Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-07-17
Imporlant News FROM Nicaragua

Ott"fS
ence of the n. Y. Tribune. "A steamer ar
rived here last evening from Granada bring
ing intelligence of rather startling character,
information having reached Leon, where the
government of President Rivas had for con-
siderable time been established, that force
numbering three thousand troops, composed
of Guatemalians, San Salvadorians, and Hon
durians, had advanced as far as the town of
Chulateca, on the frontier of Nicaragua, dis
tant from Leon about forty leagues.
President Rivas Immediately left for Chin
endega, taking with him Jerry Baca, Salizar,
and most of his cabinet. From Chinendega,
1t is said, he addressed note to the com
mauder- chief, Gen. Walker, advising him
to get out Of the country as fast as possible,
and to take his followers with him. Rivas
next sent letter to the commander of the in
vaders, at Chulateca, assuring him that he
was ready to join hands with him in the good
cause of Kidding the country of the fillibus-
tiers.
Walker at once withdrew the few of his own
men stationed at Leon, fell back upon Mona
qua, about midway between Leon and Ora
NADIA, on the Lake of Managua, fortified the
town. and it will be no easy matter to capture
it, lie also stationed troops at Massage, to be
ready at moments warning, to assist the
garrison at Managua, and also holds Grana-
da, Rivas, Virgin Bay, and San Juan del Sur,
which secures to him the lake of Nicaragua,
and gives him the control of the transit route,
After Walker had withdrawn his troops
from Leon, the President, with his cabinet.
returned, accompanied by about six hundred
soldiers, and resumed the reins of government.
TORONTO, July IAN unusual case of
extradition, under the Ashburton treaty,
came before the chief justice of the common
pleas, the Hon. w. II. Draper, yesterday. A
Mr. Richmond Metcalf House, alias Richard
Stanford Graves, who for fifteen years has
been resident of Canada, ten of which he
has been magistrate, was brought before the
court, charged with having ubsconded in AZ
with $50, 900 belonging to the state Of Mis-
sissippi, Of which he was formerly treasurer.
The prisoner was brought up under warrant
issued by the judge, under the provisions of
the Ashburton treaty. After full examina-
ton the prisoner was discharged, the court
holding that the treaty did not provide for
the surrender of persons charged with enbez-
element Mr. House owns a good deal of
property in the town of Since, west of Mail
ton, near Lake Erie, where he has resided.
which the state authorities propose to attach
for the debt.
July I5.-The large cabinet mandatory
all the adjacent buildings, lumber wards.
wharves, &c., were entirely DESTROYED by fire
this afternoon. The fire burned with such
raPidity that the workmen jumped from the
upper story Of the building, and several were
killed, beside many being badly injured. At
I. Nj. the fire was still burning, and the
loss OF property will be immense.
FROM KANzAs-TREATMENr OF Gov. Rob-
INsoN AND HIS FELLOW PRISONERS. Mem
York, July TO- Washington correspondence
OF the Irtb@ael Mr.. S. f. Tappan, clerk of the
Free State Legislature of Kanzas, arrived in
this city from that Territory this evening"
He says the news of the defeat of the bill to
admit free Kanzas, reached Lawrence ON the
9th inst, the day he left, and caused an ex-
preston of deep regret on the part of the
Free State men. The report that G. w
Brown, the editor of the Herald of Freedom.
had been shot, is not true. Gov. Robinson
and the other prisoners are encamped on the
prairie, near Lecompton. Walker the can
tain OF the guard, barricaded a small cabin.
about half a mile from Lecompton, to protect
the prisoners from rescue on the 4tb and
treated them so badly, that Col Sumner sent
Walker and his company to the fort and
placed another company, commanded bv
Sackett, over the prisoners. The prisoners
are now treated WE'LL and are allowed to re-
ceive the visits of their friends.
Mr.. Tappan reports that when down the
river, companies of armed men were stationed
at Liberty, independence, and Lexington. to
intercept the steamer Keystone, which, it was
reported, was expected up the river with a
company of Free State men. There was no
such company bound up the river. Mr. Tan
pan also reports that Gen. Smith arrived in
the Territory several days before he left.
A PROVIDENCE MAN MORTALITY Worvn
ED IN kANzAs.-The Providence TranscyiDt
publishes the following: =
From letter just received in this CITY.
from Blanton's Bridge, Kanzas, under date Of
July |, we learn that Col. TopliHe, formerly
OF this city, and once an officer of the Me.
chanics Rifle Company, was mortally wound
ed on the night of the 30th ult., while dc.
lending himself against guerilla party of
Georgians who ordered him to dismount and
give up his pistols and his horse which he
refused to do. After he was shot, one of the
party pulled him from his horse, and others
rushing upon him, stamped on him, and did
not leave him until they saw he was senseless,
as they supposed. Soon after they had gone,
he arose, and tho bloodthirsty seoundrels,
seeing he had arisen, turned and fred again,
and one ball took effect in his right shoulder,
which it is supposed will prove fatal The
letter states that Col. i. is now IN deranged
state Of mind, and very restless lie has a
wife residing in this city, and his death will
be doplored by wide circle of friends
spNrENor or THE ExpREss RonppRs.-