New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-04-22
Nl,nrsrun-The Picnyune,. story EIpIoded.

Manageable Picayune's story Exploded
In noticing Yesterday the extraordinary MARIA
tona Of Mr.. j. Calvary Hall, which we coPie1
from the her. Orleans Ptoayune, we expresse1
the belief that proof Of their exaggerasion and at
surdity would soon be forthcoming. Whatever
object their author may have had in view, in cir
culsting reports to the prejudice Of the Nicaragua
Government, has certainly oyereached himself
this time.
We had some conversation yesterday With Mr.
LIN. WsLCoTT and Mr.. BROwNELLi who came
passengers in the Prometheus, which lett San
Juan two days after the Mexico. Dir. " oicots
came through the country from healeJo ana re-
mained come time in Grenada. From these gen
.lemen we learn that the story published in the
Ptcavune is almost entirely false. No change
whatever has come over the inhabitants OF Nlcar-
aqua in regard 70 the Americans. The country Is
quiet and the Americans residing there are IN
rnoIested. The story that fifteen OF our country
men had been murdered within twenty-five days
on the road from Realeio to San Juan, IS totally
false. The snly person murdered was NJ A. "
MAYNARD. who u engaged IN the transportation
line between Grenada and Realeio. he was az
tackled by four persons and killed, in consequence
az was generally supposed OF some injury ne had
given them. Instead OF the Nicaragaan authori-
ties refusing redress three of the murderers were
taken, tried at Mssagua and condemned to be shos
When Mr.. Wolcott left, the officers were on the
hunt of the fourth offender
The name OF the person who was attacked on
the road and left for dead, was Williams and not
Mooney, as Mr. Hall states. he was crossing the
country alone, in a Garcia, when he wasaet upon
by six robbers, who gave him eighteen lance
wounds, plundered him and left him in the road.
de was taken to Grenada, where he was treated
with the utmost kindness by the natives aud 80
far restored that be was enabled to reach San
Juan in time to take passage in the Prometheus'
He reached this City on Friday last These are
the only outrsges which have lately occurred in
Nicaragua, and they are more thaa counter0al'
snced by the excuses which have been committed
byreturning Californians, on their passage through
the country.
SO far from there being eight hundred Ameri-
cans about to leave tn country Mr.. Hall himsel
was the only American who was forced to leave
and not without good reason, if we may credit
the story current in Nicaragua, We understand
that he was engaged in some speculation con-
corning q plank road between Realejo and
Chinapdega and that having killed one OF the
natives in an alteration, he was forced suddenly
to take bis leave He went to Panama, crossed
the Is.hmus to Chagres and reached San Juan.
Here, thinking the matter had blown over, no
started for the interior, Notwithstanding the re
monstrances Of those persons at San Juan, who
were acquainted with the circumstances. On ar
irving at Granada, however, he found the author
tiles on the alert; reward of 81, 900 was set upon
his head and he was fsin to engage the assistance
Of two Americans, to whom he promised $500
each to get him out Of the country. They en-
barked in a storm, and after sailing nifty miieH
down the lake, their boat was wrecked. After
walking some distance around the head OF the
lake, he succeeded in hiring bungo in which he
shipped past the fort of San Carlos where the
troops were on the look out for him by night
and finally reached San Juan. The men who lost
their boat in his service were considerably disap'
pointed when they came to claim their pay.
Both the Government and people of Nicaragua
are now, as they have always been, bitterly hos
tile to British influence, on account Of the Mos
quito affair On the other hand, there is the
greatest good feeling towards the Americans,
which the Government manifests on all occasions
1t is not strange that Mr.. Hall, after lis peculiar
experience in Nicaragua, should accuse the au'
thorities Of that country OF anti-Americsn preju-
dice but we regret that the Pic0yUne failed to
exercise it's usual discretion and good judgment
in giving such complete credence to his story
However, its absurdity is so apparent that it can
do little harm