The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-06-03
From the N. o. True Delta, 27th1
LATER FROM CENTRAL AMERICA.
walker Stil i'm the Ascendant.
Costa Ricans Retired from the Contest.

We are indebted to the purser of the steam
ship Granada, for the following item of news
from Nicaragua - ,.s-=
Captain Donnell passenger on board the
Granada, who left Virgin Bay on the 9Th inst,
states that the Costa RIGA troops had retired
from Nicaragua Three hundred wounded
Costa Rcans had been shipped from San Juan
del Sud to Punta Arenas, on the Pacific. GEN
eral Walkers loss in killed and wounded, at
the battle of Rivas was 100, and that of the
Costa Rcans $50, which is a confirmation of
the reports heretofore received here.
We find the following in the Aspinwall
Courier of the Goth inst, which fully confirms
the report of the retreat of the Costa Ricans
from Nicaragua, and represents Walkers pros
poets in a more favorable light than could have
been anticipated by his most sanguine friends:
On Saturday last, Messrs. Branno, McMur-
ray Drake, &c, of San uan del Sud, arrived
at Panama, in schooner. They bring news
from that point to May 5 from them we learn
that some Costa Ricans reached San Juan, af
ter the battle of Rivas, on the 18th May and
having there shipped their wounded for Punta
Arenas, the army started by land to retreat
into Costa Rica-that the cholera has been
making sad havoc among the Costa RIGA troops
and that Walker is evidently in the ascen-
dant.
Other parties who have been eye-witnesses
to most of what they note, inform us more
infinitely
Burying the dead and caring for their woun-
ded, together with a few preparations of for
tifcations, lest Walker should return on them
before they could leave, occupied the succeed
ing week. They commenced their retreating
movements about the Oath, and on the 18th
the entire army had vacated Nicaragua, all
of them having marched to Guanacostr--ex-
cept some fifty men who were at San Juan
del Sud- shipping the wounded by water for
Puntas Arenas.
We have heretofore given an account of the
battle of Rivas, which is confirmed. At 8 A.
NJ on the 18th being out of ammunition, Walk
er marched out ofthe city to the fife and drum
and for four hours the Costa Ricans continued
to fire at the church which he had vacated
His force in the battle was 400 foreigners
and 300 natives, and that of the Costa Ricans,
5000.
The Costa Ricans represented themselves as
having been entirely deceived; that Walker
was far preferred by the natives, and that in
stead of being received with open arms by Nj
caraguans they had been Stunned or attacked
at every point. Baron Bulow was exceeding
Ricans, and the falsity of the representations
that had been made to him respecting Walkers
condition and the feeling OF the Nicaraguans
towards him and his army.
The Star and Herald of Saturday represents
the church of Rivas to have been robbed by
Walkers men, and refers to other plumber by
them. We have the authority of those who
have watched Walkers movements through
out the past year, for saying that he has never
allowed plumber; and that he has never taken
anything from foreigners and natives in Nicara-
qua, except by Governmental levies.
No church in Nicaragua contains images
with precious stones or jewels of any consider
able value upon them; the church at Ryas
has images in it, is without a roof, wholly I'M
finished, and never has been used as place of
worship. So much for the, story of the Star
and Herald, that images were robbed of dia-
monds, and used as barricades in thu church.
US FROM THE IsTHMUs OF PANAMA.
Our papers from Panama and Aspinwall
contain noting Of local interest. At Panama
everything was quiet, and the unfortunate diff
fculty of the 18th of April, appears to have
been forgotten. a party of natives had ten
dered their services to the Governor to 'effect
the capture of the thieves who robbed and
killed unofending Strangers Their services
have been accepted by the Governor. rg
The Aspinwall Courier contains full particu-
lars of the dreadful accident on the Panama
Railroad, by which forty persons were killed
and sixty wounded. The Courier gives full
list of the killed and wounded, which we have
not room to publish this afternoon.