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I 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--seer 10 days. We
made Punta Arenas about midday, on the 24th, arid put
for the month of the Colorado river. We landed there
Colonel Frank Anderson and 40 or 45 men in small
boats, with orders to proceed up the river as far as Ledo's
Iland and station outposts by Pilaca, in order to pre-
vent communication between San Juan and the points
above, ou the river. We ley off and on there all night,
and ran into the harbour of SAII Juan. On the morning
of the 25th, 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 cane° to interfere with
her or her passengere. Soon afterward Mr. Scott went
off to the Saratoga, and asked protection for the vessel
and the property on the point, formerly belonging to
the Acces;ory Transit Compeny, which he had under
purchase from me for Morgan, Garrison, and Co. He
also asked for protection for property belonging to him,
and transf.Tred to him by me before the United States'
Commissioner at,Greytown. We left the property with
hire and hired quarters above for the remainder of the
command. The military and otter 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 contern-
plate-I seizing the Costa Rican meil, which was then
expected on a British steamer at Sin Juan, and that if
I did se 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 came off the Saratoga, sod,
regardless of the hail of. the sentinel, landed`within my
oamnp: I sent word,to them through the offittereo.tetne„
day, that if they undertook to land within ray Chine

again without answering the hail of the sentry he would

have orders to fire on View. The next morning I got a
letter from the commander of the Saratoga to the efr:nt
that I bad insulted an officer of the -United Sates' navy,
threatening to shoot me; that they considered tln a
national insult had been given. No answer was sent-.
The 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 whore

one of my c'linpaniee were stationed. The officer of my

co any when ho saw the boats approaching, drew out
the men to arrest the encroachmen's on the company.
The boats proceeded without notice to the neighbour-
hood of the company. As soon as I saw this I supposed
it was a disposition to bring about a ciasiou between
the commodore's forces and mine. I therefore moved
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 tlsat the men
on the point were in his way (the men, by the way, had
been removed at this time) : he wanted to practise
there, and to fire over the point to bring vessels
to, and required me to bring my men from that
point. No answer was sent. After that, how-
ever, there was no further interference from
Capt. Caatard. Soon after landing at the point, getting
information of the state of afftirs in Nicaragua, and of
the probable force at Castillo, and becoming aware of
the fact that the native Nicaraguans were in possession
of Fort San Carlos, and that actual hostilties existed
between them and the Costa Rican forces, I sent up a
command to Col. Anderson at Leele's island, so that his
whole force amounted to 50 men, with orders to proceed
to Castillo, and, if possible, cut out the steamers at that
point ; that if no resistants, or alight resistance, were
made to take possession of Fort Castillo. On the 4th
Dec., early in the morning, Col. Anderson arrived at
Castillo, cut out and took possession of the Bulwer,
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 -
pounder, struck the Ogden. He captured six guns, one
18-pounder, one 6-pounder (iron), one 6-pounder (brass),
one 4-pounder (brass), one 12-pounder, about 150 mus-
kets, with corresponding ammunition, small arms, and
a considerable quantity of quartermasters' and commis-
sariat stores.

"On the morning of the 5.1 Col. Anderson sent a
party of 15 men up with the Ogden to take possession of
the Virgin, a lake steamer. Among the persons found
on board the boats at Castillo and on the Virgin were
about 40 Costa Ricans, who wete taken prisoners.
Among the number was an officer who had been formerly
taken from the wreck of the Once de Averil, and re-
leased on parole. When he returned 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.
He was very anxious, of course, to march against them.
There was also a Dr. Tilden, an American, who had
been in the service on the river, and who had been
pressed into the Costa Ricao service. Among the pri-
soners were a few who were delighted to be prisoners,
and released from military duty. On the morning of the
6th the United States' steamer Wabash arrived off San
Juan. The same day her Britannic Majesty's steamship
and propeller Brunswiok and Leopard arrived and an-
chored alongside, On Monday the United States' steamer
Fulton arrived off San Juan and anchored on the morn-
ing of the 7th. I saw a launch from the Saratoga con-
taining a howitzer, pull up the harbour a little after dark.
I sent Captain Fayssoux with a small canoe to see its
object. When he arrived near the harbour head he was
hailed by the officer, and told he must not pass up the
river. Captain Fayssoux said he had a Nicaraguan boat.
The officer repeated that he could not pass. The captain
asked by whose authority. The officer replied, Commo-
dore Paulding's. He then asked the name of the officer
giving the order, and was told Lim'. Cilley, of the
Saratoga. When this was reported to me I sent Captain
Fassoux 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
Fayssonx went on board the Wabash the commodore's
pennant was moved over to the United States' etearner
Fulton, which came up near the hulk at Point Arenas,
landing some 350 men. As soon as I saw them make
these demonstrations of force I ordered my men to be
disarmed so .as to prevent any accidental collision.
Captain Engel, of the Wabash, came up, and showing a
letter from the commodore, 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."
The Washington correspondent of the New Yorh
Times says :

" I understand that the Persia brought despatches
announcing an earnest protest by the British Government
against the Yrisari Convention as an infringement on
the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. This brings the Adminis-
tration directly to the issue, when they must recede or
practicaily vindicate the Monroe doctrine. Despatches
on the subject will be sent to Mr. Dallas by Wednesday s
steamer."

The steamship Northern Light 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 again agitating against the Chinese.
On the 27th November the banking house of Joseph
0. Palmer was closed by attachments sued out for
36,639 dols. Volunteers for the Utah expedition
were very numerous. Business transactions had
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 on 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 Fashion 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
over the summit, with the rssult of a maximum
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 goed.
Accouutslfromi Mexico to the 17th ult. state that
another revolution bad broken out. The garrisons
eat Tacubaya and Vera Cruz had pronounced against
the Government, especially the dissolution of
the Congress, the overthrow of the constitution,
and the clothing of Comonfort with dictatorial
power. It was expected the other States would
follow, and the revolution thus become general and
complete. The rebellion in Yucatan continued, but
without any marked advantage to either side. A
despatch received at New Orleans states as follows :
,t By the arrival at this port to-day of the steamer
Tennessee, the Picayune is in receipt of intelligence from
Vera Cruz to the 21st inst , and corresponding dates from
other portions of the republic The news is of thebighest
importance.
the Federal
.f the country had been
overthrown, 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 plat* 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 triuna phantly into execution without any active
resistance on the part of the people. Indeed, the latt&r
evinced their joy in various Imp, and unhesitatingly
hailed CoMontort 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