Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-02-14
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

Taeir Fate 1t will be recollectcd that up
20 the recent departure Of the Tennessee,
loaded down almost to her gunwales with
more deluded victims Of Walkers schemes
come eight thousand had preceded them from
San Francisco, New York, and New Orleans
The last news from that quarter show that ell
remaining In Nicaragua numbered not mere
than 6o0-45O under Walkers immediate
comm ard, and $50 at San Juan del Norte.
under one Lockr.lge. At most, 400 have re.
turned alive to the L nited States most Of them
with destroyed constitutions. So Nicaragua
has already proved the final resting place Of
z:a: 1000 ont Of the 5000 poor creatures from
the United States, who have thus permitted
themselves to Do u:ed to carry out the schemes
OF murder, robbery and arson of little band
Of spectators who are seeking to grew rich
through various Nicarsguan speeulations-
whose mere Butcher-r-chief Walkeris-butch-
ering, as the reliable correspondence shows,
ths men seduced - "emigrate' from this
country with a. little conpunction of con-
science as he. manifes;s in butchering the n er
women and children he processes to be seek.
ing to hberate. That the whole thing 10 a
money-nskipg speculation is apparent to all,
Tor tie names Of all concerned in irving 10
bolster his cause in this country and 70 send
him fresh supplies and fresh victims, are quite
a. familiar to tie public through Newspaper
accounts of lands, mines and steamboa spec-
ulstiOns in Nicaragua. Under such circum-
stances tie public, Of course, place just esti-
mate upon the character of the patriotism
the desire to spread American principles and
American dOninion-which is the plea upon
which it is sought to justify the act Ct delud-
Ing the doomed men from the United States to
their fate.
The following extract from a Nicaragua
letter, originally published in the New York
TrItV@r, exemplifes with uamistakable fdeli.
~ the result Of emigTatins to Nicaragua, 1"
and tells the tale of how it happens that : 900
OF the 5000 late enigrants 20 Nicaragua no
longer answer to their names at w aIker's roll.
cal
." will now give you an account Of toe coz
dItion and treatment Of the sick and voupdsd
In Nicaragua In company with friend
viiited, while at Virgin Bay, tie hospl,aIs l.,
that town. We first visited the Transit Com.
Papy's building. situated Immediately upon
the shoIe Of Lake Nicaragua. Inc lower part
OF the building. which was formerly devoted
70 passengers baggage, was filed with the
sick and wounded. They were stretched on
INC moor, and a. We passed through this
Icned crowd, lying unattended and appa-
Iendy uheaIed Tor, We were strongly sppec led
70 fof water They begged US to tell the ser
so' 10 otng them water. Passing up the
main stairway to the upper part of he buiId
lns, We entered the back room, formerly oceu.
Pu lne agent Judge Cortlandt Cushing
Three young-loOking men, off eeT. Of WI
army, were lying On the floor witho;t bI.nta,s ,
OF phIows, slck with cholera and fsver n
OF them recognized as Capt. Wal,eTs &c No
IorA city, who said to me am mo a. d.ss
nave eaten nothing for six days: 1 49,,
can 1--we, 6ut II you should ever reach Nev
York, see my bIOtheI-iL-law Alderman p,r
ser, and tell him to warn the YOUNG mar :,
New 1 ork not 10 come 10 this country, for TWO
months since l came down with one hupdre5
young men, and tfsy arc all dsad' Nv frierd
and attended to MS wants as far as our linn.
tied means would allow, but next morning We
learned that be was no more
In another corner Of the apartment Law
capt Sammies, OF the rifles, survivor Of the
expedition 10 Costa Rica under Col Scble.
singer last March, only four Of whom were
now LETT We found him in the same condi-
n2n, suffering from starvation and fever The
httiSes OF 81. George bad been prevented y
.ns plckets Of the enemy from bringing foo d
70 MN at the town Of Virgin, and the female s
rTs subjected TO % lashes on the bare back
- .1sii return, when detected in carrying foc 4
u haIksr soldiers
In'efing one # the adjoining rooms for
H. His ~ occupied by the clerks of the old Tran
sfW .m we saw lying on a high bed one
.;.b soldiers salmOst in a nude state,
WIKI az ami utstsI leg From neglect All
81 o. IL al to make a p0ultice, NORTH.
n hsd eLsaed and tie poor fellow Was
crying for water. We promised
L him All the assistance in our power, and Isf,
In ksGNipg that his troubles would coon end
snother room We found a young man ~
oesn wounded by a musEet bali ,h,on.p
-" 'ae' He was sitting upon the bare sooI