Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1856-07-24
FROM NICARAGUA.
FLIGHT OF THE PRESIDENT
AND HIS CABINET.
Dissolution of the Late Provisional
From The FL Nicaraguenese, ef June p.

Dissolution of the Late Provisional
Governments.
From the Ell Nicaraguenese, eff June 2I.l
Patrico Rivas aud his Cabinet have deserted
bag and baggage Last week we published
from the pen Of his Excellency a proclama-
ton Of the most intensely patriotic descrip-
ton. Three days afterwards he fled, fright
ened at his W guilty conscience We
breathe freeri The treason which all ex-
pected has transpircd, and the Government
has no further necessity 10 divide its counsels
with those in whom it has 10 confidence
On Wednesday, the 18th day of june,
General Walker left Leon, after a most af-
fectionate parting with his Excellency at the
barrier. AT the time Leon was guarded by
native soldiers. The Americans interfered
with nothing, that the city might feel per-
fectly safe under the guardianship of troops
drawn from its own vicinity. Tho day after
General Walker left, Colonel Escebar, Com
mander of the native garrison, informed Col.
Bruno Natzmer that the native force was not
sufficient to keep guard, and requested a de-
tail OF Americans. Compliance was signified,
and an American soldier stationed at the en-.
trance Of the Principal, or Government
House. Senior Salizar, Minister Of War,
thereupon mounted his horse and rode down
to the barriers, bare-headed, where he in
formed the rabble, in an official harangue,
that the Americans had seized the Principal,
and were sbout 10 murder the President and
his Cabinet. In his speech he took occasion
10 dvise the people that the Americans
were going to burn down the churches and
destroy the religion Of the country. a great
excitement was the result, during which the
President and his advisers took flight for
| Chinandcga. The Americans, in tho mean
time, were innocent in knowledge of what
was proceeding and although they knew
there was a hubbub about something, they
very naturally thought il was some public
day among the people, when they had a
right 10 be excited.
Den Patrieio Rivas, President of the Re-
public Don Ssbastion Salinas, Secretary OF
State; Don Maxine Jebez, Secretary OF
War, and Don Francisco Baga, Minister oil
Public Credit, all lied to C~hinendega, leaving
Don Fermin Fcrrer, the only true and loyal
~tratiou in this city.
From Ch~inendega, Don Maxine Jerez, in
his capacity of Minister OF War, sent word
to suspend the public work of fortifyine
that place, aud directed that the place he dis.
mantled of its present armament. Order
were also sent to Colonel Natzmer, in rom
mand at Leon, to Withdraw his sentry from
the Principal, and allow each OF the tive
towers of the Cathedral TO he garrisoned by
fifty soldiers Of the country. The frontiel
picquets were all called in and a very genera
order carried out to ave the State open &c
the army Of isvasian, which was known L
be advancing on Leon. The President ex
pressed great fear Of his life, and that ith,
above regulations were necessary for hi
safety. The order sent to Colonel Natzme
was not obeyed until it was submitted I,
General Walker, who Immediately ordered
the American commander in Leon to compl,
with the mandates Of the Minister of War
and further, to withdraw, with his Who'll,
force from that city.
AT the time General Walker gave tn,
above command, he was in Nagarote, at tn
head Of $50 troops, marching on Leon |; bu
after giving that order, he stopped at Man
aqua until the Rifle Battalion, under Lieut.
Colonel Anderson; arrived, when BIO left 70
Granada, accompanied by the Rangers.
President Rivas and his Cabinet, with tn
exception Of Don Fermin Ferror, are now i
Leon but the Commander will have n
further communication with them. The
are known 10 have made propositions 10 th
enemies of the country, inviting them to IN
wade Nicaragua, and General Walker intend
to leave them with their new friends.
The above is succinct account Of one Of th
~strangest revolution on record, and we leay
, the world TO draw its own conclusion AZ
the motives that probably controlled tn
= President In his conduct. We can only az
: count for il on the ground Of fear, both froi
the external enemies OF the State and fror
{ the fact of an approaching election. II
we'll known that whenever an election hl
e taken place in this Republic, the delicate
: candidate either fed or was summarily e,
ecuted. IL is probable his Excellency r,
> membered this failing Of the State, and know
> ing that an election was about to transpire
the country he accordingly concluded to 70
low the example Of his predecessors and saw
himselfby flight. IL is also known that viii
{ the Costa Ricans were In Riyas, and TIM
|. men doubted the result, Senior Rivas atteml
, ted to make his peace with President Nor
I by submitting propositions to that senti'
man.
This circumstance conylnces us that Il
approach OF an election and an invading arm
! at the same time so heightened Presidel
Rivas that he hardly knew what he W
= doing; and in a moment of partial insani
!. and chronic deceitiullness. he left the Pre-
: idency and thus lost all hope for the futul
o After the fight of the President from Leo
! the people of that city became uneasy at Il
: speech of Senior Salizar, and anxiously i
, quired Of the Fathers Of the church If the
was any truth in the statement that the An
e orleans intended to destroy the religion
y the land. The Vicar Of Leon, q good al
D faithful man, instantly denied the calumn
e and ordered all the priests to declare on Su
; day that the report was untrue. The pc
pie again became reconciled, and the revr
q sion sets strongly against President Rivas al
a his advisers.