New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-05-28
WEDNESDAY, MORNING, MAY. 20, 1856.
LATER FROM M cARAeUA.
! Retreat OF the Costa Rlca,,s. 3

BY the arrival Of the steamship Granada we are put
in possession Of Aspinwall Of the goth From
the Courier of that date we extract the following
twill be seen that the Costa Ricans have become
homesick, and have cleared ont. The news Is exces
svey meagre but still, what there Is Of it very
satisfactory Wermly believe now, ever, that the
star Of Gen Walker in the ascendant and that the
independence Of Nicaragua is secured We shall have
further and fuller nteg we suppose and hope,
ia the course Of time. s4ss$ AZ.
4 But to the 5AspinRall Couriers news:
On Saturday last Afessr. Bfando Me- Murray Drake,
and Others, of San Juan del Sud arrived at Panama,
in schooner. They bring news from that point to
reached San after the battle Of Rivas, on the
18th May; and having there shipped their wounded
for Puta Arenas, the army started by land to retreat
into Costa Rca; that the cholera has been making
sad havoc among the Costa Rica troops and that Cen.
Walker IS evidently in, the ascendant.
Other rparties who have been eyewitness to most
Of what they note, inform US more INFINITELY $fSs54
Burying the dead and caring for their wounded,
together with few Of fertilization lest
Walker should return on them before they could leave,
occupied the succeeding week. They commenced
their retreating about the and on the
them having marched to Guanacosta- except some
| fifty men who were at San Juan del Sud, shipping
the wounded by water for Punta Arenas.
| We have heretofore given an account Of the battle
OF RVaS, ID
| being out Of ammunition, Walker marched out Of the
city to the fife and drum, and for fonr hours the
Costa Rcans continued to fire at the church which he
had vacated. s53f4 %@ 88$
His force in the battle was 400 foreigners and 800
natives, and that of the Costa Rcans S.000
% The Costa Ricans represented themselves having
been entirely deceived that Walker was far preferred
by the natives, and that instead of being received
| with open arms by Nicaraguans, they had been
Stunned or attacked at every point. Baron BnIow
was exceedingly dissatisfied both at the conduct oil
the Costa Rcans and the alsty Of the
that had been made to him respecting w Walkers con
dition and the feeling Of the Nicaraguans towards
| him and his army tS,tat Bgi5gs Nj 5S8tj
The Star and Herald, of Saturday, represents the
church Of Rivas to have been robbed by Walkers
men, and refers to other plunder by them. We have
the authority Of those who have watched Walkers
movements throughout the past year. for saying that
he has never allowed plumber; and that he has never
taken anything from foreigners and natives in Nicar
aqua, except by governmental levies. s
\ No church in Nicaragua contains images with pre-
cious stones jewels of any considerable value upor
them the church at Rivas has images in it, lis with
out a roof, wholly unfinished, and never has beer
used as a place Of worship. So much for the story
of the Star and Herald, that images were robbed O.
4 diamonds, and used as barricades in the church.
FROM SAN JUAN DEL N NORTE.-The steamer Tevio
arrived at Aspinwall, from Greytown, on Wednesday
the 7th instant. She brings no news from the inte
4 riOr. Some dozen or more of Walkers men came. ii
her from Grey town, having struggled tbere-the,
had left some two months since. Provisions are sail
to be very short at Greytown. The blockade is KEEP
z by her Britannia Majesty's ship Eurydice ther
being none other there. asf.}lE. y, zs7iE5 "a ~ q