Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-08-18

ouainted with General Munos, Of Nicaragua no. |
toriety, who induced him to accompany him to |
Central America, to take command Of his (Gen. |
Munos') forces then numbering, according TO the |
400 greasers The Captain and Munos were to |
revolutionize the state of Nicaragua, make eoxp
d'stat and divide the spoils. II
The captain seeing In the dim distance visions /
of empire rising up before him in a country rich |
in mineral wealth. where Cortez had reaped mill /
tary laurels where Alvarado had planted the flag |
Of Isabel and Ferdinand, and where ma nature sup
Of daily exertion packed up all his little odds and
ends and migrated with Munos; but imagine his
chagrin ito use his own words) " to hnd, on his
arrival, about three hundred miserable looking
wretches each one with a shirt and hat on, and
rot fifty muskets in the party" The captain
abandoned the enterprise as hopeless one, and
settled down in the country. He found 1t much
more profitable, it seems, to keep hotel in Ri
vas when the Transit Company was first opened,
than to mix himself up with fiibustering pro-
Jects HIS SON. who mas sne ess, .,
ing quite lucrative, when the americans began
to crowd in to keep opposition motel. wanting
elbow room, the captain CROWDED our ana emf,
built for that Government a small-sized steam
boat, for which be got big-sized price. Subse-
quently he went to San Francisco, ana opened
club house over Wells, Fargo Co.'S express
office, but closed it again through the advice Of
his son. He then returned to Costa RIGA, where
it is said he edited paper called the Seminal.
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told defeated Col Titus on the San Juan.
Now, | am anxious to know whether the Capt
CAVITY described above is the same gentleman
who is announced as the new envoy from Costa
Rica. II he be, one cannot help admiring des-
tiny which places a man in such a variety Of po-
sitions, and renders him equal to them all.
New York, August 10, 1857 J. M. B.
afternoon, a block of granite was brought from
the stone warehouse, near Georgetown, to Penn
sylvania avenue opposite the Treasury build
ing, which is to be an ante or plaster in the
Extension, in place of the south pillar of the
portico of the present structure. It weighs
more than "a tons, and was drawn to the build
ing in the short space of two hours, by five pairs
of horses and six pairs of oxen, each OK of the
team weighing at least 800 pounds, and the
horses being large in proportion. In turning
corners, it was of course necessary to resort to
the use of jack-screws to turn the so tremen-
dously loaded hinder portion Of the stone wagon
when its fore wheels damned against its load.
These jack-screws were of course hydraulic,
and were two in number. With them, this re-
markable load was moved by two men with as
much ease as though it was " a mere circum-
stance
We have rarely witnessed a greater triumph
of mechanical skill than was involved in the
noiseless, easy, and apparently matter-of-course
transportation of this huge block of granite.
The teams Of cattle (oxen) used on this occa-
sion were brought hither about a week ago, and
are said to have cost the contractors $500 per
yoke. The six yoke started the immense mass
before the horses, also hitehed to the load, CON-
menced to pull.
The LAYING OF THE CABLE.-The Navy De-
partment has interesting dispatches from the
Commander of the steam frigate Niagara, to
the LIST instant, when that vessel was in the
Cove Of Cork, where she arrived on the 9th u.
timo. On the passage from Liverpool an ex-
pertinent was made to ascertain how slow the
ship could be made to 60 under steam, and one
and a hnlf knots per hour was the important re-
suit The ability to 60 at so slow a rate involves
almost an insurance of success in paying out
her share of the cable.
On the 2Sth ultimo, the cable on the Niagara
was connected with that on the Agamemnon,
and messages through the whole $500 miles of
cable, were sent and received in half a second,
as we published from unofficial sources some
days ago.
Capt Hudson (of the Niagara) had taken on
board, from the Agamemnon, ten miles of the
larger VI iII-olivr vaDIo, H..
mined according to his requesD that his ship
should first pay out.
Capt. Hudson adds:
"The engineers Of the Company will have COM
pleted their preparations this afternoon, and the
vessels Of the squadron (which are all here) will
imIued lately "a for Val ia hav nd
from thence on Monday, the Sd instant secure
the shore end and commence paw ont the cable
"It will be most singular coincidence, as CO.
lumbus left port on his voyage Of discovery for
our Western World on the Sd day of August just
1855 years ago"
LIGHr-HoUsE KEEPERS APPOINrED-The
Secretary Of the Treasury has recently made
the following appointments of Lighthouse
Keepers. Viz:
George La Vine, at Cheboygan, Mich, vice
Charles Brannack, removed-salary $3.50 per
annum.
Bailey Willis, Assistant, at Old Point Com
fort, Va, vice John Bluxom, moved away
Return j. Hunter, Assistant at Fort Point,
Cal.,-salary $3.50 per annum.
Ira II. Chapman, Assistant, at Point Bonita,
Cal, vice Alex. Brown removed-salary $3.50
per annum.
Egbert Poinsett, at DANES Point, st. Johns
Run, Fla.,-salary $500 per annum
Horace A. Hughes, at Cape Cod, Truro,
Mass. salary $500 per annum. Jas. Small,
First Assistant, at same light-salary $500 per
annum. Thos. II. Kenny, Second Assistant at
same light-salary $500 per annum.
SURVEYS IN KANsAs.-The Commissioner of
the General Land Office has received from the
surveyor General Of Kansas and Nebraska plats
OF the retracemcnt of part of tho southern
boundary of the Shawnee Indian lands from
the point on that line two miles east of the
southwest corner Of the Shawnee reservation