The Ripley advertiser. [volume] (Ripley, Miss.) 1843-1897, 1856-02-07
GENERAL WALKEk-CENTRAL
AMERICA.

Inc National lntelllgencer publish
es the subjoined interesting extract
from letter written by an American
, officer at Nicaragua to his friend i,
Washington, dated San Juan. Jan. 3
1856, 1t gives Us an altogether diiler
ent and much more favorable view
OF the position, character, and pros
Pects Of Gen. Walker than the letter,
which have previously appeared a
Washington:
Asyou see, we have got down into
the disputed territory, and our ear.
are filed with the excited rumors
which grow out of the strange events
Of the last year. They remind one of
the days Of the Spanish conquista-
dorcs, when handfll of resolutc men
marched upon and subdued them TO
their rule. ....+...
Walker is hare tho object which
fills every eye, and is perhaps entitled
to the distinction. lie is now the
undoubted master of Nicaragua and
If he listened to the seductive invita-
tons from the parties in the adjacent
States who wish to reconstruct the
Central American Republic, he might
be master of Central America. lie
now has as many fighting men as he
wants, and proclaims that he only
wants emigrant settlers for the farms,
promising each man some two or
three hundred acres Of public land.
seems to have acted with
great prudence. He came on the in
vitation of the Democratic party of
Nicaragua IT, Assist it to regain pow
er, to enable it to free and then to
tranquilize the country. Beating the !
party and obtaining pos
session of the capital he formed
Government the heads of both the
'ld parties, and appears thus to have
their strifes and entirely to
nave suppressed domestic warfare.
The Government Of Rivas, the new
resident, is now acknowledged by
he country; and :hc people look with
lope to the future for repose from
ivil war never before secured to
hem. This seems to be the actual
ondition Of affairs, so far as | can
earn from various authorities.
The Mosquito business is much the
nore complicated Of the two, and
lost interesting to the United States.
he British assert the protectorate
laimed before and since the treaty, ,
'hich our people thought the treaty
ad extingnished, and her ofEiters ,
lust execute it if occasion requires
lem to act. The treaty, as construed +
them, confirms the protectorate, I
nd the, admiral has his orders, aud -.
has given them to bis subordinatcs. i
We have two gun brigs lying near /,
5, ana when the Osprey steamer |
'mc in two or three days since, the d
NOR officer took the occasion to h
AXE his instructions known to Com. n
J., which were to the effect that afms Il
nd aimed men and warlikc stores II
ould not be suffered to land al 4
rcytown, &c. A strong Briiisi,
rec is always here or close by. and
e practical exercise Of the disputed +,
electorate is not far OF, now that \
e West India squadron is SO largely il
You may confidently look y
I for trouble in this quagtsr. :,
Our Government had adopted its n,
Hey, and we must carry 1t ont 1T g,
events; but it appears to me that er
alker furnishes the only solution to
Mosquito difficulty. If he shoGld
strengthened by our people getting tv
cess to Nicaragua, in a year Or two I
'squito will drop into her natural !.
siiion As an integral portion of ~ M
her Nicaragua Or Costa Kica. W
Union and necessity wilt do it with p3'
q quarrel. The assumed protcc- W
ate cannot stand against the wish tn
Of the Mosquito people. ~ well as hs
I'm the Interests ofCentral Anne: = ell
and the United States. England gi'
lid not in ast under such coi,di. nj,
, of aiain. No one bat his MAJ til
Y, Augustus Fitzclarencc Bunlho, .cA
his two keepers, relish il now. .fh'
Bu:nbo | hear wouil gladly cs- no
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