Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-01-17

not distinguished CIV h;a ,or. 20 wen anown, u
stances W .ances; but under the crcum.
tior ..nich he gave the present informa.
=, Its falsehood can be branded on his fore
mead by every respectable citizen in the city
of Granada.
GAS to my son being among w alker's men,
armed with q sword, and shouting as one oil
them this statement is too ridiculous to need
contradiction. If he was out of my house fol
a moment, it was against my positive orders
but las the fight ragged fercely before my
door, my house being between the Quartet
where the government troops were, and the
street on which they were attacked, my son
may have a moment appeared at my door,
upon which basis the false assertion of his ap.
pearing in the midst Of Walkers men, must
have been made. ss.-
"But if he was, do not know how Senior
Espinosa' men could know that he was among
Walkers men and shouting as one of them,
for he was taken, early on the said memorable
morning, with q sudden and early leaving,
and sans cuiOttes, was seen running the
chapparei,' and therefore he could not know
who was among the party, from any personal
knowledge of his own.
q kn0ac that was near being shot myself,
while crossing the street to aid a native widow
lady who lived next door to Mr.. Espinosa,
and who loudly implored my neighborly kind
r.
nosa, at the same time besought my aid to
guard them. / sent my private Secretary
(Mr. Van Dyke) over to them, who conducted
them to my house, when their natural pro-
tector cowardly deserted them,) where they
were comfortably and Hospitality received
where, with more than fifty other helpless
women and children, they eat and slept Sc
curely.
L" As to the tale of Mr.. Espinosa that "the
American Minister was seen on the 18th of
October, 1.-THE day Granada was taken) at the
door of his house giving brandy to Walkers
men," Of course Mr.. EspinOsa cannot speak Of
his own knowledge, as at this time he was
lying breechesless in the chapparel; but if
true, cannot see that any heinous offence
was committed, unless the liquor had been
stolen from the American merchants of San
Jurn del Sur, as some of I" the functionaries
of the deposed Government" had done.
1t is true that, like Hotspur at the battle
of HOlmedon, some Of the officers and men,
-" When the fight was done,
Dry with rage and extreme toll,
Breathless and faint -"
did call at my door for water, which IHoula
not have denied to any person of eit,,r army
The only fact that Mr.. Espinosa cc,,u .i know'-
and the only one he could hayr, het tIa la a,
of his own knowledge,-ws, tnat Tue iast
drop of liquor he took in M IaI, ne . oUa
with Major Hambleton 90 MI: nuwiesS anu
others, in my house, asLe caiied 70 take ieave
OF me, when em6ar skusbt better manners and
a more sacred rSard fer the truth. On this
occasion he Dr. TX my good health and future
nrosneritv I'D returned his obsequious thanks
for INV kirlness to himself and his family.
did not lxpect or desire any thanks from Mr..
Espin,sa, but L surely do not merit his vitu-
per.tion and falsehoods. &c To return good
for evil is God-like; to return good for good
Is man-like; but to return evil for good is
Devil-like."
GAS to Mr.. Mayorga's being secreted in my
house, and being shot on the morning after he
left it, it is of the same sample of truth as all
the other information of the many facts of
interest," Don Mateo Mayorga, late Minister
Of Foreign Affairs, was, on the morning Of the
18th, found secreted in the house of John b.
Lawless, Esq. Capt. De BrissOt, with guard,
was detailed to arrest him, and Gen. Walker
ordered him TO be placed in prison.
81 had had much official and social inter-
course with Mr.. Mayorga, and for the first and
only time L interceded in his behalf with
Gen. Walker, and pledged my personal honor
for his security; and Gen Walker promptly
granted him liberty to remain in my house on
his parole Of honor, where he remained for q
week, uncontrolled and unobserved by any
my library and free to go wherever
anu whenever ne PLEASED.
When his colleague, Don Juan Ruiz, late
Minister Of War, perfdiously violated his pa
role of honor, by escaping TO Costa Rica Mr..
was removed, by orders, with others,
to be confined lin comfortable quarters, how
ever When, four days after, the news came
that the forces Of the Government attacked
and murdered the innocent and unarmed pas
sengers at Virgin Bay and San Carlos, "a lady
and her child,) in retaliation for these out
RACES, by orders of the Government, on the
morning Of the I'D Oct, he was shot in the
public plaza.
"The statement of Mr.. Espinosa, by the
d ates, is false; and equally so is the statement
that sent Mr. MayOrga any message; and
the attempt to associate me with any action Of
this Government towards him in any shape or
form, is unjust and maliciously untrue.
4" AS to my course or conduct in the trying
scenes through which it has been my fortune
to pass, L am answerable to my God and my
country. My position has been painful and
perilOus enough without receiving calumny
for kindness, and persecution for protection.
even to those who had no claim to my atten-
ton.
These attacks derive additional poignancy
by being published in the Evening Star, at
Washington city, whose editor, Mr.. w. Doug
lass Wallach, has known me from his boy
hood, and has always shown true friendship
for me-and who knows me, from long ac-
quaintance to be incapable Of any action
Official or private) that to the most fastidious
would be ungenerous or unjust. These attacks
will prove to him, and my countrymen, how
fully have been misrepresented on this and
many other occasions, which have borne in
silence, and prove that the national character
of these Central American refugees from JUS
observation-disclosures, as he terms them, Of the
deposed Governments deceitful, serVile,
and obsequious in adversely; and nendacious,
arrogant and insolent when in safety or pros.
perity JOHN Ii. WHEELER,
Minister of the United States,
"Near Republic of Nicaragua
"LEGATIoN U. s., Granada, Dec. Is, '55.'
The Whole or None-Aut Banks aut Null.
lus 1t will be perceived, from the vote yes