Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-08-10
MR. BoRLAND's HONOR AvENG.
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The steamship Pron1etheus, Cap
Turner, arrived at New York from Pur
ia Arenas, on Monday, with 81, 600
900 in specie and 383 passengers.
The Prometheus arrived outward o.
the morning of the 18th, at O'Clock
having touched at Kingston for COAL
She found in the harbor the u s. ship
of-war Cysne, commanded by Capt
Hollins, which had arrived at San Jual
del Norte on the 11th inst, in twenty
one days from New York, commissioned
to settle certain difficulties between the
American citizens and the local authori.
ties; also to demand full and satisfac-
tory apology for an insult given short
time since to the Hon. Solan Borland,
our Minister to Central America. The
authorities and inhabitants of the town
refused to make the slightest apology.
After giving ample time, and no apology
having been received, Capt. HolIins, on
the 12th, issued a proclamation to the
authorities and residents that, unless an
apology was made by 9 A. NJ, on the
18th, he should proceed to lombard
the town. No apology came. He, in
the meantime, took possession of the
Transit Company's. steamers, and sent
them TO the town, offering protection to
all persons who chose to accept; and
within one minute of the time designa-
ted by Capt. H., the cannonading COM
menced, and continued with brief inter-
mission to 8 P. NJ. During the inter
val no disposition was manifested on
the part of the inhabitants to come to
terms for the saving of the property
At4 P. NJ. a. party landed, commanded
by lieutenant, who burnt the town.
San Juan, or Greytown, on the 18th,
was entirely destroyed; one or two
small buildings in the suburbs remain to
mark tie spot. No lives were lost
Mr.. Scott, agent of the Accessory
Transit Company, rendered free pas
sage by the Prometheus to all who wish
ed to leave. A few accepted the offer.
The Cyane sails for Boston on the 18th,
and takes Mr.. Fabens, our Commercial
Agent, home. Officers and crew all
well.
The H. B. NJ. schooner Bermuda,
and West India Company mail steamer
Dee, British merchantmen, were wit
nesses of the scene, lying in the harbor
at the time. The revolution in Nicara-
qua, and the difficulties at San Juan
have not in the least interfered with the
transit of California passengers. The
rainy season has commenced in earnest.
FURTHER PARTTcULARs.-From resi-
dents at Greytown at the time of the
bombardment, and from passengers by
the Prometheus, we gain further facts
relative to the town and its destruction.
Greytown consisted of about eighty
houses, nearly all OF them built of
wood, and by far the greater proportion
of Them constructed in the United States
and taken there on shipboard. One of
these, Lyons hotel, cost $4,000. Not
more than one-fourth of the houses in
the new part of the town which has
been built since 1850, were occupied
They have heretofore been occupied,
but were deserted from business consid-
erations some time previous to this af-
fair. The population of Greytown con-
sisted of about 500 persons altogether,
of which number ten or twelve were
from the United States, about twenty
five were Englishmen, and twelve |
Frenchmen and Germans. The re-
mainder of the population were Jamai-
ca negroes and natives. The Ameri- |
cans, English, French and Dutch were
engaged in bookkeeping and trade.
The houses occupied by the natives
and negroes were principally frame |
buildings, with roofs of thatched palm
leaf.
When the Cyane appeared before
Greytown and demanded satisfaction to
the amount of $4,000, threatening
bombardment if not complied with at a
given hour, it was not believed by the
that the town was to be de-
molished, pilIaged, and burned. They
that a few shots would be fred |
into the town, that few houses would
be perforated, and then hostilities would
cease. Most of the English, however,
went for protection on board of the
British war steamer Bermuda, Capt. |
Jolly, lying in the harbor Mr.. Fabens,
U. S. Agent, together with six or seven
of the Americans, sought protection un-
der the flag of the United States, on
board of the .Cyane, and the remainder
of the inhabitants of Greytown, includ-
ing all of the French and natives, to-
gether with few English and Ameri-
cans, left the place during the night and
morning preceding its destruction.-i
They all encamped together on the
shore in the woods, about a mile distant.
Not anticipating the entire demolition
of the town by bombshells and torches,
they took but little of their effects with
them. All the property left was de-
Consequently, the houseless
were in great suffering for
the want of food, and of clothing and
protection from the weather, when our
informant left. They had stretched up
sheets for tents, and many were obliged
to sleep in the open air, without the
least shelter, and were half famished
for the want of food. A brig, ladened
with provisions, which had Just arrived
as the bombardment commenced, has |
probably supplied them.
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