The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-12-26
INTERESTING FROM CENTRAL AMERICA.


INTERESTING FROM CENTRAL AMERICA.
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Our Nicaragua Correspondence.
GRAFDA, NICARAGUA, Dec. IA, 1858.
The Recent Attempted Reuolution-Ths Costa Riea
boundary Li~e-4he Gold Mi~ss-Ne,ss from
a.atemala-Ihe War Nth Honduras-Intrigues
Of the B,ttish- The annual Fair Costa RID
Steam Navigation in Central America, &C., &s.
Our rainy season is over, and the weather, which
for months has been uninterruptedly disagreeable,
damp and stormy, has been warm, pleasantly tropi-
cal, and invarable The usual winds prevalent at
this season, have been unusually strong, and our
lake has been 30 stormy during the past week that
small vessels have feared to venture out From
Managua there is not much Of interest," except that
those concerned in and captured during the revolu
tionary farce OF Leon have been banished the State
and have left the capital. / much fear that such
Punishment is but setting them free to act at .
safe distance CASTELAR, and Guerrero the two ablest
and most talented men in Nicaragua, and who are
alleged by the government to have been the arch.
schemers in the plot supposed TO be concealed in
Leon, or else to have fed into Honduras. After all
that has been said of this revolution, it is in my OPT
Mon, nothing more than par.uriunt months affair,
and is supposed by maryland they no mean judges
to have been ruse of the government, by which to
relieve themselves Of the presence Of certain set Of
men, who either were, or supposed TO be, inimical
to the administration, and whose presence here dur
ing the approaching session Of the Constituent As
sembly, woald have been embarrassing Be all this
as it may. the revolution Is over.
The commissioner from this State TO Costa RIGA,
for the arrangement Of the nterminSble boundary
question, has not yet left
The great success of those who have gone to the
Chontales mines-not in finding god for the season
has been, until lately too rainy for that, but in dis
covering unquestionable traces Of rich auriferous
deposits-has caused great excitement throughout
the country but desire to make that distrc. Of
country and its resources the subject OF special
communication to you, will refrain for the present,
and 60 on to give you the news from the other
States.
From Guatemala my advices are to very late
date The Baron de Behr was daily expected at the
capital, as Minister Plenipotentary from the King
Of the Begians. Belgium has followed close by in
wake, raising the grade Of her representative here;
and Great Britain, never behind hand where her
interests require it, rumor says, is to raise Con-
sulGeneral Wyke to either Gharge or full Minis
ter From private advices Of the utmost reliability,
posed attack by Gen. Santos Gaardioa upon Hondu-
ras, fully corroborated. On the Sd of November he
published from Guatemala, where he has been re-
eeived with the greatest favor by Carrera the Pres
dent Of that State proclamation addressed TO the
people Of Honduras, calling upon them to take
| up arms against President Cabanas and his
friends, and recalling TO their memory the
| fields Of Nacaome and Comayagua where he
i IL Jo5 xhoro AZ <Lc o;,~
to do so again whenever they would call
! him to head them. Guardiolas NAME as
remarked in my last, is q well known and terri
BILE one in Honduras. It carries with it the prestige
Of many victory, and the effect of his incendary
| proclamation has been talismanic in arousing the
Hondurenos against their President and MS cabinet;
and, in word, the State is threatened with extreme
| anarchy, If, indeed, 1t does not already prevail
| Guardiola has begun his attack with the forces
told you in my last he had gone to Chiquimula to
raise, and thousands will swell his ranks in his pro-
gress through Honduras. He has been in exile three
| years, and Is a native Of Honduras. l am much
afraid that my next communication to You will bring
| your readers bad tidings from Honduras. Guate-
| mala seems little disposed to terminate the war.
have long since written you Of the inter mediation OF
Salvador and Nicaragua as umpres in the difficulty
| between Honduras and Gustemaa, and acquainted
| you with the fact that commissioners were 70 meet
during this month at Santa Ana, to arrange terms
| between their belligerent neighbors.
In my letter Of October %, gave you my opinio
Of the ultimate result Of the arbtratloD and it as
| predicted. Guatemala refuses TO send her commits
| soper to meet the Others until Honduras makes
known to her the basis of her proposals for peace
| In q word, il the ultimatun proposed oy Honduras
| is not what Guatemala would have demanded, the
! war muss go on. More and more am convinced OF
the actiOn-the under current-0f British influence
in instgating to discussion these Central Arneri.
| can States. Her ultimate object think Is also,
clearly foreshadowed. To her Honduras aud Nicara-
| qua are the only valuable, commercially valuable,
nf troll M h1N hAUS v.orts -
rvaled capacity on both oceans, serving for the ter
mini of future Jansts. whether by canal railway.
Her direct enmity for Nicaragua is too clearly shown
by her attacks uDon her territory under the shallow
rise Of Mosquitan majesty, and the capture Of San
Juan del NOrte. The history OF Chatfeds diplomatic
in this country is eloquent evidence as to her
feeling towards Honduras. Costa RIGA Ia already said
| to be much under British influence; Guatemala most
| PROFESSIONALLY is; and whatever may be Salvador's
eeilDg, she would at best be but feeble minority
and it may be that even she viii forget the brilliant
and patriotic stand which but fewy ears since she
took against British encroachment, and be blinded
! by the gilded prospect of partitioned Honduras.
| Thus then, Honduras dismembered, there will remain
in the north but the two States Of San Salvador and
| Qua eDala, both the creatures OF Great Britain
Costa RIGA at the South, tacit spectator of the i'm.
notation Of her sister republic, and all inimical to
Nicaragua for tho opposition she makes and has al.
ways made, to their common ally and her Interested
enemy How long, then, Nicaragua will stand
against this coalition of monarchical influence over
republican American States let the next few years. if
not months, determine This fancy drawn picture.
The well known web Of British policy has long been
weaving over this beautiful isthnus. While we
have been talking Of futile canals she has been ma
turing in her well trained mind, prospective pre
over this gateway Of the nations. Saall we permit
her long dreamed Of policy to progress further to-
wards developement? Bat to return. The interests
of Guatemala to be little peudiced ny her con.
test with Honduras. Her resources are becoming
greater and greater Her President, if not beloved
and do not know that he is notis certainly feared
and his incomings and ontgoings are chronlced in
the organs of his capital those of some crown
| ed head of the Continent
From Honduras we learn only of the effect of the
measures have just been giving you. Guardiolas
exceeding popularity, has caused his proclamation
10 be received with extraordinary enthusiasm disaf
lection has been the consequence and Presd mt Ca
baDas is per force OF circumstances Obliged 20 re
sort 70 extremes TO obtain soldiers 20 fill bis broken
files The official journals of the other States term
| him and bis friends the "Quixotes of democracy"