Litchfield enquirer., 1857-01-15
Condition of Walkers aArmyn

Z Sa..aSsE z : z The Illinois" brings us no later news frol 1tcsEagua bot the California papers are file, with the most dismal narratives of some 0 General Walkers voluntsersD who lad mad ther escape. Walker is bitterly reproachet for cruelty to his own men, and accused of giy ing currency to the. most shameful misrepresen tations in his newspaper organ. El Nieara guonse,o of actual events, in order to deceive people {" at home" that is, in the United States .he home of nearly all his men. Positive de feats, they say have often been manufactured into brilliant victories, while, at time when many of the recruits were dying of levers. and other diseases native to the country, the oficia organ was publishing elaborate essays upon the salubriousness of the climate and the general good health of the army. The effect of these revelations was to cool off the fillibuster fever in California, it's original source, and we infer from the spirit in which the journals comment, that Walker is to get no more volunteers from that quarter One of these refugees says:
 There were about 100 persons in the hos pital when good fortune allowed me to get away. The very recollection of that horrible time is enough to sicken me, however incapable am of giving full description of its horrors. Many of the soldiers are ready to die before entering it, and many sick ones report them selves fit for duty rather than go there. Walk or has now no natives in his army. Many of his troops have deserted and gone over to the Chamorrista party. His officers are generally drunk. He himself hardly ever seen. It will be.necessary for him to do hard fighting to get food, and the only way in which he gets provs- ions now, if not by fighting, is by taking it from the natives and compelling them to take cocoa, of which thcre is plenty in the country, in return"
 It is difficult for an American to make his escape from the fillibustcr army, for, "No per son. either citizen or soldier, is allowed to leave without passport and, if soldier is caught endeavoring to do so he is taken as deserter and shot. Such is his inevitable fate If a person escapes Walkers, he runs great risks, of falling into the hands of the Chamorristas, who would also shoot him. 1.-The escapes both, he must get out of the country the best way he can, and runs many risks and dangers, too tedious here to enumerate"
 Sick men are treated on new principle in Nicaragua
 s"If he have the fever, he is carried to the hospital at Granada, he is put on a raw hide bed, without mattress or blankets unless hc should be so fortunate as to have these articles himself, which seldom happens. It frequent ly the case that the sick man is put on q bed from which some wretch has just been carried of to be buried, who has died of yellow fever, cholera, or some other contagious disease, and whose bed has never been cleaned or changed. The sufferers cannot drink water, because the doctors there say that it is poison to d fever, and the only drink allowed is orauge-leaf tea. Even this is often not to be had on account of the negligence of the stewards and servants and the sick man is left to burn and parch with heat and thirst. have laid hours and begged to get tablespoonful of wine from the doc tors, and could not get it. They had plenty, and many of them were drunk on it most of the time"
 These statements seem to coincide with those we have lately been publishing, on this side, from persons who had served under Walker, that we apprchend there is little or no reason to challenge their correctness. The next steam CT from San Juan in all human probability, will bring us the final castastrophe, and ternna- tionof these demoralizing scenes, for the pres ent in general evacuation of Nicaragua by Walker and the few who were at last dates still fighting upder his flag.