )eta Ricans, who were taken prisoners.
Among the number was an officer who had been formerly
taken from the wreck of the ()ilea de Averil, and re-

LATEST PER THE CANADA.
(BY TELEGRAPH VIA HALIFAX.)
NEW YORK, DEC. 31.
The excitement consequent on the arrest of
General Walker by Commodore Paulding is in-
creasing throughout the Sta,t(s.
The enlistment of Filibusters for Nicaragua is
pro2ressing with much spirit in various places ;
SOO men have left Texas for Nicaragua, and there
are about 1,400 here awaiting shipment.
A despatch from Washington says that Walker
demands that Government shall convey him back
to Nicaragua i❑ a national vessel, and salute his
flag on arriving at the Isthmus ! Walker is about
to pr 'teed to New Orleans, where the excitement
in his favour is intense.
Commodore Pauldieg, by whom Walker's arrest
was effected, has bein ordered home for trial by
Lourt-martial.

eased on parole. When he ret►rrned to Costa Rica and

refused to fight against the Americans they gave him 80
lashes and put him into the ranks, forcing him to fight.

lie was very anxions,, of course, to waren against them.
There was al3o a Dr. Tilden, an American, who had
b.-en in the servici on the river, and who had been
pressed into the C ,sta Rican service. Among the pri-
contra were a few who were delighted to be prisoner.,
and released from militar) diCy. Oa the morning of the
6th the United St,ates' stem. er Wabash arrived off San
Juan. The same day her Bra mania Majesty's steamship
and propeller Brunswick and Leopard arrived awl an-
d:Kira.' alongside. Oa Monday the United States' steamer
Fulton arrived off San Juan and anch wed on the morn-

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ing of the l ch. I saw a launch Ir .rn the Saratoga con-
taining a bowitz,r, pull up the harbour a little after dark.
I sent Captain Fayssoux with a small canoe to see its
object. When be arrived near the harbour head he was
hailed by the officer, and told he must not pass up the
river. Captain Fayssoux said ho had a Nicaraguan boat.
The officer repeated that he could not p sa. The captain
asked by whose authority. The officer replied, Commo-
dore Paulding's. Ile then asked the name of the officer
giving the order, and was told Lieu'. Cilley, of the
Saratoga. When this was reported to me I sent Captain
Fayssoux early in the morning to go out to the Commo-
dore and state to him that it was necessary for me to
communicate with the balance of our party who were
up there, and ask the commodore whether we were to be
treated as enemies or not Not long after Captain
Fayssoux went on board the, Waha.li the commodore's
pennant was moved over to the U,•ited States' Fteamer
Fulton, which came up near the hulk at Point Arenas,
la9ding some 350 Ten. A, soo❑ as I saw them make
these demonstrations of force I ordered my men to be
disarmed so as to' pre'vent any accidental
Captai❑ Engel, of the Wabash, came up, and showing a
letter from the comniolore, ordered me to surrender. I
surrendered, and. by order of the captain hauled down
the Nicaraguan flag. I was taken on board the Wabash,
and the men were sent to Norfolk on the Saratoga. Of
the rest you are, I suppose, well aware."

CIVIL WAR IN KANSAS.
A telegraphic despatch from St. Louis, dated the
30th of December, says that civil war bas broken
out in Kansas. Several serious conflicts had oc-
curred. A fight took place between the Govern-
ment troops and a body of Pro-Slavery men, in
which several were killed and wounded, including
the United States Marshal for the district. Gen.
Lane, the leader of the Free-State troops, was in-
trenched with a large number of followers at Sugar
Mound, and was determined to engage with the
Government dragoons if they made an attack.. At
the latest dates a battle was considered inevitable.
THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
President Buchanan and the 'Secretary of the.
Navy warmly approve and have acceded to, the
application of the Atlantic Telegraph Company-for
the Stearn frigate Niagara to assist in htyirig the sub-
marine cable between Ireland and Newfoundland
in June next. The following is the official letter
from the Secretary of the Navy on the subject :
"Navy Department, Washington, Dec. 30.
" Gentlemen, —Your communication of the 22d inst.
has been received. I have to inform you, in reply,
that, by direction of the President of the United
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cooncottc,n with this work.
" I ani, &c., " ISAAC TOUCEY.
"To Peter Cooper, q., President, and Cyrus, W.
Field, Esq., Vice-President of the New York, New-
foundland, and London Telegraph Company, New
York."

The Washington correspondent of the New York

Times says :

