New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-04-16
5E5g r1s1ys F1sonr cENrsAr. AMERICA.

we give in this mornings edition. great amount
Of intelligence from many portions Of the earth. The
most exciting news, however is from Central Ameri-
ca, and, such as il Isl will be read with profound
interest BY hundreds, if not thousands of popu
tlaton. 0
For our part, We place little reliance upon the news
brought BY the Empire City. Itbears the marks Of
improbability upon its face. And to this must be
added the very telling fact that have only heard
d onesided version Of the story. Boosting enough,
.sayagery enough, and butchery enough are record
ed-nineteen prisoners of war having been shot N !
cold bloodto satisfy the fend who directed Fannns
massacre in Texas, long time ago. Ample vengeance
has since been taken for that atrocons Wlloiesale
murder and ample retrbntion will in the long rum
visited upon the mongrel q 4Aiell7
cans in Central America.
1T is possible not probable, the mongrels nave III
umnhed INV tbe lid IF English officers, weapons and
n,onev indreetly rendered-but the triumph will be
Shorthand feetng No repulse stop, for any great
Iengt IL time. tic progress of the Of manifest
destiny, soathWard the star Of empire marches on
| its way. Delays and observations may take place
5such incidents are common to all great enterprises
but they ever vitiate the magnificent, final
result which shines all the brighter from its msfor
tunes and eclipses.
The Costa Rican official accounts Of the battle are
not probable, for many good and solvent reasons.
The idea that four hundred Americans, occupying
splendid military position surrounded by stone wallis
thoroughly armed, and knowing that victory was life
and defeat DEATH could be charged upon and defeated
ii fourteen minutes by five or six hundred Costa
RIGA greasers, Z ssupremely ridiculous worth
moments consideration. Five or six thousand enc
ofa and
continuous struggle but itrequred fully that number
unless there was treason gross and criminal negll-
gence in the camp. -Four hundred Americans, well
armed and equally placed, are superior to any two
thousand patriots that can be found south of the
Rio Grande. All experience and history demon
strates this to be the truth.
The fact of the matter is, if there be any truth in
the Costa RIGA reports, Col. Schlessinger's command
, must have been taken completely by surprise. On no
other grounds can the rout be accounted for 1t is
not likely this was the case, to say the least; tor
three or four hundred men, knowing that their lives
depended upon their eyes, their rifles and their stout
arms would not be aptto go to sleep in the heart o.
La hostile country where impacable enmlty pre-
q vailed.
u Then, again, the dates Of the manitestoes OF the
Costa Rican Generals do not accord with the lntel
gence conveyed by our correspondent ana puplsileu
by us on the 18th inst The Costa RIGA dispatches
n are dated goth and 2lst ut announcing stupendous
victory it must have occupied some time in marching
to achieve. Our letters up to the list On the
18th ult, at IL o'clock, P. NJ. our correspondent
n writing from San Juan del Nore, stated that Col
n Schlessnger had made a rapid movement upon the
4 town of zapoa, where five hundred Of The enemy
were stationed, and that they fed together with the
inhabitants Of the place; and that when the courier
II left the Colonel was making every preparation for
& rapid night descentupon Guna-Caste, the principal
city Of the department Of that name" Afterwards
writing from Virgin Bay at 10 o'clock 2. NJ, on the
II night of the 21st ult, espondent-and he en-
Joys the best means reliable information
communicated nothing in regard to the battle, which
must, according to the Costa RIGA text, have taken
I'll place on the goth in theafternoon!
u aPut this and that together" and very large
a margin is opened for the Imagination. Any how We
Il are willing to sswaitfo the wagon" and believe thai
the cause Of Central American egeneratoni not lost
RI The most brilliant morn succeeds the darkest night
50 will it be in this case, unless the administrator
at Washington with spanelike subserviency, allow
Great Britain to "crush out, and indirectly murder
some thousands of natives of the United States.