New-York daily tribune., 1857-04-17
List Of the Killed and Wounded.

By the arrival OF the steamship Tennessee al th!s
pert yesterday had practical proof OF fhe discom-
fture Of the fbusters on the San Juan River at least.
IL the poor, miserable wretches who arrived IN the
Tennessee are fair specimen OF the bulk oi TIE hlli-
busters every who helped to send them to Mica
magma deserves the most condign punishment II Will
scsrcely be credited that of the fifty returned ti!bus
krs the majority were beardless boys, some Of them
pet vet I3 years of oge! All Of them were worn down
with hunger, fever and exposure and most of them
had no other covering their shivering bodies than
filthy rags, fastenened around them with pieces Of
string. Their gaunt, famne-stricken, fever-wasted
faces were horrible to look upon, while their
tan. attenuated bodies moved every beholder
tospity They were landed wholly destitute and pen
niess and but for the exeions of benevolent coach
man, named j. A. Van Dyke, many of them, who
were unable to help themselves, would have been left
on the pier till the Governors Of the AlmsHouse could
provide for them. He packed sixteen of the most fee
bic into couple of coaches and drove TO the Head
quarters" where many of them had been enlisted.
But the place was closed, and he took them to the
Washington Hotel, where Major Bartlett gave them
good breakfast, and opened subscription, which
soon amounted to $il for their benefit. Thence they
were taken to the st. Nicholas, where those distn-
yushed flibusters Gen. Cazeneau and Gen. Duff
them. In this way about 500 wa. raised, and they
were taken to a clothing store and furnished with
shirts, coats, pants, and hats. All Of them then shed
their rags bathed and out once more with some
semblance of civilization about them After some
difficulty lodgings found for them, and Van Dyke
will endeavor to get them free passage to their several
homes.
In the course of our conversation with these poor
fellows Yesterday, we learned that most of them had
gone out as farmers, in accordance with the promise
Of " free farms and free passage which the agents
Of Walker in this and other cities held out TO
them. Large numbers of Germans, who had been
deluded into going thither, clamorOus for their
land; but they were speedily brought into subsection
by brutal officers lost all hope sunk under the adver.
sites of their LOT and got their anda scant six feet
Of Nicaraguan earth. Many of the boys who belong
10 Walkers army spirited little fellows, who,
owing TO some fancied slight OF injury, had run away
from their parents and falling short of money, rather
than return home enlisted in Walkers service. Plenty
Of children may be met in any street in New York,
nundhng hoops flying kites, who are as large and
as old as some OF the soldiers who returned yester
day. Their youthful and painfully emeciated ap-
pearonce attracted crowd wherever they
ktopped, and on several occasions If the
recruiting agents had been around the popular indig-
nation might have found vent. Such children were
sent into the swamps and junges of Nicaragua to en-
dure hunger and thirst and nakcdness bear cumbrous
r1es and drag heavy cannon through mud and forest
under tropical sum- and at night lie down on the soak
bug ground, among the gnas, musketoes and jiggers
without single blanket to them, and rise in the
morning minus meal to fight armies of natives ten
times their number One Of the boys we saw yester.
day had large abscess in his right breast caused by
the reco of his musket, and many Of them were suf-
Sring from unheaed gunshot wounds
The true state Of things was never allowed to leak
out. Every letter from the men to their friends was
destroyed lest the lying bubble should burst sooner
than it hos. But buserisn il pretty nearly defunct
now and we do hope that young men will longer
be deuded BY the lying promises of its agents in the
United States.
The Tennessee left in the harbor Of San Juan, April
6, ii. Il. H. war steamers Orion Cossach, Archer
Tartar, Pioneer and Intrepid.
The following are the names of the return soldiers