New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-25

Mosquitoes, who by brazen fraud. are Attempted 70
| be passed OF upon The world a a sovereign nalon
coInprehendlng the outies' and capable oil fdlIlIhe
the requirements of government
In the more elevated and Saiubrous regions aroul1
the ereaf lakes Of the interior. and UQOn the slopes
| of tie Pacific On the other hand, The natives hi9
many features N common Win iAe s--hi-.tEl-iAei
! ratlcps OF Mexico Guatema A -ani Nucaia1, am
rad made many advances II the same direction Win
/ them Like them. they were divided into numerous
tribes or small sOyereeriies. with separate ana IN
! Cererdent chiefs or councils Of government. Win
the single exception OF those IshaotinE tue mario"
strip OF ano woeu Lake Nicaragua ami the PacInc
ard who had also spread TO the principal Islands OF
the Lake. they appear TO nave been essenlally o'e
r,eonie with IKE habits al1 customs. a COIlrOz re-
islon and speaking If not The same language, prool-
/ bly dialects q the same language
This exception i that 20 which re'erre1 4. the
outset and i one Of the remark ole N the his
torv q The American AbOnElnes. The Inhabitants
q tbs narrow stLmus, between the dSe and ocetn
I were Nexicans, speaking tie ancient Mexican Ian
euaee and having a civil and social organization as
also system of religion. Identical Win those when
prevailed among the Aztecs. and Their animated IA
tons The evidence upon tins point. furnished by
my own lnveStgauons IN TIE county Is conclusive
and WI. shortly appear. Il J. only necessary here
to say that this fact distinctly asserted ~ the his
torlan Gonzalez Fernandez de OTIecO Valdez,
who vas IN Nicaragua IN 1926. and a copy OF whose
Ms account Of the country Is now IN possession oil
that enlightened and most liberal col eciOI, Col refer
Force. Of the City Of Washington.
OF he people occupying the Isthmus already IAii-
Gated. and which he calls Nlquirans from whence
N.caraaua.) Oyieso avs they speak the Mex
can language. and have the same manners AMI ap-
pearaTce a. the people OF New Spain"
The remaining inhabitants of Nicaragua, TINS an
'hou,y divides INTO two stocks, ~ nose speak,
Ig the Ckoroteeen language ana us dialects, ana
tie ChCn'als or COncals. The lrst OF these, or
the ChCrOiegans. occupied the entire country norm
Of the NiQuSans. extending along the Pacific ocean:
between It and Lake Managua 10 the oorcers, and
probably .or distance along the shores OF the Iu.i
Of Fonseca. They also occupied he country South
OF tie NIQuiTars. and around the Gulf OF Nlcoya:
tlen called Orotina. These were again separated
mo several divisions. all speaking tie Choio'esah
laI cuaCe or dialects Oft.
TIE DIRIANs or people of the hills" who oc-
Gu od tie Territory lying between the upper eXtIeIa-
IS of Lake Nicaragua. the Tlyer Ipitapa ana Tue
scg'icIn half Of Lake Managua, and the Pdclhc'
Wao>e principal towns were situated |heTe no"
nd he cities Of Grenada. then called salteJd l.
saya and Managua and the villages OF Tlplidpd d.
romo. and Dlrlamba. According 70 OYieio they
were tue Chorotegans
II. TIE NAeRANDAvs. or people Of Nasran1o'
those speaking tfc Nasrou dan dialect Ihey OcCu-
ped what Is now called he PLAIN OF Leon OF VI
district between the northern extremity OF Lake
Managua and the Pacific. The name IS preserved
that OF The city Of Leon, which Is SIN sometimes
called Leon dc Nagrunlo.
i'll THE CHoLuTEcANs. speaking the Choiutecan
dialect. situated to the norihWard of the Nagran-
daIs and extending along the Gulf of onSeca, INTO
what is now the territory Of Honduras Herfdra fire.
QuCntv Confounds the Cholutecan with the Choroie-
gan language, whence L Is inferred that they were
dialects OF the same language town and river IN
The territory here Indicated stllI pear Inc name Oh
Choluteca.
". The ORoTIxAYs. occupying the country around
the Gulfo Nlcoya, and to the southwark OF Lake NJ
caTaeua.
Concerning the Indians OF the Choroegan stock,
Ovieco observes that they were the enemies OF the
NiquTans. and that their languages, manners, Gus
toms and ceremonies were 50 different, a> 10 ne
utterly incomprehensble TO the other. He neyerne-
less adds that their religion the and here
il may be observed that all the religions of the SEM
civilized nations of the central parts OF The continent
Appropriated TO a common type
TIE Chondals or ChontalS, the third great dvl-
sion, mentioned by OvledO, occupied the VIDE noun
famous region still bearing the name OF ChonaleS,
situated to the northward of Lake Nicaragua ana
midway between the nations already named and the
savage hOrdes bordering the Caribbean sea, win
whom, 1t l. possible. they may have IN some degree
assmilated These Indians says Oyledo have
10 connection with the Chorotegans and Nlqulrahs'
and speak a language different from theirs as the
Basque IS from the German" He, nevertheless,
leaves the inference that their religion was very much
the same Herrara ADDS, that they were noun
famous people and clownsh.
Herrara also informs Us that the Carb language
was much spoken IN Nicaragua, but probably by none
except the Tribes OF that stock bordering on the Az
lantic Ocean, and with whose dlalects We are not
well acquainted.
The chronlclerS seem to agree IN representing the
Chorotegans as the original occupants and prcioh-
inatng family in the country the aHtoc'sohes.
Those speaking the thorotegan language sy
Oyedo, are the abonglnes OF the country anu IL
ancient masters" Hcuara asserts that among 'henl
those sneaklng the Cholutecan language were " the
original and mos, ancient, held the estates ana laI
the CacaO-nus, which were the money anu vealth ol
the country" Il is difficult to understand WHAT j.
meant BY this Obsery alton, unless 1t Is that there e-
I>ted among the people class arrogallng IKE NE
lncas. a superiority over the Others and speaking
court LANGUAGE, OF one IN some respects oiheIhg
ron theirs
n therefore seems that At the time Of the dlscoy-
CIV. there existed III Nicaragua two grand families
of Indians, whose relations and suocylSions are eX
iibied N the following table