The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-04-30
w alker's Prospects.

Ih6 Bteamshlp Charles Morgan, Capt. IL.
Place from San Juan de Nicaragua, arrived in
port yesterday morning. The news she brings
is mportant-some Of it nou.nful. Below
we give as full-a digest Of the news as we could
obtain, the letters freln our regular correspon-
dent having failed to come to hand, and no
papers having been. received. 5sgszs -
The Morgan reached San Juan at 8 o'clock.
P. NJ. on the 18th, and atone landed her pas
sengers, who proceeded Up the river immedi-
ately The steamship Oriziba, Capt Tinkle-
pangh, from New York, with 525 passengers
arrived on the 10Th. The passengers were
Immediately dispatched up the river The al
dltlon to Nicaragua By these two steamers,
amounts to some SEQ men
Capt. d. w. Thorpe, of the Nicaragrlan
army, and F. Matthews, came passengers on
the Morgan. a,e. -s ssI
It appears that the rout of Schessingers
command at San Rosa was owing to the gross
n ligence and unmitigated cowariice of that
ottcee-- His whole conduct stamps him as
wretehed poltspn for whom death would be
too easy fate
1tappears that the men under Schlessinger
were encamped upon an eminenee, surrounded
by dense shrubbery; no sufficient guards were
stationed to provide against SURPRISE; parties,
=, from five to fifteen, were out forasing; and
every the lHOSJ CuIpa-
bic and criminal carcIessness. 1t was under
such circumstances the onslaughtcf the Costa
Ricans was made Confusion prevailed. and
sthe conmander-n chief showed the white
feather iror4I the start. The attacking force
was .0C, although, it is supposed, not more
than 5U0 were enga ged at first. The assail-
ants were up within fifty yards, SO says one
account, before they were discovered, armed
with Minnie and Mississippi rifles. Schlessin-
gers were about 2S0 hutonly about IS came
I into action; the French and Dutch companies,
] under Legree and Prange, not forming at all.
Captains Thorpe's and Creighton's companies
made a stand, but, being deserted by the others
and by SchleSsinger Obliged to retreat. From
/ forty to sixty men are supposed to be killed
tand about eighty are missing. The enemy
pursued some of the detached parties, but did
not follow the main body, which retired to
Virgin Bay. ..t.
The surprise cost the Nicaraguans about so
CT so men out of the IT'S that remained at
/ their post. OF those killed, belonging to the
New Orleans company, Capt, Thorpe could
only remember the names of Messrs. Grayson.
Dunnand Scobey. On the l1omeward march
7 to Virgin Bay, the Dangers and fatigues were
dreadful. With bleeding feet and hungered
stomachs, they plodded on their weary way.
Their sufferings paralIeled the sutferings of
our forefathers during, the Revolution Their
return train trail was closely followed by the
enemy, and the escape OF the little band from
capture was al!aost miraculous.
Subsequent to this defeat, caused by bad
management and cowarliee of Schlessnger.
another fight had taken place at Aropoka be-
tween 200 of the enemy and IL men under
/ Capt. BALDWIN, in which the enemy was de-
felted, with loss of30 killed. Capt Baldwin
/ lost two men in the engagement; Second Lieut.
Rackstraw, and a private, name not given.
ScAleSsinger, according to the latest adyices,
was undergoing court martial The probabili-
ties are his shrift was a short one. An abbre-
waited rope and the nearest tree were all he de-
served.
When the steamship left Rivas was at the
head quarters of the Government, and com.
pany was left in Granada to guard ths coni-
munication. Gen. Walker was in command
of about eight hundred men, marching against
Costa Rica, and he was supposed to be in
Buena Casta at the sailing of the steamer. 1t
is said he was in spirits, and full of confidence
/ that he would triumph over the enemies of
4 Nicaragua. We doubt not he was won the
laurel crown of victory ere this. IF reinforce
ments.have poured in from the Pacific side as
/ they have from the Atlantic SIDE, there is.nc
doubt oflthe issue of the contest. Anglo Sax
on valor, and might and right, have triumph
! ed -
+. Communication is open on Lake Nicaragua
and down the river to San Juan. Twelve
steamers in all are plying and under the con-
troll of the Government. These afford great
facilities to the Nicaraguan government, and
such man as Walker knows how to employ
them to advantage.
| DISTRESSING Aoc1DENr.-A little child some
ten months old was left by its mother, who
resides near Moorsville, in Morgan county,