The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-12-22
Troubles on the Isthmus~-Five
Hundred Yankees 10 be slaugh-
tercd---WalkeFS Minister Arriv-
ed---The Nicaragua Minister in
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tercd---WalkerS Minister Arriv-
ed---The Nicaragua Minister in
Il dem Of Fillibustcrs.
In the editorial correspondence of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, we find the follow
ing: ;. ,.. -,
WAsAikserroN, Dec. II, 5 l.2, P. M.
On returning to my boarding house last
evening, | found the ebony gentleman of the
establishment toting up stairs Il long row o!
.'ow, black, rakish looking" lot of trunks:
We asked "Snowball," the favorite bell
ringer and boot-black, what was the occa
sion of so strange an exodus. "Didn't know
posed some big man had come sure, or
else some little man with big wife, We
said no more, but at the supper table was in.
troduced by Senator JONES to thick set.
stanted little man, with round head, grey
eyes, and pony's tail hanging out of his
mouth. His name, we learned, was MAR
coLETTA, the Minister resident from Nicara-
qua. BY him sat his wife, dark eyed,
round bodied, middle aged lady, both evil
IDENTIFY Of mixed blood--the Spanish prepon.
derating in the Minister, and the French in
the lady.
Of course Nigger-auger affairs were Gus
sed and discussed, the Minister in broken
English doing his full share of the former
while we Yankees did the latter. He was
very communicative, full of bitterness to.
wards Walker; said his five hundred fill.
busters ,would be driven from the Isthmus
OF butchered, within the next sixty days.
We asked him about Col. French, the
new Minister sent out here by Walker to
take his, Marcoletta's place, and represent
the new Government. His Spanish was up
at the mention Of his would-be successors
name; SAID he would not be recognized by
Secretary Marcy at all; that he had just had
session with the Secretary OH that subject
and that no recQgnit ion was to be given by
this country to Walkers Government. He
furthermore said that he was going to settle
the whole Greytown, San Juan, Mosquito
difficulty in two mouths, although Marcy
Buchanan and the British Minister had been
two years trying to settle that same
We asked him on what basis the difficult
ty, to BE so summariy settle was.-
He said, "when the Yankees would lei
them alone, the British would guarantee to
do the same" We told him eve could moi
trust the red coats.' He said "The red
coats could not trust the Yankees" We
answered, "The Yankees did not ask to be
trusted by the red coats that we were
on our own Continent, protecting pass
that leads to our own distant possessions on
the Pacific; that said pass was essential tc
US, but to the British it was not SO; that The
latter had come three thousand miles across
the ocean to contest pass with us, in which
they have no interst or object but that O.
ambition, and to cripple our policy of ex
tension"
The Spaniard stared ot US, evidently sat
isfed by this promiscuous fire at him, tina
he had got into den of fillabusters. L
was even SO. We told him that Cuba, the
Bay Islands, and free and unincumbereC
passage across the Isthmus, were our posts
essential TO our self.protection as nation
and rather than let them pass into the hah6i
OF fillibusters across the ocean for purposes
OF menace to US, we should take possession
of them nolens Uolen$ This we assured
him was the American sentiment, and thl.
would be the American policy when al
peaeeable negotiations failed. His bloot
was up, and he denounced Walker, French
and the whole fllibuster crew.
Among the many foreign celebrities here
none cuts greater dash than CHAMPION
the British Minister. or course he is sci
dom seen except in the street, whe he give.
his ensigns ofroyalty an airing. His equip
age is distinguished from all other by its ex
treme brilliancy. Every fair day he take.
his open barouche, span Of spanking
greys, mounts the drivers seat holds til
ribbons himself, and drives furiously aroun,
the broad avenues; his footman, q dappe
little gentleman, with blue cap coat ant
cockney hat, sitting in the cushioned sea
behind.
CHAMPION is six feet high, straight as ,
gun, grey hair, and rotund like every othel
beef eating Englishmon. He has secretl,
been engaged in procuring enlistments il
this country for the English army in the
Crimea, contrary to the laws Of the coun.
try; stands convicted of it, and has got tc
90 home on that account. II his own gov.
ernment Ysustains him, fillibuestering may
take snch turn that in time Jonathan will
be found whistling Yankee.doodle in Hyde
Park, and singing Hail Columbia ia The
scarlet courts Of Westminister.
Yours, &C., J. W.. G..