Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-11-24

The following extracts. from the private cor
respondanee Of very Intelligent citizen of Nj
caragnn. convey valuable information in respect
to that very interesting country.
----, Oct 80, 1856.
Nv Drar Friend-Thr most important news
from Nicaragua by the lat two arrivals. is the
statement "lhnt Gen. Walker bad revoked the
decree nboshing slavery IN Nicaragua"
l. hns come little sooner ihnn told YOU il
would. but not too soon Now whit will Virgin
ians do Why not yen yourself mike the siolt
through the newspapers
fRsr-S Slavery i admitted.
SECOND The Sate is a. large NJ Virginia.
and - per cent pubic lands. This got from
the besi informed natives. after careful enquiry.
fn1np Tn" hnds rich, and the produc-
tons most adapted 10 slave labor. VIZ:
/ Sugar in perfection. no frost.
.. Tobacco rudcly cultivated but not much in
feI IL the Cuban.
, Geifre of good qnality now much neglect
ed
l. lndgo-snid once TO have been the he.t in
the world. but its culture has been abandoned
since the civil wars. 1t Is however, more cusy
restored than any other crop, aud the wits for
it, preparation sill Ia be found an the old
tates They nude by the Spnniards OF stone
and cement.
D Goooa-from which chocolate il male. A
beautiful crop requiring but hule lubor and yield.
ing Rrent value in n smn bulk.
q. Roe very abundant If the upland valie-
ti,a.
:. Dye woods of various kinds aud Of grcat
value.
The foregoing nre nil produced on the low
country adjoining the lake aud the Pacific. Bat
thereare no marshes, TINT saw III travelling es=
tcnsivey IN this region. As you uscend the noun
thns which lie TO the North aud Lust you meet
with other productions. viz:
Cotton, of"Ncreni quulity
Then wheat. which ia snid 10 yield we'll
There aro still some old -four mills in this sec
uon. " Id Indians here begin to be trcabIe=
some.
10. With wheat appear the fruits Of the ten
pcrnte zone.
II Open elodcs. covered with perpetual rroas
on which, in some purts, herds of thousand oi
cutie mny now be seen.
II. \ little higher than the pastures, gold aud
silver mines which the natives mr. now working
with profit, though using tn" Iudest aud most IN
arlifcia processes; for example, thry bring the
ore down 10 their grinding places on the backs OF
oxen.
IL The best kinds Of timber nre to be found
in all patts. | WINS particularly struck with the
ccdnr. beams of which were shown mo snid to be
Il yenrs old, aud as sound rs thy were the day
they wern put up.
This magnificent country, Cen. Walker has
and now offers to you AID Your saver at time
when You have not friend the face Of the
emth
Whit will you do for him Yonmust support
him with men and money The men mnst want
/ ed mrn of cduenton, fit to serve in the civil
government, aud command in the army. Are
there not scores If Just men, vast ~ their lives
in idlcnessand without prospect for the future
in Virginia.
Ny; money. Wlllthc South let slip this gio-
riou- acquisition; from sheer niggardlucssl-
! Right appreciated md rightly nrgel, It seems
To- me not only Indtvduals,hut States would come
forward TO aid the grrat md effective chnm-
pnn Of thcr interests, and the only one in tic
world.
Toke hold,my dear friend and mnk the South
crn press lnke hold bring all Your enthusin-m
10 the work, and let us SEQ ,vhat can he done
consider the country remarkably healthy more
So than many of our southern States, unless, per
hup-, Western Texas, and ! rest my opinion on
the following facts. w:
spent FIVE months there, md during that
time there were troops stationed for longer or
shorter periods at the following places: At Gas
tillo Niego, midway the san Junn river; at san
Carlos at the city of RiyaN, Virgin Bay, or San
Juan del Sur, ON ar adjacent 10 the Transit
road, Nhese three places constituting one staton;)
at the city of Leon, mi fora little while at the
town of Masavn and nj the town of Matugapa, in
the mountains, and at Granada. All the sickness
and all the deaths, with scarcely an exception.
occurred at Grnnadn. | was for Il month ON the
Transit road AMI found it Us healthy ms any coun
try | ever was in; not case of sickness that
can remember occurring among citizens the
troops. The last ten days in March. when the
Costa Ricans were hourly expected on that from
tier there were about 200 Americans assembled
IN ltiyas. badly lodged. badly fed, and the great
majority of soldiers III bad state of discipline,
and yet during this time there was no sickness.
aud the men began to wear that rugged bronzed
look TINT is produced by exposure in a healthy
a,mosp here.
In speaking of the productions of Nicaragan,
| left out corn and plantnins. These constitute
the principal diet of the people, aud the latter
serve the great mass for meat a. well bread.
Corn is also sowed in some places and cut rs
grass. They don't allow it to grow large enough
to be called fodder was very much astoni,h.
ed Ia find most excellent draught rattle wherever
| went; but the best were about Leon. ! there
shw oxen that would take the prize at one Of
your exhibitions. | think told yon that my
self. Travelled $50 miles in four days in a cart
drawn by four oxen, in the hottest conceivable
weather and apparently without fatiguing them
| at all.
," much for what saw in Ncnrngua. speak
AS an eye witness md hope YOU will find in my
words that which will interest you even to the
point Of action.
r How u"rnt Died.
1he sentence "t the military commits sion was
read to b i'm with due solemnitv He Gstsnsd :,
II, as he would have listened t. the cannon ~
another battle during his military life. withonI
emotion or bravado. He neither asked for bur
don. for delay, nor for appeal He had advance,
of his own accord toward The door. rs if to accel
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