The Winchester appeal. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn.) 1856-1856, 1856-06-07
NEWS FROM NICARAGUA.

BY the arrival OF the Steamship
Granada this morning, we have later
news from Central America.
The obliging pursuer of the Grana-
da reports that the news from Mica
ragua is contradictory. Capt. Dun
well, a passenger on board, who left
Virgin Bay on the 9th inst, and
brings the latest intelligence, states
that the Costa Ricans had retired from
Nicaragua to Costa RIGA, and that
800 wounded Costa Ricans had been
shipped from San Juan del Sud to Pun
ia Arenas, in Costa RIGA. Capt.
Dunwcll reports that Gen. Walkers
loss at Rivas was 100 killed and
wounded, and that the Costa Ricans
had $50 killed and wounded. The
accounts we find in the Panama Star
and Herald are very confused and un-
satisfactory. Nevertheless, it appears
to be certain that the Costa Ricans
have evacuated Nicaragua. There is
nothing to throw any light on the &C
tual state Of affairs in Nicaragua, but
it appears that the Costa Ricans are
not very we'll satisfied with the result
of their invasion, and that the state of
affairs in Costa RIGA is not very prom
ising. Business, it appears, is entire
ly suspended, money and credit are
wanting, and trouble anticipated
We copy as follows from the Weekly
Star and Herald. Of the 10Th inst:
yesterday evening Q9th) the
schooner Joscfa arrived here from
Punta Arenas, which port she left
May 9th. or Cape Blanco, on the
9th, the Joscla spoke the Joseph Hew-
cit, Capt. Clapp, bound for Punta
Arenas. The British frigate Presi-
dent had left Punta Arenas, (destina-
ton unknowm but the Havana was
daily expected at that port"
A correspondent writing from Pun
ia Arenas, says:
"Accounts from Nicaragua are so
various and contradictory that do
not know myself what to believe and
what not. The Costa RIGA troops are
all on their return, on account, as is
said, of the cholera having broken out
among them.
ut does not appear that they have
met with so cordial u reception from
the Nicaraguans as they anticipated.
How all will end it is impossible to
say, but we anticipate trouble here.
"Business of all kinds utterly sus-
pendcd--no money no credit"
The Boletin OGcial, of May Sd, the
latest date received, contains an adj
dress from President Mora to the Off
GERS of his army, thanking them for
their efficient services, and for their
valor in Santa Rosa, Rivas and Sera-
piqui. 1t says, that having beaten the
fllibusters wherever they were met,
after having taken San Juan, Rivas
and the transit route, and encountered
a thousand unlocked t, obstacles, sut-
licient had been done for the national
honor, and that no discredit follows
from being obliged to yield to the in
nuencc OF a malignant climate, leav-
ing behind an enemy exhausted and
without resources, better prepared
to fly than to fight, and whose exter'
mination will be complete ifGautema-
la, Salvador and Honduras perform
their duty.
In the same journal letter from
headquarters is published, which says
that Walker, unable to cope with the
forces brought against him, has adopt
ed an unworthy means of warfare,
and being master of the press, infu-
ences public opinion by the circula-
ton of false rumors and false accounts
ofthe engagements he has had with
the Costa Ricans. That on the 18th.
NpriD. after the battle Of Rivas, in
which Walker lost nearly all his Off
GERS, he returned to Granada on foot
with two hundred men out of the
twelve hundred with which he attack
ed the city, and deceived the people
by bell ringing, Examinations, &c, in
to the belief that he had gained vic
tory.
That this contributed to keeping up
Walkers influence, and the Costa Ri
cans were unable in the hurry and ex-
citement of war to avail themselves
of the printing press that accompa-
MED the army.
Another letter dated April 26) states
that owing to the cholera the Presi-
dent and the army were about return
ing to Liberia.
A letter addressed to the Bishop of
San Jose, states that on the 18th, at
A. NJ, Walker with twelve hundred
men attacked Rivas. that the battle
lasted near twenty-one hours, after
which he retired with only three hun
lred Of his troops, that Walkers force
occupied the Church. plundered it of