New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-06-12

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NIGARAGUAN GORREsP oNDENCE.
| GRANADA, April %, 1856.
With this send you copy Of Ell Ncaruguense,
from which you will gather such prominent facts as
will give you glimpse of recent affairs. You will
see that Mr.. Toethy, who accompanied the Schles-
singer party into Guanacoste, was taken prisoner,
but his life saved because Of his being one Of your
correspondents. Bloody and cruel Mora has shown
himself to be towards other prisoners, even he re-
spects those who represent the press and we are all
in hopes that Toothy has Jared no worse than mere
Imprisonment, and if he stays much longer in Costa
RIGA, his companions in will have the pleasant
task OF unbotng the doors Of his prison. even if it
be IN San Jose. The steamer San Carlos left Granada
for Castillo on the evening of the 19th inst carrying
Padre Will as Minister Plenipotentiary, to the
United States, DR.. Secor, as his Secretary of Lee
CATION, Maj. J. P. Heiss, bearer of dispatches
from Col. Wheeler, and several private persons
as passengers. The latter number was small, be-
cause of Gen. Walkers refusal to grant passports out
of the country; measure which, theapplicants for
them, was doubtless annoying, but the wisdom of
whicljust at this time might be easily demonstrated
After the return Of the army from the battle at Ri
| vas there was general dependency and gloom upon
all faces. We were cut off from the States and little
hopes Of renforcemens arriving very soon, remained
the march and battle had reduced the actual force to
less than 500 men, and looked daily for the enemy
to attack Granada Indeed, we have had for the last
ten days, most uncertain and dismal time but this
| morning life, joy, hope and animation are in every
! countenance. The gun Of the San Carlos reused
every one from their su1nbers, and soon the news
spread that the steamer, with 500 men for Walker
! had come in. Great was the excitement and even
the stolid, responding natives, Joined in the genera
joy and the recruits from the States marched I'D to
the Plaza, headed by fine band, aud carrying the
flag Of Nicaragua, they were eheered, as only Amer
cans can cheer The natives shouted and danced and
ran hther and thther chatting, laughing and crying
&c Pine los Ane,icanos,'' whilst the Americans cti-
zens, soldiers and all, hurried forward to welcome
friends inquire the news, ask for letters and pa
pers from the States. This reinforcement Just at this
time, is God-send, assure you, and the careworn
face and heavy brow of the Generalinchief tells plain
y the relief that he once more beholding
recruits from the States. AS yet very little is known
in this city of what's going in Rivas San Juan del
Sur and Virgin Bay, except that Mora is fortifying
the former and is daily being reinforced from Costa
| RIGA and from the servists in Nicaragua. We have
learned that Gen. Mora, brother of the President was
killed in the battle Of the 1lth, also Gen. Boscha and
many of their superior officers. They acknowledge
also loss of killed and MORALLY wounded of over
| 700 men, besides many missing. The wounded of
Walkers all doing well; not more than three
or four have died of their wounds since the fight.
You have already the list Of killed, wounded and
missing. The Costa Ricans burned their own and our
dead, but the awful stencil created by the bodies or
some other cause, has superinduced the cholera,
which we learn is raging tearfuy among the Costa
Rican troops. W.
When the war began Gen. Walker adopted a new
system in raising the native forces being aware Of the
unreabty of that portion of the army when the men
are pressed into the SERVICE He simply asked the
natives to volunteer if they would join the war at ALL
or if they would fight from principle they must do so
voluntarily, he being unwilling to have reluctant
soldier in the Democratic ranks This was a stroke
of policy that at once strengthened own cause and
to great extent disarmed the servilists many of
whom Immediately gave in their adhesion to Rivas
andi they do not assist the Democrats they at least
do not oppose them Very soon, the native force in
creased to 1900 men, headed by Generals Chillon,
Mendez and Jerez. To them was assigned the task
Of defending Leon and the Northern frontier in case
the armies of the Northern States moved on that line
leaving all the American troops to collect around
Walker. As the news is confirmed that Honduras and
Salvador have withdrawn from the League recalled
and dispersed their leyies, and received our Commits
sioners in friendly manner, a part of the native
forces marching hither and are hourly expected
in Granada to join the Generaln-Chief.
Tt is certain now, also, that Guatemala has recalled
her army, and will await the result of the war; leaving
Costa RIGA and Nicaragua alone in the field
President Rivas and his Cabinet are still in Leon,
but as the tumut of arms subsidies thew will
return again to Granada.
The serve partisans have very recently endeavored
to get up revolt in the District of Chontaes but the
plan was not well sustained and the people have
again dispersed to their homes. This Department
was always stronghold of that party, but recently
many Americans have Travelled through the District
to examine the Mines and their general good beha-
vior has done much to soften down the preiudices
that the Chamorroites have tried to create against u.s.
Since the battle of Rivas, Walker has been endeav-
orng to remodel the muskets of his men so as to use
the Minnie ball. In this he has succeeded, and the
experiment with the Mississippi rifle and the same
bail, proves that weapon to be better arm than the
Minnie guns taken from the Costa Ricans at Rivas
The passengers for California that came by the new
line, have been sent forward by land to the port of
Reaiijo as the Costa Rcans still in possession of
San Juan del Sur and Virgin. The appointment of
Padre Will Minister to the United States, is an ex-
tremey popular one, and all parties seem to feel con-
dence in the success of his mission. The Padre has
been the firm and unchanging friend of Walker and
the Americans since they have been in Nicaragua :;
and although he has not the talents of a Richeleu,
yet he has kind and honest heart and will do all he
can for the good of weak and struggling Nicaragua.
The battle at Rivas demonstrated to Gen Walker
the necessity of thoroughly drilled and disciplined
force, and now the army is put through thorough
exercise every day. The result of the 18th, would
have been far different had the men observed any dis
cipline whatever, and instead of 600 killed of the
enemy, he might have been completely crushed out
When you hear of another battle, you will hear of a
different story of the field Many of the boys, after
the llth, declared that they well satisfied with
their experience in military glory In fact there were
few but who wished that they could be at home again
But the arrival of renforcements has frightened up
their hopes and they now talk of another fight with