The Georgetown news., 1855-10-11
Ger tre3 A1ner;cm.

The following, from the pen of Parker H
French, who has recently returned from
Central America, will be read with interest:
N1cARAGUA-CAUsRs OF THE REvoLU.
rIoS.-The immediate cause Of the present
revolution i'll Nicaragua, was the violent
and dasp0tic action Of the late President,
Don Frutio Chomorro. Some two years
ago the Constituent Assembly of the coun-
try met and framed new National Consti
tuition, and without making known its con-
tents to the people, and passed q decree
that on certain day it should so into ct-
feet But in the meantime, the biennial
election for the Presidency arrived, and
Ch0mOrro, then President. again offered
himself for tue Office. The Liberals or De
rnocrats, presented against him the name Of
their favorite champion, CASTELAR,. Party
feeling ran high, for it was a war Of princi-
pies. Chomorr0 was naughty ariStocrat.
despising the masses, and aiming at abso-
lutte dictatorship CASTELAR, was courtly
and winning in address, Republican De
mocrat Of the purest order, and conseouent-
ly seeking popularity and power from the
people. A two-third vote was essential to
an election; ChOmOrro intrigued, bullied,
and bribed to gain his reelection; every eff
fort that power and wealth in unscrupulous
hands could do to gain the requisite number
of votes, was boldly and shamelesslv resort
ed TO. CASTELAR, was poor, but upright.
and stood forth as the exponent OF progress
i've freedom, unsupported by wealth or pow
er-he relied on the rectitude of the immu-
table principles Of his faith, and the hearts
of his dOwn-trodden countrymen to sustain
him. Neither party could obtain a suili-
cheney OF votes to elect them, and Chomorro
claimed the seat by default of an election
A few days after this, he arbitrarily and
without any assignable reason, arrested
CASTELAR, and number of his political
friends, and cast them into prison, and this
outrage was quickly followed by one ofstill
greater magnitude-the suppression OF the
Supreme Court; this last act of lawless des-
pOt;sm and desecration Of the most sacred
guarantees of their Constitution, deeply af-
fect-d the pulse of the whole country, and
r;gened the democratic feeling to resistance.
CASTELAR, and his friends were banished from
the Republic, under the plea that their pres
ence was dangerous to the peace of the land
They took refuge IN Honduras, and were
kindly received by the President Cabanas,
who is often designated as the patriot of
Central America. In exile, they conceived
the noble and heroic design of liberating
their native land from the thraldom in
which she was held by her aristocratic ty-
rants. Cabanas furnished them with few
arms, and little money, when collecting to-
c-atbar tho Dolifioal raF1oaoc IN HoOJ,roo
they resolutely crossed the line, and pro-
claimed revolution for the sake of democrat
ic liberty; success attended them at every
step, and they marched on Leon, the native
city of CASTELAR,, with triumphant eviden-
ces of success, for each hour swelled the
ranks of their little army, and told how
deeply the national heart was sympathizing
with the enterprise. They were command
ed by Ainos and Jeres, who had shared the
exile of CASTELAR,.