Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-08-08

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18th, with large amount Of coal, tar, and turpen-
tine, has already turned out not little specula'
ton for them, not TO speak Of lis effect in impress
ing the people with notion Of their willingness
and capacity for hard work.
The good understanding established between
the Colonel and the British authorities here on
our first interview has turned out in an inter-
change of courteses mutually agreeable. On the
eighteenth, | observed Captain Dobbe and the
Colonel on shore practising target shooting with
their Sharp's rifles and reyolvers; and ON the day
following the latter, young Webster, and myself
in company with Consul Mason, by in citation, Wis
tied the British war steamer Buzzard, where we
we're treated with every possible hospitality and
attention, by as gentlemanly set Of officers as
ever trod the deck
After stay of four hours We left, as we had
come, in one of the steamers boats manned by
eight British tars and with the flag of Great Bri-
tain waving its protecting folds over u.s. This visit
furnished the occasion OF an exchange oil presents
between the Colonel and Captain, in which the
former received very fine field telescope and the
latter Sharp's rifle, made especially for the Colo
nel's use by Mr.. Penfeld, (Which seemed to have
excited the particular admiration of the British
oficers,) This species of weapon, with which
some Of the expeditionsts have provided them
selves, has wonderfully ngratiated us in the good.
will Of Her Majesty's subjects not only here, but
in Jamaica and Turks Island.
Since we have been here a fandango or ball has
been given by the inhabitants in honor of the Col
oners arrival II was held in one of the best
houses in town--a house which has two stories,
and, instead OF being matched with palm is shin
gled. The room may have been thirty feet square,
unpanted, the beams entirely visible, SO far as the
candles would allow and with small bar for re-
frcsbments in the corner. Ofcourse, Col Kinney
and his men all went, and it was a scene worth
looking at
The gallant Colonel-the handsomest man in
the room, by all odds-led forth the lady Of the
mansion, with even more than his ordinary suav-
ity aud grace, TO take part In the first quadrille
Young Daniel Webster with his partner, end
Others, with partners Of various shades aud nations
black, brown, white, English, American, French
Spanish, &c, also figured. All round the room
and outside the hossc, peering through the win
dows, which, by the way, have no sashes or win
dow-panes, were all sorts, colors, and conditions
ofm and women, in costumes equally diversified
Among the first exploits attempted by the Col
onel since his arrival is the building Of house for
his private accommodation.
After the house is finished, arrangements are
made for excursions into the Colonels lands in the
interior, to which, notwithstanding the stories to
the contrary, circulated in the United States,
venture to predict there will be no serious inter
ruption.
The resources of the country, am convinced,
fully equal to the most extravagant representa-.
tons that have been of them. ! speak of its agri
cultural capabilities Of its commercial and mining
you shall hear in future. w. s. T..
FATE OF WALKERS EXPEDITION.
SAN JOSH, July 25, 1855.
You know of the Riyas attack by Walker. All the
Leoneses who were with him fed to the Costa Rica
territory, about eighty in number. An officer here
demanded their arms, which they at first refused
to give, on the plea that Chamora's men would
cross the lines, and either butcher them, or take
them prisoners to Nicaragua. They were told by
an officer that they would not be allowed to be
armed in the territory OF Costa RIGA, he with his
fifty men would fire on them and take them by
force; but If they gave up peacefully their arms,
they would be under the protection of Costa Rca
They gave up their arms and the escort were bring
ing them (the arms) to Guanacaste. In the mean
while the Governor of the Province sent these,
about eighty men, meat and cheese, &c.
Well, while they we're in the territory of Costa
RIGA, and under the protection of this government
party Of about ninety of Chamora's men, under
the command Of Juan Quiroz, entered the soil Of
Costa RIGA and took about twenty men prisoners
the rest were saved partly by fight and partly by
the vaor of a sergeant on the frontier, who, witt
only seventeen men, told Quiroz, on his second
visit ION the first no took the twenty that he
could not take man across the frontier, &C. ;
that they we're under the protection of this gov
rrnInent &C.; the result of which was Quiroz
lett without any more. The other men were i'm
inediately brought to the interior. The officers,
among whom is Madrigal-about eleven In num-
ber-are here now. The men are at Punta Arenas,
fed and supported by the government here.
Well, for the invasion Of territory we have sent
Mr.. Canas TO Guanacaste to raise at once five thou
sand men and demand an apology, restoration of
the prisoners and delivery of the authorities that
ordered the act Of invasion. If il is not granted
We send fifteen hundred men at the instant from
here, and march to Granada and there dictate our
terms. You cannot imagine how great is the i'm
provement in IT troops since you saw them. We
have to-day FIVE thousand men at thirty hours
notice, every way better, arms, better drilled
new cannons and artillery, five hundred new rifles
&c., &C., &C., in fact we are rather eager for a
fight, and think now Is the time.
JAMES HOGAN