The Empire County argus., 1856-02-09

NICARAGUA. The following extracts are from
the National Intelligencer of January 7th.
We have advices from Nicaragua to the middle
of last month. from which we obtain the following
information respecting the state of the affairs then
existing in that unfortunate country:
"Ihe force under the orders of Walker is COM
posed of 224 Americans and $50 natives of Leon,
forming the gari ison of Grenada 800 natives sent
against the department of Segova and Matagalpa,
and so men who defend Leon Is in the fort of
San Carlos, and at Castillo Vicjo-in all 2o5 men,
president Estrada, who made his escape at the
time Of the surprisal of Grenada, has reorganized
his government in the department of Segovia. and
has with him the Minister of the Treasury, the
Commandant General of the Eastern Department.
General Martinez. and almost all the government
officers commanding considerable forces The
President is surrounded and aided by II great num-
Der of the proprietors and most respectable inhab
ltants OF the country.
The towns which have fallen into the hands Of
Walker and his accompces have been abandoned
by the inhabitants. He issued Il barbarious decree
ordering all those persons to return to their homes
within Il specified time under certain penalties
amounting to $4,000, to be doubled in the event
of noncompliance Herewith, without legal redress
None have obeyed and Walker has taken posses
sion OF all the property Of the propietors both
tive and foreign residents, of said towns but this
has not furnished him with any pecuniary resour-
ces, since he finds no purchasers Of cOnfscated
estates The money derived from his freebootng
expedition against Grenada, and the first contrbu-
tions he succeeded in realizing, have already dis
appeared, squandered by the officers of his band
without any benefit to his soldiers, and what re-
manned was carried off by the inhabitants in their
fight. Walker does not pay cent to his troops in
money The miserable ratons they receive he pro-
vdes by violence and extortion, ca oling the Amer
leans with promises of realizing imaginary treas
ures, and keeping the natives in subsection by
extreme vigilance and terror. Among the adven-
turers who went from California with the intention
Of joining Walker, several have repented their
rashness and returned after witnessing the threat
ening desoaton Of the country.
The few abandoned Ncara guans who, acting
under vindictive impulses and desire to command
invited those adventurers to Join them now deplore
their error, and those delnded persons who abetted
their designs we'll as the people generally, have
become aware Of the necessity of uniting to save
the country.
walker is surrounded by secret and open enc
mics. who only await the receipt of arms and mu-
ntions Of war to put him down by force
''Such is the general and spontaneous excitement
at San Juan del Norte that Senior Anon Rivas the
oldest son Of the person whom Walker made the
puppet President, fitted out on his own account six
pirogues, carrying eighty armed men, and went up
the river with the object of retaking in the name
of the legitimate Government Castillo Niejo and
San Carlos.
The Government of San Salvador, instead of
sympathizng with the usurpers, Immediately rec
ognized the Government of Nicaragua organized
by Senior Estrada. Honduras has not only recog.
nzed it, but renders it important assistance by
sending to the frontier 800 men, Costa Rica has
5000 in Guanacaste, and Guatemala has modified
considerable number of its best troops to co-ope-
rate with their allies. The reaction is complete
and threatens to be overwhelming; but the want
of arms in Nicaragua. the great distance of the
States from each other the bad and insecure con-
dton of the roads. the desire to act in effective
combination against the usurper and possibly the
want of precise knowledge of his forces may re-
tard the execution of the contemplated plans for
his destruction. Meanwhile two military expedi-
tions which attempted to penetrate the departments
of Segovia and Nlatagapa were defeated by the
forces under the Government of Senior Estra and
among the killed was General Vale, alias Chelon,
the denouncer of General Corral.
The u. S. steamer Massachusetts, remained at
anchor at San Juan del Sur; and it is worthy of
notice that her commander and three of her officers
had been to Granada and remained there IT,
days, fraternizing with the adventures, and had
extended the same favors to several persons who
arrived at that port with the intention of joining
Walker
MIR. Wech, of the Assembly, will please accept
our thanks for legislative docs.