New-York daily tribune., 1856-09-02
COSTA RIGA.
TREATY BETWEEN COSTA RIGA AND
MEMORANDA.

-. Our Own CsrrssPoudeht ., -
GAN JOSE Costa Rca), July 81, 1856.
Letter Of the 4th of June, informed you
-. csn Uerran. the New.Granadian Minister
..,sd;ted 70 the United States, had been here for
..we time, endesvoring to settle the long veXed
.-..t;op of the boundary between this Republic
and that of New. Granada, and that his instruc.
Nor. were to offer kind of compromise, by
which the territory claimed by Costs Rics should
be divided between the two Republics. Costa
Ries claimed her boundary from Point Barics, on
the Pacific, to the south eastern extremity of the
Chiriau lagOons-a territory known in old Span
bh documents as the EscudO de Neraguas while
Hew-Gransda carried her limits clear to the norm
of those laeOoDs and even at one time asserted her
riaht to the whole coast as far north as Greytown
Much acerbity of language was expended De-
tween the two States, and they might sevcrai
tunes have resOrted 10 blows had they not been
separated by imprscticable forests, themselves IN
the .ctusl possession of tribes of wild and warlike
Indians, the deadly foes Of the Spanish name.
1 have now to inform you that Gen. Herran has
succeeded in his mission and that his compromise
has been accepted Henceforth the boundary Dc
tween Costa Rica and New Granada, as set iorth
m the treaty which he signed shortly before hs
departure for the United States Is to be an lmagn-
AIRY line straight the lsthInus, which gives
BOca del Toro 10 Costa Rca, leaves the Chlrlqui
iagOons under the sovereignty OF New-Granada,
whose boundary is, on the Pacific side, carried
north TO the mouth OF one OF the small streams
v hich empty into the GOlfO Duce.
The settlement of this boundary question: other
wise very unimportant in itself to all others except
the two contracting parties, receives certain
degree of importance from the fact that 1t places
great part of the claim Of the American company
named, / believe, the "Chlriqui Improvement
Al
Granada, within the territory of Costa Rca and
how far the treaty has provided for the recognition
by Costa Rica of that claim / know nOt-nOr
have been able to discover and when we con-
slider how faithless these HispanoA American Gov
ernments usually are should not be surprised to
hear that there has been no provision made.
The cholera still continues to carry off now and
then victim. However, the Costa Ricans are
recovering somewhat from their panic, aid the
Government is making energetic efforts to be pre-
pared at the opening of the dry season for striking
a decisive blow in con njunctOn with the northern
States, against Walker. Already the Guatemaan
and HOndurensn forces are at Leon, where all the
discOntented of Nicaragua are lOcking. Should
Walker not have been already destroyed by the
climate before the close of the rainy season, you
may expect to hear of famous doings next Decem-
ber-peihaps November. In my letter of the Sd
inst mentioned that his election to the Presi-
dency was considered here as a sure sign of his
approaching fall, and that, in my opinion, he had
committed fatal mistake. The accounts that
have been received confirm thoroughly what l
have said. Men (natves) who we're his firm ad-
herens have left him, aid swell the ranks of his
opponents; while others still remaining under his
command have become his secret enemies. 1t
was rash step on the part of Walker, and can
only be accounted for by his ignorance of the true
character of the people he had to deal with The
Nicsraguans hate foreieners-they are Jealous
Of their fellow country men of the other States
of Central America. So long as Walker acted
apparently as al ally to one of the parties of the
State, he could be all powerful; but from the day
he threw aside the mask, and made himself
President he could only expect to unite both
parties against him. The issue, think, will
prove this.
Trade still continues very very dull. The
prospects Of the coffee crop are good-on the
tree; for l doubt whether there will be hands
enough to pick the berry. The old estates will be
the suferers