Smyrna times., 1856-12-17


a footing, with the exception of the Transit h
route. ..-...-....l y
The last accounts reported that 400 of his Z
forces. after lighting nine days at Granada, /
were surrounded by the Costa Rican, Salvador /
and Guatemala forces. Gen. Walker was on
board steamer on the lake, without communi-
cation with his army, and his men were suffer.
ing for the want of provisions and clothing, and
were dying Offby disease. .... ~ ~. i
/ A naval fight had occurred near San Juan
del Sur. lasting two hours, between Costa
Rican brig of war and the Nicaraguan war
schooner, Granada. =, s....r..... ..,, ~ Sc -.
Gen. Walker had burnt Granada and Mas
saya. 81" :" ........
2 The destruction OF Granada, that has all along
: been one of Walkers trongholds-though ad.
/. mitted by the "Texas" despatch, was not ex.
ID plained. The absence of that explanation, we
j. thought at the time, was ominous and the infer.
;. ence, therefore, was irresistible that that ex-
IS planation would spoil the couleur de rose hue
N of the rest of the intelligence. The nine
N days fighting" we are now, for the FIRST time,
rt informed of explains all and what was only in.
20 ference before, may be put down as an ascer-
8. tanned fact.
n- The New Orleans despatch announced foul
a. days fighting at Massaya, but the Charleston
OF accounts add that, "Wulker had burnt Masso
ny va" so that his victories there, as at Granada
IS. went for nothing.
in The George Law brings us an ample bulge
lr. of news from California and the Southern Pa
I'd, ciic.
u" In our Judgment, one of the most ominou
NE "signs of the times" 10 California is the form,
'us ton, in Carson Valley, ofa Vigilance Commi
'a' tee of American citizens for protection again,
u the Mormons, who appear to be commencin
the same course of coiduct which led to the
la memorable ftrcible expulsion from Nauvoo.-
10 The repeated famine at Salt Lake and the raw
IND ges of the grasshoppers, it is said, have col
el' PEELED many of them to leave that region al
om take up, their residence in the fertile vale,
I've on the eastern boundary of California. Her
r in, we fear, are the foreshadowings Of fatu
ma conflicts with the Latter Day Sa limits.
ned The hordes on the West Coast of Sou
10 America begin to move little-though Il
ieo' movement is retarded by symptoms of anoth
Am revolution in Peru--about what, exactly, it
;ur- difficult to determine. The Red Man, in {
pr- Upper Amazon is giving some terrible manif;
on tations Of the fact, that he "sti1l lives" a
az still burns with vengeance against the ps
the faces that have driven him from his hunti
grounds. In some cases, whole towns ha
the been destroyed by these savages. and so inc
was petent is the Peruvian Government to
L. emergency. that the white inhabitants threat
Ella to place themselves under the protection
t oi Ecuador.
0u'' The contest between the clergy and the ci
e'' power in Chill, has ,ermnated--the Bishop
'io" ing complied to submit It 10 an eneoura ri
." sign Of the times that these Rumish Bisho
Di. . .,.l,;.L :...-:.'.-
aha s,aperio on this continent, do not anywh
'AeH meet with the same measure Of success wh
Iaro attends them in desPotic Europe.
g., e San;a Anna, whom everybody has lost 81,
~, Of of late, turns up once more in publish
,a,o protest in a Bogota papers, against the p
T. ceedings Of Gea 'Cemontort, President OF Me
.w; CO. If ComOntort has acted an unpalriotic p
4, or has beeu using his position rather cor the
yancemcnt of selfish ends than for the pub
,,,aa good--thipgs which do not yet appear-Sa
Anna 10 the last man to be his accuser.
:, hands are moi clean.