The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-12-18


dians. When the sick and wounded were landed
there, all the Indians fed. save few wfo were re-
famed 70 act as nurses. There were no provisions
no neds. and no medicines provided for them Sev.
@ 1ai OF tue patients wese for days withou. food =
me larger part OF the sick and wounded Law on
the peach all night The next day all of them
we're distributed among the hGts or taken into the
cnurch OF the village-converted into hospital
except some twenty, who lay out in the rain Two
died on the steamer and several on the beach The
village was filed with the sick and wounded. the
women and children
An effort was made by the Commandant Of that
place, who arrived next day, to separate the
healthy from the sick. There were about sixty
men able TO bear arms. The entire work of feed
ing, landing, quartering, burying the dead, &c
was performed by some twelve men, among
whom Captain Baldwin was conspicuous for his
activity and humanity. During the first FIVE
days thirty six died. The one night tie enemy
crept into the village and surprised the America
Some twenty persons escaped in three boats
Whether the rest were slaughtered or merely
made prisoners of war Is not known to a certain
~. Those who escaped ia the boats suffered
dreadful hardships. There was only one woman
among them, Mrs. Atkins, wife of one of the mu
sicians. All the American women 10 Nicaragua
were on the island with their children-perhaps
forty ia number. Col Skerritt, Col Thompson,
Gen Fry, and puuber of other officers, were
on the island, but there was organized military
force. The landiDg-the subsequent suffering OF
the sick and wounded with only miserable reed
butts to shelter them, and provisions for the sick
out'beef and plantains-the deaths-the promiscu-
GUS burying of men, women and children in a
common hole aud the subsequent night attacks
aud probable massacre captivity of three hun
dred persons, Of all ranks and ages, and of both
sexes-all couspire to form one Of the most dread
full pictures of war
WALKERS PRESENT PosITIoE1Asp PROSPECTS.
All this time, where was Walkerl After leav
Ing Hennigsen in charge of Granada, i. appears
that he accompanied the sick and wounded TO
ODetepe and left them there When he got back
to Granada he found HenDigsen besei yed-as we
have shown-and he has ever since been cut of
from II communication with him. He keeps sail
i1g all the time between Granada and the Virgin
Bay. When the San Carlos left with the passens
gers which had come dow0 by the Oczaoa, no in
trligepce had been received of the result of the
sege, which WAS then some twelve days in pro
gress. All Walker forces then consisted of the
400 men uuder Hennigsen. besieged in Grams ds,
OF the $50 men under Col jacques, who were gar
risonipg Virgin Bay, and of 100 at the two forts of
Serapiqui ard fort Cedis--in all $50 men. This il
sll that is left out Of over 5000 men who have
gone from this country to join his standard
II is no wonder that the mortality has been so
great in his army for all accounts concur in repre-
sentjng him to havs been most profigate in his
waste of human lifo He knows nothing and
never would learn anything of the art of war
His sole tactique is summed up in the order to
charge. Eighteen months ago be held possession
of the towns of Granada, Chenandega, Leon, Ma
nagua, Masssya, Chontales, San Jacinto, Rivas,
Virgin Bay, &c. And now he whole sway only
extends over the twelve miles Of the Transit
route, and the river where the posts still ope1
to attack. His average loss of men since he went
TO Nicaragua, has been some three hundred pr
month The allied force that is opposed to Linn is
no. known. It probably amounts to some coo
men He received recently reinforcenients of $50
men from New Orleans and 80 from New York
These were ascending the river as the passengers
for the Tennessee were coming down.
The following is an account of Lieutenant Fray.
SIOUX, who fought the brilliant naval engagement
with the Costa Eican brig:
The Granada was not struck by any of the
enemy's round balls She had only two men
killed and two wounded. She had received ITO
rife balls through her foresail and 90 odd through
in fact all about her, were completely riddled with
balls. She had three or four through ber flag -
Captain Fayssoux, her commander, Ia an expe
rienced officer, and he has seen great deal OF
adventure. He served in the Texas navy. under
Commodore Moore in 1S43. In l849 he fought the
first steam vessel that ever was engaged. He
ieined the steamship Fanny in the Cuban expedi
tion, known as the Round Island expedition, which
was broken up by Captain r randolph, of the United
States Navy. In 1850 he joined the Creole, en-.
gaged in the Lopez expedition and was the frs.
man of the liberator: who landed at Cardenss 10
1851 he Joined the Cleopatra, which was being pre-
pared for another descent upon the Island; but the
United States authorities iuterfered and put stop
to proceedings then. Later in the same year he
Joined the Pampero and went TO Cuba with Lopez.
In April last ne lef. New Orleans for Nicaragua ia
the Charles Morgan, and fitted out the Granada n
July last In her he made = cruise to the bay of
F1nseca, and there arrested Don Mariana Salazar,
who was subsequently shot for treason by order
of Walker. He is an able and intelligent officer.