" I undoistand that the Persia brought despatches
announcing an earnest protest by the British Government
against the Yris-ari Convention as an infringement on
the Gaytoo-Balwer Treaty. Tbis brings the Adminis-
tration directly to the issue, when they roust recede or
practically vindicate the Monroe doc•rine. Despatches
on the subject will be sent to Mr. Dallas by Wednesday's
steamer."
The steamship Northern Lis!,ht arrived at New
York on the 27th with the Californian mails and
$2,478,220 57c. on freight ; $459,350 31c. were for
England. There was no particular news. The
miners were ag tin agitating against the Chinese.
On the 27th November i he banking house of Jw.eph
C. Palmer was closed by attachments sued out for
36,639 dols. Volunteers for the Utah expedition
were very numerous. Business transactions bad
been very quiet.
Advices from Havannah to the 25th ult. report
that trade in sugars had been more active, with a
slight advance, owing to competition, for good
yellow and grocery browns. Stock, 65,000 boxes ;
at Matanzas, 15,000 ditto.
Exchange ou London, 14 to 15 prem., 60 days.
Freights were not active for Europe, and there
was no demand for vessels of the United States for
carrying across the Atlantic. More stores had been
landed. The steamer Fa,liou which conveyed
Walker to Nicaragua, was in the port.
Letters from Honduras report that the railway
engineer corps, working in four divisions, had so
far advanced with their work as to be able to report
that the location of the road would be completed
by February 1. Two lines have been surveyed 1
over the summit, with the result of a maximum
especially the dissolution of
grade of 63 feet to the mile declivity on the Atlan-
tic and 74 feet to the mile on the Pacific. The
health of the corps was unexceptionably good.
etilhetP overthrow of the constitution,
Accounts-from Mexico to the 17th ult. state that
another revolution had broken out. The garrisons
at Tacubaya and Vera Cruz had pronounced against
and the clothing of Comonfort with d: t
thetli the Government,
States
lc atorial
ver it was expected the other pot •
foll.ofv, and the revolution thus become general and
complete. The rebellion in Yucatan CGo°nvg
continued, but
without any marked arlvan t
age to either
side. A
despatch receiv eaNewOrleans at -
states as follows :
~ By the arrival at
cayunc itUiQ
Tennessee, the I); port tc-lay of the steamer
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in receipt of intelligence from
Vera Cruz to the 21st ieet •, and correaponding dates from
other portions of the
importance. Toe republic The news is of the highest
constitution ..f the country had been
overthrown,
the
Federal Congress and Supreme Court
broken up and dispersed, and Comonfort declared abso-
lute
dictator, with power to call an extraordinary
Congress. The whole capital was in arms, and other
municipalities, including Vera Cruz, had given in their
prompt adhesion to the new order of things. The revo-
lution in the city of Mexico took place on the 17th inst.
The movement was a sudden, bold, and daring one, and
crowned with the most complete success. It was planned
by Comonfort and then entrusted to General Paez, who
carried it triumphantly into execution without any active
resistance un the part of the people. I, deed, the latter
evinced their joy in various ways, and unhesitatingly
hailed Crinaontert as their supreme ruler. There were
but few arrests made,though among thefew were several
men of distinction. A number of the military sent in

COMMERCIAL INTELLTGENCE.
NEW YORK, DEC. 31.
Our cotton-market continues to exhibit a declining
tendency, and quotations are quite nominal. Middling
uplands is called 9c. The market for breadstuff" is
quiet, at about the quotations advised per wail. Pro-
visions are dull, and prices tend downward. The money-
market to-Jay has been slightly easier, and on the Stock
Exchange a slight advance has been established on all
kinds of securities. Sterling exchange remains quite
inactive. Messrs. Neil Brothers report ara her safer
market for cotton here to-day, but do not advance their
quotation of 9c. for middling uplands. At New Orleans
they report a firmer market, and a rise of ie. on cottor•
but other southern markets remain dull.
Tile steamship Arago, from Southampton, arrived at
New York on the 30th of December.
The following daily report from the South have been
received since the closing of the mail :

"NEW ORLEANS, DEC. 29.
" Cotton sales to-day, 11,000 bales, at 9ic. to 9Yc. for
middling. Market rather firmer. Sterling exchange has
bllghtly advanced."

" NEW ORLEANS, DEO 30.
" The sales of cotton today amounted to 10,500 bales,
without any change in prices."
" NEW ORLEANS, DEC. 31.
" The cotton-market has been quiet to-day. Sale
restricted to 3,500 bales. The decrease in'the receipts
at ali the southern ports, as compared with the same date
last season, is 423,000 bales. The stock on hand is this
port amounts to 325,000 bales.'

F.
REFUSAL TO SERVE THE OFFICE Or SHERIFF.—Sir
Kelly moved yesterday in the Court of Queen's Bsnch
for a criminal information against Mr. John Hemy
Greville Smyth, for refusing to take upon himself to exe-
cute the office of sheriff for the city and county of
Bristol. A rule nisi fir a criminal information was
granted, to come on for argument on Situ day dext.
THE CREDIT SYSTEM AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY —A
young man named Edward Stratton, who bad been en.
tered an under-graduate at Oxford, applied yesterday
at the Insolvent Debtor's Court to be discharged from
prison. The case disclosed some extraordinary cir-
cumstances. The insolvent owed in the aggregate from
October, 1844, 96,448/ , of which 49,6761. was without
consideration, and 12,255/ more than once entered,
leaving tLe debts for value 34,5171. On the other side,
oe had bad and doubtful debts to him, 5,8001. There
eninf
was one item in the proceedings of "30,0001.," at! hav
been paid between 1848 and 1853 for discount, airy
and bonuses on money lent. It wa5.the.01d..„..5t02.......y oda
gentleman with large expectations far,. _*4 d
Of motey - leaders.Mr. Corenlissiml
torgbil,fVe's,„o„,
o the enormous amount of
of the schedule, and declare
et:
hie life. The thlsol-
- aWnlii; the most lament.
able exhibition he bad ever fie
vest was dies:stared,

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