The Placer herald., 1856-05-31
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nal OF tne ZoIh.
Latest Nicaragua News.
A second edition of the Aspnwa Courier
Of Anril 22d, was forwarded to us by ex Gov
Pioler from which we CLEAN the following
further and interesting particulars concerning
N;carquan affairs. The intelligence was re-
coiyed by steamer direct from Greytown.
The official account is that "the ports Of
Crevtown and San Juan del Nore are block
oded by fleet Of French English and 1meri-
ea,a men of war" The seven hundred recruits
for Walker landed Just before the fleet arrived
Walker with his army, had retired to the
citv of Grenada and the same authority re-
ports that the Costa Ricans, Guatemaans
and Hondurians, to the number Of 5000,
were within a short march, pressing on Gre
NADIA city, So we may expect to receive in
telhoence of stirring events shortly.
In addition we receive the following account
of Schlessinger's defeat.
The previous accounts of the defeat Of Col
Schessinger by the Costa Rcans at the ha-
cenda of Santa Rosa are confirmed, and the
details of the action shows the affair to have
been deplorably discredtable to the invading
force 1t appears that the hacienda occupied
bv Schlessinger with his troops was Il very
strong position, backed by tangled noun
tain and protected on its three other sides
by solid wall of mason work almost four
feet high In addition to this, it was on an
elevation above the road some ten feet high,
and was further protected by the natural
outworks of kitchen, a shed and spacious
stone corral strong enough to resist for some
time the small artillery Of the country.
Owing however, to a want Of proper pre-
caution in the way Of pickcts guards and dis
ciplne on the part of the invaders, the Costa
Ricans were enabled to decend upon the
camp while it was in complete disorder, and
by an energetic attack to create panic
which resulted in an almost immediate and
entire route. But one company of the Amer
ican force Company G, from New York, )suc-
ceeded in forming in line Of battle, but after
sustaining three volIeys, and sending back
retaliation Of one, they were forced to leave
the field.
Col. Syhlessinger, it appears by all the ac-
counts, ran off at the first fire, AMI thus con
tribnel most largely to the ruin Of the day,
by leading the troops to believe that they
were hopeess,v outmarchei,
The Costa Ricans, surprised at their own
success did not attempt to pursue the fugitive
through apprehensions that they might be-
come the victims of an amblsrale.
The relative forces were 200 of the inva-
ders, and almost 400 or 45O Of Costa Ricans,
and the loss Of the former was almost 50
killed and missing. OF Schlessingers force
there were two companies Of French and Ger
mans, a company of voltiguers one from New
Orleans and one from New York. There
of the stragglerS continued for six DAYS at
the end Of WEIGH time they reached Virgin
Bay in small parties and in miserable condi-
ton. Schlessnger was among the first to
get in, bat on arriving at Riyas, to which
place General Walker had in the meantime
transferred his headquarters, he was imme-
diateiy placed under arrest
All the pews, however, does not bear
against the fortunes of the Walker Riyas
Government. Accounts came down the river
San Juan on the evening previous the sailing
of the Gulf Stream, Of a fight between the
American force, some thirty five in number,
stationed at the Serrapiqu(a tributary lea ling
from Costa l,ica into the San Juan, about
forty miles from Greytown,) and a bolv of
about one hunirel and fifty Costa Rrans,
who were working their way towards that
point in the construction of a military road.
The forces Of the two parties were divided,
and went on both sides of the river, but af-
ter an action Of some fifteen minutes, the
Costa Ricans retreated with the loss of six
teen men.
Walker had intercepted dispatches from
Lord Clarendon to the Costa Rican Govern
ment, promising the support of British men
ofwar These dispatches had been forward
ed to Washington in the hands of George
Wilkes.