New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-21
NICARAGUA.

From Or Own Correspondent
VIRGIN BAY, Sept. q Ice
On the morning Of the 18th inst the IT..
Cshawba. from New-York reached San Ina, =,
Norte and, embsrking with her pssseas.c
board river steamboat, started for the in..,.'
Inside and out Of the barbOr lay seveal P,.s
men.of.war a. anchor, carrying from SIX 10 a;s.,.
one guns each; and near the town an IhS..h.
was loading with indigo, Brszl.woed, hide. L.
skins. &c. for the market Of Genoa. "a.
trance of the River San Juan We passe1 a.
schooner +. d. Chase, recently pureAss,a l,
Walker to sail on the Lake of Nicaragua ".
draupht being found too great for the On.
Of the iver she is being ref tel for ma
ing vessel on the Atlantic. short distance no,
this was another schooner, the Jessie, also htsl,
10 ght by Walker, and now on her wsy IA an.
lake. This lsst vessel was built at Bae6slAs
armed with an old two-pounder and wss for ou,
time used by his Majesty, the Mosquito King ~,
man-ofwar. After steaming away for a eoaps Of
kours-the sun pouring bis scorching rays upo,
some three hundred mortsls, huddled together %
little wheclbarrow scrt of q machine ha,ins
wheel in the stern, ard complementary esLS
a steamboat, We approached the main fork Of tAs
river, the colorado at the head of which IL a
island under fine cultivation, containing abou,
twenty acres OF very good soil, the prcpesye
John ieeie, esq. On the upper point Of this isnd
stands beautiful white cottage, with aowera ad
fruit garden in front, and in the rear, covering u.
entire island are cocoa and coffee trees banana
pantains, quiquisqus, ochres, tomatoes, cou
bean. etc This is the ssss Of the widerpeu
through which the river San Juan pours ia watrr,
Some ten miles further up, at the JUNCTION with IA.
river Serrapequi, is another clearing former,
under cultivation, which had just begun 10 rep,y
;.e monet sid labor expended upon it BY its euier
nri.ipo owner. DIR. Thomas Cody, yhen a squsd Of
Walkers men, misnamed soldiers, or their phys
oguomies sadly belle them, took possession Of II,
and have for the past SIX months been stationed
iere to cut-Cf communication With Costa Rca
Like every other place in the country where thee
men have BEEN blight has settled down upon il
like a dark cloud, and the doctors mosy
and labor have been expended IN vain Al
tie rapids of FL Castillo 'siejo, every thing ~
peared in state of decay, and instead OF the b..
lie formerly seen The re we're parcel Of idle, 6r,
lazy fellows belCnging to Walkers army. kb
rumored tf.st the Hon. Pierre SOue, who is now
at Gran. da. has purchased Hacienda b, lngiag
the Estate of the late Gen. Don fruto Chamorre
,,nown as the hacienda Mercedes for the sum Of
$4,000. But this property, as well as other. i'd
vertised in FL Niodraguense as about TO BE- conhs
Gated, may yet have good claimants coinc FORWARD
before the time specified IN the notice expires aud
Mr. SOule is man Of too much experience W part
with his $50 900 without certainty of agood title
TO the property; and according to the showing d
the NieGrsguense, the hacienda could not be sold
until the expiration OF the time given for parties u
put in their claims. -
The natives have not yet done with struggling
to obtain possession of their native land. Al arm
100 to 1900 men, composed Of Gustema.ans
San Salyadorsns and Hondurans, have joined th'
Nicaraguans, and are stationed at Leon and III
yicinily. At MatagaIpa Gen. MartiDas has collect
cd force of about 600 men, and at various points
near the Lake, on the Chcutales shore small squads
of Chamorristss are stationed. Is also SAID that
Scbles;neer, with quite abody offoregn deserters, is
entrenched at the hacienda OF San Jacnto sboutfoar
leagues beyond the river Tpptap, with the object
to cut Of the supply OF cattle, &c from Walker.
You will soon hear OF desperate battle IN thls
direction, or am much mistaken. Co Ia Rici too,
is about to make another effort 10 assist the Cenra
American cause against the foreigners.